by Lord Ghidorah » Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:55 pm
Moguera's a hunk of junk. How many Spiral Grenades does anyone think it can carry with all the internal space devoted to transformation equipment? Heck, even the follow-ups it fired were a stretch of the imagination.
Mogs is not durable, even by Super-X standards. It'd blow up real good after it contributed its big, slow missiles to pummeling Showa MechaGodzilla, which was never really concerned with dodging attacks.
Team Super-X explodes in flight, with the probable exception of Super-X III. I started to dismiss that one, too - the neat armor is totally compromised by the pop-out nose weapon - but said weapon managed to quickly ice over a critter many hundreds of degrees hot. Only Moguera and (perhaps) Showa MG were designed with the cold and vacuum-welding problems of space in mind, so the freezing maser cannon and missiles actually become potent weapons against Earthly mecha.
The false Ghidoran, MechaKingGhidorah, has little protection in this fight, but it does have potent electrical-based attacks. Machine Hand and taser claws should be effective against any one other mecha that it could realistically grab. However, grabbing any MchaGodzilla, or Moguera, would get it a chestful of energy it couldn't withstand. Ouch.
Showa MG has decent armor, but it doesn't seem special compared to the Earthly armors revealed later. What it does have is insane firepower. No other mecha in this contest can maintain the volume of fire that Showa MG can, and (except when the plot demands) it is highly accurate to boot.
This MG makes Moguera's ammo storage problems seem trivial, but what the heck. The missiles it fires are at least on the order of effectiveness of Spiral Grenades (as shown by their penetration and concussion effects against both Godzilla and entire city blocks), and they come much faster and much more frequently.
The beam weapons are quite potent, too, and they should be quite effective against any of the Earthly armor compositions. Showa MG's eye beams, specifically, are something special, as evidenced by their distinctive colors. That's no laser or particle beam effect...
Showa MG should be the first target of the other mecha, as others have noted. It should concentrate on the other MechaGodzillas first, with the odd blast sent into Moguera to keep it from laying in with the heavy missiles.
SuperMechaGodzilla's missiles aren't quite as devastating as Showa MG's but they're powerful enough to beat up Heisei Godzilla, which is saying something. However, it's in beam fights that SMG shines; it is Earth's answer to the alien MG, in fact. Although the Plasma Grenade won't be effectively charged by the beam hits it takes, SMG should lay plenty of waste with its superheavy maser fire.
There will be no overheating problem - that was caused by direct energy feedback when Godzilla was connected to the Shock Anchor capacitors. SMG's main problem in this group battle is that its armor has gaps that would normally be acceptable because of the Godzilla-energy-absorption paradigm. When the incoming blasts can't be absorbed, those gaps become fatal.
I say Kiryu takes this battle, though it'll be a mess when the smoke clears. The reason is not its armor. Kiryu mk I was well-armored, but mk II seemed rather more fragile. *shrug*
No, Kiryu survives because of its unmatched agility. Its boosters use fuel, not capacitor energy, so it will be able to dodge attacks and booster-check opponents with minimal energy drain.
As evidenced by its hits on Godzilla, Kiryu can deliver hideously powerful physical attacks without suffering significant shock damage of its own.
Kiryu's missiles are not that powerful, going by on-screen evidence. However, also going by on-screen evidence, most of the mecha are weaker against physical shock than they are against beam weapons.
If Kiryu carries the AZC, it has a guaranteed kill against any one opponent, provided it can arrange a hit. If it carries the triple-maser cannon, it can still rack up impressive damage... it's a giant microwave cannon shooting into metal, after all.
Does anyone else listen to Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" and think of "Save the Earth?"