Can somebody more knowledgeable in IBO lore settle the debate on where Barbatos Lupus Rex measures up in the pantheon of Gundam? I like BLR personally but how well does the unit stack up against UC century technology??
Can somebody more knowledgeable in IBO lore settle the debate on where Barbatos Lupus Rex measures up in the pantheon of Gundam? I like BLR personally but how well does the unit stack up against UC century technology??
I don’t know much but in my experience, UC technology more superior to the PD technology IMO. So I pretty sure that Barbatos doesn’t have a chance to defeat those.
So long as you leave out anything with a psycoframe... it'd be pretty op, I think. Nearly beam proof armor, fantastic close range weaponry, high speed, the AV system... I'd give it good odds against everything up till Nu.
It’s very hard to nail down. Mostly because the writers are being asses about it. There was an interview at the beginning of this year where the producer and one of the directors (who filled in after Mari Okada left towards the end) and they were asked about the tech. I don’t have direct quotes but I’ll paraphrase.
According to them “The technology in IBO is primitive. With equal pilots, a gm Spartan could beat the lupus Rex. The beam technology, and the defense to it, is not on the UC level.” To which the interviewer asks “So a Gm defeats Barbatos?” And they respond yes.
So here’s the thing. It’s absolutely clear they wanted to be “special” and create some big fuss with all this, so we may as well throw this interview in the trash. But there are some bits we can pick and choose to maybe grasp at how they scale to other series.
Gm Spartan is a very interesting pick because it plays to all of Barbatos’s weaknesses. Stealth and ballistics. But I also will say, yea there’s no way it’s beating the Lupus Rex. BUT. I don’t think it’s out of the ball field to say a ballistics and stealth specialized Gm Sniper II, can beat the basic Barbatos.
So my verdict on where they fit. Late OYW 0081 era stuff. At least for the first season of Ibo suits. After wards, eh idk. Probably still hovering around there until whenever Moon Gundam starts. Anything CCA and beyond I don’t think they are comparable to.
Thanks for the input guys. My assumption was any suit with enough (high output beam weaponry could pin it down, eventually. Just stay away from it...lol.
No problem.
What do you think?