Last Chance, I like a lot of your designs, but this is probably your first design that I have looked at and said to myself "What was he thinking?". I see absolutely no real reason why any Faction in the Inner Sphere, or the Periphery, would want this design in 3067.
Giving the WoB Zhukov a Fusion engine significantly drives up cost, especially since the original Zhukov had a ICE engine. The Capellans could afford to lose the original Zhukov by the hundreds all over Capellan Space, and then easily replace those Zhukov losses. This WoB Zhukov is too expensive, and its Heavy PPC is too rare in the 3067 era to be able to risk losing signifcant numbers of WoB Zhukovs in the raging battles of the Jihad. I mean considering Heavy PPCs are so new to the Inner Sphere in 3067, it would probably take the WoB until the 3070 era before the WoB would be able to quickly replace/repair this WoB Zhukov, and even then, even in 3070, with the Fusion engines extra cost, it is not worth the money and effort to make/replace this WoB Zhukov Design. Investing in this WoB Zhukov, in any era, would be a total waste of CBills. The WoB can create cheaper ICE Engine versions of the Zkukov that are just as powerful and still get the job done on the battlefields of the Jihad. Also, I don't understand why a WoB Zhukov would not have a Improved C3 Computer? I dunno about you guys but when I put 2 and 2 together I get four, likewise when I put Zhukov Tank and Word Of Blake together I expect to see a Improved C3 Computer somewhere on the Zhukov Tank. I mean seriously any turret mounted dual gun wielding tank designed for direct fire support used by any WoB unit is going to have a Improved C3 Computer mounted on it, it is just how it is going to be, it is like the Masakari/Warhawk battlemech and a Advanced Targeting Computer, you just know theres gonna be a advanced targeting computer on any Warhawk/Masakari used by the Clans.
If I was going to create a 3067 WoB Zhukov Upgrade, I would keep the Ice Engine, upgrade the Standard Armor to Ferro-Fibrous Armor, and I would equip two Light Gauss Rifles and a Streak SRM 6 in the Turret, and equip a Light Machine Gun in the Front, Rear, Left Side, and Right Side, with a half ton of Light Machine Gun Ammo and a ton of Streak SRM 6 Ammo protected by CASE in the body, and a Improved C3 computer in the turret. This would make the WoB Zhukov still cheap enough to easily replace in large quantities, with components that can be easily repaired in the field/are readily available in the 3067 era.
This is probably the first design that I have seen you post Last Chance Cavalry that didn't make sense to me, but honestly you are one of my favorite posters in these forums, just thought I would let you know that I really like reading your designs. I like Kojaks designs too. I haven't seen Kojak post any designs lately, I look forward to seeing some new designs by him.
