>can navigate almost any terrain
>able to dodge anti tank rounds and rockets
>intimidating as frick
>giant lazer dick gun
Tell me why we haven't made striders yet
>can navigate almost any terrain
>able to dodge anti tank rounds and rockets
>intimidating as frick
>giant lazer dick gun
Beats me
canonically they'd get fricked up by javelins
One well placed high caliber round into a joint and the entire thing collapses, that's why.
This. Striders, and mecha in general, are simply completely impractical IRL and inferior to tanks in every tactical metric. It's a shame since they look cool.
That's like saying "Shoot them in the knee", there's very little mass to hit.
On a giant robot?
You don't make tanks instead of giant robots because they look cool, you make tanks instead of robots because that's what the brutal reality checks of the laws of physics and modern economy demand.
Anon... that's a very small and dynamic target, might as well aim for the center of mass at the top which would probably destroy it or the force in itself would tumble it down.
Airburst rounds, autocannons, F&F systems, large amount of fire concentrated on an area near the legs.
A lot of things would be able to shoot the legs off
Where would you like to go?
>able to dodge anti tank rounds and rockets
Ha ha ha, is this a joke? How the frick is it going to dodge something that travels 1500 meters per second? How, in the name of all living FRICK?
>Meters
Noguns OUT
It doesn't even dodge rockets in the game
because we don't have the tech to make legs that spindly work with something as heavy as one
also its a lot easier to design this kind of shit when you don't need to fit a human in it
>a gagglefrick of militia with DIY homing rocket launchers can reliably take them out
That's why
we haven't perfected biotech yet
one man with what was essentially a high-yield sticky bomb washable to take them out
granted, his delivery method was some science fiction bullshit but it's not like these things are particularly durable. look at those baby legs.
i fricking hate the columbine so much you wouldnt believe it vpyjd
lel
Does the stance of the tripod kinda arouse anyone else? like it's obviously a giant biomechanical weapon but the way it has it's legs shyly crossed and how it's ever so slightly bowed makes me want to put miles and miles of sailcloth around it to make a school girl uniform and somehow frick it.
Humans will never make striders. You'd know this if you were familiar at all with what a strider is. It's not a machine, it's an alien organism with machine parts grafted on to its body. I don't think the combine use anything that is 100% machine.
the weird thing about this is it looks otherworldly, to me. Like kinda biological and mech fused or something.
>gets shot in the knee
What is ground pressure?
get fricked by a singel man
those always were ungainly motherfrickers, the way they moved had a huge range of motion and couldn't be done without some impressive materials science. strong motors, lightweight materials or both. Electromuscle, carbon fibre, glass fibre, graphene might be able to do the job but you're probably looking at a cost to make the US MIC wince.
>tripodal kinematics is a cast-iron fricking b***h.
>instability can be useful, but more often than not it's also a b***h.
>since your gun platform isn't naturally stable you'd need to triaxially stabilize the gun too and it would never be able to absorb recoil well.
the leg hair spikes are the best thing about it. why can't we just weld spikes onto tanks and IFVs? Ramming enemy infantry seems a no brainer.
Because in order to spike them you need to get close enough that you can just, ya know, run em over
I've often wondered but was afraid to ask - do tanks have limitations to how close they can safely use their main guns? Like theoretically if there was a target 20 yards away, would using the main gun be out of the question? If there was theoretically a tank gun mounted on something as tall as a strider, would that make firing at something close by safer because they'd be mostly above the blast and any debris and shrapnel that would come out of the blast?
Also, the Combine genetically engineer alien species into combat troops. The Strider is supposedly a living being that was engineered into what we see here, not made from the ground up, which makes a huge difference.
Pick it up
Breen did nothing wrong
you realize that when hg wells wrote that shit, heavier-than-air was still a fantasy, right?
all he was doing was trying to convey air superiority and the only way you could do that was to have something really tall that walks.
now that we have airplanes, shit-that-walks is completely useless from a military standpoint.
end yourself lore ignorant c**t never again speak of a classic well realised biomech in your fricking moron babble