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Arc-Hammer AHM-1R
Mass: 70 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: Dark Ages
Tech Rating/Era Availability: D/C-E-D-A
Production Year: 3132
Cost: 6.050.498 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1.389
Chassis: Unknown Standard
Power Plant: Unknown 280 Fusion Engine
Walking Speed: 43,2 km/h
Maximum Speed: 64,8 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Unknown Standard Armor
Armament:
1 LRM-20
1 PPC
3 Medium Lasers
1 Small Laser
1 Machine Gun
Manufacturer: Unknown
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Unknown
Targeting and Tracking System: Unknown
Overview:
The Arc-Hammer remains a mystery to this day. The first one was uncovered by
Lostech hunters in the early 3000s, since then nearly a dozen have been found
across the Inner Sphere and even in the Periphery. So far no information about
this mysterious design has been uncovered in any archive, including those of
Comstar and the Clans.
Capabilities:
The Arc-Hammer appears to be a Frankenmech, a fusion of an Archer and a
Warhammer, but unlike most Frankenmechs, these mechs appear factory made as
some parts have been extensively redesigned to function properly. For example
the upper leg is clearly patterened upon that of the Warhammer, but the lower
leg is identical to an Archer's.
All recovered mechs were fully functional or at least were as such when they
were put into caches. Tests showed that the Arc Hammer was every bit as
capable as any mech of the Succession War era with parts made to their original
Star League specifications and even have the proper identification numbers
though usually outside known production runs, a conundrum not even the original
producers could answer.
Although the first few recovered ones ended up in museums, some were used in
combat. The left side resembles the standard Warhammer 6R configuration with
an arm-mounded PPC and torso mounted lasers and machinegun. The right side
matches the Archer with an LRM20 an arm-mounded medium laser and a rearwards
facing laser. 16 single heat sinks and 11,5 tons of armour put them roughly
halfway between both designs with better cooling capacity than an Archer and
increased armour over the Warhammer.
Battle History:
Three, maybe four mechs are reported to have been used in combat, discovered
between the 3030s and the end of the Clan invasion they performed beyond
expections with none of the problems inherent to jury-rigged frankenmechs.
Indeed one pilot submitted that it would be a shame that this wasn't in full
production. More mechs were found during the Jihad and the Fedcom civil war,
leading some to theorize that the Arc-Hammer was a new design being field
tested. The rebuttal being that no design was field tested over a period of
half a century and more.
Because of their rarity and lack of advanced technology existing Arc-Hammers
were withdrawn from service and ended up in places like the NAIS, museums and
private collections.
By the early 3100s a newly recovered Arc-Hammer was sold at auction for a
staggering 300 million C-Bills, promting at least one attempt to build a fake
one, it also sparked a brief fad for cobbling together two battlemechs and
several plans were drawn up to build new amalgamated mechs, but no actual mech
made it into production.
Deployment:
Today the Arc-Hammer is considered a curiosity, most being kept in private
collections or museums, studies were made by Comstar and the NAIS revealing no
information about their origin.
Variants:
None.
Notable 'Mechs & MechWarriors:
The original Arc-Hammer was discovered in April 3005 on the Davion world of
Rio, leading some to believe it may have been planted there by Wolf's Dragoons
for future use though this has been repeatedly denied by Dragoon spokespersons,
who added that they never deployed an Arc-Hammer in their entire lineup. Part
numbers and specifications match those of known producers and parts at that
time, but so far the numbers are not part of any known production batch and
show no signs of having been tampered with.
Forensic investigation showed that the mech may have been built around the end
of the Star League or even in the early days of the First Succession War. The
interest was so great that at one point several Clan investigators looked into
their own archives, but drew a complete blank.
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 107 points 7,00
Engine: Fusion Engine 280 16,00
Walking MP: 4
Running MP: 6
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: Single Heat Sink 16 6,00
Heat Sink Locations: 1 LT, 2 LL, 2 RL
Gyro: Standard 3,00
Cockpit: Standard 3,00
Actuators: L: SH+UA+LA+H R: SH+UA+LA+H
Armor: Standard Armor AV - 184 11,50
Internal Armor
Structure Factor
Head 3 9
Center Torso 22 28
Center Torso (rear) 7
L/R Torso 15 24
L/R Torso (rear) 6
L/R Arm 11 17
L/R Leg 15 23
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Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass
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Medium Laser RA 3 1 1,00
PPC LA 10 3 7,00
LRM-20 RT 6 5 10,00
Medium Laser LT 3 1 1,00
Small Laser LT 1 1 0,50
Machine Gun LT 0 1 0,50
(R) Medium Laser CT 3 1 1,00
@LRM-20 (12) RT - 2 2,00
@MG (1/2) (100) LT - 1 0,50
Free Critical Slots: 26
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 6 Points: 14
4 3 3 2 0 3 0 Structure: 6
Special Abilities: SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA, LRM 1/1/1, IF 1
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