The Icon of Sin, Gundam Build Diver Re:Rise (and Fighter)/40k AU, Ft Nihilo

Vianca · Jan 30, 2024

Nihilo said:
► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
Oh, huh, guess you found some of Lan-daki's posts about what Galatea can do. Okay, time to correct some misconceptions due to (I assume) translators only being able to do so much unless there's P-Particles jammed into the brains at both ends.

More not knowing on how far she can go, with looking like somebody else.
What are the limits.

All 100% doable. Although I don't really like how Asari look, the head structures look like they should be tentacles, but are actually rigid and remind me of a badly gelled hair. So probably not going to cosplay as them unless it's some of the hypothetical Asari crossbreed looks:

Only within some limits, admittedly. I hear that with sorcerous biomancy more could be done, but it won't happen for a long, loooong time. I got her absolutely perfect and I don't want to mess it up with some sloppy psykery. Besides, I'm more focused on really getting the hang of regular biomancy rn, since it lets me LARP as a budget Volt.

Well, if you go for a Togruto main head shape, add the Twi'lek tails on the back and the Asari back head in between those Twi'lek head tails their connection point to the head and.....
It would fill out the head design a bit more, making it more interesting.
But that's the fusion form for them.
Asari are supposed to have a Eezo sensor organ between the head tentacles, on the back of their head, so think of it as protective covering for said sensor organ.
Just like the Togruto are said to have some sort of sonar in their top horns, while Twi'leks their head tentacles are said to house parts of their brain.

And besides the Jedi & Justicar/Spectre, what about Kerrigan from Starcraft, after she was freed from the Zerg?
And if a Mermaid is possible, is a Naga then also possible?
How about a Drow (Dark Elf)?
Or a Minbari from Babylon 5?
A Female Klingon from Star Trek, perhaps?
Heck, what about those lizard folks from Skyrim?
She doesn't have wings, so that roles out things like Succubea, Dragon-girls and so on.
But she might maybe be able to mimic a Xenomorph(?) Queen from the Alien movie series, same for the alien race from Species.
Perfect jumpscare bait.
But what about the main hero from Horizon Forbidden West?
There are quite a few options, that you can go for, I do wonder if she can create her own dress or body armor, using her resin.

As for the Biomancy, will she also go for Bonesinging?
Or more concentrating on mimic-ing the Terranid their living weapons?
Will see what you do, there.

Best she can do is stick her legs together with resin or make some hoove-like sheathes with the stuff. While she is very flexible, she isn't double-jointed (it was considered and discarded because it was very niche for cosplay and left her looking weird most of the time). The mermaid tail would actually look somewhat fine because I made her skeleton semi-cartilaginous, so the whole thing bends instead of just the knees and ankles.

Pony ballet boots, then, qua style looks.
Hopefully, she has the needed leg strength and flexibility.

Happy to see someone taking an interest in my avatar, though. I put a hell of a lot of work into her. Feel free to send me suggestions for cosplay, I will tag you with the pics if I end up going for it.

It´s the most fun part of her Avatar, which she should dive on.
Let her confuse folks, like how any of those characters can even walk around, thanks to IP rights causing a automated DENIED on such avatar designs, thanks to them not owning those rights and not wanting legal problems.
After all, don´t we have Gundam-girls, as in, girls dressed as a Gundam Unit?
Should include Beam Sabers, right?
Ooo, a lightsaber, how nice. lol.

I know pretty much none of these and I woke up with a bad headache, so I'll put a pin on it. Also poke @Hastar about what all of that means.

Trans-am goes quite fast, the Stargazer it's drive-ring, does something similar, but different.
It propels certain substances in order to go fast, a GN-drive should be very compatible and if you throw in Trans-am, might potentially breach lightspeed.
But a GN-drive after Trans-am, goes into low mode, a GN-drive-Tau, needs to be recharged, so a fusion reactor & two condenser tanks, should help bypassing these problems.
The true fun is the add-on equipement you can then add.

Here the links to give you some useful info, in terms of some fun, I'm sure you two can spot the fun overlap, there.

Voiture Lumiere

The Voiture Lumiere system is an interplanetary propulsion system within Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: STARGAZER, and in other series, variants of it serves as a propulsion system for combat Mobile Suits. Voiture Lumiere translates from French to "Light Vehicle" in English, denoting its use...

