>> I still watch
>>gameplay videos online sometimes, and in one of them I recently
>>learned of the existence, in the game and in real life, of what I
>>think may very well be the coolest armored fighting vehicle ever
>>devised: the S-tank,
>
>Are you referring to these videos?I had in mind this one, which contains a lengthy explanation of the unique game mechanics of the S-tank (which is then almost immediately falsified by what happens on screen :).
>>Ah, you have to love Swedish machinery.
>
>Yeah, the S-103 is very cool and it could have been the future if we
>hadn't managed to make better turrets. I always get the feeling I'm
>looking at something from Battletech, though the influences almost
>certainly go the other way.
(nod) There are an awful lot of vehicles in Battletech that are inspired by or references to various real-world 20th-century vehicles—the Hetzer, the Ontos, and the Partisan AA tank come to mind. Oddly, the Striker Light Tank, despite its curious resemblance to the real-world Stryker wheeled tank-ish-thing,* can't be a reference to same; the Battletech Technical Readout 3026 dates to more than a decade before the Stryker.
--G.
* technical term
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