That is what I'm getting at. Did the anti-unification force only have one bomb that they used on St. Petersburg? Remember how in the 90s the big bogeyman was corrupt ex-Soviet officials liquidating their nuclear arsenal on the black market? Given how suicidal they looked in Zero, you'd have expecte...

I presume that everything happened on Macross's Earth before the SDF-1 landed on it is near-identical to real life, right? Except the Bird Human. So is there a Bill Clinton or Kofi Annan in Macross? We don't know. They're not important to the story at large. The divergence is more farther back to t...

Also, I didn't remember I had already asked this question already, but why did UN Spacy chose the F-14 to test Overtechnology? Why didn't they chose other twin-engine fighter like the F-15, F-18, Eurofighter, etc. ? Sukhoi made the SV-51, so obviously the Su-27 wasn't chosen, but what about the oth...

We see several of the new ships though we may never find out what happened to the Minerva , and it really seems odd that the federation never mass produced a MS Carrier ship, particularly during the two year period between the first and second wars. Minerva was likely scrapped. Main cannons were de...

As I was thinking whether the VF-11 Booster count as a quadjet (probably not, because they added rocket boosters and not jet engines, right) or not, the same question applies to the Super Messiah, Super Lucifer, Durandal and Super Siegfried? Do they count as quadjets? Like, does the the drones carr...

Mafty wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:19 am Also apparently the Strike Freedom Type II is a modified version of the Strike Freedom from Seed Destiny. Does that mean they built a second Strike Freedom with modifications, or did they just upgrade the existing unit?

The site description says "upgrade".

We actually have an idea what a buckshot-type munitions would do in the UC-timeline here, courtesy of the Zeta movies:
https://youtu.be/mhVDktiIZGo?t=73

The trailers still don't show athurns role in this, but I like the fact they got TM, Nami Tamaki and See Saw to do the songs for the movie granted they don't feel like normal seed songs, one feels like a WING song, TM feels like an 80s collaboration song, I'm sure they'll be more then 3 songs in th...

Are these upgrades for the Rising Freedom and Immortal Justice real?: https://i.imgur.com/2kUWvnJ.jpg No one knows. From what I've heard, Those are the upgraded versions of Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice. Rising Freedom and Immortal Justice are non-nuclear MSs due to the treaty. Kira will use ...

One thing that bugs is that the heads look off, especially the Gyan Strom. Even by Cosmic Era standards the line art is a downgrade in quality. The Gyan and Gelgoog both look more angular than other CE mechs( and a bit more like the G-Reco or Buddy Complex designs). I agree the Gyan's head design l...

Looking at it, I can kinda see what you mean... but I feel like the angle is the root cause here. The reference line art on the website is a 3/4 view drawn as though the Mobile Suits were standing flatfooted on a level surface and the "viewer" was looking at them from the same height. The...

Is Kunio Okawara still responsible for the lineart sheets used for images? If he is, can he not be? His lineart sheets never seem to match up to the animation and the proportions always feels Cartman-like (i.e. They look fat in the core, almost like a ball) from the angle he draws them at. Comparing...

And Gunpla PV with names (we probably need a mecha thread now)

Rising Freedom Gundam
Immortal Justice Gundam
Black Knight Squad Shi-ve.A
Black Knight Squad Rud-ro.A (tentative)
Gelgoog Menace (tentative)
Force Impluse Gundam Spec II

As far as existing information indicates, no they can't. What about this depiction: https://i.imgur.com/zySDJXh.mp4 I'm assuming the developers took some creative liberties? Yes. It's even quite clear from the clip. The cone of fire is already awkward because the barrel cannot rotate to be parallel...

So, with the Vajra threat subsided, is there any chance the VF-19 with ISC will return? Or have the VF-24 and its derivatives established such a strong foothold that even anyone who still have a substantial number of VF-19 (as opposed to the VF-171 or drone fighters) will just simply buy the 5th ge...

Well, irl any ship with enough communication capabilies can become a flagship. It is usually the largest ship for morale purposes but not necessary. You only need an extra room for the commander of the fleet to take charge in afterall. Technically, any ship the fleet commander plants their flag is ...

A Gwazine being worth 8 Magellans in combat, hmmm. It's a little high but maybe not too unreasonable. As I recall the Gwazine has a pretty good track record. "...in combat". That means nothing in terms of relative $$$ amounts. The Gwazine is both a battleship and MS carrier. A Magellan-cl...

Last question. When the suits go into the power-down mode what is still active on the Mobile Suit aside from Life Support? I'm trying to recall if there are any sequences that show what the Strike is still capable of after it's drained the battery so low that PS turns off and the beam weapons are u...

Now I don't know if it's ever been claimed to do so in supplemental materials. But based on what the animation shows, the Providence's shield does not use PS armor. If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. It would have been noted on supplement materials but I have never heard otherwise so I...

I suppose that does bring up an interesting question, let's say that Andrew was basing these hits off of captured data of the other 4 GAT machines. Are the 5 original GAT machines equal in battery size? Or do some of the frames have larger batteries than the others? We don't know. Gundam SEED write...