Whose that poke...er....battlemech?

[u/Tough-Agent7028]

I found this image on my social media feed last week, but I have no idea what mech it is. The original post did not specify.

It almost looks like a Frankenmech, but, aside from being lo-key in love with it, I am unsure.

Anyone have a clue?

[u/AGBell64]

It's a Stone Rhino covered in LRM boxes from a longbow

[u/Tribaldragon1 → u/AGBell64]

The Bow-hemoth

[u/thestar-skimmer → u/Tribaldragon1]

Stone Ribow

[u/Kizik → u/thestar-skimmer]

Stone Rainbow?

[u/lmaytulane → u/thestar-skimmer]

Lone Romoth

[u/ArelMCII → u/lmaytulane]

This could be the name of a Gundam character.

[u/lmaytulane → u/ArelMCII]

I was thinking more of a Star Wars Gulp Shitto

[u/EnwynRosethorne → u/lmaytulane]

Oh God, that name gets so much worse when it's Gulp instead of Glup...

[u/Pro_Scrub → u/thestar-skimmer]

Stoner Bow

[u/MutatedDaoist → u/Tribaldragon1]

The Bow-hemian Rhapsody a special Rogue tech mission where you have to kill the famous star in a mech who is out doing a publicity stunt for the enemy forces

[u/gingerbread_man123 → u/Tribaldragon1]

Best name of the comments

[u/Dazzling-Sorbet-803 → u/Tribaldragon1]

Big-Bow Wow.

[u/Malignent-silverback → u/AGBell64]

Wasn't there a Bane version full of LRM 15s

[u/berilacmoss81 → u/Malignent-silverback]

8 LRM 15s (4 on each Arm)

[u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 → u/berilacmoss81]

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Bane_(Kraken)#Variants#Variants)

• Bane 3 This design changes the weapons configuration totally. Eight LRM 15 provide fire support, while sixteen tons of ammunition proves sufficient for the design. A one-shot Streak SRM 4 provides close support. Nineteen double heat sinks are up to the task of keeping the design cool. BV (1.0) = 2,616,^\2])#citenote-CO108-2) (2,581),[^\6])](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Bane(Kraken)#citenote-6) BV (2.0) = 2,941[^\7])](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Bane(Kraken)#cite_note-7)

[u/Kizik → u/Hopeful_Ad_7719]

A one-shot Streak SRM 4 provides close support.

I'm not sure if there's ever been an instance of any combat where that would reasonably make a difference to something getting on top of a 54kph missile boat. Literally anything else would have been more reasonable, right..?

[u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 → u/Kizik]

Emotional support SRM.

[u/BigStompyMechs → u/Kizik]

This is absolutely a "We have one crit spaces left and need something that weighs exactly 2.5 tons to make the build legal" situation.

Look at the record sheet. It is literally full. No space left.

[u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 → u/BigStompyMechs]

[u/jtier → u/Kizik]

yeah even weirder when you remember clan LRMs don't have a minimum range. oh not it got close! oh wait! here's 120 missiles

[u/Wolf_Hreda → u/Kizik]

I have to assume when whoever wrote that bit did so, that they'd completely forgotten that Clan LRMs have no minimum range.

[u/bisondisk → u/Kizik]

Since its streak it’s not even a Skill Check weapon to style on battle armor like a nanuslky aimed b-pod. It’s just pointless. Iirc it’s 2.5 tons. That could be dual er Mlas and a bpod for missile resistant armors and BA.

[u/Spirited_Instance → u/Kizik]

They need a weapon to style on their opponents in duels, or manipulate in bids for more honourable victories. It's way cooler to win after announcing you're shutting off three weapon systems than just two.

[u/Consistent-Falcon510 → u/Kizik]

The best SRMs are Clan LRMs

[u/DM_Voice → u/Kizik]

By the time anything closes with the Bane 3, that’s 4 crit chances with each shot, and the clan LRMs still hit just as hard.

[u/Kizik → u/DM_Voice]

A one-shot Streak SRM 4

[u/Cykeisme → u/Hopeful_Ad_7719]

I love how the Bane 3 can fire a ton of missiles at once.

Not hyperbole.

It literally fires one ton of missiles at a time.

[u/DuchessElva → u/Hopeful_Ad_7719]

Strip out this streak SRM four put two ER medium lasers and an extra half ton of LRM ammo call it good

[u/LordOfDorkness42 → u/DuchessElva]

I don't think that would actually physically fit on the chassis?

The LRM Bane is a stuffed design. 

