So the whole spikes thing isn't a regularly used tactic and was just meant to make the mission suicidal right? if so I could watch the rest if this. In universe plot armour is pretty interesting.

this movie was my first insight into Votom universe back in 2010. p/s : 2024 was the year I got to understand the lore thanks to the KZfaqr Ret_Con

Dont worry, you didnt spoil anything for me

this is still straight dookie, lazy writing.

Yeah it’s like whoever was planning the crossing wanted their side to fail.

@@gabem3251 That was the plan from what I recall.

​@@gabem3251that's the plan, they're going to atleast divert enemy forces to them while a different unit attacks the main objective.

​@@grugmangaming5152damn. Brutal

That and also from what I recall, there was something about corruption or a general wanting to prove something about tanks over ATs but I could be wrong. I need to rewatch Pailsen Files again.

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Well they were the diversion

Nah, ATs are really, really cheap for what they can do. Biggest expenditure was probably the airships.

>Gilgamesh >heros

No I dont really need to think about it actually

​@@spazmonkey2131Yeah, so the heros spent 100s of trillions on diversionary forces only

Right?!?!

unironically yeah. which is sad when you take vracks into account.

Warhammer 40k fans try not to mention 40k in any sci-fi comment section challenge- IMPOSSIBLE Go back to playing with your toys I swear you 40k fans are so annoying

​@@agimb2381 "other sci-fi mentioned in my sci-fi I won't stand for this" screamed the man face beet red with fury

@@PALACIO254 No Scifi fanbase is as annoying as 40k fans. I dont care about the XVVVIith Storm legion fighting the evil death demon of the blood realm from butcher planet 7 as the space marine chapter of the Vibrators arrive to 100000000000000 casualties (good victory standards by imperial numbers btw did we mention 40k is super duper dark and serious for manly men)

@@agimb2381 Mate I just wanted to make a joke. I didn't mean anything personal to you

Something straight out The Red Star lol

Why are they even filled with napalm?

@@eurobeat_enjoyerThey arent filled with Napalm. From what I understand it's the ATs (Armored Troopers / Mech Suits) that use a highly compressed and energetic fuel to power their machines and keep them as mobile as they are. However they are combustible... this paired with lightning and the anchoring rods/spikes... well... pretty bad luck.

Dumb, maybe, awesome, hell yeah

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This was so stupid it hurt. All that flak couldn't reliably hit slow moving air ships as big as buildings? And all that stupidity with the spikes to shoot grappling hooks at? Really/ They couldn't put jump jets on those power suits? Japanese animation is beautiful but the stories are dumb beyond words. Like stuff for little kids.

what series is it?

@@riekopo7638 Armored troopers Votoms : Pailsen files

@@owensthilaire8189 Why would putting jump jets make any more sense? Will it somehow not be "for kids" if they had jump jets? What are you even saying?

That makes no sense.

So the billions of dollars worth of equipment is worth testing a single person?

Chirico*

@@someasiandude4797 Yes, and you say billions but their government doesn't really value much life of such soldiers... And those suits are in the Votoms universe equivalent to a bargain bin mass produced helmet... This is to them the financial equivalent of a test on reality defying war luck, and a massive distraction to tie up enemy forces for near nothing cost wise.

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When you cheat up a huge army in strategy game but don’t know the rules and tactics

anti mecha fans are brain dead tbh

​@@heymay724 tbh it's scenes like these that make the genre difficult to take seriously

@@SFish-wr4khWell, you need context to make sense of this operation (although even with context it seems to be a HUGE waste)

@@SFish-wr4kh Im sorry you cant appericiate Mecha Kino

@@SFish-wr4khit’s just normandy but mechs, there’s way weirder in any other genre

One must not forget that things like these may be tests. In ww2, the Allies decided to do a raid with some of their most elite forces. Given objective: take a port on mainland europe and hold it long enough for reinforcements. Actual objective: lets see what happens to the port and evacuate whats left of the troops. The results of that were clear. Taking a port makes the germans fight hard to get it back, wreck it beyond its intended purpose or both. This is important because it led to the construction of the artificial harbor in Normandy. You do not have to conquer a harbor if you bring your own

you've never seen a big river, have you? There are some rivers that which you can barely see the other shore of, or can't see it at all - like the siberian Ob' and Yenisey, Volga in some places and probably Danube (I've never seen it).

That's because they were set up to fail. It was a suicidal assault forced on them by a scheming higher-up, with just enough expenditure of resources he wanted gone anyway to look legitimate.

Soldiers are soda members sent en masse against the enemy, no matter the tactics, they are not destined to be immortal.

Shields would be useless, because AT are the definition of glass cannon.

@kindlingking I bet the mechs on the front of the landing boats (& the ones getting to the top of the cliff) would beg to differ. :P

Shield, like in Star Trek or like a mech sized riot shield? If the Star Trek kind, that tech doesn't exist here. Votoms is pretty hard Sci-Fi. If you mean physical shields, then one with enough armor to protect them would also slow them down too much. The nations in this aren't super rich like America or other NATO forces and are more like Eastern Europe in their corruption level they they can neither afford to give their base line super armor (if I remember correctly their armor is just steel, slightly better then modern RHA steel but not by that much) not would probably care to even if they could since that would mean less money for the higher ups to pocket. Just to give you an idea of how bad the corruption is, those 1,500 units were set up to fail on purpose for three reasons, they were a distraction, the general wanted the mechs to fail so he could push for more funding for tanks, and as an experiment to test for soldiers who are the top of the top. So yeah, just as an experiment and as just some generals vanity project, 1,500 people were sent to die.

