The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3496

Chapter 3496: High Expectations

A critical moment had come. Ves and Ketis had to work together to design a competition mech, but they couldn't win the Wild Brawl Bowl without a mech pilot.

Twenty mech pilots came forth at this time to make themselves available for selection. According to their profiles, five of them specialized in piloting swordsman mechs.

The other fifteen pilots probably trained in the basics of swordsmanship but were actually excellent in piloting other melee mechs.

There were those who mastered the use of axes, spears, hammers, warpicks, shields and other equipment.

These pilots only became relevant if Team Larkinson wanted to compete with an unexpected mech. For now, Ketis did not take a serious look at them. She knew what she was good at and had no intention of straying from her specialty.

That meant picking one of the five swordsman mech pilots.

Team Youngbuck already picked out the most obvious choice. Giles Harnacher possessed the more comprehensively strong record out of all of the mech pilots among the Wild Fighters. His ranking, his experience and his skills were just a notch above the others.

Ves found that the differences in strength between the mech pilots available in the Wild Brawl Bowl diverged significantly more than those available in the High Tide Tournament.

This was a clear way to provide a handicap to those who had less time to progress their design philosophies.

Though the best had already been taken, the other five swordsman mech specialists were still quite good in their own ways. Each of them were sufficiently different from each other in order to provide Team Larkinson with a lot of choice…

The swordmaster first gazed at the women.

Celaine Traxer was the most standard and balanced option. She was a disciplined, controlled fighter who could wield different types of swords, but excelled the most in one-handed swordsmanship.

She paired best with a mech equipped with a sword as well as a light shield. Such a swordsman mech could partially function like a knight mech and were very suitable in duels against other melee mechs.

Ketis shook her head. "Traxer is a good pilot, but she's not committed to a style. She has skill but she still needs to explore her own heart."

This was something that the records didn't explain. They only contained objective, verifiable facts. Only a proficient swordswoman like Ketis was able to peer deeper.

She moved on to the next mech pilot.

Maida Siferan specialized in wielding dual swords. This was an unusual specialty not only because it was difficult to become proficient in wielding two swords at once, but also because it was challenging to design a mech that could fully express this fighting approach.

A swordsman mech wielding two blades at once was another classic mech duel staple. It was always tricky to defeat one if it was piloted by a skilled individual.

Still, it wasn't as popular in actual battlefields as the cost and effort to train the mech pilots and field the right mechs was too burdensome.

Ketis liked this mech pilot a lot more. "Maida Siferan is a lot more dedicated to her swordsmanship. She has to be in order to become a dual sword wielder. It's just that designing the right mech for her is difficult. I don't think I should make everything harder for myself."

"Wise choice." Ves said.

The Wild Brawl Bowl allotted just three days for every team to produce a competition mech. That was a lot more time in his previous tournament, but there was no need to make their lives more difficult for themselves.

In events like these, it was crucial to simplify a mech design as much as possible. Each and every added complication not only introduced more points of failure, but also consumed a significant amount of time that could have been spent on more essential aspects of a design.

Though Ketis the swordmaster valued Maida Siferan a lot, Ketis the mech designer was aware that she should not be too adventurous in her first design tournament.

She sighed and quickly moved on to the other three mech pilots, who all happened to be male.

Dzinke Vosfer preferred to pilot heavier mechs with plenty of heft and strength at their disposal. He was proficient in wielding all manner of large swords and he excelled at maximizing the damage of his own attacks while making his mech last as long as possible. This was another fighting approach that was tailored to the arena.

"He's not it." Ketis shook her head.

This was a shame, because Mr. Vosfer was the only one of the five who was skillfully able to wield a greatsword. The problem was that his fighting style was too different from that of the Swordmaidens.

Such a destructive and wasteful combat approach would have long bankrupted or annihilated the Swordmaidens!

This solution solved a significant weakness of this weapon system and made wielding chainswords viable in duels against other expert mechs. _{frёeωebɳovel.com}

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