/btg/ Battletech General: Unseen Edition

Stalker, striker, banshee. Possibly a cyclops or leftover Awesome or Atlas Maybe a Thug if I'm doing the 'SL salvage to make the periphery more interesting than all unseen all the time' thing

September 16, 2016 - 18:47

Justin Clark

Well, your choices are pretty limited in 3025, which is the main time period in which it's a problem.

>Atlas -D or -RS:
Leftover Star League Mechs, RS's are D's converted over to the new standard. Can't be too many, being leftovers.

>Banshee -3M or -3MC
Again with the leftovers.

>Highlander -733, Thug -10E, Striker -2C
All SL leftovers given to the Inner Sphere/Periphery General category when they limited access to the Unseens. How production values work for them, I don't know.

>Longbow -7Q
Made in the Terran Hegemony only, another leftover from the SLDF occupation.

>Charger -1A1
Only variant of the Charger they get MUL access to; must be an SLDF leftover by definition. Given how terrible they are, I can't imagine many survived.

>Battlemaster -1G, Stalker -4N and -3F
Finally, some reasonably in-production Mechs that the MoC can actually get their hands on. Not that they manufacture them, but they can at least theoretically import the things. (Note: there is no IntroTech Cyclops available to the MoC!)

In 3025, the MoC has 10 Regiments, 2 Battalions of troops (Periph 1e). Sphere-wide, the proportion of Assault Mechs, IIRC, is roughly 10% of the total number of Mechs available. MoC forces are notably light, but lets assume for the sake of argument this proportion holds true (it's more likely about 5% for the MoC). The MoC has - at most - 1,152 Mechs available to it, assuming all of the listed units are at full strength (again, unlikely). At roughly 10% of the total, we should assume about 115-120 Assault Mechs available to the MoC. At an even distribution, that's 10 examples of each of the 12 available Assault Mech designs.

What's far more likely is that there's 2-6 of every design that isn't a Beemer or Stalker. AT MOST, assuming a lance of each of the other designs, there's 36 total "everything else", and about 30 each of Beemers both kinds of Stalker.

So smart money's on the Beemer or Stalker as an "iconic" design for the MoC.

September 16, 2016 - 18:49

Isaac Brown

>Note: there is no IntroTech Cyclops available to the MoC!
That seems a bit odd to me, but then, the MUL is kinda an odd thing. I'd at least give them the base cyclops.

September 16, 2016 - 18:59

Parker Sanchez

Hey /btg/ I was kind of thinking of a BT equipment system that would have been nice to see, if only as prototype gear. I saw the "Gyroscopic Stabilizers" from aToW as add-ons for ballistic firearms that have the Burst trait, and thought it'd be a neat idea to upscale them for Tactical Scale.

The image in my head would be an extra ton and take an extra crit - but that might need balancing. Maybe a size/tonnage based on weapon tonnage, or far more likely, max damage output.

I want it to act similarly to having Artemis IV, but only adding +1 to the cluster table for rapid fire weapons instead of artemis' +2.

My reasoning is to make the Ultra ACs more appealing. The 2's cluster column is pretty brutal, and you're missing with a shot more often than not. This would bump up the cost in C-bills, weight, BV, and crits, but would also make plain jane UAC 5s a far more appealing choice, and the UAC 20 just that much more scary. They'd work with RACs just as well, but the +1 on the clusters table would hardly be as big of a game changer when you're already spitting out up to six shots.

September 16, 2016 - 21:58

Jackson Myers

1% assaults is far more likely given how utterly rare they are in the periphery, especially then, and combined with the MAF's incredibly light nature. Frankly 5-10% would be generous for the TDF which has far superior access to military-industry and ability to maintain such old vehicles.

September 16, 2016 - 22:20

Henry Cooper

Fuck off, Deadborder.

September 16, 2016 - 23:17

Jack Jackson

1% seems a bit too low to me, even if the MAF prefers more mobile units. I mean, they'd at least end up with Chargers, wouldn't they?

...but on the other hand, when on average, only about 10% of mechs in the inner sphere were in the assault class, it'd be safe to assume the numbers are a bit lower in the periphery - where maintaining them would be just that much harder.

...but 1% is really pushing those numbers way down. I'd assume 3-5%, myself.

As for the Taurians? I think you'd be right about the Assault rate, but they've still got some heavy mech production going on there, Tbolts, Mads, and Whammers, plus even Hatchetmans, though you've got me how they'd managed to build Buckaroo Banzai's latest toy in the Succession Wars periphery. I think they'd have a bigger heavy-mech proportion than average, as a result.

September 17, 2016 - 00:03

Nicholas Jones

>though you've got me how they'd managed to build Buckaroo Banzai's latest toy in the Succession Wars periphery.

They changed that to make more sense. The ones mentioned in the original TR: 3025 were with Little Richard's Panzer Brigade when they left the Lyran Commonwealth. The Taurians did later build a factory for the intro-tech version of the Hatchetman in like the 3050s or something but the Roughriders blew that up.

Likewise the TC never built the Rommel/Patton, only imported it after Katrina Steiner-Davion took over the Lyran Alliance.

September 17, 2016 - 00:21

1 2 ... 10 Next

/btg/ Battletech General: Unseen Edition

Last threads