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Optimus Prime or Ironhide for movie mechs.

Non-Movie: Ironclad Dreadnought.

I agree with the "Spielberg Tripod" from War of the Worlds.

Other than that... Metal Gear Rex (sorry, MG Ray just looked... odd to me)


Would Darth Vader count as a movie mech? I mean, Obi Wan did say, "he's more machine than man now"

Battletech's Atlas assault `Mech is a favorite of mine. It just looks so solid and intimidating--I imagine it's huge, blocky frame relentlessly pursuing smaller prey in a nightmarish fashion. Buildings, rock formations, none of those things will stop an Atlas from obliterating its intended target. It will bash its way through any obstacle to rain death upon its enemies.

Like so. I imagine the pilot's pants were ruined around 1:05.

Not enough heat sinks

 Jihadin wrote:
Not enough heat sinks

20 is pretty good in 3025. If you aren't running a little hot then you aren't playing right.

3 walk
5 run
If I can remember right
AC20
maybe AC10
couple LRG Lasers and Med laser boat to

Star of Piranha's ate the pour guy/gal alive

GUNHED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8D76QVbxMc

I also like the Tachikoma out of Ghost in the Shell though I prefer the original Japanese dialogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkb8_eMs8Jg

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Battletech's Atlas assault `Mech is a favorite of mine. It just looks so solid and intimidating--I imagine it's huge, blocky frame relentlessly pursuing smaller prey in a nightmarish fashion. Buildings, rock formations, none of those things will stop an Atlas from obliterating its intended target. It will bash its way through any obstacle to rain death upon its enemies.

Like so. I imagine the pilot's pants were ruined around 1:05.

I like The Battletech Assault class mech Daishi. Aka the Dire Wolf



when I played MW4 it was my favorite mech. I could load it up with 3 LBX-AC20s 2 LBX-AC10s and blast everything away in 1-3 hits. Even an Atlas couldn't take more than 3 hits from my barrage of firepower

 Jihadin wrote:
3 walk
5 run
If I can remember right
AC20
maybe AC10
couple LRG Lasers and Med laser boat to

Star of Piranha's ate the pour guy/gal alive

A Star of Piranha is mean. How long did it take to resolve all those machine gun shots?! That is about as bad as having a lance of SRM Carriers open up on a single `Mech (did that to a player in a Mechwarrior game I was GMing. Couldn't understand why the group wanted to break for dinner while I attempted to resolve the damage ).


@Overlord Thraka

The Daishi is indeed a sexy beast, especially Natasha Kerensky's Widowmaker variant. An ultra AC/20 backed up by ER PPC's will make quite an impression.

I miss my BattleTech.....and all my mini's still in case..

Pacific rim anyone? My personal favorite is cherno alpha.

SDF1

If the question is limited solely to movie mechs (as in robot with a person inside) then I give it to the loader from Aliens. (Because EVERY other purpose built combat mech, bar none, on the big screen has looked too ridiculous to countenance.)

If we're expanding it to robots larger-than-human sized, I give it to Atom from Real Steel.

If we're allowing video game mechs in, then I will toss it out to the Nova from Battletech/Mechwarrior. The squat appearance made it seem way more believable to me.

Eeerrrr Jimsolo

I have to go Warhammer and/or Marauder

Archer another one of my favorite

Hachetman is fun in urban combat.

But what about the UrbanMech its sort of cool

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
3 walk
5 run
If I can remember right
AC20
maybe AC10
couple LRG Lasers and Med laser boat to

Star of Piranha's ate the pour guy/gal alive

A Star of Piranha is mean. How long did it take to resolve all those machine gun shots?! That is about as bad as having a lance of SRM Carriers open up on a single `Mech (did that to a player in a Mechwarrior game I was GMing. Couldn't understand why the group wanted to break for dinner while I attempted to resolve the damage ).


@Overlord Thraka

The Daishi is indeed a sexy beast, especially Natasha Kerensky's Widowmaker variant. An ultra AC/20 backed up by ER PPC's will make quite an impression.

I find the fella good enough to stick as my wall paper. I need to find an image with better resolution.

There's only one #1 and that is #5.


Johnny 5








Followed closely by the Iron Giant.



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A sniper sooooo cool, that the vindicare sniper from 40k shows a scary similarity to him.
That art PREDATES the vindi sniper (Biz is the boss).

The Timberwolf is my favourite Clan Mech


But i am a Marauder pilot at heart, and the Reseen variant is my favourite.


And whom could forget the beauty that is the Omega?


And thanks Ribon, i nearly forgot the Urbie! :shocked:

 Jimsolo wrote:
If the question is limited solely to movie mechs (as in robot with a person inside) then I give it to the loader from Aliens. (Because EVERY other purpose built combat mech, bar none, on the big screen has looked too ridiculous to countenance.)

If we're expanding it to robots larger-than-human sized, I give it to Atom from Real Steel.

If we're allowing video game mechs in, then I will toss it out to the Nova from Battletech/Mechwarrior. The squat appearance made it seem way more believable to me.

Wo wo we're forgetting the allien warsuit in District 9

 Frazzled wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
If the question is limited solely to movie mechs (as in robot with a person inside) then I give it to the loader from Aliens. (Because EVERY other purpose built combat mech, bar none, on the big screen has looked too ridiculous to countenance.)

If we're expanding it to robots larger-than-human sized, I give it to Atom from Real Steel.

If we're allowing video game mechs in, then I will toss it out to the Nova from Battletech/Mechwarrior. The squat appearance made it seem way more believable to me.

Wo wo we're forgetting the allien warsuit in District 9

What he said. The prawn weapons alone make it awesome.

Big O will always be one of the first images I have when I think Mecha or Mechs. And the old boy is still one of my favorites.
Showtime!