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GN Drive

A Gundam Nucleus (GN) Drive (aka solar reactor, solar furnace) is a powerful energy system within Mobile Suit Gundam 00 designed to give a mobile suit a significant advantage in combat. Invented by Celestial Being, the technology was later reverse-engineered by the Corner Family to create the GN...

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GN Drive Tau

A GN Drive Tau (aka GN Drive [Τ], GN T Drive, pseudo-solar reactor, pseudo GN Drive) is an imitation of Celestial Being's GN Drive in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The technical data of the GN Drives are regarded by Celestial Being as one of their most important and valuable secrets. In order to...

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GN Condenser

A GN Condenser (also known as GN Capacitor or GN Particle Tank) is a GN Particles capacitor in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 used to aid in the distribution of energy and fuel for mobile suits and their weapons. A GN Condenser holds onto excess GN Particles for the mobile suit to fuel various functions...

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Trans-Am System

The Trans-Am System (or Trans-Am) is a feature of both the GN Drive and GN Drive Tau that temporarily increases the performance of the equipped mobile suits. The system is featured prominently in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. It also appears in the Gundam Build Fighters series and Gundam Build Divers...

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Trans-Am Burst System

Trans-Am Burst is a system feature of the Twin Drive System that appears in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The system is unique to the 00 Raiser and 00 Raiser Condenser-Type. The system can only be activated by a true Innovator pilot. The Twin Drive System, in conjunction with a stabilized Trans-Am and...

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Mirage Colloid

Mirage Colloid (ミラージュコロイド, Mirājukoroido?) is a particulate gas which is used for a variety of purposes in the Cosmic Era timeline. The particulate gas that made up Mirage Colloid consisted of colloid particles that function as microscopic prisms, and they have the ability to bend different...

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I may try to do that kitbash in GBNO as practice for the black magic I'll need to do with the poor Quad Wing. But then again, it may be better to just practice with a bunch of Quad Wings. We'll see.

For a beginner, the Perfect Strike Blitz with the Duel it's Assault Shroud, might be easier to pull off.
That Assault Shroud is something to keep a eye on, most Gundams could use some extra armor.

Assault Strike by ryu-zero

Who would have thought that a kit bash from Aile Strike and Duel Assault Shroud plus a very good custom painting will result something this awesome!

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Custom Build: 1/100 Perfect Strike Assault Shroud

MODELER: Tabo MODEL TITLE: Perfect Strike Assault Shroud MODIFICATION TYPE: custom details, kit bash, custom color scheme KITS USED: MG 1/100 Aile Strike Ver. RM, MG 1/100 Duel Gundam Assault Shroud, MG 1/100 Sword Strike and Launcher Strike Equipment

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Custom Build: MG 1/100 "Owl" Blitz Gundam

MODELER: 卡洛斯·卡尔 [CROSSKARL] MODEL TITLE: Owl Blitz Gundam MODIFICATION TYPE: custom color scheme, scratch built parts, custom details, custom decals, kit bash KITS USED: MG 1/100 Blitz Gundam, MG 1/100 Strike Gundam + IWSP, 1/100 TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero

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Custom Build: 1/100 Gundam Astray Turn Red

I would suggest looking up Starship Operators, compare that ship to the Archangel & Minerva, from Gundam Seed (Destiny), their hull shapes.
A fun one, right?
That ship has a Wormhole FTL drive.

I do wonder what happend to Battletech/Mechwarrior game setting, in this story.
Still free & on it's own or???

Am hoping some of her builds & plays, will end up having unexpected fusion combinations, especially when you realise what that game system runs on. lol

Warmachine375 · Jan 30, 2024

Winged One said:
Just don't use unlimited power. That never ends well for a psyker.

"Not with that attitude." - some old man named Pal Pa Tine probably

Nihilo · Jan 30, 2024

Winged One said:
Just don't use unlimited power. That never ends well for a psyker.

► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
As it so happens, learning how to turn your nervous system into a lightning gun is an excellent teacher of too much power being a bad thing.

Vianca said:
More not knowing on how far she can go, with looking like somebody else.
What are the limits.

Major changes in build, major changes of facial structure, increasing her height with anything other than heels (she can reduce it by about a foot), mimicking any kind of feathers, extra limbs (such as wings, although this can be somewhat circumvented with any bionics she can strap on without surgery). Just off the top of my head.

Vianca said:
Well, if you go for a Togruto main head shape, add the Twi'lek tails on the back and the Asari back head in between those Twi'lek head tails their connection point to the head and.....
It would fill out the head design a bit more, making it more interesting.
But that's the fusion form for them.
Asari are supposed to have a Eezo sensor organ between the head tentacles, on the back of their head, so think of it as protective covering for said sensor organ.
Just like the Togruto are said to have some sort of sonar in their top horns, while Twi'leks their head tentacles are said to house parts of their brain.

