After a couple of years off, here’s v9.0:
- Quirk updates
- Minor corrections to faction lists
- Added Mercury to Star League Regular tables (thanks MadCap)
- Added the 75-ton Stalker to all Inner Sphere tables
- Added the 15 ton Flea from XTR Succession Wars Vol. 1 to Marik and Periphery General (thanks Frabby)
- Corrected 3050 regiment numbers for the Federated Commonwealth (thanks Anons 1 & 2), added 3145 details
- Oh yeah, and new 3050 Inner Sphere Mech tables
They look fairly simple, but there's a bit of behind-the-scenes stuff you should know.
First, this is the table where unit types begin to go extinct, at least for certain Houses. By "extinct" I mean no longer available in large enough quantities to meet the requirements for Av in that faction. Those Falcons and Clints are on borrowed time.
Second, I have a running tally of the actual number of each mech in service in each House. This does not appear in the public tables, as it's merely guesswork on my part and I don't want to go down that road. The reason I'm telling you about it is because this is what I use to keep each iteration of the tables internally consistent. By keeping a per-unit count, I can ensure that over time, those units that are no longer in production slowly are reduced in numbers. I don't worry about it for units that are still somehow conceivably available to that House, but for things like Urbanmechs and Ostscouts it means that, whether the Av actually changes or not for a given unit there will be fewer such units in each table release, representing attrition over time. For example, by my internal counter the Kuritan 3039 army had 177 Spider -5Vs, at Av 6. The 3050 tables still have Av 6, but the count is now down to 171. They'll lose a bunch more Spiders in the 3057 tables, and probably drop to Av 5 then. So, long story short, even if it's not visible, each House is slowly bleeding away its non-replaceable machines. It's not fast, because many of these machines still show up in distant militias in 3085, but it will definitely be noticeable over time.
Steiner has two tables, the only House to do so. That's because they add almost three dozen regiments to their faction total between 3039 and 3050, and so I felt the need to separate things out to ensure all that new construction was represented properly. The way their two tables are structured, A&B and C&D, will be the way I'll be handling every House in the 3057 tables.
Liao has the most extinctions, the result of the shellacking they took in 3028, and all their new construction since then. It makes their tables a bit dull for now, but that's the way it is. They'll get more interesting soon enough.
As always, feedback is greatly appreciated, especially in these early stages of a major new release. If I missed a unit, or a reference to hard numbers, or anything else relevant, I want to know about it. Thanks!
P.S. One final note: the Faction Lists, which list all the Av numbers, are still blank, simply because it's been so long since I had to do that that I've forgotten how I originally automated that process in Excel, and there's no way I'm going back to doing it by hand. I'll put out another update with 3050 Avs once I manage to figure out how the hell to do so.