Clanners call them the Timber Wolf

And the Twolf has the Clan goodies lile DHS and omnipods

Meanwhile there were IS Mad Cats kicking around without any of the lostech

Using the IS designation still makes it a clan omnimech, thereby making you clannerscum unless you're later in the timeline I guess

I'm like... 90% sure there were IS Mad Cats pre-invasion, but they were rare and weren't omnimechs

But I could be wrong

The only way so could see that being the case is examples brought by the Wolfs Dragoons

Well that might be it

The MadCat is entirely of clan origin as far as I know

It was a big deal to own one

Did the Dragoons intentionally gimp their mechs with IS tech?

Considering they were Clanners on the DL I would think so

Gotta fit in

Though I would suspect they had switched to IS mechs

Or was part of their prestige and success due to cheating with OP lostech goodies

That would be hard to hide though

I think when they first appeared they were using clan tech but hid that shit away asap

It peta offend time

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I'm late, but the Dragoons brought stuff they thought was horrendously out of date that turned out to have been missing from the IS for centuries, which led to their mysterious nature. The Mad Cat/Timber Wolf is a purely clanner thing, and some were stolen/salvaged by IS pilots, but beyond that, later in the time line, the Mad Cat MKII was sold by Clan Diamond Shark to the IS and Clans

And there is also the Rakashasha, the IS knock off.

These guys need to read the first three Stackpole novels, they basically set the stage for the failure that is battletech

Battletech is a tale of a setting that had potentisl but got fucked by everything around it

Yes.

They hate 40kers

But half the shit wrong with Btech @Aegis they did to themselves

Yeah. The clans have iconic looos, but they also invalidated a lot of stuff

The game itself also shouldve swapped to live terrain instead of hexes when grid based wargaming was disappearing

one time I saw a large game of it using modular hex terrain, i think it's an interesting system

The system is good, its just a paperwork intensive system

It's really good for troop battles.

They should have made a separate game for just the infantry and tonks

the paperwork isnt that bad, it just keeps track of damage

I actually like the paperwork

View it not as a wargame but, an RPG

And then it makes sense

I mean you can play it with much more complexity but you dont have to

I participated in a campaign with the same mech, a Commando

He had a hatchet and SRMS