From: v055nmvy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David A Gaidasz)
Newsgroups: rec.games.board
Subject: Re: BTECH: Clan LAM's for Urban combat
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:32:00 GMT
Organization: New Avalon: Camelot Corps Command
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In article <13957@star.cs.vu.nl>, rfvhout@cs.vu.nl (Houten van RF) writes...
>While refitting a captured Masakari(C) clan Mech with 4 ER l laser and
>a Gauss rifle to fully use the 6 ton targetting computer, I got
>the idea to design Mechs with tremendous damage capabilities to
>augment elementals in urban combat. I have used 55 ton LAM's with
>great success against clan Mechs, especially the Terminator II,
>which equipped with 7 Clan medium pulse lasers and the heat sinks
>to use them, and can destroy smaller Clan Mechs with one salvo.
>The weaponry will mainly be put in the arms of the LAM's, and have
>CASE. The cost is relatively low at around 7.5 M C-bills and the
>different configurations allow for different tasks within the
>urban environment.
> 
[ stats on various Clan LAMS]

	I always thought that the Clans didn't use LAMs, on general principle.
LAMs, when compared to either a Omnimech, or a Omnifighter, are weak,
ineffectual, and a coward's weapon. (cosidering the tactic that I see used 
most with LAMs is to strafe and run.) Therefore, not only would the Clans NOT
design new LAMs, the old ones they have would either be destroyed for parts
or relegated to Second Line garrison clusters, for use by wimpy Freebirths.
	Also, on page 105, of the BattleTech Compendium, it says that Omnimechs
can never be built as LAMs. The designs you presented were clearly Omni- in
nature, and therefore couldn't exist. Think of it. Suppose your LAM had no 
weapons in its pods. Are you trying to tell me it would transform the same way
as if it had X number of lasers in it's pods, or a couple of Gauss Rifles?
You gotta be kidding.

>P.S. comments are appreciated.

>P.P.S only Clan with access to these machines
>is Clan Ghost Bear.

	BTW, is there any reason for only Clan Ghost Bear to have them, if you
still decide they should exist? LAM technology has existed since the Star 
League. If one Clan has made the changes necessary to bring the technology
into the "modern" age, other Clans probably have too. (Though it wouldn't
surprise me that the Ghost (teddy) Bears would resort to a weapon so out
of Clan tradition...)

						David Gaidasz
						Commander, 
						14596th Strike Legion
						"Camelot Corps" 
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