Let's just say I wouldn't want to be in a stinger on the wrong end of some asshole skiing myrmidon with a fusion mortar. We know more about Tribes-era personal weapons, but they are described as ridiculous. Even when your missile launcher is ruined and unfireable, your missiles won't actually explode in their tubes, same with autocannons. Similarly, hercs never seem to struggle with ammunition explosions like BT units do in any game where they appear. You can't set a herc on fire to force a shutdown like you can with a BT mech. In ES2 I remember lava showing up in the Eurasian part of the campaign (Omicron sector, I think?), and in Cyberstorm a fusion annihilator - essentially a weaponized fusion torch - is dangerous solely for the damage it causes shields and armor to a lesser extent, not because it risks setting off your missiles or shutting down your herc or anything like that. Waste heat is never brought up as a concern despite the fact that the surface is hot enough to melt lead. In Starsiege the first part of the cybrid campaign takes place on bloody Mercury of all places, and not the night side either. Hercs never seem to be bothered by heat in any game they appear. Unless that's what you're going for, but in that case it'd be a good idea to find some other way to limit the guys with hercs somehow so they don't have things too easy. What I'm saying here is that most readers probably won't complain too much if you portray hercs as more durable (ie shields) but fudge things so they aren't insurmountable to a BT force.
But you could probably fudge that for a fanfic - I mean, Starsiege doesn't give power levels for its weapons IIRC so all we have is inferences from ES1/2 for that era and an assumption that there was no technological backslide/long peace dulling weapon design, Tribes is all about infantry with us never having seen a Tribes era herc, not many people these days have played Earthsiege 1/2, and Cyberstorm is centuries into the future after Starsiege so you don't have to portray the supersonic death hercs that can jump on raw muscle power alone higher than a lot of BT mechs can with jumpjets unless you're writing about that era.
Yeah, Earthsiege biggatons are pretty ridiculous.
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