1,000 AT-ATs vs a BOLO Mk.XXXIII

[Bastard]

One thousand All Terrain Armoured Transports vs one BOLO Mk.33, battlefield is gently rolling grassy plain with patches of forest here and there. They start off 100 miles apart, moving towards eachother.

[Lex]

what's a BOLO mk. 33?

[Howedar]

If they start 100 miles away from each other, the Bolo takes it easily. It has over-the-horizon weaponry; the AT-AT does not.

[Sea Skimmer]

WRONG FORUM PUNY NEWBIE

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

One thousand All Terrain Armoured Transports vs one BOLO Mk.33, battlefield is gently rolling grassy plain with patches of forest here and there. They start off 100 miles apart, moving towards eachother.

WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PEOPLE'S PROBLEM?!?!?! DOES A BOLO SOUND LIKE SW VS ST?! READ THE FUCKING ANOUCEMENT FORUM!!!!!!!!!!

[SylasGaunt]

what's a BOLO mk. 33?

A gigantic tank with megaton range main guns that can fire into orbit, secondaries in the hundreds of kilotons range, howitzers, mortars, guided missiles that can strike targets on the other side of planets, and point defense lasers and railguns.

Top speed of 500 kilometers per hour, flight capable, and all controlled by an AI programmed with the whole of human military history.

[Uraniun235]

A very intelligent AI. And the screens are down while it's in flight mode.

If it's surrounded by the AT-ATs, there might be a problem. Otherwise, I imagine a heavy nuclear bombardment, followed by a mad rush into LOS range could work.

Would help if I had a better idea on AT-AT strength.

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

I'm sure 1,000 AT-ATs could overwhelm the tank at a closer range, but at 100 miles, the Bolo would destroy and disperse many of them.

[SylasGaunt]

I'm sure 1,000 AT-ATs could overwhelm the tank at a closer range, but at 100 miles, the Bolo would destroy and disperse many of them.

The range matters little in this case, 1000 AT-ATs at close range would be torn to pieces just like at long, the difference is they'd die to the Bolo's direct fire armament rather than catching a nuclear missile barrage.

Put simply the AT-AT's couldn't surround the Bolo, it's too fast and too manueverable, furthermore the Bolo can also deploy it's onboard Dragon remote tanks to help it engage, giving the AT-ATs more targets all of which are carrying weapons more than capable of shredding an AT-AT

[Sea Skimmer]

what's a BOLO mk. 33?

A gigantic tank with megaton range main guns that can fire into orbit, secondaries in the hundreds of kilotons range, howitzers, mortars, guided missiles that can strike targets on the other side of planets, and point defense lasers and railguns.

Top speed of 500 kilometers per hour, flight capable, and all controlled by an AI programmed with the whole of human military history.

Wonder if the creator knows what throwing a track is...

[Uraniun235]

what's a BOLO mk. 33?

A gigantic tank with megaton range main guns that can fire into orbit, secondaries in the hundreds of kilotons range, howitzers, mortars, guided missiles that can strike targets on the other side of planets, and point defense lasers and railguns.

Top speed of 500 kilometers per hour, flight capable, and all controlled by an AI programmed with the whole of human military history.

Wonder if the creator knows what throwing a track is...

The creator knew (past tense; Keith Laumer has been dead for some time now) quite well what throwing a track was. None of the Bolos travelled 500 kph on the ground; that's in flight mode. One of my books lists a 33's "Road Speed" as 105 kph.

On an aside, a Mk33 also weighs 32,000 tons, as well as has energy screens, plus the ability to fire a directional EMP to fry the electronics in incoming artillery. It also carries rockets which can reach low orbit and deploy surveillance satellites, as well as airborne drones to augment it's sensors. IIRC, there is also a layer of armor that can absorb energy weapon impacts and convert them to useable energy.

[The Dark]

Wonder if the creator knows what throwing a track is...

The creator knew (past tense; Keith Laumer has been dead for some time now) quite well what throwing a track was. None of the Bolos travelled 500 kph on the ground; that's in flight mode. One of my books lists a 33's "Road Speed" as 105 kph.

On an aside, a Mk33 also weighs 32,000 tons, as well as has energy screens, plus the ability to fire a directional EMP to fry the electronics in incoming artillery. It also carries rockets which can reach low orbit and deploy surveillance satellites, as well as airborne drones to augment it's sensors. IIRC, there is also a layer of armor that can absorb energy weapon impacts and convert them to useable energy.

