Okay, let's say we solve the square cube law and build mecha. Are there any non-arbitrary reasons why tanks aren't better? If not, what are some bullsht reasons I can use for stories that aren't that absurd?
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Yeah, that's a good way of framing it, I think I guess I'm mainly just asking in historical terms "could the Soviets have pacified Afghanistan with much better armor"
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No. Maybe mecha can get places that tanks can't, but they're way easier to blow up. And in Afghanistan specifically, you can't solve an asymmetrical insurgency with a more maneuverable main battle tank substitute.
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But you keep coming back to the fact that we didn't invent human sized vehicles like that because we don't need to because we are humans and can just do those tasks ourselves
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And the real life reasons we think of "vehicles" as being shaped a certain way in the first place is we built them to be bigger than us in order to carry us and therefore they have to distribute weight differently from us
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