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Old 2008-12-14, 02:07   Link #1701
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Can you clarify? I have no idea what you're trying to say here. So I have no idea how to respond.
I think he means "send someone expendable (i.e. the Forwards) into the building without their devices and keep the Aces outside and fully-armed."
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Old 2008-12-14, 02:54   Link #1702
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The idea that they could have used RF6's holo training field as a practical defensive application is kind of silly. For one thing, that would require the foresight to assume that RF6 would be attacked in the first place. It's -not- a defensive installation. It's not a high-security installation. There's no reason to assume that Jail's intelligence, which was pretty good up to and including things like actual high-security installations at HQ, wasn't good enough to ferret out most of the layout of RF6's base.

I was under the impression that Nanoha and Fate's limiters, while in existence, weren't designed to keep them locked down against their will - more of a "if you need to use this, there's going to be a lot of paperwork explaining things afterwards" measure that keeps them out of the top end of their power range for casual purposes. Hayate's is more like an actual restriction. We don't know if she could bust it on her own. It's clear that she's not authorized to do so, and she'd probably be in a good bit of trouble if she did. (Well, as much trouble as SS-ranks can get in. Which, of course, is the point!)
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I'm having trouble believing that people are still blaming the destruction of RF6 as a failure on Hayate's part. The TSAB had no way of knowing RF6 was going to be a target of attack, as all the prophecy showed was that there 'might' be an attack on the Ground Forces HQ. Heck, even the military buffs here didn't expect the attack on RF6.

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Yes, and the fact she can pin down the drone, without flying ability to "anchor" herself, says a LOT about the whole affair.
Did she keep it down? Hardly. She merely 'pinned it down' by sitting on top of it and immediately -note the immediately- drilled into it.

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Subaru ran pretty fast and threw Teana quite high in that episode, but how does that prove an incredibly high strength for the armor (sure, I'll grant it is tougher than what an ordinary human fist can move through) is not yet clear. Calculations?
I'm sorry, but the fact that someone who can accidentally throw a human a few dozen meters in the air having without apparent effort trouble drilling through armor would make the assumption of armor being tough common sense, methinks.

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Speed = observable power. A high speed shot, given a mass known to reasonable accuracy, provides an estimate of energy, force ... etc, independent of other scenes. When something is stopped or grinding slowly, there are two solutions to the problem, one is that the force being applied is as low as zero, and the second is that the resisting material is very strong (the force can be almost infinitely high). Where the material is known, or the force has been bounded by other information, you can estimate it, but from the scene alone you can't deduce this.
Oh I see... so that's why you're so adamant on visible speed. Because otherwise you can't calculate it, and without calculations, you're like a fish out of the water.

Problem is, we know Subaru is very powerful, and we know she didn't snap the drone in two like a twig. While no precise calculations can be made, the fact that she drills into the drone slowly actually works against you here, as this does prove that the armor is not merely light and easy to break.

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Randomly deleting information from the scene is not how to satisfy Occam's Razor, if that's what you are asking.
That's why it's funny, as it's all you have been doing all along. In an effort to rationalize your calculations, you create more problems then you solve. Let's take the middy concrete for example.

Your assumption is that since you measured the speed, it must be accurate. Ergo, middy concrete has the strength of polystyrene.

The problem is, however, that this does not explain why Mid build their homes, and even their own bases out of this materials. Going as far as to make it their primary support material. Then of course you need to explain why these buildings don't just collapse under their own weight, not to mention the weight the people inhabiting and their equipment must place on them. But we're not done yet, what about the weather? How do these buildings stand up to heavy wind? Or a hailstorm? If the measured speed is accurate, even a hailstorm would do more damage then the people thrown against it.

And of course, despite claiming it to be a different kind of material, you have no name to place on it. What is this wonder material called, that shows so many contradictions in your own observations?

That's what you're doing. Creating more problems, and then just ignoring them and assume 'well, my speed calculations are absolute, so the rest must be wrong.'

I on the other hand, merely assume an inaccurate medium of measuring to be inaccurate.

I throw out one observation. You throw out several observations, among which also realism and common sense (something which you always chid me for), and rely on the 'durrr, Mid is dumb' to explain.

