Rotwang
07/07/04 09:16 PM
213.118.184.246
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BattleMech Technical Readout
Type/Model: Charger CGR-4S
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3067
Config: Biped BattleMech
Rules: Level 3, Standard design
Mass: 80 tons
Chassis: Wells 990 Standard
Power Plant: 400 LTV XL Fusion
Walking Speed: 54,0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86,4 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor Type: Durallex Heavy Standard
Armament:
4 ER Medium Lasers
1 Heavy Gauss Rifle
1 Guardian ECM
Manufacturer: Wells Technologies
Location: (Unknown)
Communications System: Tek BattleCom
Targeting & Tracking System: Dalban HiRez
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==Overview:==
As the Fed Com Civil war reached a climax, the call for new mechs became ever
more pressing. The Lyrian Alliance was forced to recall even mothballed
machines to keep up numbers.
Among these were about 20 of the much maligned Charger, deemed obsolete, they
had been traded for newer machines and cannibalized for spare parts, but
Steiner engineers rapidly came up with an unpgrade package, making use of the
new Heavy Gauss Rifle and turning the former laughing stock of the Inner
Sphere into a very dangerous fighting machine.
==Capabilities:==
The 4S version retains the speed and armour of the original, but gives it the
massive punch of a Heavy Gauss Rifle, backed up by a brace of lasers. An ECM
helps shield it from more advanced enemy weapon systems.
The Charger is a good support and close assault mech, capable of closing in
fast with Assault and Heavy mechs and capable of standing up to all but the
heaviest foes.
No longer used for reconnaissance, except with assault lances, this charger is
now one of the most potent versions ever designed.
==Battle History:==
The Charger 4S has seen limited action. Often thrown in desperate battles,
several Chargers made a good account of themselves and fought quite well.
On one occasion a Charger engaged a Davion Templar and destroyed it with a
number of well-aimed torso shots.
Unfortunately with only a few dozen mechs available, the Charger is doomed to
remain an obscure footnote in mech history.
==Variants:==
Only one single Charger 4S variant has been recorded. It drops the Heavy
Gauss Rifle in favour of a regular weapon with 3 tons of ammo and upgrades the
medium lasers to a single ER PPC. This jury rigged machine suffers from many
occasional malfunctions. During a fight, it lost control of all its weapons
and the pilot was forced to eject. Captured by Davion forces it is currently
being studied at the NAIS in the hope of upgrading old Davion Chargers to a
new standard.
==Notable 'Mechs & MechWarriors:==
Mechwarrior Lucy Ford
Heiress to "Lucky" Ford's machine, her old, battered Charger has been upgraded
to a 4S. Sharing her grandfather's legendary luck, she has fought in many
engagements, employing hit and run tactics and using her Heavy Gauss Rifle to
snipe at enemy mechs and then disengaging rapidly.
==Deployment==
The Charger 4S can be found in Steiner controlled areas. One has been
captured by Davion loyalists.
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Type/Model: Charger CGR-4S
Mass: 80 tons
Equipment: Crits Mass
Int. Struct.: 122 pts Standard 0 8,00
Engine: 400 XL Fusion 12 26,50
Walking MP: 5
Running MP: 8
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: 11 Double [22] 0 1,00
Gyro: 4 4,00
Cockpit, Life Supt., Sensors: 5 3,00
Actuators: L: Sh+UA+LA R: Sh+UA+LA+H 15 ,00
Armor Factor: 160 pts Standard 0 10,00
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 25 25
Center Torso (Rear): 6
L/R Side Torso: 17 20/20
L/R Side Torso (Rear): 5/5
L/R Arm: 13 15/15
L/R Leg: 17 20/20
Weapons and Equipment Loc Heat Ammo Crits Mass
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1 ER Medium Laser RA 5 1 1,00
1 ER Medium Laser LA 5 1 1,00
1 Heavy Gauss Rifle RT 2 16 15 22,00
(Ammo Locations: 2 LT, 2 RL)
1 Guardian ECM LT 0 2 1,50
2 ER Medium Lasers LT 10 2 2,00
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TOTALS: 22 57 80,00
Crits & Tons Left: 21 ,00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 21.037.919 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1.685
Cost per BV: 12.485,41
Weapon Value: 1.613 / 1.613 (Ratio = ,96 / ,96)
Damage Factors: SRDmg = 28; MRDmg = 20; LRDmg = 4
BattleForce2: MP: 5, Armor/Structure: 4/3
Damage PB/M/L: 5/4/1, Overheat: 0
Class: MA; Point Value: 17
Specials: ecm
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Karagin
10/29/07 09:51 PM
24.26.220.4
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Very Lyran...
