Moloch
11/15/02 02:27 AM
207.220.227.58
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UM-R8T Urbanmech
Chassis: Republic-R
Power Plant: Leenex 90
Cruising Speed: 32.25
Maximum Speed: 53.75
Jump Jets: Pitban 6000
Jump Capacity: 90 meters
Armor: Durallex Medium
Armament:
1 Krupp Model 32 Large Laser
1 Voelkers 200 Machine Gun
1 Harpoon SRM 6
Manufacturer: Orguss Industries
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Dalban Commline
Targeting and Tracking System: Dalban Urban
UM-R8T Urbanmech
Technology Base: - Inner Sphere - Level 1
Equipment Mass
Internal Structure: 3
Engine: 90 3
Walking MP: 3
Running MP: 5
Jumping MP: 3
Heat Sinks: 12 2
Gyro: 1
Cockpit: 3
Armor Factor: 103 6.5
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head 3 9
Center Torso 10 16
Center Torso(rear) 4
R/L Torso 7 10
R/L Torso(rear) 4
R/L Arm 5 10
R/L Leg 7 13
Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Tonnage
Machine Gun LA 1 0.5
Machine Gun Ammo (1/2 ton) LT 1 0.5
SRM 6 LT 2 3
SRM 6 Ammo LT 1 1
Jump Jet LL 1 0.5
Jump Jet RL 1 0.5
Large Laser RA 2 5
Jump Jet CT 1 0.5
Max Heat: 15 (12)
Cost: 1,591,850
BV: 550
Designed to be an urban city fighter, the Urbanmech performed this role well during the Star League area and many can still be found in city garrisons and militia units. The UMR-8T Urbanmech is vastly different then its predecessor the URM-60.
The one weakness of the Urbanmech was its laughable speed, being so slow many Urbanmechs fell victim to heavy and assault mechs while attempting to run away. Its speed was increased to allow to it keep pace even with the mighty Atlas. The jump capacity was increased to a full 90 meters. With the increase in weight from the engine, the designers had to drop the Imperator-B auto cannon and replaced it with a Krupp Model 32 Large Laser. The laser has the same range and nearly as powerful, but does not need ammunition and lets the mech stay in the fight far longer. A Harpoon-6 SRM was added to give more short-range firepower and a Voelker 200 machine gun replaces the small laser used for anti infantry work. An additional half-ton of armor was added, manly beefing up the legs and torso.
The UM-R8T is still in the early stages of production, but House Liao is very well pleased with the results and has ordered upgrades for all militia units on the more heavily populated and important worlds.
Cost: 1,591,850
BV: 550
blurb: The Urbie of TRO 3025 and 3050 just seemed like piss poor designs. The same results with a slighly faster mech with an energy weapon (I origianly started with a PPC, but the minum range doesn't work with street fighting) could be be produced much better IMHO. the 3025 design has 11 heat sinks when it only produced 5 max and a small laser is not as effect as a wall of lead agaisnt infantry 
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Zwischy
11/15/02 01:51 PM
63.189.48.38
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I realize you kept this in 3025 tech, but I think a simple improvement to this design, using 3050 tech, would be double heat sinks - only 10 - and upgrading the large to a pulse large laser. Sure, you lose the 5 hexes range, but how often should that matter, given the Mech's role?
Though on the other hand, the 3067 upgrade (not in the TRO, but in the Record Sheets: Upgrade book) uses a RAC/5, and is probably the most powerful variant you'll find.
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Moloch
11/15/02 04:55 PM
165.236.64.49
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Aye, thats what I did do for a 3050 variant. I even added 2 more medium pulse lasers and I think a Streak-2, but I lost the design after I formated my hard drive.
Popular Bumper Stickers
“Keep honking: I’m re-loading”
“If you don’t mind, please eject now: that Mech is a **** to salvage"
“I ran out of room to stencil all the Mechs I’ve killed, so now I just go by regiment’s wiped out.”
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Cray
11/16/02 12:31 PM
12.92.107.47
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Interesting upgrade - should say something about the blasphemy of a faster Urbie, but it's a nice mod you got there.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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MadWolf
11/30/02 05:35 PM
134.53.144.26
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OH MY GOD? SOMEBODY STILL USES THOSE THINGS? I thought that those where for bastard battletechplayers who whould do somthing like give you a victor and have you play target practice with about 20-30 of the dammed things.... 
Nothing is Impossible, It is only Improbable.
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