What's the point of having foot soldiers ina show like gundam?
>>14232977
Drama.
Dying.
>>14232977
Same reason as real life, I'd imagine.
It's gundam, don't think too hard about it.
I'm serious.
If you want actual answers, or thought put into it at all, get into a different franchise.
>>14232977
>What's the point of having feet ina show like gundam?
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The same reason we don't just have jets or tanks making up 100% of the military in real life.
>>14233015
Yeah, but how often do you seen infantry even pose a threat to robots in anime? Only example I can think of is in Igloo.
>>14232977
Boarding parties
The only time infantry is used in gundam
>>14232977
Gundams can't clear out a house hosting insurgents.
>>14233028
There was that one time in 8th
In 0079 Amuro almost gets fucked up by the motorcycles sticking bombs on the gundam.
>>14233028
Almost blew up Amuro with planted explosives off the very top of my head.
>>14233048
>In 0079 Amuro almost gets fucked up by the motorcycles sticking bombs on the gundam.
True, but those guys had vehicles.
I imagine infantry had uses in disabling anti tank mines and capturing listening post, somthing a person piloting a mobile suit would have far larger issues with. Also since this is around the time Zeon began it's assault on Odessa, I'd imagine it's mobile suit reserves were all they had surviving from the Battle of Loum, leaving machines for only actively trained personnel. By the time Zeon controlled most of the Earth, they could pump out Zaku's for even the meekest mook in their forces.
I'm a new fag, but I'd imagine that since gundams aw expensive to produce and are fuck huge, they'd use infantry to do delicate things such as sabatoge and other subversion.
>>14233051
Well, there was also that one time Ramba and friends stormed white base.
>>14233028
Garrod fucking hijacked a mobile suit on foot.
So did those dudes in the first episode of SEED.
>>14233028
Uso stole a mobile suit while on foot and he wasn't even trying.
Let's see...
Boarding actions
Planting explosives in critical components
Escorting captured personnel.
In terms of anti armor, your job is to take out cams, weapons and exposed criticals. But good luck doing that with minovsky particles.
>>14233028
Hell in victory the first quarter basically has people on the ground firing off parts for the victory, and trying to bring down suits with stingers every fight.
>>14232977
>have female soldiers
>make them wear bikinis and jetpacks
>give them bazookas
>they still get effortlessly slaughtered
>>14233028
It would be nice to see space fighters fighting Zaku Is in the early part of the OYW.
I can't imagine all the feddie aces only got their kills in November/December.
>>14232977
>What's the point of having foot soldiers ina show like gundam?
The same reason we have infantry in real life when we also have tanks and jets. Infantry can fight other infantry and hold ground.
>>14233150
>It would be nice to see space fighters fighting Zaku Is in the early part of the OYW.
It's in a flashback in an episode of Thunderbolt
>>14233015
This and only this
>>14233121
Wire guided missiles would probably work fine in Minovsky conditions.
>>14233300
>It's in a flashback in an episode of Thunderbolt
Also in Igloo and Origin.
Spoilers:They lose to the Zakus.
>>14233304
So would laser guided.
>>14233317
Oh right, it's been a while since I saw either, and I didn't much like Igloo at all
![Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO - The Hidden One Year War - 01 (BD 720p) (OZC) (NakamaSub).mkv_snapshot_22.56_[2016.05.14_20.57.50].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5UCYgD6.jpg "Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO - The Hidden One Year War - 01 (BD 720p) (OZC) (NakamaSub).mkv_snapshot_22.56_[2016.05.14_20.57.50].jpg")
>>14233372
Igloo version is weird cause it has Char using a Sturmfaust and Char never used a Sturmfaust in any other iteration.
>>14232977
For infantry based operations
>>14232977
You can't rescue a hostage from an asteroid fortress using mobile suits, you gotta send foot soldiers in. I fucking love ECOAS.
To inflate the kill count of the 16 year old that just hopped inside a mech and miraculously knew how to operate everything with no prior training
>>14233028
Various scenes in 0079, Dougram, Xabungle, VOTOMs, etc.
I mean shit, the very opening scene of Xabungle is literally the Sand Rats taking out a Dugger with nothing but bazookas, grenades, and their Hovergys.
