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  2. pengbuzz
    So in running Zeon (right into the ground), Kycilla shot herself in the foot, then promptly spun the gun around and shot herself in the head.
  3. SebastianP
    I'm not sure I accept this as written. At the start of the project was very likely "let's develop alien-sized robots to fight the giant aliens", but you *also* have the Unification Wars going on at the same time, and it's kind of difficult to keep your development focus on equipment strictly to fight the *next* war while you're hip deep in an ongoing war already. It would rapidly have become "the enemy is developing giant robots, so we're developing giant robots to fight their giant robots!" among those not in the know about the aliens. Especially when the certainty that there will be a next war is kind of fading, because the aliens don't show for ten years. So it's not even that the Destroids were developed for the battlefield of "yesterday", they were for the battlefield of "today", only midnight came out of nowhere. Also note that the initial battle on South Ataria Island was exactly the kind of thing the destroids were supposed to fight - a ground invasion. The fold to Pluto and having to run the gauntlet to get back home was not in anyone's plans, the idea was to get to Lunar orbit and reinforce with more space units. Anyway, if the UN Spacy had convincing evidence of the actual playing field, I think so many bricks would have been shat that they could have constructed the whole grand cannon system out of them by 2005. Unification War? What Unification War? We have no time for wars, the ALIENS are coming, and there's billions of them! Edit: Also, I've been playing around with a 3D model of Battle Frontier for a bit. We are unlikely to ever return anywhere near the Macross 7 fleet, but if there ever was anything set there in the future, how far off do you think I'd be with this interpretation?
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Exactly. If your enemy is in the middle of making a series of unforced errors, by all means let them finish. We know that the Principality of Zeon's economy is swimming in wartime debt to the point that they were laying off career soldiers like Black Tri-Stars and selling off "war surplus" mobile suits to the Sides. Now we've learned that... Kycilia has done a lot of the Federation's work for them. Her hostile stance towards her brother Gihren over suspicions that he assassinated their father kept Zeon's military divided along factional lines and working against itself for five years and helped push the fledgling nation's economy to the brink. Now she has... Kycilia (and Nyan) may have inflicted more damage on Zeon in the space of a single afternoon than the Federation did in the entire One Year War. That's quite the achievement... bettered only by the sheer horror of what the Yomagn'tho is.
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  6. pengbuzz
    I think one important role the Destroids served in the story was to point out how the "battlefield of yesterday" doesn't necessarily prepare you for the battlefield of tomorrow. UN Spacy developed the Destroids on the assumption (as previously pointed out by @Seto Kaiba on several occasions) that whoever came looking for the ASS-1/ Macross would be conducting a traditional ground war that would deal in holding territory. It never crystalized in anyone's thinking that when they came, it would be largely space-based. I also think Seto pointed out that as the reason there wasn't more of a focus on the fuel capacity of the VF-1's in space, as it was assumed most action would be in atmosphere. All of that said: I think if UN Spacy had a better idea of the actual "playing field", we'd have seen more fighters with a larger fuel supply (maybe something more akin to the VF-4 out the gate), perhaps less of an emphasis on transforming fighters, and a far greater emphasis on planetary defenses like the orbital network in Macross Plus.
  7. Duke Togo
    Kennedy saying all the right things at the BFI screening of an original 1977 print of Star Wars: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/star-wars-george-lucas-first-print-screens-1236430495/
  8. 505thAirborne
    @jenius Bringing the goods!
  9. pengbuzz
    After expending so much of its' resources and forces combating Zeon, you can hardly blame them if they took that position and just waited for them to collapse. The less organized and solvent they are, the weaker they would be for the Federation to have to take on the next time. It also gives Earth a chance to recover in some fashion (especially given the condition it's in at the start!).
  10. SebastianP
    A little something I've been working on: In the background is the Minivalks 3D printable Battle 7 for comparison, in the foreground is my attempt at creating an "updated" Battle 7 by colorizing the Battle Frontier model from the game. I'm still missing a few panels and a couple of stripes compared to the Battle 25 flight deck textures, but I'm definitely able to have fun with this.. .:D
  11. Hikuro
    Bit bummed. My Xbox360 finally crapped out. It'd been having issues witht he disc drive not reading as of late so I took the initiative to get it replaced. Followed all the necessary steps I could, knowing that there's a serial key on there so I wasn't gonna do a flash on the disc drive so I did a board swap instead. But man one thing after another, console shell was super brittle and kept breaking when I took it apart even with the proper tools, and after doing the board swap and putting it all back together I kept getting a close tray on it. Messed around with it a few times more but the shell just got worse and worse and even the tray ejection button snapped off randomly. Guess it's time to buy a new unit! Really bummed cause I just acquired a ton of good 360 games last weekend for cheap cheap at a garage sale.
  12. Sokeijon started following Bandai 1/60 DX Chogokin Macross 7 Fire Valkyrie
  13. Sokeijon
    Very tempting.... https://www.tamashiinations.fr/en/figure-pre-orders/3110-macross-vf-19-custom-excalibur-basara-nekki-special-figure-dx-chogokin-4573102676269.html
  14. Sokeijon
    I got it from Mandarake quite sometimes ago. Now only unboxing.
  15. Edkir4
    Edkir4 joined the community
  16. TangledThorns
    It's for that Gen X nostalgia money. I loved KRULL when it came out but the SLAYERS had the most disturbing death sounds I ever heard when I was a kid. Many of the deaths for the heroes were pretty disturbing too... squish!!
