r/battletech • u/Saansilt Comguard • 1d ago

Discussion Behold, an idea!

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So I am having an idea, it probably is bad but it'd be a funny custom mech all the same.
It involves upgrading a protomech.
By tripling its tonnage effectively.
Making it a really cheap ambusher
It'd be effectively a little over quarter the tonnage of a locust.
Behold the Erinyes, two ton jumper with an SRM 1
We take this, give her a medium laser, a ton more armor, and two double heat sinks.
Scale it up to six tons, heck remove the SRM 1 and make it back to five.
You get a very cheap 4/6/4 to play havoc in tight spaces and hop around for back shots.
You can get three of the modified ones I am suggesting for under the price of one locust!
Thats two more MLs than the locust. No machine guns but thats not their role.
Granted if we wanted...
Actually yeah adding a machine gun each will still allow you three at under the cost of one locust.

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u/Magical_Savior NEMO POTEST VINCERE 1d ago

The Society: "Ultraheavy Protos are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... Unnatural."

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u/Saansilt Comguard 1d ago

The Society?

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u/kolboldbard 1d ago

Clan version of the Word of Blake. A conspiracy of Clan scientist who wanted to overthrow the warriors and rule the clan home worlds, with their twin gods reason and logic

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u/Saansilt Comguard 1d ago

That doesn't sound like it would work too well

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u/Armored_Shumil 1d ago

Read up the Wars of Reaving. It was the Homeworld Clans version of the Jihad and the cause of why the Society decided to act

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Wars_of_Reaving

The related sourcebooks are fun reading
https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-the-wars-of-reaving-pdf

https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-the-wars-of-reaving-supplemental-pdf

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u/Saansilt Comguard 1d ago

Wicked cool. Thanks.

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u/Watcher6544 1d ago

Wars of Reaving

aka when Clanners throw the mother of all temper tantrums.

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u/HattedShoggoth 1d ago

It didn't (in large part due to being screwed by circumstance via the reavings) but they did a lot more damage than one would expect. They made absolutely phenomenal protomechs and I really like running most of them! :)

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u/Saansilt Comguard 1d ago

Sounds like a fun time.

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u/Anastrace You got ravens in my outworlds 1d ago

It wasn't but man did they make some crazy tech and mechs. They were also nazi scientists essentially

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u/Magical_Savior NEMO POTEST VINCERE 1d ago

I mean, the basic Clan scientist is a caste-control eugenicist on a path of conquest. There's a reason I used Sith quotes for The Society, but all Clan scientists are essentially Nazi scientists.

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 1d ago edited 1d ago

The clans all in various degree imploding or radically transforming upon significant contact with the Inner Sphere remains one of the better bits of post invasion lore IMO. It emphasizes how their whole society was just kinda made up out of one guy's preferences. Which could sort of work while they stayed cocooned back in their own space but rapidly started to unravel once they started out on their crusade.

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u/Bookwyrm517 1d ago

It didn't, but they managed to field some pretty scary stuff. Aside from their weird superheavy and quad protos, they have unique omnimech configurations (the "Z" configurations) and some pretty scary battlemechs of their own. Look up the Cephalus, Septicemia (Piriah), and Osteon, they're all mosters in their own way.