Albatrox, on 09 March 2019 - 08:04 PM, said:
Hmm interesting.
I have a dragon and i like the way it looks now btw. I dont like that rifleman style arm. But it might be more effective. I think different variants could have differing arms and so forth. That would make alot of sense to me
Well, there's a "
Grand Dragon" where the only real difference...
is the ARM.
Dragons: DRG 1C and 1N
Ballistic in right arm, laser in left arm and LST (left side torso), missile in CT.
Grand Dragon: DRG-1G,
Right arm PPC (WITHOUT A FULL ARM), energy in left arm, energy in right torso (front and back).
Grand Dragon: DRG-5K (and all sequential Grand Dragons)
Full arm.
Dragon: DRG 5N
"The 5N variant of the
Dragon was used as a bridge between it and the
Grand Dragon."
Carries an ultra AC/5...loses a laser.
Although the 1G is technically a regular Dragon, its considered the first "Grand Dragon".
Visually, a Grand Dragon has a different pelvis-and-hip assembly in addition to the full right arm (with the exception of the 1G).
The practical differences:
- Dragons have 250 degree torso twist, Grand Dragons have 300 (Technical Readout 3050 Upgrade, page 66).
- Grand Dragons have a full arm (except the 1G which is technically just a Dragon). Dragons do not.
- Grand Dragons have higher engine caps, as the native speed (with 1G as the exception) is 97 as opposed to 86 [or MWO's 81]
- Grand Dragons have a MASC variant. But aside from this, all Grand Dragons are energy/missile only while regular Dragons sport all 3 weapon classes.
All Dragons, standard and grand, go by the designation DRG.
A remodel/correction in the Dragons could see the Grand Dragons as an expansion of the original Dragons, and the "Flame" as a base idea of how to do an energy only right arm. (So basically relatively little work). Remove the right lower arm actuator from Dragons, and we'd have....AC/20 carrying Dragons.
Side note the story of "it has a lower arm actuator and not a hand actuator" people once spread actually doesn't add up.
The TROs are open, no mention of which actuators it has or doesn't have...