BattleMech Technical Readout

Name/Model:         Pillbug PLB-1G
Designer:           Thunder
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            20
Configuration:      Quad BattleMech
Era/Year:           ilClan / 3250
Rules (Current):    Advanced
Rules (Era):        Advanced
Rules (Year):       Advanced
Total Cost:         1,580,200 C-Bills
Battle Value:       732

Chassis:              Reinforced
Power Plant:          100 Fusion
Walking Speed:        54 kph    
Maximum Speed:        75.6 kph  
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Hardened
Armament:             
    2 ER Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    The Pillbug is an open market offering.  It promises a mech with firepower that would of
    been more at home in the succession wars.  It does so at a price well below average.  Its
    only claim to fame is pure durability to a degree that it's subversion of traditional
    expectations is it's primary tactical asset.

Capabilities:
    For a 20 ton mech the Pillbug is slow.  Your average heavy cav unit can outpace it.  But,
    heavy fire support is a formation the Pillbug can keep up with.  Which leads to its main
    roll in a lance, bodyguard.  While its two medium lasers won't stop anyone willing to take
    their lumps, historically light mech pilots who live are disinclined to take chances.  As
    such a pillbug just hanging around the backside of t he fire support element can have a
    chilling affect on adventurtism.
    
    The raw toughness is the main focus of this design.  Danage that should end the discussion
    between a 20 ton mech and anything else instead becomes, "Your opinion iscl duly noted."
    Thus includes an AC20 to the head.

Deployment:
    Beyond the niche use as a bodyguard,  commands that have recueved Pillbugs have discovered
    other uses for them like:  land mine detector.  Ambush detector, bullet sponge.   Yeah...
    tbe pillbug is kind of a solution in search of a problem.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Reinforced                 4.00                     
Engine:                                     100 Fusion                 3.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 5                                               
    Running MP:                                 7                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         10 [20]                   0.00                     
Gyro:                                           XL                     0.50                     
Cockpit:                                      Small                    2.00                     
Armor Factor:                                   68                     8.50                     
    Type:                                    Hardened                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                       6             10       
    Center Torso (rear):                               1       
    R/L Torso:                          5              8       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  1       
    R/L Front Leg:                      4              8       
    R/L Rear Leg:                       4              7       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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2 ER Medium Lasers                                        H                 2          2.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 20
TP: BM,  SZ: 1,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"
Damage: (S) 1 / (M) 1 / (L) 0,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 5,  Structure (S): 4
Specials: CR, ENE