Short answer: -About 100 at its peak strength, right before the destruction of the Gate of Zedan. -60 or less after the destruction of the Gate of Zedan. -18-22 as per the Argama's tactical display during the final battle (18 TV version, 22 movie version).* *I'm not certain if the fleet destroyed by...

-MG #200 is coming up, probably near the end of this year (The latest, MG Psycho Zaku Thunderbolt, is #193, according to Dalong). Any guesses to what it could be? Here's my take: ... It can't be a Zaku II, because bad guy. It has to be iconic but at the same time, not ugly, so that counts Zeong out...

One quick correction: RGC-80 units are not converted from RGM-79, according to Mark they were built as that from scratch: Nah, the GM Cannon was never a "field mod of a stock GM." All the Japanese sources make it very clear that it was planned and developed as a mass-produced version of th...

You mean something like the AMX-014 being retconned to be based on the ORX-013?

Or the RGM-79SP now serving as the predecessor which inspired the Nemo's leg thruster arrangement?

It's no secret that Haman's sudden infatuation with Judau seems to have come from nowhere, and ultimately is forced as a major plotline whenever Haman shows up. There's also Haman's previous obsession with Char, which also seemed somewhat forced at times. While I can't rule out that Haman may have i...

IIRC, Seed and Destiny had several scenes showing ZAFT or Orb MS lined shoulder to shoulder on hangars, where they began to actuvate sequentially one after another by having their eyes glow. By the time the last MS had its eyes glow, the first unit began taking its first step out of the maintance be...

I ran into an interesting concept about the Gundam Mk III while checking Deacon's site: ...the Gundam Mk-III was perfected and was said to have been the latest evolution of general purpose mobile suits due to the concept which focused on returning to the starting point of mobile suits: organic movem...

I recently ran into an image of a MS-17R and later find out that it was part of this series. Doing so more digging around found some more volumes of it: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/gundam/images/b/b8/MS-09SS_Dowas_Custom_Anaheim_Laboratory_Log.png/revision/latest?cb=20170302042553 https://vi...

Within the first universal century, I'm torn between the Gwazine and the Sadalahn, at least as standalone ships: The Gwazine is already well-known as the most powerful type of battleship (not overall warship, that likely goes to the Dolos) during the OYW. It has a rather large MS hangar with a capac...

Bandai has launched a new site that seems to intend to promote gunplas of notable ace pilots: http://p-bandai.jp/hobby/special-1000007545/ The promotional image shows Johhny Ridden's MS-06S, the MS-06R-2 units of Robert Gilliam and Gabby Hazard, and the new model kit of Masaya Nakagawa's MS-06R-1A, ...

I'm on the other end of spectrum: I would prefer joke units such as Doan's Zaku to be replaced by more interesting units, such as: -Zaku Desert Type/Desert Zaku: besides having a more unique appearance, this units had the ability to hide in the desert sand and had a large arsenals fixed weapons (gre...

i believe with the 3 mk II gundams once the AEUG got them unit 3 stayed with the Argama as a combat unit repainted in more normal Gundam colors as propaganda unit. the other two went to AE one being used for testing and reverse engineering and one was used for parts until AE could build comparable ...

The unit in question is a MS-14BR, not a regular MS-14B. That being said, in the image the unit seems to be purple instead of Vincent's blue color scheme. Nothing personal, but that's a distinction without difference. If they're going to include ANY form of High Mobility Gelgoog, I'd rather they in...

I could also complain about the fact that if they were going to include the High Mobility Gelgoog, it'd make far more sense to use Johnny Ridden. The unit in question is a MS-14BR, not a regular MS-14B. That being said, in the image the unit seems to be purple instead of Vincent's blue color scheme...

It depends on what kind of Zaku Cannon we are talking about: Perhaps the first issue to tackle is that regular Zakus can actually just equip a weapon that could be held comparable to the Guncannon's weapons: a Zaku bazooka, Magellan attack or even an anti-ship rifle would give a standard Zaku simila...

Regarding Zeon MS, IIRC there are some mentions of Zeon ships requiring facilities for retrieval and cooling of MS after landing. The MS Igloo redesigns of the Musai and Chivvay both include what seem to be these retrieval hatches: in front of the bridge in case of the former and right behind the br...

First some quick notes on the Hyaku Shiki and Zeta Gundam: -The Hyaku Shiki from ZZ is said to be a second unit. -We know that at least one more identical Zeta Gundam was built for Amuro, and supposedly two minor variants were built for Gray Wolf and Red Snake as seen in Gundam Evolve. My point is t...

Given how Full Boost was, there is going to be a LOT of DLC for this game... Most likely a lot of them are main series units from Full Boost that aren't in the initial line-up... I'm not very convinced by the confirmed MS so far, and fear that if some of my favorite MS by end up as DLC only, if at ...

With Gundam Thunderbolt continuing unto its second season, I went to check again some old sources said about the Zeon attacks on the other Sides early during the OYW. One particular point of interest for me was the supposed capture of factories on other space colonies, some of which were even used t...

Just dropping by quickly to comment further on the anti-beam coating: -There do was some early anti-beam coating during the OYW, which was used by Zeon on the Gelgoog's Zulu shield. Unfortunately it wasn't very effective and couldn't block a direct hit from the front, but it was somewhat effective a...