GUNDAAAAAAAM
Several mobile suits teleport in, and three of the "X-Numbers" (the anti-mobile suit weapons, IE gundams, being developed on Heliopolis) have been taken over by ZAFT. They fire on the factory to test their weapons.
developing a workable movement OS... How about you, Dearka?
Reconstructing system... Calibration complete. I'm ready to move.
Now's the time to mention, coordinators are genetically altered humans. They can be stronger, faster, smarter and generally better then your average human, hence the fact that Dearka and the rest were able to recode an entire movement OS in a minute or two. They're a lot like Augments from Star Trek, if you know about them. Although as a side note, Coordinators are hated because they are envied, rather then anything that they actually did.Yzak: Nicol?
Dearka: Athrun and Rusty are late.
Yzak:Heh... They'll be fine. At any rate, we should go ahead and take these 3 units back. We can't let them get trashed before we return to the ship... Let's go!
The three gundams escape.
Kira: Watch out!
Murrue: Gah! A child?! What are you doing here?!
Kira:I escorted some girl to a shelter, but they were full, so I had to stay out here. I'm heading to block No. 5's shelter.
Murrue: It's already been taken out... Over here!
I forget if I mentioned it, but it won't hurt to repeat; Murrue is from Gundam Seed.
Murrue: Argh!
Kira:They got you?! Are you okay?! ...Huh?!
Kira's kind've got a case of the uguuu going on here.Athrun:Kira... Is that you?
Murrue:Dammit!
Murrue: Please, get behind the seat! I have to save this unit at the very least! ...Okay, I should be able to move it.
Kira: (Was that... Athrun? No way... What's he doing here?)
Athrun: Can't help it...
Miguel:Athrun, what happened?!
The Strike and Aegis gundams activate, the Strike being controlled by Murrue, and Aegis by Athrun.Miguel: Here they come. Stop lagging behind, Rusty! Hurry up and fall back!
Athrun: Rusty's dead. A Federation officer's piloting that unit.
As is tradition, nobody cares about the redshirt.Miguel: Damn! I'll capture it, then. You go ahead and escape.
Athrun: Understood. (...I don't believe. That guy looked like Kira Yamato, but there's no way he would do something like that...)
Aegis escapes.Murrue: There are so many GINNs...
So, to clarify, right now the Strike Gundam is surrounded by 11 GINN's (Mobile suit grunts, Gundam seed), along with a.... I believe a Bcue? Which is basically an upgraded GINN, Being piloted by a commander. On top of this, the strike is mostly unequipped (it uses a frame system like the Aestivalises), and it's movement OS isn't working very well.Miguel: Commence attack!
But it still has one ace in the hole.Murrue: What?! Quickly! Activate the Phase Shift armor!
It is fired on, and takes no damage from the attack, thanks to said phase shift armor.Murrue: Nngh...
Miguel: Impossible! No damage?! What the hell kind of armor is that?!
Kira:S-So this is Phase Shift armor?
Note again, gundam is a very fleshed out series, Phase Shift armor is not some kind of mega secret weapon, it's used in the Bloody Valentine war, that takes place before the game or SEED itself even starts, but that doesn't make it any less impressive. It absorbs any kind of physical impact, making it fairly useful against explosives and traditional gunfire, along with any physical blades or clubs something may be using on it.Miriallia:Ahhhhh!
Sai: They're fighting inside the colony!
Kira:Sai?! Kuzzey, Tolle, and Mirrallia, too?! What are you all doing here?! Hey, you! There are some friends of mine directly below us! Please, get this thing away from them!
Murrue: I can't... This is all I can do with the OS in its current state.
Miguel: Oh, I get it... Its OS is still incomplete, huh? All units, surround that machine! They can't move, so let's bag it and get out of here!
A refreshingly direct approach. Just grab the thing and take off since it can't really move.Kira:Well of COURSE we can't move it with an OS like this... It's a wonder this thing can move at all.
Burn.Murrue: Well, no! The OS hasn't been finished yet, after all! (Just who IS this boy?)
The Nadesico arrives.Miguel: What? A warship?!
Ruri: ZAFT mobile suits confirmed. It seems they're engaging an unknown unit.
Yurika: Let's just tear right past them!
Murrue: That's Nergal's mobile warship?! I guess they were attacked by ZAFT, too... I think we can consider them friends for now. Unidentified Nergal warship, can you hear me? This is Murrue Ramius of the UEFA's 5th Special Division. I demand that you rescue us.
Kira: Could you change places with me, please?
Murrue: Huh? What are you-
Kira: Hurry up! I can't let them capture everybody else, too!
Murrue:W-What are you d-
Yurika: This is Yurika Misumaru, Captain of the Nadesico. Forgive me, Ms. Ramius, but I refuse to start a battle inside a colony.
