-----Original Message-----
From: Chan Wei LIk [mailto:weimin@pl.jaring.my]
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 1998 11:03 PM
To: 'JLee100441@aol.com'
Subject: RE: [FFML] [EVA] Update on fics and idea


From: JLee100441@aol.com

An interesting idea you got here. Reminds me of that other idea of setting
NGE in the 19th century.

The date is early 1946. World War II is still raging and the Axis is

desperite
for any weapon that will turn the tide. Thus armored walkers are introduce.
Germany first deployes the armored walkers in late 1945. <<

Two words: Manhattan Project. Unless you remove the A-bomb from the scene,
Germany will get nuked instead of Japan if WW2 is still going on by 1946.
Walkers won't be of any help. With the attitude of the time, they would have
been lobbing A-bombs all over Europe to stop those walkers if they had to.
This isn't too difficult, I could elaborate if no one else knows what I'm
talking about.

The armored walkers are humaniod war machine. Like the EVAs they are

powered
by an electric line. Due to lack of strategic materals, the armored walkers
are made small (about 30 feet high).<<

With the tech of the time (no integrated circuts, advanced alloys or
syntetics), they'd be lucky to develop something that works like the (legs
of) AT-ST in 'Star Wars'. A humaniod form like the EVAs is just too
vulnerable with 40's tech. It would have to be a squat armored box, like the
AT-STs again.

This small size plus the fact that they

are built with 1940's technoligy, force the size of the cockpit to be vary
small. Thus requiring a very small pilot.<<

Shinji and his friends should feel lucky they have automatic loading
systems. In WW2 tanks (and modern ones like the M1) the shells are loaded
manually. An auto-loader using 40's tech would NOT fit onto a walker of the
size you specified. You need 3 people per walker. Driver, loader and
commander.
As to why some tanks don't use auto-loaders even today, it's because those
systems are considered too flimsy to survive combat and require a shell to
be in the tube at all times.
Were you planning to use machineguns only on the walkers? It'd be fun
shooting troops, until they drove a tank to knock out your legs.
Rockets might be feasible, but they'd have to be aimed by the crew through
the viewports (no auto-targeting remember)
Another thought for you is that the Allies need NOT build small walkers. The
US has all the resources it need to build giant walking fortresses if they
have to. If they had to use large cumbersome hydraulics to drive the walker
legs they could afford to.

I don't suppose anyone still remembers that idea about fusing NGE and
Dilbert? Because I have a few ideas I'd like to share. As soon as I get
around to writting them...