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A main design of a tank is its low surface pressure / ground weight ratio... or whatever the technical term is. All its mass is rather evenly distributed so that it doesn't sink into mud or shatter bridges and such.

Secondly, if operating on a very strong surface like hardened concrete/cement or space-age metal roads, tanks have a lot of horse-power so they can get to some pretty high speeds... 30~45 KPH in WW2 with newer ones being able to do up to 60 on even ground (the Leclerc can get up to 80). While I'd imagine a walking tank would also have heelies (like in Front Mission) for roads, I can't imagine one actually sprinting very fast.

A possible advantage is high lateral movement - but typically the role of a tank is to, y'know, NOT do that - but that doens't mean a walking tank has to BE a tank, there are other types of Armoured Fighting Vehicles.

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possible usage? Well, they might be valuable on the Moon or low gravity planets where their shitty weight disribution means they can intentionally dig into the ground for stability - kinda like tent pegs.

other possibility, the legs are merely a secondary feature for scaling nearly impossible terrain that are only deployed to scale the cliff/ridge and then are folded up again (Front Mission also does this)

idk

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