The *literally* Never-Seen

[Colt Ward]

Lajos Adder- 12 ERML and jumps . . . so, light Nova?

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Only with even less heat dissipation.

[Colt Ward]

Yeah . . . 16t of pod space leaves 4t for JJ and DHS . . . so either jumping 4 or 6 means you get 2 or 1 extra DHS respectively.  I mean, 8 sounds reasonable . . . still throwing out max of 56 damage- nothing to sneeze at against IS lights or meds- get the full 6 jumping and another 10 head dissipation.  Run and fire it all will 'only' leave you with 12 overheat compared to . . .

Let's see, jumping 6 hexes and Alpha means . . . 66 heat, sinking 22 . . . so 44 overheat!  But 84 damage . . . enough to end most other early Clan lights.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Especially if you spent a round or two just firing 4 lasers beforehand.  The only light mechs in existence that can take more than two Clan ER Medium Lasers to a single location have either Hardened or Reflective Armor, and those are rare to begin with and not era appropriate for this machine.

[SteelRaven]

Sounds like a death or glory machine.

[Liam's Ghost]

Sounds like a death or glory machine.

It kinda makes sense. The pilot was injured and in no shape to fight, he would have had to either end the fight quickly or accept he was going to lose. To a clan mindset, even dying in a laser rave blaze of glory trying to win would have been preferable to simply giving up.

[Hellraiser]

Isn't it basically a Hermes at that point?

Sans flamer

[Talen5000]

Lajos Adder- 12 ERML and jumps . . . so, light Nova?

I would suggest rather that it was - or at least intended to be - a Nova but like several other units in the book, was simply given the wrong name.

[HyperionCormyr]

The Florence AmbulanceMech

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Florence

[Frabby]

According to Era Digest: Dark Age, during Gray Monday one unspecified class A HPG station was attacked by a squad of battle armor of a design never seen before. No further info though.

[HyperionCormyr]

Mobile HPG- supposedly used by not only ComStar and WoB, but also the Clans. I would suggest the Dragoons as well, since they had to report back some how, but I suspect that was done using a MHPG located on their resupply cache world and not one they hauled around.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hyperpulse_Generator

[RifleMech]

Mobile HPG- supposedly used by not only ComStar and WoB, but also the Clans. I would suggest the Dragoons as well, since they had to report back some how, but I suspect that was done using a MHPG located on their resupply cache world and not one they hauled around.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hyperpulse_Generator

I can see Comstar and WoB using them after the Clan Invasion, especially during the Jihad. The Clans, I'm not sure about. Definitely on their jumpships and warships but I'm not sure about other units. I don't see it as tech they'd actively use, even though they have access to it. There's no honor in using it. I don't see the Dragoons using it off their ships either. It would attract way too much attention. Plus the range is too short. More likely the jumpships moved to a predesignated spot and then sent a transmission to a Wolf ship who then took the message back to the home worlds.

The Florence AmbulanceMech

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Florence

Now this I can totally see happening, especially as a Comstar plot. It's so them!

[Talen5000]

I can see Comstar and WoB using them after the Clan Invasion, especially during the Jihad. The Clans, I'm not sure about. Definitely on their jumpships and warships but I'm not sure about other units. I don't see it as tech they'd actively use, even though they have access to it. There's no honor in using it. I don't see the Dragoons using it off their ships either. It would attract way too much attention. Plus the range is too short. More likely the jumpships moved to a predesignated spot and then sent a transmission to a Wolf ship who then took the message back to the home worlds.

IIRC, there is a mention - somewhere - that the Clans rolled out a number of Mobile HPGs during Operation Scorpion.

[BATTLEMASTER]

The Society had a Septicemia variant with a HPG on it, but I don't quite understand how they weaponized it besides sending computer viruses.

[truetanker]

It provides a local ECM blackout...

TT

[Tyler Jorgensson]

The Society had a Septicemia variant with a HPG on it, but I don't quite understand how they weaponized it besides sending computer viruses.

