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Line 98: ==Notes== ==Notes== − *The original art going with the ''Ostroc'' when it was first published in ''[[Technical Readout: 3025]]'' and ''[[CityTech]]'' pictured the 'Mech with two flat, paddle-like devices with what looked like four missile ports each for "hands" on both arms instead of the torso-mounted launcher. Although associated with the 'Mech, this image was later clarified to be a common but nevertheless nonstandard variant employing spare parts that were originally meant for another 'Mech, the rare ''[[Ostwar]]'' (which does feature SRM-4 launchers instead of hands); the ''Ostwar'' was a precursor of the ''Ostroc'' and many of their components were interchangeable. (See ''Ostwar'' Hybrid variant above.)<br />It should be noted that the standard ''Ostroc'' mounts its single SRM-4 launcher in the right torso, and has two fully modeled hands. The launcher of this standard version sits upright in the right torso section. This standard configuration with hands and a launcher in the right torso was used for the miniature (see left), depicted in ''[[Technical Readout: 3050]]'' and also used in various artwork such as the [[McCarron's Armored Cavalry (scenario pack)|''McCarron's Armored Cavalry'' scenario pack]] which depicts three ''Ostrocs'' with hands and a shoulder-mounted SRM launcher on the cover. + *The original art going with the ''Ostroc'' when it was first published in ''[[Technical Readout: 3025]]'' and ''[[CityTech]]'', pictured the 'Mech with two flat, paddle-like devices with what looked like four missile ports each for "hands" on both arms instead of the torso-mounted launcher. Although associated with the 'Mech, this image was later clarified to be a common but nevertheless nonstandard variant employing spare parts that were originally meant for another 'Mech, the rare ''[[Ostwar]]'' (which does feature SRM-4 launchers instead of hands); the ''Ostwar'' was a precursor of the ''Ostroc'' and many of their components were interchangeable. (See ''Ostwar'' Hybrid variant above.)<br />It should be noted that the standard ''Ostroc'' mounts its single SRM-4 launcher in the right torso, and has two fully modeled hands. The launcher of this standard version sits upright in the right torso section. This standard configuration with hands and a launcher in the right torso was used for the miniature (see left), depicted in ''[[Technical Readout: 3050]]'' and also used in various artwork such as the [[McCarron's Armored Cavalry (scenario pack)|''McCarron's Armored Cavalry'' scenario pack]] which depicts three ''Ostrocs'' with hands and a shoulder-mounted SRM launcher on the cover. *The ''Ostroc Mk II'' as canonized in the 2021 ''[[Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 21]]'' actually stems from an obscure apocryphal product published 35 years prior that first introduced the 'Mech, the 1986 ''[[TCI Set 7: Marauder and Ostroc Mk II]]'' model kit set from [[Twentieth Century Imports]] (TCI). It contained game stat sheets for the classic MAD-3R ''[[Marauder]]'' and the OSR-9C ''Ostroc Mk II''. Of the design's three [[jump jet]]s, one sits in the center torso while the other two are reportedly mounted in the arms. This fits with the picture and was legal under the earliest design rules from the original ''[[Battledroids]]'' game, but has been illegal since ''[[BattleTech 2nd Edition]]'' (BattleTech rules allow jump jets only in the legs and torso sections). Other than that, the design is legal under current construction rules, including the correct mass to the jump jets (1 ton each). The additional armor was allocated to the front torso (4 points to center torso, 1 to each side torso) and legs (1 point each).In the scenario accompanying the model kit and stat sheet, a [[House Davion]] [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] recounts how he encountered an ''Ostroc'' that "had been obviously modified" in the defense of Brittany III against a [[House Kurita|Kurita]] invasion. The name of the ''Ostroc Mk II''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s pilot is given as DeMici. *The ''Ostroc Mk II'' as canonized in the 2021 ''[[Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 21]]'' actually stems from an obscure apocryphal product published 35 years prior that first introduced the 'Mech, the 1986 ''[[TCI Set 7: Marauder and Ostroc Mk II]]'' model kit set from [[Twentieth Century Imports]] (TCI). It contained game stat sheets for the classic MAD-3R ''[[Marauder]]'' and the OSR-9C ''Ostroc Mk II''. Of the design's three [[jump jet]]s, one sits in the center torso while the other two are reportedly mounted in the arms. This fits with the picture and was legal under the earliest design rules from the original ''[[Battledroids]]'' game, but has been illegal since ''[[BattleTech 2nd Edition]]'' (BattleTech rules allow jump jets only in the legs and torso sections). Other than that, the design is legal under current construction rules, including the correct mass to the jump jets (1 ton each). The additional armor was allocated to the front torso (4 points to center torso, 1 to each side torso) and legs (1 point each).In the scenario accompanying the model kit and stat sheet, a [[House Davion]] [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] recounts how he encountered an ''Ostroc'' that "had been obviously modified" in the defense of Brittany III against a [[House Kurita|Kurita]] invasion. The name of the ''Ostroc Mk II''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s pilot is given as DeMici.
