Well, first of all I'm surprised transforming MS are somehow taken as being this dangerous when they've been more or less a dime a dozen everywhere since Zeta Gundam, where the Gaplant comes from. Baund Doc, I can't really comment on because I just don't like how it looks which colors my entire perception of it, but I don't remember it as being all that dangerous in Zeta. It's almost literally chucked aside by Kamille in the Zeta Gundam.

Second, you've approved of transforming MS before and somehow I think it's just using the term "mobile armor" that's triggered this overreaction even though that just means "mobile weapon that isn't humanoid in shape". Again, plenty of mobile suits transform into "mobile armors". You've approved of several transforming MS before, a player currently has the Elf Bullock and Mack Knife listed as machines, those transform, and a IIRC a former player was allowed to go about in the Zeta series of machines.

As for firepower, the comparison with the Virtue is kinda silly. The GN bazooka is a handheld weapon that fires enourmous sweeping beams that could very well be used to take out ships. Its GN cannons aren't quite as powerful, but it still has four shoulder-mounted, swiveling high power beam weapons there. Of the approved transforming MS, the Zeta Plus C1 had a beam smartgun, a high power weapon that can actually bend its beam and has autoaim capabilities. The Elf Bullock has 14 beam emitters (per MAHQ) spread across its body, plus finger beam guns that can generate sabers, missile launchers and [url=http://i.imgur.com/TWYq52T.png]giant ship-carving beam saber feet[/url].

Meanwhile your problem is I've a pair of beam shotguns, which as it tends to be the case with shotguns aren't particularly effective at a range, mounted on shields and missiles which amount to something essentially never. Don't you think it'd be far worse for me to have a high speed unit that can also play keepaway and fire beam shots from a longer range? Man you're taking the Freedom which has just as much if not more gun, effective at longer ranges and coupled with automatic aiming and phase shift armor.

I'm sorry for pure melee units but if they charge face-first at something with effective guns without some strategy or having something special to them they're gonna get shredded by a guy with a beam rifle or any kind of rapid fire weapon anyway. The Freedom could handily play keepaway with Deathscythe as well, with more weapons with better range, unless the Deathscythe uses its stealth advantage. The Justice is supposedly focused on melee but its beam boomerangs can be used as a range and attack from weird angles and it still has two beam cannons, a beam rifle and a set of six machineguns on its backpack. Oh and autoaim as well.

I think this is a whole lot of exageration about something that is well in line with already approved mobile suits just because it happens to use the term "mobile armor" for its transformation, and this evokes images of stuff like the Big Zam clearing out fleets solo rather than just something that just contorts itself to a nonhuman form.