Category Archives: Gundam

Why Is It (Almost) Always Three? Small Unit Organization in Gundam and Macross

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: March 9, 2010

If you’ve watched enough of the two biggest mecha franchises you might have noticed that most mecha teams seem to operate in units of three, when they do operate in coherent units. But why units of three, why not units of four like modern fighter aircraft? Tanks offer a more varied model, where platoons have [...]

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G Gundam 37-40: The Ultimate Secret Technique

By Crusader | Published: March 8, 2010

Cooking Moe FAIL… One of the things that I haven’t used and abused enough was my netflix account which I purchased under the expectation that I would be using it during down time when forward deployed, alas the 45 day wait period until my D-Day has been rather overdue for reasons that only the big [...]

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Gundam Unicorn – 01: Hang on to Your Kidney

By Crusader | Published: February 26, 2010

I know Unicorn was laid down long before Gundam 00, but if that Laplace Box is a GN Drive I am going to shoot some one… The Winter of Despair is finally over or at least we have a little more solid respite in addition to the meager mecha rations in Sora no Woto and [...]

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