As someone pointed out, "What's to stop a clever infantryman from
chopping the cable."  Same thing that has the Angles attacking the
EVAs instead of their cables.  Stupid plot devices.  In effect, the
most efficient attack that an Angle could have performed would be to
snap the cables until the EVAs ran out of them.  Simple.

That was me. I think it would be practical for infantry and not angels
for several resons. An angel is an obvious target, which you can see
coming. Infantry are small and can hide themselves pretty easily,
especially considering WW2 tank sensors consisted of 'looking out the
window'.

Also, angels only ever attacked in ones or twos. A single EVA, or a
squad, could easily watch that many targets and block any attempts to
reach the cables. Conversely, 20 infantrymen coming from different
directions would provide too many targets. At least one of them would be
able to get close enough to get through. That is teh reason why tanks
were vulnerable to infantry in urban warfare. There were too many hiding
places for infantry to get close and dump a grenade through a weak spot.
This same vulnerability that tanks had to infantry would be present in a
WW2 mecha.

Finally, I *think* the angels were 'agents of divine retribution' (not
literally). What I mean is they were 'programmed' to act in a certain
way, which may havce included a defination of 'honourable combat'. That
would certainbly stop them doing the dirty on the power cables. WW2
nations were under no such restrictions of honour codes. It can be said
that even Japan manipulated its martial honour code to get its soldiers
to do otherwise suicidal acts of heroism/stupidity. USA used nukes,
which we now considerable a dishonourable weapon in *future* wars.
Britain considered using Anthrax as a weapon (check out that island in
Scotland). And Germany would be the last nation anyone would consider
'honourable'.

WW2 mecha would fight best in open countryside, ideally fighting
equivalent sized opponents (ie tanks or mecha). They could mow down
infantry in open country until the infantry got too close to the cables.
In a city they are just a funny shaped tank with a power cable as an
extra weak spot. Mecha could also make decent AA platforms.
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The biomechs someone mentioned appear to be the best means for getting
around real-world physics. They need no power cables, and onboard fuel
isnt a limiting factor. Make the biomech muscles have some regenerative
powers, else a flamethrower would play havoc. You could even have flying
mechs with wings :)

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