Board Thread:Series Discussion/@comment-4738647-20150110181241/@comment-25450485-20150116171842

Damn right bro- Every pilot other than the main cast acts like a complete retard. No wonder the martians could conquer half the planet with barely any casualties.

Part of it like them panicing at their first encounters is understandable since the higher-ups kept the "aldnoah magic" a secret in order to prevent the martians from catching on to their newest vanity project .

Because if they admitted the abilities of Aldnoah, ppl would ask where that knowledge came from since only the 2 vanguards on Tanegashima came down before shit hit the fan. And if it was possible for Marito to survive the blast (hell, he wasn't even inside the tank since it burned out), it wouldn't take long for the martians to figure that Orlane also may have survived. And then Saazbaum would come rushing down right away and the whole secrecy would go to waste.

But later on...

It was 19 months later dammit. Guess the pilots of "Harbinger platoon" (dang it, why does the platoon with my nickname have to be full of amateurs). If they KNEW that it had the capability to stop molecules directly, why dafuq do they run into the field? There are 2 kinds of de-icers:

1) Those that spray an anti-freeze chemical which lowers the melting point of water a lot, causing the ice to melt. It was used on planes to remove ice from the wings.

2) Those that heat up the surface a bit every once in a while. Modern refrigerators have that as well. By heating up the surface every once in a while, the lowest layer of the ice melts and the ice slides off. This is now the method of choice in airplanes since it doesn't require taking tanks full of anti-freeze chemical with you every time.

And the retards can SEE that it freezes everything in a 1000m radius. Hello, this goes quite beyond being a walking refrigerator. I can understand they couldn't figure the "meissner effect" thing out (had to look it up on wikipedia myself), but come on, if you KNOW it stops the molecules directly you may wanna stay out of the field.

Inaho's solution was to create pockets of hot air with his grenades, fly through them and counteract the "frostball" of the Elysium by using them to heat up the hull of his kataphract. But I wouldn't want to pilot the Elysium even if Inaho isn't around. That thing's function prevents you from getting ANY help at all (since you would freeze allies as well) and it has no combat ability whatsoever should the "frostball" fail to work. You can't even mount an machine gun on it since the meissner effect would mess up your aim.