Then I found out how they were coming up with these, something called the Battlemech Manual.
Which there's a new updated publication recently announced in November 2018.
Anyway of interesting note, these include all the way up to the points that I normally didn't care about (3150 or wherever the timeline currently ends).
And while nothing went above 14.x meters even into the Clan Invasion (3050+) until at least the Dark Ages... I found this snippet interesting.
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Standing from seven to sixteen meters tall, and weighing from twenty to one hundred tons
This has the issue of ignoring a certain 6.5 meter tall mech, but ignoring that... Catalyst has declared they go from 7 to 16 meters.
MWO puts several mechs at 17+ meters. Dire Whale (Dire Wolf / Daishi) for example is approximately 16.5 meters at the tallest point in MWO (yet in fluff it is 12.3 meters). Atlas is shown to be almost 18 meters tall according to MWO's rescale image (though I remember someone showing that its actually written to be 18.6 meters in the official rescale patch notes). Meanwhile the Atlas compared to the Dire Wolf is not much taller, and the more reliable of fluff (where the narrating character isn't terrified) suggests between 13 and 14 meters (and the terrified guy said over 15, and a dark ages source claims it is over 20 meters tall and has a kitchen installed and fully crewed to make sure the pilot had enough to eat but there was so much ******** in that novel I stopped reading it. -- later re-reading it, though, I realized that was a 'rumor' the character heard about some old kingpin of dustbowl that sold out the IS of old and may have been a joke or just deriding said kingpin.)
Huh.
Hm.
Thoughts?
Discussion?