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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Without getting too handwavy and Panglossian ("everything that exists is already the optimal way it should be"), humans and dogs and horses are pretty much the right shape for what they are (legs are much more versatile than wheels)
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But cars and trucks and tanks are also the right shape for what they are (wheels and treads are comically easy to get stuck and useless for a human sized thing, but a tank-sized thing *has to have them* because legs would break at that level of weight)
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Essentially any technique/technology that would allow you to build a giant human-shaped vehicle would allow you to build a much more effective vehicle appropriately shaped for both the size and the task
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If you could build them, you could field a unit of mecha, and you could probably find some commanders who would tie their identities to them, but they'd be like the World War 1 era commanders who insisted that horse cavalry were superior to tanks and refused to change,
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