Trying to fix a dark age MBT by moving things around...

[RevenVrake]

We all know the Hanse MBT, the tank that fixes everything forward and yet calls itself a MBT.

Well, what if we moved stuff?

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Hanse Main Battle Tank Mk.II

Mass: 75 tons
Movement Type: Tracked
Power Plant: GM
Cruising Speed: 43.2 kph
Maximum Speed: 64.8 kph
Armor: Kallon SuperShard
Armament:
     1 Light AC/5
     2 Machine Gun
     2 Plasma Rifle
Manufacturer: General Motors
     Primary Factory: Unknown
Communication System: Wundeerland XXXV-2 Series
Targeting & Tracking System: Dalban HiRez
Introduction Year: 3146
Tech Rating/Availability: E/X-X-X-D
Cost: 13,048,875 C-bills

Type: Hanse Main Battle Tank
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Experimental)
Movement Type: Tracked
Tonnage: 75
Battle Value: 1,434

Equipment                                          Mass
Internal Structure                                  7.5
Engine                        300 XL               14.5
Cruising MP: 4
Flank MP: 6
Heat Sinks:                   20                     10
Control Equipment:                                  4.0
Power Amplifier:                                    0.0
Armor Factor (Heavy Ferro)    218                    11

                          Internal   Armor   
                          Structure  Value   
     Front                   8         60   
     R/L Side               8/8      54/54   
     Rear                    8         50   


Weapons
and Ammo                      Location    Tonnage   
Trailer Hitch                   Rear        0.0     
Vehicular Sponson Turret        Left        0.75   
2 Machine Guns                Sponson       1.0     
2 Plasma Rifles               Sponson       12.0   
Light AC/5                     Front        5.0     
Vehicular Sponson Turret       Right        0.75   
Half Machine Gun Ammo (100)     Body        0.5     
LAC/5 Ammo (40)                 Body        2.0     
CASE                            Body        0.5     
ECM Suite                       Body        1.5     
Plasma Rifle Ammo (40)          Body        4.0     

It moves the plasma rifles to the sides of the tank and mounts them in the sponsons alongside the regular machineguns now. So it can still fire its plasma guns forward or in wide arcs to cover its sides and then backwards to cover the rear of the tank.

Heavy Ferro covers the tank, providing even more protection. Instead of the expensive supercharger the tank instead makes due with an ECM suite to suit the very technological battlefield of the Dark Age.

[Cyk0]

Why not a turret so you can move the AC as well?

[killfr3nzy]

I don't know Revenrake's reasons, but I know that adding a turret also means adding a whole new location that needs to be armoured - probably at least as well as your flanks are, so that'd be another 2.5-3 tons here.
Also they can't get jammed up.

Sponsons are rad, but be careful because they only overlap on a single line drawn through the very front, so positioning is important.