BattleMech Technical Readout

Name/Model:         Archer ARC-2SR
Designer:           Marcus Smythe
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            70
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Clan Invasion / 3057
Rules (Current):    Tournament Legal
Rules (Era):        Tournament Legal
Rules (Year):       Tournament Legal
Total Cost:         13,608,273 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,635

Structure:            Endo Steel
Power Plant:          280 XL
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Standard
Armament:             
    4 Medium Lasers
    4 LRM 15s
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    The first of the Smithforge Heavy Industries 'Reforged' Series, the Archer Retrofit was
    launched to a marketing campaign at least as impressive (and far more expensive) than the
    Battlemech itself.
    
    The true secret of the Archer-SR's success likely comes from the tie-in Canopian Holodrama
    'Tournament of Houses', popular throughout the Inner Sphere, with various Noble Inner Sphere
    Mechwarriors battling each other in the most classic and recognizable war machines - only to
    have their individual conflicts swept aside as they are forced to unite against a perverse,
    inhuman, almost magical enemy from beyond the sphere.
    
    The fact that terrible early losses and setbacks were corrected only when the holodrama
    heroes received 'Reforged' war machines from 'Smith's Forge', located far to the South, may
    have been heavy handed.  It was also effective.  Sales outstripped production, and
    Smithforge Heavy Industries borrowed extensively against sales for future deliveries to
    retool and expand its production lines.

Capabilities:
    Unsurprisingly for the first of the series, the Reforged Archer is a qualitative improvement
    over its succession wars predecessor but not particularly innovative.  Like its parent
    design, it focuses on LRM delivery, backed up by a handful of medium lasers for emergency
    protection.
    
    The combination of an advanced power plant, lightened structural members, and most
    importantly the advanced heat sinks frees the weight to allow four 15-tube missile systems
    and maintain fire until their ammunition is depleted.
    
    While the CASE in the side torso will not prevent an ammunition explosion from bringing the
    machine down, it is enough to save the Mech and its pilot for recovery, a fact appreciated
    by the pilots.
    
    Close Defense weaponry remains the same, a quartet of medium lasers backed up by the
    machine's heavy battle fists, though the lasers have been relocated to all fire forward.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 3.50                     
Engine:                                       280 XL                   8.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 4                                               
    Running MP:                                 6                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         10 [20]                   0.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  3.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  216                    13.50                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      22             36       
    Center Torso (rear):                               7       
    R/L Torso:                         15             24       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  6       
    R/L Arm:                           11             22       
    R/L Leg:                           15             30       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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2 Medium Lasers                                           CT                2          2.00             
CASE                                                      RT                1          0.50             
LRM 15                                                    RT                3          7.00             
LRM 15 (Ammo 24)                                          RT                3          3.00             
Medium Laser                                              RT                1          1.00             
CASE                                                      LT                1          0.50             
LRM 15                                                    LT                3          7.00             
LRM 15 (Ammo 24)                                          LT                3          3.00             
Medium Laser                                              LT                1          1.00             
LRM 15                                                    RA                3          7.00             
LRM 15                                                    LA                3          7.00