Mobile Infantry Powered Armor Explained | Starship Troopers
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- The iconic armor featured in the Starship Troopers novel, Powered Armor allows for enhanced strength and rapid mobility, utilizing integrated jump jets.
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Hello HN.
I have read Starship Troopers at least 70 times over the course of 5 decades (I am currently 62). Even though Robert Heinlein did a wonderful job writing about powered armor, I feel the best depiction of powered armor comes from John Ringo's series 'The Posleen Wars', But especially the development of the armor in the first book of the series: A Hymn Before Battle.
Powered Armor does not need a 'view port' or 'visor' of any kind. Micro-cameras studded all over the suit, as well as behind layers of ablative armor, would give the wearer full 360 degree awareness of their surroundings. This, obviates the need for any kind of visor or viewing port whatsoever.
In Ringo's novels, the 'helmet' of the suit is, in fact, removable from the suit itself. But, when worn, it resembles a short pyramid that transfers kinetic energy down to the lower portions of the suit, increasing the helmet's protection, and protecting the soldier within from neck trauma. The soldier can turn their head within the helmet at will, but the pyramid, once locked into place, does not move with the wearer's motion.
The turning, lifting, and lowering of the head is restricted inside the armor, again, to increase protection from neck trauma. But with the ability of the suit to detect the wearer's motions, as well as the visual targeting of their eyes, the suit does not NEED to move the helmet at all. The displayed 'view' of the exterior environment can be shifted easily and rapidly to suit the wearer's needs or desires from moment to moment in combat.
The only 'real' weak points of such armor would be the joints that allow for flexibility, and even then, those areas can be covered with additional external plates, riding over the 'weak' spots, and anchored to the less mobile torso, and portions of the arms and legs (sort of like advanced full plate armor of the medieval period).
So, rather than looking like a 'steel gorilla', the powered armor would actually look like very thick Full Plate Armor. The armor would not have much in the way of flat sections, and would, instead, have a 'rounded' contoured look to the eye, with the additional 'joint plates' looking like Pauldrons, Couters, Faulds, and Knee Cops. The armor would be VERY thick, in comparison to any other armor ever developed, and without power, the wearer would be trapped within their armor. The power, in powered armor, needing to be used to follow, or in some cases, anticipate, the wearer's motions and desired means of locomotion.
Starship Troopers armor has thousands of sensors built into the innermost layer of the suit to sense, and then cause the computer to move away from, the motions of the wearer's body. 'Negative feedback' system.
John Ringo's powered armor senses the entire nervous system of the wearer, and moves the suit accordingly. A much faster, and more intuitive manner of motion, although requiring massive computing power and speed.
The weaponry between the two stories cannot be realistically compared, since the 'Ringo' armor uses a Gauss Rifle projection system for teardrop shaped rounds at relativistic speeds, tipped with a 'dab' of Antimatter.
It is my thought that something similar to the Heinlein Armor can be achieved in the next 15 to 35 years of development. Weighted on the short side of that figure, if sufficiently dense energy systems can be developed.
In my own Sci-Fi writings, I posited the development of 'micro fusion' power sources. This micro fusion device uses the heat of its plasma torus to heat air sucked inside the suit to extreme temperatures. This high temperature 'air' is nearly a plasma itself, and is shunted through mini-turbines, connected to electrical generators to provide power for the suit and weaponry. A further improvement is a 'gearing' system to spin the generator even faster than the already madly whirling turbines. Immensely powerful 'rare earth' magnets in the generators would allow for impressive electrical power generation. Immersion in water would only increase the efficiency of the power generation system. Water sources, even only a few inches deep, would maximize the suit's ability to generate power, above and beyond the use of heated atmosphere.
Just a few thoughts.
Ok, besides the book just being amazing, the armor is my favorite part. It is armed to the teeth, the standard issue marauder armor has built in shoulder mounted rocket launcher that holds 2 high explosive missiles and one low yield tactical nuke. They have a double barreled automatic and automated integrated grenade launcher armed with whatever the user or co wants. A hand held flame thrower "pistol" with a changing nozzle device, and a heavy version of that if you are not a scout. And the M.I.'s standard weapon, their bare hands that are enhanced by the suit.
jr41391 the y-rack was the double barreled automatic automated grenade launcher.!it could also launch mines.
