>>23425258
Lyle claims to only have experience operating civilian workloaders but his simulator testing reveals he's so far above average that it's silly writing. That and every time he's had to snipe something as part of a mission like Memento Mori's core, he pulled it off without a problem.
>>23425236
It's absolutely a thing that Cherudim was less sniping focused but that's also more just the times changing and CB intentionally changing the newer Gundams for greater general purpose ability and firepower, since their experience in S1 told them that although their Gundams were well specialized for their specific roles, they got screwed over a lot if they had to split up their forces (they often sent Gundams to Earth for specific operations) and if the enemies managed to corner the Gundams and pin them down separately (e.g., HRL almost capturing Tieria, the whole Taklamakan desert training operation, and during the last couple of fights against the UN GN-X forces).
