the shape of things to come

Peter has 880 kilograms to spend on
weapons, and 11 weapon slots in the Body
location to place them. He decides to start
by making the Fenrir’s armament modular,
choosing the confi gurable turret mount for
his design (see p. 263). As the confi gurable
turret requires a certain pre-determined
size for its mount—to determine its weight and slot capacity—Pete
selects a 3-slot capacity for the mount, meaning
the entire turret mount will weigh 80 kilograms and occupy
5 slots (3-slot capacity + 2 for the turret mechanism = 5).
In the turret—and also fi xed to the Fenrir’s body—Peter can
install 800 kilograms’ worth of weaponry that can occupy a
grand total of 9 slots (3 in the Confi gurable Turret + 6 in the
Body). Per the Weapon Limits Table, Peter can install up to 4
anti-personnel and 4 anti-BattleMech weapons in all this
space. He decides at this point that the base confi guration for
his Fenrir is complete.
For one configuration, Peter decides to place an SRM-4
launcher in the confi gurable turret mount. The SRM weighs 240
kilograms and occupies 2 slots on its own, leaving 1 slot open
in the turret for ammunition. Peter decides to give the SRM
the maximum ammunition load of 4 shots, which takes up the
remaining turret weapon slot, and costs 160 kilos in weight (4
SRM-4 shots at 40 kg per volley = 160 kg). Though the resulting
weapon weight is only 400 kilograms, leaving the SRM-4 Fenrir
400 kilos shy of its 2,000-kg maximum (800 kg – 400 kg = 400
kg), Peter cannot allocate more weaponry to the Fenrir without
making it a completely diff erent design (because he reserved
all the leftover weight for his confi gurable turret).
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STEP 6:
COMPLETE THE RECORD SHEET
By the time the designer has chosen all chassis, motive systems
and manipulators for his battle armor, power armor or exoskeleton,
and added the motive systems, manipulators, armor and
equipment, all items must be allocated to their proper places
on the Battle Armor Record Sheet. On a completed record sheet,
the designer must be sure to have fi lled in all data for the battle
armor’s Unit Data block (including name, MP and motive type).
All weapons and equipment must be noted, including ranges,
damage and ammunition in shots per weapon (at least the missiles).
All extraneous armor points must be blacked out on the
armor rows, and any modifi ers for special armor types and stealth
gear must be noted. In Total Warfare game play, all troopers in
a given squad must be the same type and variant; only the use
of a Squad Support Weapon—fi red by one of the squad’s troopers—may
diff erentiate one trooper from another in combat. Thus,
all troopers in a squad should have the same statistics, with the
Squad Support Weapon trooper designated as such at the end of
the design process.
Once all of the above is completed, the battle armor squad is
ready for Total Warfare game play.
RECOMMENDED BATTLE ARMOR
FORMATIONS TABLE
Tech Base (Affi liation) Force Size (Troopers per Squad)
Clan (All)
Inner Sphere
5
Generic / Mercenary 4
Capellan Confederation 4
Draconis Combine 4
Federated Suns 4
Free Rasalhague Republic 4
Free Worlds League 4
Lyran Alliance 4
ComStar / Word of Blake 6
Periphery (General)* 4
Marian Hegemony 5
Taurian Concordat 4
Calderon Protectorate 4
*Includes Circinus Federation, Magistracy of Canopus, Niops Association, Outworlds
Alliance, Nueva Castile, Hanseatic League and Pirates