Ares ARS-V1 Zeus
- Type
- BattleMech
- Tech
- Mixed
- Mass
- 135t
- Role
- Juggernaut
- Intro
- 3136 Dark Age
- Rules
- Advanced
- Cost
- 19.31M C-bills
- Move
- Armor
- 456 pts
ER Small Laser ×3ER Medium Laser ×2ER PPC ×2SRM 2 ×3Streak SRM 6 ×3LRM 5 ×2
Technical Readout: TR:DA · Record Sheets: RS:DA
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Availability by era
2 eras · 5 factions
| Gun | Pilot | Adj BV |
|---|---|---|
| G0 | 1 | 7,501 |
| G1 | 2 | 6,559 |
| G2 | 3 | 5,455 |
| G3 | 4 | 4,286 |
| G4 | 5 | 3,247 |
| G5 | 6 | 2,792 |
| G6 | 7 | 2,500 |
| G7 | 8 | 2,208 |
| G8 | 8 | 2,078 |
Piloting rides one point worse than Gunnery, capped at Piloting 8, the conventional pairing. Regular is Gunnery 4 / Piloting 5.
Recognition notes
The Ares ARS-V1 Zeus is a 135-ton superheavy juggernaut, cruising at a mere 22 km/h and topping out at 32, sluggish even by the standards of its weight class. Its left arm carries a pair of ER PPCs, while the right arm holds three Streak SRM 6 racks. Each torso side repeats the same secondary battery: an ER medium laser, an ER small laser, an LRM 5, and an SRM 2, and the center torso adds a further SRM 2 and ER small laser alongside an Inner Sphere targeting computer. Inner Sphere CASE II lines the right arm, left torso, and right torso, and anti-personnel pods sit in the left leg, right leg, and center leg. It carries a fixed searchlight and serves as a command 'Mech. Rhodes Foundry builds it at Devil's Rock.
Armor & loadout
| Weapon / Equipment | Loc | Qty | Ammo |
|---|---|---|---|
| MslSRM 2 | CT · LT · RT | 3 | 50 rds · 1 t |
| Enr | CT · LT · RT | 3 | |
| Enr | LT · RT | 2 | |
| Msl | LT · RT | 2 | 24 rds · 1 t |
| Enr | LA ×2 | 2 | |
| MslStreak SRM 6 | RA ×3 | 3 | 60 rds · 4 t |
| electronicsTargeting ComputerpodIS | CT | ||
| defensiveA-PodIS | LL · RL · CL |
CASE II: Left Torso · Right Torso · Right Arm