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i am kinda disappointed at the melee art that occurred. maybe because im used to the extremely detailed gun fights, but i just felt like they could have done more.

the tank was made by Welkin's dad. they said that a long time ago...

What annoys me is that spoiler[Alicia gets beaten around for several hours and then so easily defeats Selvaria. That's something you expect from Dragonball Z; heck, even Goku had to work to defeat Freeza after transforming into Super Saiyan.]

Agreed there.

Oh, and another thing. spoiler[How did Maximilian's mobile fortress get so close to the Palace?] The two biggest frontal guns looked to be several times the calibre of the 18.1 inch leviathans the Yamato used. So big in fact that if it fired even one of them (impossible since that kind of recoil off-centre would destroy the fortress) would destroy the entire fortress. Yeah, you heard me, whether it wished to fire one or both cannons, either way the mobile fortress would have been destroyed.

This is an anime based off of a strategy JRPG taking place in a fantasy world dude. The presence of the Edelweiss, which is basically a Desert Storm tank, in the late 1930s is already impossible.

But anyway, who in their right mind would let something that powerful spoiler[get within spitting distance of the capital?] Remember, the largest naval guns can fire at targets beyond the horizon, i.e. dozens of kilometres away. The Gallians spoiler[gave some weak-arse excuse for letting it that close, but let me tell you; if I were the Gallians I would have recalled my entire army to combat that thing. After all, if Maximilian was truly on a peace-making mission he wouldn't have needed to bring so much firepower.]

Yeah, they really didn't do service to the spoiler[Marmota]'s appearance in the anime. In the game there were two entire missions devoted to spoiler[holding the fortress back].

When spoiler[Selvaria did that self-destruct thing], in the game Squad 7 spoiler[had actually captured her], and spoiler[General Gregor was stupid enough to take the entire Gallian Regular Army up there to celebrate. With no regular army, what commanders remained were left scrambling to organize a militia counterattack on the Marmota.]

The same thing probably happened in the anime, but they didn't convey it that well.

Another problem; what was the issue with Cordelia? spoiler[I'm not talking about her being a Darcsen, I'm talking about her believing that the only two options were to reveal herself as a Darcsen or marry Maximilian. She could and should have kept the wig on and just told him to bugger off, and that a political marriage to the man who started the war was A: a somewhat medieval tradition that had no place in the twentieth century, and B: completely daft anyway. Who would trust him? Especially when the Gallian army was winning, Maximilian had committed treason against his own country and the battle between Alicia and Selvaria hadn't even finished yet.]

Lastly, what was Maximilian thinking? Saying all those things out loud is a poor way to get what you want, mate. Use your inside voice. Perhaps stupidity was in the air.

Couldn't tell you. Like I said, the scene was quite different in the game, so the anime is going off on its own thing here. Maximilian in the game already knew Cordelia's secret and wanted something else (that still might show up in these last episodes).

But hey, at least spoiler[that annoying Gallian general got offed.] Although we did hear him whinging and whining and being a prick for too long this episode (not to mention all the others).

Explaining everything? Come on, that's just senseless.
Many things left unexplained. Welkin's dad, was one. I don't remember his past being explained in the anime, or was it?

It wasn't explained in the game either. He's just a hero of the previous war (which occurred like 15 years earlier), and that's all we really need to know.

Darcsen's history. So far all we know is that they are a blue haired race with a curse upon.

The game explained it much more thoroughly in the scene with Cordelia and Maximilian, and the anime will probably go into that more in these last two episodes (it better).

When was that special tank made, exactly by who and how(the one Isara was always around).

It was made by Welkin's dad and Isara's biological father during the previous war. It's explained earlier on that many Darcsens are extremely skilled mechanics.

Plus all of the huge and "cool" tanks that just keep popping up out of nowhere.

I assure you spoiler[the Marmota] is the last one.

And what exactly are the valkyria, why were they instinct and why do they have unexplained super powers and a self destruction that looks like a nuclear bomb.

See above concerning the Darcsens.

They are just taking it for granted that we all played the game or they really want us to play the game to understand it. Either way, without the game the anime is incomplete.
And yes, I know there're 2 episodes left.

Really, most of the stuff you're asking about either was explained briefly earlier in the anime and in the game, or will probably be explained in these last two episodes.

Personally, not playing the game, I feel that they've done a pretty good job explaining everything.