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[Bishop Steiner]

Possibly my favorite mech from the 3050 TRO. Where most mechs had upgrades that were questionable, at best, or contained "hidden" flaws (like the shiny new SHD-5M carrying only 6 shots for it's spiffy LRM20 rack), the ENF-5D seemed like it simply got better, across the board.
Better protection, thanks to CASE, better reach with the new weapons, more ammo for the AC, and even better speed and jump maneuverability. About the only knock was the lack of DHS, but even so, it was a reasonably cool running design.

And while it's armament seemed modest, to put it politely, the range, and ability to keep firing plus mobility made it much more effective in game. (I liked to upgrade to DHS, and drop 2 sinks. This allows me to add a Guardian ECM, and upgrade the torso laser to a Medium.)

ENF-5D ENFORCER


Thoughts?

*EDIT*


Colors didn't work out as well as I had hoped. The curse of old school alcohol markers, and dark colors. Tis why I need to learn to use Photoshop and my tablet.

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 04 August 2013 - 05:13 PM.

[CarnageINC]

HOLY @#$%! That is freaking awesome! Its one of my favorite Davion designs! You got some talent Bishop, love the redesigns

[Soku Yamashita]

Wow Bishop, thats awesome!

[Joachim Viltry]

Sweet. I'll take 3 please.

[TK42Kahn]

Quite brilliant!

[Skye Storm]

PGI make two more variants just for mwo. Then put this in the game.

[TB Azrael]

Very nice man. I forgot to add the Enforcer to my 'rather have' list in my Kintaro post . Always used them in TT.

[Max OConnor]

DUDE, once again you have knocked it out of the park. The Enforcer is one of my all time standby mechs and I've cringed at ever redraw of it but this one nailed it perfectly!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait to see the final version in full color.

[dak irakoz]

very nice!

[Bishop Steiner]

bump for added art

[Raven IIC]

Very neat design, there!

[Sasha Volkova]

I love how the feet on the mech are more... awesome.
Compared to what we are getting ingame atm :b all have flat square feet.

[Joachim Viltry]

A very quick and dirty repaint... To the correct paint scheme!

[BarHaid]

Very nice, LOVE the shoulders! And you kept the one thing that has always bugged me about the Enforcer; the center "disk". What are your fluff ideas on what that thing is? I have never been able to justify its existence.

[Bishop Steiner]

BarHaid, on 04 August 2013 - 09:26 PM, said:

Very nice, LOVE the shoulders! And you kept the one thing that has always bugged me about the Enforcer; the center "disk". What are your fluff ideas on what that thing is? I have never been able to justify its existence.

part of it's succession war comm gear? rotary dial to call comstar?

Never knew either, but it seems a focal design feature, removing it would just.. look less enforcer-ish.

though I did explain it in this version

[Risko Vinsheen]

Yes! A thousand times, yes! As a fan of medium mechs and as someone who thought the Enforcer was one of the more interesting medium mechs in the Introductory Box Set I would gladly throw my C-Bills at getting three variants of this. Especially the 5D would have a chance of getting a slot on my Mech Ready List.

I was upset when I discovered it lacked the three variants requirement, but I would be perfectly fine with PGI making up a third variant. Maybe they could make a variant based on the fact it really looks like it should be carrying missiles in its torso.

[Bishop Steiner]

Risko Vinsheen, on 04 August 2013 - 09:47 PM, said:

Yes! A thousand times, yes! As a fan of medium mechs and as someone who thought the Enforcer was one of the more interesting medium mechs in the Introductory Box Set I would gladly throw my C-Bills at getting three variants of this. Especially the 5D would have a chance of getting a slot on my Mech Ready List.

I was upset when I discovered it lacked the three variants requirement, but I would be perfectly fine with PGI making up a third variant. Maybe they could make a variant based on the fact it really looks like it should be carrying missiles in its torso.

Or the "Original SLDF" version with 2 Medium lasers instead of the Large? Supposedly it never actually saw the light of day though. Still, would be a pretty minor thing compared to some of the changes PGI has implemented.

[Risko Vinsheen]

Bishop Steiner, on 04 August 2013 - 09:50 PM, said:

Or the "Original SLDF" version with 2 Medium lasers instead of the Large? Supposedly it never actually saw the light of day though. Still, would be a pretty minor thing compared to some of the changes PGI has implemented.

Hmmmm. Not a bad idea. Didn't even consider going with the SLDF 'concept' of it. Don't think it would be too far out of the realm of possibility that someone at some point produced it as originally intended. But I think one with a missile hardpoint would be sufficiently unique to warrant a separate variant. The two variants as they are now aren't really different hardpoint-wise. Could have one heavier ballistics, one heavier energy, and one with missiles at the expense of being lighter on the other two types.

[Soku Yamashita]

Email me the raw file if you could Bishop, will work on it as soon as i can.

[Bishop Steiner]

pm is still borked, need to email you. I'll see if DA has an IM so don't have to broadcast email