Murrue: Misumaru? Don't tell me you're Adm. Misumaru's...
Yurika: ...Yp! I'm his daughter!
Murrue: I see. I've heard some rumors... Capt. Misumaru, this is an emergency. All ways out are blocked. This is going to get ugly whether you like it or not! That's why I'm demanding you rescue us! It's extremely important!
Yurika: But if we fight inside the colony...
Murrue: This is no time for hesitation! Things will only get worse if they capture this mobile suit!
Ruri: Captain, that unit doesn't appear to be military standard.
Akatsuki: It's a prototype unit. One of the Federation's new weapons. A mobile suit designed for the purposes of total combat. Those folks at morgenroete earned their paychecks, all right...
Miguel: Dammit, those are the Nergal warship's units. They escaped the team headed for the docks, so we'll just have to take 'em down here!
Hyoma:Argh, they're coming after us?!
Ruri: We're not the enemy, but... It appears no one bothered to inform them.
Minato:Then let's just help those federation people! We can't abandon them now!
Calvina: I don't want to start a battle inside the colony either, Captain, but we're out of options.
Yurika: Understood. All units, take off! I'm begging you! Try to limit damage to the colony!
The units are deployed. We still have under the threshold, so they all go out.Koji:Time's up, ZAFT! It's time for you to meet your Mazinger!
I love that line so much, you have no idea, ohhh my god. 
Hyoma: Let's go, everyone! There's no way I'm gonna let them get away with this!
Juzo: Wow, Hyoma! Save that fighting spirit for kicking their sorry asses!
Ryoko: So this is war... Aren't the coordinators fellow Earthlings too?! Dammit, why did thngs have to turn out like this?!
Akatsuki: There's no such thing as co-ordinators or Naturals, I'm afraid. As long as people exist, they will always cause conflict amongst themselves. We simply have to do What we can to help. Isn't that right... Mr. Tenkawa?
Akito:Shut up, Shut UP! I'll protect the Nadesico and everybody onboard! There's no need to even think about it!
Atta boy. Looks like he's, at least grudgingly, snapped out of his funk.David: After we became friends with Eiji, it's kinda sad to see that the rest of humanity can't understand each other. Sorry Eiji... Just when you finally got to see the earth, we have to go and get caught up in the thick of things.
Eiji: It's all right, David. Please, don't worry about it.
Noal: Well, we're still alive, so... Let's do our best to get outta here!
Aki:Yes... We must!
Calvina: (What a mess. No matter what you believe, in the end you're nothing more then a pilot who anticipates only the battlefield. Fighting and defeating the enemy, whoever they may be, is all you can do...) Hmph. Maybe that's for the best. Fighting across endless battlefields, waiting only for your death... Guess it could be worse.
Katia: What was that, Calvina?
Calvina: Nothing. they're right in front of us, so stay sharp!
Katia: Right... We have to give this our all. We entrust everything to you!
Calvina: Good. I've worked too hard for you girls to bail out now. We're past the point of no return!
Miguel: Those are the guys Cdr. Creuset warned me about... All units, take down the Naturals!
Murrue: Those are the Nadesico's troops? ...Impressive.
Kira: ...Reboot complete. Here we go!
Murrue: Huh?! Wait a second!
Kira: Those are my friends over there! We can't fight with them nearby, can we?! Everybody, get out of here! Hurry!
Tolle: That voice...!
Sai: Is Kira piloting that thing?!
Mirallia: We were looking for you, Kira! What happened?!
Kira: I'm not sure, but... This is how things turned out. Get out of here and find shelter!
Sai: Understood! Kira, take care!
Tolle: Don't do anything reckless, buddy!
Kira: Weapons... Where are the weapons?!
Murrue:(Don't tell me he reconstructed the entire system while talking to his friends? This kid is something else...!)
That kinda kept going didn't it? Jeez. Anyway.
TURN ONE!
KAY. That one blue dot down there in the base is the strike, and if it goes down, we lose. This was the first mission I lost because I was an incredible doof and did not move the strike into some safe terrain. Once you do that, this is pretty easy. Although, as of note, RIGHT NOW? The strike is an enormous wuss. The only bonus it has is phase shift armor, which is a decent barrier that activates on physical attacks, absorbing 800 damage. That is it. It'll get much better when it manages to get a hold of a frame, but until then we've kinda gotta baby it. But anyway, let's discuss gundams in general.
Gundams, despite being a real robot, are actually kind've somewhere in the middle. They can dodge fairly well, they can usually take a hit pretty well (preferably with the help of a barrier of some kind), they hit pretty hard for a real, they're fairly accurate, they're a medium sized robot, etcetcetc. More than anything, gundams require a decent pilot to be decent, they reflect their pilot's stats VERY well, as they're a pretty even ground to be operating on. THis is part of the reason that any time Amuro shows up in a super robot wars game, he is damn good, because Amuro (The pilot of the original gundam, not appearing in this game) is a damn fine pilot. Perhaps not quite that much could be said of Kira, but he does well enough.
