Sadly, no Cyberfuhrer - he's not a psi, so no bullshit space magic for Hitler. It's why possibly the world's strongest unamplified telekinetic is his bodyguard and shortly afterward girlfriend, instead of out ripping tanks in half barehanded. He only got scratched up and a bunch of splinters in his legs OTL, anyway. There's no telepathy (empathy and projective empathy, yes) teleporting or precog beyond combat-time for the setting, but Eva would be strong enough to shield the two of them from a missile hit that destroyed an escape craft/ambulance, to spirit him away on foot/carried by TK under cover of the dust and smoke. The rest of the modified scenario does sound workable, though.
In the pre-war era, no one in charge was actually convinced that mecha were going to be such a big factor - "The Bombers Will Get Through." "A few dozen esper pilots can't possibly make a difference compared to thousands of well-trained conventional troops with the latest weapons." "Yes, yes, the Kloggs that were tested against then-current equipment when they landed in 1920 were unstoppable, but our Red-tech has developed a long way, and the new Blue-tech mecha aren't nearly as sophisticated as those few examples." And so on. Notably, I chose the L-133 to be the first US fully-jet-powered mecha design because it can be transformed with only a minor adjustment to the narrow (original) Klogg design, before I split off a second teardrop-flying-saucer version.
As for naval fighters, the variable P-38 can VSTOL if not quite VTOL and has folding wings, so it's perfectly capable of carrier operations and using it for them means not needing to organize parts and training for a second mecha type. From a design perspective, one of the things that I've been using as a nearly absolute requirement is that the cockpit remains in the same attitude, or at most tips forward a few degrees, when transforming, and the few exceptions mount the seat and controls on a gimbal so they stay stable as the unit moves around them. IC, spinning around on two axes sounds like a horribly disorienting and time consuming thing to do in the middle of combat, either of which would turn it into a suicide sled. It does sound like it would make a cool toy, though. Honestly, I could have made the FW-190 end up sleeker in battroid, but being a bit primitive and awkward looking is part of the concept since it was the first earth-made mecha to be deployed in regular service.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
In the pre-war era, no one in charge was actually convinced that mecha were going to be such a big factor - "The Bombers Will Get Through." "A few dozen esper pilots can't possibly make a difference compared to thousands of well-trained conventional troops with the latest weapons." "Yes, yes, the Kloggs that were tested against then-current equipment when they landed in 1920 were unstoppable, but our Red-tech has developed a long way, and the new Blue-tech mecha aren't nearly as sophisticated as those few examples." And so on. Notably, I chose the L-133 to be the first US fully-jet-powered mecha design because it can be transformed with only a minor adjustment to the narrow (original) Klogg design, before I split off a second teardrop-flying-saucer version.
As for naval fighters, the variable P-38 can VSTOL if not quite VTOL and has folding wings, so it's perfectly capable of carrier operations and using it for them means not needing to organize parts and training for a second mecha type. From a design perspective, one of the things that I've been using as a nearly absolute requirement is that the cockpit remains in the same attitude, or at most tips forward a few degrees, when transforming, and the few exceptions mount the seat and controls on a gimbal so they stay stable as the unit moves around them. IC, spinning around on two axes sounds like a horribly disorienting and time consuming thing to do in the middle of combat, either of which would turn it into a suicide sled. It does sound like it would make a cool toy, though. Honestly, I could have made the FW-190 end up sleeker in battroid, but being a bit primitive and awkward looking is part of the concept since it was the first earth-made mecha to be deployed in regular service.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows