Combat Vehicle Technical Readout
Name/Model: LB-X CARRIER SLDFu
Designer: Dr. B, Banzai
Source(s): Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology: Inner Sphere
Technology Rating: E
Tonnage: 60
Role: Missile Boat
Configuration: Combat Vehicle
Era/Year: Star League / 2780
Rules (Current): Standard
Rules (Era): Standard
Rules (Year): Standard
Total Cost: 7,123,200 C-Bills
Battle Value: 914
Movement Type: Tracked
Power Plant: 180 XL
Cruising Speed: 32.4 kph
Maximum Speed: 54 kph
Armor: Aldis Heavy Ferro-Fibrous Ferro-Fibrous with CASE
Armament:
2 Defiance Ravager LB 10-X Autocannon LB 10-X ACs
4 LRM 5 w/ Artemis IV FCS
Manufacturer: Unknown
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications: Initrode Widecom
Targeting & Tracking: RCA Instatrac Mark VI
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Overview:
The SLDF lost tremendous amounts of men and materiel in
battling Amaris, neither of which could be easily replaced Cut off
from the Terran Hegemony, Kerensky’s armies had to turn to other
sources to recoup those losses While replacing trained soldiers was
a problem that haunted Kerensky throughout the war, he could at
least turn to manufacturers in the Star League member-states to
supply the weapon systems needed to win the war
Unfortunately, the SLDF had neither the deep pockets it once
claimed nor the time to fully evaluate new prototypes Under
Kerensky’s orders, the SLDF bought wholesale from just about
any manufacturer that could produce a working product For
BattleMechs and aerospace fighters, Kerensky’s logisticians relied
heavily upon manufacturers used by the five Great Houses, but
when it came to tanks and other support units, “anything goes” was
very much the concept of operations
Capabilities:
Drago, Ltd was one of many smaller manufacturers of civilian
vehicles, construction equipment and other machinery to which
the SLDF turned Companies like Drago that had never produced
combat vehicles were provided design specifications and detailed
plans by SLDF engineers that they could work from With so many
different companies involved, the SLDF would never be able to
standardize logistics for these new purchases Logisticians could
only hope that by ordering additional spares at the outset and
routing entire production runs to a single division they could avoid
the worst of the inevitable supply problems
The “Weapon Carrier, Tracked” was perhaps the most notable
of these simplified vehicles produced during the Amaris Civil War It
hearkened back to a series of simple armored vehicles used during
the Age of War and the Reunification War (and revived again during
the Succession Wars), but was built using modern technologies
Specifications called for a sixty-ton tracked vehicle with thirty-four
metric tons of free mass to mount weapons and equipment, and further that it be powered by a
180-rated fusion engine to provide
a more than fifty kph sustained top speed Six and a half tons of
ferro-fibrous armor gave these tanks above-average protection—
far greater than their forebears ever sported
Most of these base chassis would be delivered without weapons
to a different company for fitting of armaments and final assembly—
often directly to the weapon manufacturers The SLDF purchased
more than a dozen different configurations of these tanks, though
by far the most popular was a model that mounted a pair of LB 10-X
autocannons fed by a four-ton magazine, supported by a trio of LRM 5
launchers drawing from a two-ton shared magazine These weapons
were mounted to the fore in a simple casemate structure, which of
course limited the vehicle’s utility, but also significantly shortened
construction times and especially cut down on mechanical problems
Each of the weapons possessed a limited traverse, though targets
outside their firing arc could be engaged by simply traversing the
whole vehicle—rarely a problem at any but point blank ranges
Deployment:
The SLDF bought these weapon carriers, as well as other
“obsolete” armored vehicles like the Turhan and the T-12 Tiger
tanks, en masse from dozens of different manufacturers across the
Inner Sphere, assigning them to every operational armored brigade
as they fought their way into the Terran Hegemony Unfortunately,
given the wide variance in quality of manufacturing, a large
percentage of these tanks required some significant maintenance
before they could be put into service (a fact almost universally
shared by mass-produced tanks of this class)
Typically, Weapon Carriers, Tracked served in second-line roles,
providing ranged fire support or sitting in ambush, and almost
always in large numbers SLDF and Republican units alike quickly
realized that, while individual weapon carriers could be easily
defeated, en masse they could quickly eviscerate an opposing
force Unfortunately, their heavy use meant many were lost in
combat, while just as many were lost to mechanical problems
(and cannibalized for parts to keep others in service) While
many manufacturers kept producing the weapon carriers into
the Succession Wars, the eventual loss of technology forced those
surviving manufacturers to revert to more primitive standards—
such as those still built by Quikscell today
Variants:
The SLDF ordered the production of numerous other models
One that proved a relative failure mounted a trio of Ultra AC/5s,
backed up by a single LRM 5; though it could generate a significant
amount of fire, its lack of a “knock-out” weapon meant these were
among the first tanks to be cannibalized for parts A far more
successful model became the ultimate in ambush tanks, feared by
MechWarriors and tank crews alike, mounting a pair of the heaviest
autocannons produced, backed up by a single LRM 5
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Equipment Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 6.00
Engine: 180 XL 5.50
Cruising MP: 3
Flanking MP: 5
Heat Sinks (Single): 10 0.00
Control Equipment: 3.00
Lift Equipment: 0.00
Power Amplifier: 0.00
Turret: 0.00
Armor Factor: 98 5.50
Type: Ferro-Fibrous
Armor
Value
Front: 32
R/L Side: 24
Rear: 18
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Weapons and Ammo Location Tonnage
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2 LB 10-X ACs Front 22.00
4 LRM 5 w/ Artemis IV FCS Front 12.00
Searchlight, Mounted Front 0.50
Trailer Hitch Rear 0.00
CASE Body 0.50
LB 10-X AC (Ammo 30) [Cluster] Body 3.00
LRM 5 (Ammo 48) [Artemis IV] Body 2.00
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Alpha Strike Statistics
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Point Value (PV): 23
TP: CV, SZ: 3, TMM: 1, MV: 6"t
Damage: (S) 3 / (M) 3 / (L) 3
Armor (A): 3, Structure (S): 3
Specials: CASE, FLK1/1/1, HTC, IF1, SRCH
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