Clan Battle Armor
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| Clan Battle Armor | |
| Production information | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Clan Nova Cat |
| Use | Line Unit |
| Weight Class | Medium |
| Tech Base | Clan |
| Cost | 560,500 C-bills |
| Introduced | 3067 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Mass | 1,000 kg |
| Top Speed | 12 km/h |
| Armament | |
| Armor Type | Standard |
| BV (1.0) | 49 |
[edit] Description
Following their Abjuration from the Clan homeworlds, Clan Nova Cat needed to rebuild. In so doing, Khan Santin West directed his scientist caste to create a new battle armor that could stand up to the newer designs coming out of Clan space. The result was the Clan Battle Armor, whose visual aesthetic shows that the Clan's contact with the Draconis Combine was already rubbing off on them. Though the design has a slow ground speed, the designers used the jump booster pioneered on the Gray Death Scout armor to rocket man and machine up to one hundred twenty meters at a time. This necessitated a slight reduction in armor and a reworking of the weaponry.
[edit] Armament
Instead of the modular weapon ports of the Elemental Battle Armor, Clan Battle Armor mounts a fixed Flamer. Similarly, the SRM-2 pod is no longer detachable, though the new model uses a pair of One-Shot SRM-2 launchers. Interestingly, Clan Battle Armor also incorporates a standard searchlight that can be useful in and out of combat. Like all Clan battle armor, Clan Battle Armor uses HarJel.