Perhaps another way of calculating would satisfy you. After all, there's no way you will ever believe something unless you can calculate it. Is it possible to calculate their speed not by observing the frames, but observing the damage caused? Let's take the Erio-into-a-pillar scene of episode 11. Assume the concrete to be normal. How much speed would a solid object of about Erio's size need to create such a crater in the concrete?

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You are putting out effort (force, a bit different from "energy") to stop it, but any energy you expended is due to the mechanisms of your muscles, not because stopping it inherently takes energy in a thermodynamic sense.
So what you're saying is that Nanoha can stop huge statues from falling without expending any energy?

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Did any such requests even reach his table? He's a Lieutenant General. Requests from mere battalion commanders don't necessarily even reach his desk.
If Regius was against it, then it must have reached his desk at some time for him to reject it.

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And the idea of Regius training them himself sounds a bit ... tough seeing he isn't a mage.
Which is why I found the argument of him not having the time for such things to be silly.

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Oh, going by Coldlight, or maybe Yesy, because there's no way you could have used a dictionary. Actually, Genya just said うちの連中, with うち being a term meaning roughly like "insider" or "our". It can mean anything Nakajima chooses to treat as "insider" or "our" at that moment - it almost certainly includes his batalion, but can also include up to the entire Ground Force (or even all of the TSAB) as うち.
However, Vita didn't train the entire TSAB. Only the 108th and Saint Church forces. Since Genya mentions a little redhead in combination with 'our' and we combine that with her going to train the 108th in episode 10, then it's obvious Genya was referring to the 108th as 'our'

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As for the Air Force ... Nanoha probably trained a lot of them, so it is just as surmised, the few scraps of people that can do it are thrown into the fray.
And those few scraps that don't join the battle with Hayate and the rest and remain to support the Ground Forces hold of an army far outnumbering them.

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Actually, the Japanese says the same thing. Maybe something was lost in translation b/w Midchildran and Japanese, but we would never know it.

And I wouldn't call them "very effective". They were barely holding on, and they have a lot to thank because the drones plain weren't very aggressive - such as Ep24, where we see they weren't even advancing.
Barely holding on against an army far outnumbering them. I'd like to call a small force pinning down a larger force and preventing them from advancing very effective.

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If the autocaster was worth a darn, it might be. Then it'll become the Equalizer.
I never argued the autocaster was worth a darn, I merely argued that it was possible. For me, the fact that they gave Runessa a gun is proof that it's obviously not considered worth the effort to re-invent the wheel.

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And they are unwilling to throw out such licenses even in times of need. As for the "level cities" part, yes, a very few mages can do that. But very, very few as far as we can see.
Every AAA-rank and higher can do so. Hayate was only S-rank when she could do a repeated bombardement with a rather sizable blast radius. Vita's Gigant Hammer can reach sizes that can crush houses, imagine what would happen should she do a sweeping strike with that.

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Aah, the virtues (not) of blind faith.
Was that an insult aimed at me? Because I can just as easily turn it around and hurl it right back at you.

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The big one according to me is IIRC modulation. On a ship, it can generate those little cubes like the training plate can generate simulated Gadgets. However, if such projections can be useful over more than an extremely limited area (such as the reactor room or within building height), one would think they can summon a few to help defend their own precious butts.
Hmm, chances are they could. But the TSAB isn't used to automated defences. They never had a need for them before.

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We see extremely limited proliferation (and in fact, we see very little of their capabilities - for all we know, they've been making it so far because the guns fire bullets that crawl at the speed of most magic rounds), and you conclude this? I note that they are unable to rid all weapons, and I see it as because they know they can't do it without suffering prohibitive casualties, so they are forced to compromise with their attitudes.
Concidering the Black Market where these guys get their weapons could just as easily go to earth and buy 'proper' weapons, the 'middie guns must be slow' argument, even if it was true, is useless. Black Market doesn't care where they get their weapons, only that they sell. If they can get weapons from earth that are better then the stuff they have, they will do so. Ergo, it is useless to assume that the criminals will have weapons that are bellow our weapons capabilities.

