victor vandergriff banshee question

[Daishi411]

Does anyone know what the layout of his banshee was when he fought searcy?



edit: just realized how brutal my grammar was, sorry

[Grantwhy]

searching via google i found a webcache of a Character of the Week Victor Vandergriff

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dKjtgflKSHYJ:www.classicbattletech.com/forumarchive/index.php%3Ftopic%3D538.0%3Bprev_next%3Dnext+victor+vandergriff+banshee&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com.au

and in that article there is this on Vandergriff's Banshee

The modifications made are an interesting choice. As far as I can tell the small lasers are removed, SRMs downgraded and the Gauss Rifle traded in for an LBX autocannon to fit in jump jets. The rear facing medium lasers may have also been traded in for extra power, however there is no proof one way or the other and no relevance either.

The loss of the main cannon is something that worries Vandergriff’s mind, especially in the last moments when he loses the plot and starts railing against Searcy for using the Pillager’s twin mounts against him. However the replacement is rather smart, having already sacrifices much of his short range power he increases it and adds to the crit seeking capabilities, something that actually hurts his opponent in their final match

I hope that helps  :)

[DarkMessiah]

Grey's article (that Grantwhy quoted) pretty much had the right of it.

We know he had at least two medium lasers, two ER PPCs (one mounted in the left arm, after the first fight with Searcy), an LB-10X autocannon, an SRM-4, and it's specifically noted he traded away his Gauss rifle for "Luxor" jump jets, which were custom installed by the "great Lazlo Falcher."

We don't have any more details about exactly what else his Banshee had or didn't, and there isn't a Record Sheet to date, but it should be fairly easy to approximate.

[Daishi411]

beautiful, that's exactly what i was looking for, thanks very much  :)

[Iron Mongoose]

I've always liked that mech.  When I've run my take on it, it fights quite well.

It should be noted that part of the reason to pull the GR is arena safty.  Vandergriff berates Searcy for using GRs, calling them "man killers" because as head cappers, they can end a fight with no warning.  With a PPC or AC10, you can often expect to survive a cockpit hit, and then the pilot has the chance to throw in the towel rather than fight on with no cockpit armor (or not, if they're that way, but its their call).  So pulling his GR is something of a "gentelmanly" thing to do, while using two of them is a bit brutish.  At least in Victor's mind.  Searcy may not agree.

[misterpants]

It should be noted that part of the reason to pull the GR is arena safty.  Vandergriff berates Searcy for using GRs, calling them "man killers" because as head cappers, they can end a fight with no warning.  With a PPC or AC10, you can often expect to survive a cockpit hit, and then the pilot has the chance to throw in the towel rather than fight on with no cockpit armor (or not, if they're that way, but its their call).  So pulling his GR is something of a "gentelmanly" thing to do, while using two of them is a bit brutish.  At least in Victor's mind.  Searcy may not agree.

On that point, before upgrading to the Pillager, Searcy's ride was a modified Dragon Fire, with the GR downgraded to a light gauss, but upgrading the LBX-10 to some model of AC20 (don't recall if it was an Ultra, LBX, or plain vanilla AC20)

[DarkMessiah]

On that point, before upgrading to the Pillager, Searcy's ride was a modified Dragon Fire, with the GR downgraded to a light gauss, but upgrading the LBX-10 to some model of AC20 (don't recall if it was an Ultra, LBX, or plain vanilla AC20)

It was a Defiance Disintegrator LB-20X, and he ripped out his ECM, too. That was for his fight with Jarman, he later refined it by yanking out his large laser and one medium pulse laser, and replaced them with a large pulse laser.