Huh, news to me about the Asari. I would modify them to look more like horns or chitin, but otherwise sure, it could be a fun project.

Vianca said:
what about Kerrigan from Starcraft, after she was freed from the Zerg?

100% doable. Especially once I pick up some telekinetic tricks to really sell it.

Vianca said:
And if a Mermaid is possible, is a Naga then also possible?

Too big, sadly. And it'd be a huge rubber hose more than anything. Mermaid could mainly pass as being one on land and thus being in a wheelchair with the tail not moving.

...Although maybe I could swap avatars with Jpai? I know it's possible to use minis as avatar data, but it may require paying real money to get an extra slot to log them into. @Hastar ?

Vianca said:
How about a Drow (Dark Elf)?
Or a Minbari from Babylon 5?
A Female Klingon from Star Trek, perhaps?
Heck, what about those lizard folks from Skyrim?

In order: Yes (she can shape her ears to a fairly extensive degree), yes (although keeping the hair, the bald look is bad), yes (although I don't like their look, so not gonna), no (can't do the snout).

Vianca said:
But she might maybe be able to mimic a Xenomorph(?) Queen from the Alien movie series, same for the alien race from Species.

Xenomorph is technically doable (except the inner mouth), but it would be really miserable because I'd have to cover up my eyes, nose and ears and wear a huge resin "hat" weighting the back of my head.

No idea about the latter, since trying to google "alien species" isn't going to give me what you mean.

Vianca said:
But what about the main hero from Horizon Forbidden West?
There are quite a few options, that you can go for, I do wonder if she can create her own dress or body armor, using her resin.

That's just a human, so doable.

As for resin... somewhat. It can be hard or rubbery, so with enough futzing around with the exact composition it could mimic leather. Making big plates for mimicing body armor is also doable. All of that said, it is much easier to just buy whatever outfit. The resin is more meant for fake scales and suchlike.

Vianca said:
As for the Biomancy, will she also go for Bonesinging?

I'm nooot sure if I even could? May be locked for anyone not logged as an Eldar. Since by lore they both guard the techniques jealously and it takes centuries of training to learn. Plus, while being called wraithbone, to my awareness it is really not any kind of bone or organic material at all.

That said, I have done some research and there ARE ways with sorcery to conjure stuff. For example, one spell makes a bunch of barbed wire/sinew/vines/whatever-the-sorcerer wants erupt from the ground and tie down a group of victims. I may try to pick up some flavor of hydrokinesis (just, y'know, made slaaneshi by turning it into either h-game slimes or drugs) or thread nonsense. Although the latter is more an idea for a custom discipline that blends biomancy, telekinesis and a few loose bits of psykery (spatial stuff, mainly) in terms of crunch but in fluff it's basically working on threads and fabric on the conceptual level. Stuff like unravelling items, reweaving people, folding the fabric of space at the high end.

But for now I'm just keeping it simple with biomancy. And I have a very loaded curriculum ahead of me, since I also really need to pick up the Daemonology and Excess disciplines just as bare minimum.

Vianca said:
Pony ballet boots, then, qua style looks.
Hopefully, she has the needed leg strength and flexibility.

Done and done. I'm not yet at Cheese's level of in-game physical fitness without cheating with Biomancy, but I'm getting there.

Vianca said:
Let her confuse folks, like how any of those characters can even walk around, thanks to IP rights causing a automated DENIED on such avatar designs, thanks to them not owning those rights and not wanting legal problems.

It's not as bad as some people say online, GBNO has a very forgiving take on legally distinct. So as long as you aren't using something with a complete 1:1 of a trademarked symbol, you're generally fine. Admittedly, I haven't looked TOO deep into this, so I could be somewhat mistaken.

(There's also how japanese media companies LOVE making crossovers, so GBNO probably has perms for a fuck of a lot of IPs)

Vianca said:
Trans-am goes quite fast, the Stargazer it's drive-ring, does something similar, but different.
It propels certain substances in order to go fast, a GN-drive should be very compatible and if you throw in Trans-am, might potentially breach lightspeed.
But a GN-drive after Trans-am, goes into low mode, a GN-drive-Tau, needs to be recharged, so a fusion reactor & two condenser tanks, should help bypassing these problems.

