Editing Clan Elemental (section)

== Description ==
[[File:Prince_of_Havoc_-_Prince_Victor_Steiner-Davion_and_ilKhan_Lincoln_Osis.jpg|200px|thumb|Right|''"To the Victor go the Spoils . . . "''<br>Prince Victor Steiner-Davion, piloting a [[Dire Wolf (BattleTech)|Dire Wolf]], faces down ilKhan Lincoln Osis (bottom), in Clan Elemental Battle Armor, at the end of the "Great Refusal."]]

Your basic Elemental stands between 2 to 2.5 meters tall and is built like a brick shithouse. They're strong, fast and resilient even in regular clothes. As such, most elemental wash-outs end up in the Laborer caste. As is typical with Clan Warriors, they've been trained from childhood to fight, survive, and work together as a team, with only the best of the best graduating. Even without Battle Armor, you would not want to throw down with an Elemental. In one humorous & bloodless example during the Clan Invasion, an undefended Draconis Combine planet tried to one-up Clan Ghost Bear with a game of American football in exchange for staying unconquered. They assumed the Bears didn’t know the game; only for the planet sport league to be [[Blood Bowl|utterly smashed]] by a team of Elementals who play it as a hobby, 84 to 3. One of the very few exceptions is if your name is [[Mary Sue|Victor Steiner-Davion]], who after a brief exchange of words dismounted from his captured Clan Daishi/Dire Wolf [[OmniMech]] and beheaded the former ilKhan of the Clans, Lincoln Osis, with a simple [[Katanas are Underpowered in d20|katana]] after Osis willingly took off his Battle Armor in an attempt to "teach Victor a lesson" just after the last remnants of his Clan Smoke Jaguar forces handily lost their part of the "Great Refusal" in the licensed novel ''Prince of Havoc.''

Your basic suit of Elemental armor weighs a literal metric tonne with 250 kg of armor and is equipped with jump jets. They can operate in the vacuum of space, underwater or in heavy gravity. It has two short range missile launchers on its shoulders, and two modular mounts for weapons built into its arms. In infantry firefights, an Elemental is a goddamn nightmare able to cut a bloody swathe through squads of regular guys with guns while brushing off most of their fire. Against BattleMechs, they're small enough to hide, nimble enough to evade most fire (represented by a to-hit roll penalty in the tabletop game, but this "I'm tiny and hard to hit" bonus is not reflected in the various BattleTech-related video games that Clan Elementals have appeared in) and durable enough to take a hit or two from most BattleMech-scale weaponry. And since they come in fireteams of 5, a average MechWarrior can only kill one or two at best before the rest latch on. The last thing that many a Federated Commonwealth or Draconis Combine Mechwarrior saw during the Clan Invasion was an Elemental busting into their cockpit to shoot them in the face. Humorously enough, they were nicknamed “Toads” by the Inner Sphere militaries due to their chonky appearance and jumping capabilities.