yazi88 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:43 pm
Since we are on the subject of Sentinel...
WHAT made the Neros worth developing or deploying especially as a mass production unit? They only have beam sabers and a beam rifle and nothing else... their performance isn't that good since they have less thrust and are slower than the GM III... only thing it has better than the GM III is its sensor range... Maybe it might be more maneuverable but since it has less overall thrusters/verniers I doubt that...
Was the Nero cheap to make hence why it was deployed? And it also seems that it doesn't even show up in any sidestories either like the various Unicorn ones for mangas... Overall the GM III and Nouvel GM III seem like better mass production units in every aspect... The profile states it has room for customization but outside of the Trainer and EWAC model I don't see anything that makes it worth deploying...
I have always wondered as well.
Other than the thrust, other parameters of Nero are perfectly fit for the time.
It has a higher generator output, greater sensor range, better armour/contruction material than GM III.
The problem is the extremely low, even most OYW mass production units have higher thrust than it.(sans MS-05B, which is only 100kg less)
Even if you take into consideration of its lighter frame, the much earlier AE manufactured mass production unit, the Rick Dias, has even less empty weight AND almost double its thrust; Nemo, being only a bit heavier, also has comparable thrust to Rick Dias.
Rubbing salt to the wound, Nero is supposed to be the mass-production of S Gundam and Lambda Gundam(bottom and top)
S Gundam's addon Booster unit has the highest thrust number and acceleration settings in all UC and Ext. has the second highest.
While S's thrust is much lower than the addon units, its own thrust isn't pathetic like Nero, but still maintained to be much higher than average spec.
With the increased mass, EWAC Nero is even more pathetic. Nero Trainer is just slightly better but really not that much to boast about.
It is especially interesting that this kind of numbers appear in Sentinel, since most of the other units in it has a relatively high thrust compared to Zeta and ZZ equivalent units.
Xeku Eins has over double the thrust of Nero, the only friend of Nero is Gaza E, which is also buffed from the Gaza C and D thrust, but not as much as Nero from its predecessor Nemo.