My favorite part is the Drop Pod they drop with, blew me away because it's what we would do if we had something like this
You guys forgot about the Roughnecks tv show version of power armor. They had 3 sets of it.
Jose Sanchez everyone forgets Roughnecks
Roughnecks was hands down the best thing that ever happened to Starship Troopers.
The book was amazing and the Show did a much better job then the crap they call a movie.
Dogmeat1950 Are you kidding me? Roughnecks was basically a naive kiddie show where none of the good guys ever died and they mowed down the bugs by thousands. I want heavy casualties on BOTH sides.
Lots of people died in the show.
- Zander was turned into a bug then was killed.
- Several pilots
- We also get an implied whole squad get their heads impaled by a brain bug (One we actually see happen just they dont show the head)
- Razak gets killed
- I think there was one episode where there were bodies on the ground
Also there were moments where we hear through dialogue how troops were getting killed or were in serious trouble. Even in one of the openings the narrator says that there were medevacs happening around the clock.
Dogmeat1950 What about the anime OVA from the 80's?
I loved the book. Especially because it was plain to see where Halo and Titanfall were pulling some inspiration from. Great read.
Think the Iron Monger suit from the first Iron Man movie and you're pretty close to how the novel described them. They were classical powered armor suits with built in weapons and thrusters that were partially flight capable via jet assisted jumps not halo type suits. Also they carried battlefield nuclear missiles (Davy Crockett class but more compact) as part of their standard armament.
If it doesn't have the full powered armor suits, it isn't Starship Troopers. Period.
edlaprade Except the movie not novel explains an actual full body power armor unlike 40k for example.
Correct! But l still wonder, how the power suit look like originally?
It always bugged the hell out of me that in the first film they just threw light armour and small arms infantry at the bugs which outnumbered them by so much.
Even as a dumb kid watching it I knew how stupid it was.
Absolutely love the film though
Movie's fake and gay, especially compared to the books. Great music though. Basil always did great work that could carry a bad movie to at least be entertaining.
@@VunderGuyis a left wing FU to the book
@@Thunderchild-gz4gc Is it left wing just because it disagrees the fascism pushed by the book?
Get it? Bugged the hell out of me?
@@tannerman46your just saying it's fascist because every left of center critic regurgitated that. There's no racism in the Terran Federation of the book or even ironically the UCF in the movie. You don't know what you're talking about. Try original thoughts they're wonderful.
Paul verhoven changed Heinlien's story because he was at odds with Heinlien's military world view so he took away the power army and turned the story into a quasi comedy. The trouble is the power armour makes sense because of the numerical superiority of the insects and the need to preserve your human army assets as best you can so your your not out bred by your non human enemy.and overrun The thing that does stand out is if the human military command follow a World War One strategy(Klendathu) then they won't win the war.
The thing is they tested the Power Armor for the Movie but all agreed it looked silly haveing the actors on ropes jumping around.
@Zuckerdrone Imagine that. Someone with tons of cash asked a person who lost both parents in WW2 to adapt that novel. What'd you expect?
@@anhnhvn >this
If this concept doesn't wake you up I don't know what will.
I believe the word you’re looking for is Satire, not “quasi comedy” 🤦🏽
Guy sees nazzis in his sleep
I love the concept. Especially how it shows that we have been imagening powered armor long before the currently accepted iconic characters.
You forgot about this other fact, that the suited Mobile Infantry troopers, before deployment to a planet surface, enter a multilayered capsule just big enough to hold a fully equipped and armoured infantry trooper to be fired out of his or her ship like cartridges in an old-style automatic rifle.
Bungie--the studio that first made the Halo video games--has been pretty open about how many of their ideas they got from Heinlein's *Starship Troopers* novel. That said, the Mobile Infantry in the novel are far and away more powerful than the Spartans. I hope that they include the armor in the remake.
depends. spartan 2s can literally dodge bullets and move as a blur
@@nicholasjonas2505 I think in terms of raw firepower, the Mobile Infantry has the Spartans beat. After all, the Starship Troopers novel takes place 700 years into the future, compared to Halo's 500 years.
