Smasher bombardment Hydrofoil

[maxcarrion]

The Smasher bombardment Hydrofoil is the big gun of the Imagineer Task Force.  The lightly armoured 75ton chassis is built around the massive long tom artillery piece.  Packing 30 shells a single Smasher can lay waste to swathes of coastline with impunity and the Imagineer packs 2 of these little beauts.  2 LRT-5s give the Smasher token defense against surface and sub surface threats but the Smasher must lean on speed and the other parts of the task force to protect it from Aerial threats.

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Smasher

Mass: 80 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Motive Type: Naval (Hydrofoil)
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: All Eras (non-canon)
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-F-A
Production Year: 0
Cost: 3,759,611 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,703

Power Plant:  170 Fuel Cell Engine
Cruise Speed: 75.6 km/h
Flanking Speed: 118.8 km/h
Armor:  Heavy Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
    1  Long Tom
    2  LRT-5s
    1 Unknown CASE
Manufacturer:
    Primary Factory:
Communications System:
Targeting and Tracking System:

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Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
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Internal Structure: Standard                      40 points                8.00
Engine:             Fuel-Cell Engine             170                       7.50
    Cruise MP:  7
    Flank MP:   11
Heat Sinks:         Single Heat Sink             1                         0.00
Control Equipment:                                                         4.00
Lift Equipment:                                                            8.00
Turret:                                                                    3.50
Armor:              Heavy Ferro-Fibrous          AV - 128                  6.50

                                                      Armor     
                                                      Factor     
                                               Front     31       
                                          Left/Right   25/25       
                                              Turret     26       
                                                Rear     21       

================================================================================
Equipment                                 Location    Heat     Spaces     Mass 
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Long Tom                                     T         20        1        30.00
2 LRT-5s                                     T         4         2         4.00
CASE                                         BD        -         1         0.50
@Long Tom (10)                               BD        -         0         2.00
@Long Tom (Cluster) (5)                      BD        -         0         1.00
@Long Tom (Smoke) (5)                        BD        -         0         1.00
@Long Tom (Thunder) (5)                      BD        -         0         1.00
@LRT-5 (48)                                  BD        -         0         2.00
@Long Tom (Cprhead) (5)                      BD        -         0         1.00

BattleForce Statistics
MV      S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:      4    Points: 17
7n         3       1       1       0      4     0   Structure:  4
Special Abilities: ARTLT, CASE, EE, TUR(3/1/1)



[Fireangel]

Even taking into consideration the presence of escorts, 7/11 MP is nowhere near fast enough to evade aero units.

Though a naval unit, I'd consider swapping out the LRT's for LRM's, since most threats encountered will be surface naval, hover, VTOL, WiGE, and aero units.

Hm. Just noticed the two tons of ammo; Might even be worthwhile to swap just one LRT for an LRM, giving a token defense against subs as well and still retaining usefulness against surface naval units.

[maxcarrion]

How about reducing the speed to 6/9, switching it up to 85tons and 1T of LRT ammo - that's enough for an LB-2X to harass flyers - also an extra 0.5T of armour

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Smasher - FA

Mass: 85 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Motive Type: Naval (Hydrofoil)
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: All Eras (non-canon)
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-E-A
Production Year: 0
Cost: 3,636,267 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,586

Power Plant:  75 Fuel Cell Engine
Cruise Speed: 64.8 km/h
Flanking Speed: 97.2 km/h
Armor:  Heavy Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
    1  Long Tom
    2  LRT-5s
    1  LB 2-X AC
    1 Unknown CASE
Manufacturer:
    Primary Factory:
Communications System:
Targeting and Tracking System:

================================================================================
Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
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Internal Structure: Standard                      45 points                8.50
Engine:             Fuel-Cell Engine              75                       2.50
    Cruise MP:  6
    Flank MP:   9
Heat Sinks:         Single Heat Sink             1                         0.00
Control Equipment:                                                         4.50
Lift Equipment:                                                            8.50
Turret:                                                                    4.00
Armor:              Heavy Ferro-Fibrous          AV - 148                  7.50

                                                      Armor     
                                                      Factor     
                                               Front     36       
                                          Left/Right   29/29       
                                              Turret     30       
                                                Rear     24       

================================================================================
Equipment                                 Location    Heat     Spaces     Mass 
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Long Tom                                     T         20        1        30.00
2 LRT-5s                                     T         4         2         4.00
LB 2-X AC                                    T         1         1         6.00
CASE                                         BD        -         1         0.50
@Long Tom (30)                               BD        -         0         6.00
@LRT-5 (24)                                  BD        -         0         1.00
@LB 2-X (Cluster) (45)                       BD        -         0         1.00

BattleForce Statistics
MV      S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:      5    Points: 16
6n         3       1       1       0      4     0   Structure:  5
Special Abilities: ARTLT, CASE, EE, TUR(3/1/1)



[Fireangel]

Found this old thread by chance and thought it might be instructive, considering the naval direction of recent threads:

http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,4091.0.html

[maxcarrion]

Yeah, I found that while concieving of the Imagineer Project - it's probably one of the big reasons I ended up with a submersible design that packs only a bare minimum of conventional weapons.  The simple fact is that, for the most part, the <101 ton combat vehicles are vastly more combat effective for price and survivability then the Super Heavies or the Large Support Naval's are and that, in my eyes, the best thing you could do with a Large Naval platform is act as a base of operations for Naval, Amphibious and Aerial assets - and this is something that current canon designs were quite dissapointingly lacking at, most of them being much more like current real world Naval Paradigms.  (sub capital missiles for orbital defense are also a nice use that just cannot be mounted on a 100T hull)

With the rules as they are 4 100T displacement hulls mounting 1 long tom each are significantly harder to deal with and more tactically versatile than 1 400T displacement hull mounting 4 long toms