Talk:Zeus/@comment-31534053-20170321084744

I hate when I see this on the battlefield in Shenzan. Thank God they buffed the Molots to give newer (and poorer) players at least a chance to defend themselves at 600m.

Also, as a minor nitpick, someone please consider editing the part above about the Zeus being "more realistic". I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with it being unrealistic (especially in a whole game powered by mad-science), just people saying something is realistic that isn't. Everyday cars have survived hits from actual lightning bolts, which are a lot more than a "megawatt" (a typical lightning bolt is actually closer to ten-thousand megawatts), with only popped tired and a fried paint-job/electrics/headlights.

While I can find no evidence of a real-battletank ever being hit by lightning, experts asked seem to agree the result would be-- almost nothing, given the tank is a faraday cage several inches thick and directly connected with he ground to allow the charge to pass into the Earth, so it's unlikely even the electrics would be effected (and if they were in a mech, then the engineers deserve to be shot for designing something three stories tall and made of metal that can't reliably take a hit from lightning).

(Maybe I should change my AV to Spock instead of Kirk.)