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View Poll Results: Valkyria Chronicles - Episode 5 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 9 | 16.98% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 13 | 24.53% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 17 | 32.08% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 2 | 3.77% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 6 | 11.32% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 3 | 5.66% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 2 | 3.77% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 1 | 1.89% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2009-05-06, 13:03 | Link #101 | |
Catholic = Cat addiction?
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Did Alicia accidentally used him as an ingredient? - Tak
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2009-05-06, 14:04 | Link #110 |
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Hey, I'm still on my first playthrough. The next battle (the first desert op) however was a different story. A-ranked in 2 turns, thanks to nicovideo. Anyway, some of the other members SERIOUSLY need lines.
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2009-05-06, 15:32 | Link #114 | |
Catholic = Cat addiction?
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2009-05-06, 16:11 | Link #115 |
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Training scenes tend to be boring affairs for the most part, altho I don't mind if a training scene is inserted, I would hope they wouldn't make it at any great lengths.
The anime is clearly gearing towards character interaction, I don't see any need for such a scene at this point really. what I never got is why they needed to know of the animal trail in order to come up with the flanking maneuver.
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2009-05-06, 16:19 | Link #116 |
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I think Hans got... what? About four cutscenes (out of about... 50? 60+?) worth of screentime in the actual main story, plus two reports where he was a main character?
Honestly though, if the pig eats massively into Faldio's screentime, and then Welkin picks up some of it as well, I'll praise Hans for his actions. Edit: The animal trail made sense... in the game. You see, the Kloden Wildwood has a reputation: if you go in and you don't know your way or aren't on a road/path you WILL get lost and you WILL die. Therefore a flanking attack is all but impossible under most circumstances. Welkin spotted the animal trail when they were only a few hundred metres from, and out of sight of, the main guard post leading to the supply base. Because they were so close to the base, Welkin could judge that the general direction of the animal trail would prove useful to them, and then we had said battle plan as shown in the anime... except Faldio was nowhere to be seen as it should be! |
2009-05-06, 16:20 | Link #117 | |
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2009-05-06, 16:50 | Link #118 | |
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I'm a little late commenting on Valkyria Chronicles, but I've been liking it so far, albeit not quite to the extent that I expected/hoped for. One of the nice things about the show is that it pays attention to real tactics, and uses them as resolutions to problems instead of using gimmicks. The latter is a trend that I can see the show veering towards from time to time, but it can avoid it for the most part. In fact, I think that this episode could have been more entertaining had it used even more realistic tactics than what we saw (will someone please use cover? ). Still, Valkyria Chronicles is better on this score than most anime that I can think of.
As an aside on national analogs, the use of German equipment, uniforms (Welkin's uniform is a dead giveaway) and iconography puts Gallia as WWII Germany. The Empire is much more of a mishmash, but it seems to mostly be a combination of the Soviet Union and Imperial Russia. It's not the most horribly realistic scenario, but you can chalk it up to game mechanics. As an additional caveat, we don't know the size of the base (it looks awfully small), and since Squad 7 was deemed sufficient force to take it, it shouldn't be all that big. Admittedly, this doesn't jive with the amount of importance placed upon it by both sides (general-rank officers assigned by both sides), but the forces at their disposal didn't seem to be that large either. Actually this does bring up a good point. Welkin is said to be the CO of Squad 7 of a Militia regiment. Does that mean that the regiments are so small that their maneuver elements are squads (making them either company or platoon sized), or that the Militia squads are much bigger than real life ones. I get the feeling that it's the latter; that Squad 7 is about equivalent of a modern platoon, and it seems to be confirmed when the Imperial soldier reported the Gallian attacking force as company-sized. On a semi-related note, why is it that anime almost always use IJA ranks for their fictional militaries? I think that I've seen SDF ranks used just once or twice, most notably in Zipang, and that was because most of the main cast were members of the SDF. Quote:
If they had the extra time, I'd much rather see more involvement from the other soldiers - there's got to be more to them than just Rosie and Largo. I'm much more sad at the lack of machinegunners. Seeing German-esque infantry in the field without their ubiquitous machine guns is awfully strange. And for that matter, where are the Imperial machine guns?
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For both factions, their portable machine gun is actually what we call sub-machine gun. Though for some odd reason, aside from what is mounted on tanks, the Empire gets to have machine-gun nests & turrets. - Tak
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2009-05-06, 17:32 | Link #120 | |||
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It also wouldn't be a very effective military if they made all their junior lieutenants into squad commanders. The original translation error is a bit on the goofy side though - how many people did the translator think that squads had? Quote:
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I'd also like to note that the show seems to be a lot more lax in regards to the uniforms and equipment than the game is. I can only see this as an improvement since military classes work as a game mechanic, but they're outside of it. It would also strongly play against the whole amateur soldier aesthetic.
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