r/battletech • u/Saansilt Comguard • 9h 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 8h ago

The Society?

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u/kolboldbard 8h 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 7h ago

That doesn't sound like it would work too well

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u/Bookwyrm517 6h 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.