From what I heard, the purpose was to pretty much discredit VOTOMs (The giant robots seen in the video) In another battle, that was happening while this battle happened, there was a successful victory that they made using conventional weaponry and vehicles.

I think the fuels from the mech getting punctured

@@chuckEcheddarcheeseif that’s true it is not well visually communicated

@@rorythomas9469 I mean later in the scene you can see it bleeding out of a mech with a severed arm

To be fair this is part of an intergalactic war, there's tons of planet who need to pay taxes.

you're so close to getting the point

Literally finding a guy with in universe cannon plot armor, its like a super-power in votoms. Its stupid overpowered.

If I'm remembering it right, the whole operation IS designed to fail right from the start.

If that's representative of the whole series... no, thanks. That's enough plot armor and plot holes and bad writing for me.

​@CD-kg9by what do you mean plot armor, 1 guy surviving out 1500 is really not that crazy realistically you'd expect there to be more honestly

@@CD-kg9by iirc the whole point of this operation was to see if he had in universe plot armor so yeah

No.

Votoms pailsrn files

Much of fiction hinges on "Unless specified otherwise, everything inside your world is assumed to behave exactly as it would in the real world.". VOTOMs goes into detail, its just that, this video is the first exposure to VOTOMs for many people, and this OVA is most definitely made with intent of appealing to the VOTOM Fans.

To be fair, from what I heard this was intentionally made unsurvivable to test if the MC had in universe plot armor. Which honestly shows how worthless human life is in votoms that they willingly throw away thousands of lives and billions in equipment just to test if someone has above average luck

No different than 40k in that regard

@@veryconcernedbread not false.

Actual bad writing lmao

@@nunya404 give me more autism is what the writers were told to do Thats the only missiom that got accomplished.. so many good men dead.. damn

Well, it was planned to make the mechs look as stupid as possible. Sham operation so a higher up could shill his own personal MIC project instead.

They are mass produced with the cheapest materials and are easily damaged but can be repaired fast (think of like world war 1 tanks) The polymer ringer liquid that fuels the mechs is extremely explosive and volatile (the reason they wear the gas masks and i equate the liquid to the real life Azidoazide azide chemical)

No but everything has to be really super real, you don't like realism in an anime?

​@@d3bugged No. Realism is boring. Real life is already dull enough. Why bring it to fantasy and fiction.

@@ikmalkamal5830 I agree 100%

Votoms

Still cool to watch, and in universe context, it makes sense. I'll take this any day before any western garbage

Its funny tho

Why would they be "haunted" by D-Day when they never suffered an invasion force on their shores? Your comment makes no sense. Not for nothing, but this is a scene taken from somewhere, from a war with a campaign with an unknown objective, as of only this scene. It won't disclose to you the full armaments, purpose or philosophy taken for the battle and why the military is content with the outcome.

At this point they already have multirole jets, but they didn’t use them.

At first glance, this may seem like a ridiculous plan, but this is a test mission to confirm the survival rate of the main character, Kiriko, so the higher-ups do not consider any damage other than that of Kiriko to be important at all.

​​@@user-lk6jc8eg3r just who is this man? is he somekind of supersoldier? im curious, also the mech kinda similiar to the game i have played, i don't know what the name is but it's on ps2 from what i remember

@@muhammadjuansyarin1596That's what his superiors and others are wondering aswell. He was seemingly some sort of 'pet project' of someone who was a VERY HIGH ranking man in the military who fell to disgrace recently. The soldier in question seems to be quite talented but not talented enough to warrant such an odds-defying survival rate. Is he a super-solider? Is he a coward? Is he just unnaturally lucky? Does he leech the luck of his fellow comrades and brothers in arms? How is it that only HE survives those total fiascos? .. repeatedly? Those are mysteries that are being explored in Armored Trooper VOTOMS!

@@muhammadjuansyarin1596 It's true that it's also available on PS2, but this game isn't well known outside of fans. You've probably played Gundam or Armored Core. The idea for Armored Trooper Votoms was inspired by immortal action heroes in Hollywood movies. For some reason, bullets aimed at the main character miss fatal wounds or he always revives. His comrades also die in place of the main character, making him a terrifying colleague. The military had high ambitions for super soldiers who always survive and complete their missions.

On one hand yes, but on the other are freaking slow unarmed giant ships with metal spikes dangling underneath.

Votom is also made by sunrise studio but Votom its own franchise, not related to gundam

@@ssss.wappled2418 I see, I thought it's gundam cause their mechs had similar designs to zaku.

@@toshiro8932Kunio Okawara designed the original Gundam, the Zaku, these mechs, and about a thousand other mecha.

If there is a connection, it is that the mecha designer is the same person who designed the Zaku.

Bro if you think every mecha is Gundam...

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