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2012-04-09, 01:40 PM | [Ignore Me] #32 | ||
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Amphibious sunderer could easily be accomplished with a performance or utility upgrade for the sunderer. Creating a whole new vehicle w/ cert tree and other characteristics is extreme overkill. There must be something more to this vehicle. It must have a purpose other than transport.
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2012-04-09, 01:41 PM | [Ignore Me] #33 | ||
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My thought exactly. The lightning is the replacement for the skyguard in terms of functionality ... no one has said the lightning has to be a tract vehicle. My only doubt would be this appears to hold more than 1 person.
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2012-04-09, 01:45 PM | [Ignore Me] #35 | ||
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As we have not seen the lightning yet and the lightning's role was questionable, perhaps they spliced the lightning with the deli to create an IFV. That turns it into a general light attack vehicle that doubles a transport for a few extra infantry.
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2012-04-09, 01:47 PM | [Ignore Me] #36 | |||
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Although I do agree that the Lightning does not HAVE to have tracks. And the Sundy is way too top heavy and obviously heavily armored for it to be believably amphibious.
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2012-04-09, 02:01 PM | [Ignore Me] #39 | ||
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Just because it is an implied transport doesn't mean it isn't a lightning. We haven't seen it yet, and it could be an IFV for all we know. Its the one Nanite Systems vehicle we haven't seen and don't have a lot of details on. And here Nanite Systems unveils a vehicle.
One thing I have faith in is that they won't introduce a new vehicle without a purpose, and so far transport vehicles have had multiple roles. I expect this thing is no different. Some sort of supply vehicle or IFV are reasonable possibilities. |
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2012-04-09, 02:10 PM | [Ignore Me] #41 | |||
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I can certainly see them making a vehicle with various variants. Such as gutting the troop carrying capacity to shoehorn in an advanced AA weapon system (i.e. the Lightning). And I consider the Deli to be a IFV. It has the ability to carry infantry and mounted 2 machine guns to suppress the enemy Infantry. So this could be a troop transport and a the newly rebuilt Lightning, depending on what you need it too be. Course speculation is speculation....but what else can we do?
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2012-04-09, 02:16 PM | [Ignore Me] #43 | ||||
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It is officially NOT the Lighting......but we can still get the pitchforks for the lack of WHAT it is!
And it is not a concept Sundy either
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2012-04-09, 02:23 PM | [Ignore Me] #45 | ||
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So basically, from what I can see, this vehicle doesn't have any weapon included ?
Mmh, it'd better be fast and well armored. Imo, it looks like a powerful off-road version of the sunderer. Last edited by Hark; 2012-04-09 at 02:26 PM. |
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