Fair. Although remember that GBNO prevents you from cramming multiple supermodes into your mech. Not sure if it just keeps you from using more than one in any given mission or sortie or if it outright goes "no, lol, this mech don't work".

Vianca said:
Here the links to give you some useful info, in terms of some fun, I'm sure you two can spot the fun overlap, there.

Thanks, I'll read through them later.

Vianca said:
For a beginner, the Perfect Strike Blitz with the Duel it's Assault Shroud, might be easier to pull off.
That Assault Shroud is something to keep a eye on, most Gundams could use some extra armor.

Ditto.

Vianca said:
It´s the most fun part of her Avatar, which she should dive on.

Serotonin.

Winged One · Jan 30, 2024

Nihilo said:
GBNO prevents you from cramming multiple supermodes into your mech

I suppose the munchkinry would get batshit insane if they didn't.

Nihilo · Jan 31, 2024

Winged One said:
I suppose the munchkinry would get batshit insane if they didn't.

► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
Yeah. As funny as insane customs like the Corona Gundam are, they're only really good as boss/raid fights in missions. Otherwise we'd have a cancerous meta of stacking as many vaguely complementary supermodes as possible.

Winged One · Jan 31, 2024

Nihilo said:
► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
Yeah. As funny as insane customs like the Corona Gundam are, they're only really good as boss/raid fights in missions. Otherwise we'd have a cancerous meta of stacking as many vaguely complementary supermodes as possible.

The meta is either cancerous or nonexistent.

NHO · Jan 31, 2024

It appears that GBNO moved to promote fun and casual play for general public instead of general esport competitiveness.

There's Championships, but they are most likely burdened with tighter rules. And Magical Plavsky Particles as field leveller.

Remember, kids: Gunpla is Freedom! Every build is viable! Try hard ghetto is in that server, you may be sectioned there if you think that your fun must come at expense of someone else's fun.

Digressing:
From Soft was totally eaten by Bandai and now works in GBNO mines. Based on general experience people had with RL Armored Core 6.

Vianca · Feb 1, 2024

Nihilo said:
► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
....
Fair. Although remember that GBNO prevents you from cramming multiple supermodes into your mech. Not sure if it just keeps you from using more than one in any given mission or sortie or if it outright goes "no, lol, this mech don't work".

Do note that Astray Red Frame Kai, Astray Turn Delta and the Stargazer, use a long distance point A to B, fast drive system.
Like getting too or from a space battle, in a timely way.
While mobile suits like the Strike Freedom, use a stand on point A, all over it, using point A as a dancing platform, to evade enemy shots.

Responding faster to SOS calls, should be allowed, right?
It's also perfect for a sniper unit.
Especially when combined with a GN-drive of some sort.
And since the later can also be found on starships...

edit:
If you want to really let the Strike Freedom, dance, fuse it with 00 Raiser.

Nihilo · Feb 1, 2024

Vianca said:
Responding faster to SOS calls, should be allowed, right?

► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
There are no bans on speed that I know of, and responding to SOS calls is very much encouraged. So yea.

Vianca said:
It's also perfect for a sniper unit.

I'm a bit tepid on sniper builds, tbh. It feels nice to find a good sniping spot and start dooking everything that dares show its head (or cockpit here, I guess), but if I wanted a point click adventure I'd play on my computer instead of on FullDive.

Melee really shines when you can control your body/mech as you would IRL.

Hastar · Feb 1, 2024

Nihilo said:
I know pretty much none of these and I woke up with a bad headache, so I'll put a pin on it. Also poke @Hastar about what all of that means.

I may try to do that kitbash in GBNO as practice for the black magic I'll need to do with the poor Quad Wing. But then again, it may be better to just practice with a bunch of Quad Wings. We'll see.

mh?

Vianca said:
As for a fun Mobile Suit Kitbash, Astray, Astraea/Exia, G-Self, for the basis, since they share a form.
That should thus allow a fusion powered GN-drive-Tau with two condenser tanks and a Stargazer drive ring or two.
And with Red Frame it's Powered Shoulders & Mars Jacket..., it might even get close to a certain other shape.

ohno

Okay, so. Gonna show my hand here, but I'm not super versed in any of these shows. I did watch the OG Seed series, and while I can't say I really get the love, or hate, for the protagonist. the machines are... fun? But anything that's not main series in that setting is just beyond me.

Age never really interested me, but the way it was really easy to combine parts of the kits with other figurines was hilarious.

