silverstars Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 First off, I am a long time lurker and poster from the CMBO days. Glad to finally find my login info so I could post my thoughts to this informative forum. So hello again! I was watching Futureweapons on TV the other day involving the armed version of a bomb-defusing robot, and wondering if such a robot might actually be in use by frontline US forces in the timeline given for the Syria scenario, and the possibility of it being included in one of the addons for Shock Force. I understand that it could be considered too esoteric a weapon system to have a large impact on a battlefield in 2009, or how useful it could be in a highly fluid battle of maneuver. But I am intrigued by the idea of the US having a recon MG platform with no morale issues and no casualties if destroyed. I can imagine how useful that could be with the new asymmetrical objectives for CMSF. Obviously this would be out for the initial release, but has Battlefront considered the possibility of adding one of these in? I'm pretty sure I know the answer already, but I'm still curious. (hey, at least I'm not bringing up the T-80 again ) Link: http://compsci.ca/tech/weapons/swords-talon-armed-robotic-vehicle/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Bah! Tracks are so passe! Future killer robots will walk on legs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Aren't a lot of unarmed robots already in use these days? And will they be in the game? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 silverstars, Welcome back! From CMBO to now = long hiatus! I have asked the SWORDS question myself, but don't recall that I ever got an answer from BFC. I believe the topic kind of dropped off the forum eventually, quite possibly about the time the Lone Syrian appeared. Sergei, Hadn't seen that one before, which appears to be for some sort of lumbering. Regards, John Kettler [ April 08, 2007, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: John Kettler ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverstars Posted April 14, 2007 Author Share Posted April 14, 2007 bump. been away from the computer for a week while learning to become a correctional officer. *hoping for official shootdown by steve* ;D 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixxkiller Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I dont see this. I bet the closest thing they will model to robots is UAV's, and not even sure about that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinty Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Maybe not armed ones, but bomb robots are common place here. Every EOD team has one. It's quite interesting to see one zipping around, going up to dirt mounds to see if they're IEDs or not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverstars Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 I figure it is probably a long shot for the TALON/SWORDS robot to actually be put in the game, but I am highly interested in getting one. I find one of the big draws of a modern/near future game is figuring out new tactics for all the new toys. Hell, isn't that one of the reasons they chose to focus on Stryker brigades? To see how effective the platform can be in a conventional and/or asymmetrical fight? I guess I just have fun thinking up all the crafty things I could do with just an unarmed IED robot in an assault. You could do pre-assault recon for knowing exactly where your enemy is, getting as close as you want since the thing is so tiny and quiet. If it is discovered and destroyed, it's not a big loss since no one is dead. Granted it has a financial cost, but it's politically cheap. And can you imagine the fun you could have with one equipped with an MG? Have one or two of these babies skirt around the flank of the enemy in some brush or trees and start firing them off. They are so small and quiet they are hard to detect, so in concealment the enemy can't tell what or who is shooting at them. And while they are busy figuring out how to take them out(supressive fire now means nothing, they have to physically destroy them), your real men are enveloping in from the other side. I can just see these things driving the Syrian player NUTS. Give these things some forward observer capabilities and these bad boys are lethal. I'm sure this won't balance the game out very well, but damned if it doesn't sound entertaining. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGMB Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Noooo!! Not that preying mantas robot! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Does anyone know if they are going to include those remote control planes with camera's on them. I saw a program on them on TV some time back and got the impression that they were either available now at company level or soon would be. Seems to me that they would give a huge advantage to the US forces. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvaderCanuck Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Originally posted by Sergei: Bah! Tracks are so passe! Future killer robots will walk on legs. That is a pretty rediculous faller buncher there. With all the fuss of low impact logging, and the fact skid trails have a huge environmental impact, I am not sure I understand the logic of a walking faller buncher. I mean, unless they are heli-logging the skidder still has to come pick the timber up ;p 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 May I refer everyone to http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htinf/articles/20070418.aspx?comments=Y Talks about the next generation infantry robot that could be deployed by next year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atacms Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 I'd like to see Lockheed Martin's ARV-A See this link: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/12822.pdf what do the devs say about armed robotics? With the great need for troops and the issue of force protection, we will see more and more the need for Unmanned Ground Vehicles - armed too. Maybe not fully autonomous at least in regards to engagement of targets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Funny thing about that ARV-A robot. I'm a peace-loving non-gun-owner with few hostile tendencies but if I saw one of them things rolling up my street even I would be tempted to find out how bullet holes I could put into it before it comes to a stop! Its got 'bullet magnet' written all over it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixxkiller Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Mikey, And how would a non-gun owner shoot bullet holes in a robot? I think you have better alcohol than I do, so SEND ME A CASE DAMNIT! I want to see pink robot uav's (in slow mo) being shot too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderbamsen Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 It's a bit early for something like the MULE, given CM:SF's 2007 setting. Steve said at one point that the current small robotic vechiles were too rare and too expensive to see common usage, and therefore would not be included in CM:SF. Now, I'd just love to see an FCS module down the road (or rather right now ), but it will be extremely speculative, based on artists conceptions and educated guesses rather than facts, and BFC simply don't do that. Respectfully ludebamsen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Originally posted by InvaderCanuck: That is a pretty rediculous faller buncher there.No, it's a killer robot, damnit! It's just demonstrating its plasma cutter on some tree trunks. Now imagine the forest as a city and the trees as people! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matchstick Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Drop your leaves !!! You have 30 seconds to comply... Now, which box did I put that DVD of Robocop in... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webwing Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 - I'm just wondering how long it's going to take for MechWarrior MOD for this game to appear! - 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderbamsen Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Originally posted by Webwing: - I'm just wondering how long it's going to take for MechWarrior MOD for this game to appear! - Given BFC´s attitude towards modding, it will never happen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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