Boogie138, on 10 December 2015 - 02:11 AM, said:
You guys are dead wrong on that. I have an original Archer model that is older than most of the people that play this game.
It is identical to the destroid.
Google if for yourself.
Apparently FASA did not decide where the cockpit was going to be back in the day. but given all the other art, and the Phoenix Archer having a low mounted, forward cockpit, this is pretty much the canon cockpit placement.
This one here is probably the only picture that i can find that depicts it having the Destroid Spartan cockpit.
Also in Mechwarrior 4, but it is given handless gun-arms that looks like it belongs on a Mad Dog. (and no LRM shield)