Karagin
Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything.
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Dester
10/31/07 11:19 AM
216.57.96.1
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Like the fluff, so don't get me wrong, But wasn't there already an upgrade to the charger (ie 3050 TRO specs). Might include a cost/ benefit reason why they were mothballed instead of refited.
My other consern is the Heavy Gauss Rifle. I don't like it, it is to much of a gimic weapon in my mind.
A strait up AC-20 and a few extra heat sinks would do just fine.
Just my thoughts.
Dester
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Karagin
11/01/07 06:52 AM
24.26.220.4
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Sure they have upgraded the Charger, hell they even have reworked it, but the Heavy Gauss is something that Stenier would be all over since they get their heavy assault units with a big bang for the buck and given that it's new tech it has all the more appeal to their vainity of being the ones to have it and use it first etc...
Karagin
Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything.
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Drasnighta
11/01/07 07:07 PM
202.134.237.10
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As someone who prides themselves as a Steiner Loyalist in just about every RPG I've been in, I endorse this variant as Lyran thinking for whatever thats worth... Sure, the HGR "is" a Gimmick, but more importantly, its a LYRAN Gimmick... Not a Drac Launcher, not a Davie Autocannon... The HGR is Theirs, and anywhere they can find to put it (now thats not an open statement if I've ever written one) is probably alright with them....
That aside... A 5/8 Assault 'Mech with a Heavy Gauss Rifle? If the MechWarrior has a half-decent Piloting Skill, this thing is a potential nightmare... It has the HGR, and the Ability to get in close with it - the Fafnir's Failure. I'll be taking it, trying it out. Besides, for Shock value, most 'Mechwarriors would say "Oh, its just a Charger..." Then 'Bam'...
I like it... Definately like it...
CEO Heretic BattleMechs.
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His_Most_Royal_Highass_Donkey
06/18/08 03:36 PM
68.26.60.213
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Anything done with the Charger in an improvement. The mech was a joke from the start. At least with a 400 XL something can be done with it.
Drasnighta I agree with you that its a good improvement. Not because its from the backwards state Lyran. But its fixing a bad mech. Now if the people of Lyran would have just knew there place and stayed good little lapdogs Davien would have conquered the other states and the Star League would now be back. Its just to bad that some people just don't know there place!
Why argue if the glass is half full or half empty, when you know someone is going to knock it over and spill it anyways.
I was a Major *pain* before
But I got a promotion.
I am now a General *pain*
Yay for promotions!!!
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Lafeel
06/18/08 03:53 PM
157.157.109.27
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Aren't you forgetting the small matter that the one to split the states apart was one Katherine Steiner Davion?
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His_Most_Royal_Highass_Donkey
06/18/08 04:32 PM
68.26.60.213
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I am not forgetting that traitor to the Davion throne.
Why argue if the glass is half full or half empty, when you know someone is going to knock it over and spill it anyways.
I was a Major *pain* before
But I got a promotion.
I am now a General *pain*
Yay for promotions!!!
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Lafeel
06/18/08 04:41 PM
157.157.109.27
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What are you, a Davion follower, or a Kurita one? Seeing as no one in his right mind would call the Lyrans "Davion lapdogs" without deliberately wanting to drive them away, because that is the very thing they do not either want to seen as, nor be.
Edited by Lafeel (06/18/08 04:42 PM)
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His_Most_Royal_Highass_Donkey
06/18/08 06:10 PM
68.26.60.213
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Thou am pro Davion but I am not a Davion citizen. I am my own ruler of my own solar system.
Why argue if the glass is half full or half empty, when you know someone is going to knock it over and spill it anyways.
I was a Major *pain* before
But I got a promotion.
I am now a General *pain*
Yay for promotions!!!
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