Walkers, was RE: grav

--- Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:
> My question was rhetorical - the point being that
> for the game to be fair 
> and balanced,  a walker, while having a different
> set of abilities and 
> limitations different from those of a Grav tank or a
> tracked tank, should be 
> just as effective a unit in the game as any other
> vehicle costing the same 
> amount of points.

I think Mr. Tuffley made it quite clear in his rules
that oversized (ie >1) walkers are not part of the
background or really even the core rules.  They are in
there for battletech idiots who love Giant Robots[tm].
 They were never intended to be balanced against tanks
because Giant Robots are a lousy military idea.

John

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