Strike Dagger Development History 

Kakarot’s notes: Pfew, this video took a bit longer than expected. I thought it would be shorter, but then I just kept remembering other variants. The Gundam Wiki lists the Dagger L and Windam as analogues for the GM II and Jegan respectively. In the same vein, you could consider the 105 Dagger and Slaughter dagger as the CE versions of the GM Custom and GM Quel. Also, for the people wondering about the Windam’s VPS armor, there is the one source that lists it as such and I was able to find 1 instance of a grey (= VPS down) Windam. But on the opposite side, we can see Windams in storage, windams getting shot down by ballistic weapons and windam wrecks that all show no signs of VPS. I left it out of the video and I’m hoping the the manual of the upcoming HGCE will shed some more light on this. (It’ll probably list the armor material as unknown lol)

The world building in SEED is surprisingly good. They even pioneered social distancing by keeping it a minimum of 6 feet away from the plot

I love how absolutely blown away ZAFT was when these first rolled out. "WHAT? Our enemies have mobile suits too?! That's impossible! Only WE'RE allowed to have THOSE!"

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Idk why but I always liked the grunt suits in Seed and Seed Destiny.

Imagine in a alternate version of seed where the Earth Alliance wasnt so fucking evil.

The Windam got done so dirty even though it's so cool design wise.

GM: Who are you? Strike Dagger: I'm you, but the Cosmic Era version.

The Cosmic Era GM

I remember seeing the Dark Dagger L in one of Jhhk’s MS compilations before his channel went down again. Surprisingly the most successful stealth unit in the entire franchise. As soon as two of them (literally the only two in existence) appeared for one operation, it’s completely gone without a trace moments later. Not even their own allies mentioned where the heck they went. Just blipped out of existence and from the memories of both writers and animators. It’s a shame too because it probably be cool to keep them around a bit longer. A pair of completely anonymous grunt suit pilots whom you’ll never meet in person but will always recognize from the machines they pilot, being as much as or more of a threat than the characters with established identities.

I like simple designs of these mobile suits. It makes the war setting show.

I always thought the battles between ZAFT and the Alliance were cool before the Alliance had mobile suits, I like the incorporation of tanks and jets alongside mobile suits.

Now I want a Gundam series that focuses on these grunt units, they're more than beam rifle fodder dammit t-t

It'd be cool if the C.E. had their own versions of the 08th MS team, Stardust Memories, and all those other UC side stories.

Isn't this a pleasant surprise. A lore vid on one of my favourite Mobile Suit lineages. Thanks mate.

I never realised til just now that the Windam is Seeds Jegan

Dagger L will forever be my favourite grunt suit

Thank you for uploading this video. I play using Strike Dagger a lot in the OMNI vs ZAFT game. In the Arcade mode, if we play as the OMNI pilot, the story shows that we join the Archangel and not fighting against them until the very end.

the 105 Dagger is my favorite version

I think that I might have just found my favorite AU GM series. Thank you for making this video. Well done.

I'd like to share a thought with you about how I would have the daggers issued out: 1. The Windham would be for MS team leaders 2. The Specialist Daggers (Duel, Buster, 105, etc.) for 2nd-in-command members 3. The L2 as standard grunts 4. The extensively watered-down Dagger as training MS For the record: 1. Phantom Pain was omitted because that's its own thing 2. The 2nd generation Gundam mass production units are another factor to work around

That Buster and Long/Duel Dagger are quite interesting.

Kind of a shame. Seed did have interesting elements to it. Sad that it crashed in the main narrative. At least we have to the side stories.

You are killing it with these topics lately!!

Your videos about the development history of each ms are helpful especially when i dont want to pilot a gundam a lot in any gundam game that allows you to pilot an ms or a gundam

Can we just have a seed remake. The mobile suits are cool, and even if the art style has its downsides, the character designs are cool *Can we just get a blank slate and get a new story?*

ALERT ALERT HG Strike Dagger coming out soon

Loved this. Hope to see many move videos like it.

My fav Grunt MS.

really appreciate the effort in these videos.

Dagger development team: we should name this strike dagger Dev team staff 2: but its dont have knife Head team: did i stutter?

The good ole Windam. Probably one of the few MS I have seen that is equally durable to the Leo and Aires.

Very well done video. I wasn't aware of the N Dagger variant. Love this content!

I freaking love the strike dagger for a grunt unit it looks so badass. I will say the strike dagger looks more menacing than a gm

I always liked the Dagger-series MS.

OMG THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VID !!!! XDDDD I love the Daggers and Windams :3

Strike Gundam development history.

