Hon. Mechwarriors;
I am an active contributor to the web site Solaris 7. I have shared my table top campaigning and mech designs there for years. As we wait for MWO to launch, I thought I would share a few of the fluffy designs I have posted there. A word of warning though, I tend to write and design from a holistic point of view for the Battletech story. Mechwarrior the RPG, through Battletech, Battleforce, and the Succession Wars box game, I try to take every one of these environments into account. This has resulted in some high strangeness, but I think you will enjoy it nonetheless.
My Solaris TRO The Trellisane National Guard may be found here
http://www.solaris7....nfo.asp?ID=2102
I will post these from top to bottom as they appear in the TRO. Most of these entries were created with the Heavy Metal Pro program and do not bennefit from modern word processing. You have been warned.
SOLARIS7: BATTLEMECH TECHNICAL READOUT: ARCHIVE ID #12379
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009
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Travis T. Mcburn IIC
Level:Custom Level 2 / 3050
Era [Rules]:Age of War/Star League [Tournament Legal]
Technology:Clan Biped
Tonnage:20 Tons
Designer:
Samaritan
Armory:
Trellisane National Guard
Faction Availability
Type/Model: Travis T. Mcburn IIC
Tech: Clan / 2750
Config: Biped BattleMech
Rules: Level 2, Standard design
Mass: 20 tons
Chassis: Endo Steel
Power Plant: 300 XL Fusion
Walking Speed: 162.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 248.4 [324.0] km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor Type: None
Armament: 1 Buybye Beta Light Active Probe 1 UR 1T Light TAG 1 Hellion-a Type 1 ER Small Laser 1 MRF-1 ECM Suite Manufacturer: Clan Ice Hellion
Location:
Communications System: Capcomcast 3
Targeting & Tracking System: IBL MK1
Overview:
Clan Ice Hellion unveiled the controversial Travis T. Mcburn IIC durring the Secret Trial of Annihilation. The Travis was resurected after an extensive archeological archival investigation into long dead storage media. Fragments of DOD deleted references to a war winning "Miracle Mech" in the exodus fleet bone yards had piqued the interests of Ice Hellion scientist cast member Maher. After several years, Maher was able to track down the SLDF military intelligence records for the extensive testing and modifications to the original Travis T. Mcburn TRV-15T. With this promising lead and the understanding that dozens of the mechs lie languishing in vaults across the Pentagon worlds, Maher was able to secure permission to investigate further and restore a prototype for further consideration. Maher's team was constantly frustrated by the lack of specific documentation and blueprints for the Travis. SLDF Military Intelligence had taken great pains to remove theTravis boondogle from their records. This was mistaken by the Maher team for tight security around the project. While they were unable to find comprehensive blueprints, they did recover enough data to understand the general technical capacties attributed to the Travis. With this lead and the sophistication of Clan technical services they would, like so many others have done for various projects, eventually reinvent the wheel.
Capabilities:
The Travis would remain a maintenance hassel in the hands of Ice Hellion for years. Despite these shortcommings, the SLDF R&D efforts to reproduce the "Success" of the Travis would finnally be realized by the first Travis IIC refits assembled by Ice Hellion engineers. The Travis is the fastest most sophisticated reconaisance mech ever made. The mech can cruise at 162 KPH, and reach 324 KPH for brief sprints with MASC. The Travis boasts a comprehensive electronics package consisting of ECM, Light Active Probe, and Light TAG services. This combination was only possible by giving the Travis the lightest possible armament and removing all of the armor. This decision was made partly to provide for the mass needed for the electronic services, and partly in recognition of the deteriorating condition of the Memory Foam Endosteele structure. The design team lobbied long and hard for a full featured TAG and no armament, but the realities of the Clan Warrior ethos prevailed and a ER lt. Laser was incorporated into the design. This combination of speed and sphistication gave the light cavalry of Clan Ice Hellion a reconaisance mech that could actually range far afield from the main body without being left behind. Battle History:
The Travis distinguished itself among Ice Hellion Mechwarriors durring the second Ice Hellion civil war. The high speed and unforgiving nature of the unarmored Travis T. Mcburn IIC gave rise to the initial experimentation with performance enhancing drugs. Just as the aerospace pilots, and later, the protomech pilots were to discover, the limitations of the unaugmented human body posed a greater danger to the mission and pilot of the Travis than the health risks, or political risks of using combat drugs.
