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Recon Titan Design Bundle

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:25 pm
by aquietfrog
I think I spend more time at the Factory Module than in any other module of ToS:WS. I like to challenge myself to make designs that make all the green LEDs on the pinboard light up. This is usually hardest to do in the Recon class...

Anyway, I haven't had enough time to battle test all of my designs but here are a few designs that I'm quite happy with... I uploaded them to my website due to the inability to attach zip files to the forum...

Frog's Recons Zip

Also, rather than post the print outs of each titan, I'll just give a brief description of each one... the full print outs will be uploaded instead....

Frog's Recons Factory Pinboard Print outs

Recons:

Bastard.
AP index of 6.88, 2 SRM 4's, 2 PX. basically designed to be an Unguided Missile alternative for the swift death... Not as efficient, though.

Cresilda.
AP index of 7.10... 2 PX, 1 GME, 1 SL. I forgot why I like this design, but it's one of the few multi weapon recons that didn't get trampled on during campaign battles...

Harlot.
AP index of 7.04 2 VC's. Designed as a Vibra Claw alternative to the Duellist... The only battle testing I did with this titan is to defeat a Duellist in 3 different battles... i added an ECM and a larger engine to run it with with the weight freed up from the Chainsaws...

Malignant.
AP = 7.38. 2 ML, 2 MG. Design Idea was stolen from the Guru and Badger... it seems effective when teamed with the two mentioned stock recons (i have 3 jocks on recons who are good at both cannons and energy weapons)... It makes the first shots at the incoming enemy titan, Badger makes it fall down, guru blows a big hole then Malignant tries to make called shots to what the tesla hit... the MG's seemed to come as standard weapons...

Marshall.
AP = 7.03. 2 GME, 2 MG... for the pilot of will o' wisp who wanted to try his luck at short range...

then there's two junk titans that I made for fun... I'm wondering if anyone did stuff like this...

Sub-Standard.
weighs only 30 tons... carries 1 SRM4, 1 MG, and 1 PX... I made the AI control 8 of these against a random AI team of the same rank... the 30 tons won ...

Unarmed Titan.
with a total AP of 400 (258 external, 142 internal)... this titan carries no armaments... I tend to change the free weight around to house either an ecm with an engine big enough to run it, or scanner and a bc... it never won during the battle testing, but the enemy titans got red locations all over... I check titan status after the battle.

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RE: Recon Titan Design Bundle

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:40 pm
by Shadow Paladin
I like your idea of a totally unarmed titan. Theoretically you could enhance the titans ability to fight with better systems at the cost of lighter armour, though still allowing it to be heavily armoured for its class, as long as the arms and leg armour is maximised due to the damage they will sustain in battle from hitiing things. What would be the best chasis though, one that gives the jock bonuses for getting back up and a greater weight allowance to add extra armour or one that allows more armour space and speed but less space for systems and a greater restriction for extra armour?

RE: Recon Titan Design Bundle

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:43 am
by returnfire
ORIGINAL: aquietfrog
then there's two junk titans that I made for fun... I'm wondering if anyone did stuff like this...


Here's another junk titan.
Notice its internals [:D]

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 Titan Name: Triton Giant          Close Combat Heavy Titan
 Chassis: Durania H1               Design: Returnfire     
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 Weight: 139.5t (140t maximum)     Height     : 13 [meter]
 Bmt   : 32 (37 kph)               Reduce Heat: -3.72C/sec.
 Jmt   : 11 (109 kph) for 48 secs  Cost       : 302787($)
 
 
 Equipment:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Component/Type/Location
 
 Engine  : Triton T6 [Engine 6] [CT  ]
 HeatReg.: Triton  H8  [Heat 8]
 D.C.S.  : Triton R2  [D.C.S.2] [LT  ]
 LifeSup.: Triton TL   [Life 4] [CBT ]
 Scanner : Triton     [Scan. 4] [Head]
 Computer: Triton TC  [Comp. 4] [CBT ]
 E.C.M.  : Triton    [E.C.M. 4] [LT  ]
 JumpPort: Triton TJ   [Jump 5]
 
 
 Weapons:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Location/Weapon/Ammunition/Slots
 
