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Name/Model:         Shadow Hawk SHD-3H2
Designer:           Ghostcat53
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            55
Role:               Skirmisher
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Star League / 2751
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Advanced
Rules (Year):       Advanced
Total Cost:         4,586,398 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,112

Chassis:              Lang T1 
Power Plant:          CoreTek 275 220 
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            Pitban LFT-50 
    Jump Capacity:    90 meters
Armor:                Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:             
    1 Autocannon/5
    1 Medium Laser
    1 LRM 5
    3 SRM 4s
    2 Vehicular Grenade Launchers
    2 Small Lasers
    2 Machine Guns
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       O/P 300 COMSET
Targeting & Tracking: O/P 2000A

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Overview:
    Little more than a historical footnote, the Shadow Hawk -3H served
    as a cover for the introduction of the SHD-2Hb Royal variant. The
    increasing tensions of the Third Hidden War spurred the Star League
    Defense Force to further strengthen its forces, with the death of First
    Lord Simon Cameron in 2751 sending this initiative into overdrive.
    The venerable Shadow Hawk was among the first units earmarked to
    receive a long-overdue upgrade as part of this initiative.
    Ever looking for an opportunity to cause trouble for the Star
    League and gaining military intelligence to boot, the Draconis Combine
    somehow discovered word of the upgrade program and submitted
    its own competitor. Unwilling to give the Combine an insight into the
    SHD-2Hb?s performance nor wishing to overly provoke them, the SLDF
    commissioned Lang Industries to create a lower-tech variant to fight
    against the DRG-1C Dragon.

Capabilities:
    With the procurement competition now being spun as being for
    an ?anti-insurgent variant? for the Regular Army, the SHD-3H was a
    minimal change to the trusty -2H. A pair of Voelkers machine guns
    replaced the SRM launcher, being cleverly mounted to mimic the
    Holly?s original housing, which greatly increased the ?Mech?s punch
    against infantry.

Deployment:
    Despite expecting to lose the competition, Luthien Armor Works
    supplied the SLDF two lances of Dragon -1C prototypes for testing,
    having been already assured by the Combine that it would cover their
    costs by picking up its production. Although the Dragon was better
    armored and had longer-ranged weaponry, the Shadow Hawk had a
    slight edge in mobility and close-range fire power. Unsurprisingly, the
    contract was handed to Lang Industries, officially because the SHD-
    3H was able to draw upon existing replacement parts stockpiles, but
    it ultimately resulted in a win-win situation for both parties.
    The SLDF produced few -3Hs, but got the advanced SHD-
    2Hb they wanted all along. The Combine protested loudly
    about the utter mediocrity of the variant, as well
    as the SLDF?s procurement bias against them,
    and got their new Dragon into the bargain.
    The few production runs
    of -3Hs were dispersed to
    units in flashpoint areas
    such as along the Lyran-
    Kuritan border and within
    the ever-fractious Taurian
    Concordat. Many ended up in
    the Sixty-Seventh Mechanized Infantry
    Division, based on the Combine border world
    of Christiania. By feigning a lack of resources,
    the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery
    increasingly made the SLDF responsible for
    dealing with bandits and terrorists?or
    those political dissidents and Rasalhague
    secessionists they deemed as such?leaving
    the League to carry out the Combine?s dirty
    work and carry the butcher?s bill. Likewise,
    the -3Hs assigned to the Ninety-Fifth Royal
    Jump Infantry Division proved handy on both
    Katinka and New Vandenburg, although
    they are viewed as being little more than
    the strongarms of a Star League-

Variants:
    Surprisingly, the Shadow Hawk -3H was the basis for a variant of
    its own, the up-gunned and hot running SHD-3H2. Erroneously referred
    to as the -3H itself in some promotional literature, it was the antiinsurgent,
    anti-vehicular ?Mech the -3H should have been. Intended for lower-end Terran Hegemony
    militias, the -3H2 had a smaller engine,
    which enabled the addition of three SRM-4 packs and a pair of small
    lasers. Leftover ferro-fibrous armor from the Royal SHD-2Hb program
    saved enough mass to mount a pair of versatile grenade launchers. Only
    entering limited service just prior to its production lines being destroyed
    during the Coup, the -3H2 later provided the inspiration for the Davion
    -2D variant, which sacrificed armor instead of maneuverability.

