I believe the love of ticky boxes originates at Camp Fuck You Die - though if it didn't originate there, that is where my love of ticky boxes came from, at least. Can't recall in the slightest what made us quite so head-over-heels for them, though.

Hm; I'd been considering more front-end damage, but bypassing the issue of mechanical wings could well be simpler in the long run. Though steampunk wings will definitely be in some sort of use in that story, fufufufu...