MeiSooHaityu, on 11 June 2019 - 06:33 AM, said:
I always liked the Mad Cat MKII. I do think it was a bit...odd that there needed to be so many different chassis named Mad Cat in BT instead of keeping the name tied to the original Timberwolf. Regardless though, it is a cool mech. This version highlighted seems especially deadly and nimble.
It is not called MadCat because it looks like a Walking Cat that is mad, with ears (Missile mounts).
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; upon analyzing the data recording from Kell's 'Mech,
Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht later officially designated it
Mad Cat The
Timber Wolf is vastly more powerful than either the
Marauder or the
Catapult. It uses its speed and firepower to engage an enemy at the range of its choosing. When first encountered by Inner Sphere forces the idea that a heavy 'Mech could move so swiftly while being as heavily armed and armored as the
Timber Wolf was inconceivable. With its twelve tons of
Ferro-Fibrous armor and arsenal that rivaled that of most
assault 'Mechs of the era, it was completely alien to Inner Sphere military planners, commanders, and even the Precentor Martial of
ComStar. Its technological secrets have since been reverse-engineered by the Inner Sphere."
Short. Inner Sphere will always call them Madcats, when in fact they are TimberWolfs by clans.
Edited by GuardDogg, 12 June 2019 - 07:48 PM.
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