Operation III: Landslide - Armed Vehicles

[Captain Benjamin Maxwell]

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BRIEFING SUPPLEMENT: ARMED VEHICLES ************************************

SAVANNAH MASTER
Weight: 5 tons
Type: light hovertank
Speed: 21 m/s
Armor: very light
Equipment: Small Laser

ARMORED CAR
Weight: 8 tons
Type: Armored car
Speed: 27 m/s
Armor: very light
Equipment: Laser

APC
Weight: 10 tons
Type: Armored Personnel Carrier
Speed: 18 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: Laser

Comments:
The APC can carry infantry and maintains good armor protection and firepower for a small vehicle.

CENTIPEDE
Weight: 15 tons
Type: light scout
Speed: 21 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 1 Large Laser, 1 advanced Sensor Vehicle, 1 Guardian ECM

J. EDGAR HOVER TANK
Weight: 25 tons
Type: light hovertank
Speed: 18 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 2 Pulse Lasers

Comments:
Not a threat for anything heavier than 40 tons, the J. Edgar is fast and well armed. Take it out with long-range fire.

HARASSER
Weight: 25 tons
Type: short-range fire support hovercraft
Speed: 18 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 4 SRM Packs

Comments:
Do not understimate the Harasser, especially when it attacks in groups. Its speed allows it to outmanuever heavy 'Mechs, and the SRMs can deal significant
damage to thin rear armor. Take them out with medium/long-range fire.

PEGASUS
Weight: 15 tons
Type: recon hovercraft
Speed: 21 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 3 SRM Packs, 1 Sensor-vehicle

Comments:
The Pegasus is ideal for fast recon in enemy territory
where infantry resistance is expected. Do not use it to engage any other vehicle, as the Pegasus will be destroyed or badly damaged.

SARACEN
Weight: 35 tons
Type: long-range fire support hovercraft
Speed: 18 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 2 Light ACs

Comments:
The best way to engage a Saracen is to rush within the minimum range of its two guns; in this way you should be able to save more armor than a long-range exchange would.

STRIKER
Weight: 35 tons
Type: long-range fire support vehicle
Speed: 15 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 5 LRM Packs

Comments:
Engage it as you would a Saracen, but keep in mind that the Striker can fire over walls thanks to its LRM Packs.

MINELAYER
Weight: 40 tons
Type: support vehicle
Speed: 18 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: mines

Comments:
This vehicle's only purpose is to lay mines . The mines can seriously damage any 'Mech under 60 tons. If
you encounter minefields, stop immediately and begin to fire on the terrain; the mines will explode with one shot.

REGULATOR HOVERTANK
Weight: 45 tons
Type: medium tank
Speed: 21 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 1 Gauss Rifle

CONDOR
Weight: 50 tons
Type: medium hovertank
Speed: 15 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: Large Pulse Laser

MANTICORE HEAVY TANK
Weight: 60 tons
Type: heavy tank
Speed: 15 m/s
Armor: moderate
Equipment: 1 PPC, 1 Large Pulse Laser, 2 SRM Packs

SRM CARRIER
Weight: 60 tons
Type: short-range support vehicle
Speed: 18 m/s
Armor: very light
Equipment: 6 SRM Packs

BULLDOG
Weight: 60 tons
Type: light tank
Speed: 12 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 1 Heavy AC

ROMMEL
Weight: 65 tons
Type: medium tank
Speed: 12 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 2 ACs

PILUM HEAVY TANK
Weight: 70 tons
Type: heavy fire-support tank
Speed: 18 m/s
Armor: moderate
Equipment: 6 LRM Racks

VON LUCKER
Weight: 75 tons
Type: heavy tank
Speed: 12 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 1 Gauss Cannon, 1 AC

LRM CARRIER
Weight: 60 tons
Type: long-range support vehicle
Speed: 15 m/s
Armor: light
Equipment: 7 LRM Packs

Comments:
A more powerful version of the Striker. Engage it at short range and remember that it can fire over walls.

SHREK
Weight: 80 tons
Type: assault tank
Speed: 9 m/s
Armor: moderate
Equipment: 1 Clan ER PPC, 1 ER PPC

Comments:
The best way to deal with this vehicle is to set ambushes, or attack with LRMs when protected by walls or trees. If this is not possible, try to engage at short-range where PPCs aren't effective. In pairs, these tanks can take down Assault 'Mechs, so be careful.

ALACORN MK VII
Weight: 95 tons
Type: assault tracked vehicle
Speed: 12 m/s
Armor: heavy
Equipment: 3 Gauss Rifles

Comments:
Extremely dangerous. Engage from maximum range.

[Wedge Lourde]

I volunteer for the Alacorn! I like heavy vehicles... and big cannons...

Lets see, that's 48 raw tons of raw Guass...

.5 more of the weaponry weighs more than the tank itself!

[Star Captain Killian Bekker]

wedge said:

I volunteer for the Alacorn! I like heavy vehicles... and big cannons...

Lets see, that's 48 raw tons of raw Guass...

.5 more of the weaponry weighs more than the tank itself!

Lol, tanks are Zhukov's specialty. He might have something to say about that.

[Wedge Lourde]

Back in the clan wars, I was a beast with the Rommel MK-II.

In MA:2, as a part of ComStar, if there were no more mechs left, my last choice wpould be the tank. I'm awesome with it's gravity cannon, and I know the perfect position for every mech to know it off it's feet. Leaving Maxwell, J, Keith, Gunman, whoever is there to take them out. If the knocked mech didn't have company with it, I'd stealth myself, and cover their fire with my Machine Guns.