But yes, if we're talking about a mano e mano fight between a Spartan and a Mobile Infantryman, Spartan has them beat because a Spartan is a superhuman while a Mobile Infantryman is a regular human in a pimped out powered suit.
@@nicholasjonas2505 from a strategic point of view spartans are useless. There's just too few of them to make any impact on a large scale war. The mobile infantry on the other hand is an entire branch of the military.
@@arx3516 that's why they were used as elite special ops who carried out missions behined enemy lines
@@someopinionateddirt6561 then you got destiny guardian set around 1000+ year in the future. Who rival if not stronger then spartan 2 even when not using their power's. and poses gun's so exotic it would make a Trooper say that a little too much.
the coolest and most faithful power armours were from the computer game Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy
The board game Starship Troopers was faithful to the suit types, capability and resistance to damage vs. the bugs. Even included psychics and listening devices to find the bug tunnels (although to did all the tracking manually - still pretty cool). I always thought it could be converted to a computer format and make a heck of a game.
The armor in Invasion is by far the coolest looking armor that ive seen for starship troopers
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I see it as a streamlined version for ground combat, sacrificing protection and firepower for better mobility and maneuverability on the ground. The bulky design seen in the anime on the other hand seems better suited for space combat, with more protection, better life support systems, far more firepower, and more powerful thrusters to operate effectively in zero G.
The suits, in my opinion, are the best thing in the novel. I’ve been reading the book Starship Troopers for quite a while now (I’m a new reader), and so far, this book has been a ride. And I dare say, I like it a little more than the movie.
Speaking of which, with all due respect, Starship Troopers shouldn’t be a movie. In my opinion, it should be a series. That way we can tell the stories without having to cram it all in one film.
robot suits running around killing bugs sign me up
The "Bugs" in the novel aren't simply "monsters". They're intelligent, technology using beings. At the start of the novel we learn that they've signed a non-agression pact with another race, the "Skinnies".
RIGHT!! Some Folks don't realize that TRUE FANS of the Excellent BOOK could care less about the Powered Armor. What we HATE about just about EVERY screen version is the Dumbing Down of the Bugs. To paraphrase the book: "Dumb races don't build starships."
This is true to an extent. The problem is that if you have a technologically advanced race, you kinda have to have a technologically advanced military to match them, thus, powered armor.
The first movie, although somewhat of a 'Guilty Pleasure' classic nowadays, was kind of stupid to leave out the one characteristic that anyone who has ever heard of the novel, much less actually read it, knows about.
"Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles", while based on the movie, gave us Power Armor, but in the form of two "Mech Suits", one more like the "Chicken Walker" from Star Wars, but the other that truly did look like a robotic gorilla.
I liked the series, because it included elements even the movie didn't, like the armor and the race called 'Skinnies", and we even got to see the bug home plane of Klendathu.
If I had my druthers, I would like someone to reboot this series, but in the style of the reboot of "Battlestar Galactica", where they can be as adult as necessary to tell the story (or hell, even on HBO, then we get all the co-ed shower scenes we could wish for ^_^).
Fallen One Space Marines?
It's why I love the animated films in the film series
Not only should any reboot go for the powered suits as in the novel, any reboot should also redefine the alien bugs to that described in the novel by Heinlein.
I'm currently reading the novel now but I don't mind spoilers. The movies version is kind of primitive and feral but does the book version have beam weapons?
@@Joshua_N-A yes.
End of Chapter 13. Rico mentions he speaks Tagalog at home. This is the language of the Philippines. Maybe they had connections with South America but after Buenos Aires is destroying, Rico offers condolences to the ships only “porteño”. Port city resident. Rico is surprised to learn his mother was in Buenos Aires. Perhaps his Filipino family emigrated to South America but he is FILIPINO!!
Maybe she was visiting family
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@@Thunderchild-gz4gc. Yup. That’s my thought
I really hope the reboot follows the book much closer! Meaning they better have the Armour it's what the whole book revolves around well that and there systems of doing things in the federation.
