Your Favourite Mecha Weapon

I don't know why this hasn't been brought up yet but whatever. whats your favourite weapon?
Mine would have to be wing zero's twin buster rifle because of its relativly small size and its large destructive capabilities being able to destroy colonies and such. having the ability to split into two and take out large numbers of mobile suits at a time.

Goldion Hammer/Crusher.

Coz nothing is more satisfying for me to see an enemy getting smashed by a gigantic hammer.

hahaha thats pretty nifty

Giga Drill. No question.

Mine would have to be the Super DRAGOON System found on the Strike Freedom Gundam and the Legend Gundam. It's so very useful

Meh, their DRAGOON Systems don't even compare to the more advanced remote weapons, like Nu Gundam's Fin Funnels or even the Geymark's Mother and Child Funnels. Hell, they're not even the most advanced DRAGOON Systems. Strike Freedom's DRAGOON units still need to be tethered, while Legend's DRAGOON units are almost identical to Providence's DRAGOON units, save for the two Beam Saber DRAGOON units. If anything, the most advanced DRAGOON Systems would have to be either the Dreadnought's or the Akatsuki Shiranui's, if only because they have the secondary function of creating barriers. Honestly, I'm a bit fed up with Seed's tendency to Copy Everything.



I agree with the Giga Drill, but not so much with the METEOR Unit. It's a blatant ripoff of the GP-03's Orchis base, which is far superior. It's loaded with a lot more missiles, which includes the 3-tube large missile pods, 108-tube micromissile pods, along with the chain mine and the two Folding Bazookas. This is enough to take out even late-UC Mobile Armors. To add to it, it has a Beam Cannon, two large claws, each mounting a large beam saber, and an I-Field to defend itself from beam attacks.

In any case, favorite weapon is quite difficult. If we're talking about SRs, I like the Zankantou, specifically Thrudgelmir's Cosmo Blade. For RRs, I'd take the Gundam Double X's Twin Satellite Cannon.

voltes bazooka

Wow with Blaze's description of the dragoon units, I would suspect the Mercurius' Planet Defensors sound more advanced, since you only need 2 of them to create a barrier, oh yeah and they can block incoming attacks, which is a hell of a lot harder to calculate than firing a gun.

My favorite mecha weapon is probably the beam scythe from Deathscythe Hell, it's a very stylish weapon that also happens to be really efficient at killing. The only weapon I would consider being as cool would be a Veritech, since the whole thing is effectively a weapon, it can punch, kick, launch 30+ missiles(depends on variant but the Veritechs with the least amount of missiles, would be the VF-1 series at 30 missiles), and it still has a laser(or 4) and a machine gun. Veritechs: built to win.

Come to think of it, the Planet Defensors are more advanced, especially the Scorpio's. Only a few weapons are actually capable of breaking through them, and from what I remember, the Twin Buster Rifle ain't one of them. Only weapons that come to mind are mainly close-range weapons. I'm guessing that the combined strength of all of V2 Assault Buster's guns could break through, but that's a little over bare minimum for long-range weapons. The only famous long-range weapons capable of breaking the barrier are the GP-02A's Atomic Bazooka and the Gundam X's Satellite Cannon. I might be overdoing it, but still...that's what it takes to break it down with a long-range weapon.

In any case, I agree about Deathscythe's Beam Scissors because it's one of the few beam weapons capable of working underwater, which is a huge plus. This especially applies to SRW games, since I use Deathscythe to deal with enemies in the water terrain.

As for the Valkyries, they're definitely good, though I worry on their reliance on missiles. If all their missiles are shot down, they rely on their guns, which aren't that powerful compared to other long-range weapons in the RR world. The FAST Packs sort of make up for their disadvantages by adding even more missiles and a big gun. I was actually pleased with the Valkyries in Macross Frontier because now, they actually have a weapon for close-range combat. The only other instance of a close-range weapon being used would have to be Isamu using a bayonet of some sort.

The VF-19 has a bayonet on it's rifle, it also has an attack similar to the Daedelus attack, basically wraps a point defense barrier around it's hand and it can punch without taking damage. The RDF will add extra items onto their Veritechs giving them better firepower, including a beam rifles and railguns, the RDF builds to win, and more missiles the RDF likes missiles. The RDF also likes weapons that can destroy entire fleets, and yes they will totally put two of them on one ship if given the opportunity.

The buster rifle can get past the Planet Defensors by simply projecting a beam too big for them to block, but it can't do that very often.

Hmmm...not too familiar with the RDF, so no arguments there. Which Macross is it from?

As for the Planet Defensors, that is the case with most of them, but it apparently wasn't the case with the Scorpio's Planet Defensors. It sounds like a likely solution, but only in the case of Mercurius and the Virgos. I have no idea how it would have done against the Virgo3, but they made them out to be pretty powerful, despite not ever seeing action.

Robotech Defense Force, or RDF, basically it is the main users of the technology acquired when the SDF-1 landed on earth.

Not so good with Harmony Gold dub terms, hence why I use Valkyrie for Veritech and Macross for Robotech. On another note, the latest Macross Quarter has to be one of my favorite Macross-class ships, since it's considerably quick and still has a lot of firepower.

Favorite weapon?

the Sound Boosters from M7. Bard powerups FTW.

I think the RDF is also known as U.N. Spacy, well that's the original name for it anyhow, they didn't actually release the original Macross series they released the Americanized version and that's what I saw. Fast ships with lots of firepower? That is definitely a U.N. Spacy vehicle, the slowest machines they build are the Mac units, and those don't need to be fast.

yeah they did. ADV redubbed the original Macross a while back.

Not when I was getting the Macross series they didn't.