Didn't someone say this Tiberium Wars replaces TS? If it does...then ztype!

If not, maybe GDI has just lost their position as the Biggest Global Group, maybe Brotherhood is now at the Top O' The World...

The medium tank looks like the TFD poster tank and Renegade light tank mix

You forget that mechs can travel through all terrain. Tanks can get bogged down in it. In a Tiberium coated landscape, I believe this is needed. Mechs also don't need 4 crewman to pilot it as shown in TS cutscenes Titans are crewed by one person. Mechs also are more free to move around, unlike Tanks that are more clunky and mechs also have a height advantage. Judging by GDI's low numbers, Titans are probably needed for this, while the Brotherhood can easily just draft 4 people and stick them in a Tick Tank.

Reliability: Arguable. Mechs can be just as reliable as tanks if the reactor stops working.

Protection: Arguable. Look at the Mammoth MK2 and say that NOD doesn't have a counterpart to that.

Firepower: Arguable for various reasons (Railgun?)

Mobility: See bogged down in terrain.

Cost: Depends on the mech, a Titan can be roughly the same as a TT.

Firing speed: Arguable.

Survivability is arguable.

Vulnerability: Depends if the pilot is dumb enough to bring himself into the open. Mechs can crouch you know, or technically they should.

-Height is not an advantage. It is a downside. Mechs have difficulty with terrain, as combined your concept of high speed, they can trip.
Tanks dont have to worry about balance, and they dont neccessarily bog down always.

Mechs cannot be reliable, as they always have vulnerable points that cannot be fixed.

Arguable, but not, much.

See tripping and obstacles.

Arguable? No. Realistically, to build a Titan, sheath it in armor, constructs its legs, arms, turret parts, cannon and the such, it would cost much more than the simple yet sturdy tick-tank. In terms of modern tanks, about 2 M1A2 SEPs could be made for 1 Titan.

Tell me where a Titan could stow its ammo? Where could a auto-loader that is reliable be placed. BTW: Reliable and autoloader are not supposed to go in the same sentence. If the 1 man in the Titan had to load, aim, shoot and move, he would be overburdened.

Tanks have 4 crew mostly, to handle each role it. The M1A2 with a good crew can fire nearly as fast if not faster than T-72 with autoloader.
The design of a mech would make it even harder to fire fast.

The tank will never see replacement in a army in the forseeable future, and GDI I am sure knows this.

Mechs cannot supercede tanks because mechs are just not a viable option on this planet. Physics and tactics would beat them every time.

Why does a tank need more than one person? I mean honestly, if your built an autoloader for the Mech why can't you put it on a tank? In Renegade, you see one player piloting a tank, why can't that same idea be applied to this? Autoloader + Advanced Radar + Battlefield Imaging System + Multiple Camera Ports = One Man. All of these things are already present in your Titan so why doesn't the Medium Tank pictured get to benefit?

Let's say that Nod has just got itself a semi. They send some Minigunners to distract your Titans and bam a Semi knocks your Titan on its ass. So for the cost of a semi and a 4 Minigunners, a huge military asset costing millions of dollars can be brought down. Another situation, some minigunners have lured your Hapless Titan into a city. Your Titan is chasing them down a city street. Just as your Titan is about to take a step forward, a motor starts up and a piece of steel cable comes up from the ground. Before your Titan Pilot can react, because he is bogged down in tracking the Minigunners, the Titan trips on the steel cable and falls to the ground with a big thud. Try any of these on a tank and you get foiled. If 2-5 lightly trained Nod conscripts can bring down a 1 highly trained Titan Pilot with little more than a rope, a motor, and a couple guns. All of this material would make great film for Nod Training Videos. See GDI. See GDI Run. See GDI Trip on a Rope and Destroy Its Multi-Million Dollar Vehicle. Imagine the giggles at GDI's foolish mech usage. Kane must have laughed his ass off when he saw the first Titan deployed in Battle saying something like, "They make it too easy."

How often does the HMLRS get bogged down? Only during Ion Storms. For all intents and purposes though, they are Tanks. Hover Technology is another evolution in Tank Technology. Hover Tanks would be faster, carry more weapons, more ammo, and heavy weapons, be all terrain, capable of entering a city and not getting tripped.

Mechs are by no means all-terrain. Have you ever walked in sand? What happens? Now imagine that you are a 10 ton mech every step you take will contain half of your weight all applied to one small surface area. Don't even try going up a sand dune because your ass is gonna fall down. Ever walked in mud? Do your feet ever feel heavier after do so? Mud cakes itself onto the bottom, the sides and sometimes depending on how deep it is to the inside of your feet. Now multiple this by about a thousand on a vehicle that requires specific weight requirements. Doesn't Sand and Mud get everywhere though? Sand especially gets into every crevice. Now imagine that a foot is so bogged down in sand that it can't move. Try walking without moving your ankle or your foot in sand. So many ways to utterly screw over a mech terrain wise. I mean cityscapes would be death traps for mechs, sand would slow them down, mud would slow them down, and hell any unstable terrain would. All of these situations a good tank could just roll though, especially if it were a hover tank.

Gundam Wing, Mech Warrior, and C&C's depiction of mechs is complete an utter fiction. in reality, mechs will never see anything more than industrial usage, if that. Only Power Suits and Multi-Legged Mechs would be feasible and those are by no means what most define as mechs.

You can't deny physics, Elerium.

Elerium, get out of your fantasy world.

I'm not even going to waste my time arguing with you anymore. As for some concerns I believe someone introduced Hover Technology. So why can't I introduce a W:40k? This is the future in the Tiberium universe, not the Iraqi War. You can't argue that a possible Tiberium armoured Wolverine is lower than a M1A2. Your merging two different timelines with an opinion that the M1A2 is better. An M1A2 is probably a GDI Medium Tank in the TD timeline, if so go there. A Titan would probably clobber it's ass 40 years later

I am done. This is my last post on this argument. I am done resisting the outburst. You are an idiot, Elerium.

Don't bring up the AT-ST it can be brought down by a volkswagen van. The AT-AT can be taken down by a single howitzer round to the side. The AT-ST and the AT-AT are the worst representations of mech technology, bringing them up hurts your case, badly.

If Nod saw your Wolverines, they'd lure them away with another bait and then topple the Titan. Nod is an ambusher and a Hit and Runner they aren't going to try their trap with 2 Powersuits (Which are Advanced Infantry not Mechs, by the way) protecting them.

Mech's aren't any more agile than a Human in a full suit of armor. Heav you ever worn one of those and tried to get through an obstacle course? Tanks don't need to go around obstacles, they plow through them, simple as that. Before you bring up trenches, a Mech won't be able to go any higher than its knee joint so Trenches will still stop Mechs.

If you damage anything badly it can crash and blow up, not just hover technology. Go take a hammer to a mortar round for a couple minutes and see how many hits it takes to blow yourself up.

Of all of your examples you only had 1 that wasn't a powersuit, and that was the Titan. To be a mech, certain specifications must be met. I thought we were comparing things in the C&C universe?

WH:40K, have you seen the size of WH40k Tanks? They could roll over small businesses without a problem.

Gundam Wing, Mech Warrior, and C&C's depiction of mechs is complete an utter fiction. in reality, mechs will never see anything more than industrial usage, if that. Only Power Suits and Multi-Legged Mechs would be feasible and those are by no means what most define as mechs.

\\//,DedmanWalkin

Going from tanks to mechs is not devolving.