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In article <4042ip$d...@ccnet3.ccnet.com>, c...@ccnet.com (Chris Gross) says:
>
>James Collins (hun...@kaiwan.com) wrote:
>: The only problem with this is, how do you get up then?  I agree that
>: having a mech standing with one leg is a bit silly, but if a fairly
>: undamaged mech (well, with all of its legs at least) falls down, how
>: do we get it back up again without being just as "silly"?  Still, it would
>: be nifty to launch a barrage of LRM's at a mech and have it get blown back
>: on its rear... :)
>
>If you lose one leg, you >dont< get up. If you fall over however, the 
>pilots own sense of balance (via the neurohelm), and using arms, can 
>stand the mech back up. (How do >you< get up when you fall down?) Even if 
>the mech has no hand actuators, there is no reason you cant push off a 
>weapon barrel to stand up. (like using a stick or a cane)
>
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couldn't you get knocked over in MWI?  I seem to remember falling
and getting up while enemy mechs pelted you with salvos of missiles...

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