New Military Hardware

[DeputyDirector]

Thank you, Major. I have added the Gossamer Surveillance Drone to the MHB.

And my apologies, I have the Kurita Handbook here and didn't realize there was a record sheet in the back of the book with that information. I just looked at the tech and fluff information instead.

[Vampire]

Question: there's a VERY interesting infantry unit that has captured my imagination ever since it was introduced.

TRO 3085 saw a massive influx of specialist infantry. Under House Marik, appeared Aerial Beast Infantry. Mounted on dragon-like Branth, these 7 trooper squads are armed with high powered elephant guns, with movement rate of 1/5.

TRO and Mech Factory show them to have BV2 value of 29. However, there is no c-bill list.

Is there anyway we can have these included in the MHB?

[Dulio12385]

The price is 176,200 for a squad of 7 guys on Branths or some such flying creature. I submitted this some months ago for consideration along with the Royal LAMs but no action was taken at the time.

[DeputyDirector]

Major...

You submitted for this cavalry

Also another unit for approval, since I'd like to run Chocobo Cavalry in my planetary militia. The Beast Mounted Infantry from TRO 3085;

Name: Beast Mounted Infantry(Tariq)
Model: Standard
Weight: 15 tons
Type: Infantry
Availability: Yes
Cost: 325,440 c-bills (for 21 man-platoon)
BV2: 79
Era: 2500
Faction: General

Which is on the MHB with an era of 400 BCE. After reviewing the rest of this thread I saw nothing for the aerial cavalry. I did see things for the Royal versions of the LAMs but I believe the MHB opted on just the more recent versions of LAMs being available. I didn't search for that, but I recall the discussions and I relented to allowing LAMs to be purchasable after some discussion with the staff.

The Aerial Beast Infantry is also now listed.

[Dulio12385]

Hello Deputy Director,

The relevant post is dated April 6th, 2017 and contains an attachment which has the Royal LAMs, the Aerial Beast Cavalry and the amended Beast Cavalry in an attached .xls file.

[Vampire]

The following hardware have been added to the MHB listing.
For those who wants to RP scenarios similar to old school western heists (without the constrains of fixed railway tracks), now you have the means to do it.... OFFICIALLY!!

This is essentially a converted Gienah-Durapaq land train (from TRO: Vehicle Annex) that the Marians commonly deploy. Renamed the Dreadnought Land Train, most of the Marians' commercial land trains had been converted to military variants by the 3070s, with new machines that rolled off the production lines all being of Mk II types.

Dreadnought (MKII Tractor): 200 tons, 2/3, 10 ton infantry bay, 4 ton cargo bay, 6 MG, 2 MG array, 2 ELRM-5, 2 HV AC/2. 23,279,056 c-bills, BV 1051
Dreadnought (MKII Trailer 1): 50 tons, 1/1, 20 ton cargo bay, Trailer hitch, MML-5, HV AC/2. 517,500 c-bills, BV 335
Dreadnought (MKII Trailer 2): 50 tons, 1/1, Trailer hitch, 18.2 ton liquid cargo, SRM-6, ELRM-10. 789,750 c-bills, BV 402
Dreadnought (MKII Trailer 3): 50 tons, 1/1, Trailer hitch, SSRM-6, MG, ELRM-5, 17.4 ton refrigerated cargo. 663,750 c-bills, BV 374
Dreadnought (MKII Trailer 4): 50 tons, 1/1, Trailer hitch, 16.6 ton livestock cargo, RL-15, HV AC/5. 581,250 c-bills, BV 359

[DeputyDirector]

Hello Deputy Director,

The relevant post is dated April 6th, 2017 and contains an attachment which has the Royal LAMs, the Aerial Beast Cavalry and the amended Beast Cavalry in an attached .xls file.

Major Clint "Tex" Dyson

So it is. Your items, excepting the Royals and WoB LAMs have been added already. In the future, if you do not see action on something you've submitted, I would suggest you get in touch with me directly so I can address it. I may have just missed the post at that time. Not the case here in regards to the LAMs but I do not recall seeing the Aerial Cavalry at any earlier point.

Ever forward.

[DeputyDirector]

Vampire....

Excellent work. Many thanks.

[Vampire]

My pleasure. Ever forward!!

[DeputyDirector]

Ever forward !!