>>23385813The problem with these scenarios is that Alex is absolutely weak against beams. It was designed to dominate Zakus, Goufs, Doms, and Rick Doms. All use physical ammunition as their main weapon (except the Rick Dom's beam bazooka). That's why it has a extra armor.
Alex Gundam's main creature, the body armor, will melt like butter against beam weapons. So all that extra weight will just slow down the mobile suit. Especially if 0083 is to be believed with the GM Cannon because the GM Cannon is based on Alex, and Gelgoog Marines were absolutely speeding around the clunky GM Cannon in 0083.
Alex's shield can't be used with the body armor, and even if it can it's wasting an entire hand to hold the shield. A shield doesn't even have anti-beam coating. So it's a waste of a shield. Beams will punch through it. The wrist guns are cute, but aren't going to decide the battle.
So the arguments always come down to "well Alex Gundam is like super fast and Amuro can use it faster probably." I don't really buy this argument at all. The anime didn't impress me at all and there was no indication of it. Christina couldn't use the Alex Gundam well. And it's doubtful how much extra performance Amuro could get out the Alex...since the suit lacks a psycommu system. The Federation doesn't have that tech. Amuro can't transmit his thoughts to the suit. Amuro is stuck using levers and pedals and there's an upper limit to what you can do with that.
Meanwhile, once Char is confirmed to be newtype, you can be absolutely sure that any unit he uses will have a psyxommu installed. It's not going to be some basic bitch grunt model.
So basically you have a Gundam Version 1.5 with some modest upgrades to speed VERSUS a next generation Mobile suit customized for Char and using a psycommu.
I'm betting on the Galbaldy.