If you take the anime as reference, it looks like a Warhammer 40K Tau Battle Suit. It's like a whole army full of Gundam suits.
oh yeah I can see how Blue gender got inspiration for the armored core from this.
when I heard power armor I instantly thought of the brotherhood of steel & the Enclave
I like the direction that Invasion is taking the armor. Perhaps, a heavier weapon load out, but I don't think jump jets could be portrayed without looking cheesy.
I feel the Invasion Armor set is the best it looks like something in the future that would work well. But yeah the anime is the best one for the book comparison the best suits maybe the Roughnecks TV kids show from 99
I think they'll be genuinely cool to see in the film reboots
😯 it just hit me. This technology fits the fallout universe.
I think it was one of the inspirations actually, oh who am I kidding most of Modern Science Fiction takes inspiration from Heinlein, Clarke and Asimov just as most of Modern Fantasy takes inspiration from Tolkien and Lewis.
The power armor IS the Mobile Infantry. Without it the troopers are "just" marines. Like comparing tanks with trucks. "ordinary" marines should have been a compliment to the MI, for operating inside buildings, confined spaces and space installations. MI is specialized for operating over great areas on planetary surfaces. Verhoeven miss understood absolutely everything with the book.
He didn't misunderstand, he picked it up, screamed fashfashfash after a few pages, put it down and never opened it again...
One thing about the movie is, if you're going to satirize a war novel's themes, why would you leave out the logistical, tactical and strategic realism, and show the consequences of such actions?
@@CosmoShidanbecause Verhoeven is another Hollyweird libtard and he must REEEEE
nice video nick
What I want to see is a faithful TV series which would take time and cover more POVs (while the book had to avoid being lennghty and and the only POV was Rico's)
Throughout the book, I never recall when they actually used guns in combat. I remember them using plenty of hand flamers, and mini nukes in battle, but no actually reference to using small arms. Did I miss a passage?
TU
Guns are obsolete. They use them during training, and Rico mentions how they’re pretty much just 20th century relics
They have most weapons built into the suit they do use "handheld" firearms that are built for MI use. In the books they dont use snall arms because they CANT use them while MI suits if you gave somewone in a marauder suit a m16 the suits finger wouldent fit in the fingerguard
They also look like a steel gorrila
Bud cool upload 👍🏻 but what did you think of the roughneck's campaign mini series I thought it was pretty cool 👍🏻👊🏻😎
None of the movies from the original to invasion, featured weaponry that was adequate to combat those big and armored insects. You would need something way more devastating to make smaller units effective againgst large numbers of swarming, armored, stronger than humans opponents. Gattling laser cannons, areal denial weapons, rapid fire explosive big caliber guns that could maybe be mounted by soldiers in advanced combat suits as depicted in the novels. A civilisation capable of jumping through space with faster than light drives, should have even more advanced weaponry. First starship troopers movie was pretty cool....but soldiers with sapceships running around with machine guns and frags...thats like soldiers nowadays would use crude clubs from the stone age.
A civilization capable of jumping through the stars wouldn't bother engaging the bugs on the ground at all unless and until they came to or near Earth. That would be the equivalent of having nukes and naval monopoly but invading Japan anyway.
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Well those machine guns and frags seemes effective
That's why i love the Sunrise anine design. It's basically a small mech. And yes the anime was made by the same studio that made Gundam, and Gundam itself is heavily inspired by Starship Troopers.
The armor suits look like Spartan armor from halo
Whos Nick aliens
lil eazye,
True. This version does come in after HALO and HALO has inspired a LOT of armor designs since it came on the scene.
Starship Troopers (宇宙の戦士? Uchū no Senshi, lit. "Universal Warriors", "Universal Soldiers" or "Soldier of Space") is a six-part anime OVA produced by Sunrise/Bandai Visual and released in 1988. It is based on the book Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein that was published in 1959.It may have inspired Halo game series which was first released in 2001
Once upon a time I managed to share a ferry with a guy who worked at DARPA. I had to ask about _Vanquish_ and that led to talking about power armour. He said "mobility is what you spend to buy protection." Basically, the more armour you cover someone in, the less he can move around and the slower he is cross-country.
