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Name/Model:         Tasche TSE-2A
Designer:           Warhammer: 3025
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            60
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Clan Invasion / 3050
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         5,454,080 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,512

Chassis:              Standard
Power Plant:          240 Fusion
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Ferro-Fibrous with CASE
Armament:             
    1 PPC
    1 LRM 15
    6 Medium Lasers
    1 Streak SRM 2
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    The Tasche was actually more a product of happenstance than actual design. At the start of
    the first Succession war, on the planet Lucerne, a small battlemech factory was just being
    finished, intended to manufacture the powerful Battlemaster assault 'mech. Unfortunately,
    when House Kurita invaded the world, the manufacturing plant was severely damaged.
    
    
    
    When Davion forces finally managed to free the world, the factory had been reduced to only
    semi-operation. It could still produce battlemechs, but its structure could no longer
    support the massive weight of the Battlemaster it had been tooled to create. A thorough
    structural examination revealed that the heaviest chassis the facility could safely produce
    had been reduced to just 60 tons.
    
    
    
    Not wanting an otherwise perfectly good 'mech plant to go to waste, Hollis Industries
    quickly came up with an offshoot of the Battlemaster to be produced. It shared virtually all
    of its parts with its venerable big brother, and was easily mass-manufactured by the damaged
    plant.
    
    
    
    The factory has since been completely repaired, but due to the popularity of the 'mech it
    produced, it was left to continue production of the Tasche. In 3046, the plant was shut down
    for repair and replacement of most of its heavy machinery. When the lines opened again in
    early 3048, a new version of the Tasche began to walk out of the factory doors.

Capabilities:
    When Hollis Industries decided to upgrade the Tasche, they looked at what it did well, and
    what it didn't. While the 'mech was ton-for-ton the most powerful battlemech ever designed,
    it suffered from poor maneuverability, a fact that many opponents exploited to keep out of
    range of the 'mechs primary weapons battery.
    
    
    
    Thanks to the increased efficiency of the new "freezer" heat sinks, enough space was freed
    up to install a larger engine, bringing the Tasche's top speed up to a very respectable 65
    kph. Yet more weight was saved through the installation of new StarGuard CIV Ferro-Fibrous
    armor. Enough tonnage was saved to install a Federated SuperStreak missile launcher. Lacking
    a more optimal spot to place the launcher, the missile tubes were mounted in the head,
    arraged so as to have one tube on each side of the cockpit. The superfluous Krieger laser
    was removed, in favor of a CASE system to protect the ammunition bays.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                          Standard                  6.00                     
Engine:                                     240 Fusion                11.50                     
    Walking MP:                                 4                                               
    Running MP:                                 6                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         10 [20]                   0.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  3.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  201                    11.50                     
    Type:                                 Ferro-Fibrous                                         

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      20             28       
    Center Torso (rear):                              12       
    R/L Torso:                         14             20       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  8       
    R/L Arm:                           10             20       
    R/L Leg:                           14             28       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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Streak SRM 2                                              H                 1          1.50             
Medium Laser                                            CT (R)              1          1.00             
2 Medium Lasers                                           RT                2          2.00             
CASE                                                      LT                1          0.50             
LRM 15                                                    LT                3          7.00             
LRM 15 (Ammo 16)                                          LT                2          2.00             
Medium Laser                                              LT                1          1.00             
Streak SRM 2 (Ammo 50)                                    LT                1          1.00             
PPC                                                       RA                3          7.00             
2 Medium Lasers                                           LA                2          2.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 39
TP: BM,  SZ: 3,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"
Damage: (S) 3 / (M) 4 / (L) 2,  OV: 1
Armor (A): 7,  Structure (S): 5
Specials: CASE, IF1, REAR1/1/-
 
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