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Play With Your Buddies / Re: SO MANY REINFORCEMENTS (Let's Play Super Robot Wars Judgement)
« on: May 04, 2012, 02:59:50 pm »
Mostly mooks, yeah, but that's due strongly to the gundams' multiple mile thick plot armor. Think 08th's the only one I've personally seen that Zaku are pretty awesome in, but eh. I think they have decent showings in a few others, too. Zaku are great, but generally offscreen more than on. Insofar as fluff goes, they can usually pretty easily squash quite a few things, especially when they first show up in whatever series it is.
Or, to put it another way, the Zaku is basically what kicked the ever-loving out of conventional military (and managed to stomp fed mobile suits for a while, too) before the first gundam series started, and continued to be (or be the primary design inspiration for) the military workhorse of choice for a number of superpowers throughout gundam's history.
So basically they're awesome but author fiat screws them over in most of shows, with a few exceptions. Most importantly, they look hella' more awesome than the gundams themselves
Or, to put it another way, the Zaku is basically what kicked the ever-loving out of conventional military (and managed to stomp fed mobile suits for a while, too) before the first gundam series started, and continued to be (or be the primary design inspiration for) the military workhorse of choice for a number of superpowers throughout gundam's history.
So basically they're awesome but author fiat screws them over in most of shows, with a few exceptions. Most importantly, they look hella' more awesome than the gundams themselves

