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If mech/vehicle/ASF design is going to be a foreground feature of the AU It might be a good idea to actually solicit redesign slates for companies other than CAC and pick one reader's slate per company to give different manufacturers different idiosyncrasies. Some people picked up their design...

Not what I'd do with the Pixie. I'd market it as the affordable and robust counterpart. Keep it on the 270 standard engine to keep prices down and make it available earlier in the up-teching process. XLFE are stage three. You can fit endo and ferro just fine. The Pixie is only using 17...

Depends on if you're playing combined arms or writing combined arms. A force with a high enough minimum speed can bypass infantry in the field if there's no map edge and no need to be done with the scenario by the time the store closes. And infantry in buildings does not take burst weapon...

Hunting infantry with a Pixie is a waste of a mech at least until all bugs have been pushed from inventory and by the time CASE will probably be in production. In fact by that time they will probably be being used against people whose infantry have 11 HP so the machineguns would be pretty much...

Not that many. They can take slopes faster and go into heavy woods, but if heavy woods are by definition thick enough to keep out tanks they're pretty dang thick. Given what our forefathers got up to in Malaysia, I'd question calling any non-primordial forests not involving extreme alien...

The WLF-1 is the introtech variant. It sounds like you're using an older version of the MegaMek data files from when FHES wasn't implemented or an in between when some mechs that have it had been missed. It won't get a shot at a Jenner performing scouting duties because of their speed...

Funny thing about that. A WLF-1 is 5.25 million C-bills. A PHX-1 or PHX-1D is 4.06 or 4.07 million C-bills. Advanced tech doesn't fix that, it makes it worse. Finally, if you attach a Commando or Wolfhound to a scout lance you've ruined its mobility. If you attach a Jenner or Spider you...

TharHes is the one with unlimited money. Which is what makes the Wolfhound so puzzling. What the LCAF and AFFC needed was either an Ostscout-like or a better medium scout than the Assassin. The Wolfhound is less fragile than the Commando, but apart from ammo it retains all of the operational...

I'm pretty sure this story isn't running on hare brained logic where a Panther magically gets to move before a Cicada just because it's 5 tons lighter even thought the Cicada is actually twice as fast. Light mechs have no place in standard tech. The fastest practical mech speeds are most...

Yes. The only things that have trouble are small birds that fall too far behind the optimum size for their thrust and outpace pilot acceleration tolerance if you use higher rated XL engines, and stuff that can't be upgraded. You don't run out of crits trying to fit advanced tech like you do on...

The Rapier is a dogfighter too. It's an expensive dogfighter with questionable armor for its cost, but you get something that can do either Hellcat or Lightning missions for about a third more C-bills than either with the low tech 102 (which I previously mixed up with the 101). A DHS switch...

Um, no it doesn't. Long range actually has a definition for aerospace fighters. It doesn't have LRMs, AC-2s, or an LTAC. Those are the only 3025 tech weapons with long range. Kind of. You can turn it into a Slayer or slightly oversize Eagle if you completely butcher it, but the first thing...

The name of the mech is part of the brand. Maybe more than the name of the company is. People don't distinguish between Defiance built or LAW built Atlases. They have the same reputation. The Phoenix and Kyudo and other CAC mechs have a good reputation because they're all lostech. Allowing...

That would dilute the brand. Catachan's unique mechs tend to rely on XL engines and would turn into mediocre if not garbage mechs without them. The only ones that might work are the Mackie, Helepolis and Ostwar. The Mackie isn't doing anything that couldn't be done on the better reputed Atlas...

The trouble with that notion is Comstar. Everyone must let the Comstar News Bureau operate under threat of interdict. After the FedCom Accords, Comstar is pro-Combine and they've probably been pro-Capellan for a long time, but before the FedCom Accords they would have been pro-Lyran and...

They were short of second line equipment in the Inner Sphere, and most of the time mechs take more serious damage than pilots. Most pilot injuries heal on their own without spare parts in a fraction of the time it takes to ship parts. It's over 160 jumps from the Pentagon Cluster to Star's...

The Clans can deploy their military as is. If they haven't backslidden they can decontaminate the hardware because the Star League dealt with NBC threats. So their plan if the planet is still contaminated should be to send a bunch of Solhama Elementals and mech pilots using second or third...

Um, yeah they do. Battlemechs and Elementals are both sealed against NBCs as a side effect of being vacuum rated.

The thing about forests is that they're full of trees and cities tend to have lots of two story buildings. And if they don't they only give partial cover between battlemechs. WiGEs can't go above trees or two story buildings so the airmech has to use the extended high altitude WiGE movement...

WiGE mode has bigger numbers, but air hexes are a lot bigger so that's its fastest mode, not WiGE. And 5/8 is not a thrust profile conducive to outfighting or outrunning anything airborne. Airwalk sounds good if you assume you have complete air supremacy, but if you have complete air supremacy...