From: bo033@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joe E. Stainbrook)
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Subject: BTECH: Habet Wolf(hound) and Caliber designs and overview. [BSW Pub.]
Date: 11 Dec 1992 21:10:51 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bo033@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joe E. Stainbrook)
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High!
  I hope you like these designs of my Hound variant. I have posted the
Cal-13Q design along with the WLF-2J because they are most commonly paired
together.  Send response to designs.


 
Sumary report- Sector J 12 ,Harbro planetary spaceport of Glands, 
Federated Commonwealth
   Catain Reliah, Fourth scouting lance, 15th Wing/Support Battalion
   Major Frank Clahon, Fed-Com Intelegence
Techs- Alexander Blond, Third support unit, 15th Wing/Support Battalion
   Rehank Core, Fourth support unit, 15th Wing/Support Battalion
Date- January 16, 3057 
Subject- New Mech designs [Habet Wolf, Caliber]
 
Overview-
  During a recent employment with the Fed-Com and the Habets Hussars the
hussars presented the Habet Wolf to our techs and also maintained a number
of other designs later to be designated the Cal-13Q.  The Habet Wolf
employs two extended range large lasers and four medium lasers while the
Caliber only employs five medium lasers and a single Short Range rack. 
Each has extra heat sinks which gives the Wolf Hound design the abilty to
match the firepower of most medium Mechs and letting the Caliber to never
have to worry about overheating even with a damaged engine.  The WLF-2J
design comes with a standard of 4 jumping jets to menuver out of those
tight situations, but the WLF-2L does away with these and replaces them
with an extra heat sink and another medium laser.  Although the Caliber
does not have any long range weapons giving it a hadicap at long ranges it
has excelent manevuerablity giving it the ablity to choose to close in 
while relying on armor and pilot skill for it's survival or juss diengage
from battle.  both of these Mechs are deadly to most all light I.S. mechs
if not for their abilities to match or overpower a light Mech's performance
and weaponry.  They have the armor to sustain longer periods of battle
which the lighter mechs can not.
 
  The WLF2-J has proved it's worth during use in the Habets Hussars line
units as a compentent support mech to compliment slower or faster mechs of
almost any type and the Cal-13Q has seen service in the Habets Hussars
heavy strike, light strike, recon, recon counter strike, gurilla and
support units replacing many of the Hussars' heavy Mechs.  Probly for their
cheaper cost to field.  They have seen battle on clan garrisoned worlds and
contributed to the capture of the objective and escape for the units on
those raids.  With the reliance on energy weapons these designs do away
with the need of resupply of ammo from more common weapons which balances
out it's lack of weight.  The Habets Hussars do not want to supply any of
these designs to Fed-Com but they were willing to let our techs take a
glimpse of the WLF-2J design.  It might be possible for Fed-Com could get
supplies of these Mechs for it's own use if further inquiery into the
manufacturer of the design and negotiations were undertaken with Habets
Hussars.  The Habet Hound and Caliber are original to the Habets Hussars
(Merc group) and is the only known unit other than the Black Lions' use of
the WLF-2L employed by the Hussars.  The Hussars may be either producing
them or have a secret contract to a manufacturer.
 
 
 
(Habets Hussars and Black Lions spokemen declined any response to the
whereabout of their sources for their Mechs.)
  
Chassis- Flask Shelf III endo-steel
Power plant- Habet Ring 210 XL (modified Hermes 210 XL)
Crusing speed- 64.8 kph
Maximum speed- 90.7 kph
jump jets- Lexington Ltd. Lifters
   jump capacity- 120 meters
Armor- Durallex medium
Armament-
   2 Cyclops XII Extended-Range Large Lasers 
   (identical to those found on WLF-2)
   4 Tech n' Star 12M Medium Lasers
Manufacturer- Habets Tech, Resource, and Gathering Units
{ this is the only known resource of these Mechs to date other than their
limited use (2 or 3 Mechs) in the Black Lions raiding unit employed by the
Hussars}   Primary factory- unknown
Communications System- Tech n' Star Telecom Bat
Targetign and tracking System- Tech n' Star 12J
 
