 In the "Super Robot Wars" series of tactical role-playing games, the "Gundam" franchise is the chief representative of the "Real Robot" genre and one of the three mainstays of the series (the other two being Mazinger and Getter Robo), and the original Gundam itself is referred to in the series as the in order to distinguish it from its many successors.The deployment of the Principality of Zeon's highly agile mobile suits, the MS-05 Zaku I and the MS-06 Zaku II in the early phase of the One Year War had given the small nation a major tactical edge over the much larger Earth Federation.Capable of propellant-less maneuvering thanks to their AMBAC systems, and able to be retrofitted to suit a variety of missions and environments, they easily outclassed the Federation's arsenal of conventional space fighters and ground vehicles, and laid waste to the Federation armada of dreadnought space warships.