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| − | *The original art going with the ''Ostroc'' when it was first published in ''[[Technical Readout: 3025]]'' and ''[[CityTech]]'' pictured the 'Mech with two flat, paddle-like devices with what looked like four missile ports each for "hands" on both arms instead of the torso-mounted launcher. Although associated with the 'Mech, this image was later clarified to be a common but nevertheless nonstandard variant employing spare parts that were originally meant for another 'Mech, the rare ''[[Ostwar]]'' (which does feature SRM-4 launchers instead of hands); the ''Ostwar'' was a precursor of the ''Ostroc'' and many of their components were interchangeable. (See ''Ostwar'' Hybrid variant above.)<br />It should be noted that the standard ''Ostroc'' mounts its single SRM-4 launcher in the right torso, and has two fully modeled hands. The launcher of this standard version sits upright in the right torso section. This standard configuration with hands and a launcher in the right torso was used for the miniature (see left), depicted in ''[[Technical Readout: 3050]]'' and also used in various artwork such as the [[McCarron's Armored Cavalry (scenario pack)|''McCarron's Armored Cavalry'' scenario pack]] which depicts three ''Ostrocs'' with hands and a shoulder-mounted SRM launcher on the cover. | + | *The original art going with the ''Ostroc'' when it was first published in ''[[Technical Readout: 3025]]'' and ''[[CityTech]]'', pictured the 'Mech with two flat, paddle-like devices with what looked like four missile ports each for "hands" on both arms instead of the torso-mounted launcher. Although associated with the 'Mech, this image was later clarified to be a common but nevertheless nonstandard variant employing spare parts that were originally meant for another 'Mech, the rare ''[[Ostwar]]'' (which does feature SRM-4 launchers instead of hands); the ''Ostwar'' was a precursor of the ''Ostroc'' and many of their components were interchangeable. (See ''Ostwar'' Hybrid variant above.)<br />It should be noted that the standard ''Ostroc'' mounts its single SRM-4 launcher in the right torso, and has two fully modeled hands. The launcher of this standard version sits upright in the right torso section. This standard configuration with hands and a launcher in the right torso was used for the miniature (see left), depicted in ''[[Technical Readout: 3050]]'' and also used in various artwork such as the [[McCarron's Armored Cavalry (scenario pack)|''McCarron's Armored Cavalry'' scenario pack]] which depicts three ''Ostrocs'' with hands and a shoulder-mounted SRM launcher on the cover. |
*The ''Ostroc Mk II'' as canonized in the 2021 ''[[Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 21]]'' actually stems from an obscure apocryphal product published 35 years prior that first introduced the 'Mech, the 1986 ''[[TCI Set 7: Marauder and Ostroc Mk II]]'' model kit set from [[Twentieth Century Imports]] (TCI). It contained game stat sheets for the classic MAD-3R ''[[Marauder]]'' and the OSR-9C ''Ostroc Mk II''. Of the design's three [[jump jet]]s, one sits in the center torso while the other two are reportedly mounted in the arms. This fits with the picture and was legal under the earliest design rules from the original ''[[Battledroids]]'' game, but has been illegal since ''[[BattleTech 2nd Edition]]'' (BattleTech rules allow jump jets only in the legs and torso sections). Other than that, the design is legal under current construction rules, including the correct mass to the jump jets (1 ton each). The additional armor was allocated to the front torso (4 points to center torso, 1 to each side torso) and legs (1 point each).In the scenario accompanying the model kit and stat sheet, a [[House Davion]] [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] recounts how he encountered an ''Ostroc'' that "had been obviously modified" in the defense of Brittany III against a [[House Kurita|Kurita]] invasion. The name of the ''Ostroc Mk II''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s pilot is given as DeMici. | *The ''Ostroc Mk II'' as canonized in the 2021 ''[[Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 21]]'' actually stems from an obscure apocryphal product published 35 years prior that first introduced the 'Mech, the 1986 ''[[TCI Set 7: Marauder and Ostroc Mk II]]'' model kit set from [[Twentieth Century Imports]] (TCI). It contained game stat sheets for the classic MAD-3R ''[[Marauder]]'' and the OSR-9C ''Ostroc Mk II''. Of the design's three [[jump jet]]s, one sits in the center torso while the other two are reportedly mounted in the arms. This fits with the picture and was legal under the earliest design rules from the original ''[[Battledroids]]'' game, but has been illegal since ''[[BattleTech 2nd Edition]]'' (BattleTech rules allow jump jets only in the legs and torso sections). Other than that, the design is legal under current construction rules, including the correct mass to the jump jets (1 ton each). The additional armor was allocated to the front torso (4 points to center torso, 1 to each side torso) and legs (1 point each).In the scenario accompanying the model kit and stat sheet, a [[House Davion]] [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] recounts how he encountered an ''Ostroc'' that "had been obviously modified" in the defense of Brittany III against a [[House Kurita|Kurita]] invasion. The name of the ''Ostroc Mk II''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s pilot is given as DeMici. | ||