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Kraken
Federated Suns
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 Posted: 16-Feb-2008 17:02 Post subject: Traxxon |
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BattleTech Vehicle Technical Readout
VALIDATED
Type/Model: Traxxon
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3062
Config: Wheeled Vehicle
Rules: Level 3, Standard design
Mass: 20 tons
Power Plant: 80 I.C.E.
Cruise Speed: 54.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h
Armor Type: Standard
Armament:
1 Light AC/5
1 20mm Gatling Gun Machine Gun
Manufacturer: (Unknown)
Location: (Unknown)
Communications System: (Unknown)
Targeting & Tracking System: (Unknown)
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==Overview:==
Intended as a combat patrol vehicle, the Traxxon instead appears to be a
"jack of all trades, master of none" unit. Its armor is thick for a unit of
its size, but even its impressive front armor can easily get torn away in an
intense firefight. Its light autocannon 5 and machine gun provide average
firepower, but nothing outstanding. It can carry infantry and cargo, but only
enough to represent a few recon or security troopers and their equipment.
Still, it's fairly cheap and utilitarian and so will probably find buyers
anyway.
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Type/Model: Traxxon
Mass: 20 tons
Construction Options: Fractional Accounting
Equipment: Items Mass
Int. Struct.: 10 pts Standard 0 2.00
Engine: 80 I.C.E. 0 5.00
Cruise MP: 5
Flank MP: 8
Heat Sinks: 0 Single 0 .00
Cockpit & Controls: 0 1.00
Crew: 2 Members 0 .00
Turret Equipment: 0 .50
Armor Factor: 60 pts Standard 0 3.75
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Front: 2 20
Left / Right Sides: 2 12/12
Rear: 2 6
Turret: 2 10
Weapons and Equipment Loc Heat Ammo Items Mass
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1 Light AC/5 Turret 0 20 2 6.00
1 Machine Gun Front 0 100 2 1.00
Infantry Bay Body 1 .50
Cargo Bay Capacity Body 1 .25
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TOTALS: 0 6 20.00
Items & Tons Left: 3 .00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 282,883 C-Bills
Battle Value: 158
Cost per BV: 1,790.4
Weapon Value: 56 / 56 (Ratio = .35 / .35)
Damage Factors: SRDmg = 5; MRDmg = 3; LRDmg = 0
BattleForce2: MP: 5W, Armor/Structure: 0 / 2
Damage PB/M/L: 1/1/-, Overheat: 0
Class: GL; Point Value: 2
Specials: tran0
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Rudel Gurken
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| Posted: 17-Feb-2008 13:04 Post subject: Traxxon |
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Nice and cheap patrol vehicle.
Like it!
And the armor isn't that bad.
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Kraken
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| Posted: 17-Feb-2008 14:52 Post subject: Traxxon |
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This is where I got the idea from.
The original is indeed an odd duck as whoever designed it goofed on the turret design; the gun can't fire forward, limiting the range of attack to the rear and the sides.
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Rudel Gurken
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| Posted: 18-Feb-2008 11:00 Post subject: Traxxon |
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Looks like a sort of improvised selfpropelled gun on a hummer-like chassis.
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Kraken
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| Posted: 18-Feb-2008 22:24 Post subject: Re: Traxxon |
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| Rudel Gurken wrote: | | Looks like a sort of improvised selfpropelled gun on a hummer-like chassis. |
Interestingly enough, take a look at the neon green BRDM at the very bottom of the gallery of pictures.
When Hasbro went to release that one back around 2003, they made the decision to use the cannon off of the Traxxon instead of the five-rack of missile tubes that all the others had.
Since the five-rack missile tube turret and the Traxxon turret appear to be interchangeable, I'm wondering what a Traxxon with the five-rack missile tube turret would be like or if it'd just be like the VAMP off of G. I. Joe.
What gets me tho is that brown and tan BRDM was released ca. 2001 as a European exclusive; I can guesstimate the date due to the fact that some other vehicles from that same assortment made it over to the US as part of a Kay-Bee Toys exclusive assortment in late 2002, either as paint templates or actual recycled overstock.
Makes me wonder what happened to the mold for the missile turret.
edit - that blue, green, and silver BRDM was part of the US 2002 assortment; that makes me even more curious as to what happened to that missile tube mold, as I have that one and I don't see anything to indicate that the mold was degrading.
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Oafman
Draconis Combine
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| Posted: 10-Mar-2008 12:05 Post subject: Traxxon |
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| At that cost every merc unit needs one, if only to patrol their parking lot.
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