And of course they won't be able to get rid of all weapons. That's like assuming we can get rid of all terrorists. There will always be criminals, and as long as there are criminals, there will always be people with weapons the law won't allow.

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America has such things as PR to think about, and as I said, the closest thing we have to the TSAB's paranoia would be nukes.
Or they could carpet bomb the country. Or massacre the population. The point I'm trying to make is that when you have set a series of standards for your country, you try to uphold them as best as you can. Every country does this, it is unreasonable to expect the TSAB to do otherwise. Especially when there are ways around it.

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Actually, we just counted them differently. I counted more frames than you, but your frames were a little longer (30 vs 24 FPS), so really in the end it evened out. Besides, even if they were equally long, the estimate will still be off only by 20% or less, which is not a huge error in visual estimation.
Hmm, so it was the old NTSC versus PAL (which would technically make it 25 FPS). Well, that solves one crisis, but that still changes nothing.

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Actually, an animator that cannot show how fast something is using his animation is a failure, because he can't tell the story using the media he works with.
No, what happened here is that the animator failed to appease to your taste as a viewer. Animation is only perfectly accurate if such is the goal of the animation. Nanoha is an anime made for entertainment. Realism of animated speed is a non-issue here.

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Old 2008-12-14, 09:33   Link #1704
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Besides... has there been an animated work along the budget of a TV series that has ever shown speeds realistically? Only animators who actually care to do so actually animate speeds so meticulously... and they require budget on the level of a movie. And even in animated movie works, most movies I've seen go for style more than realism, especially in regard to physics and speed.

Point me to a good example of an animation that shows realistic projectile speeds 100% in all scenes all the time while maintaining dramatic tension and entertainment value?
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Old 2008-12-14, 09:41   Link #1705
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Point me to a good example of an animation that shows realistic projectile speeds 100% in all scenes all the time while maintaining dramatic tension and entertainment value?
Yes, I'm quite curious to this as well.
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Old 2008-12-14, 09:41   Link #1706
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Cinque's also stated by Jail to be S-rank or even above due to her defeating Zest. However, that statement's rather dubious.
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Old 2008-12-14, 09:48   Link #1707
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He just said she was great for being able to do that.
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Old 2008-12-14, 10:00   Link #1708
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Agreed, all that was said was that Cinque was 'incredible for even being able to take down an S-rank mage' Cinque herself has AA-rank physical strength. Of course, this doesn't take into account her IS. She's obviously not a close-ranged expert, rather a mid-close ranged fighter. Preferring to take down the enemy from a distance, but capable of handling herself in close combat.
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Besides, it has been said that Rank does not decide how a battle will turn out. A mere A-Rank (or was it AA?) defeated both Nanoha and Fate in a training exercise afterall.
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Old 2008-12-14, 10:25   Link #1710
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AA rank. And no, rank doesn't say anything in terms of combat expertise. You can have all the powerful nukes you want, but that doesn't help you if you have no way of getting away from a close-combat specialist. And vice-versa, you can have all the SSS ranked melee power there is, and still get torn apart if you have no way of closing into a range expert.
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AA rank. And no, rank doesn't say anything in terms of combat expertise. You can have all the powerful nukes you want, but that doesn't help you if you have no way of getting away from a close-combat specialist. And vice-versa, you can have all the SSS ranked melee power there is, and still get torn apart if you have no way of closing into a range expert.
Who was the AA rank who defeated Nanoha and Fate in a training exercise?

Overall, the problem with mage rankings is that what they give is not a measure of power level but a thumbnail of magical combat potential. It goes a long way towards explaining the issues when they actually go to show us the B-rank text in Strikers 1. Tests like these cover multiple issues simultaneously: opponents to defeat, ground to cover, tactical objectives to achieve. Subaru and Tia are both the same rank, but they're nothing alike in their skills and abilities and relying on mage rank to determine which of them is more useful in any given situation is useless.

Getting on to the Numbers, listed rankings are even shakier, because it's fairly unlikely that Jail snuck them into actual scheduled rank testing. Are their I.S.s factored in to determining power level (and if not, why?)? And what measure is used to determine those assigned ranks?
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Old 2008-12-14, 11:07   Link #1712
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Who was the AA rank who defeated Nanoha and Fate in a training exercise?
An old lady who never made it into the anime. She's the one Fate is talking to in chapter 4 of the manga. Her job was basically the job Nanoha has now, an instructor.

