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Strange though...

The lineart from the Macrossmecha page seemed to convince me that there was some sort of independant weapons platform added to the Megaroad design at the last minute (Or a new ARMD design modified purpousfully for the ARMD).

Some of the images on the site seem to prove me wrong though, and I could be. the ARMDs would make excellent life boats though.

One justification I could see for there being no S model for the Vf-11 is due to the nature of the design. There was no space between the arms for quad or dual head lasers in fighter mode, at least not still able to fire them.

Could have been intended as a cost saving measure by the -11's designers, and (do to popular demand from pilots?) the -S model was brought back beginning with the VF-17. They just upgraded the blocks as they went along, eventually hitting the VF-11C's we saw in M7. Apparently Aces could request MAXL variants probably depending on their fleet commander's perogative.

Actually come to think of it, the VF-4, and the VF-5000 did not have S versions either. They are nowhere in the Compendium. UN Spacy must have thought after SW1, "Why the hell do we have 6+ versions of the VF-1 (A,J,S,D,VE,VT), plus Fast packs, and GBP armor" They made one version of the valks, and made the fast packs and GBP armor accordingly. Eventually they branched out again into different versions for the -17 and -19.

I'm sure the animators didn't complain either.

Perhaps maybe at the time the UN Spacy felt that they should have dedicated fighters for the dedicated commander/squad mode (After Zjent tactics?)

Don't know if this is another newbie question or not: Was the Megaroad a complete 'single ship' or did it have a pair of new ARMDs attatched to the side. I looked at the lineart, and it seems that there's large block-like ships on either sides of the legs where the DYRL? ARMDs are on the Macross.

What about crossovers or versus art?

And can we have an account even though we don't have any art?

(Now I have a reason to start drawing Macross again...)

Hn... I thought it was by the moving levels idea, where during transofmation parts of the city levels would break and then swivel to face 'up' in Storm attacker mode.

Ah, oh well.

Here's another speculation: If the DYRL Macross landed in water, would the ARMDs still function as carriers or even float at all? (Sorry, I haven't seen DYRL yet, so this might seem like a stupid question...)

Unfortunately, there is not enough room for levels to rotate. The levels of the city span from one end of the level to the other. And it would be very difficult to create several dozen swivel points and redesign the city to accomadate the several dozen swivel points.

Floating is not a problem as the ARMD carriers are held up by the arm joints on Macross. It's dependent on the arm joints, and not the ARMD carriers.

My swivel idea assumes that the city sections would break into parts and rotate.

But then again, do you mean there's no room for them to rotate? How many levels does Macross city have?

Would the ARMD platforms still be able to operate in an atmosphere while connected to the Macross? I think I read somewhere that the ARMD platforms were also designed to connect to the Macross arm sections (This may be Robotech nonsense, I'm not sure...).

And in reguars to those connections, do we see this happen (I don't have box set #1...) It looks like the ARMD platform's don't seem to have any sort of connection assemblies on their backs to permit such a docking manuver. Did they intend on using the engine as a docking point or not?

Another newbie question possibly already asked: What is the Orguss valkyre? Is it named because of it's superficial similiarty to an ORguss machine? And how come it's in there yet there's very little attentnion paid to it (Unless it's a gag...)

Hn... I thought it was by the moving levels idea, where during transofmation parts of the city levels would break and then swivel to face 'up' in Storm attacker mode.

Ah, oh well.

Here's another speculation: If the DYRL Macross landed in water, would the ARMDs still function as carriers or even float at all? (Sorry, I haven't seen DYRL yet, so this might seem like a stupid question...)

Hi.

I don't know if this is really a newbie question or not, but I might as well ask:

In the Macross's storm attacker mode, is the city sections still directed to the top of the ship's cruiser mode body? (I.e., when the ship is in storm attacker is Macross city vertical to the horizon?) If so, how can all the citizens stay upright without falling to one side of the city? (Unless the gravity control system is REALLY sophisticated)

I was wondering about this ever since I got my hands on the second box set of the uncut Macross, when the SDF-1 lands in the water (And I gotta wonder about how much shock-absobsion was used to prevent the entire populace of Macross from being thrown around like rag dolls...). I was also questioning the interior of the Macross city plans ever since learning that the Macross has remained in it's storm attacker mode yet became the UN SPACY HQ...

Well, if you can understand all that, a reply would be helpful.