The IS-spec ER PPC has the same damage, weight, and crit space as the standard PPC, but (like the IS-spec ER lasers) gains increased range in exchange for 50% higher heat generation (rounding up for the IS ER small and medium lasers).
Battletech record sheets with guillotine upgrade#
I'd like to be as equitable as possible regarding "early access" to recovered LosTech, though, and there's a balance to find between "have a machine that's nice to play with now" and "have something to upgrade to later" without having to rely on winning some fortuitously under-bid batchalls for the latter. and I'm not the biggest fan of most of the IS-spec ER weapons. The GLT-5M is literally "3N with an ERLL", but I am mostly trying to avoid "everyone gets 3050 refits" at the moment (and at this point replacement parts will be costly). The Fusigon Longtooth is on one of the earlier TRO: 3050 designs (Ronin, Inc starts producing the Warhammer 7M in 3047) and has a "common" production date of 3042 in Interstellar Ops (meaning that all of the Successor States have access to at least one arms manufacturer that can produce PPCs to that spec). As with upgrading the Guillotine to its Star League spec, I see one or two points as a more suitable substitute for a MechWarrior-style customization of an existing design, within (negotiable) reason. I see putting that many points into Custom Vehicle as more of "pull out the TechManual and make the whole thing from scratch". It's not like you're up against the maximums. You only have 166 armor factor allocated when 10.5 tons gives 168. You'll be cycling out one PPC for the lasers and missiles when the fighting gets up close. There's no value in alphaing a medium and a six-pack with two ER PPCs. I would lose 4, adding two more mediums, CASE, and 1.5 tons of armor which brings you down to 49/49 retaining the lower arms. Those heat sinks are taking up huge amounts of room. My calculator says you're at 58/51 criticals. But it's longstanding custom that the people who land the kills typically get first dibs on the equipment, and if it benefits my unit, you can bet your sweet bippy I'll honor that custom. Salvage rights are one of the toughest parts of negotiating any mercenary contract, because it's what merc outfits frequently live or die on. And I'll push for the chance for independent owners to trade in their machines for upgraded designs, or at least get access to upgrade kits or salvage if we bring them down. I won't leave you out of any requisition requests. But those aren't going to be rolling off the assembly lines consistently for another five to ten years.īut don't worry. In most cases, it didn't, and SLDF technology wasn't used correctly until actual SLDF designs or purpose-built machines came into production. In some cases like the Victor, where they swapped out an AC20 with a Gauss Rifle, it did. But it shows how the transition to using SLDF technology worked: mostly, they just tried to hot-swap weapons and ferro-fibrous on to existing Age of War-era designs, and hoped that the resulting design would work. Sure, his mech was upgraded in 3051 to a 9K. And Victor is the crown prince of the AFFC. Even Victor Steiner-Davion's first mech was a standard 3025-tech VTR-9B Victor. The main thing to remember is just that we're in a transitional period, where new tech is coming out, but it's not standard, and it's deployed only to the very best-equipped units. The ranges are better, there's no minimum range, and with double heat sinks, the heat curve is usually pretty manageable. In most circumstances, I'd probably take an ERPPC over a regular PPC.
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