mechanimorph wrote:Along came the Masters Sourcebook Holy crap, more O.C.Cs
This was one of my main concerns when reading about the 'Marines' being the REF's ground forces in the
Shadow Chronicles RPG as I knew it was going to needlessly multiply things. All that was needed was to stat out the GMP base OCC (since the GMP is most certainly a full-fledged Military Service in the series), and add MOS's to the 'REF' templates, exchanging 'Marine' for Army etc.
I don't know who's idea to have the unseen Southern Cross mecha be turned into hydrogen powered Power Armour, but dammit, the artwork doesn't even match the concept.
That was Tommy Yune's doing. The Powered Armour of the Southern Cross should only have been the Fenris (Air Cavalry), Manticore (Space-version based on the Fenris) and Kraken (Deep Submergence). I provided conclusive proof, repeatedly, of the Triton being a full-sized mecha FROM the Tv series. I also showed that the size comparison of the Unicorn in the
Southern Cross colouring book shows it to be co-equal with the Gen II Soldier Bioroid (Bioroid Scout). As it was, there was no reason to make the Basilisk a Powered Armour as they would simply have adapted the Fenris to desert conditions. Ultimately, Gideon was told to do what Tommy Yune said, despite evidence to the contrary (which is typical of Tommy).
The Robotech web site has the Ajax veritech literally having a helicopter mode, so I guess there was little choice in this matter but to model it accordingly. Did anyone bother to check the line-art? Ain't no way those are helicopter blades and the housing at the centre doesn't even look like it allows the 'blades' to rotate 360 degrees.
No, its directly from the lineart. The Ajax has 3 distinct modes: Fighter, Helicopter & Battloid. Now, I imagine the Helicopter mode gets a good deal of boost from the jet engines (think transformable
Airwolf). Or it could be, as I believe CavScout suggested, its a 'hovercopter' (as per dialogue) and it uses contra-grav technology and the blades are more 'decorative' than functional.
the liberal slathering of SLMH across the board
That, again, was Tommy Yune's doing and is counter-intuitive to the whole nature of
Robotech as well as violates numerous pieces of dialogue (cf - Monster crewman stating the reflex furnace was powered up in
Force of Arms & Spartas mechanic referring to the Conversion Mode Proto-Generator in
Mind Games). I think Jefffar and others are right, SLMH is just a refined product of The Flower of Life (so its Protoculture).
Oh and the “Poor Funding” excuse pops it's ugly head into this book at the start the Battloid descriptions.
Thats because Tommy doesn't understand the radical difference in battlefield doctrine between the Battloids & Destroids. The former are Infantry Support weapons (of a type) that use their excellent mobility (jump jets), relative high ground speed and human form to negotiate terrain most Destroids couldn't even begin to attempt. Its also just another way for Tommy and company to say "
Southern Cross sucks".
What do you readers want?
I want corrections for all the major and minor goofs in the
Southern Cross RPG book such as the Sylphide being too slow, minimal (at best) improvement in armour and having an incorrect weapons loadout.
I want something that doesn't feel disconnected. I know its mostly HG's fault, but I swear to God, reading the books makes me think I'm playing
SDF: Macross,
SDC: Southern Cross and
Genesis Climber Mospeada and NOT
Robotech. The new game suffers from the same thing as the new comics: its still being treated as 3 separate entities that somehow share only 1 or 2 common factors.