>That's not really an issue. Machine guns are light. A pair of machine
>guns and the ammo to run them weighs a single ton if you're using Clan
>tech, a ton and a half if you're using Inner Sphere.

Oddly, in MechWarrior 4, machinegun arrays weigh two tons no matter what (but the Clan versions have more firepower), which is the same as a medium pulse laser.

I came up with the weapon load for Stark's Warhammer (it didn't come up in the 'Drome scene, but its name is "Engine 51" - spot the reference!) off the top of my head and without reference to any formal 'Mech-building system; any discrepancies between it and what you could get in, say, MechWarrior 4: Mercs can be put down to my error or, if you really want, explained by some technological advance developed "recently" by VMW's timeframe. Lighter heat sinks, maybe.

(Well, that and there isn't a Warhammer chassis to build on if I were going to test it out in MW4, which is the most convenient way of doing it. The closest I could get would be to build it on a Thor OmniMech chassis. Which I've done; the "WHM Type" Thor tends to be one of the mainstays of my arsenal in Mercs, but I could be misremembering the number of lasers or what have you. Come to think of it, if he has the tonnage for four medium pulse lasers, why does he not just use two large ones? Eh, I'm examining this too closely. :)

(As an aside, all the real roleplayers in MechWar name their 'Mechs; Nene's Mad Cat is called "Stompy McBangBang" for convoluted reasons.)

>I'll bet Ben's
>got his Warhammer tricked out with captured Clan weapons (battefield
>scavenging is a proud BattleTech tradition).

Oh, certainly. Hell, by 3070 some Inner Sphere factories are producing weapons based on the Clan designs. (Even in MW4 Mercs, which is set in 3066, that's happening; there are even Inner Sphere-designed OmniMechs by then.)

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