Once again, you continue your MO of just ignoring whatever bit of your opponent's argument is inconvenient. It becomes impossible to teach you anything because hey, if there's evidence you're wrong, clearly it should be ignored, right? If you had actually read my whole post, you would've noted that I responded to
both things OP said, giving an actual account of how they can square together: he realizes they wouldn't work in practical situations, but wants to maintain some measure of "coolness factor" by having a few lucky victories. Your responses ignore all mention of OP saying that he realizes they're impractical and wouldn't see use. Of course, I'm sure you won't respond to the bulk of my response here, since, once again, it'd be inconvenient for you to do so.
Um, it occurs to me that much of this debate could be avoided if this thread were to be moved to ASB&OM, where engineering concerns can be handwaved, if necessary.
If it's moved to ASB, it loses most of the point of the thread, which is discussing the real life viability of walking tanks/mechs/whatever.
I'd appreciate it if you edit your post to remove your mention of me. After all, all I'm doing is defending the OP and trying to stop Bill Cameron's baseless attacks on him. This is not something Bill Cameron has done in just this one thread, it's something that he keeps doing. Any why do I keep calling him Bill Cameron? Because Don Lardo is a sock puppet of a
banned member.
It won't replace MBTs by any stretch, and would require air superiority, but it would have a certain niche in mountainous fighting.
Their best use is actually urban fighting. When you're dealing with manufactured surfaces of different altitude (usually stairs), legs work better than treads. As long as you're just using something small, ground pressure isn't even a big issue (because of the square-cube law). So they'd actually work fairly well for things like hostage negotiation robots, or little scouting robots. The big problem here is something I've mentioned earlier in this thread: it's possible to build treads that function as pseudo-legs and have the best of both worlds.