MechCommander 2/Equipment

Below is a listing of all equipment available in MechCommander 2.

Weapons

Below is a table for the base MechCommander 2 weapons, that can be organized by the various item properties (e.g range, cost, type).

Weapon	Tech. Base	Type	Heat	Damage	Range	Criticals/Slots (X x Y)	Rate of Fire	Ammo	C-Bills
Machine Gun Array	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	0	1	Short	1 x 1	4	72	900
Light Autocannon	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	1	2	Long	2 x 2	3.3	75	3500
Medium Autocannon	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	2	6	Medium	2 x 3	1.8	39	5300
Heavy Autocannon	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	7	12	Short	2 x 4	1.7	38	7100
Light Ultra Autocannon	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	1	2	Long	2 x 2	4.5	102	5500
Clan Light Ultra Autocannon	Clan	Ballistic	1	2	Long	2 x 2	5.6	125	5500
Medium Ultra Autocannon	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	4	6	Medium	2 x 3	2.5	56	8000
Clan Medium Ultra Autocannon	Clan	Ballistic	3	6	Medium	2 x 3	2.8	64	10200
Heavy Ultra Autocannon	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	8	12	Short	2 x 4	2.4	54	11800
Clan Heavy Ultra Autocannon	Clan	Ballistic	8	12	Short	2 x 4	2.7	61	14200
Light Gauss Rifle	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	1	6	Long	2 x 3	1.5	34	7200
Gauss Rifle	Inner Sphere	Ballistic	1	10	Long	2 x 4	1.4	32	15300
Clan Gauss Rifle	Clan	Ballistic	1	10	Long	2 x 4	1.6	36	18500
Long Tom Cannon	Inner Sphere	Artillery	20	15	Long	2 x 5	1.4	50	29,300
Flamer Array	Inner Sphere	Energy	7	3.5	Short	1 x 1	1.7	Infinite	1800
Laser	Inner Sphere	Energy	3	2.5	Short	1 x 1	2.4	Infinite	1700
Pulse Laser	Inner Sphere	Energy	4	2	Short	1 x 1	3.5	Infinite	2000
Clan Pulse Laser	Clan	Energy	4	2	Short	1 x 1	4	Infinite	2400
Clan Heavy Laser	Clan	Energy	7	5	Short	1 x 1	2	Infinite	4700
ER Laser	Inner Sphere	Energy	5	2.5	Medium	1 x 1	2.4	Infinite	3000
Clan ER Laser	Clan	Energy	5	2.5	Medium	1 x 1	3	Infinite	4500
Large Laser	Inner Sphere	Energy	8	4	Medium	1 x 2	2	Infinite	3800
Large Pulse Laser	Inner Sphere	Energy	10	2	Medium	1 x 2	5.6	Infinite	5000
Clan Large Pulse Laser	Clan	Energy	10	2	Medium	1 x 2	6.2	Infinite	6000
Clan Heavy Large Laser	Clan	Energy	18	9	Medium	1 x 2	1.8	Infinite	15,000
ER Large Laser	Inner Sphere	Energy	12	4	Long	1 x 2	2	Infinite	5300
Clan ER Large Laser	Clan	Energy	12	4	Long	1 x 2	2.5	Infinite	7700
PPC	Inner Sphere	Energy	10	7	Medium	1 x 3	1.5	Infinite	5700
ER PPC	Inner Sphere	Energy	15	7	Long	1 x 3	1.5	Infinite	8000
Clan ER PPC	Clan	Energy	15	7	Long	1 x 3	2.2	Infinite	14900
Streak SRM Rack	Inner Sphere	Missile	2	2	Short	1 x 1	3	68	2000
Clan Streak SRM Rack	Clan	Missile	2	2	Short	1 x 1	3.2	73	2200
LRM Rack	Inner Sphere	Missile	2	3	Long	1 x 1	1.1	24	1700
Clan LRM Rack	Clan	Missile	4	3	Long	1 x 1	2.1	47	4500
Swarm LRM Rack	Inner Sphere	Missile	2	3	Long	1 x 1	1.1	24	2600
Thunderbolt Missile	Inner Sphere	Missile	8	13	Medium	2 x 4	1.7	30	16,400

1) Ammunition only matters if Unlimited Ammo is turned off in the Options menu.

2) Swarm missiles target the ground where a 'Mech is standing, rather than the 'Mech itself. Good against vehicles.

3) Ranges in the game (in meters):

Listed Range	Min. Range	Max. Range
Short	0	60
Medium	31	121
Long	61	180

Machine Gun Array

Despite MechCommander 2 taking place in 3063, and the Machine Gun Array not being invented until several years later, this weapon was incredibly prominent in the base game. Like all Machine Guns in BattleTech, the Machine Gun Array is one of the only weapons that you can fit on a BattleMech that doesn't produce heat when fired. Its high ammunition capacity, accuracy and ease of installation, combined with its short range and low damage output, make it most suited for Anti-infantry use.

Swarm LRM Rack

In MechCommander 2, Swarm LRMs are an area of effect weapon similar to a mortar from a Long-Tom, albeit with a much smaller blast radius, and doing considerably less damage. Though they did not actually work this way in the canon BattleTech universe, Swarm LRMs as they were presented in MC2 were very useful for taking out multiple targets in one location (as long as none of your own forces were in the vicinity) and for clearing minefields.

In the canon BattleTech universe, the Swarm LRM is a type of munition for LRM launchers which uses a more advanced guidance system, enabling any missiles that missed the intended target completely to instead seek out other nearby targets. In the technological decline of the Succession Wars however, not only did the guidance systems for Swarm LRMs become harder on build, but many mechs were being forced to engage at closer and closer distances. This was a problem due to the lack of any IFF system in Swarm LRMs, as they did not discriminate between allied or hostile units. It wasn't until the Clan Invasion that Inner Sphere scientists attempted to correct the problem, but they were only partly successful in their efforts.

Seeing as the Swarm LRMs in MechCommander 2 are obtained from a Weapons Research and Development facility, and are implied to be still in the experimental phase, it is possible that the developers originally intended them to be Swarm-I munitions specifically.

Flamer Array

While flamer arrays don't canonically exist in the BattleTech universe, individual flamers do. Their primary purpose in BattleTech is to raise the heat levels of an enemy mech, but due to the lack of an in-combat heat mechanic in the base version of MechCommander 2, the Flamer is unable to serve that function and can be considered a critically underpowered weapon as a result. Though hardly better than the Machine Gun Array without the ability to overheat enemy mechs, it doesn't need to carry ammunition. This led to the heat produced by the weapon to be increased for balance purposes, but since the heat mechanic's only function and consequence in MC2 is to serve as a more flexible alternative to the Tonnage system in the first MechCommander, this attempt at balancing is flawed at best (especially when players enable the Unlimited Ammo option).

Other equipment

Sensors

Sensors are built into each chassis and cannot be exchanged. Some chassis have more advanced sensors.

Heat Sinks

Extra Heat Sinks can be added, increasing the maximum Heat of a 'Mech by 4 per slot.

Armor

Extra armor can be added at the rate of 32 points per slot, up to a per-chassis limit.

Jump Jets

In MechCommander 2, jump jets are an all-or-nothing affair. They can be equipped to eligible chassis at the cost of 7 Heat.