Personally, I think Gauss rifles are better suited to Inner Sphere 'Mechs.

I love seeing Inner Sphere 'Mechs bending over backwards to cram two or three Gauss rifles into their designs.

Honestly, I think mounting more than one Gauss rifle on a Clan 'Mech is a waste.

But I do think HAGs are great. Just give me a 'Mech armed with two HAG/40s.

Don't pay too much attention to the lance composition (extremely new player still overwhelmed by the sheer amount of options), just pretend it makes sense.

The Shadow Hawk IIC! Personally I find it to be one of if not the most aesthetically pleasing of the IIC glow ups. I really like the head in particular as it reminds me of a Leo from Gundam Wing. This fella is mech number 50 in my DCMS Battalion+ collection - 2 mechs short of a square battalion with a handful of options at my disposal. Unfortunately I am not quite sure how much time I will have available to me to round out my DCMS as I've got WoW Forever in a week plus Snowblind qill have me swap gears back to my Ghost Bears for the 8 mechs in there plus a Clan Cavalry box (I'm lacking in second line units since my CGB collection was driven by the 3052 RAT which was most full of frontline Omnis) as well as some loose single mechs (Kontio, Wendigo, Blood Asp, and a few others to make another star from the Core Box.) Let me know as always what you think but this one may be the last new DCMS mech for a while tho I may try and push to get 2 more mechs done to round things out - thinking a shrapnel inspired sword wielding Hatchetman 5K kitbash thats already underpainted and one more maybe a Firestarter or something else.

1/2 of my force finished and organized into actual stars for a future campaign.

I'm doing some lore research planning an NPC for a campaign, a Knight Errant on quest, and have realized that for all the Fuedal trappings of Battletech (especially the classic LosTech era) and mentions of people with titles... we see very few knightly orders named. In later lore the Knights of the Inner Sphere and Knights of the Republic are large organization, but the tiny Brotherhood of Randis seems to be the best known in the classic era.

Am I missing something? Where are all the chivalric orders?

Painted this guy as part of a Dark Souls lance I'm cooking up. This is my tribute to my boy, Solaire.

I modeled the lightning effect myself in Blender, basing it on the in-game Sunlight Spear miracle. It's attached with a little wire peg that I can remove for transport or on a crowded tabletop.

This guy was a lot of fun to paint, and I think I'm done with it, but I may go back in and touch up the face on the sun on his chest. That's my biggest issue with it overall. I tried using a fine-point art marker for the first time and I'm a little underwhelmed by the results.

Looking forward to posting the rest of the lance in the future!

I've been enjoying rummaging around different mechs and came across this badass 60 tonner and saw on Sarna.net the different Succession Wars refits and just thought to myself "really don't cut the mustard and keep the spirit of the mech".

So i decided to give it an old mech warrior try and find a design that would keep this mech in service and keep it a fast heavy.

First off the XL360 engine has to go but i want to keep it's speed up. So a 300 power plant is needed. But an XL 360 is 16.5 tons and a 300 is 19 tons. So i need tonnage.

I thought at first to sacrifice one of the large lasers but realized that wouldn't be enough so i pulled the PPC and bought 7 tons.

I put 2.5 to the engine which keeps it at 86kph, half a ton more to armor and that leaves 4 tons. One more medium laser and then 3 more single heatsinks to 16.

This actually keeps a respectable firepower, good heat sinking and decent speed with ok armor protection with 10 tons of armor.

This allows the mech to fire both large lasers with only a 2 heat build up on the run, so every 3rd turn lay off a large laser at range the up close it can fire a large and both mediums and be heat neutral. Which i call pretty damn good.

Or you could pull a large laser for say an SRM6 with 1 ton of ammo and one more ton of armor for some crit seeking at close range which offers options which might be a nice trade.

But what do you think? How could we find builds to keep our friend The Lancelot alive during the Succession Wars?

Let me know your thoughts and let's get this discussion started.

Edit: Someone gave an idea so we're gonna run with it. 300 Engine, 12 Heatsinks, 9.5 tons of armor. Keep the PPC, 2 medium lasers, pair of SRM4s with 1 ton of ammo, 3 MGs with a shared ton of ammo. Could be a fun setup.

I realized I made a booboo with the torso launchers. Did a quick fix for the torso launchers (15 tubes now) and did a multi-part model with legs and arms separated for custom poses.

I want a lot more of the common ground pounders instead of the heavier glory boys, so the striker lance seemed a no brainer.

Griffin painted in my custom house Steiner colours

I'm curious because I kind of want to re-do two of mine; one is an Atlas II that has only been primed but the primer is a deep black that won't work with the colors of the new company I wanted to put it into and the other is a King Crab that is fully painted but that I also want to redo in the new company colors.

I'm was thinking maybe some isopropyl alcohol, like I did on the two Ironwind Metal ones I ended up having to redo. Since both models are kind of expensive to replace I'm kinda hoping it would work the same.

So the Dragoon. Probably the only good thing to come out of Ameris take over. I think this mech could have had a future if Kerensky didn't knee jerk and scrub this mech.

Cause quite frankly it's almost an omni mech or the early version of it.

I'd like to give it a succession wars make over to see what we can do with it.

First off we take the base model and we strip it down to 10 tons of armor and 10 heat sinks and 3 medium lasers. One in the center, 1 in each side torso and a standard 16 ton 280 engine.

With the swappable arms this leaves you 22 tons for optimization and customization with this mech.

So I'm going to give you 4 variants that will do different jobs but there are PLENTY of ways to play with this mech. Sky is the limit with intro tech.

First setup is right arm PPC, left arm large laser and 10 extra heatsinks to bring the total to 20. Which allows a solid stream of fire at all ranges.

Second setup is to have a right arm AC 10 with 2 tons of ammo, a left arm large laser with 3 heat sinks.

Third setup is a pair of LRM 15s with 3 tons of ammo per launcher and a heat sink per arm.

Last is a slugger setup with one long range harassment weapon. AC20 4 tons of ammo, LRM5 1 ton of ammo plus 1 heatsink.

These are just a few ideas but there are plenty more for our friend the Dragoon. So tell me, what's your oddball idea?

Source: Mech factory (I fixed the bad crop)

These were very experimental for me. I used craft UV resin and clear colour to do the glass effects, gave the lasers a real lens with depth. In person, the way the light bounces and reflects in it is pretty great. Don't love the effect for big cockpits as much, but glad I tried it. Also used a toothbrush to splatter the white, turned out pretty well for the snow fall effect the scheme calls for.

Currently printing a leopard now. Can I see everyone's favorite dropships, which do you prefer and why?

Saw an Illician Lancers box and knew I needed it to go with my Ostscout. Wanted my Iron Tigers Mercenaries to get a sponsorship deal or something, but apparently the Ostmann factory was blown up in the civil war. Oh, I should be more specific; the Amaris Civil War!

As the topic states. Does anyone know the tactical difference and usage between the two?

I know makeup wise a standard augmented lance is 4 mechs and 2 vehicles and a secondary augmented lance is 4 mechs and 2 battlearmors. But either than that is that it? I'd guess standard lances can fill every battlefield role such as battle or recon formations. But then what do secondary lances fulfill?