 [RA  ]  MACHINE GUN          (025) [1]
 [LA  ]  MACHINE GUN          (025) [1]
 [RT  ]  MACHINE GUN          (025) [1]
 [RT  ]  MACHINE GUN          (025) [1]
 [RT  ]  MACHINE GUN          (025) [1]
 [RL  ]  MACHINE GUN          (025) [1]
 [LL  ]  MACHINE GUN          (025) [1]
 [RA  ]  CHAIN SAW           
 [LA  ]  CHAIN SAW           
 [Head]  MEDIUM LASER        
 [LowT]  MEDIUM LASER        
 
 
 Armor:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Loc/Internal/Armor/Status/Points/mm
 
 [Head] (13) Dullaroy  HMAX 022 [032mm]
 [RT  ] (25) Titanium  MAX  046 [084mm]
 [CT  ] (25) Dullaroy  (S)  055 [079mm]
 [CBT ] (15) Titanium       026 [048mm]
 [LT  ] (25) Titanium  MAX  046 [084mm]
 [RA  ] (23) Titanium  MAX  046 [084mm]
 [LA  ] (23) Titanium  MAX  046 [084mm]
 [LowT] (15) Vicenium  (S)  045 [075mm]
 [RL  ] (21) Titanium       045 [082mm]
 [LL  ] (21) Titanium       045 [082mm]
 
 Armor Index:   4.50 [Total APts/T]
 Internal:    206  [APts]
 External:    422  [APts]   Max:[084mm]
 Total Armor: 628  [APts]
 
 
 JOCK requirements:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Piloting: Heavy Titan incl. Jump           
 Weapons : Energy  Cannon  C.C.             
 Warfare : Scanner  Warfare(ECM)            
 Skills  : D.C.

RE: Recon Titan Design Bundle

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:11 am
by aquietfrog
Eh? For the Unarmed Recon Titan, I used Chassis 4, because it's fast and can hold the most AP possible.

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 Titan Name: Unarmed Titan         UNARMED Recon Titan
 Chassis: Cyber C-R4               Design: Aquietfrog     
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 Weight: 40.0t (40t maximum)       Height     : 7 [meter]
 Bmt   : 15 (80 kph)               Reduce Heat: -1.53C/sec.
 Jmt   : 15 (80 kph) for 93 secs   Cost       : 83366($)
 
 
 Equipment:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Component/Type/Location
 
 Engine  : Morola M1 [Engine 1] [CT  ]
 HeatReg.: Mechlarren  [Heat 2]
 LifeSup.: Livotto     [Life 1] [Head]
 E.C.M.  : Electra   [E.C.M. 1] [CBT ]
 JumpPort: J.U.W.E.L.  [Jump 1]
 
 
 Weapons:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Location/Weapon/Ammunition/Slots
 
 
 
 Armor:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Loc/Internal/Armor/Status/Points/mm
 
 [Head] (11) Dullaroy  HMAX 016 [023mm]
 [RT  ] (15) Dullaroy  MAX  027 [039mm]
 [CT  ] (19) Dullaroy  MAX  027 [039mm]
 [CBT ] (11) Dullaroy  (W)  026 [038mm]
 [LT  ] (15) Dullaroy  MAX  027 [039mm]
 [RA  ] (15) Dullaroy  MAX  027 [039mm]
 [LA  ] (15) Dullaroy  MAX  027 [039mm]
 [LowT] (11) Dullaroy  MAX  027 [039mm]
 [RL  ] (15) Dullaroy  MAX  027 [039mm]
 [LL  ] (15) Dullaroy  MAX  027 [039mm]
 
 Armor Index:   10.00 [Total APts/T]
 Internal:    142  [APts]
 External:    258  [APts]   Max:[039mm]
 Total Armor: 400  [APts]
 
 
 JOCK requirements:
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 Piloting: Recon Titan incl. Jump           
 Weapons :                                  
 Warfare : Warfare(ECM)                     
 Skills  : Medic

I thought the scanner was insignificant because aside from the to-hit bonus from scans, it won't be of much use... the lack of a bc would mean it would take forever to manage a lock... I don't know. Anyway, It's either scanners + bc or the ecm... designer's call.

RE: Recon Titan Design Bundle

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:24 am
by aquietfrog
nice one. did you try looking for a triton chassis?
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