For all my Mech enjoyers out there, how do you like your fighting robots?

Walkers, humanoid, or just slightly bigger suits of power armor? Do you like analogue controls, motion body suits, or some sort of neural-link tech to pilot them?

Do you like it when Mechs are presented as just another piece of military hardware on the battlefield and mass produced like tanks, or do you prefer it when they're limited and rare, extremely powerful pieces of tech that save the day from a monster attack? Share your thoughts, I'd love to hear!

For all my Mech enjoyers out there, how do you like your fighting robots?

Walkers, humanoid, or just slightly bigger suits of power armor? Do you like analogue controls, motion body suits, or some sort of neural-link tech to pilot them?

Do you like it when Mechs are presented as just another piece of military hardware on the battlefield and mass produced like tanks, or do you prefer it when they're limited and rare, extremely powerful pieces of tech that save the day from a monster attack? Share your thoughts, I'd love to hear!

All of them, but I like them as a piece of military hardware the most.

@Letter Bee Solid take! The potential for an expansive universe when mechs are presented that way are second to none in my opinion, because then you get to delve into aspects like the manufacturers and the greater political context around the warring!

If we're talking exclusively about single-seat mechs, I tend to err to the side of them being more to facilitate more mobility and lethality to the average infantry-squad. Kinda like a rather potent power-armor while still being a bit of a squishy glass-cannon in the grander scheme of things.

As for controls, really it'd depend on what iterative generation of mechs it is (or if it was the budget/militia/pirate model).

And of course, all the tech making mechs viable ends up also going to the conventional heavy-hitters, hetzers gonna hetz when you don't need no stinking micro-fusion core invented by General Motors in the 90s.

By the time you've got power-armors with Spartan-IIs/Ultramarines inside them, you've still got enemies that can throw them and/or doomguy around like a ragdoll. That said, having just one show up is often enough to turn the tide of a firefight decisively in your favor, let alone a whole dropship/drop-pod full of them just steamrolling through the enemy formation like an avalanche.

The other approach is mech-hunters, ofc. Because everybody likes a story about slaying the latest technological dragon of the battlefield.