Madoka Titus IS real and she WILL hurt you.

00 I watched a few episodes, but it came out before I really got into the hobby.

Winged One said:
Just don't use unlimited power. That never ends well for a psyker.

pff, not with that attitude! It'll be fine, look at Frank!

Nihilo said:
...Although maybe I could swap avatars with Jpai? I know it's possible to use minis as avatar data, but it may require paying real money to get an extra slot to log them into. @Hastar ?

Eeeeh, using your minis as avatar's wonky. Usually it needs to be an HQ unit, and for some reason if you've used the mini as a unit a bunch before setting it as an avatar, things apparently get weird?

Greg wasn't super forthcomming on what that meant.

Nihilo said:
(There's also how japanese media companies LOVE making crossovers, so GBNO probably has perms for a fuck of a lot of IPs)

It does. It really, really does...

Nihilo said:
It's not as bad as some people say online, GBNO has a very forgiving take on legally distinct. So as long as you aren't using something with a complete 1:1 of a trademarked symbol, you're generally fine. Admittedly, I haven't looked TOO deep into this, so I could be somewhat mistaken.

Nah, LEGALLY DISTINCT X and Y is generally fine... Except Warframe stuff.

Long story short, a guy set out to quite literally remake warframe in GBNO. It led to a lawsuit between Bandai and DE, with him caught in the crossfire. It was settled out of court fairly quickly, and afterwards the guy that started the whole mess kinda vanished. But not before telling people to not blow a gasket and be reasonable.

Anyhow, since then, you usually get a very strongly worded chat with one of the GM's aides if you're rocking something that looks like anything from Warframe. People have been banned, yes.

Nihilo said:
Fair. Although remember that GBNO prevents you from cramming multiple supermodes into your mech. Not sure if it just keeps you from using more than one in any given mission or sortie or if it outright goes "no, lol, this mech don't work".

Winged One said:
I suppose the munchkinry would get batshit insane if they didn't.

Nihilo said:
► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
Yeah. As funny as insane customs like the Corona Gundam are, they're only really good as boss/raid fights in missions. Otherwise we'd have a cancerous meta of stacking as many vaguely complementary supermodes as possible.

Okay, so- This is a weird topic.

No, you can in fact, have multiple super modes. Except you can't stack them. Think of it like Goku, he can't use SS1 and Kaiohken at the same time (I'm pretty sure), or luffy and his gears.

Each time you activate a super mode, an invisible energy bar that's shared by all of them starts going down. And different Super Modes deplete it at a different pace.

Because if you activate the NT-D system at the same time you're doing Transarms. You're no longer using either of them, you're using something different, which them become your new super mode. It's generally considered a mark of a particularly good builder to be able to mash two supers into something new.

NHO said:
It appears that GBNO moved to promote fun and casual play for general public instead of general esport competitiveness.

There's Championships, but they are most likely burdened with tighter rules. And Magical Plavsky Particles as field leveller.

Remember, kids: Gunpla is Freedom! Every build is viable! Try hard ghetto is in that server, you may be sectioned there if you think that your fun must come at expense of someone else's fun.

It's a pretty casual game, yeah. But if you're going into the higher ranks, shit gets wild. That meme about the wizard war and testicular torsion? Yeah, that's basically what's going on out there. I saw a man with a Windmill Gundam turn a Phenex into fucking dust by blowing wind at it. Right before another dude, in a z'gok, Chiaotsu'd him.

As for rules in the Championships?

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to inform you of the rules:

There's almost none, LMAO.

no, seriously. The only rule is that your kit can't be a Perfect Grade. MG, RG, or HG, is fine. But no PG.

Most people use HG kits since they're a lot easier to get, every single SM ever has a HG kit, and are way cheaper than any of the other grades.

Winged One said:
The meta is either cancerous or nonexistent.

Meta's weird. Virtually any suit can beat the other guy's suit. The Reigning champ's biggest rival uses a basic bitch grunt suit with barely any flash to it, not even a super mode, while the champ uses a tricked out AGE Gundam.

And he's almost gotten the champ multiple times.

Performance comes from good building technique. The better you are at building, the better your suit. Mr. Ral's Gouf is kinda legendary for being able to take a hit from a Satelite Canon and not giving a damn, because of how good it's built.

And the simpler your suit, the easier it is to just have it be a monster stat-wise.

Beyond that, if you're a bad pilot, then you'll just plain suck. That's about it.

Plenty of forces are dedicated to helping people learn how to pilot good though, so if you're willing to put in the effort, you'll get there with their help.