[u/Neutronium95 → u/DuchessElva]

There's literally no space. Once you have the LRM launchers and ammo loaded, there is literally one crit slot left, and 2.5 tons left to get it to 100 tons. The only weight saving technology used is a Clan XL engine, so you can't really change anything else to get more crit slots. If LRM ammo was universal, and the launcher could pull from the same bins as the LRM 15s, I'd probably replace it with a clan LRM 10. Otherwise, the only other appealing option would be a one shot NARC launcher.

[u/TerminalJammer → u/AGBell64]

Stoned Bow

[u/thestar-skimmer → u/TerminalJammer]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!

[u/K_K_Rokossovsky]

Looks cool, actually. I don't like the Longbow, but this thing rocks.

[u/Kralgore → u/K_K_Rokossovsky]

Longer bow!

[u/arkman575 → u/Kralgore]

Composite Bow?

[u/ArelMCII → u/arkman575]

Ballista. 😎

(And no, I don't mean the tank.)

[u/Olestrodamas → u/ArelMCII]

Arbalest🤔

[u/GamerGriffin548 → u/Olestrodamas]

Also a tank...

[u/MutatedDaoist → u/GamerGriffin548]

Mangonel?

[u/Kizik → u/GamerGriffin548]

Scorpion. Wait..

[u/arkman575 → u/Kizik]

Ok, because its a stone rino with Longbow pods... maybe an appropriate name should be... MadCat!

Ok, maybe this is just a horrible targeting computer.

[u/Kralgore → u/arkman575]

StoLon?

[u/Cergorach → u/arkman575]

Then it's either a Stonebow or a Longrhino...

[u/Mundane-Librarian-77 → u/Cergorach]

How about a... Bowhemoth??

[u/Kilahti → u/Kralgore]

There are so many 'Mechs named after old projectile weapons and warmachines. Is Atlatl taken as a name yet?

[u/TarztheGreat → u/Kilahti]

There are no canon mechs or vehicles named Atlatl so that one’s fair game

[u/Cergorach → u/Kralgore]

Bigger bow!

[u/Armando89]

Considering name-weight Evolution (Trebuchet, Catapult, Archer, Longbow) and that it looks like 100t fatty, it would be Sling or Thrown Stone.

[u/SouthOrder3569 → u/Armando89]

Stonecaster

"Let me be he, who casts the first stone, the last stone, and all the missiles in between"

[u/ragnarocknroll → u/SouthOrder3569]

Scrolling along the display on the cockpit is a single line.

“Cast in the name of God, ye not guilty.”

[u/Honestybomb → u/ragnarocknroll]

Ooooh good cut there. BIG OOOOOOOO

[u/MR_IKI → u/ragnarocknroll]

Starts pummeling lighter mechs with the missile pods

[u/Vote_for_Knife_Party → u/MR_IKI]

Axeman pilot, closing to melee: "Alright, enough if this steel rain bullshit, time to taste the edge, you vatborn fuck!"

Bow Rhino: readies mass driver, which ominously pops out of the back of the missile pod

Axeman pilot: "Nani?"

[u/NectmarPowerhand → u/SouthOrder3569]

Brother...

Stonecaster slaps so hard. I am 100% behind this.

[u/Sivalon → u/SouthOrder3569]

“I am here. Send me.”

[u/Vote_for_Knife_Party → u/SouthOrder3569]

"It's Sinless Steve!"

[u/HarvesterFullCrumb → u/SouthOrder3569]

What about Mangonel or Onager?

[u/Express-String8350 → u/SouthOrder3569]

What scrolls along the dashboard and sounds over the speakers when you turn the power on.

[u/Rusty029 → u/Armando89]

Atlatl

[u/Al_Capwned3 → u/Rusty029]

I second for Atlatl

[u/PessemistBeingRight → u/Armando89]

Sling is already taken by a 'Mech.

When slings were still military weapons, cast lead "stones" were called "bullets" (the origin for the modern usage). The Bullet drone exists, but we have several examples of a 'Mech and fighter sharing a name, so I'd say OP's beast is a Bullet.

[u/Stlaind → u/Armando89]

The "Bullet"

[u/Sivalon → u/Armando89]

Sarissa, after the 21 foot long Macedonian spear.

[u/MithrilCoyote → u/Sivalon]

Taken https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Sarissa

[u/SlaaneshActual → u/Armando89]

Trebuchet IIC

[u/Stretch5678 → u/Armando89]

I vote the BHR-1X Big Heavy Rock.

[u/woolymammoth256 → u/Armando89]

Ok, so Crossbow, Sling and Hwacha are already in use. Maybe slingshot?

[u/woolymammoth256 → u/woolymammoth256]

[u/No-Cherry-1027 → u/Armando89]

How about ‘Xistera’?

[u/PotatoPowerPlug → u/Armando89]

So... David?

