Anonymous
6/27/2025, 1:25:56 AM No.23350549
What is the major difference between a mobile armour and a mobile pod?
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 1:29:06 AM No.23350557
The background music.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 1:33:22 AM No.23350562
>>23350549 (OP)
If I had to hazard a guess without knowing specifics, a Mobile Armor tends to combine old traditional spaceship thrust maneuvering and Gundam-type AMBAC maneuvering while not going full Mobile Suit. A Mobile Pod meanwhile basically only uses traditional old-style thruster based maneuvering but still possesses limbs, though said limbs are in all likelihood useless for AMBAC in this case.
Also, Robot Spirits Big Zam is fucking crazy cool, but WHERE IS HE
If I had to hazard a guess without knowing specifics, a Mobile Armor tends to combine old traditional spaceship thrust maneuvering and Gundam-type AMBAC maneuvering while not going full Mobile Suit. A Mobile Pod meanwhile basically only uses traditional old-style thruster based maneuvering but still possesses limbs, though said limbs are in all likelihood useless for AMBAC in this case.
Also, Robot Spirits Big Zam is fucking crazy cool, but WHERE IS HE
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 1:38:21 AM No.23350567
>>23350549 (OP)
Classification, really. By Zeon doctrine Ball would have technically been recognized as a Mobile Armor (even if a really shitty one) if it didn't predate the concept by at least a few months.
At the same time, in terms of doctrine MAs are specialized, purpose-built weapons that don't have the same ease of operation and flexibility as MSs. And that doesn't really fit the Ball since that's a really basic bitch.
Classification, really. By Zeon doctrine Ball would have technically been recognized as a Mobile Armor (even if a really shitty one) if it didn't predate the concept by at least a few months.
At the same time, in terms of doctrine MAs are specialized, purpose-built weapons that don't have the same ease of operation and flexibility as MSs. And that doesn't really fit the Ball since that's a really basic bitch.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:23:14 AM No.23350772
I honestly don't know because according to G Gen Eternal the Psycho Mk III is considered a mobile armor but the Quin Mantha isn't, even though their both giant humanoid machines that don't transform.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:40:40 AM No.23350785
>>23350549 (OP)
a mobile pod is the size of a space worker pod because it is in fact nothing more than a militarized work pod
a mobile armor is a non-humanoid mobile weapon larger than the average starfighter and at minimum generally the size of the average MS
a mobile pod is the size of a space worker pod because it is in fact nothing more than a militarized work pod
a mobile armor is a non-humanoid mobile weapon larger than the average starfighter and at minimum generally the size of the average MS
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:04:32 AM No.23350948
>>23350549 (OP)
The mobile pod is the home we will have in the future
The mobile pod is the home we will have in the future
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:22:09 AM No.23350976
It's a mobile armor if it comes from monster of the week, otherwise it's just sparkling pod.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:46:08 AM No.23352294
Doctrine above features.
Mobile suits were invented to infiltrate colonies and harass capital ships. The latter task stems from Tomino's understanding of WWII combined arms, where the airplane became the dominant strategic element (as tactical elements they were effective in the form the dive bomber, but it is the level high altitude bomber which caused the biggest strategic damage). He transplanted carrier aircraft into toy robot story. The mobile suit is an all-terrain strategic element that affects violence better than the aircraft of WWII. Zeon recognized the strategic importance of mobile suits when considering them compared to mobile armor. Zeonic won the doctrine contest against MIP's mobile armor.
Mobile armor was MIP's theory that maximum speed and offense were the champion of the new warfare. The things you think makes a mobile suit so effective are actually dialed to 11 with mobile armors. The primary goal of the mobile armor is not infiltration and harassment, but simply total destruction. As it so happened, the Zaku was actually really damn good at killing capital ships, the incumbent primary element of warfare as late as 0078. So the bigger hurty-killy machine looks less than ideal when smaller hurty-killy machine is good enough with much higher mass production potential.
Compare the sizes of the three objects; mobile suit, mobile armor, and capital ship. You can see that the mobile armor is ostensibly the most compact iteration of the capital ship's biggest feature, firepower and travel. The MA is all gun and no command.
>>23350772
Psycho Mk III has its own minovsky craft system. Its predecessors are shown to strategically search and destroy (ie Hong Kong, all of the AEUG) . Quin Mantha is a scaled up Qubeley; elite newtype MS tactics. Quin Mantha being as violent as Psycho shows why MA is a dead-end doctrine.
Mobile suits were invented to infiltrate colonies and harass capital ships. The latter task stems from Tomino's understanding of WWII combined arms, where the airplane became the dominant strategic element (as tactical elements they were effective in the form the dive bomber, but it is the level high altitude bomber which caused the biggest strategic damage). He transplanted carrier aircraft into toy robot story. The mobile suit is an all-terrain strategic element that affects violence better than the aircraft of WWII. Zeon recognized the strategic importance of mobile suits when considering them compared to mobile armor. Zeonic won the doctrine contest against MIP's mobile armor.
Mobile armor was MIP's theory that maximum speed and offense were the champion of the new warfare. The things you think makes a mobile suit so effective are actually dialed to 11 with mobile armors. The primary goal of the mobile armor is not infiltration and harassment, but simply total destruction. As it so happened, the Zaku was actually really damn good at killing capital ships, the incumbent primary element of warfare as late as 0078. So the bigger hurty-killy machine looks less than ideal when smaller hurty-killy machine is good enough with much higher mass production potential.
Compare the sizes of the three objects; mobile suit, mobile armor, and capital ship. You can see that the mobile armor is ostensibly the most compact iteration of the capital ship's biggest feature, firepower and travel. The MA is all gun and no command.
>>23350772
Psycho Mk III has its own minovsky craft system. Its predecessors are shown to strategically search and destroy (ie Hong Kong, all of the AEUG) . Quin Mantha is a scaled up Qubeley; elite newtype MS tactics. Quin Mantha being as violent as Psycho shows why MA is a dead-end doctrine.
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:00:28 AM No.23352308
>>23352294
Newtype MAs are a dead end because for some reason they're all fucking evil and mindrape their pilots.
Newtype MAs are a dead end because for some reason they're all fucking evil and mindrape their pilots.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:46:23 AM No.23352469
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 3:15:42 AM No.23352520
>>23352294
>Doctrine above features.
That actually makes some sense. Like no legitimately I've been wondering for years why some shit that on the surface would seem to be a transformable mobile suit is classified as a Mobile armor, IE the Gaplant, Asshimar, Messala, and the Baund Doc are classed as MAs or the Quin Mantha like you mentioned.
Though it does beg the question why the Gaplant TR-5 at least according to the old HG box/manual is classified as an MS but the normal one is an MA at least outwardly you'd think the Doctrine would be pretty similar.
>Doctrine above features.
That actually makes some sense. Like no legitimately I've been wondering for years why some shit that on the surface would seem to be a transformable mobile suit is classified as a Mobile armor, IE the Gaplant, Asshimar, Messala, and the Baund Doc are classed as MAs or the Quin Mantha like you mentioned.
Though it does beg the question why the Gaplant TR-5 at least according to the old HG box/manual is classified as an MS but the normal one is an MA at least outwardly you'd think the Doctrine would be pretty similar.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 3:36:29 AM No.23352561
>>23350549 (OP)
What's the difference between a tank and a car?
What's the difference between a tank and a car?