Author Topic: Starhawk Configurations!  (Read 355 times)

Liam's Ghost

  • Lieutenant Colonel
  • *
  • Posts: 8251
  • Miss Chitty finds your honor rules quaint.
Starhawk Configurations!
« on: 15 January 2025, 03:49:18 »
So Shrapnel issue 19, having mined the depths of old Ral Partha ad copy, gave us three "new" omnimechs: the Starhawk, Sidewinder, and Grotesque (Inner Sphere reporting name Mongrel). But only their primary configurations.

Since I feel an affinity with the Starhawk (it's a slightly bigger Hellbringer with just enough extra armor to almost convince you you aren't still driving a Hellbringer) I made a few configurations. An A, B, E (ATM), and H (heavy laser). In order to keep things authentic I tried to make sure they still had that clan invasion feel about them.


Starhawk

Mass: 70 tons
Chassis: Standard Biped
Power Plant: 350 XL
Cruising Speed: 54 kph
Maximum Speed: 86.4 kph
Jump Jets: None
     Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
     28.5 tons of pod space
Manufacturer: Unknown
     Primary Factory: Unknown
Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 3050
Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-E-D
Cost: 20,832,083 C-bills

Type: Starhawk
Technology Base: Clan (Standard)
Tonnage: 70
Battle Value: 2,419

Equipment                                          Mass
Internal Structure                                    7
Engine                        350 XL                 15
   Walking MP: 5
   Running MP: 8
   Jumping MP: 0
Double Heat Sink              14 [28]                 4
Gyro                                                  4
Cockpit                                               3
Armor Factor (Ferro)          163                   8.5

                          Internal   Armor   
                          Structure  Value   
     Head                    3         9     
     Center Torso            22        22   
     Center Torso (rear)               8     
     R/L Torso               15        17   
     R/L Torso (rear)                  7     
     R/L Arm                 11        17   
     R/L Leg                 15        21   

Weight and Space Allocation
Location                      Fixed               Space Remaining   
Head                          Ferro-Fibrous           0
Center Torso                  None                    2
Right Torso                   2 XL Engine             9
                              Ferro-Fibrous           
Left Torso                    2 XL Engine             9
                              Ferro-Fibrous           
Right Arm                     None                   10
Left Arm                      None                   10
Right Leg                     2 Ferro-Fibrous         0
Left Leg                      2 Ferro-Fibrous         0

Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm
Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm

Configuration A
Weapons
and Ammo                           Location  Critical   Heat    Tonnage   
LRM 15 Artemis-capable Ammo (16)      RT        2        -       2.0   
LRM 15                                RT        2        5       3.5   
Artemis IV FCS                        RT        1        -       1.0   
Medium Pulse Laser                    LA        1        4       2.0   
ER PPC                                LA        2        15      6.0   
Gauss Rifle Ammo (16)                 RA        2        -       2.0   
Gauss Rifle                           RA        6        1       12.0 

Configuration B
Weapons
and Ammo                 Location  Critical   Heat    Tonnage   
Active Probe                CT        1        -       1.0   
Flamer                      CT        1        3       0.5   
Streak SRM 6                RT        2        4       3.0   
Ultra AC/20 Ammo (10)       RT        2        -       2.0   
Streak SRM 6 Ammo (15)      RT        1        -       1.0   
6 ER Medium Laser           LA        6        5       6.0   
3 Double Heat Sink          LT        6        -       3.0   
Ultra AC/20                 RA        8        7       12.0

Configuration E
Weapons
and Ammo                         Location  Critical   Heat    Tonnage   
ER Small Laser                      CT        1        2       0.5   
ER Medium Laser                     RT        1        5       1.0   
Medium Pulse Laser                  RT        1        4       2.0   
ATM 12                              LA        5        8       7.0   
Extended-Range ATM/12 Ammo (5)      LA        1        -       1.0   
Standard ATM/12 Ammo (10)           LA        2        -       2.0   
High-Explosive ATM/12 Ammo (5)      LA        1        -       1.0   
ER Medium Laser                     LT        1        5       1.0   
Medium Pulse Laser                  LT        1        4       2.0   
ATM 12                              RA        5        8       7.0   
Extended-Range ATM/12 Ammo (5)      RA        1        -       1.0   
Standard ATM/12 Ammo (10)           RA        2        -       2.0   
High-Explosive ATM/12 Ammo (5)      RA        1        -       1.0   

