Madapult

[worn gyro]

Aka, what happens when a periphery looks at a semi-functional Marauder and a broken catapult and then goes "NOW KITHSS". Its not a Madcat, I swear :v

Downgraded from an XL engine due to rarity, kept the DHS cause they were undamaged (and headcanon is that they are easy to maintain). 3x JJs also removed for weight. Kept CASE cause reasons (and I refuse to believe that people forgot how to make goddamnded blowout panels).

Madapult MDLT-5D
Base Tech Level: Standard (IS)
Level                Era                                         
Experimental         2559+ (Age of War -)                        
Advanced             -                                           
Standard             3047+ (Late Succession Wars - Renaissance -)
Tech Rating: E/X-F-D-D

Weight: 90 tons
BV: 1,868
Cost: 8,302,050 C-bills
Source: (Unknown)
Role: Skirmisher

Movement: 3/5/1
Engine: 270 Fusion
Double Heat Sinks: 16 [32]
Cockpit: Standard Cockpit
Gyro: Standard Gyro

Internal: 138
Armor: 240/279 (Standard)
                     Internal  Armor    
Head                     3       9      
Center Torso            29       37     
Center Torso (rear)              12     
Right Torso             19       26     
Right Torso (rear)               8      
Left Torso              19       26     
Left Torso (rear)                8      
Right Arm               15       25     
Left Arm                15       25     
Right Leg               19       32     
Left Leg                19       32     

Weapons        Loc      Heat    
LRM 15          RT        5     
LRM 15          LT        5     
AC/5            LT        1     
Large Laser     LA        8     
Large Laser     RA        8     

Ammo         Loc  Shots  
LRM 15 Ammo   RT    8    
LRM 15 Ammo   RT    8    
AC/5 Ammo     RT    20   
LRM 15 Ammo   RT    8    
LRM 15 Ammo   RT    8    

Equipment  Loc  
CASE        RT  

Quirks
Narrow/Low Profile
Command Mek
Hyper-Extending Actuators

[tawny bramble]

I love ittttttt

[halcyon oasis]

I'll give the hyper actuators but I'm not sure it's NLP with Dumbo ears

[uneven rune]

Drop two heatsinks and put two MLs in the arms as well. Give it some close in defense and it'll still be near heat neutral.

[worn gyro]

Fair enough, I actually forgot to remove that from quirks

[worn gyro]

My players decided to put the LLs on it, since they already have other mechs for close in fighting.

[uneven rune]

No, you misunderstand. Add medium lasers too. More gun, less heatsink!

[halcyon oasis]

Drop at least 1 DHS. It's completely useless

8,8,5,5,1,3 is 30
8,8,5,5,1,1 is 28.

[tawny bramble]

Moar gunnnn

[halcyon oasis]

Dropping two DHS would give you 2 MLs

You would still be heat neutral at a walk with everything but the meds.

Up close no LRM and 2 meds makes you run cooler than normal even using JJs

[worn gyro]

Instructions unclear, Madapult-2k made. :p
(K2 catapult with a marauder)

I can actually screw around with this one since its not one of my player's creations for their campaign :v

Marauder MDLT-2K
Base Tech Level: Standard (IS)
Level                Era                                         
Experimental         2559+ (Age of War -)                        
Advanced             -                                           
Standard             3047+ (Late Succession Wars - Renaissance -)
Tech Rating: E/X-F-E-D

Weight: 90 tons
BV: 2,010
Cost: 22,247,100 C-bills
Source: (Unknown)
Role: Skirmisher

Movement: 4/6/2
Engine: 360 XL
Double Heat Sinks: 21 [42]
Cockpit: Standard Cockpit
Gyro: Standard Gyro

Internal: 138
Armor: 279/279 (Standard)
                     Internal  Armor    
Head                     3       9      
Center Torso            29       44     
Center Torso (rear)              14     
Right Torso             19       29     
Right Torso (rear)               9      
Left Torso              19       29     
Left Torso (rear)                9      
Right Arm               15       30     
Left Arm                15       30     
Right Leg               19       38     
Left Leg                19       38     

