Showing posts with label old 'mechs. Show all posts
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Old 'Mechs: Hewn Wolf

So...battlemech:

               BattleMech Technical Readout

Type/Model:    Hewn Wolf HEWW-O-1IH
Tech:          Inner Sphere / 3067

Mass:          75 tons
Chassis:       Endo Steel
Power Plant:   375 GM XL Fusion
Walking Speed: 54.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h
Jump Jets:     None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor Type:    231 pts Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:      26.5 tons of pod space

Based largely on the Timberwolf(duh), it suffers the exceptional critical-space restrictions of Inner Sphere equipment. The Hewn Wolf largely avoids imitating the Timberwolf in its weapons layout(which is how it escapes the designation of Mad Cat-O ). Only Configurations 4 and 5 take after Timberwolf loadouts(The Prime and D configs respectively), and then only marginally. The configurations overall usually require more high-weight, low-crit items, which gives an excuse to use weapons I often overlook like light ACs, Large Pulse Lasers, and the like. In addition, the .5 pod space gives me an excuse to use CASE, which I don't usually bother with when it comes to XL engines.

I know the Rakshasa does this(as well as a few hundred other home-brewed designs), but it's not an omni. There's a Config 6 that covers the Rakshasa, but it has to drop the Medium Pulse Laser for an ER Small Laser.