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[IraqiWalker]

Ovion, on 27 November 2014 - 05:46 AM, said:

The Urbanmech isn't just 'trash on the poorest of planets'.
It's trash found just about everyehere, as a cheap disposable urban defender / garrison mech.

Regardless - we won't be getting LAMs.
We will likely be getting the Urbie.

Once released, I will be getting it and it will be fun.

Amen!

That is something I will be thankful for this year.

[wolf74]

IF Money what not a Problem, than we all be Driving Mad-Cats (The Ferrari or High-end Porsche of Mechs) but Money is a Problem for EVERYONE, So some have to Drive UrbanMechs (VW Bug of Mechs)

The Nice thing about UrbanMech is they are VERY Cheap. For the cost of a Low End Atlas(Without a Pilot) you can get 4 UrbanMechs, Spare Parts for all of them, Pay the Pilots, and a Few Techs too for a Year.

[Virlutris]

Ovion, on 27 November 2014 - 05:46 AM, said:

... a cheap disposable urban defender / garrison mech.

Had a thought: Urbies would be kind of cool as part of the base defenses on the CW Invasion maps, wouldn't they?

Edited by Virlutris, 27 November 2014 - 06:09 PM.

[YaKillinMeSmalls]

Virlutris, on 27 November 2014 - 06:06 PM, said:

Had a thought: Urbies would be kind of cool as part of the base defenses on the CW Invasion maps, wouldn't they?

Oh God, I'd never be able to stay in a unit. I'd get kicked out of every single one for spending all the c-bills in the unit coffers on buying Urbanmechs for the base. XD

[Ovion]

To be honest, only if that was as well as being able to pilot them normally...

As base defence / garrison units, that'd be cool, but not at the expense of using them normally.

[I_AM_ZUUL]

wolf74, on 27 November 2014 - 05:31 PM, said:

IF Money what not a Problem, than we all be Driving Mad-Cats (The Ferrari or High-end Porsche of Mechs) but Money is a Problem for EVERYONE, So some have to Drive UrbanMechs (VW Bug of Mechs)

The Nice thing about UrbanMech is they are VERY Cheap. For the cost of a Low End Atlas(Without a Pilot) you can get 4 UrbanMechs, Spare Parts for all of them, Pay the Pilots, and a Few Techs too for a Year.

Dude.... don't try to bring in Sound Economic fiscal policy into this. You won't make your case, all you'll do is invalidate ALL light mechs since VTOLs & Armor can do their job better for cheaper.

[Heffay]

ENOUGH ******* AROUND, PGI! Gimme my URBANMECH!

[Ragnahawk]

IT WILL NOT DIE EVER.................................................

[IraqiWalker]

Urban march is going strong. Soon all the cities in the Inner Sphere, Pentagon Worlds, and the Clan Homewolrds will rise up in a singular unified cry, asking for urbanmechs.

[kosmos1214]

IraqiWalker, on 30 November 2014 - 06:04 PM, said:

Urban march is going strong. Soon all the cities in the Inner Sphere, Pentagon Worlds, and the Clan Homewolrds will rise up in a singular unified cry, asking for urbanmechs.

yes let it be so the church of urbie agrees with this let the porfecy be made true

[TheSilken]

Teh Urbie tide be coming

Edit: Medieval Age Urbie



Edit II: Here's a TT version of the "Urbie" in the video. I reworked it to have 2 Hatchet and 2 ER Medium Lasers. Oh and replaced the Jump Jets with Jump Boosters (to give it that authentic jumping/tumbling motion from the video).

Urbanmech UM-R98X

Mass: 30 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: Dark Ages (get it?)
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-D-A
Production Year: ????
Cost: 1,694,940 C-Bills
Battle Value: 650

Chassis: Unknown Standard
Power Plant: Unknown 60 Fusion Engine
Walking Speed: 21.6 km/h
Maximum Speed: 32.4 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters / 180 meters
Armor: "Barrel" Standard Armor
Armament:
2 ER Medium Lasers
2 Hatchets
Manufacturer: Dwarves
Primary Factory: Under A Rock
Communications System: 1 Loud Ass Drunken Dwarf
Targeting and Tracking System: Iron Sight

================================================================================
Equipment Type Rating Mass
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Internal Structure: Standard 51 points 3.00
Engine: Fusion Engine 60 1.50
Walking MP: 2
Running MP: 3
Jumping MP: 0 / 6 Jump Booster
Heat Sinks: Double Heat Sink 10(20) 0.00
Heat Sink Locations: 3 LT, 3 RT, 1 LA, 1 RA
Gyro: Standard 1.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Actuators: L: SH+UA+LA+H R: SH+UA+LA+H
Armor: Standard Armor AV - 104 6.50

Internal Armor
Structure Factor
Head 3 8
Center Torso 10 15
Center Torso (rear) 5
L/R Torso 7 11
L/R Torso (rear) 3
L/R Arm 5 10
L/R Leg 7 14

================================================================================
Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 ER Medium Lasers RT 10 2 2.00
Hatchet RA - 2 2.00
Hatchet LA - 2 2.00
Jump Booster * - 4 9.00
Free Critical Slots: 13

* The Jump Booster occupies 2 slots in each leg.

BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 3 Points: 7
2/6j 1 1 0 0 1 0 Structure: 3
Special Abilities: MEL, ENE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA

Edited by TheSilkenPimp, 02 December 2014 - 02:01 PM.

[3xnihilo]

Urbie! Urbie! Urbie!

[kosmos1214]

GOD GIVE US THE URBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Logajam]

Great... that video has brought forth the idea of a duel sword weilding urban mech variant... Thats a Tripod just for good measure... 3145+ urbie for the WTF....

[KuroNyra]

Comrade! I used the Urbanmech in MWIV!

And I have become the Solaris Champion with it!

[jper4]

in anticipation i dusted off spider-urbie for a match this morning. after assuring the team not to worry because spider-urbie was here (and no doubt was the cause of the enemy player disconnecting) in crimson straits (for some reason a teammate thought i was on drugs, but there was another true believer on the team at least), i bravely sprinted forth towards the tunnel where a pesky firestarter dared face my wrath fleeing shortly after entirely due to my self and not the other three guys in my lance who were also shooting it. as he managed the retreat to his lines he asked in all chat "AC10 in a spider?" and so i announced the arrival of brave spider- urbie to the field of battle to all.

sending a locust fleeing for cover at my ac10's wrath as it peeked around the corner, i led my lance (for the 10m or so it took for them to run past me- kinda like Tyrion Lannister leading the charge in Game of Thrones) towards the tunnel side entrance, only to see a LRM centurion hiding alone and unnoticed behind the hill. bravely spider-urbie charged the mere mortal centurion at max speed arriving to find the cent being shot by four other allies who got there first. paralyzed for an instant at the sight of spider-urbie, it vainly turned to the side as i shot it's arm off and it died from the FF all around it seconds later.

now with the match 8-6 in our favor and the enemy hiding in the tunnel, spider-urbie knew what must be done. cheered on by the true believer who had died in his non spider-urbie mech, spider-urbie charged (after being passed by the allied firestarter and locust who were both moving backwards) into the city side of the tunnel where a shadowhawk, victor, direwhale and jager cowered fearfully knowing spider urbie still lived.

the direwhale naturally tried to charge out the other exit in fear, preferring to face the heavies camping at the exit than face spider-urbie's wrath. another ac10 round and the hawk retreated only to die by the firestarter. the victor and jager were now all that was left, spider urbie still bravely charging towards them, one, two AC 10 rounds and the victor fell to the might of spider-urbie. his fate now sealed, the jager died bravely charing the mightiest foe on the field- spider urbie- as the rest of the team focus fired it down from multiple directions just before i could unleash the full alpha of a spider urbie enraged.

final score 12-7, final totals 1 kill 5 assists, 106 dmg and still alive. fear the spider urbie.

[TheSilken]

I kind of want a "Spider Urbie" too now

[3xnihilo]

TheSilkenPimp, on 02 December 2014 - 09:45 AM, said:

I kind of want a "Spider Urbie" too now

Yes. . . Yes you do.

[Ovion]

For all those wanting a Spider Urbie, I'll repost this (It's good to not let it get too many pages behind )

I've put together a 'How to build an Urbanmech' guide below, so put one together and go nuts!

Quote

From the tabletop, we can see that a Stock Urbanmech would be the following in MWO:

Spoiler

Urbanmech (30):

Inner Sphere:
UM-R60 (2675)
UM-R60L (2925)
UM-R63 (3050)
UM-R68 (3062)
UM-R69 (3063)
UM-R70 (3066)
UM-AIV (3072)
UM-R80 (3076)

As described in fluff:
UM-R50 (Pre 3025) (No-Arms variant - shortlived, considered a failiure)
UM-R60C (Pre 3050) (Replaces 1 Heat Sink with 1 Machine Gun and 1/2T of MG Ammo)

Clan:
Urbanmech IIC (2849)
Urbanmech IIC 2 (3070)

