Author Topic: AL-AR Alfar  (Read 906 times)

A. Lurker

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AL-AR Alfar
« on: 16 May 2013, 16:21:00 »
This is basically a "'Mech that could never be". I got Historical: Reunification War way back when, looked at the Alfar, hacked my own version together as an educated guess for want of a record sheet, tried it out in MegaMek, decided I rather liked it...then next decided to look at what full Star League technology could do with it.

Well, this is the result, and for all that the upgrades are somewhat modest (the endo steel and FF armor it simply inherits from the original, so I can't take any credit for those) I'm rather fond of it as well; the slight catch being, of course, that canonically the Alfar's nonstandard construction made it a hassle to maintain despite its undisputed capabilities and so any that did in fact survive the war didn't stick around for very long in anyone's forces, many of them actually getting scrapped in total violation of what we've learned to take perhaps a bit too much for granted when it comes to BattleTech. So by the time the weapons I've decided to equip it with were even developed, there wouldn't have been any Alfars left to refit with them (except perhaps for some museum pieces that no sane curator would allow just anyone to mess with) and little to no interest in dedicating valuable production capacity to reviving the design from the ground up either...and so at least as far as the canon timeline is concerned it has to remain a "what if" design. (Don't let the production year I assigned it fool you; at best, it might have come out around that time in some alternate timeline.)

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Alfar AL-AR

Mass: 55 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: All Eras (non-canon)
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/E-F-E
Production Year: 2760
Cost: 5,567,807 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,650

Chassis: Unknown Endo-Steel
Power Plant: Unknown 275 Fusion Engine
Walking Speed: 54.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h
Jump Jets: Unknown
    Jump Capacity: 150 meters
Armor: Unknown Ferro-Fibrous w/ CASE
Armament:
    1  ER PPC
    3  Medium Lasers
    3  Streak SRM-2s
Manufacturer: Unknown
    Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Unknown
Targeting and Tracking System: Unknown

================================================================================
Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Internal Structure: Endo-Steel                    91 points                3.00
    Internal Locations: 1 CT, 7 LT, 6 LA
Engine:             Fusion Engine                275                      15.50
    Walking MP: 5
    Running MP: 8
    Jumping MP: 5 Standard
    Jump Jet Locations: 1 CT, 2 LL, 2 RL                                   2.50
Heat Sinks:         Double Heat Sink             12(24)                    2.00
    Heat Sink Locations: 1 RT
Gyro:               Standard                                               3.00
Cockpit:            Standard                                               3.00
    Actuators:      L: SH+UA+LA+H    R: SH+UA+LA+H
Armor:              Ferro-Fibrous                AV - 179                 10.00
    Armor Locations: 9 RT, 5 RA
    CASE Locations: 1 LT                                                   0.50

                                                      Internal       Armor     
                                                      Structure      Factor     
                                                Head     3            9         
                                        Center Torso     18           27       
                                 Center Torso (rear)                  9         
                                           L/R Torso     13           19       
                                    L/R Torso (rear)                  6         
                                             L/R Arm     9            17       
                                             L/R Leg     13           25       

================================================================================
Equipment                                 Location    Heat    Critical    Mass 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ER PPC                                       RA        15        3         7.00
2 Medium Lasers                              LA        6         2         2.00
3 Streak SRM-2s                              LT        6         3         4.50
Medium Laser                                 HD        3         1         1.00
@Streak SRM-2 (50)                           LT        -         1         1.00
                                            Free Critical Slots: 0

BattleForce Statistics
MV      S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:      6    Points: 17
5j         3       3       1       0      2     1   Structure:  5
Special Abilities: CASE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA

 

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