In Starship Troopers, the Marauder suit is redundant. 90% of troops would be equipped with scout armour because a soldier's primary defense always has been and always will be to not get hit in the first place. Maruader armour just sounds like stripped-down Command armour. And the only reason to have Command armour is if essential equipment is extra heavy or super-duper costly. The Chinese strip their infantry units to one radio _per squad_ to cut costs and there are jokes about the PLA launching its own cell phone carrier.
Command Armour is most likely an artifact of how bulky and expensive computers were before the invention of the laptop.
There _would_ be a place for super-heavy-duty armour for defending fixed fortifications and other situations where "standing and taking it" are unavoidable. But most armies these days are focused on "customization" rather than "specialization" to save on procurement and maintenance costs. Like how different weapons packages can be mounted to the same rack on a fighter plane. Heinlein describes this more or less perfectly when he talks about how the armour carries different weapons. Since almost, if not all, the weapons he describes fire projectiles rather than energy beams, there's no pressing need for a bigger reactor or fuel supply.
About the only reason for the Marauder to exist is if its the obsolete model being phased out by the Scout suit.
Ronald Nañoz nice, well researched. :D
Another book with rather detailed power armor is the book simply titled Armor.
'If you really want to see what the armor looks like, just go to the Library, Nerd.'
Lol thanks book
While making Ironman, the prop makers remarked that they had a problem with the suits they built, well, getting in their own way. When adding a shell covering the humanbody, the material quickly begins to limit movement. Suits like Ironman and Starship Troopers become too bulky to be very useful. As Grizabeebles says below.
The type that would appear most possible are the ones used in Titanfall.
@Joshua Ngau Ajang From the behind-the-scenes shots I've seen, it varies. Sometimes they wear a partial suit, sometimes they wear only a CGI coverall. The coverall looks like a black spandex suit with reference geometric patterns on it. My guess is the computers use the patterns to keep track of movement while overlaying the CGI.
@Joshua Ngau Ajang Can you imagine the actors in Pirates of the Caribian had very little idea what was going on until they saw the movie?
The problem with saying anything is accurate to the book description, is that the book doesn't describe the suits. I think the only two things that were mentioned is that they have jets to help them be mobile, and that they have bombs in a Y shaped rack. Heinlein was good at a lot, but not describing the gear that everyone drew ideas from.
Probably on purpose to leave it to the reader's and future deriver's imaginations. There would be even more** retarded arguments on the internet, had he been deadly specific about every detail.
Rico also does mention that the trooper would look like a "Steel gorilla", the japanese novel and anime depiction is probably the most accepted look for the Power Armor, with even the SST3 movie armor being pretty close to it.
the suit in the novel was actually described in lengthy detail. Rico talks about the 3 types of suits and their purposes, he talks about how they generally function, using negative feedback controls, talks about the multiple channels for communications, the jet propulsion that causes the suit to almost fly, the general look of it, etc.
@@stuka80 Also the remote controlled hands are another detail. Rico describes how the wearer must hold onto an egg with the robotic hands, all without crushing the egg.
I got a feeling of deja-vu watching this...
I have read the book at least 7 times with my current copy being a library hardcover. The movies and cartoons are fun to watch but are not true to the original in any way shape or form no drop pods, no phase drive, no Nucs and no power armor.
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the armor that inspired the Zaku 2, both are classics in badasssery
The novels description of the suit honestly makes these sound more ridiculous than even 40k space marines nukes? Multiple firearms near flight capability fast movement etc.
Terran ascendancy had the most accurate depiction of the bugs.
That would've been cooler if they did that instead of the movie version, it probably would've saved more troopers lives if they had power armour Chochumy and Blake probably wouldn't have died as horrendously.
