08th MS Team first episode released during Wing and before Gundam X. The last episode was released 2 years after Gundam X and a year after Endless Waltz. No wondee the animation was so good, it took them 3 years to animate a 12 episode series.
The dumbest mobile armor ever made, your telling me a lot of people died making this and its got trash defenses that any beam attack could disable it, and its only redeeming factor is its got a bigger beam, at that point just use nukes your telling me those scientist could bend their morals to taboo methods like enslaving their own people when they could have just made a multiple nukes, at least other mobile armors made sense since they were designed for newtypes and other roles, this one just flies and its very huge making it a big flying object and all it can do is fire one huge beam per minutes it takes to recharge and by that time a single squad of long beam rifle wielding GM snipers could disable it since its not impervious to beams itself, again why go through all that effort in essentially breaking the antarctic treaty when you could have just launched a nuke at that point, man was stressing himself out to death when he could have just developed more nukes, especially if he is already going rogue from Zeon
Yeah, it's stupid. That's literally the entire point. It's a Wunderwaffe, just like real life superweapons like the Maus that accomplished nothing while the side with more sensible, practical designs won the war.
Ackchyually, this is a stage 2 test using the new weapon and propulsion system. The whole reason the 08th MS team was able to set a trap was because they found the testing grounds for it. The final weapon, Apsaras III, would be anti-air, anti-ms, point defense, and long range nuke all rolled into one. If the designer/pilot wasn't literally off his meds and Zeon wasn't entirely pushed off of Earth, a dozen of those could've subdued the planet.
@@jinsetayinsei4146 well judging by the second test it's clearly still useless that doesn't exactly solve the problem of it not being impervious to beam attacks, so even if they managed to make more of it, it would still be trashed because even ground GM's were slowly becoming beam equipped, and GM sniper customs were becoming popular and more readily available while being smaller to hit and having relatively good armor, also I think you under estimate the federation, they literally have monopoly over luna titanium they could just make their own mobile armor to rival the Apsalas and to some degree they kinda did with the Pegasus class ship which is made of said moon titanium and runs on a new propulsion system called minovsky particle flight system, the Apsalas is literally a downgrade when the federation can just make multiple Pegasus classes or better yet make multiple RX-78's made from said luna titanium to hunt down these Apsalas wonder weapons of zeon, and to some degree they kinda did as well since they keep pumping stories and sources for multiple gundams in different fronts throughout the one year war, to shelf out a shoddy mobile armor that even the big zam would laugh at is utterly meaningless and dumb, there is literally no excuse, even if it was a sane zeon newtype pilot in that MA it would have served zero purpose, literally even the Val varo is better than the Apsalas and its pilot only had one arm, why not make an army of that instead?
God the 08th MS team was animated so well…honestly doesn’t get the credit it deserves!
08th MS Team first episode released during Wing and before Gundam X. The last episode was released 2 years after Gundam X and a year after Endless Waltz. No wondee the animation was so good, it took them 3 years to animate a 12 episode series.
It's like a Zaku Meatball.
inflation zaku.
A couple is fighting
Its basically a fat and crippled zaku
Soooo fat that zeon has abandoned the idea of another one.
Indeed 😂.
Some crazy machine.
The Zaku Piggy Bank
do you have the scene before this with apsaras where the main character save mikael?
Turtle zaku
The dumbest mobile armor ever made, your telling me a lot of people died making this and its got trash defenses that any beam attack could disable it, and its only redeeming factor is its got a bigger beam, at that point just use nukes your telling me those scientist could bend their morals to taboo methods like enslaving their own people when they could have just made a multiple nukes, at least other mobile armors made sense since they were designed for newtypes and other roles, this one just flies and its very huge making it a big flying object and all it can do is fire one huge beam per minutes it takes to recharge and by that time a single squad of long beam rifle wielding GM snipers could disable it since its not impervious to beams itself, again why go through all that effort in essentially breaking the antarctic treaty when you could have just launched a nuke at that point, man was stressing himself out to death when he could have just developed more nukes, especially if he is already going rogue from Zeon
Yeah, it's stupid. That's literally the entire point. It's a Wunderwaffe, just like real life superweapons like the Maus that accomplished nothing while the side with more sensible, practical designs won the war.
I can assure Mein-Gihren. This chonky MA will strike Jaburo and win us the war.
Also lore wise, nuke was banned due to Antartica treaty.
@@Duothimiryeah.
Ackchyually, this is a stage 2 test using the new weapon and propulsion system. The whole reason the 08th MS team was able to set a trap was because they found the testing grounds for it. The final weapon, Apsaras III, would be anti-air, anti-ms, point defense, and long range nuke all rolled into one. If the designer/pilot wasn't literally off his meds and Zeon wasn't entirely pushed off of Earth, a dozen of those could've subdued the planet.
@@jinsetayinsei4146 well judging by the second test it's clearly still useless that doesn't exactly solve the problem of it not being impervious to beam attacks, so even if they managed to make more of it, it would still be trashed because even ground GM's were slowly becoming beam equipped, and GM sniper customs were becoming popular and more readily available while being smaller to hit and having relatively good armor, also I think you under estimate the federation, they literally have monopoly over luna titanium they could just make their own mobile armor to rival the Apsalas and to some degree they kinda did with the Pegasus class ship which is made of said moon titanium and runs on a new propulsion system called minovsky particle flight system, the Apsalas is literally a downgrade when the federation can just make multiple Pegasus classes or better yet make multiple RX-78's made from said luna titanium to hunt down these Apsalas wonder weapons of zeon, and to some degree they kinda did as well since they keep pumping stories and sources for multiple gundams in different fronts throughout the one year war, to shelf out a shoddy mobile armor that even the big zam would laugh at is utterly meaningless and dumb, there is literally no excuse, even if it was a sane zeon newtype pilot in that MA it would have served zero purpose, literally even the Val varo is better than the Apsalas and its pilot only had one arm, why not make an army of that instead?