Battletech - Concussion

A pair of Inner Sphere Gauss Rifles alone weigh 15 tons excluding ammo. Ammo is 10 slugs per ton and to make carrying and using 2 viable you need 2 tons per gun. Then you have 2 Extended Range Large lasers, which are 5 tons a piece and give off a bit of heat. The 2 LRM10s which are about 2 tons a piece. To make those viable you need at least 3 tons, which is 180 missiles per ton for 540 rounds.

Atop all that, you probably have a standard fusion engine because those side torsos would be hard pressed to take Gauss with a XL or even light engine. So the engine itself is about 25-30 tons maybe. Then you factor in armor and heat sinks too.

Now, since all that's out of the way. Those Gauss slugs each hit for 15 points, and there's 2 of them, which is 1 more then the Atlas K's 1. So that's 30 points alone. Then you get 8 points of damage per ERLL, and 20 points off the LRMs. That's a 66 point alpha in total. The Atlas K has a 63 point alpha by comparison.

So in actuality, they are comparable in damage, and in the way they prefer dealing it, at mostly long range.

Tonnage-wise, it's actually got quite a bit more weaponry than an AS-7K Atlas: that weapon loadout is 50 tons without ammo, and it probably needs some extra heatsinks to handle the heat.

Next gen probably

Thanks.

It's a custom design.

The client was probably thinking of the Dark Age Jess carriers when he asked for LRM vehicles, but I wanted to do the old carriers.
Yep, gauss trails. He wanted the effects more pronounced than I could have gone for otherwise.