Mobile Structure: Olestro

I guess I like Battletech.

Someone suggested an incredible loadout of basically everything, as if each of our first Level 2 'mechs didn't do that already. The only way to carry all of that would be on a 'mech which was large enough it didn't need to.

So I made my first mobile structure and probably made it too big.

Definitely too big. It has enough cargo space to mount capital weapons. Small capital weapons, but capital weapons. 

It's hard to pick my favorite feature:

The non-converging NLRMs. 

The iNARC on an assault loadout is good too. Who is this guy spotting for?

I especially love that I put the active probe in the center hex. I mean, this design was not quite a troll, but that Bloodhound Probe weighs heavily enough on the word "not" that it might asphyxiate it. 

That they're NLRM 5's is an arbitrary stroke of restraint. Let's not go wild here guys.

The tantalizing question: Could I add a supercharger? Dare I? What about a blue shield system?

Enhanced ERPPCs were requested even though we're also using full-on Clan ER Pulse Lasers. They're the prototype Clan ERPPC They were either requested because they sounded cool or as another misguided desire to tone the whole thing down.

Honestly, I wouldn't fill that cargo space up with nuclear missile launchers. I'd even resist the urge to create a tank-sized targeting computer to guide hundreds of AC/2's. If I were to take this cursed chassis and refit it, I think it'd be artillery from hell to breakfast at one hex high. A platform that turns hexes into craters.

TRO: 3087 - Ruppell Vulture

3087 is a Battletech alternate universe where The Jihad never happened. Instead, political fracturing continues in the wake of the technological and military upheavals of the 3050's. Its history is told through the pages and designs of TRO: 3087. With any luck this series will be the last anyone hears about 3087.

Ruppell Vulture RAF-03 

Overview

The final battles of the ilClan War were brutal affairs, slugfests which were determined more by raw anger and tenacity than clever maneuvers and tactical surprise. Warriors would face their Blooding in a live action and be placed in command of a cluster of sibkin. Bloodnames were awarded by fiat or default. Clan warships dating their origins to the first Star League were crashed with a frequency that would make an AFFC admiral blush.

In this carnage, the Jade Falcons saw sophisticated, front-line ‘Mechs like the Turkina and Night Gyr cut down brutally by the Wolves’ tandem charge missiles and plasma cannons. However, allied and second-line Kingfishers and Highlander IIC’s endured battles on dogged persistence, often surviving long enough to take glory the Falcons had fought so hard for.

After the war, the specter of that combat hovered over the fractured remnants of Clan society. Too haughty to ask the Ghost Bears for help, the Falcons began the creation of the Ruppell Vulture, a hearty, cost-effective front-line OmniMech made to rebuild their forces.

The speed with which the Ruppell Vulture moved from design to production was so fast that it’s suspected that its design was based heavily on a pre-existing BattleMech.