------------------------------------------------------------------------
UM-R60 - Stock:
Standard Structure
192pts of Standard Armour (96pts TT)
18/22/16/16/8/16/8/20/20/24/24
STD60 +7 Heat Sinks
1E, 1Bm 0M
1 Ac/10 (RA) + 1T Ammo (RT)
1 Small Laser (LA)
2 Jump Jets
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UM-R60C - Stock:
Standard Structure
192pts of Standard Armour (96pts TT)
18/22/16/16/8/16/8/20/20/24/24
STD60 +6 Heat Sinks
1E, 2B, 0M
1 Ac/10 (RA) + 1T Ammo (RT)
1 Small Laser (LA)
1 Machinegun (LT) + 1/2T Ammo
2 Jump Jets
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UM-R60L - Stock:
Standard Structure
128pts of Standard Armour (64pts TT)
12/16/8/12/6/12/6/12/12/16/16
STD60 +6 Heat Sinks
1E, 1B, 0M, 2JJ
1 Ac/20 (RA) + 1T Ammo (RT)
1 Small Laser (LA)
2 Jump Jets
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UM-R63 - Stock:
Standard Structure
192pts of Standard Armour (96pts TT)
18/22/16/16/8/16/8/20/20/24/24
STD60 +7 Heat Sinks
2E, 1B, 0M, 2JJ
1 LB 10-X AC (RA) + 1T Ammo (RT)
1 Small Laser (LA)
1 Small Pulse Laser (LT)
2 Jump Jets
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UM-R68 - Stock:
Requires MRM launcher
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UM-R69 - Stock:
Requires IS U-AC/10 and ERSL
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UM-R70 - Stock:
Requires R-AC/5, IS ERML, ERSL
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UM-AIV - Stock:
Requires Arrow IV Missile Launcher, IS ERML, Small Cockpit
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UM-R80 - Stock:
192pts of Standard Armour (96pts TT)
18/22/16/16/8/16/8/20/20/24/24
STD60 +8 Heat Sinks
4E, 0Bm 0M, 1ECM, 2JJ
1 PPC (Right Arm)
1 Small Pulse Laser (LT)
1 Small Laser (LA)
1 TAG (RA)
1 Guardian ECM (LT), 1 BAP (RT)
2 Jump Jets
------------------------------------------------------------------------

This gives us the following summary:
UM-R60: 1E, 1Bm 0M, 2JJ
UM-R60C: 1E, 2B, 0M, 2JJ
UM-R60L: 1E, 1B, 0M, 2JJ
UM-R63: 2E, 1B, 0M, 2JJ
UM-R68: N/A
UM-R69: N/A
UM-R70: N/A
UM-AIV: N/A
UM-R80: 4E, 0Bm 0M, 1ECM, 2JJ


From there, we can build equivalent in the game!
Using a Spider SDR-5K / SDR-Anansi Base:
_{Using a STD100 Engine +Endosteel to account for the weight difference of the STD100 instead of STD60}
UM-R60: UM-R60 / UM-R60
UM-R60C: UM-R60C / UM-R60C
UM-R63: N/A / UM-R63
UM-R63C: UM-R63C / UM-R63C

Firestarter FS9-H / Ember Base:
_{Using a STD100 Engine, extra weight accounted for within the extra 5 Tons.}
UM-R60L: UM-R60L / UM-R60L

Using a Spider SDR-5D Base:
_{Using a STD100 Engine +Endosteel to account for the weight difference of the STD100 instead of STD60}
UM-R80: UM-R80 (Couldn't fit 4 Energy, so have an extra heat sink)


'Updated' Builds, using the upgrades and mods that would be available to the Urbie in MWO.
_{Only using the Hardpoints available shown in the Stock Loadouts section, or it's not really an Urbie anymore is it!}
UM-R60-M: UM-R60-M ('Modern' - AC10 +3T ammo, ML)
UM-R63-S: UM-R63-S ('Superior' - LBX10 +4T ammo, ML)
UM-R22: UM-R22 (2AC2 +3T ammo, ML)
UM-R60L+: UM-R60L+ (AC20 +3T ammo, 2ML)
UM-R60L++: UM-R60L++ (AC20 +4T ammo, 2ML)

Even the most expensive Urbanmech is less than 5mil C-Bills, so you can easily bash one out from scratch in a weekend.

If you have any alternate builds, something you've tried differently in the Urbie framework, just post it and I'll add it to the list.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Tanar, on 02 December 2014 - 09:02 AM, said:

final score 12-7, final totals 1 kill 5 assists, 106 dmg and still alive. fear the spider urbie.

That was beautiful