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> Good catch :) Twilight isn't so good at telling much about weapons and she was kind of overwhelmed. But Luna's mech is actually intended to be a Catapult, since I thought that might suit her personality better. It's loud, agile for its size and can put a shitload of explosives in one small place. I probably did a shitty job of describing it. But since you mentioned the Flashman and the Mackie, now I can't get them out of my head, either. When they finally reach the actually stockpile, I wonder if there's a few in there...
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> I'd have gone with a Madcat, but that doesn't fit the era as well. Not without a lot of finagling.[/bq]
Haha, yeah, a Timber Wolf would have been far harder to justify, as it (and most of its prerequisite techs, for that matter) wouldn't be invented until after General Kerensky had been long dead. I thought it was either the Flashman, Mackie, or Urbie because you didn't mention reverse-joint legs (which I incorrectly understood to be what "digitigrade" legs were, hence erroneously identifying the Crab as a Marauder) so I assumed normal, humanoid legs like Celestia's own Atlas. But without that assumption, a Catapult would have been my first guess, yeah.
... Admittedly, Flashman legs are a bit weird looking. Some art makes them appear digitigrade or even reverse joint, others more humanoid. Which is it,_*BattleTech_* artists?!
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> Oh wow...if you've got something, WRITE it! Let other people revel in your skull-droppings, you beautiful mutant, you![/bq]
Weeeeeell, aside from my now fully-cemented headcanon that Celestia has an almost -full- lance of functioning SLDF BattleMechs hiding under Canterlot for over a millenium, I think I can squeeze out a good handful of stories based on this concept alone. Only thing is, I didn't actually come up with it; _*you_* did, and I don't know how to credit you should I actually buckle down and write what I have bouncing around in my head. Heh.
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> Good catch :) Twilight isn't so good at telling much about weapons and she was kind of overwhelmed. But Luna's mech is actually intended to be a Catapult, since I thought that might suit her personality better. It's loud, agile for its size and can put a shitload of explosives in one small place. I probably did a shitty job of describing it. But since you mentioned the Flashman and the Mackie, now I can't get them out of my head, either. When they finally reach the actually stockpile, I wonder if there's a few in there...
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> I'd have gone with a Madcat, but that doesn't fit the era as well. Not without a lot of finagling.
Haha, yeah, a Timber Wolf would have been far harder to justify, as it (and most of its prerequisite techs, for that matter) wouldn't be invented until after General Kerensky had been long dead. I thought it was either the Flashman, Mackie, or Urbie because you didn't mention reverse-joint legs (which I incorrectly understood to be what "digitigrade" legs were, hence erroneously identifying the Crab as a Marauder) so I assumed normal, humanoid legs like Celestia's own Atlas. But without that assumption, a Catapult would have been my first guess, yeah.
... Admittedly, Flashman legs are a bit weird looking. Some art makes them appear digitigrade or even reverse joint, others more humanoid. Which is it,
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> [@Akamia
> Oh wow...if you've got something, WRITE it! Let other people revel in your skull-droppings, you beautiful mutant, you!
Weeeeeell, aside from my now fully-cemented headcanon that Celestia has an almost