[UNSDB] Re: Macross II - series vs. movie

I gotta say, Macross-II was a good series/movie, though saying it was better 
than Macorss Plus is a stretch. A BIG stretch. Let's not get ahead of ourselves 
here, it was better than Macross 7 and let's leave it at that. 
 
Palladium did a crappy job on the RPGs anyway, and not just Macross-II. It's 
robotech series was riddled with errors as well, mostly pertaining to numbers 
and sizes. For instance, when Siembieda runs the numbers for the mecha 
compliment of Zentradi vessels, he comes up with some of the most rediculous 
figures in the history of gaming. He puts a Zentradi cruiser having something 
like 12,000 Regults and thousands of fighter pods and PAs, though if you 
actually check his math on the figures based on the size of the mecha hangars, 
the maximum possible number is about 250 battlepods and a few dozen fighters. 
 
He carries his mistakes over to Macross-II, not only with mecha compliments but 
with ship sizes. The UN-Spacy Corvette is given at being alittle over 300 
meters long with a compliment of about thirty fighters or so, even though in 
the animation the ship is seen side by side with Zentradi carriers up to three 
kilometers long; it's about the same size when you look at it. (Beginning of 
Ep-6 for those who are wondering. Both ships are floating in the water near UN 
Spacy HQ) He also figures it makes sense to have the Macross Cannons being the 
size of ARMD carriers, even though we can plainly seem them dwarfing some 
Zentradi vessels the RPG says are supposed to be twice it's size (Macross 
Cannons look close to the size of Battle 7 in the animation). And given the 
fleet numbers and fighter compliments he writes in the RPG, not to mention the 
fact that none of the UN Spacy ships have the firing range to attack anything 
before they get wasted, the UN Spacy might as well be non-existent compared to 
just about any other force that might attack Earth. And how is it that after 
eighty years not a single UN Spacy warship is equipped with a fold system?

Take my advice, use the RPG books for the images of the ships and mecha and 
then use the rest for toilet paper. The statistics aint worth the paper they're 
printed on.



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Jules, you give that f*ckin nimrod fifteen hundred dollars, I'll shoot him on 
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