Board Thread:Series Discussion/@comment-4738647-20150328194813/@comment-25450485-20150418205947

Let's start with the blades:

The blades come from 4 different compartments placed on his sleipnir, 2 placed on each shoulder and 2 on the hips. When Inaho draws his first blade, you get a good shot at him drawing it from the one on his left hip (somewhere at 11:57). Half a minute later, when Inaho breaks Slaine's sword you get a good view of him drawing blades from the compartments on his shoulders. Throughout the entire battle, Inaho drew only four blades, one from each compartment. Judging from that and the size of the blades, it is safe to assume that there is only one of these in each compartment. The gauntlets aren't welded to the arm, they can be freely wielded. Very similar to how blades are used in the Attack on Titan manga/anime

The Head:

The head may have the main cameras, but they have cameras other than that too. Otherwise their field of vision would be even more limited than it already is. My guess is that the backup cameras are somwehere on the main hull, probably the upper chest area. Inaho said he rerouted the vision back in season one, but I don't think he said anything about arms.

And lastly, the shields:

They were angled. Inaho didn't face them to Slaine, but angled them a bit, which caused most bullets to bounce off. Those that penetrated it lost most of their penetrative power and were mostly harmless.

Putting more armor on the Sleipnir?

Nah, no point in doing that. Would have made it very slow and an easy target. Furthermore, armor is pretty much meaningless against Vers kataphracts. All you can do is armor it so it doesn't get too heavy and can handle regular bullets to some degree, but anything beyond that is a waste of time since most Vers kats can kill a terran kat in a moment no matter how much armor you slap on it.

Nilokeras- No resistance at all, such a barrier sure is convenient

Argyre- Plasma blade may need a second or two more. Also, more painful for the pilot because cockpit won't get fried instantly

Hellas- Will still smash it like a bug since it can't evade the rocket fist coming from straight above at high speed.

Dioscuria- Can choose any of the 3 above

Frozen Elysium- Instafreezes everything anyways.

Sirenum- Takes it apart.

Deucalion- Tosses it around till it stops moving

Herschel- Good luck evading all the attacks with the heavy armor

Octantis- Same here, you can't avoid that deadly Jojo when you are this heavy

Solis- I don't think a few more inches of steel are gonna do much of a difference against dat beam

Geryon- Will toss anything around or crush it. And it has too many arms too

Scandia- Its explosive arrows pack quite a punch and without you seeing it you can't do anything about it and again, you are an easy target when being so slow

Ortygia- You are screwed either way if it gets to you

Elektis- Your regular armor conducts electricity, more armor ain't gonna change that

Tharsis- May help against the bullets, but that blade will be a problem. Also, it has that cheatish foresight ability so if you aren't Inaho, you are screwed anyways.