H-10 War Cry

The H-10 War Cry is a low end battroid from Hoeller Industries. It is a ranged combat specialist, packing far more firepower than one would normally see on a mecha in this class. At just over $300k the War Cry is more expensive than either of its chief rivals, the Galah and the Haiho.

The standard equipment load for this mecha consists of a class 8 railgun, a quad rack of heavy rockets, a beam bayonet, a shield, and external body armor. This heavy armament means that the War Cry remains a threat to mecha which are larger and more powerful than itself. Its chief weakness is a lack of durability. In order to save weight for weapons, the designers of the War Cry cut back on armor.

Proponents of Comet Metalworks’s Galah design like to point out that thier mecha is better than the Haiho at range and superior to the War Cry in melee. Proponents of the War Cry will counter that the Galah isn’t much better in melee, and is far worse at range. Proponents of the Haiho don’t usually get involved in this argument.

The War Cry incorporates several technologies which are more commonly found on high-end machines. Its chassis is an endoskeletal-muscular design similar to that used by the Zerosaiko or BioCorp’s Biometrics line. Power transmission is handled via an active plasma array. One of the reasons behind the War Cry project was to find ways to bring down the cost of these systems, so that they could be included in mid and low range models.

The War Cry is available throughout the Free Commerce States, including the L5 Alliance and the Rishiri Dominion.

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5 Responses to “H-10 War Cry”

  1. Onisuzume Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 9:53 am

    And the forum’s down again…

    This time I get a Database/configuration error.

    Anyways, the War Cry is, imo, visually pleasing.

  2. EuchreJack Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    The War Cry has one of the best weapons in the game. Probably best to give the weapon to a more durable mek, and give this mek minus the gun to a lancemate. It certainly looks cool.

    Also, I was thinking that GH2 could use a flamethrower. That would be cool. It’d be kinda like a poor-man’s Plasma Cannon (I think that’s the weapon I’m thinking of). It would be a good weapon to bridge the gap between shotgun and thumper.

    Hope the forum is up soon, off to experiment with the War Cry!

  3. Onisuzume Says:
    February 8th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Erm, a number of flamers already exist in the “Dragon” and “Pyromaniac” theme. So… yeah…

  4. EuchreJack Says:
    February 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    I was actually refering to personal scale combat.

  5. Frumple Says:
    February 9th, 2009 at 10:23 am

    It’d be pretty easy to mod one in. Just copy over one of the various flamer-types in the THEME files to one of the PC_*.txt files, cut out the scale 2 line, and add appropriate faction (GENERAL) and category (WEAPON) lines. Takes like five, ten seconds, maybe a little more if you write one out from scratch. GH’s pretty easy to mod usually, barring those freaking missile weapons.

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