Armored individuals piloting larger armored vehicles, can you help me wrap my head around it...
Unless the individual could quickly disengage what is the purpose of that? How do you make it setting appropriate?
Stuff like pic related makes me grin, can you help make me happy?
Wrong pic
>what is the purpose of that?
look at would you rather fight the big or small version?
Think you got it actually, OP. In case the pilot needs to bail behind enemy lines or potentially protection against infantry boarders. Alternately, one is used to interface with the other as something, likely a control system
Survivability, OP. Shrapnel has a bad tendency to wreck pilots before a machine is combat ineffective.
And you save a lot of weight with an armored suit vs. trying to fully armor a cockpit.
While we're on the topic of mechs, I need a nice cup of Veeky Forums's abundant creative juices.
An NPC I'm designing has this large mech based off Khepri, the Egyptian god that rolls the sun across the sky. He's basically this massive scarab beetle. The mech is designed to have the pilot lying down inside the "carapace" and placed into a coma-like trance, allowing them to control the mech solely with the power of their mind.
My question is how do I translate rolling the sun around into technology. Can it just make fireballs which it pushes people into? Can it launch them at high speed? These are the questions that need answered!
It's an exo-skeleton or assault vehicle. You strap is on over your armour for combat for heavier weapons support. If it gets hit and knocked out, you eject and you're still able to fight in your normal armour.
Well, personally I would go with the pushing arms actually being a plasma weapon that can be used in either melee or ranged capacity, generally by making a huge fuckoff ball of said plasma that it then bum rushes people with while in magnetic containment, or releases/"pops" the field of to release super heated death at it's foes. Could also get creative with applications of this too, where it does things like use this to try melting through things, or if you get them adjustable use unfiltered plasma as a thrust system to reposition.
As a related note, thank you for giving me what I needed in a rival/potential love interest for a PC I have. They play a spider tank!
If the thing just pushes the sun around, then it's claws are basically imbued with the power of the sun. Always on fire, using fire like the sun would.
So melee fire attacks, blinding flashes and your ultimate move is simply a small version of a solar flare or a Coronal mass ejection.
>mech breaks
>get out
>still have armor
That's why.