Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-65.31.134.55-20130220155810/@comment-4535398-20130225173919

Armstrong didn't need Metal Gear EXCELSUS, he just used it for his plan to cause people to suspect that someone was funding Desperado because they couldn't afford a Metal Gear like that.

The reason that people like Sundowner didn't have those nanomachines was that the nanomachines were a secret and as Doktor says, he didn't even know that these nanomachines were complete. Most likely Armstrong kept this a secret from the others.

Mistral was pretty much easy to beat, Monsoon wasn't that difficult, Sundowner was the easiest of the four, and Sam was in between Mistral and Monsoon in difficulty.

Armstrong was a tough fight for me the first time, though my first fight was not as difficult as when i fought him on Very Hard. He weakest hits took 1/4 of my health and if I didn't do blade mode right when he starts throwing things at me I lost all my health. Took me 40mins to kill him (though on my last attempt I pretty much kicked his ass.)

I agree with you though that Armstrong was a dumb idea for a final boss. I mean really, a US Senator? Why couldn't they just make him the leader of World Marshal and leave it at that.