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== Descrption ==
 
== Descrption ==
Originating from the [[Mecha Press]] magazine, the Lithium Fusion Engine is much like a hybrid car, taking a smaller engine and pairing it with a network of [[Lithium Fusion batteries]] to store surplus energy that the mech is not using and release it on demand.<ref>''[[Mecha Press]] #15,'' pp. 46–47</ref>
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Originating from the [[Mecha Press]] magazine, the Lithium Fusion Engine is much like a hybrid car, taking a smaller engine and pairing it with a network of [[Lithium Fusion Battery|Lithium Fusion batteries]] to store surplus energy that the mech is not using and release it on demand.<ref>''[[Mecha Press]] #15,'' pp. 46–47</ref>
  
 
== Game Rules ==
 
== Game Rules ==

Revision as of 16:37, 17 April 2018

Descrption

Originating from the Mecha Press magazine, the Lithium Fusion Engine is much like a hybrid car, taking a smaller engine and pairing it with a network of Lithium Fusion batteries to store surplus energy that the mech is not using and release it on demand.[1]

Game Rules

Though the network of Lithium Fusion batteries occupy 14 critical slots, they add negligible mass. As a result, to find the tonnage of the engine, calculate the engine rating as normal and and reduce the desired Walk MP by 1. For example, a 60 ton mech (such as the Prodigal Son)[2] using a Lithium Fusion Engine with a Walk MP of 6 would only need a 300-rated Lithium Fusion Engine, instead of a 360-rated Standard Fusion Engine.

Lithium Fusion Engines cannot be combined with XL Fusion Engines.

Legality

As a non-canon item, Lithium Fusion Engines are NOT Tournament Legal, and if they were to appear under Total Warfare rules, would most likely be classified as Experimental Technology.

  1. Mecha Press #15, pp. 46–47
  2. Mecha Press #15, p. 48