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Echo|Fox (echofox@wingzero.net)
Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:30:26 -0700
As I was trying to fall asleep last night, I got to thinking about how
mobile suits protect themselves against ... well ... humans. As seen in 08th
MS Team, man portable rocket launcher can do some damage to a Zaku, but
that's not quite what I mean. Imagine during a battle (either in Space, with
someone in a normal suit and one of those hoverpack dealies Char had at the
start of Zeta, or on the ground using a grappling hook or somesuch) that a
soldier makes his way to a major joint on the MS, say, the weapons arm elbow
or the neck in space, or the knee joint on the ground, and then plants some
high explosives, then jets away. Ba-boom. This should work especially well
in space since weight would not be such a factor.
I guess this means there are two questions ... one being has anyone ever
tried this in the history of Gundam, and two, do mobile suits have any
protection against this sort of thing? The Zaku in 08th seemed to have
shrapnel grenades for this purpose, but I'm not so sure how well that would
work in space. Certainly head vulcans and a beam rifle wouldn't be much use,
especially in space where one of those hoverpacks would afford a lot of
motion. Hell, in a heated battle would a pilot even notice someone creeping
up on them?
I remember friends of mine who played BattleTech mentioning that people in
those Elemental powered armor suits were positively vicious against bigger
mechs, since they could just latch on and then the larger mecha had really
no way of getting them off...
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