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Which Mecha/Power Armor Would You Want In Real Life

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If you had the chance to pilot/operate any power armor or Mecha,

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What would you want and why ?
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Are we the only people with power armor in this scenario?
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Silver Hawk...maybe Serpent or Cyclone...
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The VR-041 Saber Cyclone, hands-down, no hesitation.
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You don't sound very sure of that. Are you positive? LOL...good selection, my friend!
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Subjugator wrote:You don't sound very sure of that. Are you positive? LOL...good selection, my friend!

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Grand Paladin wrote:The VR-041 Saber Cyclone, hands-down, no hesitation.


Yeah... that's probably a winner.

Though I'm going to mull it over a bit more.
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Banshee from japan. Its good in air land and sea and its main weapon is unlimited and leaves no traces.

Mecha knight from mercs by nurani, its the samas but way cooler.

That flame tailsiman one from SA - i can hide it easier and you know be a flying ball of flame.
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SmilingJack wrote:If you had the chance to pilot/operate any power armor or Mecha,

Daily,

In Real Life,

What would you want and why ?



Would a Full Conversion Cyber Humanoid Hack Rat qualify?

Or Maybe The SDF-1 Macross? Though, I'd love to have the SDF-25 Frontier or maybe even better the SDF-24 Galaxy? Maybe on that theme, the Zentrandi G-95 Satellite Factory! (Talk about giant mecha! :) )


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Chipwell challenger.
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titan pops in my mind first
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A Triax Super Hunter. It is my favorite and a great all around suit.
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Just a quick clarification, you can frame your response as either everyone has a Mecha or only you have a Mecha
Whatever sparks your imagination more

Also any power armor or Mecha from any palladium world is acceptable, if you want vehicles and ships are acceptable as well

Hell if you want a sdf 1 go for it, I don't care

Just have fun with your response
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Cyclone.
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The Dominator ships are pretty cool. :D
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Killer Cyborg wrote:The Dominator ships are pretty cool. :D


Dominator ships are neither mecha or power armor.
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The Beast wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:The Dominator ships are pretty cool. :D


Dominator ships are neither mecha or power armor.


SmilingJack wrote:Just a quick clarification, you can frame your response as either everyone has a Mecha or only you have a Mecha
Whatever sparks your imagination more

Also any power armor or Mecha from any palladium world is acceptable, if you want vehicles and ships are acceptable as well

Hell if you want a sdf 1 go for it, I don't care

Just have fun with your response
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I don't think any of them would be street legal and if you flew, you'd get in trouble with the FAA.

Your best bet is to choose whatever you think you could benefit the most from selling.

Nonetheless, my choice would be a grav-pack.

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flatline wrote:I don't think any of them would be street legal and if you flew, you'd get in trouble with the FAA.

Your best bet is to choose whatever you think you could benefit the most from selling.

Nonetheless, my choice would be a grav-pack.

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Well that would be the Battle Ram wouldn't it, from Phase World? Technically a robot vehicle but more like a heavy durability fighter jet that would prove quite useful on the sales end, well as long as you could find an honest buyer as many governments would just steal it from you and either hide it away or hide it away while trying to reverse-engineer it and leaving you lucky if you get to remain alive and free.
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Hell, if the SDF3 is available, then I'm changing my vote! A Dominator ship might be cool as well, since it's automated.

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Killer Cyborg wrote:
The Beast wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:The Dominator ships are pretty cool. :D


Dominator ships are neither mecha or power armor.


SmilingJack wrote:Just a quick clarification, you can frame your response as either everyone has a Mecha or only you have a Mecha
Whatever sparks your imagination more

Also any power armor or Mecha from any palladium world is acceptable, if you want vehicles and ships are acceptable as well

Hell if you want a sdf 1 go for it, I don't care

Just have fun with your response


Well hell, I missed that part.
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The Beast wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:
The Beast wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:The Dominator ships are pretty cool. :D


Dominator ships are neither mecha or power armor.


SmilingJack wrote:Just a quick clarification, you can frame your response as either everyone has a Mecha or only you have a Mecha
Whatever sparks your imagination more

Also any power armor or Mecha from any palladium world is acceptable, if you want vehicles and ships are acceptable as well

Hell if you want a sdf 1 go for it, I don't care

Just have fun with your response


Well hell, I missed that part.


Too late now!
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Subjugator wrote:Hell, if the SDF3 is available, then I'm changing my vote! A Dominator ship might be cool as well, since it's automated.

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I very briefly considered a Mechanoid Mothership.
But since it IS a mechanoid, it'd try to kill me.

Also, I couldn't get the doors or anything to work.
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Killer Cyborg wrote:
Subjugator wrote:Hell, if the SDF3 is available, then I'm changing my vote! A Dominator ship might be cool as well, since it's automated.

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I very briefly considered a Mechanoid Mothership.
But since it IS a mechanoid, it'd try to kill me.

Also, I couldn't get the doors or anything to work.


It *would* kill you. It's controlled by an alien intelligence.

Now if I could have it and use it fully, that would be mine too, now that I think about it. That bad boy could take SEVERAL blasts from the SDF3 main gun and still go strong (EACH of the frickin' WINGS have 40,000,000,000 MDC!).

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I choose the smiling jack or super SAMAS power armor

Lightning fast speed, in either armor

However the covert nature and litheness of the smiling jack allows me to slip into places a larger armor couldn't

Plus the smiling jack looks killer

Yes I'm totally biased towards the smiling jack!
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