>>14226637
The Victory Gundam was meant for mass production. Not much to do about that!

Anyways, you'll know the real meaning of "grunt Gundam" when you start to see the Victory Gundam HEXA types.

almost everything had weak armor in that era, it was a consequence of beam weapons being standard everywhere so they decided to make everything lightly armored and smaller profile so it'd be harder to hit

besides, beam shields made it so they could keep up a certain level of durability and endurance even if they all have paper thin armor

the victory is pretty much an average suit, it's better than zanscare's early MP models but not quite as good as some of zanscare's late MP models. it's balanced and as middle of the road as it gets.

>>14226651
Was there any in universe reason for the beam sabers being so skinny in Victory? Or was like just stylistic? First time going through this series, enjoying it aside from mushmouth wishy washy chronicle pantsusface

>>14226686
after being refined there is no reason to use more energy to create a bigger saber if a smaller one also does the job. That's my take on it anyway

>>14226637
That's the best part of the Victory. We don't need more special snowflake invincible Gundams that never get more than a light scratch.