I think maybe you mean ‘Emperor.’ But that was built on Son Hoa before it was nuked, not Loburg. What data we have suggests that Loburg used to build lower tech version of the King Crab and the Longbow while Son Hoa built Royal-grade Mechs: Emperor, Highlander, and King Crab.
i was thinking that the longbow and Shogun are both 85ton mechs and now both will jump. and, well i always just like the Shogun
Alas to make it you need to make a deal with the Dragoons since they're the only ones in the Inner Sphere with the plans for it something nobody was able to do in canon.
Unless your mercenary company is the Kell Hounds or a spinoff of the 1st Catachan/Webers Warriors and/or their equivalents in being house troops in all but name and/or owning your own production company on the list to get data from the Catachan core I don't think any mercenary command is getting such tech before the LCAF and Lyran House Units do and that's going to probably take until the 3030s to fully do and even then Lyran miltia units will probably take priority before most mercs. The WD certainly don't fall under such a categorywell i guy can wish, and this mod of the Longbow does seem to cover the bases. i wonder if the WD will look them up for ER PPCs. now that would be a meeting you would want to be a fly on the wall for.
Its the principle of using conservation of detail to set the mood. If you want to give the players an awesome sense of collateral damage, you can use some of the advanced building rules and the missed shot rules from page 81 of the same book.
It could serve as incentive to get them to remain in the employment of House Steiner after their original contract expires. “Stay for another tour and we’ll let you in on the really good sources of gear.”
That also applies to other large merc units
And WD haven't actually done their stint for LC yet. It'll happen in 3-4 years if this rolls like OTL. In canon, they only worked for the Steiners for two years, so having sweeteners for an extension is probably very useful.
And just before that they tried to help hit Heserpus so one could be forgiven if Katrina doesn't really want to give them any good stuff
There's about three years until that happens, and it may be that more and better armaments present in the LC discourages that. From memory, while they won, WD needed to do a resupply in Clanspace after that one - it was close even without foundtech proliferation. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a WD fanboy, but I could honestly see Jamie Wolf deciding not to do it, especially if better armaments make it to the LC-FWL border, and the Dragoons take more attrition damage.
There was no real explanation, as far as I can tell, he found the Combine faux honour code to be in line with his Clanner programming.
That's when you take advantage of the DHS, FF and Endo production to start making Royal Highlanders just like Rhonda Snord's. Loudspeakers for blasting heavy metal included, of course.
Highlanders can be made by StarCorp later better Longbows and restarting King Crab production comes first
Again, the key problem with restarting Highlander production is that the tooling is buried under thousands of tons of radioactive rubble. Getting at it is possible, but would be both time-consuming and expensive.