Body type in general seems to matter. Devastator was an ungainly thing, needing to walk on all fours and structurally weak to the point where a good railgun shot to the upperbody caused him to break apart. Demolishor was powerful, but all you had to do to stop him was shoot his wheel. Of course being small has disadvantanges. Jazz was too weak to scratch Megatron, and Bee Ratchet and Sideswipe triple teaming Sentinel failed to damage him as well. Wheelie and Brains were so small they managed to infiltrate the ship, but in an actual battle they'd be crushed underfoot in seconds. Jetfire killed Scorponok with a half hearted single punch.
well a perfect example of size matters is TF1, look at megatron vs optimus prime. Both have the same body size, but megatron had one thing optimus lacked, the durable armoured body that was incredibly hard to damage. Megs could match optimus on speed and agility, but the overall size of megatron was a big advantage over optimus. So overall size did matter in that case
The only factor that seems to have any weight in the films is Autobot or Decepticon and if it's a Decepticon then is this the first time we've seen that Decepticon. It seems like a Decepticon has some small chance of doing a bit of destruction or taking out a character when they first show up but after that it's pretty much being infective as they wait around to get killed.
It seems the 25-35 feet height works very well, with Ratchet and Ironhide making it in because they seem a lot bigger than 20 and 22 respectively. Special mention to Jetfire, 52 feet yet still beats the crap out of the smaller guys. Yes Scorponok nearly killed him but Jetfire is old and frail yet still punched his head in whilst saying an epic one liner.
My girlfriend told me it did. Then she decided we were better off as friends... Anyway i would say prime, megatron and sentinel are at the ideal size for a transformers strength/weight ratio. They have superior reach and strength as well as being able to carry bigger weapons without becoming too slow and heavy. While its possible someone smaller could defeat someone of that size they would need to be better skilled or exploit some weakness. Guys like devastator end up too large and cumbersome and are just walking wrecking machines. Even demolishor seemed to just be too big to effectively deal with what was going on around him. He was able to move fast because of his design but he was just slow and awkward in combat. So ill go with the old cliche of size does matter, but skill counts for a lot too.
I think size is useful only in the way that conventionally-sized damage scales smaller for a big TF. A stick of TNT would obliterate a house the size of a car but the damage is less severe if that same stick was used to try and destroy a tower block. Unless of course the stick was detonated in a place that would cause massive knock-on damage due to weakening a structure to collapse from gravity and its own weight. So once again I guess it comes down to what weapons you have and how you use them rather than the size of an opponent. Unless you're trying to use a stick of TNT to destroy a mountain. But then you'd just use more sticks until you got the result of destruction you desired.
Size doesn't matter. In fact, the bigger you are, the more likely it is that you're gonna get killed. It's more or less based on skill IMO.
Is this for movieverse only or for all Transformers lines? Because in the comics/cartoons, size makes a bigger target but is offset by being really hard to bring down whereas the movieverse doesn't get that balance/offset and you're just a walking target.
