[Akiyoshi]

Yeah but that happened back when she used it for the first time in real combat ...agianst Terminator Mode Tohma no less ..so she got trounced for her torubles xDU

The technicians had all the data from those fights to improve the equipements so the Gladiator and the Oxtongue seems to be benefitted from those changes. Caro's set of Frotress shields were sliced like paper by Quinn, tough. So yeah, a bit of inconsistency there xDU