Back on Galatea after a successfully executed contract for the League (or some faction thereof) to raid the AFFC's supply chain in the Sarna March, your merc group- a reinforced mixed company- got paid off, walked away with a share of the loot in prototype & new production weapons (LB-X-P, UAC/5 prototype, ER weapons, etc) the AFFC was moving to refit regiments, and have a reimbursement check for the loss of a heavy mech. The command's admin managed to track down four mechs that are for sale in the price range the group can afford. You are the purchasing agent and had the chief tech look over the four for any lemons someone was trying to offload. Which do you recommend to the boss that the group buy make up the loss?
Banshee 3MC- This mech made its way from the Periphery somehow to Galatea. Along the way someone refit it with the new Double Heat Sinks, but currently its missing the PPC and AC/10 so its chest has cavities where weapon systems should go . . . but you have weapons to mount . . .
Cronus 3M- Shiny new rare mech from the Free Worlds League, it was supposed to go to a Solaris gladiator but he and his career were both washed out of the cockpit of a fallen mech while waiting on this mech to arrive. Nice thing is a Cronus will share a lot of parts with Dervish, Griffins, Wolverines, and Shadow Hawks that are pretty common in the IS.
Orion 1K- Someone took this old familiar design and tweaked it . . . the AC/10 was downgraded to a AC/5 while keeping the same number of ammo bins while the LRM15 was upgraded to a LRM20 and gained a 3rd ton of reloads. No armor or heatsinks were added to the design, just a shuffle of the firepower for more range.
Centurion 9A- You can see the old AFFS paint on this mech, but with that history comes a surprise. The Centurion had to have been refit for the War of 3039 before it fell into merc hands- its got a prototype LB-10X instead of the Luxor AC/10 and put CASE into each torso during that refit.
All of them are in the merc's price range and are functional provided the Banshee gets big guns from the merc's stockpile.
Your the purchasing agent, which do you buy?