The War Dog . . . gets a cousin?
The Coyotes at the beginning of the Golden Century revisited a Star League prototype design to create a new mech for their touman- the Masauwu, the Hopi Spirit of Death. The name keeps with the Coyote's AmerInd background . . .
. . . and the machine is pretty brutal. Unfortunately for Clan players, the Coyotes lost interest for presumably the Omnis they rolled out. The Masauwu follows the same engine/speed profile with JJs, has ECM & AMS, and a similar mix of ballistic, energy and missile weapons. But the differences make it a more fearsome machine- it mounts 12.5 tons of armor, but its standard armor- and not unbalanced for the arm. The skeleton uses Clan ES while the War Dog uses std. The 'main gun' is a LB-10X rather than a Gauss Rifle with 3t ammo (saving a total of 5t comparatively) backed up by two large pulse lasers rather than varying sizes. The Streaks are full systems rather than OS and a ERSL is the only other back up weapon.
This design fits in nicely with other Clan secondliners we already knew about with the same profiles- the Grizzly, Guillotine IIC, Orion IIC, Marauder IIC, and Warhammer IIC- it neither overshadows (powercreep) or underwhelms in comparison. Heck, its got a great niche in that IIRC it is about the only Clan heavy secondline from that period that has a LB-10X.