Drasnighta
04/22/15 01:49 PM
198.53.98.65
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Inspiration drawn from the Hippogriff - But I certainly went in a different direction...
Idolator IDL-Q01-X
Mass: 50 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Chassis Config: Quad
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: Jihad
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-F-A
Production Year: 3085
Cost: 5,166,500 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,699
Chassis: Unknown Standard
Power Plant: Allied 250 250 Fusion Engine
Walking Speed: 54.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h
Jump Jets: Rawlings
Jump Capacity: 150 meters (210 meters)
Armor: Longancker Plastisteel Reactive
Armament:
1 Blackenberg Stattico Large X-Pulse Laser
2 Defiance B3M Medium Lasers
1 Blackenberg Heartbeat Small Pulse Laser
Manufacturer: Dynamics Corp / Heretic BattleMechs
Primary Factory: Gallery
Communications System: TharHes
Targeting and Tracking System: TharHes
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Overview:
Throughout the WoB Jihad, Dynamics corporation on Gallery routinely teamed with
Heretic BattleMechs, a small startup design and concept company, to try to
break into the BattleMech Market.
With a design limit of 55 tons, they looked at producing many different
variants of concepts.
Capabilities:
The Idolator was apparently conceived to fulfill the position of a medium
weight slasher 'mech. Something that could control the battlefield, get in, do
its damage, and get out, all the while frustrating its opponents.
What was eventually conceived was a low-to-the ground Quad design, with a
collapse-able vane partial wing system.
Numerous design features were factored into the design. The first being, of
course, its partial wing system, giving it an impressive jump of 210 meters in
a standard pressure atmosphere.
Furthermore, all of its jump jets are located in its torsos, to allow the quad
design to have as much access to its thrust rating, irrespective of terrain.
This would also allow the Idolator to land in shallow water - although its heat
sink system does not allow for additional heat dissipation, the lower-slung
design would help in protecting it.
Its main firepower comes from a Blackenberg Stattico Large X-Pulse laser
mounted in the Torso. With a few production models entering the marketplace
only a scare few years before its design, the Idolator was figured to be a
showcase for the extended range of the Stattico.
Backup weapons are a pair of standard Defiance B3M Medium Lasers, positively
quaint compared to other factors of the design, but tried-and-true. A Small
Pulse laser brings in some close-range anti-infantry firepower, and is mounted
in the head for instinctive targeting by the MechWarrior.
Variants:
No Variants of the Idolator have been conceived so far. The Idolator itself is
such a radical design that it may indeed never get off the drawing board
itself. Selling the very concept of "A BattleMech that can almost Fly" borders
on LAM territory for a lot of people, and that makes buyers nervous, with the
continual drawbacks of those concepts and designs well documented. Indeed,
rumors persist that the design concept originally called for an Allied 250
Fusion Engine - made most famous by the Phoenix Hawk LAM.
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 91 points 5.00
Engine: Fusion Engine 250 12.50
Walking MP: 5
Running MP: 8
Jumping MP: 5 (7) Standard
Jump Jet Locations: 1 CT, 2 LT, 2 RT 2.50
Heat Sinks: Double Heat Sink 10(23) 0.00
Gyro: Standard 3.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Actuators: L: H+UL+LL+F R: H+UL+LL+F
Armor: Reactive AV - 161 10.50
Armor Locations: 3 LT, 3 RT, 2 FLL, 2 FRL, 2 RLL, 2 RRL
Internal Armor
Structure Factor
Head 3 9
Center Torso 16 21
Center Torso (rear) 7
L/R Torso 12 17
L/R Torso (rear) 5
L/R Front Leg 12 18
L/R Rear Leg 12 22
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Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass
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Large X-Pulse Laser RT 14 2 7.00
2 Medium Lasers LT 6 2 2.00
Partial Wing LT/RT - 4/4 3.50
Small Pulse Laser HD 2 1 1.00
Free Critical Slots: 3
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 4 Points: 17
5/7j 3 2 0 0 2 0 Structure: 4
Special Abilities: ENE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA
CEO Heretic BattleMechs.
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RockJock
04/23/15 12:33 PM
207.119.13.186
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An interesting design. Have you put it in a game yet? I like it as a raider as much as anything. I'm just not sure if it can out shoot anything it can't out maneuver.
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Drasnighta
04/23/15 01:59 PM
198.53.98.65
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Not yet, I made it up on the spot the other night as a thought exercise in response to the "Hippogriff Main BattleMech" posted by Retry...
It is down in the firepower, but at least it has the range and the accuracy made up in the X-Pulse for the Jumping...
Certainly, its hardly optomised... I think personally, I'd switch the X-Pulse down to a standard Large and go for Heat Sinks and Mediums in response... BUT, that would also not quite fit the idea of a "Tech Design Concept".
And I mean. Its a Quad. Quads are Fun, if a little Silly.
CEO Heretic BattleMechs.
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