Mars vs. Btech, or Gundam-verse

[The Yosemite Bear]

Yes, that's War of the Worlds Walkers with Movie version Air support
*This time someone has supplied them with Antibiotics so they won't be dying off*

Against equal number of air and ground units of identical class from
Battle Tech (New Star League)
Battle Tech (Clans)
Mobile Suit Gundam: (Federation War of 79 era)
Mobile Suit Gundam: (Zeon war of 79 era)
Mobile Suit Gundam: (Char's Counter Attack)
Mobile Suit Gundam: (War of 83-84)

[SylasGaunt]

The novel version get smashed by even the battletech forces.

Then of course the movie version slaughters everyone remaining.

[Darth_Shinji]

Actually, movie vcersions are not flying machines, the movie states that there legs were electromagnetic. But include them anyway.

Book version is too slow and while we could debate if there armour is strong enought to withstand the other mechs weaponry... there pilots are unprotected and there legs are easy to break.. so its a mute point. And black smoke doesn't work, and we don't know how powerful their heat ray is. So they lose. But Kodos to the first mech! *Salutes*

The movie version kicks totaly ass. B-tech is dead. One year MS's are dead. So the question is do the later ones have energy shields? (Haven't watched them) Thats the only way to make this intresting. If not, there dead.

[Darik Sdair]

Actually, movie vcersions are not flying machines, the movie states that there legs were electromagnetic. But include them anyway.

Book version is too slow and while we could debate if there armour is strong enought to withstand the other mechs weaponry... there pilots are unprotected and there legs are easy to break.. so its a mute point. And black smoke doesn't work, and we don't know how powerful their heat ray is. So they lose. But Kodos to the first mech! *Salutes*

The movie version kicks totaly ass. B-tech is dead. One year MS's are dead. So the question is do the later ones have energy shields? (Haven't watched them) Thats the only way to make this intresting. If not, there dead.

Yeah, the whole "shrug off 1950's (read: big) nuclear weapons without the slightest scratch" business is kind of disheartening. I'm inclined to say that with adequate forces, and a blitzkrieg attack to avoid dying from local diseases (like they seem to love doing) that Mars would be at a pretty major, if not overwealming advantage.

Of course, as has been mentioned above, we don't know any hard and fast specs on the Martians. The ability to vaporize whole tanks, however, is pretty neat looking.