How feisable are Variable Fighters?

[OsakanOne]

Kotori said they were done a while back but I just wanted to know when they peaked and what they were like.

I hear micronization killed them off but it'd be fun to take a shot at modeling one if there's any art available.

Could you tell me about them?

 

[Fred]

https://stararmy.com/starships/ketsurui/ ... plite.html

The above is a link to the Hoplite. It's our variable fighter. Or at least was.

 

[OsakanOne]

Hmm...

What about the Nepleslia?

*Goes off in search

 

[Wes]

Nepleslia's never had any.

 

[Vesper]

To your title, not very. You add in a huge amount of wasted space so that the thing can operate in either mode (and keep in mind miniturization can only take you so far), in the end you will have a vehicle that it at best moderatly good in both modes but would get its ass handed to it if it ran into a unit designed specifically for either one. They are really just the next step-up in the 'humanoid robots/armor look cool' anime trend.

 

[OsakanOne]

Wow, nostalgic. Have we come full circle?

 

[Doshii Jun]

That's a cool bit about Xenforo, having all our threads back on one board.