And if you're good at one, but not the other? It's fine, you can team up with a guy that's good at what you're bad at and use a dual-cockpit setup to fight as a team like you're straight out of Gurren Lagaan.

Nihilo · Feb 1, 2024

Hastar said:
Anyhow, since then, you usually get a very strongly worded chat with one of the GM's aides if you're rocking something that looks like anything from Warframe. People have been banned, yes.

► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
Nooooo. My delicious Grineer aesthetic.

Pls tell me it's only the warframes themselves. There's so many cool armor and weapon designs in that setting that I want to loot. I thought that, at long last, I could have Grineer armor that wouldn't suck smegma encrusted donkey dick like what they gave to the Drifter.

(Also, uh, Lamu's sword is shamelessly patterned after the WF Ether Sword and I don't want to get in trouble)

Thine Spree · Feb 1, 2024

On the talk of supermodes and such, IBO gundam suits (And the Eins thanks to plot. (watch the show for that its great.)) have one of the best not!supermodes out there built in, just turning off the limiters and going fucking ham on someone.

Vianca · Feb 1, 2024

Nihilo said:
► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
.....
I'm a bit tepid on sniper builds, tbh. It feels nice to find a good sniping spot and start dooking everything that dares show its head (or cockpit here, I guess), but if I wanted a point click adventure I'd play on my computer instead of on FullDive.

Melee really shines when you can control your body/mech as you would IRL.

Well, 00 does have a sniper that can snipe into orbit.
It just needs some of Wing Zero it's umph, to really be effective on that range.
Sometimes you need to have some range, like say preventing a Colony Drop or stopping a Destroy Gundam from wrecking a city.
I think that you are forgetting one thing that is a know fact of space and that is that space is big, you thus will want some long range ability, in order to even have a change to close in.

The GN Armor of Types D & E, both seem to be incomplete.
The Meteor unit from Seed, can snipe & slash, on the other hand, it's bigger.
There is also the ZGMF-X11A Regenerate, it's backpack is the most fun part, especially if you add some systems from the GAT-X252 Forbidden.
Bonus if you mount it on the Freedom or Strike Freedom, that ZGMF-YX21R Proto-Saviour has a problem, it's back guns can only move in a straight forwards line, so how can it use them?
The Freedom can atleast point them to the sides and thus deploy them from rest mode.
And if the Regenerate it's shields can be modified with both Forbidden & Meteor parts....

GN-002 Gundam Dynames

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GAT-X103 Buster Gundam

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GN-002+GNR-001D GN Armor Type-D

The GN-002+GNR-001D GN Armor Type-D (aka GN Armor) is the combined form of the GN-002 Gundam Dynames and the GNR-001D GN Arms Type-D. It is piloted by Lockon Stratos. In preparation for the looming decisive battles against the UN Forces, the Celestial Being deployed the enhancement and support...

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GN-001+GNR-001E GN Armor Type-E

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XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero

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METEOR

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So yeah, sniping is a thing in Gundam, but normally, you're looking at units like the Gundam X or Double X, massive power with quite a range.
Wing Zero is such a unit, the Dynames seems more normal, compared to them, yet can function as a anti-orbital canon, so not normal, either.
Just think what happens, when you combine the Dynames with Deathscythe Hell & the Blitz?
Just think, sniping with full stealth, that would cause quite a havoc, right?
Even if it's used to allow another unit, to close the distance...

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Have Wing, Seed & 00, seen most of the others.
Only thing really interesting in AGE, is the Age Builder & the Diva (should be able to fit two Izumo & one Archangel, mobile suit bays, for a total of twenty-four mobile suits).
I find Iron Blooded Orphans better, in the long run, AGE did manage to show the size of such a space colony, quite well, in the first twenty episodes.

As for Warhammer, is it Warhammer or Warhammer 40k?
Same company, you know.
So plenty of options to consider, in terms of setting.
Including logging into the wrong Warhammer world setting, lol.
Which would also be funny, in a way.

Can Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha be pulled off, in any way?
Because that could be fun.
If only for the reactions.
Mmm, a Gundam build that replicates the White Devil, her looks, could be very cool, I think.

Winged One · Feb 1, 2024

Nihilo said:
► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
Nooooo. My delicious Grineer aesthetic.

Pls tell me it's only the warframes themselves. There's so many cool armor and weapon designs in that setting that I want to loot. I thought that, at long last, I could have Grineer armor that wouldn't suck smegma encrusted donkey dick like what they gave to the Drifter.

