and obviously they are a lot more heavy and cumbersome to wield than something that is basically just the handle with a few important technical components inside.
btw mcred 4000 posts again? how did u manage that?
Gouf's Heat sword/saber?
If there's a big weakness in solid heat weapons, its their durability. Unlike beam weapons, the blades of a solid heat weapon will need to be repaired or outright replaced after several battles or they'll break. A perfect example I see where a heat weapon started to break during battle would be Sandrock Kai's heat shotels in Endless Waltz.
Pretty much, correct. In the terms of one or a few battles though, UC has shown us that heat weapons can keep up with beam weapons more or less fine, but you're right that they'd need to be replaced/repaired/something'd-like-that after a while to bring the weapon back to peak status.ExhileVoid wrote:If there's a big weakness in solid heat weapons, its their durability. Unlike beam weapons, the blades of a solid heat weapon will need to be repaired or outright replaced after several battles or they'll break. A perfect example I see where a heat weapon started to break during battle would be Sandrock Kai's heat shotels in Endless Waltz.
I post. Remember, I had hit 4444 before we had that last clean up, oh those many months ago.razgriz wrote:btw mcred 4000 posts again? how did u manage that?
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In the Lost War Chronicles manga, there is a scene where a Gouf Custom is fighting a RGM-79 (G) GM, and theyre standing in the middle of a lake. The Gouf had actually popped up outta the water, and proceded to slash away at the GM. However, the sword didn't completely cut through the shield. The caption said the water was cooling off the heat saber. Just wondering if that could actually happen, or if the sword is just too hot and would immediatly cause the water around it to turn into steam.
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The heat transfer required to turn water around a heat sword into steam would still cause a net loss of temperature of the heat sword's blade. The question is, though, how large the temperature drop would be, and that we just don't know because we don't know the specific details of how hot heat weapons get, or how quickly lost heat due to cutting action (melting armor would also cause a heat loss) can be replaced.
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Keep in mind that it depends on how much it cooled down, and what kind of metal it is.
I'm pretty sure the same material for your cooking utensil isn't used for a gigantic sword.
I'm pretty sure the same material for your cooking utensil isn't used for a gigantic sword.
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Which the anime shot in the foot in 0080, further illustrating the producers' profound lack of caring what Tomino put in his novels.Recon 5 wrote:I don't know if it was an inaccuracy on Tomino's part, but in the first Gundam novel Char thought that the RX- 78's saber would melt right through his heat hawk.
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