>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.)

For the record, with the MW4 Mercs Warhammer chassis model available in MekPak 3, it is possible to build Engine 51 as described - two ER PPCs, four ER medium pulse lasers, two Clan MG arrays, and a Streak SRM-6 rack - without screwing with the armor. (You do have to put two of the medium lasers on the arms, though, thanks to the way the designers arranged the hardpoints.) You don't have the greatest heat efficiency in the world? But hell, the original WHM-6R didn't either.

And that, friends and neighbors, is all the research I plan to do on that.

--G.
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