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Wait, wut's going on - it was all HURR AWSM STEAMPUNK and now drama happened. QUIT IT, GAIZ. >:{

1) People are talking about ONE mech... because ONE mech would be kinda cool
2) Dante's list is in fact for historical accuracy and nothing else
3) It's ok for you to want to bring something interesting to the table... but setting up an army of steam-powered soldiers to automatically be judge and jury ISN'T new and interesting, but is, in fact, old and tiring.
4) Kiss my brass you cog sucker. How about instead of getting whiny, you DEFEND your army by stating how they would possibly be able to work right, hmm? A lot of the comments made are how your steam knights would be able to work instead of shooting them down. Thusly, pull your head from your tin-plated a** and lighten up.

5) How about we all keep having fun now, k?

*Snickers softly*
Aww, he's getting testy. Cute.

Firstly, let me just say that I, in fact, WANT you in my new guild because I think you'd have neat ideas for characters.

Secondly, yes. I do have a problem with you and I think everyone who has ever stepped foot in here knows it, but that has nothing to do with this. You're just butt-hurt that I'm making a new Leviathan Guild as anyone who saw your posts could tell you.

Secondly part two, I'm able to put aside my dislike of you to allow you in this thing. Why do you think you're the co-owner of THIS guild? I think you're a power-hungry, whiny, egomaniac with some control and anger issues... but you're also brilliant, smart and have a mind full of wonderful ideas. You'd be an interesting dictator, to say the least.

Thirdly and importantly: I'm not making Dante fill out every tiny little piece of information of how a gun or artillery works because most people grasp the concept of a gun. Put bullet in front of explosive, bullet go very fast. Put explosive IN bullet to make bullet go boom after going real fast.

But guess what? I am making EVERYONE, including myself, state how something would work properly, theoretically. Example: Enki's airship. One square foot of hydrogen can lift one square ounce of mass... didja know that? Thusly, little tiny airships with lots of munitions won't work properly. A large, steam-powered machine with massive armor plating would be VERY VERY slow and be difficult to control. One could control it via radio-waves, but it'd have to be very close range and can only preform menial tasks *punch thing* *walk* *turn*

The warjack idea floating around: Based on their design, they'd be very impractical since they be very slow and severely top heavy... probably would topple over when they moved...

I don't need every single detail, but explaining how it COULD work would, you know, be nice so that you don't make a suit arm armor much akin to, oh, say Iron Man?

Not that it is really my business, but if a New guild is being made in a Steampunk fashion, why don't we not bicker over it quite so much so it doesn't start out tainted with angst or animosity.

If you have a creative Idea and you're not sure how it would work, find a good steampunk description with some inventor references, Nikola Tesla, and Edison for instance, and find out how they made thier machines work, look into the style of the genre and find a way in that.

If they are automatons, they don't need super strong armor, and Aluminum is light, but it's more durable than most people give it credit. But building a slimmer upper body and using a smaller steam engine would make it plausable.

Edit: Also, I may be wrong, but with a Gear, piston, and pulley system, it wouldn't take a whole lot to completely protect it, Since most of the inner workings are metal themselves, it would have alot of it's own structure in the workings, add a little interior casement of a harder alloy around main components, like the gearbox and control center, and you'de have a light, tactfully armored weapon.

A smaller boiler connected to a turbine that connected by belt or chain or gear to a 'gear box' so to say, and then from there directed the torque of the turbine into usable energy for arm, leg and other movements. And using a bit of electricity to control that gearbox or another power source with a Controlling source either overhead or one with a wide enough grid range to keep the knights moving. A smaller airship with small signal amplifiers connected to a main place that runs the knights.

A kind of mechanical brain could be involved, different gears turning on a Copper coil wired engine would make the gearbox move the energy in different ways. Because thanks to Tesla and Edison and other inventors of this time, the electric engine was made, a bit bulky at first, but usable.

The engine is basically a piston, with 2 different poled magnets attached to it, inside a casing, wrapped in Copper wire, when a current is run through the wire it makes an electromagnet out of the casing, and the polarization changes making the piston swing in different ways, a different signal could move a different engine enabling a different part of the gearbox so another part may move.

It would be basic movement, but when you have someone made of Flesh, surrounded by 5 or 10 of these, they aren't going to be less intimidated because it can move only simply.

Edit: Maybe a gearbox something like This

THat is the clutch system out of a steampunk creation. Using pistons to move gears into the path of the Turbine driven gear, so that it got the power from that source.

The hardest part would be a light, but efficient fuel to burn to make the steam, coal is heavy, and doesn't last as long as it would need to. But i'm sure something can be thought of for it.

.... What the hell part of an armor would you want to "power up" with a steam engine anyway? O_o;

If anything, the steam engine's power would be necessary to support its own weight. D:


PS: Tenma, forget aluminium. As a basic rule, if it's not brown, it's not steampunk.

But you can move and support your own weight in a regular armor, non?


So adding a steam engine to it would be kinda like sticking a steam engine to a sword. Sure, it looks good, but .... why?