At the same time it says they're a common sight on the battlefield and I wasn't sure how to can easily reconcile the two statements without giving Marik so many that they wind up using them for lawn gnomes. If I drop everyone else to a very low Av 7 or even Av 6 and up Marik to Av 10 it should work out, though that makes them 1-in-4 of Mariks' mediums and at the same time not really common anywhere else.
Yeah. I don't think "majority" is really called for, even if that's what's said - it should probably read "plurality" instead. The only real issue then is the fact that the Mariks are supposed to have more than the entire FC, which otherwise has close to three times their military (and combine on the current table to about 1.5x their Wolverines, which is just a bit much).
I always meant to do what you have done one day, but never got around to it. I greatly appreciate it, as it has caught errors I need to correct even if I wasn't interested in taking your approach. That having been said, I'm not sure I can really fix the issue of Marik's assaults while sticking with the canon facts of notably fewer assaults (whataever that percentage actually is) and small regiment size.
Also bear in mind that any time I adjust any number, the amounts for all the other mechs go down (since whatever I do has to equal out to 1000).
Well, my suggestion is to try tightening the gap a little - noticeably fewer could be a ratio of 2:3 or 3:4 rather than 1:2.
If your table looked something like this:
Kurita Steiner Marik Davion Liao
Light 35 20 25 25 25
Medium 30 30 40 40 40
Heavy 20 30 25 20 20
Assault 15 20 10 15 15
Or
Kurita Steiner Marik Davion Liao
Light 40 20 30 30 30
Medium 30 30 40 40 40
Heavy 20 35 22.5 20 20
Assault 10 15 7.5 10 10
It would still have all the "right" relationships - Steiner has
way more assaults than everybody else, Marik is measurably behind on assaults, et cetera. It does give the DCMS/AFFS slightly more Banshees than the LCAF - thinking about it, you might want to bump the BNC-3S up, especially for the 3039 table, if you do something like that, the Lyrans are supposedly putting them out through factories as of 3039.
I would then keep the current Avs for assaults in Marik - they're fine, most of them are the handful of assaults Marik is supposed to have. Just make blanket raises / drops on the Av of all the 'mechs outside of Marik.
First, raise the Av of all assault 'mechs outside Marik by a point, except for these five. Second:
BattleMaster - drop Av by one point for everything but Steiner and Marik (if you adjust the weight distributions) or everything but Marik (if you don't).
Goliath - drop Av by one point for everything but Steiner and Marik (Av1 seems appropriate considering the 'mech is considered nearly extinct)
Stalker - drop Av by 1-2 points for everything but Marik. (Marik's behind by a factor of about 3:1 from, say, Davion.)
Awesome - drop Av by 1-2 points for everything but Marik. (Here the factor is a little more than 2:1, but Marik is supposed to have an unambiguous unique lead.)
Longbow - drop Av by one point for everything but Marik.
Just a big blanket application for what really is a big blanket effect - 2-3 points net change across the Av board in the assault weight class, plus a slight tweak to have Marik behind a little less in assaults. I don't know how you're fitting Av to 'mech population or I'd give you the boundaries, but that looks like the right ballpark for an adjustment. You can see where the numbers lie on the spreadsheet. There's a factor of about 4 between Davion and Marik by base frequency totals (110/60 x 2:1) and 5 between Steiner and Marik (75/60 x 4:1)
Except for the Goliath, those are all of your most common assault BattleMechs, so it would render the non-Marik assault population much more heterogeneous - but maybe the assault 'mech population
should be pretty heterogeneous outside of Marik (where they only have the handful that they produce domestically) and Steiner (where they're manufacturing certain ones at breakneck speed.)