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Originally Posted by RX-78GP04G Gerbera
Only the people were normal really. The 08th MS Team still had much higher quality MS than the Zeon, who were still stuck with the usual Zaku II, Gouf, and Dom units. (Though they were of slightly lower quality than the RX-78-2 Gundam as the Ground Combat Gundams are made of leftover spare parts). Heck, none of the MS were really "custom" either (as in specifically made to be better, unique, etc to other MS). Different looks to the Gundams later were really due to the lack of availability of parts. Karen's Gundam's head replaced with the head of a Ground Combat GM and especially Shiro's Ez-8 given his Ground Combat Gundam was practically destroyed when trying to take down the Apsalus II.
Even Norris' Gouf, as far as we know, was not exactly a "customized" unit outside of being a limited production type of Gouf model (as total mass production of the Gouf had been shifted to the Dom in terms of ground combat MS).
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Also Norris did wonderful manuver with his gouf, showing veterans are better than greens ( which is against gundam protagonist rule, they are most of the times very young and green and yet they outperform everyone else, maybe cuz some of them are newtypes and ultimate coordinators )