While recreating the Tarantula from MechWarrior 2, I stumbled across this website which I had forgotten over the years. It catalogs fluff and barely canon 'mech configurations. It's interesting how some of these 'mechs, especially the ones from the computer games, now have canonized configurations.Here it is as an archived website:https://www.oocities.org/timessquare/dome/6058/trl/trlintro.htm
I remember the site. The extra notes on each design really helped put them in contex. It and... Longwalker's Archive(?) ...were my first real contact with the BattleTech Extended Universe.