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So what's yours? Do you prefer classic designs or new ones? Base models or variants? What units in Battletech catch your imagination? Which ones do you consider a tactical necessisty?

I'm a classic guy myself. I used to be a big fan of the TT-1A Titan (big brother to the Battlemaster), but all it can do is stand and slug it out. Having grown a little more tactically refined, I am starting to appreciate the Ostol and the Grand Dragon quite a bit more...

This is one of my favorites

Type/Model: Dire Wolf Gunstar
Mass: 100 tons

Equipment: Crits Mass
Int. Struct.: 152 pts Standard 0 10.00
Engine: 300 XL 10 9.50
Walking MP: 3
Running MP: 5
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: 15 Double [30] 6 5.00
(Heat Sink Loc: 1 LT, 1 RT, 1 CT)
Gyro: 4 3.00
Cockpit, Life Supt., Sensors: 5 3.00
Actuators: L: Sh+UA R: Sh+UA 12 .00
Armor Factor: 304 pts Standard 0 19.00

Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 31 47
Center Torso (Rear): 14
L/R Side Torso: 21 32/32
L/R Side Torso (Rear): 10/10
L/R Arm: 17 34/34
L/R Leg: 21 41/41

Weapons and Equipment/Loc
2 Ultra AC/10s/RA
(Ammo Locations: 2 LA, 2 RA, 2 LT, 2 RT)
2 Ultra AC/10s/LA
1 ER Medium Laser/RT
1 ER Medium Laser/LT
1 ER Small Laser/HD

I used to have a (3025, granted) design that was similar. AC/10s in the arms, AC/20s in the torsos, and pretty much all the rest of the space was filled with ammo.

Made a really pretty BOOM when the ammo got hit.... After tranferring damage, all that was left was a smoking pair of boots.

Are you looking for comments on imagery or stats.

For imagery you cannot beat 3025.

For stats the Night Gyr.

Nothing tops the image of an original Warhammer striding across the battlefield.

I took an Hachetman, riped out 2 HS and upgreaded the AC/10 to AC/20
Then Second Edetion came about and I had to make it a SH and a ML

Hard to go wrong with some of the classic designs.

I used to love the Marauder, Rifleman, and Stalker from the 3025 stuff. A long time ago when we used to play 250 ton games, I'm pretty sure I ran Marauder, Rifleman, Stalker, and Hunchback.

Add in the 2750 stuff and I was a huge fan of King Crab and the Highlander.

Move on up to the 3050 models and my favorites from the group were the Vulture, Madcat, and Black Hawk. Man, the good old days of driving to chicago to play at the battletech center

I built a Moad Dog [Vulture] based on the Vulture 4
6x SSRM-6
6x ERSL

It kicked Booty

Anpu42 wrote:I built a Moad Dog [Vulture] based on the Vulture 4
6x SSRM-6
6x ERSL

It kicked Booty

It's a good solid disien that I hate facing on the field, it stripped the armor off my Maurader in one turn and then blew it up in the next turn...I realy liked that maurader it had a Guass rifle it went BOOM!

Anpu42 wrote:I built a Moad Dog [Vulture] based on the Vulture 4
6x SSRM-6
6x ERSL

It kicked Booty

Do you meant the Vulture Mk. IV from the click version? Because that is pretty much a carbon-copy of a Vulture A.


As for me, I love the Gallowglas. The latest upgrade that adds a Light Engine and Targeting computer to the Gauss variant is amazing. Even better when you swap the ER Larges for a Heavy PPC.

If we go 3025, my personal favorite is the Panther. The Vindicator is a close runner up.

Mattlov wrote:

Anpu42 wrote:I built a Moad Dog [Vulture] based on the Vulture 4
6x SSRM-6
6x ERSL

It kicked Booty

Do you meant the Vulture Mk. IV from the click version? Because that is pretty much a carbon-copy of a Vulture A.


As for me, I love the Gallowglas. The latest upgrade that adds a Light Engine and Targeting computer to the Gauss variant is amazing. Even better when you swap the ER Larges for a Heavy PPC.

If we go 3025, my personal favorite is the Panther. The Vindicator is a close runner up.

Actualy the Mad Dog Anpu's refering to is from the old Battle Tech Centers and is officialy known as the Vulture V4 and trust me the only thing scarier I've ever faced in Battle Tech is the Daishai Widomaker (7 solo kills in 9 turns)

My Favorite Mech is actualt the RFL-3N with the only modification is I put the Medium Lazer out the Rear [I call this my Rear Armor].
I normaly run between 7-15 point of heat each turn after the4 fighting starts.

A Warhawk with quad Large Pulse Lasers and Jump Jets.

Nurglitch wrote:A Warhawk with quad Large Pulse Lasers and Jump Jets.

Your cheese offends me.

Mattlov wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:A Warhawk with quad Large Pulse Lasers and Jump Jets.

Your cheese offends me.

I must be doing something right then.

Cheese is my Gunstar.
I have the potential of doing amlost 100 points in one volley.

