T-800 & other War Bots

Condottiere said:
A variant of Skeletal Warriors.

An efficient automated killing machine wouldn't be bipedal.

Depends. The Terminators we know from the movies were mainly infiltrator units so those things need to be able to blend in. Then there is the fact that making them humanoid allows them to use weapons and machines that are meant for humanoids. (And to fit in buildings and vehicles as well if you need to do boarding or urban combat.)

You could have drone-tanks, drone-fighters and other kinds of robots (smaller recon droids?) but there are plausible reasons to make approximately human sized and shaped robots if you plan to use them to fight with or against humans.
 
Reynard said:
The answer is yes! That's the point of using a fear inducing image on a population. It's the dead against the living. Rifts Skelebots exist for that reason. Same if you design warbots in animal forms that are generally repulsive to a population such as bugs and spiders or robotic snakes.

First warbots we used back in the early 1980s were homebrewed Cylons for a Traveller Battlestar Galactica campaign. The leaders were still the lizard aliens first proposed for the series until they went all non-violent (can't shoot living opponents wantonly) and used robot warriors. Loved it.
Cylons make more sense, they are not modeled after skeletons, they are modeled after Roman Centurians wearing Armor.
 
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