Gundam Explained: The One Year War part 3 - Soldiers of Sorrow 

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"War is hell, buy our toys!"

It's the Tex talks battletech of Gundam and I'm all for it

"Soon the encounters will be in space..." he said it! He said the line!

The original series and the White Base team are really strange when you put it in realistic military terms. They are a civilian militia fleshed out with a few ROTC-type cadet officers, armed with the most cutting edge weaponry available, and tossed into (& emerging victorious) against enemy forces again and again until their very appearance on the battlefield becomes a nightmare for the opposing side. Imagine a movie about a bunch of Civil Air Patrol weekend kids lucking into experimental stealth fighters and RUNNING an carrier in the middle of WW3, then slowly turning into Maverick by the end of the movie. That's about the right vibe for Gundam.

Fun fact: the American voice actor that played Ramba Ral, also played Norris Packard in 08th MS Team

>Chilling Watching a Gihren's Greed Earth Federation Hard Mode Playthrough >Char Aznable Gets Shot down while the Earth Federation is sending a BUNCH of Ships to Break Zeon's Planetary encirclement of Earth >The EFF Just built the Guntank and Guncannon and Pegasus Class ships in This Timeline no RX78 Yet but they're working on it. >At least 3 Guntanks in existence in That timeline >Catches This right when it goes live. >Sweet As a great Turtle once said there no conincidences or accidents.

GM is why I loved UC timeline cuz it showed us the fundamental difference in tactical thinking between EFSF and Zeon during the OYW. While Zeon MS carries weapons that are capable of killing capital ships for their role, EFSF uses the GM specifically for Anit-MS actions only (Leaving the heavier enemy for the battleships to deal with), thus the standard GM isn't required to carry heavier weapons, and can be produced at minimal cost, giving the EFSF the ability to outnumber Zeon MS numbers by 10:1 by the end of the war. Edit: I thought it was pretty clear that Ramba Ral in Origin is a Zeon loyalist

I was drinking an energy drink when you made that Mia Kalifa comment. It went up my nose so thanks

i wasn't expecting the "Le Ding," but i appreciate it.

Something everyone seems to ignore from the one year war that are far more important then people seem to realize: Everyone in universe and in real life use half of humanity as the casualties for both the opening month of the war and the war as a whole, meaning the last 11 months of the war was only a rounding error compared to the losses taken from Operation British and the retaliatory strikes on Zeon colonies for it.

7:06 this ties back into the WWII inspiration that the Universal Century timeline gradually came to adopt: Zeon's insistence on specialized prototypes and their maintenance issues echos that of German tank and airplane development in WWII that saw many machines produced that, while impressive from a technical standpoint, could never be built in enough numbers to be a strategic factor, such as the Tiger Tank or the Me-262 Jet Fighter. This meant that Germany had to rely on the 1930's-vintage Panzer IV tank and Bf-109 fighter plane until the end of the war, adapting these chassis to their very limit and fielding increasingly desperate designs that used them as a basis, much like the Zaku 1's being deploy as late as A Baoa Qu as there simply weren't enough "new" suits to go around. Meanwhile, the GM can be compared to the US Sherman Tank, a mid-range design with a good gun that, while maybe not any great shakes unit-for-unit compared to German tanks, could be built in large numbers, was easily adapted and upgraded (including to the "Easy 8" model made famous as "Fury") and was easy to repair or replace if it were damaged.

great video but I don't get how you came to the conclusion that Ramba Ral is Zabi loyalist in the origin. In the origin the Zabis were purging the Rals, he also refused to participate in operation british and got demoted.

On a side note one of my favorites of the OYW gundams is the palerider. It really screams, "It's the assassin gundam"

I’ve have been so patiently waiting for this! So pumped can’t wait to see this tomorrow

Dude, as an lifelong softcore fan of the gundam franchise, this series of videos is incredible. Amazing job

great videos man can not wait for Zeta and Double Zeta

Origins covered the plot holes of the original series that Tomino made after Yasuhiko was hospitalized during the production of the original 1979 version. Plus Ramba wasn't a zabi loyalist as in both the manga and ova he refused to partake in Operation British of installing the poison gas that it got him demoted. Also Ramba was smart enough to not be like his father in using the Deikun kids as political pawns under the Federation to start a coup as both the Kycillia and Gihren organizations are spying on them in exile. Both the Original 1979 and origins version had Ramba Ral trying to score points with the Zabis for the sake of his wife and troops having a better status in society. In one Gihren's Greed Scenario, Char taking charge as Casval allow Ramba and his unit to defect.

