Reiter
02/23/13 01:54 PM
142.11.67.185
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BattleMech Technical Readout
Type/Model: Hunchback HBK-5M mk2 Tech: Inner Sphere / 3050 Config: Biped BattleMech Rules: Level 2, Standard design
Mass: 50 tons Chassis: Crucis Type V Standard Power Plant: 200 Magna Fusion Walking Speed: 43.2 km/h Maximum Speed: 64.8 km/h Jump Jets: None Jump Capacity: 0 meters Armor Type: Jolassa-328 Ferro Fibrous w. CASE Ferro-Fibrous Armament: 2 Magna 400P Medium Pulse Lasers 1 Kali Yama Big Bore Autocannon/20 1 Diverse Optics Type 10P Small Pulse Laser Manufacturer: Kali Yama Weapons Industries Location: Kalidasa Communications System: Omicron 4002 Networking Channel Targeting & Tracking System: TRSS Eagle Eye
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==Overview:== The HBK-4G Hunchback is a heavy-hitting fighting vehicle. Serving in medium and assault lances of many regiments of the Successor States, it has earned a distinguished fighting record. Designed in early 2572, the Hunchback continues as a popular vehicle both in House Liao and House Kurita regiments. It is also used extensively by House Marik armed forces.
The Hunchback is widely known for its streetfighting abilities in the confined spaces of urban battles. With its massive firepower at close range and its two heavy battle fists, it is more than a match for many heavier 'Mechs.
==Capabilities:== The Hunchback, known for its devastating firepower at close range, has a problem with heat buildup. The recovery of Star League technology made this an easy problem to solve. With barely a pause in production, Kali Yama Weapons Industries Inc. at Kalidasa started producing Hunchbacks with double heat sinks. The Free Worlds League, seeing the value of the new design, increased its orders to 20 per year.
Besides using double heat sinks, the new HBK-5M uses the new Sunglow Prism-Optic Small Pulse Laser instead of the Diverse Optics Type 10 Small Laser. It also envelops the autocannon shells in Cellular Ammunition Storage Equipment to guard against an internal explosion. Unfortunately, these two changes reduce the amount of autocannon ammunition the Hunchback can carry. If this proves to be a problem, Kali Yama could easily keep the double heat sinks but return to the previous weapon-and-ammunition configuration.
Marik units that have received the new Hunchback have given it rave reviews. The first MechWarrior who runs out of autocannon ammunition in the middle of battle might be doing a different kind of raving, however. Within six months of the production for House Marik of the -5M, Kali Yama Weapons Industries Inc. came under fire after a scathing report after the neutering of the Hunchback's primary weapon. With only five shots for the autocannon that only lasted a minute at best, the mech was left with only a few lasers and its battlefists along with enough double heat sinks that the mech could never overheat. In the new age of combat in the early 3050's, this put the Hunchback at a severe disadvantage when facing more technology superior Inner Sphere or Clan OmniMechs.
Kali Yama responded by issuing and shipping a new refit package that was easy to replace, after talking with their Techs and engineers from the factory floor for the quickest work around. After only three days of conference, Kali Yama sent an emissary to Irian Technologies, to request and import several products (increasing sales for both companies in the process) that boosted the performance of the Hunchback-5M with as little as only two weeks of downtime.
The first thing to go was the removal of all the exterior armor to ease the access to the interior, followed by the removal of three heatsinks; they were unnecessary as the mech could only produce 60% of the necessary heat to even reach critical levels unless a Firestarter was facing the Hunchback. This excess weight was put to good use, by increasing the ammo count from five shots for the Kali Yama Big Bore autocannon to fifteen, a 50% increase over the previous Fourth Succession War era version of the Hunchback. With the biggest flaw solved, the next addition was the removal of the old standard medium class lasers with the replacement of the Magna 400P Medium Pulse Lasers imported fromm Irian Technologies, the same used for the Awesome-9M and compliments the Diverse Optics Type 10 Small Pulse laser Kali Yama had started the first version of the Hunchback-5M. Finally, the Durallex Tensile-4 armor was replaced at the end of the refit with Jolassa-328 Ferro Fibrous w. CASE that allowed the upgrade of an additional ton of ammo (combined with the three tons freed from the heatsinks) before Kali Yama started the upgrade of the -5M in the first place. Kali Yama has seen fit to upgrade their production lines for the -5M mk2 version, which only took a little longer downtime their their botched -5M mk1 version.
-------------------------------------------------------- Type/Model: Hunchback HBK-5M mk2 Mass: 50 tons
Equipment: Crits Mass Int. Struct.: 83 pts Standard 0 5.00 Engine: 200 Fusion 6 8.50 Walking MP: 4 Running MP: 6 Jumping MP: 0 Heat Sinks: 10 Double [20] 6 .00 (Heat Sink Loc: 1 LA, 1 LT) Gyro: 4 2.00 Cockpit, Life Supt., Sensors: 5 3.00 Actuators: L: Sh+UA+LA+H R: Sh+UA+LA+H 16 .00 Armor Factor: 161 pts Ferro-Fibrous 14 9.00 (Armor Crit Loc: 2 LA, 2 RA, 2 LT, 2 RT, 2 CT, 2 LL, 2 RL)
Internal Armor Structure Value Head: 3 9 Center Torso: 16 27 Center Torso (Rear): 5 L/R Side Torso: 12 20/20 L/R Side Torso (Rear): 4/4 L/R Arm: 8 16/16 L/R Leg: 12 20/20
Weapons and Equipment Loc Heat Ammo Crits Mass -------------------------------------------------------- 1 Medium Pulse Laser RA 4 1 2.00 1 Medium Pulse Laser LA 4 1 2.00 1 Autocannon/20 RT 7 15 13 17.00 (Ammo Locations: 3 LT) 1 Small Pulse Laser HD 2 1 1.00 CASE Equipment: LT 1 .50 -------------------------------------------------------- TOTALS: 17 68 50.00 Crits & Tons Left: 10 .00
Calculated Factors: Total Cost: 3,826,000 C-Bills Battle Value 2: 1,106 (old BV = 983) Cost per BV2: 3,459.31 Weapon Value: 875 / 875 (Ratio = .79 / .79) Damage Factors: SRDmg = 25; MRDmg = 2; LRDmg = 0 BattleForce2: MP: 4, Armor/Structure: 4/4 Damage PB/M/L: 5/3/-, Overheat: 0 Class: MM; Point Value: 11
3050 improvement variation, the origional 3050 TRO change was terrible.
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Cray
02/23/13 06:06 PM
97.101.96.171
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Nice upgrade to the classic.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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