Hey Everyone,
This may be our best looking page yet. I also love sequences like this that take place inside the armor and the machinery because it really forces you to sit down and think about how all this stuff would really have to work. If you’d believe it, in our first draft the Bull armor didn’t have any padding on the inside of the helmet. Once we had it drawn out though, it became really obvious how dangerous that would be.
I see that a few folks are curious about the nature and functioning of that more esoteric weapon, the Dhuvalian Combat Pike. While I don’t rightly know why our fair customers would have such a keen interest in some kind of over-priced regulationist weapon, our first duty is always to our customers. We’ll have a write up on the Dhuvalian Combat Pike soon.
Thanks for reading,
– Luther out
Well, without an idea of the performance of the bandits’ gear, how are we supposed to plan how to deal with it? It’s not like I’m interested in buying.
Thank you for the horizon. I was questioning why they could communicate and this shows she was back on the surface.
I’m a bit surprised that the vision slit on the bulls armor is that big and that there’s nothing in there to intercept incoming rounds.
The trick is probably to keep the enemy too pinned to aim, since they are exclusively doing indoor combat (why is Häuserkampf “urban warfare” in english? That gives a completely different image :-() the distances are short, and I remember reading somewhere that in a military context, you wouldn’t have time to aim at, say, the head in that kind of close quarters since you’re dead if you don’t shoot faster than the enemy, naturally. The risk of shrapnel or stray shots getting in through that is still there, though.
Actually, the Limbs don’t have glass in the viewport either from the looks of it, yet there was a glass-canopy Limb a while ago, so there should be suitable glass (or plastic) for this. I mean, I like the world war-ish look the open slits give, but if this is how it’s generally done, one could purpose-build a directional microshrapnel grenade or just use a shotgun with a spread-choke to “get at the eyes”. Other opinions? Maybe there is glass and it just isn’t drawn reflective so it would be noticed? (That should show on the cut-away in the lower panel, however)
Fair enough, but the proportions are in play here. A limb is how big and the vision slit is tiny compared to frontal surface area. The internal shot of the bull makes the vision slit look kinda large, then again they did say they’re half out of ammo so you may be right and they may use a LOT of suppression fire.
Well, at least it’s better than the usual tiny viewslits like on medieval armor which give people major tunnel vision. It’s still bad like this, but at least you wouldn’t overlook an enemy standing a little too far off-center of your sightline.
Also, though I’m fairly certain they aren’t supposed to protect against short-range fire, infantry bunkers also tend to have fairly large windows compared to their front surface.
Well, I can explain it to myself, but I do agree it rings somewhat oddly to me.
yeah…. plus I doubt anyone is of the presence of mind to shoot too accurately when a pack of crazy bulls is charging your position.
Bean-counters.
War is not a place to cut costs.
It doesn’t seem to be cost as much as poor planning. They had the forethought of outfitting the Limbs with extra fuel for extended operations but no one seem to have thought that the breach team would need more ammo than they normally would.
This operation has a lot of smash and not much grab. Even if your objective is “break shit and run” you’d think they’d have a crew purposed to gutting one facility as the raiders move on to the next. Setting traps, gathering ammo, intelligence and gold fillings.
If they though that far ahead, the breach team would have more ammo and Betsy-Ray would have better radio gear.