BattleMech Technical Readout
Name/Model: Terror Bird TM-180
Designer: Thunder
Source(s): Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology: Clan (Mixed)
Technology Rating: F
Tonnage: 100
Configuration: Biped BattleMech
Era/Year: Dark Age / 3150
Rules (Current): Advanced
Rules (Era): Advanced
Rules (Year): Advanced
Total Cost: 40,035,333 C-Bills
Battle Value: 3,231
Chassis: Standard
Power Plant: 400 XL
Walking Speed: 43.2 kph
Maximum Speed: 64.8 kph [108 kph]
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: None
Armor: Standard
Armament:
2 ER Medium Lasers
20 ER Small Lasers
2 Micro Pulse Lasers
Manufacturer: Unknown
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown with Advanced Targeting Computer
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Overview:
"What weights 95 tons, can run at 85kph, and jump 120 meters?"
"I don't know, but I'm getting out of here."
Such was the sentiment when the Inner Sphere first encountered the executioner. By all
rights, no assault mech should be allowed to move that fast.
The Terror Bird is faster.
Capabilities:
Coming out of Jade Falcons "Everything is a totem mech" design fad, the Terror Bird was an
oddball design. Eschewing the jump capability of all the other bird mechs, the Terror Bird
instead focuses on mass, ground speed and that most strange and terrifying of Clan doctrinal
changes, physical combat.
Weighting in at 100 tons and equipped with the largest viable XL engine, the Terror Bird is
already faster then average. A super charger can then over clock the power output for even
greater bursts of speed. But the designers didn't stop there. Triple Strength Myomer,
once properly heated provides additional mobility which compounds with the super charger.
It also compounds with the massive talons attached to the feet. At full power the Terror
Bird can simply remove a leg from anything lighter then itself. And for the 100 ton mech,
that happy state of affairs is unlikely to happen, since if you're in range to be kicked,
you're in range of the Terror Bird's other weapons suite, 20 ER Small lasers. Backed by a
targeting computer this array of lasers can either sandblast a target, probably weakening it
enough for the Talons to finish it off, or even be used for a more directly targeted attack.
Secondary weapons on the Terror Bird give a bit of a ranged option and provide diversity to
the mechs ability to maintain a stable heat profile.
Variants:
The Terror Bird-i is an upgraded variant used by the society in their failed uprising.
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Equipment Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 10.00
Engine: 400 XL 26.50
Walking MP: 4
Running MP: 6 [10]
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks (Double): 21 [42] 11.00
Gyro: Compact (IS) 6.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Armor Factor: 280 17.50
Type: Standard
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 31 44
Center Torso (rear): 11
R/L Torso: 21 31
R/L Torso (rear): 11
R/L Arm: 17 29
R/L Leg: 21 37
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Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Tonnage
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Supercharger CT 1 3.00
ER Medium Laser RT 1 1.00
Targeting Computer RT 3 3.00
ER Medium Laser LT 1 1.00
2 Micro Pulse Lasers LT 2 1.00
10 ER Small Lasers RA 10 5.00
10 ER Small Lasers LA 10 5.00
Talons LL/RL 4 7.00
Triple-Strength Myomer (IS) -- 6 0.00
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Alpha Strike Statistics
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Point Value (PV): 79
TP: BM, SZ: 4, TMM: 2, MV: 10"
Damage: (S) 12 / (M) 11 / (L) 0, OV: 2
Armor (A): 9, Structure (S): 5
Specials: ENE, MEL, TSM
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