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Storm
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 Posted: 22-Jun-2004 09:15 Post subject: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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If you were to design an assault lance what would you include?
Here's the scenario:
year: 3060
4-mech Assault lance
Faction: Word of Blake, FWL, or Steiner
Assume the unit is experienced, thus having access to newer 'mechs/tech.
I'd love to see your responses.
Storm
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Ronin
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| Posted: 22-Jun-2004 10:38 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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| What do you want this assault lance to do? Long range bombardment? Close in slugfests? A balanced mixture? This affects the selection of the designs.
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Kiris65
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| Posted: 22-Jun-2004 10:49 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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Have a couple in mind, such as:
Fafnir 5B
Banshee 7S
Hauptman OC
Awesome 9Q
but then again...what's the mission? Is the lance "purely" assault? or can you mix one or two heavy/medium mechs?
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Stinger
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| Posted: 22-Jun-2004 13:37 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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Devistator
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Awesome
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Ruger
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| Posted: 22-Jun-2004 16:30 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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Hmm...Steiner Assault Lance:
BattleMaster-4S
Highlander-734
Banshee-7S
Zeus-9T
It gives hurt at range and only gets worse the closer you get...and not an XL in the bunch...light engines, yes...but no XL's... 
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Storm
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| Posted: 23-Jun-2004 09:13 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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Butt-kicking slugfest is what I had in mind: the kind of unit that has a reputation for getting in close and nasty, wrath-of-god/avatars-of-death sort of thing.
You know, bad dudes to monkey with.
The setting is urban, if that helps at all.
Hee hee hee (  evil chuckle, goes back to writing short fiction section)
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Storm
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| Posted: 23-Jun-2004 09:15 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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Okay. . . . . .
BattleMaster-4S
Highlander-734
Banshee-7S
Zeus-9T
I can work with that. I wanted to see 4 of the biggest, baddest boys on the field. I have something nasty in mind. Like I told Ronin, too, the setting is urban (light industry/factories, stores, skyscrapers and suchlike)
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Oafman
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| Posted: 23-Jun-2004 10:46 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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For that I would take:
Atlas
Atlas
Atlas
Atlas
I can't help it, I am a Big Atlas fan. hehe
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Wanallo
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| Posted: 23-Jun-2004 13:58 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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For Urban I would take an Annihilator, Sunder SD1-OC, An Atlas and maybe a highlander or Zeus. I know an Annihilator isn't one of the faction mechs but i like the big goon. Otherwise i would take a Stalker of some kind
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Ruger
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| Posted: 23-Jun-2004 19:11 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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On 2004-06-23 09:13, Storm wrote:
Butt-kicking slugfest is what I had in mind: the kind of unit that has a reputation for getting in close and nasty, wrath-of-god/avatars-of-death sort of thing.
You know, bad dudes to monkey with.
The setting is urban, if that helps at all.
Hee hee hee ( evil chuckle, goes back to writing short fiction section)
Storm
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If that's the case....4 x Highlander-734's...4 ER Large Lasers for any distance shots, with 4 LB-20X's, 8 Streak-6's, 8 ER Medium Lasers and 4 Medium Pulse Lasers with max armor for the size, 3/5/3 movement, and near perfect heat dissipation for the short range stuff (only movement heat)...that's 60 points of damage each at short to mid-range if everything hits...
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| Posted: 24-Jun-2004 13:29 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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4 King crabs.
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Vagabond
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| Posted: 24-Jun-2004 19:54 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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HEAVYMETAL PRO
BATTLEMECH ROSTER SHEET
moo
TONS TYPE & MODEL COST BV Skills STD WV RATIO
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95 Hauptmann HA1-O 12,870,608 1,819 4/5 2,716 1.49
95 Hauptmann HA1-OA 12,478,050 2,172 4/5 3,070 1.41
95 Hauptmann HA1-OA 12,478,050 2,172 4/5 3,070 1.41
95 Hauptmann HA1-OB 12,454,406 1,662 4/5 2,060 1.24
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380 Tons Total (4 'Mechs) 50,281,114 7,825 10,916 1.40
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Storm
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| Posted: 25-Jun-2004 09:04 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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If you shoot like I do, anything hitting would be a miracle and a half.
Storm
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Storm
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| Posted: 25-Jun-2004 09:05 Post subject: RE: Looking for the Perfect Assault Lance |
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Honestly hadn't considered the Haupt, but I think it's a good idea.
Storm
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