Weapons         Loc      Heat    
PPC              LT       10     
PPC              RT       10     
PPC              LT       10     
Medium Laser     LA        3     
Medium Laser     RA        3     
Medium Laser     RA        3     
Medium Laser     LA        3     

Quirks
Command Mek
Hyper-Extending Actuators
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[worn gyro]

Moar gun indeed :3

[tawny bramble]

Yessss, shoulder gunsssssssss

Even if the K2 is classic Kuritan silliness

[worn gyro]

lol yea

[worn gyro]

Also because I find slapping the K2 PPCs on things funni, here is the crabapult-k2. No stat block, just picture :p

[tawny bramble]

It's power grows ever higher

All must return to crab

[worn gyro]

Anyways, I basically just slap an additional 15 tons on whatever chassis is getting the catapult donor parts (cause LRM15s are 7 tons each, and we round to nearest 5), and call it a day :v
(jk, I redo its internals to match the new weight)

[halcyon oasis]

Still running really cold here. If you drop 5 heatsinks you could replace with more mlas so you can use 3 PPC at range and then shift to mlas when close for more damage

[worn gyro]

If this wasn't something that I would also use for casual play at my LGS then maybe. As is, I'm already running at the maximum heat for my personal preferences as several people I play against irl are firm believers of Lord Inferno.

I'm not sure why my players decided to keep the loadout so cold for their madapult though, since I never throw infernos at them (only tandems 🙂... sometimes )

[halcyon oasis]

Ah... fellow brothers there i see.

TBF infernos aren't hard to work against unless you get jumped or they ALL have em though.

Just like TC whoever decides to carry the shiny ammo get the Xmas tree treatment

[worn gyro]

One runs 4 commando 3As (with inferno ammo instead) so.... yea.

[tawny bramble]

hiss

[lament storm]

It's a shame that MegaMekLab doesn't support actual FrankenMech rules, though I do kinda see why

[halcyon oasis]

There be a reason they got nerfed....

[lament storm]

Infernos on BattleMechs are quite literally playing with fire

You're a few engine crits from bursting into flames and dying horribly

Like, most of my designs are a fairly conservative with regards to heat, favoring the ability to alpha strike safely. I still end up having my 'Mechs overheat enough to cook-off Infernos in pretty much every fight, whether from combat damage or just needing to hold off a push

[halcyon oasis]

Huh. I usually never get close.

Then again I think mine is much more heat neutral than your tend to be

[lament storm]

Two engine crits is enough to make a heat-neutral design roll for cook-off

[halcyon oasis]

thought 2 crits was 8?

first roll should be at 10

[lament storm]

For 'Mechs, it's five points per hit

For fighters, it's two points per hit

[halcyon oasis]

yeah just found it. for whatever reason i thought it was 4...

[lament storm]

It's not like I memorized the Inferno cookoff table either: I looked that up first

[halcyon oasis]

i modified a snip of the standard chart.

thats why i threw me off cause i know the pop is at 10

[lament storm]

Eh, exact numbers aren't that important to me.

Funny story: before my last MekHQ fight, I went back and forth on whether to load Infernos or Fragmentation missiles in my Mist Lynx B

During the fight:

Obviously you try to avoid taking internal damage, nevertheless losing side torsos, but... yeah

[wind fox]

Welcome back Rakshasa

[wind fox]

Ngl I really like this mech

[worn gyro]

Ty!

[wind fox]

Triple PPC 90 tonner is actually scary, if I were u I'd probably turn one into a snubby and make it 4/6/3?

[tawny bramble]

CT Snubby for Zombie 'Mek shenanigans

[halcyon oasis]

Even more fun is 4 on an 85

[wind fox]

Welcome back hellstar/awesome 9q

[halcyon oasis]

90t is the hellstar. 85 is a modded stalker