Every variant ranked, with the numbers behind each call.
Not just what a mech is, but how it actually plays.
Stat blocks are easy to find. What is harder to find is someone telling you which variant is worth the Battle Value, which one is a trap, and what happens when the thing you are piloting runs out of heat sinks halfway through turn three.
That is what these are. Every guide covers the full variant list with Battle Value and Alpha Strike figures, per-era faction availability off the Master Unit List, how to pilot the chassis, how to kill one, and how our AI opponent handles it in a solo game.
Every variant gets a verdict. If you want to know exactly what those verdicts mean and how the Trap rating is calculated, the rating scale is written down here.
The most recognisable heavy in the game, and the one most people play wrong. Every variant ranked, the heat maths behind the 3R, and how to kill one.
Read More →Designed in 2515 and still in service in the ilClan era. Every variant ranked, the heat maths, and why nobody ever managed to replace the original.
Read More →Every Atlas carries the same armour. What changes is what sits underneath, and half the modern fits give away the one quality the design exists for.
Read More →Nobody wanted to pilot one and everybody fielded one anyway. Every variant ranked, and why the cheapest mech in the game outlasted almost everything.
Read More →Pilots invented death from above during the trial runs, and the designers went back and reinforced the legs so they could keep doing it. Every variant ranked.
Read More →It holds its PPC like a rifle and can throw it away. Every variant ranked, plus the ComStar filing error that armed the Draconis Combine by accident.
Read More →A failed design, saved by schematics stolen from Clan Jade Falcon. Every variant ranked, and why the low profile nearly killed it.
Read More →Built as a symbol of Federated Commonwealth unity, and the variant list records that union coming apart. Plus five tonnes of hatchet.
Read More →Named after a targeting computer that could not decide between a Marauder and a Catapult. Every configuration ranked, and what an OmniMech actually changes.
Read More →Rare because the factory was small, rarer once it was destroyed, then passed over for upgrades because it was rare. Every variant ranked.
Read More →The oldest mech on the site, built by a nation with no BattleMech experience, and famous for one very specific piece of advice: park it in a lake.
Read More →A flaw its own engineers tried to fix and gave up on, left broken on purpose. Every variant ranked, and the unbuilt Star League design it was built from.
Read More →Three PPCs, twenty-eight heat sinks, and not one weapon that needs ammunition. Soldiers say the only defence against an Awesome is another Awesome.
Read More →The Star League tried it for three years and turned it down. Three centuries later, whole invasions were launched just to capture the ones left.
Read More →An anti-aircraft gun everyone kept using as a front-line brawler. The awful heat management made sense for the job it was actually built for.
Read More →Its own autocannon is so unreliable the standard fix is tearing the whole gun out. Every variant ranked, plus the story of Yen-Lo-Wang across three generations.
Read More →Sarna called it a bad 'Mech and the comments argued for months. Every variant ranked, plus why pilots were trained to cover their own wounds with the mech's hands.
Read More →Clan Wolf designed it. Clan Smoke Jaguar built it first, in a Trial fought before the blueprints were finished. Every configuration ranked, and why only two of the fifteen ever carried a jump jet.
Read More →Victor Steiner-Davion named this one himself, after a battle at Trellwan. Every configuration ranked, and why all seventeen of them carry jump five.
Read More →Clan Smoke Jaguar named it as a deliberate insult to Clan Wolf and Clan Coyote, whose designs it borrows from. Every configuration ranked, and why only one of fifteen ever jumps.
Read More →The barrel-shaped forearm baffles started as a fix for exhaust damage. Every variant ranked, and how it quietly completes the Warhammer, Marauder and Thunderbolt as Star League's big four.
Read More →Built as a heavy, filed as a medium, and still the one to hand a new pilot. Every variant ranked, and why you should not jump and fire the PPC on the same turn.
Read More →The cockpit sits in the central torso, not the head, and one specific configuration in the record is literally Jaime Wolf's own machine. Every variant ranked.
Read More →The 25-tonne scout that helped win the first large-scale battle ever fought between BattleMechs, then spent a quarter century drawn with its head on backwards by mistake. Every variant ranked.
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