Re: Proposal: "Full Thrust: ANIME" (Was Re: Macross)

On Aug 10, 1996 15:19:54, '"Earl R. Forsythe II"
<73162.3521@CompuServe.COM>' wrote: 
 
 
>"Mark A. Siefert", INTERNET:cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu wrote: 
>>(I could never figure out the practical purpose of transformable mecha
like 
>Macross' Valkerye  
>>in space combat. What advantage would a space fighter gain by
transforming  
>into 
>a fifty 
>>foot tall robot?). 
> 
>Well, I always thought it could use the limbs to shift its orientation
around 
>its center of mass, allowing it to alter facing without expending
vernier 

>fuel. 
> 
>Ray Forsythe 
 
 
Could it also be that the man-form can fire its main gun/autocannon
outside

the fixed forward arc? 
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