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the age was dubious for military services, especially as a main force and even officer roles. I understand that the world with stats mean children can grow really fast, but that doesn't compensate for experience. Sure, experience doesn't not equal age and age doesn't mean experience, but early teen is young AF. Not to mention that adults also have acess to what most kids have with even more time to use them. MC friends get a good boost from 2nd job, but a lot of adults would have been in their 2rd or 3rd, yet get wiped in the dozens. The age wasn't an issue before this arc because they were mostly in young adventurer or trainee roles, but a lot of them are now capable officers. Is it a major issue? Not really, it's kinda par of the course for shonen action adventure story. It's like Naruto. Remember how powerful everyone was in Chunin exam? Practically all nameless adult ninjas passed similar exam and have years if not decades more training and field experience after that and yet they are still insignificant mooks in any part of the story.

Unlikely. Small sword/Court sword are more popular by late 17th century. They are stabbing sword with long thin blade like rapier, but shorter, thinner, and much lighter. And small sword remains one of the more popular ceremonial officer sword even to this day. Rapier is more 16th to early 17th century thing and they got replaced because people like smaller, more comfortable, and stylish small sword.

The worst part of this series is the MC and the system. I like reading about the world outside and the mech. But MC is honestly pathetic and system nonsense.

Honestly his business sense is horrible. He has no business plan when he opened the mech shop at all. Company org is one person. He has no technician on hand. No real know-how on how to build mech or even modest modefication of a mech. No material supplier. Not even the game LC. He just open one without putting the bare minimum thought I it.

Nope, not for collection value. Flawed base model can be better for collection because they are flawed. A variant has no value to a collector unless a variant has impact on future development history. (Like a variant that got its mod merged back to main line)

Honestly, mech duel is kinda "eh?" way to develop military mech pilot for a nation in the first place. It disregard a lot of roles need by the military. It should have been small teams competing various mission scenarios.

Honestly, the gauntlet should have been presented to the designer before hand. A mech should be to it's mission/doctrine. Or at least clearly stated that the mech should be multipurpose trooper mech. What happen if a designer didn't know and designed long range recon patrol mech for a battleline gauntlet? Or a heavy fire support mech for urban occupation mission?

Honestly though, Augustus was a top of the line mech in its performance, only failed because of its poor manufacturability, difficult maintenance, and fragile internal. Something our MC with less than a year of experience (though with system pumping maybe a decade of worth of learning into him and a note from veteran mech tech) had remedied. I'd expect it to have revisions which at least partially fixed these issues out by now.