Aussenseiter

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Aussenseiter is a fictional giant robot from the Japanese video game series Super Robot Taisen. It has appeared in 3rd Super Robot Taisen Alpha, and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2.

[edit] Description

The Aussenseiter is colored dark black and has dark grey highlighting in spots. It also has red coloring on its shins, ankles, skirt armor, forarms, shoulder plates, and head. One of Aussenseiter's most distinctive features are two large plates on its shoulders which can be detached and used as throwing weapons. On Aussenseiter's head is a white "mane" resembling a stallion's. It also has a detachable black cape on its back.

[edit] Technical and historical

The DGG-XAM2 Aussenseiter is the brother unit to the DGG-XAM1 Dynamic General Guardian/Dygenguard built by Mao Industries with help from the Tesla Liecht Institute. While the Dygenguard is made primarily for melee attack purposes, the Aussenseiter can be used primarily for long range bombardment. It is unusually fast and mobile for a Super Robot, and sports a pair of ranged cannons. The Aussenseiter can transform into a horse for the Dygenguard to ride on to perform their combination attack, the "Tatsumaki Zankantou"[Tornado Blade in the English version]. Aussenseiter means Outsider or Dark Horse in German - a fitting name, given Elzam V. Branstein's tendency to be an an unexpected factor to turn the tide when the outlook is bleak.

In the 3rd Super Robot Taisen Alpha, this unit has been completed at the Tesla Liecht Institute for Rätsel Feinschmecker (really former Divine Crusader member Elzam von Branstein) and is handed to him for his use. As with all his mecha, he refers to it as "Trombe," after his own horse back in his home colony. (Elpis Colony in the Original Generation games)

In Original Generation 2, it serves the same purpose. Rätsel retrieves this unit upon his and Sanger's raid of the Tesla Liecht Institute, held captive by the Inspectors, an alien army which siezes the technology of other civilizations and uses it against them. With the Aussenseiter, Rätsel holds off the commander of the forces occupying the TLI, Vigagi, in order to give the TLI technicians time to ready the Dygenguard for Sanger.

[edit] Specifications

Height: 54.9 meters

Weight: 165.5 tons

Weapon Systems:

• Schulterplatte
  The Aussenseiter can throw its shoulder plates as long range cutting weapons..

• Lanzer Kanone
  The Aussenseiter uses its ranged cannon stored on its backpack..

• Lanzer Kanone W
  The Aussenseiter uses both of its ranged cannons for long range bombardments on multiple enemy units.

• Sturm Angriff
  There are two animated versions of this attack. In the Original Generation version (which was the first), the Aussenseiter executes its Lanzer Kanone-W attack while rushing straight at the enemy. It then impales the target on the bayonet tip of his right-hand Lanze Kanone, lifts the enemy up into the air until it is set down on his other side, then fires the Lanzer Kanone at point-blank range, catapulting the impaled enemy away to explode. In the Alpha 3 version, the Aussenseiter dives into the group of enemies and from within the group it smacks them about with its cannons while in quick and swift motions it fires them at all the surrounding opponents to deliver decisive shots to all of them.