Given we're trying to imitate heavy(or atleast medium) mechs with low end lights, there's a surprising lack of Hardened armour going on:
I'd looked into it, but had trouble making it work. Yours came out pretty good, though.
Bug to me sounds like wings, legs, and annoyance, thus my entry.
4 legs, 2 wings, ERLL+TC+Jump 7 is annoying. The Light Tag is potentially very annoying. And, these are cheap at 2M each.
OK, that's quite surprising.
Now, going back down to 20 tons and trying crazy crap again, hear me out: base movement of 4/6/4, but with a partial wing, which would bring that up to 4/6/6. I went with standard internal structure on the principle that trying to do endo steel for a cheap BugMech isn't really viable, and too much of an infrastructure vulnerablity.
But, we're still a BugMech? How do we make it more durable? Well, we could go with hardened armor, which works out to taking 4 tons, and would add equivalent to another 8 points to the arms and CT. But hardened armor works on things a little bit bigger, and I needed a bit more mass, which let me try something I hadn't seen yet: modular armor. With modular armor slotted into each leg and the center torso, we're spending three tons of our payload and, in return, they now have a chance of surviving an AC/20 to the center torso or legs. Once all three of those modular armor units get ablated, you go back to moving 4/6/6.
Weaponry is...limited. I went with an ERML in the head, which allows it to still shoot while it's using handheld weaponry. Two tons doesn't give you much to work with, though MG pods, quad-RL10s, some Magshots, etc.
Edit: Not sure why MegaMekLab doesn’t list it, but I went with a whole-head ejection system, which is why the price is 3.6 million each. Without that, it’s only 1.6 million per ‘Mech.
Stinger STG-4A
Mass: 20 tons
Chassis: Standard Biped
Power Plant: 80 Fusion
Cruising Speed: 32.4 kph
Maximum Speed: 54 kph
Jump Jets: Standard
Jump Capacity: 150 meters
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
1 ER Medium Laser
Manufacturer: Unknown
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 3145
Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-X-E
Cost: 3,676,640 C-bills
Type: Stinger
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Advanced)
Tonnage: 20
Battle Value: 522
Equipment Mass
Internal Structure 2
Engine 80 Fusion 2.5
Walking MP: 3
Running MP: 5
Jumping MP: 5
Heat Sink 10 0
Gyro 1
Cockpit 3
Armor Factor (Ferro) 69 4
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head 3 9
Center Torso 6 8
Center Torso (rear) 4
R/L Torso 5 8
R/L Torso (rear) 2
R/L Arm 3 6
R/L Leg 4 8
Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand
Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand
Weapons
and Ammo Location Critical Heat Tonnage
Jump Jet LL 1 - 0.5
Modular Armor LL 1 - 1.0
Modular Armor CT 1 - 1.0
4 Heat Sink RT 4 - 4.0
Jump Jet RT 1 - 0.5
3 Heat Sink LT 3 - 3.0
Jump Jet LT 1 - 0.5
Partial Wing RT/LT 4/4 - 1.5
Jump Jet RL 1 - 0.5
Modular Armor RL 1 - 1.0
ER Medium Laser HD 1 5 1.0
