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| Author: | AdrienVeidt [ Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | HEAT-Viper backpack: What does it do? |
I was talking with Liftoff Saturday and I found that we had very different assumptions about how it's to be worn and what it does for the HEATer in combat. He used it with the 'extension arm' hanging under the left elbow as a brace for the rocket launcher when launching; and I saw the arm as exhaust pipes over the right shoulder. Back in the day I simply saw it as a power pack for his optical systems, but nowadays I had the idea the pipes worked as a mister to disperse a cooling/covering fog to keep him invisible to enemy tank sensors. How do you have your HEATers wear it, and why? |
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| Author: | notpicard [ Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HEAT-Viper backpack: WTF does it do? |
I put the extending pipes on the bottom, mainly because that is how I always did. But I continue now because that is how he was depicted in catalogs. |
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| Author: | chad_ghost [ Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HEAT-Viper backpack: WTF does it do? |
I agree with NotPicard. I always thought the pipes were at the bottom. It just "looked better" to me. |
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| Author: | pluv [ Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HEAT-Viper backpack: What does it do? |
On the bottom. Always that is was exhaust of some kind. They look like pipes and his name is HEAT Viper. |
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| Author: | chad_ghost [ Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HEAT-Viper backpack: What does it do? |
As for what it does, I feel like it is a fuel tank/exhaust system used in the propulsion of the anti-tank projectile. |
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| Author: | Jogunwarrior [ Thu Sep 24, 2015 9:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HEAT-Viper backpack: What does it do? |
I always have him set up with the exhaust pipes at the bottom. I thought the missiles on his legs went into the launcher itself, and the large missiles on his back pack could be fired from his back, and the pipes were for disperse the heat and exhaust from those. |
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| Author: | Joebros [ Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HEAT-Viper backpack: What does it do? |
AdrienVeidt wrote: I was talking with Liftoff Saturday and I found that we had very different assumptions about how it's to be worn and what it does for the HEATer in combat. LOL, looks like you were both wrong (if there is a wrong).He used it with the 'extension arm' hanging under the left elbow as a brace for the rocket launcher when launching; and I saw the arm as exhaust pipes over the right shoulder. Back in the day I simply saw it as a power pack for his optical systems, but nowadays I had the idea the pipes worked as a mister to disperse a cooling/covering fog to keep him invisible to enemy tank sensors. How do you have your HEATers wear it, and why? I had the pipes on the bottom, as well. No idea what it's for. Maybe since it connects to the suit, it's a coolant of some kind? Funny side note; I went to YoJoe.com to look at the backpack (don't have mine handy) and check out the card art (the definitive way the backpack should be). Can't tell on the card art which way it is, or even that he's wearing a backpack. Anyway, when I looked at the loose figure geared up, I noticed the rocket launcher is backwards! P.S. This figure has the pipes on the bottom, too. |
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