In my opinion the classic power armors (the one seen in the Sunrise anime) are far better than the mobile suits from Gundam. Sure, mobile suits can have the fire power to one shot cruisers, but they are piloted like fighter jets, and thus need experienced pilots, we even see in Gundam Thunderbolt how EF recruits piloting GM mobile suits were being decimated by Zeon's Zaku 2, despite tye fact that the GM was a far superior machine to the Zaku2 in every aspect. Power armors on the other hand are far easier to operate and even recruits are effective when using it. If Rico dies on the battlefield it's just another casualty, if Amuro dies it's a tragedy for the Earth Federation.
The mobile suits were originally meant to be power armor after all. Until the higher ups said "make them robots this is a kids show right? kids love giant robots"
I think original studio nue design in 1977 were better tho.
Totally agree. But it looks like they were trying to overcome the whole pilot controls problem with the development of psycommu technology and the psychoframe. As we all know Gundams are usually testbeds that lead to a mass production machine, and i think that the Unicorn would have led to mobilesuits with a neural interface.
@@Spaceman0720 yup, that's why the Gundam looks like your average super robot.
I had the game. Got it in Seattle.
Ya I love how when they put the mech suits in the movie finally…in the last movie...at the end lol 😂
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@@deaddropsd1972 sweet!
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If you like Starship troopers you might like Armor by John Steakley.
You kinda forgot of the power armor from the game Starship troopers terran ascendancy , and the marauder suits from the 2005 pc game would comment on the roughnecks starship trooper chronicles ones you forgot as well ,but everyone else already commented on it :P
I hope they make a game of this
The next Starship Troopers needs to have a Comedic-Relief Character in Green Power Armor behind The Serving Counter in The Mess Hall Named Master Chef.
And He's gotta be Black.
I always saw the powered armor as much like a deep sea diving suit. It is described as just a bit larger than a soldier. In armor a soldier can still walk up and down the halls of the ship but must slouch slightly. It is a compact and easy to wear suit not some robot looking, Transformer or Gundam looking vehicle the soldier must learn to drive. The armor was a very high tech suit with very advanced technology and materials. The book says you can put it on and instantly do most things you could do before. You just couldn't scratch your nose.Take a modern US Army infantry soldier in full temperate climate combat gear, with the load bearing harness and pack, then picture everything sort of melded together.
The anime adaptation of the suit seems to be the closest one to the one you described, it's not much taller than the soldiers themselves as they are seen going inside buildings and running in the ship corridors, and match the description of a "Steel gorilla" and some of the weapon systems from the book. It should be noted that most of the training on the anime is based around the troopers being confused, uncomfortable with the suits and exagerating their movements, Smith for example can get in and use his suit from the get go with little to no problems.
I think best armours were portrayed in TV show roughnecks-starship troopers.
You forgot to mention the powered armor at the end of Starship Troopers 3: Maraduar.
Mason Stone muh-raw-doo-arr
Mason Stone I saw that more as a Mech or something similar to the Vital Suit from the Lost Planet games.
yes. since they brought them up in the last live action movie they need to be in
if I remember the novel correctly, the Command suit was more like the Scout suit with more comm equipment.
Talyn Pfaff I remember it being a combination of normal and scout with more comms equipment
Except for the movie adaption. So either way we're missing the other 2 suit types. The 3rd movie could've and should've been way better though.
The old TV cartoon was great and nicely done for a cartoon
A Starship Troopers film WITHOUT the powered armour is not a Starship Troopers movie.
Bug Hunt at Outpost 9 was the working title.
the armour in invasion looks the best in my opinion
Whats up with all people having eyepatch on their right eye or scar going from the cheek to above eyebrow being always on the left side?
YES PLEASE!
Is there any mecha? persiorn to only derstoy buildeing for perscainger
"Would you like to know more?"
Well guess i know now where the inspiration for Halo Legends: Prototype episode came from.
Why didn't you talk about the powered hardsuits in Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles?
i hope they are the going to be using the corvette the Roger Youn
What nobody seems to remember is that Joe Haldeman's novel "The Forever War" featured powered armor, as well.
Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?
Dood Halo totally jacked the ST anime.
Bugs= Flood
Skinnies= Covenant
UEG= Terran Federation
UNSC= MI
The game was awesome.
to me the animated Invasion version looks the best
so where the bugs also stronger in the novels? because i can't imagine them having massive casualties with tech like this...
