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AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical Readout
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Class/Model/Name: AM-4TL Atlatl
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3067
Vessel Type: Aerospace Fighter
Rules: Level 1, Standard design
Rules Set: AeroTech2
Mass: 100 tons
Power Plant: 200 Fusion
Safe Thrust: 4
Maximum Thrust: 6
Armor Type: Standard
Armament:
2 LRM 10
In 2880, a new revision of the full combat manual of the DCMS included a cryptic reference to a fighter type not previously known to the Inner Sphere. The 'Atlatl' was identified as a very large aerospace fighter with a cylindrical hull and long, straight wings mounted close to its center-point, while the engine fired through three externally podded fusion torches fixed to the rear fuselage, and DCMS troops facing them were instructed that crashed Atlatls were to be subjected to concerted fire from any available forces, lest they take off again and resume their mission.
For nearly a century and a half, the entry was regarded as apocryphal, an urban legend, either within or about the DCMS, or possibly an uncharacteristic joke on the part of the Dragon, but in 3026, a single example flying in Kurita colors was captured for the second time, and LCAF analysts were able to examine the mysterious 'Atlatl' for themselves.
Onboard documentation, helpfully etched onto various components, identified the craft as an AM-4TL Aerospace Bomber. It had two ten-tube launchers for standard LRMs, one in the nose and one in the tail, sharing a two-ton magazine, which the DCMS had replaced with Telos Decaclusters without incident. It had reasonably conventional, though unfamiliar, avionics and electronic systems. Its fusion engine was unusual, and was finally identified as being based on the Reichswerk 180, the in-house reactor of a Terran Age of War company that had eventually gone under when their proprietary technology proved unsuitable to scale up to higher power levels. Indeed, the Atlatl's reactor was only a Class 200, making the hundred-ton craft painfully sluggish in flight, despite its capacious seven-ton reaction mass reserve and attendant endurance.
What did impress the Lyran analysts, however, was the armor fraction - an awe-inspiring twenty-seven and a half tons of standard plate - and the vast internal bomb bays, capable of lifting and deploying an intimidating forty-two tons of expendable munitions. The Combine manual's warning that crashed Atlatls could resume flight operations without repair was also confirmed; the mass of armor and monocoque structural integration of same gave the airframe phenomenal strength, and close examination showed that the captured example had suffered between four and six major crashes without long-term impairment.
Taken as a whole, the Atlatl was a formidable and ruthlessly focused ground attack platform, and the Lyran Commonwealth, and Federated Commonwealth after it, offered to pay handsomely for more information about its origins... Unfortunately, in vain. That some distant Periphery colony with access to only Age of War technology had built it to make Draconis ground forces exceedingly miserable could only be conjectured, not confirmed.
Quirk: Internal Bomb Bay
Quirk: Poor Performance
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Class/Model/Name: AM-4TL Atlatl
Mass: 100 tons
Equipment: Mass
Power Plant: 200 Fusion 8.50
Thrust: Safe Thrust: 4
Maximum Thrust: 6
Structural Integrity: 10 .00
Total Heat Sinks: 10 Single .00
Fuel: 7.00
Cockpit & Attitude Thrusters: 3.00
Armor Type: Standard (440 total armor pts) 27.50
Standard Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Nose: 144
Left/Right Wings: 102/102
Aft: 92
Weapons and Equipment Loc SRV MRV LRV ERV Heat Mass
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1 LRM 10 Nose 6 6 6 -- 4 5.00
Ammo (LRM 10) 12 --- 1.00
1 LRM 10 Aft 6 6 6 -- 4 5.00
Ammo (LRM 10) 12 --- 1.00
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TOTALS: Heat: 8 58.00
Tons Left: 42.00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 4,298,600 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,373
Cost per BV: 3,130.81
Weapon Value: 1,708 (Ratio = 1.24)
Damage Factors: SRV = 11; MRV = 9; LRV = 3; ERV = 0
BattleForce2: MP: 4, Armor/Structure: 11 / 0
Damage PB/M/L: -/-/-, Overheat: 0
Class: FA; Point Value: 14
Specials: if