Back to the note that frameless strike is a huge wuss, it's strongest attack is 2400 damage, at a 1-3 range, and that is all he has, aside from "Igelstellung"'s which are basically head vulcans, which anyone that has seen a gundam show knows are horribly useless in mobile suit combat.
Again though, strike will get MUCH better when it gets a frame on it. Anyway, we move it up onto a military base (30% defese 30% evade 20% HP regen 20% EN regen, the best terrain in the game) and attack a GINN.
Note Strike took greatly reduced damage, phase shift armor+defensive terrain makes strike into a (decent) tank. Also of note, the GINN! Gundam has always had excellent grunt suit design, and SEED is no exception. Also note it looks similar to a kinda fancied up Zaku.(The Zaku was the original gundam grunt unit, again not appearing here. Design is notably popular.) Of note is that the GINN has mostly if not entirely physical weapons, making the strike a particularly effective weapon against them! It's easy to lose the original intent of these machines in the sea of various other series'. Anyway, the cavalry moves out. AND I FORGOT TO SWITCH FRAMES AGAIN SOMEHOW. I SWORE I CHANGED THEM AT THE END OF THE LAST UPDATE AAAAA oh well. We'll switch them to air frames to show them off. Decreases HP, EN, and Armor, increases the aesti's movement to 7 and gives mobility a small boost as well. Of note, however, is they cannot land, not that it's an issue with the gravity wave beam. Combattler hammers a GINN. Also of note, the GINN's only beam weapon, and if I recall it's long range and decent damage too, so it's unfortunatly a fairly effective weapon. As long as Strike stays up in things faces it's not a huge issue though.
ENEMY PHASE!
The GINN's generally just kind've move in the direction of the main force. One takes a potshot at the strike as it goes by.
Thanks to defense, strike takes zero damage. The strike taking zero damage is something you'll see a lot. Keeping a resupply unit nearby and pumping it's energy is definitely worthwhile. One ginn is counter killed by combattler, using V laser no less, and another loses about 95% HP from a big blast counterattack. Same ole same ole. Almost everything else attacks strike and either does zero damage, or dodges, two ginn's managed to get a hit in and didn't do more then 500 damage. I'm beginning to feel I missed a great unit in my first playthrough by skipping over strike. Remember, it's still missing a frame, and most of them ADD defensive stats! Also Miguel, the commander, is still hanging back.
TURN TWO!
Now, we land everybody currently hovering over those littlte white buildings. They are ALL +30% defense/evade and +20% HP and EN regen. That big central area strike is currently in is an excellent staging area. For now we'll have to make do with the area most of our units are hovering nearby, but we can move in there fairly quickly. Baybull finishes off a heavily wounded GINN and David gets a level out of it. Level 5, no new spirits. Of note was the fact that even Baybull had a 30% chance of being hit in this terrain, so it's definately really nice. Bellzelute picks off a GINN with shot launcher from 6 squares away, while moving into position. That HE radar was a good idea, I'll admit. Combattler charges headlong into the GINN's, halving one of them. Aphrodite/Blue Earth both heal him, and both get levels. No new spirits. Of note is Kira's spirits - Focus(30% to dodge and hit rate for one turn) for 15 SP, and Accel (+3 to movement for one move command) for 5 SP, along with Murrue's(She's currently in the strike too, remember. This is the only time she'll be in here, but we'll get to that.), Wall - 15 SP(recieve 10 damage for one attack, if you dodge it's not used up), and Focus - 15 SP. Anyway, now that we've gotten that out of the way, the strike finishes a damaged GINN.
Or not. You now see how bad the igellestung's are. Naturally I will be trying to finish off all the units I can with them. The Nadesico finally arrives on the scene, missling a full health GINN, and deploys the five Aesties. Let's check out the air frame with old Akito.
Kind've a color mismatch. Looks great on Gai's aesti, but well, yeah. Air Aesti gains no new moves from 0G Aesti, just looks different, and gains some evasiveness/Loses some armor/HP. Akatsuki finishes off the remaining GINN above the strike, and the girls move in to the two below the road connecting the two factories. Taking out... one of them. The GINN is a fairly heavily armored grunt compared to what we've seen so I'm not too surprised. This ends the turn.
ENEMY PHASE
A Ginn attacks the strike, it dodges. Another attacks the Nadesico, the blue earth takes the hit for them, the barrier on it absorbs the brunt of the attack, did about 200 damage. I may have to revise the robot roll call for blue earth when I add strike. Anyway, Nadesico counters, killing it in the process, and gaining a level. All pilots level 7, no new spirits. The last two GINNs fire at one of the Aestivalis' and strike, both dodge. Miguel moves up. I've got a plan for him...