You forgot the once from Roughnecks Chronicles.
What about Starship troopers 3: Marauder? It had a version of the power armor
Nathan s I saw that as a Mech or something similar to the Vital Suit from the Lost Planet games.
but yeah my favorite is the Invasion and TOMs Armor sets
Doomguy's armor from DOOM (2016) ?
how did u like rougnecs version of suit
The movies were a horrible joke on the idea of Starship troopers....after reading the book... I became an Army paratrooper irl.
Powered Combat Armor....being deployed in the ejection pod in a tube aboard the Rodger Young...was the essential stuff... The jump jets the lethality of a single trooper the ability to use tactical nuclear weapons.... It was absolutely vital to the story...not having it in was utterly criminal... Mobile Infantry were not a crowd of people...they were specialized mechanical horrors with jump boots....they soldiers were trivial tissue paper in the movies...
If you do a property like starship troopers and leave our the most essential stuff about them..your an ass
What film reboots?
You're totally ignoring the friggin Starship Trooper's Chronicles
Those were probably the most faithful, minus that the Marauders were a suit in a larger suit, but they made it interesting when the Marauder crapped it.
This video is based on the original Robert Heinlein novel, not the animated series.
Yes, which the Starship Trooper's Chronicles were a lot more faithful to the meaning of the book than the movies were.
can you do a video on the cylone armor from Genesis climber mospeada?
WHAT ABOUT THE ARMOR FROM THE ROUGHNECKS STARSHIP TROOPER CHRONICLES TV SHOW!? AND YES THERE WAS A TV SHOW.
What? no Grizzly Exosuit from the Starship trooper miniature game?
Question: why wont they make tanks and helicopters
herpson derps in the books MI armor outclassed most traditional weaponry. Like Iron Man does in MCU
@Ku Mag
RE: "Question: why wont they make tanks and helicopters"
In the novel, Rico comments that, "A single MI private could take out a squadron of those things unassisted, if anybody was silly enough to put tanks against MI." And concerning helicopters, well MI troopers, thanks to their powered armor and jump jets, can already fly. However, they deliberately don't jump high; they're trained to just skip of buildings and obstacles so as not to present an easy target for enemy soldiers. That's very similar to the way helicopters operate in a combat environment today.
The new movies better be good
honestly I think that most people would be a little disappointed if in the new movie all the soldiers have power armor, but I think that it will work if they do it right.
_"honestly I think that most people would be a little disappointed if in the new movie all the soldiers have power armor"_
I don't think so.
Hey, you forgot the star ship troopers roughnecks cartoon armor
reminds me of the MK 1 of spartan armor
poor nameless marauder from the game,you were forgotten by everyone
I'm not saying the movie is unwatchable...but it is, at least for anyone who has read the book. If you haven't read the book...Shame On You!
Spartans never die
do you know about warhammer 40k ?
I think it would be a even fight (if we just take a normal space marin not a librarian or a astartes). Space marines are pretty mobile too.
LMFAO Space Marines literally would shit any regular humans, nice try though.
yes this book is where they got the idea for power armor
I'd love to see powered armor in the reboots, if only to twit Games Workshop.
As the emperor of mankind, I should know.
Dope
That amount of armor but still get chopped up by the bugs like cutting butter with hot knife.
Uh no. In the book the Mobile Infantry could fight and win against the Bugs in hand to hand combat. The bug warriors had chemical lasers that could pierce the Marauder armor.
Yeah, the 80s anime had the best powered armor
the one thing that can beat a Spartan one on one thats NOT a nuke or vehicle
Anyone else see the 117 at 1:37 ??
If they don't have the armor I'm not watching it.
Where are you getting these images from?
why does everyone forget roughnecks chronicals that show was awesome
117darksonic oh yeah they did forgot to mention the roughnecks armor
Pvt. Dutch Why does that show not get the recognition it deserves
117darksonic maybe they never saw it or heard of it
Pvt. Dutch now that makes me even more sad 😔
117darksonic I'm just guessing, who knows but those could be it
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Didn't know 117 was in starship troopers