Mobile Suit Gundam Arsenal Base (機動戦士ガンダム アーセナルベース Kidō Senshi Gandamu Āsenarubēsu?) is a collectible card-based, real-time strategy arcade game based on the Gundam franchise. It was announced on January 28th, 2021 and was expected to be on the market later the same year, with online pre-registrations aimed at bringing in players of previous Gundam arcade titles beginning March 12, 2021. However the game spent most of the year doing location and beta testing and the official launch was pushed back to spring of 2022.
Gameplay[]
Like some previous Bandai Namco arcade titles, play requires a registered BANAPASSPORT IC card. Initial play costs ¥200, while the next four subsequent plays are ¥100 each. Players will be rewarded with a random card at the end of each play. Cards have different rarities from Common to Rare, Master Rare, Perfect Rare and Ultimate Rare. Players can also buy starter card sets. Though no cards are actually needed to play initially, players will find themselves very disadvantaged without them..
In Arsenal Base the player is the Commander of a battleship and must defeat other team's base. The player can set up to ten cards per play, with five mobile suits and five pilots as their ship's mobile suit team. When play begins they are moved across the battlefield by use of the game cabinet's large touchscreen monitor. Actions are confirmed by button press. The objective is to break through the opponent's mobile suit team to destroy their two bases and sink their command vessel. Should time run out, the player with the most remaining ship HP will win.
Versions[]
Arsenal Base receives periodic updates, referred to as Seasons, roughly every three months adding new missions and cards to the game. It would receive its first major update following its one year anniversary.
- LINXTAGE (LINXTAGE) released February 24, 2023
Series Featured[]
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
- Mobile Suit Variation
- Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
- Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link
- Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny
- Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
- Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. ENGAGE
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children
- Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. 0094: Across the Sky
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam
- New Mobile Report Gundam Wing
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: STARGAZER
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00
- Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
- Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS
- Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS Urdr-Hunt
- Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury
- Gundam Build Fighters
- Gundam Build Fighters Try
- Gundam Build Divers
- Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE
- Gundam Build Metaverse
- Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative
Original Characters[]
Players can not only customize their Commander, but also choose which operator they wish to use during play. There are three base operators.
- Ufri Asquis (ウフリィ・アスキス? , CV: Riho Sugiyama)
- The youngest of the three operators, but also the one who is the most mature and projects calm no matter the situation.
- Tegona Osaname (テゴナ・オサナメ? , CV: Yoshiko Ikuta)
- Bright and cheerful, she's the type of person who can't tell a lie. She wears her emotions on her sleeve, even during operations.
- Gull Rev (ガル・レヴ? , CV: Yuka Aisaka)
- A genuine military type with a strong core. She hates the thought of losing.