Next Sword Drawn: GN Blade Short

[orewagundamda]

[Setsuna has found himself in a number of different places today.]

[You can catch him in the arboretum, looking at the flowers.]

[You could find him in the mess hall, having lunch with the others, although seated by himself.]

[Perhaps you found him in the Hangar, looking at the 00 Gundam Seven Swords type with a sort of longing.]

[Private to Celestial Being: Or maybe he's approaching one of his fellow meisters, with a single question in mind.]

How does one deal with women? [Poor Setsuna was shaken up by Lilly Platinum something fierce.]

Comments

[orewagundamda]

You'll never be able to get it to work like this. Blades need full motion range in order to be effective weapons, if all you can do is stab and slice horizontally, you'll be at a huge disadvantage. Moreover, if you simply stick them on, you'll ruin the balancing.

You'd be better off using a mech that can move its arms in more human-like fashions than putting it on this.

[gurrenbrigbonded]

Matthew frowns at that. He doesn't want to give up his Nova.

Idea.

"What if we used pivots?" He suggests. "As long as the coolant lines are properly insulated and can flow into the blade structures, the radiators blades can be shifted along the frame. If they can shift position at certain angles, they can also reconfigure into a more balanced arrangement, as well as perform melee attacks with a greater range of motion.

He doodles in some shifting parts, moves some of the radiator fins onto the shoulder units, and places the leading radiators along the forearms, punch-dagger style.

It looks better, you think. It doesn't get in the way of the space maneuvering pack installed on this version of the Nova either.

[orewagundamda]

This... actually, this may work.

Though, there is one thing you may want to consider.

[He motions to his 00 Gundam] The best way to get the most out of a weapon like this is to have arms that have good range of motion. If you could replace the arm pivots at the shoulder with ball-joints, you'd have the most range of motion you could get.

[That would actually allow for you to aim your handheld weapons at angles usually reserved for more agile frames]