Alt Eisen Riese

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Alt Eisen Riese is a fictional giant robot from the Japanese video game series Super Robot Wars. It has appeared in Super Robot Wars Impact and Original Generation 2.

[edit] Appearance

The Alt Eisen Riese has the same general appearance as its predecessor, Alt Eisen had. However, it has black highlights all over its body and is even more top-heavy due to the size of its shoulder armor and backpack.

[edit] Technical and historical

For information on the original machine, see the Alt Eisen page.

After it was heavily damaged from a sortie against Axel Almer of the Shadow Mirror, Kyosuke Nanbu requested upgrades for his machine. Using spare parts from Excellen's Weiss Ritter, various additions for the Alt Eisen were planned in order to fix its imbalance issues, so that Kyosuke would be able to push it beyond its limits: more armor plating was added for defensive purposes, the ammunition capacity for the Claymore launchers was increased, two more machine cannons were added to the left arm, the heat horn was upgraded to a plasma horn, and the Revolving Stake would be replaced with the Revolving Bunker, and older and more powerful version of the stake deemed too impractical to use in the original design. This solved the firepower problems the Alt was having. To further fix the imbalancing issues, a Tesla Drive was installed. Though a Tesla Drive usually allows a unit to fly, in this case, it instead allows low-level flight/hovering, as well as better movement to easy up the unit in its movement for easier attacking methods. Without the Tesla Drive, the Alteisen Reise would be incapable of even standing upright. A small pair of stabilizer "wings" were added on the shoulders to increase its overall mobility and speed. The new unit would be designated as the PTX-003C-SP1 "Alt Eisen Riese".

The Alt Eisen Riese would continue to serve as Kyosuke's main unit. Along with Excellen's "upgraded" unit, the Rein Weiss Ritter, they would act as a powerful team capable of doing the new "Rampage Ghost" combination attack.

[edit] Specifications

Height: 23.8 meters

Weight: 99.7 tons

Weapon Systems:

• Penta Chaingun (simply "Chaingun" in the US version)
  This weapon is similar to the Autocannon on the Alt Eisen, except that its five barrels are linked together in Gatling gun fashion.

• Plasma Horn
  A plasma-charged blade mounted on the Riese's forehead.

• Revolving Bunker ("Revolver Bunker" in the US version)
  The original version of the Revolving Stake in the regular Alteisen (which was a scaled-down version due to the original's ungainly weight and bulk). Although its mounting is substantially different from the Revolving Stake's, its principle is the same, just even more powerful. In the Original Generation OVA, Kyousuke could be seen reloading it with a PT-scale speedloader.

• Avalanche/Heavy Claymore ("Claymore Avalanche" in the US version)
  The Avalanche Claymore is a larger variant of its predecessor, the Square Claymore. Both weapons saturate their victims with a hail of solid titanium ball bearings, with a substantial increase of projectiles in the "Avalance" version.

• Aerial Claymore ("Claymore Overlord" in the US version)
  The Aerial Claymore is not a weapon in itself, but a series of precision-timed attacks. The Aerial Claymore is, in principle, similar to the Trump Card attack used by the original Alteisen, save that instead of finishing with the Stake/Bunker, Kyousuke employs the Claymores as the coup de grace.

• Rampage Ghost
  Kyousuke and Excellent's signature attack. They deliver a combination of attacks in a coordinated strategy to deliver massive amounts of damage to the target.