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• Rothe@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not a lot of blitzkrieg would be going on. The tanks would be rolling along, and then someone yells “Stop! we have to wait for the AT-AT to catch up!”.

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just one more wunderwaffe bro one more wunderwaffe is gonna win the war bro

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• Brainsploosh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AT-ATs are a terrible main combat vehicle.

  Enormous target profile, of which most is very vulnerable gangly legs and joints. It doesn’t even have much firepower to motivate the ridiculous size. It’s also a quite slow transport with a low complement and slow deployment.

  It is however a versatile tool of terror, as I believe is it’s purpose.

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The legs are made of durasteel. Do you know of any munitions that can dent durasteel?

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a reason bipedal war machines have never been a thing: the legs are an attack surface and a half. Shoot the knee out, or just trip one over, and whatever’s inside is essentially canned meat.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The legs are super sturdy. The main issue was being top-heavy. But if they were made out of Earth’s minerals, yeah, the legs wouldn’t last long and it’d be easy pickings for AA guns. Also ballistics and not blasters makes for a hot and heavy cabin.

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  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A lot of Kaiju wouldn’t actually be effective for similar reasons. As the size increases, so too should the legs. Huge monsters should start looking like milipedes.

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, a wooden Mosquito would have just swung ’round with a tow cable.

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