Melee weapons and hand actuators?

[Black_Knyght]

I was looking over some of my miniatures and it occurred to me that mechs like the Scarabus and Cudgel don't have a hand actuator for their melee weapons.

Doesn't that count AGAINST their attacks, and make the designs kind of foolish?

[Sartris]

The official record sheets for the Scarabus and Cudgel in 3055U: Unabridged have hand actuators.

[SteelRaven]

Head canon: The melee weapon for the Scarabus and Cudgel work like a glove or gauntlet, fitting over the hand actuator until the mechwarrior chooses to jettison the modular weapon.   

[Caedis Animus]

That would actually make sense.

That said, lacking a hand actuator doesn't affect every battlemech, as long as they have the barrel fist quirk, like the BNC-3S.

[Black_Knyght]

So it just boils down to artistic license then by both the illustrator and the sculptor. O0


God how I hate that the,....wait, never mind.... :))