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THE GREATEST AND BIGGER OF THE FAILURES: THE TOPA
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Meanwhile was designed the Artillery Mech Wandrgal, there where other two proyects as well, in the tables of the Nutk desifners: the Kakarach, the first designed Light Mech, and the Monstrous first Assault Mech: The TOPA.

The first Assault Mech ever designed, was specially developed to put the CIAN (recent Ionic cannon design, taken from a fallen alien ship by the Bazik, and copied by the Nutks thanks to spies): but instead of the modest CIAN gun of 152 mm that had the Artillery Mech Wandrhal, the TOPA had mounted four CIAN guns of 380mm, so it was hughe -really hughe- hand had the fire-power of a Battleship:

Aside from that, the Nutks added bateries of 155mm rockets, 12,7mm (0.50 cal) machineguns, and 75mm secondary guns.

The monstrous TOPA was crewed by 84 troopers -pilots, gunners, officers and mechanics-

In diference to the Wandrhal, a balnced mech with little failures, the TOPA was plagued with problems:

Is huge size make that the max speed was of only 2km/h, and their 3 motors -take from battleships- where insuficent for a good movility, and had the tendence to overheat.

Aside from that, the bad disposition of the crew make difficult the comunication inside the vehicle, and the storage space for the munition was to little, so there where few rounds for all the weapons.

Also, due his huge size, it was a perfect target for aircraft and artillery -and it didn't had any AA defense- so the Nutks simply make wider the armor, overloading even more the conjunt, without really solving the problem of vulnerability to air strikes.

The TOPA crews hated the vehicle, because it was not only umconfortable, but lacked of heating system -and most of the campaigns where was used where either in the North or South Pole-, but was extremly vulnerable to the attack of infantry, artillery fire, aircraft, helicopters, armored vehicles, tanks, if had a mechanical failure it was needed two TOPA to help, or it was needed to abandone the vehicle, and had the tendency that the CIAN over-heat and explode, completely destroying the Mech.

The only point in his favor was that his armor was so tick that in 80% of the cases the tripulation was able to survive the attack, no matter how strong or hard it was. -but not necesarly the mech survived as well-

The TOPA was never presented in public, fearing the ridicule...

Originally, the TOPA was supposed to Assault the more intricated defensive possitions, and support the weight of the Battle, being the father of the Assault Mechs, and the first of this category.

However, across is Campaigns, this monster that costed the same as 2 Battleships, served instead as static artillery -and as target for the enemy air forces-, so in retrospective, many ex-officers and crew of the TOPA think that the designers should have been executed for that joke.

The TOPA is considered the worse of the failures from the Nutks -counting every other "admirable" mech designs as the Kakarach 01 and 02, Hätil and Reignfire, the Klou and AT-1 Streicher tanks, the rocket-launcger gun Azgal, etc, etc.

But despise of this, was produced in serie, due a political decition -as allways-.

It was builded from the 99 until the 164 -and nobody of the crews understand how, despise his horrible characteristics, it wasn't cancelled the production much more earlier-

During that time, 372 units where builded, and from them:
84 where lost due mechanical failures
116 lost due air strikes
32 due internal explosions because of over-heating of CIAN guns
38 due attack of armored vehicles
52 where lost because they where abandoned by they crews, being too damaged, or in retreats.

The 50 surviving units where scraped, without any ceremony, and just one survived in a military museum, to remind the Nutks to never comit -again- the same mistake, that costed so many Nutk lives during that time period:

To leave politicians make decitions about their equipment, only for politic goals.

Description
THE GREATEST AND BIGGER OF THE FAILURES: THE TOPA
___________________________________________

Meanwhile was designed the Artillery Mech Wandrgal, there where other two proyects as well, in the tables of the Nutk desifners: the Kakarach, the first designed Light Mech, and the Monstrous first Assault Mech: The TOPA.

The first Assault Mech ever designed, was specially developed to put the CIAN (recent Ionic cannon design, taken from a fallen alien ship by the Bazik, and copied by the Nutks thanks to spies): but instead of the modest CIAN gun of 152 mm that had the Artillery Mech Wandrhal, the TOPA had mounted four CIAN guns of 380mm, so it was hughe -really hughe- hand had the fire-power of a Battleship:

Aside from that, the Nutks added bateries of 155mm rockets, 12,7mm (0.50 cal) machineguns, and 75mm secondary guns.

The monstrous TOPA was crewed by 84 troopers -pilots, gunners, officers and mechanics-

In diference to the Wandrhal, a balnced mech with little failures, the TOPA was plagued with problems:

Is huge size make that the max speed was of only 2km/h, and their 3 motors -take from battleships- where insuficent for a good movility, and had the tendence to overheat.

Aside from that, the bad disposition of the crew make difficult the comunication inside the vehicle, and the storage space for the munition was to little, so there where few rounds for all the weapons.

Also, due his huge size, it was a perfect target for aircraft and artillery -and it didn't had any AA defense- so the Nutks simply make wider the armor, overloading even more the conjunt, without really solving the problem of vulnerability to air strikes.

The TOPA crews hated the vehicle, because it was not only umconfortable, but lacked of heating system -and most of the campaigns where was used where either in the North or South Pole-, but was extremly vulnerable to the attack of infantry, artillery fire, aircraft, helicopters, armored vehicles, tanks, if had a mechanical failure it was needed two TOPA to help, or it was needed to abandone the vehicle, and had the tendency that the CIAN over-heat and explode, completely destroying the Mech.

The only point in his favor was that his armor was so tick that in 80% of the cases the tripulation was able to survive the attack, no matter how strong or hard it was. -but not necesarly the mech survived as well-

The TOPA was never presented in public, fearing the ridicule...

Originally, the TOPA was supposed to Assault the more intricated defensive possitions, and support the weight of the Battle, being the father of the Assault Mechs, and the first of this category.

However, across is Campaigns, this monster that costed the same as 2 Battleships, served instead as static artillery -and as target for the enemy air forces-, so in retrospective, many ex-officers and crew of the TOPA think that the designers should have been executed for that joke.

The TOPA is considered the worse of the failures from the Nutks -counting every other "admirable" mech designs as the Kakarach 01 and 02, Hätil and Reignfire, the Klou and AT-1 Streicher tanks, the rocket-launcger gun Azgal, etc, etc.

But despise of this, was produced in serie, due a political decition -as allways-.

It was builded from the 99 until the 164 -and nobody of the crews understand how, despise his horrible characteristics, it wasn't cancelled the production much more earlier-

During that time, 372 units where builded, and from them:
84 where lost due mechanical failures
116 lost due air strikes
32 due internal explosions because of over-heating of CIAN guns
38 due attack of armored vehicles
52 where lost because they where abandoned by they crews, being too damaged, or in retreats.

The 50 surviving units where scraped, without any ceremony, and just one survived in a military museum, to remind the Nutks to never comit -again- the same mistake, that costed so many Nutk lives during that time period:

To leave politicians make decitions about their equipment, only for politic goals.