#A badly designed medium 'Mech

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steady oar
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This is my first custom 'Mech, or at least the first version of it, a design I was hoping could get a laugh out of someone

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Base Tech Level: Introductory (IS)
Level                Era                            
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Experimental         2463+ (Age of War -)           
Advanced             -                              
Standard             2821+ (Early Succession Wars -)
Tech Rating: D/X-E-D-D

Weight: 40 tons
BV: 573
Cost: 2,608,527 C-bills
Source: (Unknown)
Role: Striker

Movement: 5/8
Engine: 200 Fusion
Heat Sinks: 10
Cockpit: Standard Cockpit
Gyro: Standard Gyro

Internal: 67
Armor: 56/137 (Standard)
                     Internal  Armor    
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Head                     3       5      
Center Torso            12       7      
Center Torso (rear)              2      
Right Torso             10       5      
Right Torso (rear)               1      
Left Torso              10       5      
Left Torso (rear)                1      
Right Arm                6       7      
Left Arm                 6       7      
Right Leg               10       8      
Left Leg                10       8      

Weapons            Loc      Heat    
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Machine Gun         HD        0     
Machine Gun         RA        0     
Machine Gun (R)     LL        0     
Machine Gun (R)     RL        0     
Small Laser         LA        1     
Small Laser         LA        1     
Large Laser         RA        8     
AC/2 (Q)            CT        1     

Ammo                     Loc  Shots  
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Machine Gun Ammo [Full]   LT   200   
Machine Gun Ammo [Full]   LT   200   
Machine Gun Ammo [Full]   RT   200   
Machine Gun Ammo [Full]   RT   200   
AC/2 Ammo                 CT    45   

Quirks
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Cramped Cockpit
Bad Reputation (Inner Sphere)

Weapon Quirks
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```AC/2 (CT): Ammo Feed Problems
dusty geode
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Wow, that's really low armor x)

stoic prawn
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Add three of these ` (Should be right under the Escape key on your keyboard) above and below your stat-block, and you get the fun little format system many of us use

steady oar
dusty geode
stoic prawn
steady oar
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Like that?

steady oar
stoic prawn
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And oof, 56 armour overall?

dusty geode
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Yea
This honestly looks like it could be one of the "primitive" mechs, as in the earliest ones
The era of the macky and all that
It's likely fine and very cheap as long as it stays at range but it can't be hit by anything

stoic prawn
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3.5 tons, less than a Locust!

dusty geode
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Like, a singular LRM-20 shot and you can tell the color of the pilot's boxers

steady oar
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Maybe I should make it a bit slower and give it enough armor to be able to survive one shot of anything

dusty geode
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Oh god it has 4 tons of MG ammo

steady oar
dusty geode
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I assumed, and it's great at that
Reminds me of the jackalope and I love that mech to death

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The guy that put in the 4th ton of ammo lost his wife to the test pilot istg

steady oar
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"What if we need 200 rounds of ammo per gun?"

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"Including the backwards facing ones"

stoic prawn
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That's not 200 rounds

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That's 200 turns of shooting

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Or, 2000 seconds of continued fire

steady oar
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close enough

dusty geode
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Fwiw if you want to improve it, I'd remove 3 boxes of ammo, add the gained weight to the armor, and it becomes a very competent cheap fire platform

steady oar
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Could make that a future variant

steady oar
dusty geode
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Basically half a rifleman, with more infantry defence, really good for local defence/assault where there's few mechs

stoic prawn
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Most modern MGs would explode after 2000 seconds of continuous fire

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That's 33 minutes and 20 seconds

dusty geode
steady oar
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gotcha

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thanks

dusty geode
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It's an era of mechs being "elite" forces (even the crap ones) purely by virtue of their superiority over vees, and a lot of infantry everywhere

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Honestly a mech with an AC/2 and 4 MGs makes a lot of sense there

steady oar
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Perfect then

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Thank you

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I think the Kiskadee BMT-V1 is as good as ready

dusty geode
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No worries ^^
It's got a lot of charm to it, the ammo boxes are deeply funny

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If you'd like mechs of the era for inspiration, I'd recommend the firebee, the jackalope, and ofc the mackie

steady oar
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Will take a look at them

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Until then the first version of my creation is perfect

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Btw what you think of the quirks?

dusty geode
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not the jackalope, the jackrabbit

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my b

dusty geode
steady oar
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Any suggestions?

