Should minitanks be able to drive through hedges?

[Carewolf]

I find it weird our little minitanks that can drive through concrete walls and entire buildings can not drive through a hedge. Anyone agree?

[leha]

The MARS is simply a NATO tank. As the experience of the Special Military Operation on Ukraine showed, bushes are insurmountable obstacles for NATO armored vehicles. To get past them, you'll have to switch to Soviet or Russian vehicles
But I'm all for it. At least a T-34
Plus, I'd add incendiary ammunition or flamethrowers. Including for fighting bushes. After all, that was the weapon in the first X-Coms

[fusion-waffle]

The MARS clearly wasn't designed and built as a dedicated military vehicle.  It has been hastily repurposed and adapted for military use from cheap and widely available commercial agricultural robots. Sometimes the programming quirks of its agricultural foundation leak through - Asimov's three laws of agricultural robots: 1) do not harm the crops, 2) obey human orders & 3) protect its own existence.

Edited March 26 by fusion-waffle

[leha]

Your interpretation of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics is interesting
However, your interpretation misses the core idea expressed in the First Law, which categorically forbids robots from harming humans. This same idea is reinforced by the Second Law: obey humans only as long as doing so does not conflict with the First Law. Only in third place is the robot's life considered. Without crops. And even then, only as long as protecting that life does not conflict with the first two laws. Without crops.
A robot created according to your laws is best destroyed before its creator is even born. Otherwise, humanity is doomed. A priori
It's no wonder I don't use Mars or any of your other robots. They're worse than aliens. Except they don't level up :)))