Hi everyone. First post. Been away from CBT for a while, let's see how my designs stack up.
edit: trying again. I reduced speed to accomadate the turret. But, at least I still had more weight available then for another round of ammo the the missile configurations. Oh, an Ratwedge, I added an LRM configuration for ya. Ok, let me know if this works, and if it does I'll be posting an assault model later today.
Type: Black Widow
Manufacturer: WC site 3
Primary Factory: Arc-Royal
Tech base: Clan
Chassis Type: Quad
Weight Class: Medium
Maximum Weight: 1000 kilos
Battle Value:
Swarm/Leg/Mechanized/AP: no/no/no/no
Notes:
Equipment Slots Mass
Chassis 250 kg
Motive Systems 40 kg
Ground MP: 3
Jump MP: 0
Manipulators
Right Arm: None
Left Arm: None
Armor: standard 0 250 kg
Armor Value: 10+1 for trooper
Weapon or Equipment Location Slots Mass
Standard
2 Light Machine Guns body 2 150 kg
Configurable Turret Mount body 2(3) 80 kg
SRM 3 (4 rounds) 3 225 kg
Adv SRM 2 (4 rounds) 3 200 kg
LRM-3 (4 rounds) 3 205 kg
AP Gauss Rifle 2 200 kg
2 Machine Guns 2 200 kg
3 Light Machine Guns 3 225 kg
Despite his successes in building up his Exiled Clan's Mech forces, as the Jihad went on, Phelan Kell began facing complaints from his own Elementals that he was neglecting the Wolf-in-Exile's infantry forces. Their grievance was not unfounded, for while he concentrated his efforts building the Clan's mech production on Arc-Royal, all their battle armor assets had to be imported, usually through the Diamond Sharks. Thus, while other clans were diversifying their battle armor assets, the Warden Wolves were relying on imported Elemental suits and the Rache and Volk variants of the Nova Cat's Medium Clan Armor. So when the Jihad came to a close, Kell put a call out to his technicians and scientists to begin work on new designs to revitalize Wolf-in-Exile's infantry.
The Black Widow was one design put forward for the first call, one meant to become the new primary model for the Clan. Being influenced by their Lyran allies and their preference for quad designs, the designers chose to make theirs a quad as well, one with a more arachnid appearance, thus giving them the opportunity to name the new unit for the legendary Black Widow. Although this made it unable to make anti-mech swarm attacks, the improvement in firepower and speed was felt to make it worth it. Wanting to match the combat profile of the Elemental, primary model submitted mounted twin light machine guns as it's primary armament. Technically, this gave it comparable firepower to the standard primary weapons on the original Elemental, with better range. A modular turret was also mounted, originally intended by the designers to mount missiles just as the Elemental had, only with the ability to switch between different types as the mission required. However, in practice many units simply mount another direct fire weapon in it, which makes the mount last longer in a fight.
The design appears to be a success, being popular with most warriors it's assigned to. However, as it cannot perform anti-mech attacks, there will still be a place for the classic Elemental as well as the Medium Standard for some time with the Wolves.
