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[AustinNH]

So I thought that if you stripped a mech naked, it would always need to carry the weight of its internal structure (10% of max tonnage or 5% for endo steel) and a cockpit (3 tons). But when I strip my Jenner (endo steel) it weights only 2 tons. What am I confused about?

[Norris J Packard]

Cockpit and Gyros tonnage is incorporated into Engines.

[Jost]

AustinNH, on 08 November 2012 - 01:21 PM, said:

So I thought that if you stripped a mech naked, it would always need to carry the weight of its internal structure (10% of max tonnage or 5% for endo steel) and a cockpit (3 tons). But when I strip my Jenner (endo steel) it weights only 2 tons. What am I confused about?

Are you making assumptions based on tabletop rules, or have you read that bit about weight from something mwo-related?

[dF0X]

This seems approximately correct. Endo steel chassis on a Jenner should weigh 1.75 tons, which is pretty close to 2. The cockpit weight is included as part of the engine weight.

[Valder]

blah blah, cockpits, engines, gyros, blah blah.... Nobody's posted this info 3 times above me...

=D

Edit: Oh, and unladen weight also takes into consideration if it's an African or European mech....

Edited by Valder, 08 November 2012 - 01:28 PM.

[stjobe]

Valder, on 08 November 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

Edit: Oh, and unladen weight also takes into consideration if it's an African or European mech....

Came here to impart this very important information, only to see Valder already informed you.

[AustinNH]

OK. So can someone help me sum the weight of the default Cicada CDA-2A?

Structure - 4 tons
320 engine - 26.5 tons (getting this from Ohm's data)
128 armor - 4 tons
2 med laser - 2 tons
1 small laser - .5 tons
the 10 heat sinks are included in the engine, right? - 0 tons

total: 37 tons. That's not 40. It would make sense if there ware 3 tons for the cockpit, but apparently, there aren't.

[AustinNH]

update: figured it out: the weight of the engine is 29.5 tons.