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Originally Posted by Mach Crit  I am not up on Gundams as much. To me, when it says "mobile suit" I am thinking that the pilot takes up most of the torso and his head is part of the suit's "head". I guess I thought a Gundam was more like a Heavy Gear where the pilot is 1/4 the size of the suit where the pilot is roughly 1/10 - 1/15 the size of a heavy mech in Mech warrior. Shows what I know. |
Yeah, it's a pretty screwy piece of terminology. As I understand it the "suit" terminology came from Starship Troopers' "Powered Suits" (but "mobile suits" were never actually "suits" in that sense) - Gundam started out at a more reasonable scale (8-12m maybe?) but wound up taking on lots of traits of the 1970s super robot shows - among other things the 18m height... Anyway, I certainly don't expect anybody to know how tall a MS is if I fail to make it clear to 'em.