Or my version of the Windowmaker
-4x LL-Pulse and a Guass Rifle [And a Piloting-1/Gunnery-0]

Nurglitch wrote:

Mattlov wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:A Warhawk with quad Large Pulse Lasers and Jump Jets.

Your cheese offends me.

I must be doing something right then.

I just find designs like that to be extremely boring. I wouldn't use them unless absolutely forced. Give me an UrbanMech with a limp any day over that.

Of course, I do own 35 UrbanMechs, so I have other issues.

I have an Urby called the UM-40k
I riped out the AC/10, SL and HS
Doubled the HS
Added a ERSL
and MRM-40

Mattlov:

I like precision, myself. The ability to call hit-locations was one of the few things I liked about Battletech before I quit.

You mean the ability to call a hit location and do 40 points of damage to it, don't you?

I was playing battletech when it first came out. I think my fav mech, imagery and use, was the classic Centurion. A nice combo of speed, armor, firepower.

This is one of my Command Lances for my 21st Gladaon Regulars. This is a C3 Company. The Mauler and the : Hatamoto-Kaze usually lad a mix of Standard, DFM, FASCAM, The Mauler also caries a ton of NARK and the : Hatamoto-Kaze Carries a Ton of Atrimis. Mostly what I did was remove Heat Sinks to get C3 Slave units and Un-ER the energy weapons. The Takashi Yoshi [the Mauler Pilot] actually makes most of his kills with the AC/2s.

Type/Model: Mauler MAL-21GR
Mass: 90 tons
Heat Sinks: 10 Double [20]
Weapons and Equipment [Loc]
1x Large Laser [RA]
1x Large Laser [LA]
1x LRM 15 [RT]
(Ammo Locations: 2 LT, 2 RT)
2x Autocannon/2s [RT]
(Ammo Locations: 1 LT, 1 RT)
1x LRM 15 [LT]
2x Autocannon/2s [LT]
1 C³ Slave Unit [HD]
CASE Equipment: [LT/RT]

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Type/Model: Atlas AS7-21GR
Mass: 100 tons
Heat Sinks: 17 Double [34]
Weapons and Equipment [Loc]
1x ER Medium Laser [RA]
1x ER Medium Laser [LA]
1x Gauss Rifle [RT]
(Ammo Locations: 2 RT)
1x MRM 40 [LT]
(Ammo Locations: 2 LT)
2x Medium Pulse Lasers [CT(R)]
1x C³ Slave Unit [HD]

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Type/Model: Tai-sho TSH-21GR
Mass: 85 tons
Heat Sinks: 13 Double [26]
(Heat Sink Loc: 1 LA, 2 RA)
Weapons and Equipment [Loc]
1x PPC [RA]
1x PPC [LA]
1x Ultra AC/10 [RT]
(Ammo Locations: 2 RT)
2x C³ Master Computers [LT]
CASE Equipment: [RT]

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Type/Model: Hatamoto-Kaze HTM-21GR
Mass: 80 tons
Heat Sinks: 15 Double [30]
Weapons and Equipment [Loc]
1x PPC [RA]
1x PPC [LA]
1x LRM 5 w/ Artemis IV [RT]
(Ammo Locations: 2 LT, 2 RT)
1x LRM 5 w/ Artemis IV [LT]
1x C³ Slave Unit [HD]
CASE Equipment: [LT/RT]

For the classic era, I just love the Catapult. It might not kill many mechs, but it is extremely survivable.

In the more modern era, I always enjoy a chance to use the Toyama. It is a wonderfully rounded mech, as well as one of the WOB exclusives.

My favorite mechs are: Awesome, Barghest, Arctic Wolf, Madcat and I really like all the protomechs.

Thor M all the way.

Salamander (You take it rip out 1 ton of ammo from each LRM and add an artimes to each)

Holander...Nuff Said

Crusader with a Sword

100 ton warhammer with 30 Clan Double Heat Sinks and 6 Inner Sphere PPC's (I call it the Sunburst)

Blackhawk with 10 Heavy Medium Lasers

Timberwolf

There is no better mech, period. The real pity about the clans is that the original crop of mechs, especially the heavies and assaults, do just about anything you need. There have been a few worthy additions to the pantheon but the original crop of omni's are a tough act to follow.

Vulcan wrote:You mean the ability to call a hit location and do 40 points of damage to it, don't you?

Which you cannot do anymore with pulse lasers and a targeting computer. Makes designs like that far less useful.

That was a VERY nice change. Though perfectly heat neutral, jumping, TC'd, pulse boats were largely wastes of BV in the face of competently used mechs before that change.

Tyyr wrote:That was a VERY nice change. Though perfectly heat neutral, jumping, TC'd, pulse boats were largely wastes of BV in the face of competently used mechs before that change.

True, but it got REALLY OLD fighting TC/Pulse boats before that rule change. Now you see other stuff in games again, and it makes me happy. It wasn't hard to them TACTICALLY, but you still needed above average dice rolls to pull it off.

Or be a jerk and take reflective armor units.