The Clans have old, boring, unflashy, slow, secondline mechs, like the Corvis, Grizzly, Wyvern IIC, and Urbanmech IIC. The Clans also have some faster, but still old, unflashy, and not very powerfully armed secondline mechs like the Commando IIC, Clint IIC and Great Wyrm. I think all these garrison “line” mechs would see use among lower-tier formations, including solahma and other dezgra units.
The Clans also have other “expendable” but fast, powerfully armed, and potentially dangerous secondline mechs, like the Pirahna, Jenner IIC, and Solitaire. For solahma, freeborns, former bondsmen, and other dezgra warriors still trying to make a name for themselves, these kinds of designs may serve the same basic function as the Hunchback IIC.
Artillery and fire support in general gets a bad rap among the Clans, so the Bowman would probably find its way to dezgra and solamha units. The Sharks/Foxes sell cheap, low-grade designs, like the Ha Otoko (and the aforementioned Piranha), which would probably also be purchased to round out fire support in low-tier formations.
Although it’s not explicitely stated anywhere, I think quads would be looked down upon by most Clans besides the Horses. Although a totem design, the Fire Scorpion, for example, is an old, slow quad that would probably be relegated to dezgra and solahma formations in most Clans. Newer, faster Stalking Spiders may get the same treatment.
Depending on your timeframe, some of these designs are also from failed, dead Clans. The Great Wyrm was a Mongoose design, for example. The Wyvern IIC was a Burrock upgrade. Designs like those are probably doubly marked for dezgra and solahma.
If you’re interested in conventional forces, pretty much any Clan combat vehicle is a possible solahma unit outside the Horses, but I’d throw in some ancient Bandits, Badgers Pike C, Demolisher C, and Gun Trailers to make the point that they’re really stuck with outdated/poor equipment. And then there’s the Surat Battle Armor, as well as the unarmored Elemental Solahma infantry formations in TRO: 3085.
Instead of potentially revered SLDF designs, I like to use the Clan “C” variants of salvaged Spheroid Succession War-era units in low-tier units. Stuff like the Victor C, Marauder C, Warhammer C, Archer C, Shadow Hawk C, etc.
Here’s a Raven solahma/dezgra unit that I was working on years ago. It’s an “elite” penal unit (think Dirty Dozen) so some of this stuff may be too high-end or Raven-specific for your purposes. But there’s also a lot of good junk for a solahma unit.
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