>>Ah, the GBR-1. The most powerful pre-Miyafuji Striker ever built...
>>and the most dangerous. (To its operator, I mean. It would've been
>>useless in combat.)
>
>Not entirely useless- it could be very handy for a diversionary
>operation, a.k.a. "slap a Neuroi on the head and run away, get them to
>chase me into an ambush/out of the path of the main force". This is
>probably a suicidally stupid idea, but then again, so's putting on a
>GBR-1 in the first place.

It might work. Or you might end up making the most hilarious entrance to the afterlife since General John Sedgwick.*

By the '40s there are probably faster Strikers available; the old hit-and-run is a specialty of certain marks of Mosquito, for instance. And while those are flammable, they are at least relatively stable. :)

Ohhhhh -
Don't give me a P-39
With an engine that's mounted behind**
It will tumble and roll
And dig a great hooooooole -
Don't give me a P-39

--G.
* Who arrived still in the process of completing the sentence, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
** Behind what is a fair question when considering the Striker Unit version. Maybe it was an attempt at combining the power of the Miyafuji Engine with the old-fashioned backpack-mounted magic engines of earlier models, because more is always more, right?
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