(Also, uh, Lamu's sword is shamelessly patterned after the WF Ether Sword and I don't want to get in trouble)

Wait, why are you wanting to have your kit look like literal space garbage? Or like someone misunderstood why potatoes are so coveted?

Vianca said:
Mmm, a Gundam build that replicates the White Devil, could be very cool, I think.

The RX-78-2?

Seriously though, Demon Cannon Girl Lyrical Nanoha is already a Gundam in human form.

Vianca · Feb 1, 2024

Winged One said:
Seriously though, Demon Cannon Girl Lyrical Nanoha is already a Gundam in human form.

For the spit-takes, when the other players notice who is on the field.
The one bullshit, they won't call out for the bullshit.
They rather start running. 😇 😆😉

Nihilo · Feb 1, 2024

Winged One said:
Wait, why are you wanting to have your kit look like literal space garbage? Or like someone misunderstood why potatoes are so coveted?

► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
It would be special occasions stuff outside of weapons (grattler, kohm, ignis, my beloveds). I like the Grineer brutalist bulbous aesthetic, but it's better in small doses.

Thine Spree said:
have one of the best not!supermodes out there built in, just turning off the limiters and going fucking ham on someone.

Probably not possible to implement outside those kits, since the stats are mainly from how well built a kit is. Unless I decided to keep my MS locked at half strength 90% of the time for no purpose other than as a "bitch, you thought" in the back pocket, since it isn't like fuel or G-forces are a concern in GBNO. And I'm not building something so fast it is legitimately hard to control at full output.

Vianca said:
Well, 00 does have a sniper that can snipe into orbit.
It just needs some of Wing Zero it's umph, to really be effective on that range.
Sometimes you need to have some range, like say preventing a Colony Drop or stopping a Destroy Gundam from wrecking a city.
I think that you are forgetting one thing that is a know fact of space and that is that space is big, you thus will want some long range ability, in order to even have a change to close in.

Yeah, that's what all the drones I'm packing into the Sarcophagus are for. 24 funnels, 4 super-funnels (which are running super particle cannons so I'm pretty sure they'll work for long range), then I'll see if I can also staple on some daemon engine or other as an extra fuck you. I'm also going to keep the wrist mounted beam rifles, the chest vulcans and probably adding some head vulcans.

But if something needs outright sniping in MS and spaceship terms, then it's time to call in a teammate. Because everyone has niches and mine won't be extreme long range.

At the end of the day, what I want to do is dogfight and get in melee. So I will build for that and, if doing content that requires sniper support, team up with someone who can provide. It's an MMO, part of the point is getting people to play together and cover for each other.

Vianca said:
As for Warhammer, is it Warhammer or Warhammer 40k?

Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40k, Age of Sigmar. All of GW's shit is in the game, from what I understand. 40k is the most popular, though.

Vianca said:
Including logging into the wrong Warhammer world setting, lol.
Which would also be funny, in a way.

Don't think that really happens. GBNO is largely open world, with people building whatever in the expanses. So there may be some warhammer themed stuff around, such as the hive city they built in the RPer heaven server, but there's no such thing as "logging into the wrong setting". Closest you get is going into a Fantasy/AoS mission or campaign with 40k shit or viceversa.

Vianca said:
Can Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha be pulled off, in any way?

Kinda? Not really familiar with it, but I'm sure pyromancy and photokinesis have some really nice death beams. Although being able to use psykery depends on what's enabled or banned in the settings of any given mission or area.

Winged One · Feb 1, 2024

Nihilo said:
Unless I decided to keep my MS locked at half strength 90% of the time for no purpose other than as a "bitch, you thought" in the back pocket,

View: https://youtu.be/fe9Ws25I6P8?si=AHxF2Rj9ccWTqCey&t=22 (0:22 if the timestamp didn't go through)

Warmachine375 · Feb 1, 2024

Vianca said:
Well, 00 does have a sniper that can snipe into orbit.

Oh yeah, the Super Substratospheric Altitude Gun.

A top-secret huge beam weapon of the Celestial Being has a massive range, capable of sniping targets in satellite orbit from the ground.

Although Dynames needed Kyrios' tail unit to ensure it has a steady ground from the intense recoil and it takes 20 seconds per shot.

It was used by Neil Dylandy (the first Lockon Stratos) to snipe off the two empty blocks of the detached part of the Human Reform League Orbital Elevator so that Allelujah and Sergei Smirnov push the central block that has all the civilians inside to safety from Earth's orbit with Kyrios and Tieren Space Type.

