T'au SEED Destiny: ZGMF-1000/A1 Gunner ZAKU Warrior

The next, and second, mobile suit for my bodyguard unit of Tau, is the suit piloted by my long time anime crush: Lunamaria Hawke's Gunner ZAKU.

You see, the unit will have widely varrying colourschemes, as all three of them (Heine, Lunamaria and Rey) had personalised suits, and this one is perhaps the hardest to recreate.

Sporting a purple / reddish / burgundy colourscheme, it was a bit hard to find a good balance between fitting together yet contrasting, but in the end I`m happy with the result.  Being a long ranged suit, I went for the best weapon loadout to represent this, in the form of a missile pod and a plasma rifle.

Together with the right Sept treats (of course, my sept is called Gun'Dam) this makes for a rather mobile yet stable force of all battlesuits, even if it is a pity in 9th edition the Fly rule got tweaked as that made battlesuits forces look really playable.  Not that I tried, I faced them once and snatched victory, but I have been slowly building the force during 8th and it still isn`t ready, as it really is an "in between" project.

Accompanying her are a gun drone (more guns) and a marker drone (best fitting for the sniping nature of the original suit), and as such completes 2/3rd of the unit, which I hope to get completely finished by, say, the end of 2020...

So to that end, she adds 81 points to the total, putting the project now at 849 points in 9th edition.

The Inspiration

One of the many variants of the ZGMF-1000 ZAKU Warrior achieved through use of the Wizard Packs, the Gunner ZAKU Warrior is specialized for artillery strikes. Besides the standard armament of the ZAKU Warrior, the Gunner ZAKU Warrior also carries a M1500 "Orthros" high-energy long-range beam cannon, which is installed on the back-mounted Gunner Wizard Pack. This beam cannon is the strongest ranged weapon available to the ZAKU Warrior and grants it an impressive firepower over long ranges, capable of destroying any mobile suits or mobile armors within its line of fire.

And that is it for this mobile suit or battlesuit, I tend to use the first term for my force for obvious reasons... see you next time for some more SEED Destiny inspired models...