Eldritch blast effectively gets multiple "attacks" as it scales up, which is slightly better than the single larger damage roll fire bolt gets, but it's really splitting hairs.
A lot of the stuff in the Universal Century (UC) timeline of Gundam will make a lot more sense if you've seen the first three shows and movie:
Mobile Suit Gundam (some people will recommend the compilation movies - the show is much better imo)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (some people recommend skipping this one - they're wrong)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
The Hathaway movies serve as a direct sequel to Char's Counterattack (they're based on a novel written by the series original creator), and CCA builds on events in the three TV anime preceding it. I know it's hard to recommend ~150 episodes of a cartoon and a different movie, but you'll probably enjoy the Hathaway movie more.
If you do the homework or not, it's a pretty cool movie with some good visual set pieces. Enjoy!
Hm, kinda weird that my patron will not let me cast Speak With Dead. Couldn't be too important, who wants to speak with a rotting corpse anyways!