Calling all BattleTechies

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Grasshopper might not be the best name to use as there's a 'Mech with that name. Unless you specifically want to cause confusion of course.

That's okay, I'll crush that idea of a Grasshopper Nah, not really, but Kamen Rider fan gonna Kamen Rider, you know? And that 100m jump in a human-scale unit! I suppose I could just call it the Hopper, though it would hardly be the first time there were two units with the same name. MC would mostly think of it as "my armor" anyway.

Looking up the Grasshopper battlemech, it's pretty decent. Shame about the cloak, but it's Battletech after all, you aren't allowed to have nice things.


Anyway, so, how's this sound?

Jumpship: Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film (probably an Invader with one S-7A Bus space-only shuttle and the other Small Craft bay converted for cargo or quarters.)

Cargo/infantry dropship: Danais
Small craft:
K-1 DropShuttle
Mk-VII Landing Craft

Other:
4x Large Transport lorries
4x infantry platoons

Typically, one platoon (the heaviest equipped) is tasked to guard their landing site, one or two to suppress locals depending on how much ongoing resistance there is, and the other(s) to loot and load/unload the lorries carrying it back to the dropships. The small craft give this group air support and the ability to rapidly deploy or retrieve the looting parties and lorries.


Battlemech dropship: Union
Attack lance:
CGR-1A1 Charger
DRG-1N Dragon (lance commander)
2x GRF-1S Griffin

Fire (Command?) lance:
ARC-2R Archer
PNT-8Z Panther (lance commander due to the better comm gear)
2x PNT-9R Panther

Recon lance:
2x FS9-H Firestarter

2x empty bays for salvaged/captured mechs or other loot

ASFs:
PXH-1K Phoenix Hawk LAM (Air and AirMech modes only, the torso folding joint for Mech mode is jammed)
SL-21 Sholagar

With the caveat that I've very little knowledge of BT let alone having played it, this actually looks like a decent small company for the era to me, after poking through the Sarna pages for a bit. Or, well, it would be if they were in good condition, figure everything is down 5-10% on armor and has at least one weapon downchecked or replaced with something only vaguely similar to the normal loadout.