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Overall, the problem with mage rankings is that what they give is not a measure of power level but a thumbnail of magical combat potential. It goes a long way towards explaining the issues when they actually go to show us the B-rank text in Strikers 1. Tests like these cover multiple issues simultaneously: opponents to defeat, ground to cover, tactical objectives to achieve. Subaru and Tia are both the same rank, but they're nothing alike in their skills and abilities and relying on mage rank to determine which of them is more useful in any given situation is useless.

Getting on to the Numbers, listed rankings are even shakier, because it's fairly unlikely that Jail snuck them into actual scheduled rank testing. Are their I.S.s factored in to determining power level (and if not, why?)? And what measure is used to determine those assigned ranks?
Their cards specifically mention their ranks in relation to muscular power, in other words, their physical strength. It has no relation to their overall rank, and doesn't take into account their IS nor skills. By the looks of it, it is merely the same as Nanoha and Fate, purely a measurement of power and no skill.
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An old lady who never made it into the anime. She's the one Fate is talking to in chapter 4 of the manga. Her job was basically the job Nanoha has now, an instructor.
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Their cards specifically mention their ranks in relation to muscular power, in other words, their physical strength. It has no relation to their overall rank, and doesn't take into account their IS nor skills. By the looks of it, it is merely the same as Nanoha and Fate, purely a measurement of power and no skill.
And not even a measure of overall power, but merely one limited area of it, with no comparison to combat functionality at all (at the very least, it explains Dieci's horribly low ranking compared to the damage she can inflict, since it doesn't involve her primary method of inflicting said damage). All it really tells us is that if I could have had any one Number yesterday to help give my car a push off the ice in the parking lot, I should ask Tre.

...Quattro would probably key the paint job or something...
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Question - did anybody try to count movement speed from ep2 of As?
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Old 2008-12-14, 13:20   Link #1715
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One thing I would like to point out about hiding in the training holofield:

The training holofield draws its power from RF6 base.

The base is the first target. The drones will trash it. They will also trash the generators. And the holofield will then fail, causing everyone to take a short dunk into cold water. And then, as they swim to shore, or struggle, or drown, they become easy pickings for the drones.
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On that subject, Hayate left behind a AAA-rank defensive specialist and a AA+ support mage. One generally expects such levels of power to be able to handle an attack. Considering they had no clue that their base was going to be attacked in the first place, Hayate's decision was tactically a cautious one from my point of view.
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Even if they couldn't beat off the attackers, Shamal and Zafira should be able to stall long enough for backup to arrive. The fact that they were overwhelmed by sheer force of numbers doesn't preclude the fact that they were managing to do what they were supposed to do: defend and stall for backup to arrive. Unfortunately backup was delayed.
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In other words, Hayate's 'failure' was more the enemy coming in with forces far beyond expectation, and attacking targets that appeared completely unrelated. There was no way for Hayate to know the enemy was going to send massive firepower to her headquarters to capture Vivio, or even that they were going to capture Vivio at all.

I think we're looking at something that was blown out of proportion again here.
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Old 2008-12-14, 17:28   Link #1719
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I think this is simply a case of plot overshadowing the "realism" of MSLN.

Realistically, between Shamal, Zafira, and Vice, there should have been no problem against the Gadget Drones that went there. However, them beating back the offense would not have worked with the plot, and so, they had to fail in one way or another.

If I were to guess, they probably underestimated the Combat Cyborgs, as well as Lutecia and Garyuu. They were beaten because the enemy blindsided them. It wasn't Hayate's fault.
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Correct, judging from previous actions, there's no reason to think that Shamal and Zafira wouldn't be enough to defend the base. And they almost held out long enough too. Yet, ark dismisses their defense of the base like he does RF6's deployment at HQ. It's like I kept saying, no matter what they showed on screen, it wouldn't have satisfied him unless they clearly drove off the attackers. He says otherwise, but look at how he considers the presence of two experienced veterans to be "inadequate".
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