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Name/Model:         Charger CGR-1B1
Designer:           Festy_Dog
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            80
Role:               Skirmisher
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Civil War / 3067
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         11,369,040 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,495

Chassis:              Endo Steel
Power Plant:          400 Fusion
Walking Speed:        54 kph    [64.8 kph]
Maximum Speed:        86.4 kph  [97.2 kph]
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:             
    3 ER Medium Lasers
    2 Small Pulse Lasers
Manufacturer:         Promethean Armouries
    Primary Factory:  PA Loxley Campus, PA Ravensbourne Campus
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    In 3060 the Irongate Grenadiers conducted their first major campaign alongside the Lost
    Caws. The relationship between the companies was very jovial and a strong camaraderie was
    founded, leading to extensive co-operation henceforth. The commander of the Irongate
    Grenadiers was a member of the Clausewitz family whose dynasty also ran the Ravensbourne
    Specialist Engineering Zaibatsu, which meant the Zaibatsu became a kind of
    sponsor/benefactor to the Lost Caws. Collaboration work between the mercenary companies
    included creation of a think tank, the Yggdrasil Society, which developed a number of mechs
    that were offered in Promethean Armouries Built-to-Order catalogue of premium battlemechs
    manufactured at their Ravensbourne facilities.
    
    The CGR-1B1 was the first of these projects, and more specifically a celebration of a
    specific pilot who earned a reputation during the 3060 periphery campaign. *pilot's name*
    operated a CGR-1A1 and time and again threw themselves into the thick of combat to protect
    allied forces of the Trimerc Coalition. Some years after the campaign it was reported the
    -1A1 had been irreparably damaged in the course of *pilot's name*'s unflinching bravery and
    Irongate veterans of the campaign petitioned their leadership to do something for the Lost
    Caws and *pilot's name* in particular in thanks for the lives their efforts had saved years
    before. RSE intended to replace *pilot's name*'s Charger with a more recent model but found
    themselves at a loss because any newer models of Charger on the market were designed towards
    a fairly standard assault mech role, at odds with the scrappy melee machine that the -1A1
    was. Promethean Armouries and the Yggdrasil Society sought to fill this gap in the market,
    thus the -1B1 was born.
    
    The CGR-1B1 was intended to be a mass production machine, and a production line on Loxley
    was created, but sales were so poor that production was shifted to Ravensbourne for
    on-demand manufacture to free up it's Loxley line to help meet demand for more popular
    machines.

Capabilities:
    The CGR-1B1 is built to fulfil the same role as the -1A1, but better. More armour, slightly
    upgraded firepower and, with the addition of triple strength myomer, more speed and melee
    power. A C3 slave serves as a critical addition to exploit the Charger's proximity to opfor
    to provide target telemetry to lancemates.

Variants:
    Early designs of the -1B1 actually utilised a light engine which had been made available to
    Lyran manufacturers in recent years. This was considered for the -1B1 because it opened up
    options not available with a standard fusion engine while also meaning partial torso
    destruction didn't incapacitate the mech. The early concept was also given jump jets and a
    hatchet to evoke a sense of continuity from the recent faltering in Axeman production caused
    by the FedCom dissolution.
    
    Overabundance of tech features (the light engine especially) made the concept prohibitively
    expensive from the perspective of PA's market research. A more modest design eventually
    became the -1B1 but the initial concept was retained by PA engineers and went on to become
    the basis to the -3D variants.
    
    The -1B1 is believed to be PA's rarest mass production machine since manufacture at the
    Loxley campus only lasted two years before the production line was reconfigured to support
    manufacture of more popular machines.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 4.00                     
Engine:                                     400 Fusion                52.50                     
    Walking MP:                               5 [6]                                             
    Running MP:                               8 [9]                                             
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Single):                            10                     0.00                     
Gyro:                                           XL                     2.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  224                    12.50                     
    Type:                                 Ferro-Fibrous                                         

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      25             30       
    Center Torso (rear):                               7       
    R/L Torso:                         17             28       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  6       
    R/L Arm:                           13             26       
    R/L Leg:                           17             29       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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C3 Slave                                                  H                 1          1.00             
2 ER Medium Lasers                                        RT                2          2.00             
Small Pulse Laser                                         RT                1          1.00             
ER Medium Laser                                           LT                1          1.00             
Small Pulse Laser                                         LT                1          1.00             
Triple-Strength Myomer                                    --                6          0.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 37
TP: BM,  SZ: 4,  TMM: 2,  MV: 10"
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 1 / (L) 0,  OV: 1
Armor (A): 7,  Structure (S): 6
Specials: C3S, ENE, MHQ1, TSM
 
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