New Age Weapons and Warfare

[Sithdarth]

No, you just make the leg movements automatic, aka computer controlled.

Until you get a bullet through the computer core, it crashes, gets a virus, gets hacked and the OS changed, or simply gets hit by an EMP. At least with a huminoid mech you have the possibilty of a manual back up system that could still function even with the loss of the computer.

As for taking out a leg, it probably wouldn't happen that much in space. Anything smaller than the mech would be easy prey and anything larger, and not mech like, would be out manuvered. Plus recent advances in metallurgy, like metallic glass, suggest armor my become very hard to pierce in just a few years.