Unsung Heroes: SHD-2H Shadow Hawk

[@yecnay25]

The best thing about Shadow Hawks is their ruggedness, ubiquitous nature, and the other soft factors making them perfect for campaigns. It's weapon set is kitchen sink but that's a plus as you'll always be able to contribute any situation with one.

[@chrissheffield5468]

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[@ChaosTicket]

The physical design of the Shadow Hawk is good, but its actual equipment is terrible. The default loadout of the Shadow Hawk SHD-2H is one of the worst, even by 3025 standards. There are Light mechs with better loadouts. The Autocannon-5 is heavy and weak. The LRM-5 is to weak too, but also adds random damage of 1-5 is a negative and penalties for firing up close. The has a 2-tube Short Range Missile launcher thats also random. Finishing off the weapons, it has a single Medium Laser. It very oddly had mismatched number of Jump Jets. There's only 3, despite its walking speed by 5. It also had 12 Heat Sinks which is more than enough to keep it cool even while firing all weapons and jumping. Its siblings, the Griffin and Wolverine, have weapons arm-mounted, which prevents them from using those arms for melee combat, and makes the weapons more vulnerable to being destroyed. The Griffin is more vulnerable because all its weapons are on one-side. That's where I mean the physical design. Having your biggest weapons be torso mounted is a great idea. I like the miniatures, but I would replace most of it. Get rid of the Autocannon-5 for either a Large Laser, PPC, or maybe more Long Range Missiles. Replace the SRM-2 with more Medium Lasers. Do something to get 2 more Jump Jets, exchange 1 ton for +66% greater jumping range. That said I actually like upgrading it. To make a custom Shadow Hawk, I use Endo-Steel and Double-Heat Sinks allow more tonnage to to go various weapons. 1 PPC, 2 LRM5-s(1 ton ammunition), 2 SRM-2s(1 ton ammunition), 2 Medium Lasers, 5 jump jets, 10 double heat sinks, and 11 tons of standard armor. One piece of technology I like are MMLs that can fire short and long range missiles. I like to take mechs with SRMs and upgrade them. Using that custom Shadow Hawk I swap out the SRMs and LRMs for 2 MMLs. Surprise enemies with 10 short range missiles, like Inferno missiles.

[@TheMemoryCore]

The 3050 hawk is actually pretty cool. It has an LRM-20. EDIT: Also, it's worth bringing up that all of the weapons on the Shadow Hawk are very easy to find. You can always replace them.

[@haroldcarfrey4206]

@@TheMemoryCore 5M Shadow Hawk is underarmed at short range and is short on ammo for utra 5 and LRM-20...