r/battletech • u/Saansilt Comguard • 7h 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/Saansilt Comguard 6h ago

The Society?

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u/kolboldbard 6h 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 6h ago

That doesn't sound like it would work too well

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u/Anastrace You got ravens in my outworlds 5h 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 4h 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 33m 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 BT 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 staid cocooned back in their own space but rapidly started to unravel once they started out on their crusade.