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PostPosted: 10-Dec-2024 06:45    Post subject: Alacorn IIC Heavy Tank Reply to topic Reply with quote

TRO: Alacorn IIC Heavy Tank
                 Combat Vehicle Technical Readout

Name/Model:         Alacorn IIC Heavy Tank
Designer:           Ruger
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Clan
Technology Rating:  F
Tonnage:            95
Role:               Sniper
Configuration:      Combat Vehicle
Era/Year:           Dark Age / 3150
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         17,852,250 C-Bills
Battle Value:       2,823

Movement Type:        Tracked
Power Plant:          285 XL
Cruising Speed:       32.4 kph  
Maximum Speed:        54 kph    
Armor:                Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:             
    2 Hyper-Assault Gauss 40s
    1 ER PPC
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Variants:
    Clan Hell’s Horses has long been the premier clan for conducting combined arms operations
    involving not just BattleMechs, battle armored infantry and aerospace fighters, but also
    armor and conventional infantry. Although they already possessed innumerable models of
    tanks, they came to admire the Alacorn heavy tank and desired a similar machine, directing
    their scientists and technicians to develop a new model and production line on which to
    produce them.
    
    Taking the Star League’s model as a basis, Clan scientists knew they could make it better,
    by choosing a different weapons layout. Replacing one Gauss rifle with an extended-range PPC
    was a good start as it would increase ammo payload for the remaining weapons. Proceeding
    from this first change, it was realized that a swap of the remaining two weapons to the
    massive type 40 Hyper-Assault Gauss Rifles would allow the design to perform well not only
    against BattleMechs and armor, but also improve the new Alacorn IIC’s performance against
    aerospace fighters. These changes, along with a slight thinning of the armor of the sides
    and rear of this machine, enable the design to carry 10 tons of ammunition for the Gauss
    rifles, ensuring longevity on the battlefield. A switch to ferro-fibrous armor ensures the
    overall loss of armor protection is minimal.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                          Standard                  9.50                     
Engine:                                       285 XL                  13.00                     
    Cruising MP:                                3                                               
    Flanking MP:                                5                                               
Heat Sinks (Single):                            15                     5.00                     
Control Equipment:                                                     5.00                     
Lift Equipment:                                                        0.00                     
Power Amplifier:                                                       0.00                     
Turret:                                                                4.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  201                    10.50                     
    Type:                                 Ferro-Fibrous                                         

                                              Armor                                             
                                              Value                                             
    Front:                                      50                                              
    R/L Side:                                   37                                              
    Rear:                                       27                                              
    Turret:                                     50                                              

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Weapons and Ammo                                            Location              Tonnage       
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ER PPC                                                       Turret                6.00         
2 Hyper-Assault Gauss 40s                                    Turret                32.00        
Hyper-Assault Gauss 40 (Ammo 30)                              Body                 10.00        

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                                    
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Point Value (PV): 48
TP: CV,  SZ: 4,  TMM: 1,  MV: 6"t
Damage: (S) 7 / (M) 7 / (L) 7
Armor (A): 7,  Structure (S): 5
Specials: CASE, FLK5/5/5, SRCH, TUR(7/7/7, FLK5/5/5)
		
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PostPosted: 10-Dec-2024 15:58    Post subject: Alacorn IIC Heavy Tank Reply to topic Reply with quote

I think HAG/30s would be better.
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PostPosted: 10-Dec-2024 16:52    Post subject: Alacorn IIC Heavy Tank Reply to topic Reply with quote

Better than 40’s? Why?
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PostPosted: 10-Dec-2024 19:03    Post subject: Re: Alacorn IIC Heavy Tank Reply to topic Reply with quote

Ruger wrote:
Better than 40’s? Why?


Ammo and weight.
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PostPosted: 10-Dec-2024 20:34    Post subject: Re: Alacorn IIC Heavy Tank Reply to topic Reply with quote

25% less firepower to save 6.5 tons on the guns and turret mass (16 tons per HAG/40 vs 13 each for HAG/30’s, thus a 3.5 ton turret for the 30’s version vs four tons for the turret on the 40’s version), and say 2 tons on ammo to have equivalent amounts (3 shots per ton for 40’s vs 4 shots per ton for 30’s as I recall).

Granted, there’s a lot you can do with 8.5 tons, but you loose a lot of ranged firepower with this change. You could add a LRM-20 with three tons of ammo, an ATM rack with ammo, or just some close-in weapons or armor or cargo space.

But that changes the role of the tank.
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