It's funny that you mentioned how Zeon made a bunch of specialized mobile suits that went nowhere. Zeon realized this and tried to fix their problem by introducing the United Maintenance Plan. The plan was to use standardized parts to upgrade their frontline machines, i.e., turning the Zaku II into the Zaku Kai, the Rick Dom into the Rick Dom II, the Gouf into the Gouf Custom, etc. But by then, it was already too late, and the Zeeks were already back in space.

Absolute props to you, and your well spoken thorough explaination of the OYW. I can't wait to see the conclusion and more from you.

The Zock has a Maser gun? Who did they design this suit to fight, Godzilla?

In that day this guy leaves Zeon behind 😂 49:53 he is truly traumatized

as soon as you said you'd review Office Lady Haman Sama I subscribed

I absolutely love these videos bro! Thank you so much for all the effort!

1:20:09 With all of the New Stuff coming out and all of the New One Year War Side stories I wonder what a Modern Day Gihren's Greed Map would look like... Though I half expect the only way it could 'come back' is probably to Give it a Cosmic Era sized Tumor on it and say "You Can play a Blue Cosmos V.S. ZAFT V.S. ORB Union" World Scenario this time

Thank you so much on making these videos of my favorite anime series it helps out so much on detail when you get too caught up in the drama of what's going on that you missed something that was important

I don't see how you say Ramba is different in origins because he really isn't. He's DEFINITELY not a Zabi loyalist. Like his whole arc in Origins is about his disillusionment with what's happening to Zeon lmao

I think you missed it so I’ll give some props to Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Kunio Okawara the Gundam designers, these men are the reason any of this is possible at all

I wanna know where you got some of those sweet Gihrens Greed cutscenes in such good quality

I sometimes wonder how well the Armorcore franchise's Mechs would compete with the Gundam Series Mechs. Some Gundam are extraordinary overpowered compared to other mechs. Having like a thousand miles worth of range and create ridiculous destruction. I think some Gundams have some Massively Hypersonic speed feats to sub relativistic speed tier.

Your talk of salted meats made me cook an entire pack of pork chops and proceeded to eat entire thing!

All hell, it's here . Now i have to watch the first two videos again before i watch this one.

Looking forward to the next one

I remember the Zock being the final boss of the Journey to Jaburo game, and even the in-game description says that it was big enough to be considered a mobile armor.

its funny how the brig on the white base is basically a timeout corner for the kids on the team.

excellent videos, this series has been a great recap for newcomers! love the way you recount the various events. i could do without the repetitive unfunny sexist jokes though

Ryu and Hamon were both prepared to die. They were the glue that held their respective teams together.

45:23 *cough* Gundam Valhalla *cough*

Amazing serious dude and I hope you continue with the rest of UC.

I would be willing to pay an enormous sum for a plastic kit of the Ground Assault Type Gun tank.. But, to my knowledge they never manufactured one tragically.

The Germans in ww2 did something similar with tanks, they kept creating developmenting better tanks that required specialty parts and it stretched them thin. So it fits for Zeon.

That Mia Khalifa comment tho lol I wasn't ready for it

Bro I just binged all of Mobile Suit Gundam, just started Zeta. My only real experience with Gundam in the past was watching G Gundam on Toonami back in the early 2000s. Then I played the game Gundam battle Assault 2 for PlayStation. I think I watched endless Waltz once as a kid. I always loved the series and knew I needed to get into it. I'm pissed I waited so damn long. Who would have thought I thought that this anime from 1979 would be so fucking intense and awesome

Reflecting about Zeon's awful planning to build Mobile Suits, it kind of speak of how their beliefs and huge morale at the beginning of the war utterly blind them. They really made utterly specialized MS, probably thinking they'll establish and colonize earth, busting Gorilla fighters and such for the times to come

Also, the little mascot Acguy wearing the shirt should be called Shirtguy. Just saying.