Configuration H
Weapons
and Ammo              Location  Critical   Heat    Tonnage   
Double Heat Sink         CT        2        -       1.0   
Heavy Large Laser        RT        3        18      4.0   
Heavy Medium Laser       RT        2        7       1.0   
2 Double Heat Sink       RT        4        -       2.0   
Heavy Large Laser        LA        3        18      4.0   
Heavy Medium Laser       LA        2        7       1.0   
2 Double Heat Sink       LA        4        -       2.0   
Targeting Computer       LT        3        -       3.0   
3 Double Heat Sink       LT        6        -       3.0   
Heavy Large Laser        RA        3        18      4.0   
Heavy Medium Laser       RA        2        7       1.0   
2 Double Heat Sink       RA        4        -       2.0   
Flamer                   RA        1        3       0.5   
Good news is the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show an immediate latency of 44.6 years. So if you're thirty or over you're laughing. Worst case scenario you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you've forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face.

(indirect accessory to the) Slayer of Monitors!

DevianID

  • Captain
  • *
  • Posts: 2247
Re: Starhawk Configurations!
« Reply #1 on: 15 January 2025, 04:37:24 »
The starhawk has the same armor and speed of a vulture, so most vulture pods will work too, as well as the twolf configs that dont run out of space for the 15th heat sink the twolf gets in the engine that the starhawk would pod mount.

As an aside, the dual Ultra10/SRM6/electronics is a low BV config that the loki would massively benefit from, so im sad the starhawk gets it and not the Loki.  As for the grotesque, its just a gargoyle with endosteel, visually looks like a gargoyle.  The Starhawk at least used the vulture/twolf legs, loki chest, and summoner cannon arms, while the sidewinder used the twolf chest, vulture torso pods, and summoner arms.  I cant see whats different on the grotesque besides 1 arm not having the underslung SRMs.

Liam's Ghost

  • Lieutenant Colonel
  • *
  • Posts: 8251
  • Miss Chitty finds your honor rules quaint.
Re: Starhawk Configurations!
« Reply #2 on: 15 January 2025, 07:26:40 »
The Groteque has warhawk legs.

It also manages to differentiate itself from the gargoyle in more subtle ways. It comes in seven points shy of maximum armor, so it's actually getting something from that eighty ton frame, and it's got a bit more pod space.

But at the same time it gets there by adding endo steel like you said, but also only mounting eleven fixed heat sinks. So any hot running configs are likely to find themselves running short of space for more heatsinks.

I think I like it better than the Gargoyle, but there were definite tradeoffs to get there.
Good news is the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show an immediate latency of 44.6 years. So if you're thirty or over you're laughing. Worst case scenario you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you've forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face.

(indirect accessory to the) Slayer of Monitors!

DevianID

  • Captain
  • *
  • Posts: 2247
Re: Starhawk Configurations!
« Reply #3 on: 16 January 2025, 01:59:00 »
The Groteque has warhawk legs.

It also manages to differentiate itself from the gargoyle in more subtle ways. It comes in seven points shy of maximum armor, so it's actually getting something from that eighty ton frame, and it's got a bit more pod space.

But at the same time it gets there by adding endo steel like you said, but also only mounting eleven fixed heat sinks. So any hot running configs are likely to find themselves running short of space for more heatsinks.

I think I like it better than the Gargoyle, but there were definite tradeoffs to get there.
Yeah the Grotesque's main thing feels like endosteel.  The extra armor is nice, of course, but the Gargoyle doesnt have terrible armor the Grotesque 'fixes'.  And like you said, the pod heat sinks is more a negative then a positive when you are adding sinks in your prime config.  That said, the warhawk legs do give more character, as all these were asset mashups to begin with but the Grotesque didnt really appear any different, so im glad it had a leg swap like the star hawk.

Liam's Ghost

  • Lieutenant Colonel
  • *
  • Posts: 8251
  • Miss Chitty finds your honor rules quaint.
Re: Starhawk Configurations!
« Reply #4 on: 17 January 2025, 17:16:58 »
So I made additional configs of the Sidewinder and Grotesque as well, then I put all of those configs (along with the starhawk configs) in a record sheet PDF, which can be downloaded here.

(I initially planned on excluding the prime configs, but then decided it was probably okay to include them, since catalyst has released those record sheets for free anyway)
Good news is the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show an immediate latency of 44.6 years. So if you're thirty or over you're laughing. Worst case scenario you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you've forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face.

(indirect accessory to the) Slayer of Monitors!