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And yeah it was supposed to be punishing, it's not meant to be a good mech lol

dusty geode
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Ik, but it's still a bit much imo

steady oar
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Nah I get it

dusty geode
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Your choice ultimately

steady oar
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that's a good point

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Maybe combat computers to fit in with the cramped cockpit?

dusty geode
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Could be yeah, plus combat computer on a light medium is fun

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Though I don't believe it can overheat rn unless you like
Try really hard

steady oar
dusty geode
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That's the try really hard bit :p

glad jacinth
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I think you should try to make good mechs starting out. Making bad 'mechs is much harder to do.

steady oar
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Fast Reload?

dusty geode
stoic prawn
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Quirks should really come with a lore-reason for why you've added them

dusty geode
steady oar
stoic prawn
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Hunchback is custom built for urban brawls, so it has those meaty Battle Fists

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The Blackjack got a lot of bad press, so it had Bad Rep-

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And so on

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Combat Computer makes sense, tho, here

steady oar
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Hurray

stoic prawn
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It's filling the cockpit and making it awkard to move around in!

glad jacinth
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I wasn't joking when I said it's harder to make bad 'mechs than good ones - at least interesting bad 'mechs.

dusty geode
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Flea-level armor on a 45 tonner that's carrying decent guns is neat

steady oar
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40 tonner

dusty geode
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Even moreso

ebon spade
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So, you're right it is like, scarily bad, but like, the only thing you'd need to fix it would be to drop the AC/2 for like, an LRM set and armor

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But like, the rest of the choices (lots of MGs, a large laser) are far from unjustifiable

dusty geode
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Imo just dropping the ammo for armor would make the mech perform great in a vee-and-PBI heavy environment

ebon spade
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infantry are quite scary tbh

steady oar
steady oar
ebon spade
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New Mek
Base Tech Level: Introductory (IS)
Level                Era                                         
Experimental         2463+ (Age of War -)                        
Advanced             -                                           
Standard             3025+ (Late Succession Wars - Renaissance -)
Tech Rating: D/X-E-D-D

Weight: 40 tons
BV: 941
Cost: 2,742,227 C-bills
Source: (Unknown)

Movement: 5/8
Engine: 200 Fusion
Heat Sinks: 10
Cockpit: Standard Cockpit
Gyro: Standard Gyro

Internal: 67
Armor: 128/137 (Standard)
                     Internal  Armor    
Head                     3       9      
Center Torso            12       18     
Center Torso (rear)              5      
Right Torso             10       15     
Right Torso (rear)               4      
Left Torso              10       15     
Left Torso (rear)                4      
Right Arm                6       11     
Left Arm                 6       11     
Right Leg               10       18     
Left Leg                10       18     

Weapons            Loc      Heat    
Machine Gun         RA        0     
Machine Gun (R)     LL        0     
Machine Gun (R)     RL        0     
Machine Gun         HD        0     
Small Laser         LA        1     
Small Laser         LA        1     
Large Laser         RA        8     
LRM 10              CT        4     

Ammo                     Loc  Shots  
LRM 10 Ammo               RT    12   
Machine Gun Ammo [Half]   RT   100   

How I'd rework it btw

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Armor probably altered around but like

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This is technically better

steady oar
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Honestly I could make this into a variant

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Im happy with the crappy V1 I have right now, but this is a great idea for the future versions

ebon spade
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Mhm

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I mean, BT is allowed to have poor mechs

steady oar
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Yeah

ebon spade
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But I think for this it feels like an early mech, or a periphery mech which is honestly real cool