You call in reinforcements, while giving the other guy a busy signal ;)

[Mendrugo]

A key plot point (such as it was) in the third MechAssault game was a bandit faction aligned with Hell's Horses, of all factions, trying to seize control of a defunct HPG so they could weaponize it along the lines of what was seen in the Null Set RPG adventure. 

[Frabby]

A key plot point (such as it was) in the third MechAssault game was a bandit faction aligned with Hell's Horses, of all factions, trying to seize control of a defunct HPG so they could weaponize it along the lines of what was seen in the Null Set RPG adventure.

But TPTB have been trying hard to ignore this into obscurity since (a bit like the Tetatae), because it runs counter to everything we know about HPG technology and its working principles.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

There was a third Mechassault game?

[SteelRaven]

There was a third Mechassault game?

Well, sort of? MechWarrior: The Phantom War was released on the Nintendo DS before MS Games started shelving allot of their properties.
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/MechAssault:_Phantom_War
 

[Hellraiser]

Came across another reference that I had forgotten.

The SLDF Jumping-Crusader that the Liao-3L model was based on per TRO3039 variants fluff.

I'm guessing it was something like the 2R but with LRM10's & JJ's but who knows.

[RifleMech]

IIRC, there is a mention - somewhere - that the Clans rolled out a number of Mobile HPGs during Operation Scorpion.

What were they mounted on though? 

[dgorsman]

Likely mobile, not ground-mobile versions.  So mounted on satellites (re-purposed relay satellites), WarShips, or the like.

[mbear]

Beachhead1985, the TRO Legends Website post has a link out to an archive of a site with many of the same thing you're looking for here. It was last updated in 2000 so quite a few have been filled in, but there may be some you're missing.

[RifleMech]

Likely mobile, not ground-mobile versions.  So mounted on satellites (re-purposed relay satellites), WarShips, or the like.

That's what I would think. That means it's not mechwarriors having to operate them but techs.

[beachhead1985]

I don't see the No LL IntroTech Hussar on the list.

It was mentioned in 3025r IIRC.

Drops the LL for 2x ML & 3 tons of something (Armor?).

Not to be confused w/ the 350D that drops the engine to add 2x ML.

I'd still love to see a proper RS for that one.

Opened up my copy and cannot find that one. Were the MLs in the arms?

[beachhead1985]

I would suggest rather that it was - or at least intended to be - a Nova but like several other units in the book, was simply given the wrong name.

But it is doable as an Adder. I know what you're talking about and I'd have loved to see that book edited in a new release to fix those errors.

However; with that much waste heat; is it not a suicide machine? Literally?

[beachhead1985]

The Florence AmbulanceMech

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Florence

The German Novels come through again...

[beachhead1985]

According to Era Digest: Dark Age, during Gray Monday one unspecified class A HPG station was attacked by a squad of battle armor of a design never seen before. No further info though.

And the Gray Monday storyline was never completed, correct? As in; it's never been explained, has it?

I think we have TROs from since then; But I read 3145, 3150 and the add-on PDFs and none of those BA were mentioned as involved in the Gray Monday attacks. By extension; that might reveal key plot info like who was behind it.

[beachhead1985]

Mobile HPG- supposedly used by not only ComStar and WoB, but also the Clans. I would suggest the Dragoons as well, since they had to report back some how, but I suspect that was done using a MHPG located on their resupply cache world and not one they hauled around.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hyperpulse_Generator

Some gear basically demands a design built around it. Another is Cruise Missile Artillery; we have no bedrock, generic (wheeled?!) CM arty. I have made both as customs, but Mobile HPGs are mentioned so often that they almost must exist as distinct vehicles. I mean; you *could* carry them as cargo, but that is so much slower to bring in and out of action than a dedicated vehicle that it's nonsensical to not pay the piddling cost of a SV to carry them thing.