The Official Gundam Reconguista Mecha Thread Mk I

[hitokirigarou]

The lines on G-Self's face plate reminds me of King Gainer's face.

[balofo]

-Ameria's battleships made a cameo: Viper Viper(escort) and Battle Python(main)
-Doubey's have 2x 5-Missile Launchers on the front
-Elf Bull: fingers can form beam saber(should be valid for all variants), 2x handheld large Beam Rifles and we finally have bending beams in UC. This line of MS is supposed to be around 21m.
-New Elf Bullock variation for Mask's troop: yellow colored with new head reminiscent of the Catsith, rest is the same.
-Reflector pack has a gauge and the mirrors can break.
-The main point of the Refector Pack is to transform mega particles into photons

[balofo]

Another new MS spoiled, looks Amerian, from episode 14: Space, Mobile Suit war

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[Calubin_175]

Overall, Reconguista has given me a typical 90s Tomino vibe, from the dictated title screen, the eyecatches and the confused kiddy protagonist.

In terms of MS battles and designs, the aerial battles remind me of Victory as it is also considered high tech UC. the Jahanems appear to be a mixed of the Zanscare Zolo and generic Zaku features. The beast like transformable MS paralleled the ones in Zeta Gundam and again showed that size does not always win against the hero.

I like the G-Self because it is high tech, justifiably high tech through many years of development in UC as opposed to 6 month super robot Freedom and 4 year 00/Quanta.

I don't like how Belleri was having it easy against Dellesen's Elf Bull, but then all typical Sunrise shows are like that with the young boy in super one-off model. Aldnoah Zero provided a deconstruction of that.

The other problem, they always make the GM expy users grossly incompetent akin to those back in the 80s and Seed Destiny. They have scored zero kills and none of the Grimoires have fallen. At least they have made Dellesen pilot a Catsith as opposed to the grunt unit with no glorification of having a named character pilot. I am pretty surprised how much internal space a Flyscoop has.

It appears that the Elf Brook MP Unit 1 may actually serve as a mass production prototype while the angled yellow and grey one is the mass production model. So it is similar to Code Geass' Lancelot-Vincent-Vincent Ward. Concept prototype-concept prototype for mass production-actual mass production model.

[Deathzealot]

Yeah I noticed that the MP Grunts are not being slaughtered wholescale like any other Gundam Series. Granted we see Catsiths falling, but it appears a good amount make it through okay in all of the battles so far. As mentioned not a single Grimoires has fallen since Episode Two but that was named character I don't know if that second Grimoire made it out.

Basically all other grunt units fall like crazy but so far while enemy units are destroyed its not that many. It is kind of refreshing.

Also, I noticed that the SMS on the Megafauna don't carried them in the hangar but exterior when it is kind of new.

[balofo]

Elf series are equipped with Central Beam System. In the center of the MS there's a DEGENERACY REACTOR that allows beam convergence/scattering. It's possible to freely adjust the beam's output and when all beam cannons are fired in unison it's possible to create a Beam Net to defend against solid or beam enemy attacks. The external handheld rifle is very powerful because it allows over-concentration but not very stable, thus being abolished in the Elf Bullock.

*The bending beams were not part of Ippei's idea

[FinalSin66]

Im happy that the Elf Bull has bending beam weapons, other than the Regnant from 00 i don't think any other Mech from Gundam has utilized it. And it's also nice cause (i imagine it is Tech the Capital Army recreated from UC era and not develop themselves) its tech not seen in Victory, prob developed later in the UC era, showing there was still further tech progress made b4 it's end. Also like the Elf Bull's transformation using it's legs as the primary airfoil, alot of other TMS tend to use the legs as primary thrusters placement

[BrentD15]

Im happy that the Elf Bull has bending beam weapons, other than the Regnant from 00 i don't think any other Mech from Gundam has utilized it. And it's also nice cause (i imagine it is Tech the Capital Army recreated from UC era and not develop themselves) its tech not seen in Victory, prob developed later in the UC era, showing there was still further tech progress made b4 it's end. Also like the Elf Bull's transformation using it's legs as the primary airfoil, alot of other TMS tend to use the legs as primary thrusters placement

There's the Forbidden Gundam, possibly.

[Arsarcana]

Also the Age-3 Orbital and the Sid. But yeah, seeing it in UC was nice and damn was that effect cool. And wasn't a Degeneracy Reactor supposed to be Turn-A's power source? They're really teasing us with that angle.

As for Episode 6, Mobile Segways. Also, we get our first mention of Beam Shields and I notice that G-Self only changes color after it deploys the reflectors. Looks like we might actually see G-Arcane do something next episode.

Spoiler

And may we have a moment of silence for Dellensen? Thank you.

[Calubin_175]

I found G-Self's beam rifle a bit too powerful, which was strong enough to negate the beam from the handheld rifle of the Elf Bull. At the same time, pink beams exclusively belong to the G-Self.

I have a feeling that the upcoming Amerian TMA will just be a taboo as much as the Elf series.

It is nice to see upscaled MS and mobile armors again with their internalised weapons. The last was back in Seed Destiny with the two positron reflector ones.