The only major team you didn't mention is the Revenge of idea i hope I spelled that right

something of note for M'quve is he is also responsible for many MANY follies of the zeon front on earth. consisting of disrupting the partner machine concept of the gouf and doms being paired. M'quve literally got jealous and wanted the doms for himself and reallocated them to his units. embezzled a ridiculous amount of zeon resources and profits. he more or less literally screwed over his own admiral along with every other front as much as possible... seriously anyone who hasnt read up to what hes done, should its mind boggling what he got away with

You know what's creepy concerning the augusta newtype lab? In the real world Augusta Georgia/south carolina there is a medical prison near the military base there, on top of being a big medically oriented college city in general

During operation, Odessa Amoro was supposed to receive the gundam pixie

Aqura gm is good if you ignore they had no ACEs and near 100% casualty rate the aqura guncannon had better showing with one piolt that bailed out. Also the zaon Aquatic units are shown 20 years later still full on par with nemo 2 and 3 and gm 3 suits. Also Zeon had the only dedicated in atmo flying suit the gouf flight type in the Zeon war for Independents.

Zeon is also based on the nazis. The nazis kept wasting their money on tons of prototypes.

Very real to over hear people talk about you behind your back, infront of you.

I'm just going to leave a hot take here. Even though the designs philosophy makes sense, and im only pointing out the aquatic ms, there are only 2 aqua gm variants vs. most of zeon aquatic ms doesnt do any justice in this video. Stats wise.

Love your videos, I LOVE GUNDAM....I OWN EVERYBOOK,ART BOOK,APOCRYPHA BOOK,VIDEO GAME , AND ENOUGH GUNPLA TO RE SINK THE TITANIC! Your 4 parter of the 1 yr war is just brilliant! Thank you for this. Liked and subbed btw.😊😊😊

59:37 In other news this was where that SD Gundam Battle Alliance Gatherroad Squadron Framing Device came from.

Why have they not remade the Gundam series with "The Origins" art style?

On some point they look like "Aldnoah Zero"

381 kph is 236 mph, right?! I'm a bit confused here... 261 mph as you said, is well over 420 kph or near the top speed of a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport at 267. So, which is the top speed of the Dom?!

Haman-sama is my godess!!!

more please :D

54:44 oh yeah I keep forgetting the original dub for Gundam had the black tristars with a southern accent XD

I always wondered, Why didn't Run use the Core Fighters weapons?

Would you ever consider Doing a crossover with?It'sagundam

Given I see this channel as a scholar of both Berserk and Gundam: Which is more intolerable and wrong, Griffinth did nothing wrong or Zeon did nothing?

Do you think the 'red shirts' on the GMs were at all inspired by the Star Trek 'red shirts'?

Wait you have a weapon called the "Bop Gun" an you don't make a reference to Parliament...not even once?

God I hope your salt explaination is sarcasm

I think you should rewatch origin again because I don’t think you’re remembering it right

So many goddamn Gms! Edit: the Aqua Gms aren't very great though. On the other hand, Zeon's amphibious ms are very capable.

"When you're losing to a land based mobile suit underwater to a mobile suit that's meant to be great underwater...." That, my friend, is what we call plot armor. The Gundam ever being outclassed in any possible scenario? Illegal. Straight to jail.

Quick question: The different side stories look like some are from games. What were they called? I'm gonna see if I can find some playthroughs.

A war that lasted for only one year? Come on, that's not too bad...

Where are these 0079 animations from? (Not the 79 anime ones, i mean the ones that look like 80s/90s ovas)

54:46 Gamera Texas Dub reference?

The clip at 2:57 where is it from?

Decent summary, even with your really cringey commentary Thanks!

How the fuck do you have your plan stopped by children!?

Andrew Waltfeld from CE is Ramba Ral done right, not dying and joining the protagonists

The idea that you could just slap some stuff on a giant robot and that'd actually make it capable of standing up to suits that were purpose built just shows how bad the writing was.

Amazing video series, have been enjoying them a lot! But man, you gotta stop with the sexist jokes on women. The show is old and has a lot of sexist things in them, doesn't mean we gotta go back in time with these "Cause she's a woman" jokes. Anyway, great videos!!

Please for the love of gundarium stop pronouncing it TAWmino. Really enjoying the videos otherwise.

War may be hell, but its mostly business. Its some kinda meta genius that people (including me) gladly spend hundreds on fictional war machines while fully aware of the horrors these tools of war carry out in their setting. Gundam is cool. War aint.

Man, Gundam has a great tradition of big guys who die tragically 🥲 o7