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Ground Combat / Re: Favorite hauler for assault BA (Inner Sphere, Clan, and Comstar/WoB)?
« Last post by Luciora on Today at 15:40:50 »Only the finest lostech SL TP.
I think we have to agree that one of the conceits of the universe is that you do have to get very close to gather anything meaningfully. In theory you can just park a satellite somewhere between the Oort cloud and the system proper, even a few light minutes away, and just hoover up all the EM that oozes out over time. But then sigint is basically just 2,000 satellites per House/faction, and their intel gathering is amazing.
We know that capability doesn't exist, so have to accept that along with crap weapon ranges and 'Mechs being king, signint requires true liability in proximity to your intended targets.
I keep trying to leave the Pirate Point argument-because it's irrelevant to the topic.
But then, that's why you pack fuel and consumables-because your spy ships don't NEED to arrive that close, to do their job. Their job benefits from arriving at a distance outside the detection grid, then coming in at newtonian under it.
and that's only if you REALLY want to get close to get those real-time images instead of light delayed.
Is it actually that much cheaper than a Victor-9D? Their capabilities aren’t quite identical, but they’re similar enough that I’d think just building more Victors would make more sense than developing a whole new mech that has…a few more SRM tubes and a lot less armor.