A more general purpose Gyrfalcon

[marauder648]

Whilst the Gyrfalcon is meant to boing around at long range and make a right royal pain of itself as Hellbie so ably stated here;

http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=57138.0

and that got me thinking.  Would the Falcons design a more 'general purpose' version rather than one that leaps around at extreme ranges, whittling a target down.  Keeping the same mobility, armour and partial wing system of the standard version to screw over energy weapons and make merry with the jump jets.

But instead of focusing on extreme ranges, its built to fight at what would be mid range for Clan weaponry, still relying on its agility and armour to irritate enemies, carving up opponents at shorter ranges.  This would allow the Falcons to simplify their supply lines, if you can produce a series of Mechs based on the same chassis you ease supply for parts etc as you'd have a larger stockpile and it would be easier to make one type and diversify rather than have a mech for every role.

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Gyrfalcon

Mass: 55 tons
Tech Base: Clan
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: Dark Ages
Tech Rating/Era Availability: F/X-X-F-A
Production Year: 3132
Cost: 12,065,407 C-Bills
Battle Value: 3,324

Chassis: Unknown Endo-Steel
Power Plant: Unknown 275 Fusion XL Engine
Walking Speed: 54.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h (108.0 km/h)
Jump Jets: Unknown
    Jump Capacity: 150 meters (210 meters)
Armor: Unknown Laser-Reflective
Armament:
    2  ER Large Lasers
    4  ER Medium Lasers
    1  SRM-4
    1  Light TAG
Manufacturer: Unknown
    Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Unknown
Targeting and Tracking System: Unknown

================================================================================
Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Internal Structure: Endo-Steel                    91 points                3.00
    Internal Locations: 3 LA, 1 RA, 2 LL, 1 RL
Engine:             XL Fusion Engine             275                       8.00
    Walking MP: 5
    Running MP: 8 (10)
    Jumping MP: 5 (7) Standard
    Jump Jet Locations: 1 CT, 2 LT, 2 RT                                   2.50
Heat Sinks:         Laser Heat Sink              14                        4.00
    Heat Sink Locations: 1 LA, 2 RA
Gyro:               Standard                                               3.00
Cockpit:            Standard                                               3.00
    Actuators:      L: SH+UA+LA+H    R: SH+UA+LA+H
Armor:              Laser-Reflective             AV - 144                  9.00
    Armor Locations: 1 LT, 1 RT, 1 LA, 1 RA, 1 RL
    CASE Locations: RT                                                     0.00

                                                      Internal       Armor     
                                                      Structure      Factor     
                                                Head     3            9         
                                        Center Torso     18           21       
                                 Center Torso (rear)                  6         
                                           L/R Torso     13           16       
                                    L/R Torso (rear)                  5         
                                             L/R Arm     9            15       
                                             L/R Leg     13           18       

================================================================================
Equipment                                 Location    Heat    Critical    Mass 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Light TAG                                    HD        0         1         0.50
SRM-4                                        CT        3         1         1.00
ER Medium Laser                              RT        5         1         1.00
MASC                                         RT        -         2         2.00
ER Medium Laser                              LT        5         1         1.00
Targeting Computer                           LT        -         3         3.00
Partial Wing                                 LT/RT     -         3/3       3.00
ER Medium Laser                              RA        5         1         1.00
ER Large Laser                               RA        12        1         4.00
ER Medium Laser                              LA        5         1         1.00
ER Large Laser                               LA        12        1         4.00
@SRM-4 (25)                                  RT        -         1         1.00
                                            Free Critical Slots: 0

BattleForce Statistics
MV      S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:      4    Points: 33
6/7j       4       4       2       0      2     2   Structure:  3
Special Abilities: LTAG, CASE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA


As always, thoughts are most welcome.

[Hptm. Streiger]

One thing.... the mount of the SRM4 and the ammunition storage in the torso
all GyrFalcons seem to have the ammunition in the arms - shouldn't you use 2 ammunition depended weapons in the arms?
Or a asymmetric look with SRM in one and AP Gauss in the other arm?

[marauder648]

One thing.... the mount of the SRM4 and the ammunition storage in the torso
all GyrFalcons seem to have the ammunition in the arms - shouldn't you use 2 ammunition depended weapons in the arms?
Or a asymmetric look with SRM in one and AP Gauss in the other arm?

I'd picture these ones as having arms instead of gun arms (god knows why the ER lasers are THAT large, you could fit several people into the barrel apature.)