You know, I don't know why I never made a T config for the Iron Cheetah. I input the five configs from the source material, and submitted a few of my own for jymset to choose from as my author config. None of those were WYSIWYG. I guess if I were to make a T configuration, it would have looked like this.
Designed in a version of SSW that doesn't support Capacitors with Clan ER PPCs, so I had to add them into the text file manually. BV is therefore not accurate. Not that it ever is...
iron Cheetah T
Mass: 100 tons
Tech Base: Clan
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: All Eras (non-canon)
Tech Rating/Era Availability: F/X-X-F-A
Production Year: 0
Cost: 30,997,333 C-Bills
Battle Value: 3,015
Chassis: Unknown Endo-Steel
Power Plant: Unknown 400 Fusion XL Engine
Walking Speed: 43.2 km/h
Maximum Speed: 64.8 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Unknown Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
2 ER PPCs w/Capacitor
1 Imp. Hvy Large Laser
1 Streak LRM-15
2 ER Medium Pulse Lasers
1 ER Medium Laser
1 Laser Anti-Missile System
Manufacturer: Unknown
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Unknown
Targeting and Tracking System: Unknown
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Endo-Steel 152 points 5.00
Internal Locations: 1 HD, 1 LT, 1 RT, 2 LL, 2 RL
Engine: XL Fusion Engine 400 26.50
Walking MP: 4
Running MP: 6
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: Double Heat Sink 22(44) 12.00
Heat Sink Locations: 2 LT, 3 RT, 1 RA
Gyro: Standard 4.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Actuators: L: SH+UA R: SH+UA
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous AV - 307 16.00
Armor Locations: 1 CT, 2 LT, 2 RT, 1 LA, 1 RA
CASE Locations: LT, RA 0.00
CASE II Locations: 1 LT 0.50
Internal Armor
Structure Factor
Head 3 9
Center Torso 31 48
Center Torso (rear) 14
L/R Torso 21 32
L/R Torso (rear) 10
L/R Arm 17 34
L/R Leg 21 42
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Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass
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2 ER Medium Pulse Lasers RA 12 4 4.00
Imp. Hvy Large Laser RA 18 3 4.00
Streak LRM-15 LA 5 3 7.00
2 ER PPCs w/Capacitor LA 40 6 14.00
(R) ER Medium Laser RT 5 1 1.00
Laser Anti-Missile System CT 5 1 1.00
@Streak LRM-15 (16) LT - 2 2.00
Free Critical Slots: 2
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 10 Points: 30
4 6 6 4 0 4 2 Structure: 5
Special Abilities: AMS, CASEII, CASE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA
I’d do this instead:
ER PPC
PPC Capacitor
ER PPC
PPC Capacitor
Rotary AC/5
3 tons ammo (RAC)
CASE II
Streak LRM-5
Streak LRM-5
Streak LRM-5
1 ton ammo (Streak)
CASE II
ER Small Laser
ER Small Laser
Flamer or Micro Pulse Laser (Rear-Facing)
Laser AMS
2 additional freezers for 18 total (36 heat)
This Iron Cheetah T loadout assumes the ER PPCs and capacitors are always alternating fire (+25 heat). With all the Streaks (+6 heat) and the RAC/5 firing on full auto (+6 heat), she’ll overheat by 1 before movement is added. Obviously, the RAC/5 is dialed back based on movement as necessary to avoid negative heat effects.
This sends one 20-point hit and up to nine 5-point hits downrange each turn. It provides both greater armor penetration than the Prime (20 versus 15) and greater overall damage potential (65 versus 60 or less when the Prime’s regular LRMs are considered). It’s sort of like pairing an AC/20 and an LB 10-X with cluster only the AC/20 can reach 23 hexes, the LB 10-X reaches 21 hexes, and every cluster bomblet does five points of damage. That combination should leave a lot of crippling 25- and 30-point holes in enemy forces. The ER PPCs, RAC/5, and Streak-5s all have the same 1-7, 8-14, and 15+ range bands, too.
All ammo is in CASE II and the Laser AMS is retained. With no minimums on the main weapons, the secondary lasers/flamer are there mostly for AI duty.
Keeps the overwhelming, long-ranged, heat neutral firepower of the Prime while fundamentally improving its ability hole-punch and critical-seek.
FWIW...
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