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It was mentioned that it is a refit package, which is why the FF.

Why not both. The big guy wanted big stompy robots, then the intel boys realized they could deal a lot of damage by spinning into something more effective than it is, because the hegemony could afford the waste while its neighbors could not.

If someone is very cheeky, they can try and land in the starport. The wrecked dropships would provide some cover, but that is easily solved by remote sensors or some infantry squads and LRM fire.

Until the modernization at other locations is done, the Dragons might consider it to be worth the cost to deny the Lyrans their lostech production facilites. However with the data-core being distributed already, that will only delay the inevitable. They only sort of attack that would not be...

Yeah, one of the best defense strategies on Catachan is to make your enemies land in the jungle and have fun with the local wild life. It might be worth it to build some decoy dropship landing sites as bait. Just some discrete flamer towers to keep the foliage at bay. Maybe add a pair of mine...

I like the idea of challenging them to hunting contests during any batchalls.

Its too bad that mech mounted shields come with a movement penalty.

yes, construction is in Tactical Operations and combat rules are on strategic operations.

Capital scale weapons also have a massive AOE, with a blast radius around 300 meters. It doesn't translate well to aerospace combat though.

I wonder is NPPCs or naval lasers would be easier to put back into production. While the lasers were developed earlier, I cannot help but think of the very expensive tooling that would be requried to manufature capital grade optics. NPPCs on the otherhand are less technologically sophisticated...

Lams should only use their mech mode when landing and hiding in a ditch/forest. Airmech mode is where the LAM shows most of its best traits.

The good thing is that at worst they will only know that a datacore exists, and will have to set up an investigation to find out where it came from.

Durasteel is a material from StarWars. Duraluminum is a trade name for 2000 series aluminum alloys, which are used in aviation. Endosteel is a battle-tech material that needs to be manufactured in freefall.

should probably be duraluminum.

Those sound like field customizations done by mech warriors wanting their newest loot in their mech, but not having enough time for a full refit.

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The Hatchetman does not want XL engines, the hatchetman wants MASC and jump jets.

A Thumper Artillery Piece weighs a ton more than an AC-20, has 4 times as much ammo per ton and deals 15 damage in 4 point clusters. Also, it would appeal strongly the the "Bigger is better" attitude that many Lyran nobles, while also incentivizing them to lead from the rear. I'd go ahead and...

Its the principle of using conservation of detail to set the mood. If you want to give the players an awesome sense of collateral damage, you can use some of the advanced building rules and the missed shot rules from page 81 of the same book.

Advanced building rules should only come into gameplay when you are fighting the building itself. Such as clearing out an air-defense base with anti-dropship guns before a full assault, or dungeon crawling a Castle Brian.