TURN THREE!
Only four more left for this wave. Mission is actually pretty short, I just underestimated the opening dialogue. Anyway, we lift bellzelute off, and move it as close to miguel as we can.
That should do nicely, presuming he doesn't get in under the minimum range of bellzelute. More repairs to combattler. Most folk except mazinger move towards the remaining GINN's. Mazinger moves south, and eiji casts accel, takes off, and catches up with everyone else. Strike moves in and attacks the second southernmost GINN, doubling as bait for miguel. The Nadesico moves south and finishes the GINN with missles. Combattler moves south with Mazinger, and the Aesties attack the southernmost GINN. They finish it in two attacks with Distortion punches. Akatsuki moves in and attacks the final reamining GINN with Distortion punch.
But wait! Miguel took that hit! And the generic GINN attacked back! Enemies are officially starting to support defend each other, although typically a unit will only support defend a commander/a commander will only support defend a unit. We don't have to worry about seas of grunts support defending each other and spreading damage out over themselves optimally. Also it would appear Miguel is in a GINN, not a Bcue. The map symbols are very similar. Luckily Miguel can only support defend ONCE, so akito manages to get in a decent hit on the remaining GINN, annnnd takes a hit in return for about 2400 damage, over half his health, with distortion field activated. Yow, that ion cannon hits HARD. This ends the turn.
ENEMY PHASE
Luckily one of the GINN's feels it's a better better decision to shoot at Mazinger Z and do about 700 damage rather then try to hit akito again, so everything is okay. Miguel goes for strike, as anticipated.Miguel:Even with all that armor, do you really think you can win with those moves?!
Kira: Not here! Stop!
He misses.
TURN FOUR!
Time to finish up this wave. Akatsuki and Akito hurry back to the Gravity Wave beam. Akatsuki takes a potshot at the remaining Grunt, but Miguel takes the hit. At least it ate his support defense. We're gonna TRY to finish this without moving anybody from the southern part of our formation into the right side, but I'm not sure how possible that is since the GINN and Miguel are camping out on defensive terrain. Worth a shot. Strike halves the HP of the generic GINN, and Eiji makes his appearence by finishing him off.
The perils of screencapping explosions.I put trust in Baybull to hit Miguel, with a 71% chance to hit, and a 44% chance to BE hit. Miguel is also using the Heavy Ion Cannon so this could very well one shot him, or at least nearly so, if it hits.Miguel: Tch! Out of the way, you impertinent Natural!
A smashing success. Good work fella. Of note was that baybull was in the air, so he wasn't getting any defensive bonuses. Miguel isn't quite soft enough to finish off yet, since bellzelute only has O Rifle N available right now, so we let buldy take a similar gamble.
A similar success. Hell yeah. Next up we use Focus and attack Miguel with O Rifle N. Hopefully it'll hit and end this. Since Miguel is VERY evasive, we have Ruri use Scan(5 SP, it will reveal info on the weapons/stats of a unit if no one has attacked him yet, and lower mobility by 10%) on him. With both Focus and Scan active, we have a nice 87% chance to hit. It's in the bag.
DAMN. IT. Luckily we were out of range, so we didn't get a nasty counterattack. Guess we'll have to move in the Aestis to finish this up. Oh well. Of note is that, even though we missed Scan is still active and will be active for the rest of the turn I believe. We move Bellzelute down with the rest to hopefully get it in position for later. Hikaru hits, doing about 700 damage, dodges the counterattack. The next attack should be it...
And Izumi with the finisher. She gains a level, level 7 now, and a level of support attack. Nice. We get a Booster, and two selling fodder from Miguel.Miguel:System frozen?! Gah! Do I have to punch out?!
He escapes, and another battleship arrives.
The battleship is one tile down and to the right of the cursor now if you can't spot it.Murrue:The Archangel!
...Wait, X-105 is active?! X-105, do you copy? Who's the pilot?!
Murrue:This is the X-105 Strike. Lt. Murrue Ramius speaking.
Natarle: Lt. Ramius?! This is Lt. Natarle Badgiruel. I'm glad to see you're all right, but... what happened?
Murrue: Lt. Badgiruel? Why are you...
Natarle: The ship's all right... ...but all other high-ranking officers, including the Captain, died in the attack.
Murrue: No, it can't be...!
Calvina:Another warship, huh. Is it the Federation's?
Yurika: Uh, what are you going to do now?
Murrue: That's the special assault ship, Archangel, which I've been assigned to. Kira, please take me there.
Kira: Understood.
The rest next post. Exceeded the charecter limit, wow. No images, so you'll probably see them both anyway.
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