Gundam 00 Season 2 Episode 03

[Buffalobiian]

Woho finally!!! Lost my password and had no idea what it was & too lazy to make a new account (So instead I try to figure it out for like 6 months +... yeah lazy)

Six months' effort to figure out a password yet too lazy to do a "forgotten password" reset?

Buffalobiian: Have to disagree I don't think she made the plan based on Lockon, besides he only had a minor roll to stay far away and just shot. Like they told him it doesn't matter if he hits or not since i's just a diversion. Which means if you can aim a little and can pull the trigger pretty much anyone could have done that.

The ones who said "You don't have to hit, just shoot some and distract them" were the mechanic and the other crew who read Sumeragi's plan, which probably says "Lockon shoots from point (X,Y) to distance suits from Seravee." They were surprised then, that he can hit targets. Sumeragi, however, just mutters "He was.......". Clearly, that shows she knew of his ability. Furthermore, she was counting on that to make the plan successful. To add to that, we saw her considering his stats when she planned the strategy, then sent in what was a BOLD Blitzkrieg strike plan:

Blitzkrieg (German for "lightning war"listen) is a popular name for an offensive operational-level military doctrine which involves an initial bombardment followed by the employment of motorized mobile forces attacking with speed and surprise to prevent an enemy from implementing a coherent defense. - Courtesy of Wiki

Cherudim plays its role here, preventing the enemy from counter-attacking. Something it couldn't have done from merely spamming ineffective shots. We're not talking about clan troops from Gdm 00 S1 Ep2 here. We're talking about A-LAWS.

Finally, you see our strategist sigh in relief when the plan succeeds. A bold and relatively risky plan indeed. Imagine relying on a noob at a time like this.

Though I think Sumeragi figured out that he's a pretty good sniper. I mean come on he's part of a resistance so doubt that all he knows how to do is be a double agent which is something he couldn't have planned. As far as all the suits he hit while it might be true that he doesn't really have any experience piloting an MS it's possible that Neil and Lyle both went through the same sniping training so it's not really impossible for him to have shot them down since Haro pretty much takes care of everything other than the shooting.

I agree. Though I don't know how she figured it out, she knew. The modified targeting system on Cherudim was meant to make full use of manual marksmanship anyway.

Besides we've seen Virtue stand and take on a lot of incoming firepower before so it's not really anything new with his GN field. Though I am surprised that no one seems to have found a way to counter it in 4 years unless they weren't able to create a GN field of their own.

Firstly, they did figure how to counter GN fields in Season 1. It happened right after they got the 30 grey Fake Gundams. Virtue put up a GN field, but the shots went through. Tieria comments that they figured out his compression ratio. From what I gather, GN particles are like light particles, which in turn has both wave and particle properties. That means it's subject to interference, both by other electromagnetic ones (GN fields) or physical ones (eg, water, like what happened this episode). So pretty much Seravee just jacked up it's particle compression so high that you'll need a crapload of firepower to break.
Secondly, they did figure how to make a GN field. Check out the golden crab thing from episode 25.

As for the rest they had a surprise going on since it seems they weren't aware that there were 3 Gundams right there. Not to mention there were only 4 left at that time so it wasn't really plow through 20+ mobile suits in less than 2 minutes. Seeing how close they were I doubt that the cannons could have fired out of fear of hitting their own allies. Also they seem to have better teamwork compared to how they were in the first season with everyone fighting by themselves.

And on that note that was probably one of the most crappy traps I've ever seen. Seriously other than lure CB there what where they going to do with limited mobile suits and one battle ship? While CB did take out their MS hanger first it makes somewhat sense but still that trap just sucked seeing as Kataron managed to sneak in as well. They got a 40 million strong organization and that's the best trap they managed to do? At least the one in the first season worked until Throne showed up.

Yep. All part of Blitzkrieg. An organised, lightning fast surprise attack on underprepared enemies. Why were they underprepared? Well for one they probably intended to leak info out after Wang Liu Mei did. It's not like they were that unprepared though. Those A-LAWS were mobilised straight off the bat. I do agree that they've once again underestimated Celestial Being though.