As the designer, it greatly pleases me people remember my creation but let's get that into the right thread.
I tried using the Gun once.
Let's just say that slow 20 tonners aren't long for this world. xp
I hadn't thought of it this way but the
Gùn really needs another 5 tons of baseline tonnage to work properly. The
Raptor doesn't take all the all steps the
Gùn does to stack podspace but winds up with another 1.5 tons plus two more base MP even without them. Apply a half-ton of that to armor, especially if you're still willing to suffer the XL gyro to squeeze out an extra ton, and you get an extra ton of podspace, more speed, and significantly better armor.
Still, as an "asymmetric combatant" and force multiplier, I'm pretty satisfied with what I managed to do on the 20 tons I had thanks to the design restrictions. Just the shock factor of realizing I could actually squeeze an HPPC on there was immensely entertaining and it provides a different sort of look to the lighter Capellan garrison units. They've got a high-speed/good podspace Omni with the
Men Shen.
EDIT: There was also some commentary on the lack of flamer configs. That's deliberate. You're lightly armored and slow. Getting within 2-3 hexes of infantry is not a good idea, especially because the weapons carried by modern infantry have gotten longer-ranged. You want to torch a foot platoon, roast them with the Prime's plasma rifle or let the BA you're carrying deal with them. Or at least that's my opinion on the matter, and as the designer, that was the one that guided the canon configs.