Rommel Tank Howitzer
- Type
- Combat Vehicle
- Tech
- Inner Sphere
- Mass
- 65t
- Role
- Brawler
- Intro
- 3087 Early Republic
- Rules
- Advanced
- Move
- Armor
- 228 pts
ER Medium Laser ×2Thunderbolt 5Long Tom Cannon
Technical Readout: TR:Proto · Record Sheets: RS:Proto
Compare this unitAvailability by era
4 eras · 5 factions
| Gun | Pilot | Adj BV |
|---|---|---|
| G0 | 1 | 3,125 |
| G1 | 2 | 2,733 |
| G2 | 3 | 2,273 |
| G3 | 4 | 1,786 |
| G4 | 5 | 1,353 |
| G5 | 6 | 1,164 |
| G6 | 7 | 1,042 |
| G7 | 8 | 920 |
| G8 | 8 | 866 |
Piloting rides one point worse than Gunnery, capped at Piloting 8, the conventional pairing. Regular is Gunnery 4 / Piloting 5.
Recognition notes
The Rommel Tank Howitzer (Howitzer) Production is a 65-ton tracked combat vehicle built as a brawler, in place of the original Rommel Tank's juggernaut role. Where the base model carries a Small Laser on the front hull, this variant mounts a pair of ER Medium Laser weapons there instead, and the turret trades its LRM 5 and Autocannon/20 for a Long Tom Cannon and a Thunderbolt 5. Cruising speed drops from 43 to 32 km/h, with a top speed falling from 65 to 54, and the crew now rides behind Heavy Ferro-Fibrous armor rather than Standard plate. The low, hard-to-target silhouette carries over from the original. Defiance Industries builds it at Hesperus II.
Armor & loadout
| Weapon / Equipment | Loc | Qty | Ammo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enr | F ×2 | 2 | |
| Art | T | 1 | 3 t ammo in B |
| MslThunderbolt 5 | T | 1 | 1 t ammo in B |