Well, since somebody over on the Swallow WiGE VotW thread saw fit to challenge me...have a random artillery WiGE. ;)
Monsoon Artillery Support (Standard)
Mass: 50 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Motive Type: WiGE
Rules Level: Advanced Rules
Era: All Eras (non-canon)
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-E-A
Production Year: 0
Cost: 3,887,500 C-Bills (empty)
Battle Value: 977
Power Plant: 160 Fuel Cell Engine
Cruise Speed: 64.8 km/h
Flanking Speed: 97.2 km/h
Armor: Heavy Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
1 Arrow IV Missile
1 TAG
1 Unknown CASE
Manufacturer:
Primary Factory:
Communications System:
Targeting and Tracking System:
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 25 points 5.00
Engine: Fuel-Cell Engine 160 7.50
Cruise MP: 6
Flank MP: 9
Heat Sinks: Single Heat Sink 1 0.00
Control Equipment: 2.50
Lift Equipment: 5.00
Turret: 2.00
Armor: Heavy Ferro-Fibrous AV - 148 7.50
Armor
Factor
Front 40
Left/Right 30/30
Turret 30
Rear 18
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Equipment Location Heat Spaces Mass
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Arrow IV Missile T 10 1 15.00
TAG T 0 1 1.00
CASE BD - 1 0.50
@Arrow IV (Homing) (20) BD - 0 4.00
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 5 Points: 9
6g 2 0 0 0 2 0 Structure: 3
Special Abilities: ARTAIS, TAG, CASE, EE, TUR(2/0/0)
Speed is admittedly a bit on the low-ish side, but should be sufficient to simply redeploy from one position to the next in something approaching reasonable time. The TAG owes its presence mainly to possible self-defense needs -- the Monsoon isn't meant to fly out onto a battlefield and paint its own targets, but if it does get caught by opposition it can't easily outrun it can at least try to turn that big launcher it's carrying anyway on them in a pinch. (It should still be calling for assistance as loudly as possible while doing so, mind.) Possibly its best selling point is that it's a -- by WiGE standards -- reasonably affordable few-frills design that will still fit into any size vehicle bay. It's the "standard" model because I briefly considered an alternate configuration mounting a Thumper in the AIV's stead, but nothing's come of that so far.
Incidentally, typing this into my version of SAW resulted in a BV of 948 and a "dry" cost of 4,456,000 C-bills; the alternate values I put in by hand are from MegaMekLab. Apparently, SAW 6.82.1 (a) doesn't account for the +1 defensive modifier for being airborne when it comes to WiGEs, (b) charges double the book value in C-bills for HFF, and (c) charges 2,000 base C-bills for the single heat sink that comes "built into" the FCE; as a result, I'm going to trust MML more here.
And as usual, take the automatically generated BF stats with a grain of salt.
