The Quickscell Skimmer!

[Fear Factory]

Gosh, I feel dirty...

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Savannah Master Hovercraft (Quickscell Skimmer)

Mass: 5 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Motive Type: Hovercraft
Rules Level: Introductory
Era: Succession Wars
Tech Rating/Era Availability: D/X-C-C-A
Production Year: 3025
Cost: 40,792 C-Bills
Battle Value: 107

Power Plant: Edasich Omni 25 I.C.E.
Cruise Speed: 140.4 km/h
Flanking Speed: 216.0 km/h
Armor: Durallex Light Standard Armor
Armament:
    1  SRM-2
Manufacturer: S.L. Lewis, Inc.
    Primary Factory: Carlisle
Communications System: TharHes Hm 10
Targeting and Tracking System: TharHes Alpha-2a

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Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
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Internal Structure: Standard                       4 points                0.50
Engine:             I.C.E. Engine                 25                       1.00
    Cruise MP:  13
    Flank MP:   20
Heat Sinks:         Single Heat Sink             0                         0.00
Control Equipment:                                                         0.50
Lift Equipment:                                                            0.50
Armor:              Standard Armor               AV -   8                  0.50

                                                      Armor     
                                                      Factor     
                                               Front     3         
                                          Left/Right    2/2         
                                                Rear     1         

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Equipment                                 Location    Heat     Spaces     Mass 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SRM-2                                        FR        2         1         1.00
@SRM-2 (50)                                  BD        -         0         1.00

BattleForce Statistics
MV      S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:      0    Points: 1
13h        1       1       0       0      1     0   Structure:  0
Special Abilities: EE

[kaliban]

even dirtier is to strip all armor (even because what you have doesn't help much) to reduce the Battle Value

[Fear Factory]

even dirtier is to strip all armor (even because what you have doesn't help much) to reduce the Battle Value

Ewwww...

You know what though? Imagine infernos on this thing... even used with the original.

[worktroll]

a) I'm loving it!

b) Imagining fitting one of these with the controls from a Hi-Scout drone ...

[kaliban]

try many MGs in a turret. No armor.

Or R/L 10s, depending on the era you play.

[idea weenie]

Or R/L 10s, depending on the era you play.

The RL/10 might make sense.  Get in fast, volley everything, then get out.  No sticking around for multiple turns getting shot at

[Hptm. Streiger]

When I see light armor, I think the usage of BAR 5 or BAR 6 armor would be a thing. Whats the sense of BAR10 armor when it can not take a hit of a MediumLaser, while the same mass of BAR5 armor could.

Fractional accounting - you don't need 50 rounds - or as other mentioned for pure damage 3 machine guns - or 4 RLs

[Chaeronea]

The RL/10 might make sense.  Get in fast, volley everything, then get out.  No sticking around for multiple turns getting shot at

I did a design like that for the Outworlds Alliance in one campaign we were in - a 25 ICE weighs the same as a 25 Fusion engine used by a Savannah Master, the medium laser is replaced by a pair of RL-10s and its done. great for hit and run attacks - the only thing that could make it better was if there were inferno or incendiary RL-10s. Imagine a horde of these little critters doing a mass attack of a single firing pass on a group of BattleMechs like the Savannah Master horde ambush on the Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers in the Warrior trilogy, vehicles and then roaring off to reload and do it all again.

[Wolf72]

I like the idea of 4 RL-10s.  You can pop all 4 at once, or shoot from cover, scoot and repeat.  Maybe just pop them all at once given 8 pts of armor.  or at least use commercial armor and get 12 points ... at that low armor anything will rip you open anyway.

[Red Pins]

a) I'm loving it!

b) Imagining fitting one of these with the controls from a Hi-Scout drone ...

I already do this in my AU setting, as a counter to the 150- and 200-ton 'Assault Component' super-heavy 'mechs.  If they wander off without enough escorting units, these drones can really do a number on them.  Especially since once one leg is gone, they're basically done for.  So much for the 200-ton mech you bought as the centerpiece of your unit.

[Natasha Kerensky]

I really like this.  Should be canon for when the Elsies ran out of those fusion engines for the Savannah Masters or as a Snake or Leaguer response to the Savannah Master.  Great that even Periphery scum could field this at the depth of the Succession Wars and not seem technologically out of place.