[Abe Sargent]

That is a huge upgrade from where we were before. There is everything there – lots of mechs, tanks, fighters, and we even have things like support vehicles, power armor, and blue water naval assets.

You can’t ignore that – that’s a lot of quality there. And we can refit the Liberty shipyards on Carver IV’s moon as well for DropShips or JumpShips later on.

Here are the mechs we get for our nation:

Small? Bumblebee, Mercury, Falcon Hawk
Medium? Wyvern, Shadow Hawk, Shadow Hawk (two different types) , Wolverine, Kyudo, Lineholder, Chimera, Alexander, Cicada
Heavy? Grasshopper, Quickdraw, Greyhound, Excalibur, Bandersnatch, Buckshot
Assault? BattleMaster, Thug, Attila, Spartan


Now, we can add in more lines if we want. Want another light mech? Kallon will refit a Hornet line for us tomorrow. Kallon could give us a Crusader or Rifleman upgraded as well. Lang could expand their lines any time.

We could also license more fighters, or design our own. We could probably get Kressly to do an Ostroc variant for us or Kallon an Exterminator one, using the chassis and same basic equipment being used for Blake right now.

The BattleMechs the Celestial Coalition has for our TOE are very flexible. From an omnimech design we can do a lot with (Alexander) to a fast and pacey heavy quad (Greyhound) to great long range light/medium options (Falcon Hawk, Kyudo) to speedy scout mechs (Bumblebee, Mercury, Cicada) to nasty, get in your face mechs (BattleMaster, Attila, Thug). We have flexible mechs with a lot of versatility (Wolverine, Shadow Hawk, Buckshot) and those with specific roles (city and tight terrain? Wyvern! Light mech hunter? Grasshopper!) We also gave fun stuff like the long-range Excalibur mech.

So it’s a strong TOE for a nation our size. Good stuff!

Now we could use some work on our tanks…

We have some lighter style stuff (The Beagle is a strong scout tank, and we have fast stuff like the Lightning and Blizzard) and then we have a ton of early heavy, slow, ponderous tanks (Legion, Brutus, Ontos, Partisan, Von Luckner) but not a lot of stuff in the middle. The Blizzard is our only infantry transport, for example. I feel like we could use a few more tank lines, mainly those in the middle, with different roles. For example our tank line doesn't have any missile boats like LRM Carriers or Hunters, which are very valuable in a tank which can hide behind a level 1 hill and then indirect fire over with spotters). We also could use some mobile artillery.

But that’s about as good as we can do with the area we have. We have pushed this as far as it can go right now.