Manticore Heavy Tank "The Ballista"
- Type
- Combat Vehicle
- Tech
- Inner Sphere
- Mass
- 60t
- Role
- Missile Boat
- Intro
- 3076 Jihad
- Rules
- Experimental
- Move
- Armor
- 188 pts
Extended LRM 10C3 Slave Unit
Availability by era
2 eras · 1 faction
| Gun | Pilot | Adj BV |
|---|---|---|
| G0 | 1 | 2,622 |
| G1 | 2 | 2,293 |
| G2 | 3 | 1,907 |
| G3 | 4 | 1,498 |
| G4 | 5 | 1,135 |
| G5 | 6 | 976 |
| G6 | 7 | 874 |
| G7 | 8 | 772 |
| G8 | 8 | 726 |
Piloting rides one point worse than Gunnery, capped at Piloting 8, the conventional pairing. Regular is Gunnery 4 / Piloting 5.
Recognition notes
The Manticore Heavy Tank "The Ballista" is a 60-ton tracked combat vehicle refitted as a missile boat, cruising at 43 km/h with a top speed near 65. Where the base Manticore packs its turret with an LRM 10, an SRM 6, and a PPC and carries a Medium Laser on the front of the hull, this refit strips all three turret weapons and the hull laser down to a single Extended LRM 10 in the turret. A C3 Slave Unit sits in the hull alongside CASE and a supercharger, and the hull now runs an XL engine in place of the original Fusion plant. Heavy Ferro-Fibrous plate replaces the base tank's Standard armor. The refit is fielded by no fixed manufacturer, built as a field refit at various facilities.
Armor & loadout
| Weapon / Equipment | Loc | Qty | Ammo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Msl | T | 1 | 2 t ammo in B |
| Sup | B | 1 | |
| otherHyper Velocity Auto Cannon/5 | T | ||
| otherCombat Vehicle Escape PodrearIS | RE | ||
| mobilitySupercharger | B | ||
| IS Ammo HVAC/5 | B ×2 | 2 | 2 t |
CASE: Body