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NUT-BUSTING TORQUE

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Heavy Mortar medium armor for infantry support?
« on: 05 December 2024, 20:25:32 »
What's the utility of a heavy mortar for infantry support? I'm imagining something like this with 3 supplemental AP weapons, but I don't know what all uses it would have in-game for a weapon that doesn't see a lot of use.

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Medium Infantry Support BattleArmor Mortar Carrier
Type: Medium Infantry Support BattleArmor
Manufacturer: Unknown
    Primary Factory: Unknown

Tech Base: Inner Sphere (Standard)
Chassis Type:  Biped
Weight Class: Medium
Maximum Weight: 1,000 kg
Battle Value: 199
Swarm/Leg Attack/Mechanized/AP: Yes/Yes/Yes/No
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Equipment                                     Slots      Mass
Chassis:                                               175 kg
Motive System:                                               
     Ground MP:          3                              80 kg
     Jump MP:            0                               0 kg
Manipulators:                                                 
    Left Arm:            Battle Claw                    15 kg
    Right Arm:           Armored Gloves                  0 kg
Armor:                   Advanced               5      320 kg
    Armor Value:         8+1 (Trooper)                         

                                         Slots           
Weapons and Equipment         Location (Capacity)   Mass 
Mortar                          Body       2       400 kg
Anti Personnel Weapon Mount   Left Arm     1        5 kg 
Anti Personnel Weapon Mount     Body       1        5 kg 


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Re: Heavy Mortar medium armor for infantry support?
« Reply #1 on: 05 December 2024, 20:26:52 »
Rather less than BA Tube Artillery... Seriously, they're worth the extra weight.

NUT-BUSTING TORQUE

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Re: Heavy Mortar medium armor for infantry support?
« Reply #2 on: 13 December 2024, 18:53:06 »
Rather less than BA Tube Artillery... Seriously, they're worth the extra weight.
Yeah, but the BA Tube artillery would demand me scrounge up another 150KG easily, even for just a couple rounds instead of the stock 20 here. And If I drop AP mounts I can pack magazines like smoke or illumination, which for something I meant to support infantry I guess would be better.

Other issue, is that when I start messing with BA Artillery I always somehow end up making a new flavor of the Centaur rather than something new. That thing is actually decently optimized.

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Re: Heavy Mortar medium armor for infantry support?
« Reply #3 on: 13 December 2024, 19:02:51 »
I'll have to look that one up, but it sounds like a quad...

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Re: Heavy Mortar medium armor for infantry support?
« Reply #4 on: 14 December 2024, 09:40:19 »
I'll have to look that one up, but it sounds like a quad...

It's the Republic armor that carries the tube artillery. Here's the link to the Armor of the Week article on it- as Sillybrit mentions, a heavy suit with the cannon as a DWP cuts the tube artillery down to one space, which is really good when it has to also have it's ammo in the same location AND so that the armor can have mag clamps.
https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=41303.0

My problem is, that aside from doing a full quad suit like a heavy or assault (which then I give up other units transporting it as easily) then at the end of the day, I'll be making similar steps; I might do like, replacing the small laser for a light recoilless rifle in a DWP to get an 8th point of armor for large laser protection, but otherwise I wouldn't change the armor type or much else since an artillery unit would most likely see counterbattery fire.

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Re: Heavy Mortar medium armor for infantry support?
« Reply #5 on: 14 December 2024, 11:03:38 »
Thanks for the link! :)

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Re: Heavy Mortar medium armor for infantry support?
« Reply #6 on: 14 December 2024, 11:19:35 »
It appears to be possible to cram BA Artillery onto a Medium Quad suit... I'll put the stats in the other thread.