I found the Elf series to be even more advanced than what the Innovades used.

[FinalSin66]

Well i believe except for the rectens that are post to maintain the tower all MS are Taboo.

Cause it was using the reflector pack the G-self's rifle and looked like even it's vulcans were more powerful from the energy collected. I actually wonder if the G-Self would have made it if it didn't have the reflector pack, i realize they prob equipped it due to the previous fight with the Elf Bullock, but damn even with it several of the mirrors broke from the power of the Elf Bulls shots.

[balofo]

Montero's manual info:
-Model number: MSAM-YM03. H: 18.5m, W: 41.3t. Armament: Beam Rife, Beam Javelin, Wire Hook, Head Vulcan, Shield, Beam Wire and Missile.
-Head Vulcans use burst ammo
-Beam Rifle abolished the Battery Magazine scheme because of a new Collider that conserves energy while maintaining firepower. Another aspect of a long range mission MS.
-Beam Javelin can condense Heavy Metal Particles in a magnetic field allowing the Beam Saber mode without melting the Javelin itself
-Missiles have poor accuracy
-Beam Wire confirmed to function as that pic described before: lots of joined devices that can form a Beam Whip
-Almost a one off MS

[Calubin_175]

There was a coloring mistake with having two beige/orange Elf Bullock in two of the MA mode scenes. There should only be one beige one and 5 blue ones. I guess they're trying to distinguish Mask's unit from the rest.

It also looks like the Elf Bullock could not sustain flight in MS form unless they spread their arms like airfoils.

[Deathzealot]

Well that is the first time since Episode Two that we see one of the Grimoire going down. I think one went down off screen and then the one that is shown on screen.

Also before the Megafauna carried four(?) Grimoire, plus the Arcane, G-Self, and Montero but with this episode it looked like they are carrying eight or more of the Grimoire. Since we see eight of them easing the decoy balloon out of the dock with three of them seen later "escorting" it.

Another thing I found interesting the first appearance of the Jahannam this episode with two escorting the resupply mission with one of them Bellri taking over later to intercept the G-Self. Speaking of that I really liked the bit between the SFS Pilot and Bellri when the later was testing the beam rifle. While I don't understand why he needed to do that it was interesting that he didn't fire it off straight up like some other dumb pilots I know would have done. He even mentions it to the SFS pilot.

I also enjoyed the appearance of another warship, this time for the Capital Army though I don't know if it is a Naval ship or something like the Archangel which can be both water and space if it needs to do. Anyone catch the name of the ship?

[balofo]

-Capital's battleship name: Garanden
-Indeed, that 1st MS leak was the MP Elf Bullock for the Mask troops. Mask's one has unique head and color
-F-Rug is the common name for all SFS in G-Reco, now that Mick Jack line makes sense
-There will be MP Monteros
-Mask's Elf Bullock will use the Elf Bull's handrifle and a new shorter booster for MS mode next week
-Jahanaam's rifle is actually Beam, it also has a hatchet mounted on the back and 1 head vulcan
-Elf Bullock is seen launching 2 missiles from the knee but later it also fires beams from the same spot.
-Elf Bullock's leg beam sabers can reach at least 3x the MS's height.
-Armorzagan has 3 Beam Cannons plus 5 Beam Vulcans in each binder. Also has claw arms with no apparent ranged weapon built-in.
-Mask's one is called エルフ・ブルック量産一号機, MP Unit 1
-There's apparently a Klim Custom Jahanaam.

[Calubin_175]

Does anyone think the MP Monteros will just be in the Grimore colors, just like the early draft by Ippei?

The Garaden looks like something in between the Dogos Gear and the Arcadia from Captain Harlock. The return of longitudinal ships is nice.

[balofo]

Sadly, the supposed BD special video on MS history turned out be just a SD gag with MS playing basketball between high schools.

That means no deeper MS info unless there's something on the booklet(which I can confirm just includes front and back color lineart from the already revealed MS).

We won't know even basic things like model numbers until mooks are released, since we're getting very few gunpla...

[FinalSin66]

There was a coloring mistake with having two beige/orange Elf Bullock in two of the MA mode scenes. There should only be one beige one and 5 blue ones. I guess they're trying to distinguish Mask's unit from the rest.

was it? i thought it was a 2nd commander unit, the team looked big enough to be split in two groups

Also anyone else think the elf bull's beam gun/rifle resembles the Turn A's beam rifle with the side handle

[Dark Duel]

The thing is though, and I'd have to rewatch the battle, which I don't feel like doing - there are two orange-headed units in early, pre-combat shots, but as far as I could tell during the battle, only Luin/Mask's own unit is ever shown engaging; no other unit with the same color is ever shown during or after the battle from what I could tell.
And the pre-deployment shot of the pilots shows absolutely no indication that any of the pilots besides Luin/Mask himself occupy any kind of command role.
So while it is possible that you're right, I would be inclined to call it a coloring error as well.

[balofo]

Only Mask's Elf Bullock is orange, the animator are doing a sloppy job in every single ep...