Editing UrbanMech (section)

==Why do people love the UrbanMech so much?==
The UrbanMech is the Battletech fandom's baby, having been a meme before the concept of the internet, and inevitably beloved by all who come across it in their Battletech education. But why? Why this little walking egg with a gun? Why not the ''Atlas'' or the ''Timber Wolf''? An easy answer to why this poorly kitted out tin can with a rotary gun is so beloved by the UrbanMech community is simply that it fucking rules.

A much more detailed answer is that the UrbanMech is the perfect intersection between stupid and good. There are ''plenty'' of Mechs in Battletech that are either so good it's a wonder anyone plays anything else, or so bizarrely integrated into the story as bad with rules to reflect just how bad they are that they become stupid for how poorly they perform (the Charger springs to mind). The UrbanMech's entire schtick is exactly the crossroads between those two ideas; a mech that by all accounts is absolutely horrifically optimized to the point of near uselessness in any other context, but if given ''exactly'' the correct conditions and ''exactly'' the correct amount of luck (or even just swapping out its large gun for some other large weapon it shouldn't have) could possibly down Mechs twice it's size.

There's also one thing that helps the Urbie reach it's legendary status, one teensy little lore and mechanics detail that makes it truly a badass little design in spite of it's many... many... many flaws; It's survived further into the future than nearly every other kind of 'Mech in the universe. While that doesn't sound super impressive on it's face, you have to remember that Battletech's writers and fans frequently press the hard reset button on how good technology is with semi-regularity; and it has real consequences depending on how retentive your opponent wants to be about lore adherence: certain Mechs just don't exist as a viable option past a certain point in the universe because the factories and required internal components to make them just stop existing or get blasted into the earth they were put up on. The Assault ''class'' of Mechs has nearly gone extinct several different times because of this, with several Mechs flat-out becoming next to unusable relics or museum pieces because of just how rare or outdated they are, if they even still exist. But not the Urbie. 

The Urbie showed up in the middle of the Star League era, and has made it all the way to the ilClan era with variants made nearly twice every two hundred years, meaning you can always play it. You will almost certainly lose it, but you can always field one. And all because the Urbie has its thing and rolls with it; Most other mechs aren't guarding cities, or checkpoints miles away from any real fighting, or even just a mining settlement. Urbies are next to impossible to kill because they're almost never asked to be frontline units, and only the truly brave would use it otherwise. While an Inner Sphere ''Atlas'' might be 80 years old and take hundreds of millions of C-Bills to make before it gets blown to smithereens by fighting a Clanner OmniMech, there are more than likely Urbies out in the Battletech universe that are almost a half-millennia old and probably cost less to maintain than most major industrial equipment even at the time it was made. The Urbie has been ignored by the ravages of time and universal bookkeeping by being easy to maintain and so good at the ''one thing it's actually built to do'' that it can't be truly be killed. 

It is the perfect fictional representation of a weapon used in very specific situations far behind the lines that nobody pays much mind to or expects to use, only to suddenly become the fixture of stories for years to come when they gotta pull it out and actually use it, and against all odds it works. Combine that with looking a little something like R2-D2's final form, and you have the perfect mech to become Battletech's unofficial second mascot; the perfect little friend to usually get blasted off the table, but sometimes become your own little story in and of itself.