Few things I want to be clear about:
1) The skills of the inner sphere pilots are being withheld purely because the clan officer has no way of knowing them. That doesn't mean they aren't secretly hyper elite crack fiend pilots, simply that if they were, that wouldn't be why I'm hiding their skill. :)
2) The Crescent Hawks don't exist in 3001 (at least I don't think they exist yet), so no, it's not them.
3) The Ice Hellion Star Colonel has taken the frustration of this campaign personally, which is why he has to be included. One way or another, he demands to be there. I've been tight lipped on his specific abilities because from a realistic standpoint it would be difficult for him to express his skill in numbers, but he is an officer who earned his command in proper clan fashion, so he is very good at killing.
4) I will never stop chuckling at the repeated use of the term "A clan assault" when that assault mech in question is the Gargoyle, a mech where the only affect of it being an assault mech was to make it worse than it would have been if it were a heavy mech.
5) The current lowest bid, according to my judgment of the suggestions, stands at the Star Colonel's Gargoyle, outfitted in the A configuration, with a further stipulation of utilizing only a single PPC. Because the bidding got so granular, we will consider the option of using additional weapons as the "next lowest bid", thus if things go poorly, he will be allowed to use additional weapons at a small loss of honor. Even though I consider it a bad idea, It was still a legitimate bid with no intent to throw the match.
So anybody got a lower bid than that?