Quote Originally Posted by DeathscytheVII
And random note about the car/pipe bombs, i'm pretty sure they can blow treads off the tracks of tanks at least, in any case
Yeah, that's true for sure. But from that point of view the mechas would be even weaker to such effects. Wheel and tracks are highly more economical in moving heavy vehicles than feet. Thus, the mechas can't be nearly as heavy and thus nearly as well armored as tanks could be.

Quote Originally Posted by DeathscytheVII
The gundams have shown they are not above attacking infantry, as they had shown when they massively bombed that base full of infantry and gundam units as well as supporting infantry in tamil. If anything, if these paramilitary factions decide to fight exclusively with infantry it would make their job easier, since there is a higher concentration of manpower and leadership within smaller zones as opposed to armies spreading themselves out with mobile units. It would be an even bigger massacre, especially if CB manages to locate infantry/terrorist training camps as well (protagonists seem to have a way of finding these things hehe)
Nah. You are now assuming the army generals would just mindlessly order the infantry to move out in large quantities and formations. As it's known the CB will attack anything, they would need to make sure the formations are inconspicuous enough either not to attract attention or be inconvenient to wipe out. A giant mecha is easy to defeat even from far away, but dispersed infantry hiding all over isn't easy at all. And chasing them would put the Gundams in a seriously bigger danger as well.

The Sri Lankan artillery must have used some anti-personnel rounds against the emo Gundam pilot and thus didn't even dent the paint, but when attacking against the main super powers you could be sure it would be APFSDS or whatever new armor piercing technology available that would be directed at them. And when they would be desperately trying to pinpoint small groups of infantry hiding, they would be vulnerable to such fire, as well as all kinds of small shoulder launched AA projectiles.