Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-149.12.15.1-20140328232551/@comment-109.146.108.155-20140601144631

Can't remember if it was Solid or Naked, but one of the Snakes, said "all it takes is one determined soldier to take down a Metal Gear", or something to that effect, look at it this way, Raiden was able to destroy an army's worth of Gears using nothing but a Stinger missile, pre cyborg enhancements, and Solidus decimated three in a split second using a tiny 5mm SMG, so it's perfectly reasonable for a regular mook to potentially immobilise a Gear by getting a good shot at, let's say leg joints for example, while it's distracted by other troops, so with a smaller unit may be easier to mass produce, thus allowing multiple units to be deployed together to help reduce the risk of one unattended soldier getting a good shot at the weak points.

Something else to keep in mind, smaller units would be more fuel efficient than larger units, so Big Boss probably had his energy bills in mind, since the plot of MG2 was a world wide fuel shortage, and Zanzibarland kidnapping Dr Madnar and getting their hands on OILLIX (spelling?), if you're going to use a substance to synthesize fossil fuels to fuel your big ass war machine of sadness™, you don't want to use up more in a week than you make in a month, know what I mean?

I think that sums it up quite nicely, though I may have overlooked something...