Lol, it's gonna be hard to convince everyone that you missed an integral part of the plot pjdude Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Gundams are only the top performance mobile suits, ZAFT, OZ, Earth Alliance, Zeon, ORB, UNION, HRL, AEU, Celestial Being ( Innovators faction ) and every organization I can't think of on the spot have AT LEAST half a million mobile suits each. Abilities + Equipment, that is Gundam pilots. Kira Yamato reprogrammed the Strike's OS within minutes and with no computer training or previous knowledge of the Strike, while scientists of ORB and Earth Alliance tried years to figure it out, the La Cruset team did it at the same speed/faster and they never had previous contact with Gundams or probably any computer training at all. Look at George Glenn the first Coordinator and you know what I mean. Super Soldiers also demonstrated their superiority with Allelujah and Marie ( Noreiga asked Marie to time their attack and evasions and she did it perfectly ), Innovators are on the same level ( or perhaps lower or higher slightly ) then the Super Soldiers. I don't know much about Newtypes, but I do know Amuro Ray jumped in a super difficult-to-pilot Gundam and owned everyone else despite NO MOBILE SUIT training. So basically they can give Coordinators, Enhanced Naturals, Newtypes, and Innovators a few months of training and stick them in a Gundam and they will kick ass.
To pjdude and pinwheel: A lot of times the most efficient movements and maneuvers are the most beautiful. I've seen a lot of epic combos of real shaoxlin monks. And I'm pretty sure, though I don't have any documentation right now, that a lot of the movements and stances that they use in gundam are based, if only loosley, on real martial arts forms.
and what will they do when the tranformers had already blown up all their mobile suits before a direct conflict?
Just use the Meteor and other missile spamming mobile suits. They got the snipers and missile spammers.
Transformers are better. They can be very small and very small creatures can get into areas unnoticed. Only time in the whole wide universe where smaller is better.
Remember that Gundam is not just the mobile suits. Also the ships, the super humans, the colonies .ect.
There are autonomous MS like Mobile Dolls.....Anyways it is the Newtypes, Coordinators, Enhanced Naturals, Innovators and Super Soldiers that makes the Gundams awesome.
I personally don't like the newer gundams - gundam wing was the best IMO. The quality of anime went downhill when everything stopped getting drawn by hand and they could turn out a new season every 2 months. I do find it interesting though that all of the transformers supporters have never seen any gundam, and probably didn't know what gundam was before this thread.
It took two years to make the Gundam OO movie, and Gundam OO took a long time to complete. Stop bashing the Cosmic Era, Anno Domini and generally the newer ones, the are awesome. SEED and SEED Destiny get bashed a lot by hardcore Universal Century fans, but it is pretty awesome for the general audience, it is what got me hooked on to Gundam, well anime in general and that was when I started my love for Japanese music. Gundam Unicorn is out : ). I am going to try to convince my fansub group ( Megami-Anime ) to sub that. The quality of the newer ones are better in comparison, even though hand-drawn was pretty sweet.
Have you people EVER watched Gundam? ( To the Transformer supporters ) Their movements help intercept and evade missiles, also can give them a superior position to fire. Macross is a great example of that, Gundams have just as much missiles as Variable Fighters from Macross ( or sometimes even more ). They are not restricted to fight like that, they never do it with the weaker pilots. Maneuverability is also another awesome characteristic of Gundams. Missiles are not everything, they also have a lot of beam weapons of each Gundam ( Freedom is a great example ). Phase-shift, Gundamium, E-Carbon, Gn Particles ( and every other material used to make Gundams ) can't be damaged by simple projectiles. WATCH SOME GUNDAM THEN TALK! ( Again to the transformer supporters )
I like any and everything when it comes to Mech Warriors. However, Optimus Prime, Devastator, Trypticon, Unicron, Megatron!! It's not contest TF's hands down.
Have you ever watched Gundam before? If you have watched SEED/Destiny, Wing, and OO you will know the ownage of Gundams.