Rifleman RFL-3N "BriarPatch"

==Description==
In 3015s, during the Marik Civil War better known as Anton's Revolt, MechWarrior Zeiko, a former member of the Eighteenth Marik Militia whom departed the service in aftermath of the Battle of New Olympia. During the fighting, his standard RFL-3N Rifleman would get badly damage in the fighting which lead to his exit from service for House Marik for life of a mercenary.
Having tangled with a Phoenix Hawk which severed his Rifleman's arm, he opt to salvage part from the field and do patchup repairs resulting in his unique FrankenMech.
The custom variant was created Colonel deFraug for his fan story, Winged Praxis (Battletech 3015 CYOA).
==Armament and Equipment==
Originating from base of the RFL-3N model Rifleman, Zeiko required the replacement of the arm weapo'snry, which included Large Laser and Class 5 Autocannon.
To account for what would be improvements to the mech's weapons loadout, the Mech's overall armor protection would slightly improve, with additional of 1 more ton of armor protection from the chassis's original 7.5 tonnes of armor. Retaining the original's 240 rate Pitban Fusion Engine, now fitted with eleven Heat Sinks over the standard ten.
In place right arm's Large Laser is replaced with three Medium Lasers, with both torso mounted lasers placed in the arm with additional laser. Unique Class 5 Autocannon is fitted in the arm, a Variable-Rate design unique found on Steiner-variant of the Stingray Aerospace Fighters. Zeiko and his limited team of techs, acquire this weapons and its unique ammo which can mimic either damage of a 5 or range and power of a smaller Class 2 autocannon. Feeding these autocannons two tons of standard Class 5 ammo is found in the center torso, while 1 ton of 40 rounds of VRAC ammo is in the right arm.
==Design Quirks==
*Variable-Rate Autocannon
==Notes==
*Cost: 4,797,600 C-bills
*Wiki Notes: The Construction of the 'Mech can be treated as a standard modified Rifleman. Special rules are essentially handled with the Design Quirk itself. The weapon and VRAC/5 ammo are the same as the standard models, the ammunition count is DIFFERENT. Instead of the standard 20 rounds of AC/5 ammo, this is doubled to 40 rounds of VRAC, since these shells are smaller than the AC/5s, but fire control of the weapon allows to inflict damage at same rate. That said, no rules specify ammo hits, it should be treated as AC/2 since the size of ammo and it's quantity. Right Arm is location of the VRAC/5 ammo bin.
==Wiki Note==
*Outsider7724 received permission to post the Briarpatch custom variant.
==Download Link==
*MegaMek file for BrairPatch custom Rifleman from Wiki Cloud Storage- Note: Variable-Rate Autocannon ammo will not match quantity needed to Design Quirk to function, this must be done manually aka Print Record Sheet and adjust]
==External Links==
*SpaceBattle.com post on the Briarpatch
*Variable-Fire Autocannon Fan-Design Rules on SpaceBattles.com
==References==
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Category:Winged Praxis AU