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6/12/2025, 7:30:53 AM
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The Forever Winter gave a pretty decent justification for mech warfare.
>Due to almost all satellites being destroyed intentionally in the nuclear war that kicked off events, 99.9% of long-ranged communication is literally impossible, and that small fragment otherwise is only "long" insofar as you have a chain of short-range radios and local comms that bounce messages off of each other
>Aircraft is generally unviable because long-distance combat usually invovles engaging targets that frequently will not be in the area when you've reached it, but /some/ aircraft like Eurasian helicopters are deployed quickly enough to engage targets immediately and quickly return to base, and others like the Corpse Bombers just fly over long stretches of territory and drop cyborgs anywhere they receive a ping that seems like an active battlefield or is near one
>Tanks and other vehicles do exist, but due to the cartoonishly fucked-up architecture caused by reconstruction from giant Builders that regularly tear a city apart and "rebuild" it, roads frequently end in dead-drops thousands of feet deep, giant ravines show up in urban areas, and other pathways are broken up by dead-ends everywhere
>All of that while immediate comms are generally harried by countermeasures from the enemy, forcing you to have to rely on immediate communication, and most of the mechs just enter a battlefield and need to engage every theoretical target that could be there, rather than being specialized to take out one type of target
>They are also usually backed up by a wide range of other units, and don't get deployed unless shit has gotten particularly hairy, usually being the shock troop that wipes out serious problems while the infantry swarm around and mop up any targets the mech isn't already shooting at
The Forever Winter gave a pretty decent justification for mech warfare.
>Due to almost all satellites being destroyed intentionally in the nuclear war that kicked off events, 99.9% of long-ranged communication is literally impossible, and that small fragment otherwise is only "long" insofar as you have a chain of short-range radios and local comms that bounce messages off of each other
>Aircraft is generally unviable because long-distance combat usually invovles engaging targets that frequently will not be in the area when you've reached it, but /some/ aircraft like Eurasian helicopters are deployed quickly enough to engage targets immediately and quickly return to base, and others like the Corpse Bombers just fly over long stretches of territory and drop cyborgs anywhere they receive a ping that seems like an active battlefield or is near one
>Tanks and other vehicles do exist, but due to the cartoonishly fucked-up architecture caused by reconstruction from giant Builders that regularly tear a city apart and "rebuild" it, roads frequently end in dead-drops thousands of feet deep, giant ravines show up in urban areas, and other pathways are broken up by dead-ends everywhere
>All of that while immediate comms are generally harried by countermeasures from the enemy, forcing you to have to rely on immediate communication, and most of the mechs just enter a battlefield and need to engage every theoretical target that could be there, rather than being specialized to take out one type of target
>They are also usually backed up by a wide range of other units, and don't get deployed unless shit has gotten particularly hairy, usually being the shock troop that wipes out serious problems while the infantry swarm around and mop up any targets the mech isn't already shooting at
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