Yes, I'm aware Gyunei's Jagd Doga uses a unique beam machiengun with a heat bayonet, but even Mahq's profile indicates that the other beam machinegun of the Geara Doga uses a heat bayonet:balofo wrote:Geara Doga: the bayonet isn't mentioned anywhere but here on mahq, I've already pointed out the Robot Damashii Gyunei Jadg can mount its beam saber/heat knife combo on the beam rifle as a bayonet.
Geara Doga origin: indeed its a design from Haman's time but the Doven competed against the Zaku III
Zaku III: it appears in the Byalant pilots manga as a leader of a branching Zeon Remnants faction after the Torrington base attack. It's defeated by the Efreet Scheneid.
http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/cca/ams-119.htm
Optional hand armaments: beam machine gun, powered by replaceable e-pac, with attached heat bayonet, 2 spare e-pacs stored on hip armor; beam machine gun, powered by replaceable e-pac, 2 spare e-pacs stored on hip armor, with optional attached grenade launcher, 1 round; 4 x sturm faust, rocket-propelled warhead, stored in shield, hand-operated or can be launched from shield
Regarding the Zaku III, we have confirmed that some units were part of the Earth Invasion force and were available as early as the capture of Dakar, seen guarding the gate of the building where Minverva's parade is heading to.
Furthermore, in another thread, Calubin translated part of an old manual which seems to indicate that the Zaku III was developed alongside the Dreissen, as general purpose units whose development requirements were minimal (supposedly because they were heavily based on their OYW predecessors).
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Finally, why did the pilot of the Efreet Schneid fought the Zaku III pilot?Calubin_175 wrote:I just have the time to translate the Dreissen main profile text, the HGUC ver did paraphrase some of it, same goes for the GPF Neo Zeon Development article.
Gundam ZZ Background Information 16
Neo Zeon's General Purpose Mobile Suit Development
The Dreissen was the first Neo Zeon general purpose mass production MS. They were behind to this extend in the development of general purpose MS due to their lack of resources, hence they aimed at completing an MS with minimal requirements and prioritised their combat usage to be limited by terrain. They have trialed various general purpose MS, in which the candidate MS were evaluated against the following standard: Surpass Federation/AEUG MS in general performance, while not being inferior in terms of mass productivity and usability. As a result, the Dreissen and Zaku III were considered in favour of the Hamma Hamma, R Jaja and Bawoo.
While both the Dreissen and Zaku III were the successors of their One Year War counterparts, they were implemented with a new design concept, which became machines with stable performance. Neo Zeon engineers disdained the Hizack and the Rick Dias designs, and Haman was focused on the development of the two said Neo Zeon machines.
AMX-009 Dreissen
Though it bears heavy weighting on melee combat, it is a machine that excels in total balance, possessing firepower, durability and mobility worthy of a general purpose machine. Its armaments consist primarily of the melee weapons Beam Tomahawk, lancer and tri blade, and its arms are freed up by having internalised beam cannons.
The Dreissen made its debut around the same time when Mashymar occupied Shangri-la, during Rakan's occupation of the Arcadia Colony, where Rakan, in a prototype Dreissen, destroyed 4 of AEUG's Nemos.
I did just realise this fact recently through the GPF 21 article on Neo Zeon MS Development. While there are no contradictions, it did describe the knight use mobile suits as purpose specific rather than general purpose.