Travis Pilots put thier speed and tag to good use time and again screening Khan Norizuchi's forces from Sakhan Wick's Secret Trial of Annihilation. The combination of MASC, laser guided artillery, and LRMs gave the free ranging Travis stars an effectiveness that belied thier unarmored and lightly armed stature. The superior speed of the Travis permitted Khan Norizuchi the luxury of locating, fixing, and withdrawing from skirmishes allmost at will. Sakhan Wick was hard pressed to put down the engraged Norizuchi untill he wrested control of the skies and could turn his surviving aerospace assets upon the infurriating skirmishers. Several fighters succomb to "ground poison" before removing the Travis skirmishers from the equation. When Sakhan and Khan finnally met, Ice Hellion honor would be restored in the eyes of the Clans.
The Ice Hellions were bled white durring the conflict. Khan Wicks, impressed with the troublesome Travis, ordered the mechs pulled from thier caches and new construction to help fill out the ranks. The difficulty and expense of redeeming so many of the ill fated and poorly executed Travis designs would mark one of the few times in clan history where industrial and fiscal rationalization would trouble a Khan. More than one of Khan Wicks' rages could be traced back to the troublesome restoration of the Travis. Variants:
The mech was so poorly designed, and so costly and finicky in operation, that tinkering with this one almost stable design is simply unthinkable. Notable 'Mechs & MechWarriors:
One clan warrior known as Messe was briefly lauded for choosing to fight a trial of possesion in the Travis. His success against his opponesnt's Firemoth was to become a golden bb byword for good fortune in combat. Deployment
Ice Hellion fields the majority of Travis T. Mcburn IIC. The Travis provides the clan with a screen fast enough to blaze the trail for Ice Hellion's unmatched light cavalry doctrine. New production has long since resolved the technical issues with the Travis. Unfortunantly the lemon reputation for the line and the long memory of the Clans will keep techs and mechwarriors cringing for years to come. Type/Model: Travis T. Mcburn IIC Mass: 20 tons Equipment: Crits Mass Internal Structure: 33 pts Endo Steel 7 1.00 (Endo Steel Loc: 1 LT, 2 RT, 2 LL, 2 RL) Engine: 300 XL 10 9.50 Walking MP: 15 Running MP: 23 [30] Jumping MP: 0 Heat Sinks: 10 Double [20] 0 .00 Gyro: 4 3.00 Cockpit, Life Support, Sensors: 5 3.00 MASC: 1 1.00 Actuators: L: Sh+UA+LA+H, R: Sh+UA+LA+H 16 .00 Armor Factor: 0 pts Standard 0 .00 Internal Armor Structure Value Head: 3 0 Center Torso: 6 0 Center Torso (Rear): 0 L/R Side Torso: 5 0/0 L/R Side Torso (Rear): 0/0 L/R Arm: 3 0/0 L/R Leg: 4 0/0 Weapons & Equipment: Loc Heat Ammo Crits Mass 1 Light Active Probe RT 0 1 .50 1 Light TAG LT 0 1 .50 1 ER Small Laser CT 2 1 .50 1 ECM Suite HD 0 1 1.00 TOTALS: 2 47 20.00 Crits & Tons Left: 31 .00 Calculated Factors: Total Cost: 4,375,740 C-Bills Battle Value: 302 Cost per BV: 14,489.21 Weapon Value: 12 / 12 (Ratio = .04 / .04) Damage Factors: SRDmg = 3; MRDmg = 0; LRDmg = 0 BattleForce2: MP: 15, Armor/Structure: 0/1 Damage PB/M/L: 1/1/-, Overheat: 0 Class: ML, Point Value: 3 Specials: ecm, tag, prb
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Design Updated on 10/25/2009 1:56:56 AM
10/25/2009
Samaritan
This is my second contribution to the Historical Mech Contest being run by Ice Hellion.
The BattleForce2 Statline looks pretty good if you ask me. What more do you want from a 3 pt weasil?
Thankyou for your consideration of my work.
Respectfully
Samaritan
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Stalkerr, on 06 June 2012 - 05:18 PM, said:
