Thread:Golurk 88/@comment-32275841-20181116064438/@comment-30076690-20181211003114

an Electromagnetic pulse affects everything in its radius, ESPECIALLY the point of origin.

Aka you.

Remeber how striker eureka was instantly disabled by that EMP kaiju?

Looking at the speed of Jaegers, and taking into account size differences, the bots from WR are still going to easily outpace you, you'll never get in range.

Your weapons will need lock on to reliably hit at range, not to mention such jamming could interfere with a variety of other sensors

Hand to hand combat is your one and only advantage. You significantly outmass the bots from WR, and could, if you caught up to them, easily pick one up and throw it. You will never catch one, and this would be a dangerous maneuver as each one has weapons capable of disabling and destroying your Jaeger.

The jaeger's armor could actually prove effective if it covered all the vital areas - as is, one shot to the joint and you're out of commission. Jaegers aren't designed to fight such smaller enemies, and thus have easily targetted weakpoints. And a bullet is still a bullet - a round from the KwK/nashorn would easily penetrate any weakpoints in your armor, from a range where you cannot possibly fight back. That's assuming your armor is capable of stopping them anywhere, which is doubtful considering the Nashorn would have comparable stopping power to the Paris gun.

And of course there's the problem of attrition - as good as your armor may be, eventually it's going to be worn down. Explosives that can inflict significant damage on a 50 foot robot from 60 feet away are going to be devastating if they detonate while in contact with a robot, even one 270 feet tall. You might survive the first blast. Maybe you'll surive 10, 20, or 100. Eventually you WILL fall.