While the Dervish and Whitworth are nice mechs, I just had to design something a little more unusual.
More for periphery pirate defence than front line combat, it does pack quite a punch, heavy armor means it can also take a beating, which is good, cause it can't jump out of a tight spot
Volley fire is quite obviously what it's good at, pick a weapon range and you won't overheat if you stick to the pair of weapons for that range
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BattleMech Technical Readout
Type/Model: Whirlwind WLD-3R
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3035
Config: Biped BattleMech
Rules: Level 1, Custom design
Mass: 50 tons
Chassis: Kali Yama Chassis Standard
Power Plant: 250 Magna Fusion
Walking Speed: 54.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor Type: Maximillian 43 Standard
Armament:
1 Irian Weapons Works Class 6 SRM 6
1 Magna Mk II Medium Laser
1 Magna Starglow Small Laser
2 Irian Weapons Works Class 10 LRM 10s
Manufacturer: Kali Yama/Alphard Trading Corp.
Location: Kendall / FWL (KY/ATC)
Communications System: Irian Orator-5K
Targeting & Tracking System: Irian 511
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Type/Model: Whirlwind WLD-3R
Mass: 50 tons
Equipment: Crits Mass
Int. Struct.: 83 pts Standard 0 5.00
Engine: 250 Fusion 6 12.50
Walking MP: 5
Running MP: 8
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: 10 Single 0 .00
Gyro: 4 3.00
Cockpit, Life Supt., Sensors: 5 3.00
Actuators: L: Sh+UA+LA R: Sh+UA+LA 14 .00
Armor Factor: 144 pts Standard 0 9.00
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 16 20
Center Torso (Rear): 7
L/R Side Torso: 12 15/15
L/R Side Torso (Rear): 5/5
L/R Arm: 8 14/14
L/R Leg: 12 20/20
Weapons and Equipment Loc Heat Ammo Crits Mass
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1 SRM 6 RA 4 15 3 4.00
(Ammo Locations: 1 RT)
1 Medium Laser LA 3 1 1.00
1 Small Laser LA 1 1 .50
1 LRM 10 RT 4 24 4 7.00
(Ammo Locations: 2 LT)
1 LRM 10 LT 4 2 5.00
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TOTALS: 16 40 50.00
Crits & Tons Left: 38 .00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 4,142,374 C-Bills
Battle Value: 815
Cost per BV: 5,082.67
Weapon Value: 630 / 630 (Ratio = .77 / .77)
Damage Factors: SRDmg = 9; MRDmg = 9; LRDmg = 5
BattleForce2: MP: 5, Armor/Structure: 4/4
Damage PB/M/L: 2/2/1, Overheat: 1
Class: MM; Point Value: 8
Specials: if
It's nothing fancy, but then again, "A ball chained to your ankle can still be used to bludgeon someone to death"