Part 832: Battlemechs are Awesome commercials sponsored by Defiance Industries - Hollander

(So, I thought this was due. I took some liberties with the design because the IS powers don't have an XL engine yet, but it makes the design even funnier).

"Those bastards! They took Kempner's head clean off!"
"There'll be time to mourn later, Leutnant Clover. If he's down, one way or another, you're next..."

Promotional consideration for A Call to Action: The Story of the Battle of Somerset was paid for by a grant from the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Department of Military Recruitment and this corporate partner...


BattleMechs are On the Cutting Edge of Awesome
Brought to you by Coventry Metal Works.
CMW: We don't have to hide under a mountain like bitches.



See that? That's us firing a Gauss rifle. You know what that is? It's the newest weapon in our arsenal, and we at Coventry Metal Works have come up with a new way to get them to you. See, the guys at Defiance Industries are retrofitting them on to the biggest designs like the Atlas, Banshee and Cyclops. And that's all well and good, and we're not going to trash-talk them because we're all in this together. Like it says on those recruiting posters for the LCAF, "Through Solidarity, We Will Triumph," right?

Well, we at CMW came up with a slightly different idea. Rather than try and retrofit this new game-changer on to our old chassis, we invented a new, inexpensive platform to put as many of these new Gauss rifles on the field as possible: the BZK-F2 Hollander. This 35-ton weapons platform is powered by an inexpensive class 140 fusion engine (that's right, the same one we've been salvaging from those Panthers for centuries but haven't had anything to put them in!) and protected by nearly 5 tons of armor. The armor is mostly perfunctory, as the extreme range of the Gauss rifle will leave the Hollander as a fire-support machine, a direct-fire compliment to your Archers, but at half the cost!

The centerpiece of this new design is, of course, the Poland Main Model A Gauss rifle. If you're not familiar with the capabilities of this weapon, let me elaborate. It's okay, it's brand new. For the longest time, people had been asking us "Fucking magnets... how do they work?" And our top scientists unraveled that mystery completely on their own without any help. Once we know how magnets work, we realized we could use them to propel slugs of solid metal at incredible speeds. As a result, the range of this weapon surpasses even the LRM and PPC. It's damage is half-again that of a PPC bolt, and firing this weapon generates one-tenth the heat. That's right, just one-tenth! And even though it is an ammunition-based weapon, the ammo is completely inert and doesn't explode when hit. Talk about a life-saver! Of course, the gun is mildly explosive, but we'd like to stress "mildly."

All in all, we believe the Hollander will be a success in putting as many of these amazing new weapons on the field as possible and giving Lyran MechWarriors a new edge on the battlefield. So when you're watching A Call to Action: The Story of the Battle of Somerset, know that our soldiers are still out there fighting, and we at Coventry Metal Works are doing our best to keep 'em firing.


Coventry Metal Works: We're doing our part... are you?