At 06:28 PM 8/2/98 PDT, Andy Kent wrote:

In fact, that is one of the best reasons to HAVE battlefield mecha in 
WW2... the planes have to attack from machine-gun range, so you can 

see 

the fraggers coming and sidestep out of the way. Makes it darned 
difficult to walk fire over an enemy force when it's not limited to 
forward or backward movement, eh? This doesn't even mention the fact 
that the mecha could easily elevate their main weaponry for use on 
aircraft as easily as on ground targets, meaning that even a mech 

armed 

with a few machineguns becomes rather deadly for that strafing P-51 
pilot.

 You really believe that it would be that easy for them to target a 
plane moving at 300-400 mph?

'Course not, but it's a heck of a lot more nasty than pintle-mount 
machineguns on tanks, and even those aren't too nice when you're on a 
strafing run... remember, it's REAL easy to shoot something coming 
directly at you.

  Also, late WW2 fighters could carry rockets quite

capable of hurting or destroying a tank and some attack planes >carried 

cannon appreciably larger than the 50 cal machineguns and 20 >mm cannon 
that were standard fighter armament.

Yeah, a brace of rockets would be a bad day indeed for this theoretical 
puppy. Owie.

 One version of the B-25 Mitchell carried a
75 mm cannnon as an anti-ship weapon.  Also, given their height, these
mecha would be nice targets for artillery, especially anti-tank guns.

The B-25 served in the Japanese theatre, and NOT as a strafing vehicle; 
it's a freakin' strategic bomber. Anti-tank guns, again, would really 
really HURT these things, assuming that they're not packing more armor 
than a tank.

All this design discussion is interesting, but I still don't see how 
these designs are distinctly EVA and not general giant mecha.  

<shrug> It's moved away from that, unfortunately... HEY! Here's a 
thought about how this could happen, Eva-wise... Hitler was rumored to 
have sent out a search party to find the Spear of Destiny, with which no 
army could lose, right? (For those Eva fans out there who didn't catch 
that, the proper name for the Spear of Destiny is Lancea Longini...) Say 
his guys find it in Antarctica, along with Adam-thing of the author's 
choice. So, now, all they have to do is get the thing to the front, 
right? But... it's the length of a football field; you can't exactly 
expect for your commander to heft it. Fortunately, with it comes the key 
to working on a giant of your own...

I will NOT write this fic, so if anybody wants it, they can keep it.

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