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also, >>23310576/>>23319105. i found the art. it wasn't actually a ground gundam. they also do normal mecha art semi-regularly, so... it's a happy ending i guess?

here's the anti-mecha team from the video too

i really liked how the cloak worked in titanfall 1
titanfall 2 ruined things with the multiple pilot abilities and nerfing rodeo attack
how many posts until a poor-reading-comprehension reply seething over gameinformer interview

>>23353470
That still happens? I thought those guys moved on to being mad at Lancer.

>>23353457
>>23353455 (OP)
HAH! Minovski particles would render remote operated drones useless. Maybe if you could control them like bits...

>>23353473
That would require an operator sitting in a psycommu setup somewhere nearby, basically they invented slow bits.

>>23353473
>>23353485
are funnel missiles just newtype drone strikes?

>twittershit
go back faggot

Just get aircraft to deal with it.

I guess anti-material rifles and IEDs would be useful for ambush or hit & run attacks.

>>23353470
There's a titanfall thread now, you should be safe here.

>>23353473
>Minovski particles would render remote operated drones useless.
Solved already.

I remember there being a bit about this from the Grey Death Legion books from Battletech.
In the 2nd book, there was a part where they were training infantry to throw satchel charges into the knee joints of a mech to incapacitate it. While this may not always completely disable the mech, it still reduces it mobility to the point of it being a sitting duck for anybody wanting to shoot at it.

>>23353515
especially on smaller mecha. i'm not really sure what an antitank rifle would do to a zaku's armor but it could at least aim for sensor equipment

>>23354131
No way...

>>23353473
conventional jamming is doing that right now in Russia-Ukraine, drone weaponry moved to fiber optics, the battlefields are littered with it that birds are using it as nest materials.

Incoms win again

>>23353455 (OP)
drones make mechs better. spreading the armour and weaponry of a tank over a couple of highly mobile armoured up infantry units, that are still strong enough to need larger ordinance to disable, means the enemy has a harder time knocking out armoured columns and needs to expend more resources per kill.
a heavily armoured machine with one pilot and external ammunition held in an upscaled gun/magazine also makes them less easy to kill than tanks with dangerously designed loaders and ammo racks. plus gundams have a ciws right on their heads
the mech can also deploy its own drones and would be supported by additional drone operating infantry units, sending any armoured vehicle into a fight without support has always been a retarded more mechs wouldn't be different

>>23354131
>resorted to cuckcables
Drones are already off hot new cool shit status. They'll stick around but the dream of every war just being drones forever won't even last this current conflict.
>>23353455 (OP)
I think "lol what if a sniper shot you on the toilet" is basically just giving up that you can actually compete with something. If you're so massively outclassed by a weapon that your only recourse is to wait for them to entirely drop their guard and stop being defensive at all, is that really even a fantasy? If gundam had drones, they clearly wouldn't get out of the mobile suits while in the field. The gundam would have a toilet and some cup noodles.
Almost all of this sort of writing stinks of this hfy type stuff where the opponent has to blunder into obvious ambushes and basic tactics and shout "oh no, my hubris, turns out I'm not invincible after all!".

>>23353455 (OP)
I've had an idea for an anti-mecha infantry show for some time.
>Rich country attacks poor country
>Rich country deploys mecha
>Poor country doesn't have money for mecha
>An arms company is producing portable anti-mecha weapons and exoskeletons
>It has been grifting third world countries into believing that mechas are expensive showpieces and that their cheaper kits can turn infantry into mecha killers
>The poor country buys from them
>The story follows an anti-mecha platoon
>They have to improvise because anti-mecha infantry combat has never been actually tried before
>They get a few wins due to having an inventive thinker among them
>The arms company boosts the platoon's success to advertise it's products
>This makes the platoon feel like they are viewed as courageous heroes by a world that condemns the invasion
>Eventually the thinker dies due to the equipment being of poor quality, with falsified stats, and anti-mecha infantry being a stupid idea in general
>Videos of his death circulate on social media, much to the amusement of the same people who used to cheer the platoon
>The platoon becomes blackpilled that the world is treating the war as a spectacle
>The platoon is given some leave time
>They are bused to one of the big cities where things seem normal
>A soldier gives a rousing speech about how this is what they are defending and how the city seems like there is no war going on because they are doing such a good job as protectors
>But what the scene is really communicating is that while some people are living in hell, certain other people are smiling and dancing without a care
>At some point the mc and a friend come across two old men arguing about politics
>They each accuse the other's prefered past politician for this and that scandal
>The soldier from earlier intervenes, chastizing them for being divided at a time when the country needs unity, and over dead politicians to boot

>>23358658
>This is presented as a character moment but what it is intended to convey is that the poor country has had it's wealth pillaged for decades
>The platoon is sent back to war and more members die, including the soldier from earlier
>At some point a soldier is watching the news
>There are heated debates in the parliament about the war effort needing mecha
>But the government is saying that the foreign aid isn't enough for that
>A politician comes forward with an economic plan but doesn't elaborate on it on camera
>He promises that it will raise the funds for mecha very quickly
>The platoon clings to the hope that they will be relieved by mechas soon
>The poor country deploys a squadron of mecha within the month
>They are far more effective than all the anti-mecha infantry forces, but they are soon pulled from the front line to defend "strategically important assets"
>The platoon has lost it's brains (the smart guy), it's heart (the inspiring guy), and now it's hope
>Now it's survivors just fight because they have nothing else to do
>Eventually the war ends. The poor country is defeated
>As it turned out the corrupt politicians of old bred corrupt sons and daughters who went into politics
>The country fell behind in the arms race because the old politicians pocketed the money, making the country vulnerable
>The foreign aid (that came with strings attached) wasn't enough because the current politicians pocketed the money
>The bold plan that paid for the mecha squadron was to sell the country's natural resources, and even then politicians pocketed some of the money
>The show ends with the mc, now the only survivor of the platoon, looking at a grand statue of the wartime prime minister
>It is casting it's shadow on him
>An inscription reads that it is dedicated to the hero who fought the invaders and preserved the nation (even though the invaders got to keep what they conquered)

>>23353457
>>23353470
I hate pilotwank and infantryslop

>>23358689
>infantryslop
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>23357994
I am not well versed on warfare but I am inclined to disagree about the drone part in the hot new shit status stage, though I do agree wars of the future will absolutely not be drones forever. Fiber optic suicide drones are most common around areas where the electronic warfare is too ludicrously dense for conventional remotely controlled ones to penetrate, and even then fiber optics are mostly for suicide drones and not reconnisance ones AFAIK, which can and will direct conventional artillery to you very quickly

That aside I completely agree with you about OP being shitty writing. Gundam is already a setting where you're liable to be stuck in your mobile suit for hours on end as it is.