The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4857

Through the passionate and concerted efforts of Ves and his partner, the designs of the light skirmisher and the hybrid mech started to approach their final forms.

Despite the many odd and unconventional design choices that Ves indulged in, he did not continue to go crazy with regards to the more basic and fundamental properties of his mech designs.

He did not do anything too special or out of the ordinary with regards to the armor system, the energy management, the heat management, the control systems and many other aspects of the mech designs.

Juliet naturally improved and optimized anything related to the mobility of the mech designs, but otherwise did the same with regards to everything else.

Neither Ves nor Juliet had any special expertise when it came to tweaking the armor systems and so on. Rather than waste their time on improving anything critical and risk getting it all wrong, they would rather stick to the blueprints provided by the database.

Two days was not much time and the pair of Larkinson mech designers had already invested a lot of time and effort on more critical parts and systems.

"We did work on the stuff that actually matters." Ves reiterated a few hours after Blinky's retracted his design network after getting exhausted. "Our mechs are solely geared towards speed and offense. Everything will be fine as long as they remain on the attack."

"And what if they fail to maintain their offensive rhythm?"

Ves shrugged. "...They will just need to fight harder. There is only one maximum speed setting for our mechs, and that is maximum throttle. The moment they slow down is the moment they get torn apart. I really hope that doesn't happen."

This was the high risk high reward strategy they adopted by settling for this combination of mechs.

Ves was confident that it would play out in his favor because he knew that he was better than any other Journeyman in the competition.

That was not to say that he could get away with underestimating the works of his rivals and peers.

Their mech designs might not be as elaborate, detailed and packed with tech as his hybrid mech, but the right combination of competition mechs could easily pose a serious threat to his own works!

"What sort of mechs do you think our mechs will struggle against the most?" Juliet quizzed.

Ves furrowed his brows for a moment. "Hm, that is a difficult question. A striker mech directly counters our light skirmisher, while a solid melee mech should be able to power through the attacks of my hybrid mech. The actual situation is a lot more complicated in practice. Since the matches are two-on-two, factors such as teamwork and synergy play a major role in swinging the outcome."

This was what he was banking on to make the difference, actually.

"I think that a defensive knight mech may be difficult for our mechs to handle as well." Juliet explained her own views. "Neither of our two mechs possess the raw firepower or penetration force to punch through the defenses of a defensive mech that easily."

"A slow and unwieldy knight mech might be able to defend a small stretch of space, but that most certainly means that its companion is a light mech. Our machines should easily be able to gang up on or outmaneuver the latter despite the help of the former."

It was a positioning game. The light skirmisher could circle around and threaten to attack from the rear while the hybrid mech could use its overwhelming firepower to occupy the enemy at the front.

Unless the knight mech possessed a weird defensive system that could defend itself as well as its companion from attacks in a 360 degree circle, it was impossible to cope with a classic pincer movement!

The reduced effectiveness of a defensive approach due to the special rules was the entire reason why Ves rejected it to begin with. He did not think highly of any mech designer teams that wanted to rely on defense to outlast the opposition during the combat phase!

Still, Ves shouldn't underestimate the creativity and competence of his rivals. Perhaps certain mech designers who excel in defense such as Sara Voiken managed to find a decent workaround to the additional challenges.

He actually looked forward to testing his mettle against his fellow Larkinson mech designers.

The odds that his team would get matched up against the Voiken siblings or the Power Pair was low, but he could still dream. He pitied them if they actually had to compare their works in the mech arena. His works had a high chance of ending their tournament run.

"You are being overconfident again, Ves. Please focus on the present. We still have to finalize our designs and fabricate our twin mechs."

"Oh. Sorry. I tend to get a little off-track."

The remaining design work did not pose a challenge to the pair of Larkinson mech designers. They already settled all of the major design choices and did all of the hard work in the previous hours.

What work they had left did not require the assistance of a design network.

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