Now, I usually like to view armor in regards to what I call the Smart Armour doctrine. The Wolverine is the middle ground between the other two, sharing frontal torso with the Griffin and limbs with the Shadow Hawk. Unlike the Stinger and Wasp duo that share identical armor allocation, the 55-ton trio has the following allocation: The trio shares a lot of basic parameters: 55-ton chassis, 5/8 ground speed, 12 heat sinks, 9.5 tons of armor, jump jets. This also completes a circle, as co-writing the old original article in 2007 was my first foray into the MotW world. It is high time I post the Wolverine to complete the triumvirate. To witness: the Shadow Hawk article was reposted by Iron Mongoose in 01/2011 and the Griffin article was written by Kotetsu in 02/2014. In fact, the two are probably more favored in fiction and more popular among the fans. Its peers are the at-least equally famous Griffin and Shadow Hawk. So without going into any in-universe minutae, let’s have a look at the Wolverine WVR-6R that came with the basic BattleTech set some 30+ years ago. The PP versions I’ve fielded only sporadically (pre-Jihad) or hardly at all (post-Jihad) while the primitive versions… well. This will retain a certain relevance in regards to the board game and mirrors my expertise: like a lot of older players, I have a lot of experience with the initial introductory tech variants, and also quite a lot with the Clan Invasion vintage ones. Some MotW articles aptly focus on the competitors of the week’s subject with the Classics, the general answer to the question of „What will they be facing?“ will invariably have to be „Everything!“ This is obviously a fool’s task so instead, I will attempt to highlight the Wolverine’s role as one third of the „Classic 55-ton trio“ and compare it to its peers, focusing mainly on the truly old skool models, while touching on differences in upgrade philosophies afterwards. With such a pedigree, it is of no surprise that the Wolverine features a myriad variants spanning several factions and epochs. It is also perhaps one of my favorites of the Classic batch-and definitely so, as far as the medium weight class is concerned. The 55-ton machine is one of the initial unseens, it is a staple of Project Phoenix, and it has recently resurfaced as a Classic. The Wolverine is one of the original 14 BattleMechs included in BattleDroids and BattleTech 2nd/3rd edition. Which is the one the MUL (link above) should have. What picture would I post? Go to Sarna, they have all the ones you'll want.
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