McKennsy IFV

[Daryk]

This idea has been rattling around my brain for a while now.  Defiance appears to make almost all the components, so I figured I'd make it a Lyran design.  It's Gauss Rifle proof in all directions, moves 5/8, turret mounts its weapons, and can carry a squad.  All that with only a single crewman!  Because SAW doesn't do Fractional Accounting quite right, I had to do some hand jamming, but I think I did it all right.  An obvious variant shaves a quarter ton out of the squad compartment for Paramedic equipment (while keeping enough room for a normal IS squad!).

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McKennsy IFV MCK-1

Mass: 15 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Motive Type: Tracked
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: Dark Ages
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-E-D
Production Year: 3132
Dry Cost: 429,928 C-Bills
Total Cost: 429,928 C-Bills
Battle Value: 419

Construction Options: Fractional Accounting

Power Plant:  75 Fusion Engine
Cruise Speed: 54.0 km/h
Flanking Speed: 86.4 km/h
Armor:  Heavy Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
    1  Light PPC
    1  Small Pulse Laser
    1  Infantry Bay (1.0 tons)
Manufacturer:
    Primary Factory:
Communications System:
Targeting and Tracking System:

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Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
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Internal Structure: Standard                      10 points                1.500
Engine:             Fusion Engine                 75                       3.000
    Cruise MP:  5
    Flank MP:   8
Heat Sinks:         Single Heat Sink             10                        0.000
Control Equipment:                                                         0.750
Lift Equipment:                                                            0.000
Turret:                                                                    0.400
Armor:              Heavy Ferro-Fibrous          AV -  86                  4.334

                                                      Armor     
                                                      Factor     
                                               Front     20       
                                          Left/Right   15/15       
                                              Turret     21       
                                                Rear     15       

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Equipment                                 Location    Heat     Spaces     Mass 
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Light PPC                                    T         5         1         3.000
Small Pulse Laser                            T         2         1         1.000
Infantry Bay (1.0 tons)                      BD        0         1         1.000

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

[PuppyLikesLaserPointers]

Ha, I understand why such a weak vehicle does exists. As someone already said to me before it's still better than a PBI, and more importantly, consider it as a maximized protomech with an infantry squad then I can realize that it's not a bad news actually.

It's more funny if the unit is omnivehicle and also ship a battle armor, although the stacking rule prevents to disembark both of them at once.

By the way the crew size is the guideline, not the golden rule. It is possible to run a 100 tons tank by only a single crew if you desire, if I remember correctly.

[Daryk]

I don't remember the rule reading that way... what page is it on again?

[PuppyLikesLaserPointers]

I don't remember the rule reading that way... what page is it on again?

Both of us are saying about the vehicle crew members on TO. Page 218 for the old TO. But isn't it the part of the additional rules, rather than basic rules? And I remember that a carnivore was crewed by only two personnel, despite it's a 80 tons tank.

[Daryk]

I dug up my old single volume copy... the rule there seems pretty clear in reinforcing the Tech Manual page 103 rule.  It simply offers effects on being able to shoot multiple targets due to crew size.

[Daryk]

I also just found where the single-volume reference migrated to: page 186 in TO:AR.  It's unchanged from the OG TacOps.

[Lagrange]

This design benefits substantially from clan weapons---an ERML and a micropulse laser has the same ranges, the ERML does more damage, and it weighs only 1.5 tons instead of 4 tons, more than a factor of 2 less.

[Daryk]

Oh, sure!  Clanner weapons are better in every way except availability...

[Cannonshop]

Oh, sure!  Clanner weapons are better in every way except availability...

of course, because Clanners get everything YOU get, only in a better form-even when it's something their doctrines and dogmas wouldn't create.
The inverse is only maybe true; translating from Clanner to anything else, and it's going to be significantly worse to borderline unuseable, to 'something that something that already exists does better for less."

see: IS HMG vs. Clanner RAC, or that C3-style system the Clanners worked out for the wars of reaving.

There IS a reason for that-but it's an off-stage reason.  The reason, is because once you strip off the technical advantages, the Clans stop being useful as 'the big bad thing that it's heroic to defeat'.

[DevianID]

The non-fractional accounting version with 4 tons of armor is still a fine unit, still gauss-proof, though the turret/front are 19+15 armor instead of 20+21.

There is also stryker IFV vibes, where you can replace the 3 ton light cannon with a missile launcher like LRM5 or SRM4, or drop it entirely for a 4 ton IS BA transport option.

[Daryk]

Or even an MML-3!