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[Baines]

100ton kick for 3/4ths the weight. Jumpjets...mixed payloads. Fast...Sexy. What more could you want from a mech?

Edited by Baines, 19 June 2012 - 08:48 PM.

[Skadi]

Clay Pigeon, on 19 June 2012 - 08:44 PM, said:

Because someone finally figured out how to put arms on a catapult.

Lawl so true

[Joat]

I dont think my opinion is needed as just about EVERYONE posted what I would have said is good about the Madcat

[Kniveskatanna]

they are versatile and can be used in almost any role and they have pretty good speed and they look so freaking sweet

[sr dragonhammer]

Khan's heavy choice historic mech.
That's nuff to say.
It's cool. It's nasty...
It's TIMBERWOLF (Madcat is IS gibberish talk!).

[3clipse]

Mad Cat Variant A is fantastic. It is the ideal weight to speed to equipment ratio for a Heavy Mech. I have a notebook full of data. The Mad Cat rocks, trust me.

[Infine]

Just a good killing platform - fast for its size, good loadouts/customization options, good looks. Crap hitbox for a sim though.

Performance wise looks alot like the Thanny (and many people love Thanny for its kickassery), only not as ugly.

Hellbringer is squishy and has almost exclusively low weapon mounts (same problem as the warhammer).

Mad dog is fine but lacks versatility and heat efficency.

Grizzly, IIRC, is not an omni. Also sloooow.

Cauldron born yeeeeees. It's almost like a clan bushie. Almost. Nothing beats bushie at being bushie.

[Biglead]

Pretty much Mighty Mouse goes SSJ8.

[Dagger6T6]

Mad Cat is full of classic cool when it comes to Clan mechs popping on the scene... but for me I still prefer the Vulture (Mad Dog) as the King of Clan Cool

[StingerPryde]

Dude, it's a marauder and the catapult in one mech.

[Karlord]

Infine, on 19 June 2012 - 08:55 PM, said:

Just a good killing platform - fast for its size, good loadouts/customization options, good looks. Crap hitbox for a sim though.

Performance wise looks alot like the Thanny (and many people love Thanny for its kickassery), only not as ugly.

Hellbringer is squishy and has almost exclusively low weapon mounts (same problem as the warhammer).

Mad dog is fine but lacks versatility and heat efficency.

Grizzly, IIRC, is not an omni. Also sloooow.

Cauldron born yeeeeees. It's almost like a clan bushie. Almost. Nothing beats bushie at being bushie.

Bushies pissed me off in my CB, they were way too maneuverable, when we saw them come to us, we used to call them the "rodents"

Edited by Karlord, 19 June 2012 - 09:07 PM.

[shameless]

The madCat is simply put the canon Iconic battlemech of the Clans. It took all the firepower of two solid powerful Inner Sphere heavies, and mounted it. It could outrange either of them, had a much higher damage profile, and manage the increased heat. It was a full thirty percent faster than either of them, and carried heavier armor. Closing with it made things worse actually, as its medium and close range firepower was equal if not greater to IS mechs twenty tons heavier. Few IS mechs of the era could stand alone before a Mad Cat.

For those who don't know the origin of the name comes from the fact it Resembles the Marauder (Mad) and Catapult (Cat) in weapons load and physical appearance.

This is only discussing the Prime configuration. Both the A and D mount dual ERPPC's, pne of the most intimidating weapons in the game, and heatsinks to use them. backed my an sRM 6 er small laser and 3 medium pulse lasers in the A, and 4 Streak SRM 6 in the D, the mad cat is a devastating fighter at any range, in any configuration. The B Variant has the most manageable heatcurve, relying on the Gauss rifle for it's big punch, but with clan weapons hitting harder, at greater distance and with no minimum effective range, All the variants are nasty.

There are some mechs that are "better" depending on your playstyle, Madcats tend to lack jumpjets, or advanced electronics, but as a straight up battlemech, few mechs are so versatile, or well known.

[Suicidal Idiot]

Suman, on 19 June 2012 - 08:29 PM, said:

Timberwolf...I've never been a big fan of it...

Don't worry. We're all different. As the old Scotsman said...

"If we all liked the same thing, think of the turrrrrrible oatmeal shortage we'd have."

[NightlyReaper]

Johnny Reb, on 19 June 2012 - 08:46 PM, said:

well the madcat gets it name cause its a hybrid of the marauder and the catapult. Hence a scary heavy mech! Would love to pilot one!

Per Sarna.net:
Vaguely resembling a cross-over between the MAD (Marauder) and CAT (Catapult) series, the Timber Wolf was tagged with the Inner Sphere reporting name Mad Cat on first contact. (The targeting computer on Phelan Kell's Wolfhound switched between MAD and CAT when trying to identify it); Martial Anastasius Focht later officially designated it "Mad Cat".

Now that's just a cool piece of trivia that I didn't know until recently.

Also, although it was totally not canon, in Mechwarrior2 a player could load up a Timber Wolf with nothing but machine guns and jump jets and then just jet up into your opponents' faces and unleash 10 machine guns. MG's were super short on range and not that great on damage, but in MW2 (and some others MW games in the series) they generated NO HEAT. So you could just hold the trigger down and watch arms fly off. As I said....absolutely not canon....but I miss it.

NightlyReaper, Out.

Edited by NightlyReaper, 19 June 2012 - 09:35 PM.

[Sol Dios]

I always liked ti due to it's sleek view, and world war 2 bomber era look. They stuffed it with so many weapons i'm surprised the legs/feet didn't have machine guns.

[Fortune]

Because of the intro of MechCommander. Also because of tried to reload over a hundred times to get the cat on the 4th mission of MC1(no equipments lost at all) has something to do with it.

[Infine]

Karlord, on 19 June 2012 - 09:07 PM, said:

Bushies pissed me off in my CB, they were way too maneuverable, when we saw them come to us, we used to call them the "rodents"

And the funny thing is in MW:LL bushie steers like a freight train. Still one hell of a mech though. Hard to take down or even cripple the firepower.

[Stabbitha]

Always preferred the Stormcrow (IS designation: Ryoken) to the heavier Timberwolf

[Codex]

For me, my love for it comes from just the design. It's sleek, and the chicken-walker design is just so much enjoyable to look at the the standard man-walker. And yeah, it has amazing versatility as a Mech normally. Also, it's iconic for the clans as it was the very first Clan Mech ever observed when the Clan invasion started. As far as TT goes, for me it was the very first model I ever bought when i got into the game, so it has a special place in my heart for that respect as well. So sentimentally, for me, (also, I prefer Mad Cat), it's one of my absolute favorites.

[KT Grim]

The Design is just great looking.


Not to mention it was on the cover of MW2, and the front of the huge manual.

The intro to MW2.

The Logo of Mechwarrior 3.

Along with the fact that it is functionally a great mech.


Timber Wolf will always be the first thing I think of when I think "MechWarrior". Always.