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0083 Stardust Memory, 0080 War In The Pocket, and 08th MS Team are all great because they're about The Other Guys, the people who aren't magic space teenagers with brain powers. They're all fairly brutal war dramas that avoid some of the more ridiculous excesses of the franchise.
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Totally need to get some Ramba Ral and Norris Packard tag-team in here.
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Dec 15, 2013 02:32
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I completely reserve the right to  about Norris Packard, though, because he's basically my favorite gundam character period.
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Rockopolis posted:Personally, I always loved trolling the poo poo out of people with the Ball in the more arcade style games. And let's not forget the story of Federation ace Umon Samon, who shot down six Rick Doms during the Battle of Solomon in a Ball, and later went on to be a major character in Crossbone Gundam.
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Dec 16, 2013 03:33
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Yeah, I wasn't voting, just commenting that I'd really love to see those two get plenty of play.
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Dec 16, 2013 08:37
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So yeah, that's Char BEFORE he gets experienced and powerful. Char is a little ridiculous.
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Now that we've seen Norris Packard in action, albeit briefly, I'm gonna go into why he's cool. Remember how I said 08th MS Team was about The Other Guys of the One Year War? It follows a squad of Feddie pilots in jury-rigged RX-79 Gundams, trying to hold out against the Zeon during the Battle of Earth. Whereas most Gundam is high-flying Top Gun aces-and-heroes stuff that focuses more on the drama of rivalry between pilots and vast political intrigue, 08th MS Team is all about gritty infantry warfare where there's not much glory, just a lot of bullshit to be shoveled. The heroes are competent, but not amazing ace god-slayers like most of the protags in other Gundam shows. And then you have Norris Packard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4vObEQUAA You see, Norris Packard exists, largely, to show the difference between 'competent soldiers' and 'genuine Mobile Suit ace.' 
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Dec 21, 2013 20:55
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Yes. An ace none of us can even really identify for a unit that will outperform most of our other artillery? Not even a choice.
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Jan 12, 2014 08:11
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No. The Zudah is the 'fastest,' sure, but it's also going to be rapidly outmoded by just about everything in our arsenal. Remember, after the Gouf comes stuff like the Z'Gok, Dom, Gyan, and Gelgoog. This is just throwing away a perfectly useful ace for an underpowered Mobile Suit designed to fill a niche that doesn't really exist. Remember, one of the big reasons Zeon lost in the series is they kept throwing away all their talented pilots by strapping them into undertested, overdeveloped boondoggle 'wunderwaffen' suits.
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Jan 18, 2014 20:58
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No. Tactically-speaking, if one mobile suit piloted by a rookie could take out two zakus piloted by aces and send the RED COMET fleeing, the answer is NOT to engage it directly. Pull Char back and let's get eyes-on this situation before we gently caress things up even worse.
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Jan 23, 2014 10:40
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First off, gently caress YES Z'GOKS. Best Mobile Suit, or BESTEREST Mobile Suit? Secondly, hell no. Why would we go after the Gundam? We killed like three of them this turn, and Ramba got one of them himself. Let him cool it for a bit.
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Feb 14, 2014 04:58
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YES! Ze'Goks ruuuuuuuuule. Also, gently caress yessssssssss Gouf Custom. Time for awesome images of model kit conversions!.jpg)    This is no Zaku, boy. No Zaku.
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Mar 8, 2014 00:25
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The Norris and Ramba PAIN-TRAIN is back on schedule!
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Jun 12, 2014 21:13
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Right now I don't think any potential gain from the nuke-launch is worth the cost of losing 50% of our units at Odessa. We're struggling for cash and materials right now as it is and junking half our force in that sector isn't going to make things better given the superior production capacity of the Federation. Bench M'Quve.
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Jun 19, 2014 23:02
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Bluemage142 posted:You know, we could just not have a lot of units there before the nuke goes off... The Federation is gonna have a LOOOOOOOOT of assholes there, if this goes like I remember it. Not keeping forces there may not be an option.
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Jun 20, 2014 01:51
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Option 2 because hey, more units is more units.
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Jun 21, 2014 23:10
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I think a major theme of Gundam in general is 'humans are huge fuckups who make lots of bad decisions because it's literally impossible for anybody to have a full picture of the impact their actions have.' The only point where that moral gets goofy is when the proposed solution is 'telepathic space teenagers.'
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Jun 27, 2014 03:09
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gently caress yes, bioweapons and give some love to the Gyan.
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 Hygogg so good. 
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