BattleMech
BattleMechs are legged armored fighting vehicles in the BattleTech Universe.
BattleMechs are what Starfleet Starships are to Star Trek, Lightsabers are to Star Wars and Space Marines are to Warhammer 40,000. They are the specific Battlefield Technology that the setting is named for.
History
BattleMech Systems
Weaponry
- Lasers
- Auto Cannons
- PPCs
- Missiles
- Gauss Cannons
- Flamers
- Machine Guns: For killing squirrels.
Other
- Myomer: A synthetic musculature which contracts in on itself when an electrical current is run through it.
- Fusion Reactors: Your standard BattleMech is powered by a hydrogen burning fusion reactor.
- Armor:
- Jump Jets:
- Heat Sinks: Heat sinks are mechanisms which deal with built up heat, which Mechs can quickly accumulate in combat. Firing lasers, getting shot by lasers, using Jump Jets and so forth can all build up heat which can cook a Mech Warrior alive. Double Heat Sinks are more effective than vanilla heat sinks but are also LosTech.
Types of BattleMechs
Weight classification
- Light Mechs: Mechs between 20 and 40 Tonnes. They are normally cheap, easy to deploy, fast and lightly armored and are used for Scouting and Raiding.
- Medium Mechs: Mechs between 40 and 60 Tonnes. Able to throw down better than a Light Mech while being faster and cheaper than a heavy. Also includes specialized support units.
- Heavy Mechs: Mechs between 60 and 80 Tonnes. The workhorses of most armies, affordable heavy power.
- Assault Mechs: Mechs between 80 to 100 tonnes. The heavy hitters; ponderous and pricey but durable with heavy weapons and armor to both take and dispense a serious beatdown.
- Ultra Heavy: Mechs that are more than 100 tonnes. Up until the 32nd century, making a Mech more than 100 tonnes were basically laughably bad penis compensators. In the 32nd century people are beginning to make them work.
Notable BattleMechs
Over the span of seven centuries there has been like a bajillion different makes and models of Battlemechs, most of which have at least a couple variants.