To be fair, said unarmed martial artist was from Giant Robo, and the only person in that who wasn't a ridiculous superhuman was the boy with the titular robot. XD And yeah, I'm against trying to quantify stuff like that too, but mostly because I've seen such things boil down to unpleasantness in the past. That and it can kind of hurt pacing if things get bogged down in rules, but... We'll see how things turn out.
Anyways, might not be using Gunbuster, since I'm only going to use it if I can find someone to play Kazumi, and I know someone who probably wants to play Nono and I don't want to screw up the timeline by having Noriko and Nono running about at the same time. Luckily, I have plenty more options to choose from, so we'll see how things turn out.