{"id":3626,"date":"2025-10-20T19:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:53:03","slug":"clan-omni-mech-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=3626","title":{"rendered":"Clan Omni &#8216;Mech usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Clan invasion, FASA originally provided the Clans with 16 Battlemechs from 20 to 100 tons. All of these are&nbsp;<em>Omni&nbsp;<\/em>&#8216;Mechs, meaning that their loadout can be reconfigured easily. Other &#8216;Mechs, such as the IIC variants of Inner Sphere designs and other Clan-designed &#8216;Mechs, were only added later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly to how certain Inner Sphere houses produce and predominantly use certain &#8216;Mech models, this also holds for the Clan Omni designs. I&#8217;ve compiled a list based on the information on Sarna:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fire Moth (Dasher): Ghost Bear and Hell&#8217;s Horses.<\/li>\n<li>Mist Lynx (Koshi): Smoke Jaguar.<\/li>\n<li>Kit Fox (Uller): Jade Falcon.<\/li>\n<li>Adder (Puma): Star Adder design, but common among the other clans.<\/li>\n<li>Viper (Dragonfly): Ghost Bear.<\/li>\n<li>Ice Ferret (Fenris): Wolf.<\/li>\n<li>Nova (Black Hawk): Not in production in 3050, but in use by all Clans.<\/li>\n<li>Stormcrow (Ryoken): Snow Raven, but in use by all Clans.<\/li>\n<li>Mad Dog (Vulture): Smoke Jaguar, but in wide use amongst the Clans.<\/li>\n<li>Hellbringer (Loki): Jade Falcon, but common among other Clans, too.<\/li>\n<li>Summoner (Thor): Jade Falcon.<\/li>\n<li>Timber Wolf (Mad Cat): Wolf.<\/li>\n<li>Gargoyle (Man&#8217;o&#8217;war): Wolf, but also used by other Clans.<\/li>\n<li>Warhawk (Masakari): Smoke Jaguar, but also in use by Ghost Bear and Jade Falcon.<\/li>\n<li>Executioner (Gladiator): Ghost Bear, also produced by Smoke Jaguar.<\/li>\n<li>Dire Wolf (Daishi): Smoke Jaguar and Wolf.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that both the unofficial faction assignment &amp; rarity tables and official publications don&#8217;t follow this strictly. Designs not produced by a Clan were certainly available due to trade or capture (isorla), but if you want to build a force that is typical for a given clan, the above listing can be used as a guideline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Building a Clan Wolf star<\/h2>\n<p>I tend to side with what is perceived as &#8220;the good guys&#8221;, so when it comes to the Clans, I&#8217;ve always been a Clan Wolf person. I&#8217;ve previously owned the 16 original Omni &#8216;Mech sculpts and painted them all in a Clan Wolf Alpha Galaxy paint scheme before selling them. After focusing exclusively on the Inner Sphere for a long time, I now wanted to build and paint a new Clan Wolf force, starting out with a star, i.e. five &#8216;Mechs.<\/p>\n<p>Based upon the above list, an Ice Ferret and at least one Timber Wolf were given. I&#8217;m not a big fan of the Gargoyle &#8211; it&#8217;s objectively a worse &#8216;Mech than the Timber Wolf. It has less armor and pod space, and the Prime configuration has an abysmally low damage output. The Dire Wolf does not fit into a general purpose star. So to fill the gaps, I used two non-Wolf designs that are common among all Clans: the Stormcrow and Mad Dog. The Stormcrow is an excellent &#8216;Mech &#8211; fast, maximum armor, and decent configurations. It is a bit overshadowed by heavier Clan designs, but can beat any 3025-era Inner Sphere heavy &#8216;Mech.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, what to use for the fifth &#8216;Mech? The obvious choice was a second Timber Wolf, especially given that Iron Wind Metals now make a completely new A-variant miniature&nbsp; that looks even better than the already improved resculpt from 20 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Clan invasion, FASA originally provided the Clans with 16 Battlemechs from 20 to 100 tons. All of these are&nbsp;Omni&nbsp;&#8216;Mechs, meaning that their loadout can be reconfigured easily. Other &#8216;Mechs, such as the IIC variants of Inner Sphere designs and other Clan-designed &#8216;Mechs, were only added later.&nbsp; Similarly to how certain Inner Sphere houses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gaming","8":"tag-battletech","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/538px-3646ywqch45l0140be9upw10kkkirxe.webp","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plKIk-Wu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}