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Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 5:53 pm**

Victoriala II wrote:
Yugoslav Memes wrote:Before the mods go Abbottabad on us we need to shift the topic

What do you think of hovertanks

Give it destructive lasers and we're talking

I'll raise you plasma cannons and energy shields.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 5:58 pm**

Blakullar wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Give it destructive lasers and we're talking

I'll raise you plasma cannons and energy shields.

If you ain't talkin' neutronium armour then your talkin' don't matter.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:03 pm**

Crysuko wrote:
Blakullar wrote:I'll raise you plasma cannons and energy shields.

If you ain't talkin' neutronium armour then your talkin' don't matter.

Neutronium's weak, you need to combine all the quarks in your armor into a single hadron.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:50 pm**

Multiversal Venn-Copard wrote:
Crysuko wrote:If you ain't talkin' neutronium armour then your talkin' don't matter.

Neutronium's weak, you need to combine all the quarks in your armor into a single hadron.

It's much more effective to just stack a few hundred universes on top of each other, and use that as your armor.

Blakullar wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Give it destructive lasers and we're talking

I'll raise you plasma cannons and energy shields.

Try Big Bang Inducers and a sheath of nigh-indestructible jellyfish flesh.

Western Pacific Territories wrote:
Yugoslav Memes wrote:Before the mods go Abbottabad on us we need to shift the topic

What do you think of hovertanks

Cancerous. Weaponized jellyfish is the way of the future.

Multiversal Venn-Copard wrote:
Western Pacific Territories wrote:Cancerous. Weaponized jellyfish is the way of the future.

The Nth Crusade has proven that weaponized jellyfish will lose to weaponized bacteriophages. You'll need to come up with something better.

About hovertanks: if you've got the technology to have a tank lift itself up a building or over a river, then it's probably a pretty good idea to use it, assuming there's still a need for tanks in battle. Though at a certain point a hovertank might evolve into a really compact VTOL aircraft instead if you're looking for mobility and less reliance on good ground conditions. Just my thought.

That's just blasphemous propaganda from a heretical regime hell-bent on the senseless murder of my beautiful pets.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:54 pm**

BTW devourer, I'm too lazy to log into my new OP future tech nation to ask for a TG containing to password to Omniversal Giants so if you could TG Multiversal Authority the password that'd be swell

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:44 pm**

tbh a pile of grey goo that can arrange itself into any vehicle when demanded is the best

saves the fuss

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:52 pm**

Blakullar wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Give it destructive lasers and we're talking

I'll raise you plasma cannons and energy shields.

Keeping it to sort-of-PMT, and letting the FFT guys do their own thing, I will raise that to psionic hardlight cannons and telekinetic shielding.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:30 pm**

Blakullar wrote:
Victoriala II wrote:Give it destructive lasers and we're talking

I'll raise you plasma cannons and energy shields.

solar powered plasma weapons.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:34 pm**

I'll raise everyone no hovering apparatus, because hovertanks are dumb.

(and you also can't crush things beneath your mighty treads when there are no treads)

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:36 pm**

How about a MLRS with tactical pure-fusion warheads?

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:00 pm**

New Frenco Empire wrote:I'll raise everyone no hovering apparatus, because hovertanks are dumb.

(and you also can't crush things beneath your mighty treads when there are no treads)

Hovertanks with blades on the front so you could kill tank man guillotine style

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:40 pm**

The Socialist Global Union wrote:How about a MLRS with tactical pure-fusion warheads?

>pure fusion
>tactical

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:02 pm**

Crysuko wrote:
The Socialist Global Union wrote:How about a MLRS with tactical pure-fusion warheads?

>pure fusion
>tactical

Pure fusion weapons offer the possibility of generating very small nuclear yields.

Or you could be boring and just go thermobaric.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:37 pm**

The Socialist Global Union wrote:
Crysuko wrote:>pure fusion
>tactical

Pure fusion weapons offer the possibility of generating very small nuclear yields.