At some point a dagger from seed is going to get retooled in to a RGM series unit in the UC era because Bandai wants to reuse the mold parts for something.

8:25. 2021 HG Dagger L here we go!

I can't wait for the HGCE Windam, really looking forward to that one!

Did we ever get a clear explanation as to how the Earth Forces were suddenly able to have naturals piloting mobile suits like ORB with the Astrays? ORB needed Kira’s help to complete a natural-friendly os. How did the Earth Forces have the Strike Daggers gain operation around the same time?

I love all your content bro!!!!!

I remember thinking back to my early days of watching seed and seed destiny and i questioned "if beam weapons are becoming a common choice why waist resources in continuing the development of Phase shift armor" though recently i leaned that It's used as a from of magnetic coating for the Strike Freedom and Infinite justice to improve performance it's really the last great advancement PS armor really provided.

Good work. You're cool and you do the amazing Gundam justice.

Finally HGCE Daggel L has Arrived😍😍 waiting for Revive Strike dagger and 105 dagger

Windam has to be one of the greatest alternate universe grunt suits

In my school vr game there's a veriont of the daggers called the Veronica dagger it's a mass production unit made from the data of a unknown ultra beast known only as the dark Goliath and it is really powerful but it has a different the dark Goliath has the ability to stop time but this unit has advance reaction time but has a problem they have volcanic reactors (trying to bypass the Junius treaty by turning volcanic lava into power cores) but they attract klaxosaurs and the klaxosaurs are extremely tough (dainslefts could only dent it) but after that they were upgraded with anti armour sniders and a 75% output increase but that not all a upgraded version called the everfree dagger was created and it is a equivalent to the cost of a strike dagger and the preformence is of the barbatos lupus rex without its limiters and they rip apart Klaxosaurs and eat there lunch but there's 1 problem after Stella who was ressurected by the demon madama khilpe and piloted the destroy Gundam the everfree dagger are weak to equestrian magic and anti matter and sense the gigaverse was created and Nightmare moon had a unique effect these units were in serious trouble and ultimately originally the 5000 units become 5 units

"Hold it's own against the fearsome Freedom Gundam" for like a few seconds

Can't wait for the gundam seed modile armour development history video.

Like the original Gundam GMs were created to take on Zaku's and Rick Dom's. Do you think next time you can talk about Zaku warrior and Gouf ignited.

Love the dagger's design! Just a lot of the grunt suits in seed are really cool and think of my own stories with them! I wish there was a game you could play as all of these but could also customize the colors too for more... personal use. Closest I can get to this grunt dream is seed battle destiny unless someone knows of a good alternative~

Last time I was this early Zeon was winning the war

Hey kakartot..nice video keep it up

The 105 Dagger remains as my most favourite grunt MS with the cool look and high performance. It in advance of its time with laminated armour that could resist beam weaponry which turned to be mainstream weaponry at the end of the first war. With the new aile striker that equipped by the slaughter dagger, I am confident it could on par with the ignited GOUF

Sigh Neo Roanoke's windam was known as full boost windam. It was at least on par with the impulse in the force silhouette option. Also I would say that the full boost windam was NOT able to deal with the Freedom solo. Kira for WHATEVER reason constantly held HIMSELF back much more against it (I know why but I'm not spoiling it for ppl who haven't seen it go watch!) when he decided to take him down it only cost Kira his shield while he blew off the windams arms and flight pack in two shots. Nice vid man.

This is awsome. Can you do a video on the Zeon and Zaft's Gouf units next, please? I don't know why but they have really intrigued. solider - "We need reinforcements stat!" Captain - "Send out the GOUFs" XD.

I love mobile suits. I adore robutts, your channel is definitively the official page for all mobile suit development history. Shed light where there is ignorance amongst the fandom and endow us with your knowledge.

Kakarot, i love your vids, i had a video idea for your next MS development history, take a look a at the Z'gok mobile suits and all their variants

Nice and thank you

I just love these seed lore thank you

I picked up a Dagger L and Windam HG a while back and finally got around to building them. And then immediately bought the Slaughter Dagger right after finishing because I fell in love with the design language.

Can we do the “Zeta” series mobile suits for the next development history ?

Love the 105 dagger. Played with it in a G Generation game years back and loved it could use all the Striker packs. Even then I considered it more powerful than the Strike and even got its own Striker pack. And love that you did Daggers since the new Generations game has most of them.

It's sad that we don't get a lot of Dagger kits. After the Windam, I hope they make more Dagger variants

I'd love to see a video on the heavy gun and its variants and development history, since there were so many designs associated with that ms.

