Extended Range Medium Laser

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This article covers the canonical tabletop version of the weapon. For the various apocryphal video game versions, see the video game section at the bottom of the page.

ER Medium Laser
Production information
Type Energy (Direct-Fire)
Tech Base Clan / Inner Sphere (IS)
Year Availability Clan = 2824 (CJF)

IS = 3058 (FWL)

Technical specifications
Heat 5
Damage Clan = 7

IS = 5

Minimum Range n/a
Short Range Clan = 1-5

IS = 1-4

Medium Range Clan = 6-10

IS = 5-8

Long Range Clan = 11-15

IS = 9-12

Tons 1
Critical Slots 1
Ammo Per Ton n/a
Cost (unloaded) 80,000
Ammo Cost (per ton) n/a
BV (1.0) Clan = 108

IS = 62

BV (2.0) Clan = 108[1]

IS = 62[2]



Description

The Extended-Range Medium Laser (ER Medium Laser) focuses a powerful beam of light on targets that causes damage by melting or shattering armor off of the target.

As the name suggests, the Extended-Range variant of the Medium Laser improves the focusing system of the laser to project it to much farther ranges. The optics are less efficient, though, necessitating more input power for the same armor ablation and thus more waste heat in the weapon.

As with most Clan energy weapons, the Clans lack their own standard Medium Laser.

Manufacturing

The Extended-Range Medium Laser is manufactured on the following planets:

Brand Planet Company
BrightBloom New Avalon Achernar BattleMechs
Bright-Blossom Wernke Kallon Industries
Ceres Arms Capella Ceres Metals Industries
Ceres Arms St. Ives Ceres Metals Industries
Defiance Model XII Furillo Defiance Industries
Diplan M3-XR Ozawa? Diplan 'Mechyards?
Diverse Optics Sunbeam Irian Diverse Optics Incorporated
Diverse Optics Sunfire[3] Unknown Diverse Optics Incorporated
ExoStar Pinnacle (Clantech)[4] Unknown ExoStar Laser Technologies
Magna Mk VI Lopez Magna
Magna Mk VI Stewart Corean Enterprises[citation needed]
Martell El Dorado General Motors[5]
RAMTech 1500Z New Kyoto RAMTech
Series 7J Tamaron Ashton 'Mech Production Complex
Series J7A Arcadia Arcadia BattleMech Plant CM-T4
TRTTS Mark II Huntress Abysmal Manufacturing Complex

See Also

The ER Medium Laser has been used in various video games, each with their own stats for the weapon; below is a list of the games that use it along with a link to each version's stats:

References

  1. TechManual, p. 318, "Clan Weapons and Equipment BV Table"
  2. TechManual, p. 317, "Inner Sphere Weapons and Equipment BV Table"
  3. Technical Readout: 3145 Free Worlds League, p. 32-33, "ZU-G60 Anzu"
  4. Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns, p. 34-35, "UCU-F4 Scarecrow"
  5. Technical Readout: 3075, p. 88

Bibliography