Well VOTOMs...are basically armoured power suits rather than walking tanks.
Considering both the size of the VOTOMS armored troopers (3.8 meters tall, dry weight of more than six tonnes) and their control method (pilot in cockpit), I really have to disagree with that assessment.
About Gundam, I'm actually quite amazed that these mobile suits are, what, about sixty to eighty feet tall? And yet they can move about so freely.
16.5 meters is standard MS height in Wing. The original MS Gundam's namesake suit is only 18 meters and a Zaku 17.5. A VF-1A from Macross/Robotech is only 12.9 meters. So it's not quite that big. Forty or fifty feet instead.
EDIT: One of the things that tends to make Wing more palatable to me (and also MS Gundam) is that the mobile suit is a weapon in its infancy; the tactics and techniques for it have yet to be worked out, particularly as it applies to using them against each other. The MS has only been around in Wing for about twenty years, and the Leo is nearly that old, making the slaughtering of them by the much more recently designed and built Gundams basically the same as pitting the first tanks ever developed against a Char-1 bis or Panzer IIIE. In MS Gundam, the mobile suit might even be as young as five years. Someone without preconceptions can waltz in and throw away the book on tactics and be proven correct very easily, as it's the blind leading the blind.