The CE version of a GM

It’s amazing to think how fast they cranked out the Dagger line. Especially when you factor in its replacement the Windam just an few years later. It’s like releasing all the GM variants and jumping to the Jegan by Stardust Memory.

Saw preorder for the 1/144 Windam and then came here to watch this. I'm hyped. I always thought it was one of the coolest looking grunt suits when I watched SEED and Destiny as a kid.

The main reason why i like Seed is because of its huge list of new Mobile Suits. Like or hate the story, the machines of Seed are awesome. Any chance you'll make a Ginn deployment history video?

Love it! Next up can we get a synopsis of the AOZ Inle Reboot? Heck I'll will help you out and loan u the first 4 volumes of the, manga. Let me know.

Okay this was very unexpected but welcomed

The 105 Dagger returns in SEED Freedom, and it's a quite common sight, being used by the Eurasian Federation and Blue Cosmos remnants. My assumption is that due to how good the performance was for the 105 Dagger, the Earth Alliance decided to mass produce it as its mainstay mobile suit, replacing the Dagger L, its successor. Behind the scenes though, is that the modelers didn't have enough time to make a 3D model of the Dagger L, as I presume that the 105 Dagger was added to give more variety for the Earth Alliance suits in there.

The normal Strike Dagger makes such a strange SFX when it walks.

thanks to this video, I have new appreciation for strike dagger

I really wish there was more time for the Windam to shine. Aside from Neo's Windam it was shafted so hard. I really love the design, but I'm glad we're finally getting a kit of it in a few months. I hope we get more Dagger's in the future.

the daggers were more capable than depicted in the show, but i gotta say that the most criminally under depicted mobile suit would have to be the the orbs M1 Astrays. these things were absolute BEASTS performance wise, with capabilities similar to the gundams but less heavily armored (they lacked phase shift because orb couldnt get their hands on the tech until kira and co landed in their laps, but later it was added to the commander variants) though they did possess laminated armor. these suits suffered not from performance issues but rather pilot ones. when the orb came under attack from their former "allies" their pilots lacked real combat experiance. and they suffered heavy casualties because of this. its a real shame too, because after kira got ahold of the os and adjusted it, he didnt just make it usable by natural pilots, he enhanced it. ive always thought that the M1 was just never given a proper chance to shine in seed, it and the suits that were designed from her have always been the most powerful main line mobile suits of any major faction in universe, and continue to be one of my top favorite "grunt" suits in all of gundam.

HGCE Dagger L announced, huzzah!

You should cover the double 00 and it’s riser system, along with the other misters.

I need a HGCE Strike Dagger. Like now.

Love the 105 dagger. My go to mass produce unit in SD gundam Generation series.

Funny thing about ninja: Most ninja were Samurai, but few Samurai were ninja. The N Dagger N having Samurai style weapons makes historical sense as war time ninja were scout, secret agents, special operations, etc.

This was Gundam SEED's take on the GM mobile suit from UC Gundam.

HG Variants are gonna be popin this year 💯🤣

The Strike Daggers and the various Dagger series from the Cosmic Era are so very similar to the GM series from the Universal Century.

"Slaughter Dagger" *War Crimes Intensifies*

@Kakarot197, awesome video!! But now I have a ton of responses. What do you think of the lone Long Dagger pilot who survived a brief encounter with Yzak Joule at the Battle of Panama? When (i.e.: how soon after the capture of the four G weapons) did BuCUE’s get their ‘mouth’-mounted beam sabers? Also, were permanently mounted that way due to ZAFT not reverse-engineer a means for beam saber blades to project from shafts without being directly connected to the mobile suit? Also, the Strike Dagger was/is superior to the GINN in ground combat. The GINN’s thrusters gave it greater mobility in space, allowing the GINN to get in close and penetrate the Strike Dagger’s armor as easily as a Mobeius’.

*Sees Strike Dagger* *immediately opens vid*

Now I kinda want to see complete Astray breakdown, from the great founder red,blue,gold to the latest entry

This kind of video I was looking for. Although I already read few years later but still enjoy if created video. Can you fo Ginn ?? And Astray? Thankss

I have an idea for a video, top 5 (or 10?) coolest looking grunt mobile suits

They should make the entire Dagger series into model kits

Hope to see something like this for some of the Anno Domino suits eventually

This is why i think Seed series have great mobile suits design. And really hype for HG windam and hope gonna be more of HG seed grunt suits

4:13 Roanoke Gaming has entered the chat

Seed lore is so cool.

*_Issa dagger_*

so great!

That Beam Carbine looks suspiciously like an altered Beam Spray Gun...

quantity has a quality of it's own - johsaf stalain

Can you do a video about stark jegans ?