BattleMech Technical Readout

Type/Model:    Merrythought MT-1A
Tech:          Inner Sphere / 2612
Config:        Biped BattleMech
Rules:         Level 1, Standard design

Mass:          40 tons
Chassis:       Bergan VIII Standard
Power Plant:   240 Pitban Fusion
Walking Speed: 64.8 km/h
Maximum Speed: 97.2 km/h
Jump Jets:     4 Rawlings 55 Standard Jump Jets
Jump Capacity: 120 meters
Armor Type:    StarGuard III Standard
Armament:      
  4 Sperry Browning Machine Guns
  2 Federated 5-Shot LRM 5s
  2 Martell Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:  Bergan Industries
  Location:    Ares / CC (BI)
Communications System:  Garret T11C
Targeting & Tracking System:  Sloane 220 Lockover System

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==Overview:==
 --- Designed by Bergen Industries not long after their successful Locust
Battlemech, the Merrythough is essentialy a very large Locust in and of
itself. Partnering with Vandenberg Mechanized Industries, Archernar
BattleMechs, and Andoran Industries Ltd. the Merrythought is built on Bergen
Industries new Bergen VIII chassis and houses Andoran Industries' Pitban 240.

 --- Designed for the open market, the Merrythought is constructed with cost
in mind; something that Andoran Industries was an expert on. Usign the very
same engine and gyro from the Clint; itself an extremely inexpensive machine
when compared to other Medium BattleMechs at the time, the Merrrythought
quickly became a favorite with Mercenaries and Periphery forces.

 --- However, due to the emerging issues with variuous Clints, Bergen
Industries soon had Defiance Industries produce the engines and gyros for the
Merrythought, while Andoran Industries would be retained for their excellent
Sloan 220 Lockover System until 2812 when they're only facility would be
destroyed in the First Succession War. From then on the 'Mech would be
equipped with the Octagon TarTrac System C, the very same model found on the
Griffin.

==Variants:==
 --- MT-1B: A common field refit that switches the pair of LRM-5s for a pair
of SRM-4s. There is also a factory offering that swaps the Federated 5-Shot
LRM-5s for a pair of Shannon Fore SRM-4s.

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Type/Model:    Merrythought MT-1A
Mass:          40 tons

Equipment:                                 Crits    Mass
Int. Struct.:  67 pts Standard               0      4.00
Engine:        240 Fusion                    6     11.50
   Walking MP:   6
   Running MP:   9
   Jumping MP:   4
Heat Sinks:     10 Single                    1       .00
 (Heat Sink Loc: 1 HD)
Gyro:                                        4      3.00
Cockpit, Life Supt., Sensors:                5      3.00
Actuators: L: Sh+UA    R: Sh+UA             12       .00
Armor Factor:  112 pts Standard              0      7.00

                          Internal    Armor
                          Structure   Value
   Head:                      3          8      
   Center Torso:             12         16      
   Center Torso (Rear):                  6      
   L/R Side Torso:           10      12/12      
   L/R Side Torso (Rear):              4/4      
   L/R Arm:                   6        8/8      
   L/R Leg:                  10      17/17      

Weapons and Equipment    Loc  Heat  Ammo   Crits    Mass
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2 Machine Guns           RA      0  100      3      1.50
  (Ammo Locations: 1 CT)
2 Machine Guns           LA      0           2      1.00
1 LRM 5                  RT      2   24      2      3.00
  (Ammo Locations: 1 CT)
1 Medium Laser           RT      3           1      1.00
1 LRM 5                  LT      2           1      2.00
1 Medium Laser           LT      3           1      1.00
4 Standard Jump Jets:                        4      2.00
 (Jump Jet Loc: 1 LT, 1 RT, 1 LL, 1 RL)
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TOTALS:                         10          42     40.00
Crits & Tons Left:                          36       .00

Calculated Factors:
Total Cost:        3,346,700 C-Bills
Battle Value 2:    919 (old BV = 770)
Cost per BV2:      3,641.68
Weapon Value:      524 / 524 (Ratio = .57 / .57)
Damage Factors:    SRDmg = 14;  MRDmg = 6;  LRDmg = 3
BattleForce2:      MP: 6,  Armor/Structure: 3/3
                   Damage PB/M/L: 3/2/1,  Overheat: 0
                   Class: MM;  Point Value: 9
                   Specials: if