[quote=@Senor Herp]
Sensible enough. If you're a mass of brain tissue and crawly tendrils that skipped most of the tech tree, bastardly complex multi-jointed stilts makes more sense than trying to mimic antigrav-supplanted ineffectual crawling, or using pure antigrav, which I don't imagine makes for a stable firing platform as far as holding a zero with large weapons goes. Again, opposite to the Claw approach for a similar heavy assault class vehicle, who instead slapped together a superheavy quadruple-tracked vehicle with low-output antigrav (compared to gravitic hovercraft, at least) to fiddle with its ground pressure on the fly. I imagine the Claw ditched three legs for six simply to get a more or at least par stable firing platform with simpler individual leg design.

Is that a go on having/hinting at the two having the same precursor-shapers, then? Just want to clarify, don't want to dicker around with ambiguity or jump the gun.
[/quote]Well, that and good'ol Martian grudge.
Their nemesis was and still using wheels for many of their vehicles as well as rely on spinning cricular objects within their machinery. So they refuse using wheels also for pure ideological reasons. The Sarmakth embrace many things which makes them different from humans on this simple basis alone.
Man, you can run the same query for aircraft wings. Martians don't have 'em because humans do.
Which is especially ironic because the first Martian aircrafts during the 19th century invasion were basically flying delta-shaped wings (which doubtlessly inspired humans later).
:lol