Or you could be boring and just go thermobaric.

i prefer thermobaric

kills disgusting organics without the cost

(or maybe because i'm MT and nukes are forbidden)

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:27 am**

New Frenco Empire wrote:I'll raise everyone no hovering apparatus, because hovertanks are dumb.

You keep playing about with your caterpillar treads while your tanks get stomped by the next generation of grav-propelled assault tanks.

(and you also can't crush things beneath your mighty treads when there are no treads)

Why do you think the ET-60 exists?! Tiny baby tanks get squashed like bugs under absurdly-huge mine-proof wheels. I know I need to do the wikipage for the ET-60, but in case you haven't guessed, they're basically Juggernauts from Star Wars.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:53 am**

Blakullar wrote:
New Frenco Empire wrote:I'll raise everyone no hovering apparatus, because hovertanks are dumb.

You keep playing about with your caterpillar treads while your tanks get stomped by the next generation of grav-propelled assault tanks.

But why build ultra-fragile hovertanks when the extremely durable, tried-and-tested tracks are still a thing and a billion times cheaper?

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 2:02 am**

New Frenco Empire wrote:
Blakullar wrote:You keep playing about with your caterpillar treads while your tanks get stomped by the next generation of grav-propelled assault tanks.

But why build ultra-fragile hovertanks when the extremely durable, tried-and-tested tracks are still a thing and a billion times cheaper?

>"ultra-fragile"

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:01 am**

Blakullar wrote:
New Frenco Empire wrote:
But why build ultra-fragile hovertanks when the extremely durable, tried-and-tested tracks are still a thing and a billion times cheaper?

>"ultra-fragile"

I mean, fuck, if it wants to hover, it's gotta be pretty lightweight. And it's got giant engines on the bottom, just itching to be blown up.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:30 am**

Yugoslav Memes wrote:
The Socialist Global Union wrote:Pure fusion weapons offer the possibility of generating very small nuclear yields.

Or you could be boring and just go thermobaric.

i prefer thermobaric

kills disgusting organics without the cost

(or maybe because i'm MT and nukes are forbidden)

Why thermobaric when you can destroy the universe by playing orgasm sounds at 100000000000000000000000000000000 decibels?

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:30 pm**

New Communist and Socialist Unions wrote:
Yugoslav Memes wrote:i prefer thermobaric

kills disgusting organics without the cost

(or maybe because i'm MT and nukes are forbidden)

Why thermobaric when you can destroy the universe by playing orgasm sounds at 100000000000000000000000000000000 decibels?

Good idea. I'm definitely using this in a war with the Ravagery.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:34 pm**

New Frenco Empire wrote:
Blakullar wrote:>"ultra-fragile"

I mean, fuck, if it wants to hover, it's gotta be pretty lightweight. And it's got giant engines on the bottom, just itching to be blown up.

If the hoverdrive/contraption/engine is located within the chassis of the vehicle, it may not blow up right away if the exhausts or hoverpods are hit. May destabilize the vehicle, though.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:38 pm**

Western Pacific Territories wrote:
New Communist and Socialist Unions wrote:
Why thermobaric when you can destroy the universe by playing orgasm sounds at 100000000000000000000000000000000 decibels?

Good idea. I'm definitely using this in a war with the Ravagery.

> Not just using a superultrahyperweapon that converts whatever you don't like into a manga

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:34 pm**

Yugoslav Memes wrote:tbh a pile of grey goo that can arrange itself into any vehicle when demanded is the best

saves the fuss

Sounds like Thinking Machines, except that TM has reality-warping gray goo.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 2:17 pm**

Yugoslav Memes wrote:tbh a pile of grey goo that can arrange itself into any vehicle when demanded is the best

saves the fuss

so basically shinji sakahara?

:roll:

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 2:59 pm**

Western Pacific Territories wrote:
New Communist and Socialist Unions wrote:
Why thermobaric when you can destroy the universe by playing orgasm sounds at 100000000000000000000000000000000 decibels?

Good idea. I'm definitely using this in a war with the Ravagery.

No.

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