Only 8 heat-sinks? Well, that is what it takes to fire its laser. And while all fusion engines in the game have 10 heat-sink equivalents, internal combustion engines come with none. It's detractors point to its thin armor due to mounting such a huge laser with an ICE engine, thus the variants that replace the laser and heat-sinks with conventional ballistic or missile options. These produce no heat for the tanks, who are assumed to be able to vent the heat in other ways and are not as tightly designed as mechs. All that said, even the basic Bulldog does its job, especially when encountered in numbers and supported correctly, and is cheap enough for militias and mercenaries to use several of them for the price of one mech. A good basic tank, you just have to keep its weaknesses in mind when planning strategy. My .02 c-bills on the design.
Not just the extra heatsinks, but the power coupler things. Pure wasted tonnage to put a big energy weapon on an ICE tank. Or really, even a small one is pretty rough.
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I just came across this page and am loving your videos!
Only 8 heat-sinks? Well, that is what it takes to fire its laser. And while all fusion engines in the game have 10 heat-sink equivalents, internal combustion engines come with none. It's detractors point to its thin armor due to mounting such a huge laser with an ICE engine, thus the variants that replace the laser and heat-sinks with conventional ballistic or missile options. These produce no heat for the tanks, who are assumed to be able to vent the heat in other ways and are not as tightly designed as mechs. All that said, even the basic Bulldog does its job, especially when encountered in numbers and supported correctly, and is cheap enough for militias and mercenaries to use several of them for the price of one mech. A good basic tank, you just have to keep its weaknesses in mind when planning strategy. My .02 c-bills on the design.
Not just the extra heatsinks, but the power coupler things. Pure wasted tonnage to put a big energy weapon on an ICE tank. Or really, even a small one is pretty rough.
I'm still a little sad I can't find my sourcebooks - but these videos are way more fun than those!
Whoo!
Can you make one with the Rifleman IIC?
Sure, though I need to make a new model for it first.
Cool. Looking forward to it if you do.
Never understood why this thing needs a barrel to fire a large laser. Surely it could be buried in the turret making it far less likely to be damaged?
Won't understand why a laser needs a loader.
@@mattz1230 they take the light and load it into the barel to fire the laser!