  17. SebastianP
    They did see plenty of use though - aside from standing around on the hull and potting battlepods that got close, as well as the Daedalus attack, they were also used in the city (both in the few fights that broke into the city, and for rubble cleaning and construction work. I distinctly remember it was a destroid that opened the way into the hull section where Minmei and Hikaru were sealed into.) The only one of the original destroid designs I'd consider retiring without replacement is the Tomahawk, because it's a tank on legs that's supposed to fight other tanks on legs, and it never really had the mobility for what it needed to do. The Defender was already upgraded into the Super Defender, filling a similar role to the Cheyenne. The Phalanx, I could easily imagine having a use in the modern era, as missiles never go out of style. The Spartan I'd consider turning into a police mecha, Patlabor style, because mixed Macro/Miclone communities exist, as well as work destroids. Though I suppose the canon solution is Macronized Zentraedi cops. The Monster was also already upgraded to give it all the mobility the original lacked and then some. I would *consider*, maybe, tomahawking or phalanxing the Cheyenne chassis (i.e. giving it bigger, slower-firing guns, or large missile pods), Then again... given the vibe we see in the shows, it feels like only Zentraedi who crave the warrior lifestyle seem to sign up for ground combat duty and they'd be in Macro-scale mecha, which already have the mobility that the destroids lack.
  18. 68whiskey
    Its hard to process what bandai does next. Remember the GN arms unit? They displayed it and it wasnt til 4-5 years later that we actually got one. Given they just created a mold and such for Burning Gundam I would not be surprised if we see Shining gundam first. It would be similar to what they have done withe Exia, Astray and Crossbone figures
  19. SebastianP
    +9
  20. JB0
    Oh my! Delta's back!
  21. JB0
    Also the final battle of the war, with the Macross Attack.
  22. davidwhangchoi
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/3072620/RType_Delta_HD_Boosted/
  23. Seto Kaiba
    The Federation didn't give up completely, no. They essentially voluntarily withdrew from space to rebuild their forces after successfully ousting Zeon's forces from Earth and then fighting Zeon to a stalemate in space without the technological superiority they had in the prime timeline. They successfully defeated Dozle Zabi at Solomon and tried to wipe out Zeon's headquarters and logistical support center at Granada by dropping Solomon on it, but the zeknova foiled that plan and so they put the war on hold. The Federation Forces withdrew to Earth, and have been focusing on rebuilding. We know from earlier episodes that they've been covertly developing their own newtype corps at the Murasume Lab in Japan and field testing them in Clan Battles via the Twelve Olympians team and a shell company run by the Murasume Lab. They've developed at least one working psycommu weapon (the Psycho Gundam), and they've also created this timeline's version of the Titans seemingly for a future offensive against Zeon. Of course, the Federation may also be taking a "wait and see" approach to Zeon. With the remaining Zabis fighting amongst themselves in the wake of Sovereign Degwin's death and Zeon's economy collapsing under the weight of its war debt, the Federation may have just been biding its time until Zeon implodes on its own.
  24. pengbuzz
    I think the most use they ever came in was when Misa Hayase organized them in the bow of Daedalus for the Daedalus Attack. Good; my memory still works then.
  25. Papa Rat
    Looks great!
  26. Seto Kaiba
    Even in the original Macross series, the Destroids weren't able to do the jobs they were designed for because they ended up in space aboard the Macross instead of planetside on Earth waiting for an invasion that wasn't coming. Macross Plus, Macross 7, and later titles simply did the logical thing and replaced 'em with more compact and efficient point defense guns and launchers. Destroids may be cheaper than a Valkyrie, but they're also far more limited. They're either groundbound or stuck in specially designed bunkers on the outside of a handful of rare ship classes that actually support them like the Macross Quarter-class or the Macross Elysion-type. With most of Macross Delta's combat taking place either in space away from ships or in the air over population centers and Protoculture ruins, working them into the story would be difficult. And it would take a certain je ne sais quoi out of the story if their antagonists were shot to bits by a ground-based anti-aircraft machinegun during their flashy maneuvers. Yup, that's the one.
  27. Thom
    I think this movie is why SPOILER
  28. PointBlankSniper
    As far as I can tell, the signs are all there that this will end in zeknova, and the nonsense, or any semblance of real plot, will continue with a post isekai time skip to kick off a second cour. Everything up until this point has been proluge. The main duo has finally picked their teams and are about to confront each other on their newfound ideology. The train wreck blood fued in a foreign world starts when the show resumes in spring. There are 2 Chars and an Amuro over there, so it's a whole different ball game. If that's really where it's going, they may as well end this cour next ep instead of dragging out the reactor fight to reach 12 or 13 eps lol
  29. Dr_Breen
    Thank you much! The pits turned out nicely, better than I expected, hopefully when it comes time to final fit the canopies I can get them seated well. Also, yes! I decided that the dorsal paint was too light so I misted a very thin intermediate grey overall and it toned up nicely, still not quite as dark as the stills and art would suggest, but closer for sure. Ive since masked and sprayed the white markings and such, the lighter contrasting colors tone it down a bit more too. I also think, having finished insight, and there being no mention of Carmilla being downed, Im gonna go with 502, Carmilla for my Supersylph, should be an easy enough decal edit. Might even design and print a small decal for somewhere upforward in stylized english the name, since the folklore Vampire Carmilla is an Irish thing, naturally the name would be in english. Im pretty sure there are no other D models shown in the SAF in the show, but the books as far as I know dont specify a difference in super sylphs, so Carmilla being a D model doesnt bother me, Im kind of fusing book and show vibes a bit lol.
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