A small reenactment of the Axis Push by Nu Gundam, Jegans and Geara Dogas from Char's Counterattack.

Nihilo · Feb 1, 2024

Warmachine375 said:
of the Celestial Being

► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
Only just now bothered to google them and realized that they're an organization instead of actual celestial being. In my defense, I was told about a mecha anime where there is an alien machine-god who's running social experiments and resetting reality every time humans prove themselves hateful monkeys who can't tolerate anything even slightly different.

Warmachine375 · Feb 1, 2024

Nihilo said:
a mecha anime where there is an alien machine-god who's running social experiments and resetting reality every time humans prove themselves hateful monkeys who can't tolerate anything even slightly different.

That was Cross Ange, made by the director of Gundam SEED and the main antagonist of that show who keep resetting reality after reality every time he's disappointed and mad is named Embryo.

shinkiro · Feb 1, 2024

Dumb patch notes:

-demonbane no longer causes a server crash upon being scanned.

-instituted upper size limit for mecha, because winning via stomping on the whole ass galaxy is cringe.

NHO · Feb 2, 2024

Warmachine375 said:
Dynames needed Kyrios' tail unit

I kinda wish there were more of Tail Unit in season 1 of Gundam 00.
Tail Unit is completely mundane and build with normal technologies of the setting, not super-secret gundam tech.
It carries missile and bomb payload and can be completely discarded after depleting said payload.
And it can be attached to other Gundams beyond Kyrios

If they showed more modularity/interoperability of Gen3 Gundams... Like Exia shooting people with Vurtue's GN Bazooka or Kyrios using his shield and one of Exia's swords... Little things like that to demonstrate those mobile suits aren't just hand-crafted one-offs with no interchangeable part.

Vianca · Feb 2, 2024

Warmachine375 said:
Oh yeah, the Super Substratospheric Altitude Gun.

A top-secret huge beam weapon of the Celestial Being has a massive range, capable of sniping targets in satellite orbit from the ground.

Although Dynames needed Kyrios' tail unit to ensure it has a steady ground from the intense recoil and it takes 20 seconds per shot.

Pretty sure that tail unit was used as a ammo storage for that gun, as well.
I wonder how many condenser blocks they filled it with.
Unless the missiles where for his close-in defence, since he would be a sitting duck, that is.

Warmachine375 · Feb 2, 2024

Vianca said:
Unless the missiles where for his close-in defence, since he would be a sitting duck, that is.

The latter.

Despite being a sniper, Neil Dylandy is a really good melee fighter with Dynames' beam saber when he wants to be such as fending off Graham Aker at Azadistan and later in space, he almost defeated Ali-al Saachez outright if it weren't for Daryl Dodge, a Flag pilot/wingman of Graham, got in the way.

Hastar · Feb 2, 2024

Nihilo said:
I thought that, at long last, I could have Grineer armor that wouldn't suck smegma encrusted donkey dick like what they gave to the Drifter.

But then it wouldn't be grineer armour!

Nihilo said:
(Also, uh, Lamu's sword is shamelessly patterned after the WF Ether Sword and I don't want to get in trouble)

You're mostly fine here. The sword looks generic enough.

Basically, its anything "iconic" thats banned. Things that are very oobviously from Warframe, like the warframes, the orokin gunz or some of the other characters, like everyone favourite councillor.

Vianca said:
As for Warhammer, is it Warhammer or Warhammer 40k?

Nihilo said:
Closest you get is going into a Fantasy/AoS mission or campaign with 40k shit or viceversa.

like Ni said. Since GW is part of Bandai, they all use the same plastic. which means you can play all of them in GBNO... except the LotR ones. Though they are still good for kitbashing.

40k's the biggest group by far, but AoS and Fantasy are still kicking about-

In fact, im pretty sure someone did the entire DoW2 campaign as a squad of bretonian knights?

(for context. Somone ported the raw DoW2 OG campaign. The story doesn't change at all, everyone acts like your guys are marines even if you're playing DEldars. But your units work like they should.)

Vianca said:
Can Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha be pulled off, in any way?

oh yeah. Theres like, tons of her running about.

Some are done is a mech-musume type (girl with mechanical parts/mech-like armor), others are done using actual mechs, usually the Nobel Gundam.

The Icon of Sin, Gundam Build Diver Re:Rise (and Fighter)/40k AU, Ft Nihilo

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