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Sleeping Dragon
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 Posted: 12-Nov-2017 19:23 Post subject: Design Contest |
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Well, because the criteria said that we should make the Hollander fly and keep the full size Gauss rifle. What you see there is the Hollander chassis, with the exact copy of Hollander armour built with technologies available (barring the composite chassis, I wasn't sure whether it's really compatible). You have to get the tonnage freed for the conversion equipment and JJs. In addition you can't use XL, ES, or FF with that (F3 Hollander has both FF and ES). So unless you want to make the 'Mech bigger like the latter entries, you have to save the weight elsewhere - hence the small engine small cockpit and clan gauss was needed to keep everything within 35 tons of the original. Not thta the F3 is exactly a fast machine in the first place.
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Stinger07
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| Posted: 13-Nov-2017 11:29 Post subject: Re: Design Contest |
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| Sir Henry wrote: | | I was wondering why the first ones are so slow... Or armored like a rifleman... |
Clan Gauss gives 3 extra tons. Which is a ton. Well, 3 tons...
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 13-Nov-2017 18:55 Post subject: Re: Design Contest |
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On average the LAM version is 10 tons heavier than the original version.
| Sleeping Dragon wrote: | | Well, because the criteria said that we should make the Hollander fly and keep the full size Gauss rifle. What you see there is the Hollander chassis, with the exact copy of Hollander armour built with technologies available (barring the composite chassis, I wasn't sure whether it's really compatible). You have to get the tonnage freed for the conversion equipment and JJs. In addition you can't use XL, ES, or FF with that (F3 Hollander has both FF and ES). So unless you want to make the 'Mech bigger like the latter entries, you have to save the weight elsewhere - hence the small engine small cockpit and clan gauss was needed to keep everything within 35 tons of the original. Not thta the F3 is exactly a fast machine in the first place. |
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Sleeping Dragon
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| Posted: 14-Nov-2017 11:05 Post subject: Re: Design Contest |
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Nobody wanted an "average" LAM 
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 17-Nov-2017 22:53 Post subject: Design Contest |
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I would....
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Sleeping Dragon
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| Posted: 18-Nov-2017 15:25 Post subject: Design Contest |
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Shush you! 
Others have made you some standard fare. While I'm doing the nonsense stuff.
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 18-Nov-2017 20:47 Post subject: Design Contest |
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You did not just Shush me!
LAM's have their place. Where that is, they have no Idea....
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Sleeping Dragon
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| Posted: 19-Nov-2017 14:44 Post subject: Design Contest |
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My masterpiece can't be denied it's place on the sun! It might be slow, but it will get there... eventually.
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| Posted: 20-Nov-2017 17:56 Post subject: Design Contest |
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After the fighting has ended...
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Sleeping Dragon
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| Posted: 21-Nov-2017 03:23 Post subject: Design Contest |
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With this kind of armour you certainly don't want to arrive too early, but you can still move 5 maps per turn in aerofighter mode and 9/14 in air-mech mode, so seting up an ambush is certainly possible. LAMs are poor Aerospace fighters anyway, so I never really considered it to be used in aerospace mode for anything else than rapid relovation.
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