Field registration ID- WLF-2J Habet Wolf
 
Factory standard confinguration-
equipment                      mass- 35.00
internal-  endo-steel          1.75
engine- 210 XL                    4.5
   Walking MP- 6
   Running MP- 9
   Jumping MP- 4
Heat sinks- 12 (24)             2.0
Gyro-                                   3.0
cockpit-                              3.0
Armor factor- 119              7.5
H    CT-R    RT/LT-R    RA/LA    RL/LL
9    16-6    11/11-5    12/12    16/16
Wepaons-
4 D-HS             LT,LT,RT,RT
2 ER L-L           LT,RT
4 M-L               CT, CT(R),H,RA
Jump Jets     RT,RL,LL,LT
{some variants come with rear firing M-L facing the front}
 
WLF-2L-
Wepaons-
5 D-HS             LT,LT,RT,RT,RA
2 ER L-L           LT,RT
5 M-L               CT, CT(R),H,RA,RA
0 Jump Jets
 
{editor's notes- I believe that even the Wolf Trap, which was made to
defeat the WolfHound, would be overmatched when put against this WolfHound
offspring} 
Note on WLF-2J- Currently eight are on record and only one has been
recorded as totally destroyed during combat use.  The WLF-2L or 2J cannot
be a field modification to the original design produced by TharHes
Industries and they either aren't disclaiming any information on them or
just do not know where or how they are produced. (It is believed that if
TharHes had the time and resources they may be interested in producing this
design even with the higher cost of it's production if it doesn't produce
it already.) 
 
 
Chassis- Flask Shelf Cal
Power plant- Habet Ring 350 XL
Crusing speed- 75.6 kph
Maximum speed- 118.3 kph
jump jets- Lexington Ltd. Lifters
   jump capacity- 280 meters
Armor- Flask Fire I ferro-fibrous
Armament-
   4 Tech n' Star 12M Medium Lasers
   (identical to those found on WLF-2L)
   1 SRM-4 Tech n' Star Projection
Manufacturer- Habets Tech, Resource, and Gathering Units
{ this is the only known resource of these Mechs to date}
   Primary factory- unknown
Communications System- Tech n' Star Telecom Bat
Targetign and tracking System- Tech n' Star 28J
 
Field registration ID- Cal-13Q
 
Factory standard confinguration-
equipment                      mass- 50.00
internal-  endo-steel          .5
engine- 350 XL                    4.5
   Walking MP- 7
   Running MP- 11
   Jumping MP- 7
Heat sinks- 14 (28)             2.0
Gyro-                                   4.0
cockpit-                              3.0
Armor factor- 157              8.5
H    CT-R    RT/LT-R    RA/LA    RL/LL
9    22-10   16/16-8   12/12    22/22
Wepaons-
4 D-HS             LT,LT,RT,RT
4 M-L               LT,LT,RT,RT
1 SRM-4          H
ammor-25       CT
Jump Jets        RL,RL,RT,LL,LL,LT,CT
 
Wepaons-
4 D-HS             LT,LT,RT,RT
5 M-L               LT,LA,RT,RA,RA
2 P-M-L           RT,LT
Jump Jets        RL,RL,RT,LL,LL,LT,CT
 
Note on Cal-13Q-  Currently eleven are on record and three been recorded as
destroyed or lost during combat use (two of which were battling Clan
assualt Mechs at the tim, but they did manage to damage those clan Mechs
enough to let the other forces escape).  Although our techs were able to
look at the Wlf-2J the information on the Cal-L design is mostly guesswork
at best during observation of it's use.  Although the reason of the rumored
extra heat sinks are contradictory the best reason for this would be to
conclude that the design must have a field modification kit that uses a
diferent arrangement of weapons that produces much more heat than it's
current weapons configuration.
 
 
End Transmition code 346821 base Sect8G

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