’Mech of the Week: Ryoken II (Repost and Update)

[Diablo48]

It's a support weapons platform. Put it on a tank. Like oh, I don't know.... a Partisan?

Basically this:

The cost of it being on a mech is the trade off over armor in tactical mobility, strategic mobility (HALO/Orbital Drop), durability and height/range over the armor.  Besides, you are not going to get that Partisan up to 5/8 afaik.

Although it would have been better with Jump Jets.  Hm...that would be a mean mod.  Replace the LRMs with a single ERLL and five Jump Jets to make it even more all-terrain and open up some really nice positioning options for your stupid long range support guns.

[Lord Cameron]

I'm little dissappointed that MWDA Record Book 1's entry for Tassa's 'Mech didn't get into Record Sheets: 3075 Unabridge The Cutting Edge section.  Hopefully it will pop up somewhere as a update canon variant.  Its too bad that we didn't get another variant via the RS:3145's New Tech, New Upgrades, i dare say it could used a new wringle in its family tree.

Yeah, it's a little tough to find the sheet.  :-\

Are the ERPPC's on the arms like the Warhammer, Marauder etc, or are all the weapons in the torso like the other Ryoken II variants?

[Colt Ward]

Didn't she have a dossier?  I know the variant was in MM at one point.

[JadeHellbringer]

Didn't she have a dossier?  I know the variant was in MM at one point.

Tassa's Ryoken II was never made as a figure (only a Swordsworn and Highlander version were made of that giant chunk of plastic), so she had no dossier. The sheet in the RS:MWDA book is based (near as I can tell) on the descriptions given in the novels-and is, if we're honest, a pretty good machine, if a little boring. By the time we got a pilot card for Kerensky (after the AoD rules change) she had moved on to her Savage Wolf.

(All weapons, as I recall, are torso-mounted still, as with the original model.)

[cavingjan]

Mangonel. Then we got the Savage Wolf later.