Notable MechWarriors:
    Captain Tomas Sokal: Commanding an anti-insurgency company in the
    Sixty-Seventh Mechanized Infantry Division?s third regiment, Sokal?s unit
    was assigned the two lances of Dragon -1Cs donated to the SLDF for
    evaluation purposes: ostensibly being closer to the Combine?s resupply
    network. The Dragons provide support at range, with the remaining
    lance of -3H Shadow Hawks dealing with threats up close. Well aware
    of the larger political battles taking place between the League and
    Combine, Sokal has found the company?s composition ironically works
    very well. He often finds the ?terrorists? his unit is sent against pause
    at the sight of the Dragons, still in Combine colors, before surrendering
    to the SLDF Shadow Hawks at the first opportunity.
    Flath Ian MacLeod: The commander of a small band of like-minded
    Highlanders left in Capellan space, MacLeod refused to return to his
    homeworld after Hanse Davion wooed many back to Northwind, with
    him and his fellows decrying the returnee?s lack of honor. Granted a
    small landhold by a grateful Chancellor-Regent Romano Liao following
    the end of the Fourth Succession War, MacLeod and his unit acted as
    a beacon for not only those unhappy with Hanse Davion?s political
    manipulation of the Highlanders but also those who wished to return
    to the Capellan fold. MacLeod?s Shadow Hawk -2H was badly damaged
    during the Fourth Succession War, forcing its modification into the -3H
    variant, where it would serve him well during the following Andurien War.
    Lieutenant Hans Nordström: One of the few survivors of a small
    mercenary unit that was destroyed in combat, Nordström traveled to
    the Periphery, disillusioned by the Inner Sphere politics that left his
    unit unsupported. With the sudden uptick in pirate raids post-Jihad,
    Nordström answered the Reaches? call for MechWarriors and joined the
    Fronc Cuirassiers in time to help repel several raids. On Rockwellawan
    in 3088 when the Calderon Commando came calling, he defended the
    Cuirassiers base during the operation to feed false information to the
    pirate alliance. Now commissioned to lieutenant, he proudly defends
    his new nation in a captured Shadow Hawk -3H.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                          Standard                  5.50                     
Engine:                                     220 Fusion                10.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 4                                               
    Running MP:                                 6                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 3                                               
Heat Sinks (Single):                            10                     0.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  3.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  152                     8.50                     
    Type:                                 Ferro-Fibrous                                         

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      18             23       
    Center Torso (rear):                               8       
    R/L Torso:                         13             18       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  6       
    R/L Arm:                            9             16       
    R/L Leg:                           13             16       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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Machine Gun                                               H                 1          0.50             
Jump Jet                                                  CT                1          0.50             
Machine Gun                                               CT                1          0.50             
Jump Jet                                                  RT                1          0.50             
LRM 5                                                     RT                1          2.00             
LRM 5 (Ammo 24)                                           RT                1          1.00             
SRM 4                                                     RT                1          2.00             
SRM 4 (Ammo 25)                                           RT                1          1.00             
Vehicular Grenade Launcher                              RT (F)              1          0.50             
Autocannon/5                                              LT                4          8.00             
Autocannon/5 (Ammo 20)                                    LT                1          1.00             
Jump Jet                                                  LT                1          0.50             
Machine Gun (Ammo 100)                                    LT                1          0.50             
Vehicular Grenade Launcher                              LT (F)              1          0.50             
Medium Laser                                              RA                1          1.00             
Small Laser                                               RA                1          0.50             
Small Laser                                               LA                1          0.50             
SRM 4                                                     RL                1          2.00             
SRM 4                                                     LL                1          2.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 29
TP: BM,  SZ: 2,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"/6"j
Damage: (S) 3 / (M) 2 / (L) 1,  OV: 1
Armor (A): 5,  Structure (S): 5
Specials: IF0*