Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Light a 'Mech on fire and it'll be nice and toasty until the ammo cookoff show.
The
Firestarter is one of the more aptly named 'Mechs of the BattleTech universe. It has flamers. It can start fires. It's an old friend, from the days if
Technical Readout: 3025. However. by the Dark Age, it's clearly going through a metal phase. Maybe it'll grow out of it.
Meanwhile, it has a younger but larger sibling, the
Firestarter OmniMech, born out of a silly set of circumstances. As an OmniMech, it offers significantly greater flexibility and yet it still has two flamers in fixed mounts.
Neither version of the
Firestarter currently has a 'Mech of the week article. So... set the world on fire?
I'm a little unclear on the original
Firestarter sculpts. I hope someone can provide more information. Anyway, these are the sculpts I know of:
- The original sculpt (or perhaps a resculpt) (20-850). I'm not sure if there have been one or two miniatures released under 20-850 and, if there have been two, I don't know how they differ.
- What I believe to be a beginners set sculpt available in the Quick Start Lance Pack (10-044). (I don't have this product so I'm not sure this is a separate sculpt.)
- The sculpt for the Dark Age model, FS9-M2 (20-369). I presume this is based on an MW:DA figure.
- The plastic sculpt released by Catalyst Game Labs in the Support Lance Pack.
The
Firestarter OmniMech only has
a single sculpt (20-257).
If you have any of these painted, please share pictures. We'd love to see them!
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- Clan (6/17): Griffin IIC
- Inner Sphere (7/1): Wolverine