Gyro-Electric Destroyers, Battleship Tanks, Walking Machines; what is an infantryman to do against this sort of thing.  Well, look no further than the Automatic Soldier; the cylinder of firepower, the cigar tube of destruction, the giant dildo of death.

I love the "exploded" view of the tube in the front.  Neat way to show the mechanism.  I also love the way in which the absurdities of the machine are not allowed to get in the way of the science fiction appeal of the idea.  The electric no-touch wires are a nice feature, but these things can't be armoured or the soldiers could never wrestle them into position.  And how do they set them up?  What happens to them in an artillery barrage besides getting blown to smithereens?  Now get a load of the mechanism.  I think the thing is just supposed to go back and forth and up and down without being aimed.  Okay, but a Bren gun on a slide can do the same thing for a fraction of the cost.

What am I saying?  I use 1500 quid worth of computer to play solitaire.

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