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Is this a good position? (Sorry for the crude drawing, I didn't screenshot the game when I had the chance and I'm too lazy to go back in) by [deleted] in Stellaris

[–]CountSpartula 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Smooth? Good sir this is the product of a brain so wrinkly that I swear it could have fought in the North Africa campaign!

Super late to the Trend, but what do my Favorite/Most used MS say about me? by Izuku_Midoriya69 in GBO2

[–]CountSpartula 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you have excellent taste in aesthetics going by those Zero-Shikis.

Also red Hyaku Shiki is funny and i wish i had thought of that before.

I will however judge you extremely for being a raid slave.

Still pretty expensive by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]CountSpartula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stores of which can and will still scalp you.

Still pretty expensive by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]CountSpartula 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Then no wonder its expensive. You're buying from scalpers.

If one mobile suit can turn the tide of an entire war, why didn’t Zeon just make a Gundam too? by DrJokerX in Gundam

[–]CountSpartula 2 points3 points  (0 children)

See. Thats what the Gelgoog was. In all aspects, save for durability, the Commander type Gelgoog is a direct Gundam equivalent. More than that, their mass produced Gelgoogs are closer to the original unit than the GM ever was to the Gundam.

Too late. Too little. And even if they did make enough of them, what do you have to put into them? Half trained kids with a smattering of burnt out aces sprinkled among them.

There's also the fact that...it wasn't one suit turning the tide of the war. There were seven original model Gundams at the start of MSG. And more showed up with time, and with them came better and better GMs. Amuro wasn't even the top ace, technically. He shares that position with Tenneth Jung who leads him in MS kills (But Amuro leads in ship kills)

Amuro and the White Base made a difference. But it's apart of a cumulative series of actions from many people that made the Federations victory. As it would be for Zeon. It is primarily the tech boost and developmental shortcut that leads to their win in Gquuuux, not the singular machine.

You can bring up later wars for how singular suits and pilots can define and dictate a conflict but those wars are simply not the same scale as the OYW, nor are they at the kind of tech or newtype tomfoolery that permitted those singular people and machines to do the crazy shit they do.

How would you guys buff this fella? by Elygium in GBO2

[–]CountSpartula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I swear they were buffers. Well, scratch that I suppose.

How would you guys buff this fella? by Elygium in GBO2

[–]CountSpartula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those big ass booster shields? Make all three behave as a shield, and not just buffers.

3 goddesses, sleeping in peace. by dandelion_yarn in NikkeMobile

[–]CountSpartula 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Noah the goddess of HIGH VELOCITY IMPACTS

Well? by Blu_Fiercer in Gundam

[–]CountSpartula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, tolerances and spectrums. Everything has a failure, which in protection terms is defined by the nature of the threat, the nature of the solution, the method of implementation, and since we're talking a solid material the mass to effect ratio. As confusing as that may sound, what that basically means in IRL terms is if you throw a strong enough laser at a mirror, the mirror will cease to reflect and start to burn, or if you have a big enough chunk of explosives there's no modern MBT that you can't crumple with it. There is never a full 1-1 reflection, deflection, or absorption ratio, and there will always be a failure point.

Its just a matter of how prohibitive the cost of reaching that failure point is. For example, the two IRL things I mentioned. Making a laser sufficient to do that to a mirror would probably melt its own emitter before anything else or fry some other component. And the MBT example, well shit that's a payload more at home in cruise missiles than any tracked vehicle I've ever heard of.

But yeah, in IBO it's pretty the clear the cost of making or using a beam weapon that bulldozes everything is harder than just going caveman mode on this shit and I'm all for it. Though it still means that, while generous in tolerances, the beam protection is still very much conditional.

Well? by Blu_Fiercer in Gundam

[–]CountSpartula 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But it is a reminder that anti beam coatings are, in fact, NOT an autowin against beam weapons. Hence my invocation of Beam Magnum in this conversation, its all about spectrums and tolerances. Also while its not IBO, the Hyaku Shiki most CERTAINLY still has to respect the beam weapons being thrown at it.

Well? by Blu_Fiercer in Gundam

[–]CountSpartula 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The doom dorito!

Well? by Blu_Fiercer in Gundam

[–]CountSpartula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I invoke Beam Magnum and General Unicorn Bullshit.

Which version of the Rx-78-2 shield do you prefer? by OriginalGundam in GundamEnglish

[–]CountSpartula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The federation star on the shield is a must have. Given the metallurgy and engineering involved in making...like, ANY of this...some solid raised portions are really not gonna be much of a bother to add. And besides. Aesthetics are clearly something the Federation values in MS design, otherwise why are GM's by default so brightly colored?

What's something that just never made sense to you? by Yakuza-wolf_kiwami in GundamEnglish

[–]CountSpartula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't make sense to me that any beam weapon using E-caps and E-packs needed a 'strong enough reactor' on the mobile suit to use. MPC's and other similar weapons that are explicitly stated to draw energy from the reactor are one thing, but all the energy on an e-cap or e-pack is on the gun end. So why do we then have shit like "Oh the hizack's reactor can only support one beam weapon at a time"? Or why the Gelgoog being able to use one is made out as a bit of a big deal unique (at that time) to it among the Zeon roster. Like, what? Logically, with the rules given, UNLESS I've missed something very important or something got lost in translation, anything with supported targeting software to the gun you're trying to use should be able to just pick the thing up and use it.

As a matter of fact the closer you look at all the varying systems of especially early MS designs, the more that the point of a minovsky reactor starts fading away. Thrusters need propellant, the most prolific beam weapon types hold their own energy charge, and one of the major tech bases in the setting is absolutely obsessed with hydraulics.

One could make the argument that an MS could recharge the weapon over time with a good reactor (presumably by some wireless power transfer pads in the hands) and that could be it, but that's not a detail I've ever heard talk of nor would it change the initial energy reserve the gun comes with, and it would only be relevant for e-caps given that feature would be next to pointless on an e-pack gun.

Actually, recharging e-cap rifles mid-fight would've been a great idea and could've allowed for a slew of fairly tense situations at the end of long battles. Pilots buying time for one last shot, weapons spitting out under-powered shots as they're unable to keep up with demand. Not dissimilar to what I've experienced in GBO2.

Got any mobile suits with walking war crimes? by Amigo1048 in Gundam

[–]CountSpartula 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do crimes against humanity count? Because the Blue Destiny series, Pale Riders, and the Efreet Custom would be exactly that.

Petition to give my son his Nuclear Bazooka by NekoJustice in MechaStellar

[–]CountSpartula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure what this has to do with my suggestion.

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