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MrAverage ā 6-Commando: Pages 8-9 Revised
Published: 2012-07-02 04:21:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 1544; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 0
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This spread needed a really major revision, primarily because all the equipment I put in to begin with was really just a lot of sloppy sketching, aside from the hovercraft - even the Supertank, Mike-One-Echo, pictured here. To be honest, I hadn't imagined that he'd be as popular a character as he turned out to be - he was originally more of a plot device. It's odd to say now, because he's inextricable from the storyline as it's developed, but at the time he was a secondary character, there to tear up the enemy and then recede from the plot. Now, not.The vehicles, by the way, are based on French designs, which I happen to like. The armored cars are basically VBL's, upgunned with gatling cannons and heavy armor plates; the wheeled tanks are my own design, but heavily influenced by the VAB, the LAV and the Scorpion.
This is my absolute favorite revision. It took two mediocre pages and made them what I consider to be my best work so far. I look at this when I have doubts whether this whole "revision" nonsense is worth it.
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This is fun and i like it, but remember, a giant tank only works if your opponent is as stupid as you are to build one.
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Oh, of course, the idea of a superheavy tank like this is patently ridiculous in the real world. But it makes for great science fiction (vide: Laumer, Jackson, Wells, et al). And the tank, who is a robot named Mike, by the way, is a great chance for some very subtle character study. I justified it in this story by making it an alternate universe where World War II never happened, so the dominant military doctrine is the "mobile strongpoint" rather than the kind of mobile warfare that makes sense in our world. They also only developed atomic weapons very recently, so huge conventional vehicles like this are not so outlandish to them.
--M
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this is not a tank is armored train!)))
but for the size it is too small arms. 2.3 guns, lots of pulimetnyh nests, and be sure to rocket-are factors that can go into this tank open frontal attack.
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Yes, Mike is kind of ridiculous compared to our modern tank designs. Superheavy tanks are more or less useless as battlefield weapons. But they're great fun for science fiction, and a tank with a totally devoted, totally honorable robot brain has been a lot of fun to explore in the story so far.
--M
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it is of course, yes, for the science fiction he goes, but who knows what will come up in the future, may be huge tanks? a0
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I concur, the super heavy afv remains like most good fiction, a good element that requires a suspension of reality.
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Right? In the story he withstands an atomic blast. Not unscathed, of course, but "alive."
--M
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