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Support Team USA - Vizth Hal - 08-18-2015
Ya, this shits real. 0.o
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-us-challengers-plan-to-wreck-japans-giant-r-1724801257
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/megabots/support-team-usa-in-the-giant-robot-duel
RE: Support Team USA - LKTraz - 08-18-2015
Real life Gundam mechs.
Should be interesting.
RE: Support Team USA - Vizth Hal - 08-18-2015
Only thing that has me worried is the USA build is a one off less than a year old. The Japanese one has been around since 2009ish and is refined much more, to they point you can buy them if you happen t have 1.5mil laying around.
Also never use gundam and mech to describe the same machine. Ralgith can explain 0.o
RE: Support Team USA - LKTraz - 08-19-2015
Technicality I would guess that involves mechs being autonomous?
RE: Support Team USA - ralgith - 08-19-2015
We've been discussing this fight at work for almost a month now heh.
Anyway... No... it's because Mech is the short form of BattleMech. BattleMechs are fictional futuristic robots piloted in a "traditional" way with levers, buttons, switches, etc...
A Gundam is a giant robot that uses a control system that is an extension of the human body. You move your leg it move's it's leg. You make a fist, it makes a fist.
Then there's the whole Gundam is Anime, BattleMech's are from a miniatures game called BattleTech that went the computer as MechWarror... Also some BattleTech artwork comes from Dougram [aka Robotech] and there were whole legality issues about it thanks to Harmony Gold.
At any rate, I love how the USA machine actually looks like one of the BattleTech/Dougram mecha. It's called an Archer in BattleTech and I forget what in Dougram. Pictured below.
![[Image: Archer.jpg]](http://jgray-sfb.com/btech/1stFedSuns/Archer.jpg)
RE: Support Team USA - Twitchin Kitten - 08-19-2015
ROBOT NERD ALERT!
RE: Support Team USA - Vizth Hal - 08-20-2015
I knew you'd be better at the explanation than me. Good job m8.
RE: Support Team USA - ralgith - 08-21-2015
(08-20-2015, 11:53 PM)Vizth Hal Wrote: I knew you'd be better at the explanation than me. Good job m8.
One thing I did leave out though, and only noticed now, while 'Mech and Gundam aren't equivalent, both can however be considered Mecha