Reading & Ranting: The Trebuchet | Battletech Battlemechs

[@VicarMatthew]

My biggest complaint about it is in Total Warfare the TBT-5N (you know, the most common variant) has naked ammo in the Left Torso. It's a death sentence.

[@thevoiceofiron]

@VicarMatthew Yeah... I find that I had to keep this thing in the backline for essentially its entire deployment, only really maneuvering when something got close, or when the rest of the lance moved ahead.

[@derekburge5294]

"You see, Ivan, Trebuchet is unhittable! You be so afraid of left torso hit, you not *allow* hits! Very brilliant design, the 5N."

[@thevoiceofiron]

@@derekburge5294 Capellan Proverb, no doubt.

[@WolfHreda]

It may be better than the Dervish, but I'll never admit it on the field. Also, I can't help but admire the TBT-7K, for basically being a diet Banshee.

[@thevoiceofiron]

@@WolfHreda Yeah, the Kuritans certainly made a choice with that one. Not necessarily a bad one, mind, and very much in line with their typical style (PPC like the Panther, AC5 like the Shadow Hawk, Dragon, and Wolverine), but having driven one, I'm not so sure I want to be in Line of Sight of the enemy with this thing lol.

[@WolfHreda]

@thevoiceofiron it strikes me as an infantry support machine. The autocannon and SRMs do great work against other infantry, and there's not a tank or battlemech around that can afford to ignore a PPC for too long.

[@ObiwanNekody]

Thank you for sharing 😊

[@thevoiceofiron]

@@ObiwanNekody Absolutely!

[@ObiwanNekody]

Oh my. A mech so ugly that it has a natural +1 to hit as Targeting Computers refuse to focus on it. Not your paint job, just the model and artwork.

[@thevoiceofiron]

@ObiwanNekody Thanks for clarifying lol. And yeah, I admit, the decision to make one LRM be arm mounted and the other Torso mounted will remain, to this day, utterly baffling to me.