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Name/Model:         Commando COM-2D2
Designer:           Festy_Dog
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            25
Role:               Striker
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Succession Wars / 2994
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard (Extinct)
Total Cost:         2,025,833 C-Bills
Battle Value:       690

Chassis:              Endo Steel
Power Plant:          GM 175 
Walking Speed:        75.6 kph  
Maximum Speed:        118.8 kph 
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Ferro-Fibrous with CASE
Armament:             
    1 Defiance B3M Medium Laser
    2 Coventry 4-Tube Missile System SRM 4s
Manufacturer:         Ravensbourne Specialist Engineering
    Primary Factory:  RSE Loxley Ironworks
Communications:       TharHes Crystal Flower RG-2
Targeting & Tracking: TharHes Star Shark

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Overview:
    Investing in mass production of Locusts was considered to be not feasible when Ravensbourne
    Specialist Engineering's heads of R&D found they couldn't meet the company's minimum pilot
    safety requirements while still having a machine viable for combat.
    
    Going a little heavier was found to be the solution. The Commando, as a classic Lyran
    design, was a series RSE had already made parts for over the centuries and by the late 30th
    century they were well practised at scaling up parts lines into full chassis fabrication.
    
    After slightly dialling back the firepower and packing in a bigger engine, RSE bolted on as
    much armour as the architecture could comfortably handle. Thus, the COM-2D2 was born. Very
    advanced for the period of time, the -2D2 used RSE's proprietary endo-steel alloy for its
    structure and ferro-fibrous armour. (At the turn of the millenium ferro-fibrous would fall
    out of favour with RSE due to a perceived difficulty in clients sourcing replacement plates
    until the second half of the 31st century where Lostech had repropagated enough that the
    armour was considered easy enough to access across the Inner Sphere.)

Capabilities:
    The -2D2 is (unsurprisingly) based on the very ubiquitous architecture of the -2D. The most
    notable difference is the torso-mounted SRM6 of the -2D has been downgraded to an SRM4. One
    ton of ammunition has been removed, and the remaining ammunition has been stored in a
    CASE-protected bin. RSE's wizardry with endo-steel and chassis adjustments allowed them to
    put a bigger engine into the -2D2.

Variants:
    Pilots of the era appreciated how survivable the -2D2 was for a 25-ton striker towards the
    end of the Succession Wars. A strange accolade but a valuable one that helped build the RSE
    brand in its early days of battlemech manufacturing.
    
    Later variants would utilise XL engines and thereby double down on safety by mobility.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 1.50                     
Engine:                                     175 Fusion                 7.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 7                                               
    Running MP:                                 11                                              
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Single):                            10                     0.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  2.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                   89                     5.00                     
    Type:                                 Ferro-Fibrous                                         

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                       8             13       
    Center Torso (rear):                               3       
    R/L Torso:                          6             10       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  2       
    R/L Arm:                            4              8       
    R/L Leg:                            6             12       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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SRM 4                                                     CT                1          2.00             
CASE                                                      RT                1          0.50             
SRM 4 (Ammo 25)                                           RT                1          1.00             
SRM 4                                                     RA                1          2.00             
Medium Laser                                              LA                1          1.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 26
TP: BM,  SZ: 1,  TMM: 3,  MV: 14"
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 2 / (L) 0,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 3,  Structure (S): 2
Specials: CASE, SRM1/1
 
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