Walker mechs aren’t (going to be) that useful in combat. At least not on Earth.

OK, so I’m getting rather fed up with my writer’s block on this blog, and maybe that’s because I’ve been overthinking the subjects I need or want to write about. I guess there’s nothing wrong with choosing what would simply be fun and easy to write — and I happen to have several subjects like that, not the least because I’ve done the thinking but never bothered to write it down or upload it to my old LiveJournal thingy when I stopped writing there nearly a decade ago. So what is it this time?

Well, walker vehicles intended for combat. We’ve seen many varieties of these in popular culture, especially in the Mechwarrior and Heavy Gear series (well, in Star Wars too), as well as Japanese “mecha” like in the Votoms, Gundam, or Patlabor series. It’s no secret that I enjoy these things as much as anybody else. Well, as long as nobody takes it too literally and drops an orbital colony on Earth, that is. But I digress. The point is that, as much as I love these combat walkers, I don’t think they’ll ever play a major part in combat — at least not on Earth. And there are multiple reasons for that.