Choose your mecha...You are a full sized male Zentraedi...

[Chris0013]

As a low ranking Zentraedi officer you have the option of choosing which of the 2 you want to lead troops into combat with.

Which do you use and why?

Me....Nousjadeul-Ger / male power armor. Not as heavily armed but better flexibility due to flight capabilities.

[Alrik Vas]

The officer's pod is more heavily armed, has better mobility in a fight and can have a flight system attached. In space, where Zentradi do a lot of their fighting, it isn't even a contest.

Though i think the MPA looks pretty neat.

[ArmySGT.]

I chose Glaug. It is really nice to be able to scratch your nose and have a drink.

[Alpha 11]

Male power armor for me.

[taalismn]

Glaug...sheer firepower, plus the booster upgrade. It's armed like a Soviet-era warship with more weapons than the pilot knows what to do with.
Power armor's fine, but the flight capabilities still make it a sitting duck compared to faster mecha, and you'd need to grab lots of extra hand weapons to match the firepower of a Glaug.

[Seto Kaiba]

As a low ranking Zentraedi officer you have the option of choosing which of the 2 you want to lead troops into combat with.

Which do you use and why?

Being that I run my games in the Macross universe(s) rather than Robotech, the specs for both are different, but my choice would definitely be the Nousjadeul-Ger battle suit. The Roiquonmi Glaug's a rare unit, and will only get more so in time with its factory satellite out of commission for the last 380,000 years or so. If it gets thrashed, you're out of luck. On the other hand, the Nousjadeul-Ger's still in mass production and has more responsive controls, greater physical agility, very similar flight performance, a wider array of armaments, and comparable durability and reliability. The DYRLverse's model gets the added benefit of a cybernetic secondary control system too.

Nousjadeul-Ger all the way, man... it's the choice of the Zentradi elite troops for a reason.

[Protoculture]

Actually, depends. If it were up to me, I'd choose the DYRL version of Nousjadeul Ger.

[Alrik Vas]

Yeah, but that's if we're talking macross, not robotech. I wet with the RPG versions for comparison.

[rem1093]

I go with the Nousjadeul-Ger, it has better versatility then the Glaug. And as for its weapons load out, there is nothing saying that you can't use the other hand weapons with it. Or even carry just one.

[Seto Kaiba]

And as for its weapons load out, there is nothing saying that you can't use the other hand weapons with it. Or even carry just one.

Yep! The OSM coverage of the Nousjadeul-Ger not only indicates that it's compatible with a variety of hand-held weaponry, it's even got a dedicated storage pack on its right hip for carrying reloads.

[Seto Kaiba]

If we're going Macross, the refitted Queadlunn Rau's they use in Macross Frontier loaded with Reflex/Reaction warhead on the shoulder cannon.

Er... the mecha in question isn't a refitted Queadluun-Rau. The Queadluun-Rhea is an entirely human-made design... an enhanced "reproduction" of the Queadluun-Rau built by General Galaxy to replace the UN Forces dwindling inventory of captured Queadluun-Rau battle suits. Its enhancements improve pretty much every system, often with tech from VF development, but a lot of them focus on improving survivability... like changing the cockpit style from the battle suit style to something more like a Regult, with the pilot entirely in the chest block.

For old style Macross, the Glaug. Or the transforming Glaug.

Not sure the VBP-1/VA-110 Variable Glaug counts as "old style"... it's from 2001, after all. Nice unit tho... especially the drone conversion.