Commentary:Walking machines

In Iron-Rage walking machines, as the Hammer, are the most popular way of getting from A to B in a protected vehicle. Despite protecting the operator with a thick armor and providing huge weapons for a high damage output is clearly benefitial in battle, walking machines are not as common in battles, most probably due to their high manufacturing costs.

The question why walking-machines and not tank-like vehicles became the protection of choice is quite puzzling at first glance. Possible explanations among leading experts on the field might be the following:
 * Steam-Diesel is not powerful enough to make tanks
 * The wheel was not (re-)invented yet. All the tanks in the game are not moving and broke down, indicating that the driving mechanism is clearly inferior to the ones of walking machines. In fact the tanks in the game as in convoys might be pulled by soldiers or walking machines, similar to how pyramids were build in egypt
 * They are easier to control and manufacture than tanks. Since soldiers are used to marching walking is quite intuitive for the operators, also the resource cost for small walking machines is better than for huge tanks
 * They have an advantage in the terrain of the urban landscape of the game. Tanks would get stuck in a building entrance
 * It might be simply explained with a surplus of boilers. They had an old boiler plant and simply cut a hole and added a gun and the walking machine was born.
 * The inventor of the walking machine was somewhat odd. Among being a huge fan of starwars and neo genesis evangelion he absolutely loved canned tuna as a kind and swore to himself: When I grow up I want to be a canned tuna
 * Walking machines are overall cheaper.
 * The infrastructure to produce tanks is not there, given that the building slots are all so tiny.
 * The lobby of the walking machines was just better
 * The guy in charge of deciding whether to uses walking machines or tanks was captain walker himself and due to his name he was kinda biased.
 * Walking seems to be the most evolved method for getting from A to B on land. Since no animal or humans have wheels it means that tanks/wheel based vehicles are clearly inferior to walking