The Bolo was also capable of driving on its wheels if it threw a track, although at reduced speed and greatly reduced maneuverability. It carries ablative armor, IIRC, and the screens can absorb and convert energy to allow for extra fire from the infinite repeaters. The Hellbores can be reloaded with water (superfrozen and formed into bolts, which are turned to plasma within the cannon proper). The Hellbore is a surface-orbit weapon, which means that it is a LOS to the horizon weapon, capable of hitting the AT-ATs the moment combat begins. Overall, I would say the Bolo holds a large advantage.

[MKSheppard]

blast the Bolo into slag after jamming the Bolo's sensors with
ECM.....

This is STAR WARS, where even starfighters have KILOTON range
weaponry.

[Howedar]

And the AT-ATs do this from a hundred miles away... how?

[MKSheppard]

And the AT-ATs do this from a hundred miles away... how?

And the Hellbores, and infinite repeaters are also line of sight weapons, same
as blaster cannons.

[The Dark]

And the AT-ATs do this from a hundred miles away... how?

And the Hellbores, and infinite repeaters are also line of sight weapons, same
as blaster cannons.

The nuclear missiles and combat drones aren't.

[Howedar]

The huge array of missiles is not.

[Vympel]

Ok ... Bolo? What kind of dumb fucked up name is that ... Bolo

OOOOOOOOhhhh im scared, the Bolo is coming!!!

Sounds like Bolo the clown ...

[MKSheppard]

The nuclear missiles and combat drones aren't.

And this is a threat to something capable of shooting something
out of the sky from speeds of 1,000 KPH with a snap shot how?

[[BL]Phalanx]

blast the Bolo into slag after jamming the Bolo's sensors with
ECM.....

This is STAR WARS, where even starfighters have KILOTON range
weaponry.

I don't know the details but a Bolo fan could probably be more specific. IIRC, a Bolo's EW is pretty impressive as well.

Bolos throw and take KT-ranged weaponry as well.

[[BL]Phalanx]

Ok ... Bolo? What kind of dumb fucked up name is that ... Bolo

OOOOOOOOhhhh im scared, the Bolo is coming!!!

Sounds like Bolo the clown ...

I believe it was named after the knife:

http://www.edmfknives.com/page6.html

[The Dark]

The nuclear missiles and combat drones aren't.

And this is a threat to something capable of shooting something
out of the sky from speeds of 1,000 KPH with a snap shot how?

Assuming they see it, it probably isn't. The Kloude Chamber, however, would provide a problem. It allows the generation of "remote hologrammatics" projected to confuse biologicals, disrupts integrated circuitry, and has a range measured in light-years.

[The Dark]

Found one semi-canonical (written by a Bolo author, but not the original creator, who is deceased) technical piece of data. The Bolo Mk XXIV had a 90cm Hellbore with a firepower of "several megatons/second." The Mk XXXIII has three 200cm Hellbores, 16 30cm Hellbores, 10 40cm mortars, 4 240cm howitzers, and the heavy VLS system. All data from http://users.stargate.net/~whkeith/htm/bolo.htm.

[SylasGaunt]

No need to go looking at the Author's websites, the weapon yields on Bolo guns are mentioned all the time, with the 200 cm. Hellbores on the Mk. 33 having a stated firepower of 5 megatons/sec while the secondary Hellbore Infinite repeaters have a stated firepower of 400 kilotons/sec.

And this is a threat to something capable of shooting something
out of the sky from speeds of 1,000 KPH with a snap shot how?

And where are you getting this thing about AT-AT's shooting down stuff moving at 1000 KPH from? Furthermore this particular Bolo carries more than 1000 missiles and is capable of launching them with a RoF of at least 4 per second (certainly more though because the Bolo those time calcs are based on was smaller and didn't use a 'heavy' VLS system)

This is STAR WARS, where even starfighters have KILOTON range
weaponry.

Exactly why the AT-ATs die horribly.

[SPOOFE]

Ok ... Bolo? What kind of dumb fucked up name is that ... Bolo

OOOOOOOOhhhh im scared, the Bolo is coming!!!

"A rose by any other name..."

Really, what kind of name is "AT-AT"? Sounds like a Chinese sneeze...