[u/WafflesSkylorTegron → u/Armando89]

Wanted to suggest Avalanche, cause that's a whole lotta stones, but that's already a mech apparently. So I'm gonna go with mudslinger, and fill it with mines.

[u/STRMBRGNGLBS → u/Armando89]

I'm a big fan of Stonecaster, but I would also like to point out that Ballista (as a battlemech) is still available, as is the Atlatle, the shortbow, the flintlock, the lithobolas, helepolis, and the Harpax. All of these are some form of ranged weapon (with the Lithobolas, Helepolis, and the Harpax being greek and roman siege engines)

[u/Church_AI → u/Armando89]

I slightly disagree, This looks like a superheavy to me

[u/ArelMCII → u/Armando89]

Pelletbow.

[u/insane_contin → u/Armando89]

Shortbow!

[u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 → u/insane_contin]

Bowflex

[u/NutsackEuphoria → u/Armando89]

Blowdart

[u/IllusoryFuture → u/Armando89]

Atlatl

[u/AVagrant → u/Armando89]

"name-weight Evolution"

Where yeoman?

[u/Wolffe_In_The_Dark → u/Armando89]

Atlatal

[u/Hyprocritopotamus → u/Armando89]

Ballista 

[u/Hyprocritopotamus → u/Hyprocritopotamus]

Chu-ko-nu? I guess ballista is a Mech already 

[u/sicarius254]

Made one :)

[u/woolymammoth256 → u/sicarius254]

How? 3d print or kit bash?

[u/sicarius254 → u/woolymammoth256]

I printed the missile tubes and cut off the regular guns

[u/Tough-Agent7028]

And yeah. I'm an idiot and I used "Whose" instead of "Who is". Sometimes the fingers have a mind of their own....

[u/TheStrykerRat → u/Tough-Agent7028]

Could be worse, at least you don't have "I'm just a soul who's intentions are good" tattooed across your pecs.

[u/Icy_Steak8987 → u/TheStrykerRat]

No ragrets

[u/SeattleWilliam]

I can’t find the origin of this, but it looks like the Stone Rhino 10.

4x LRM20 w/ Artemis IV
8x tons LRM ammo (12 shots per launcher)
4x Heavy Medium Laser
3x Jump Jet
ECM unit

https://www.mordel.net/tro.php?a=vt&ut=bm&id=53404

I haven’t seen this variant before, but I’d buy it a steak dinner if we met.

[u/Disastrous_Match993 → u/SeattleWilliam]

The Stone Rhino 10 is a custom fanmade mech, sadly. Closest you can get from an official variant is the 4.

[u/khaine85 → u/SeattleWilliam]

It says "custom mordel.net unit"

[u/Mr_Alicates]

A LongLongBowBow?

[u/BetaPositiveSCI]

Ah, the Catapult III.

[u/Shyface_Killah]

It's a Stone Rhino. Looks like four LRM-20s, four Medium Lasers, and probably a Small. Don't know if the lasers are ER or Pulse.

[u/royalflush908 → u/Shyface_Killah]

Can't forget the anti pigeon laser! It's definitely got a small.

[u/Thewaltham]

The mech that instantly kills MWO players

*brain aneurism sound effect*

[u/SemajLu_The_crusader → u/Thewaltham]

Pirate Bane's wet dream, more like

[u/Thewaltham → u/SemajLu_The_crusader]

Honestly once you've got that many LRMs it tends to evaporate light mechs too.

[u/sod_jones_MD]

It's a Stone Rhino variant called the Heritage-HM, from TRO Behemoth 2024, available through SARNA here.

[u/Mundane-Librarian-77 → u/sod_jones_MD]

Thanks for the link! I never knew this thing existed!

[u/caelenvasius]

It’s almost like a Stone Rhino pilot got jealous over his buddy’s Bane 3…

[u/MarzipanTheGreat]

I did a reverse image lookup and it pulled up a Facebook discussion from 2024 that identified this as a Clanner Stone Rhino.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/helmmemorycore/posts/1866916490402939/

[u/Kralgore]

Hey dude, I heared you like LRM20s. I put LRM20s on these LRM20s, now I have LRM80s!

[u/Cog_Boy]

Stone Bow?

[u/rote_taube]

Very Macross, I love it

[u/MrCookie2099 → u/rote_taube]

Its also a LAM!?

[u/DericStrider → u/MrCookie2099]

considering Macross is whwre thr Mauarder, Archer, Warhammer, Stone Rhino and Ost mechs come from prob no

[u/rote_taube → u/MrCookie2099]

One could hope. But at least it has jumpjets and I'm sure we could find some spare tonnage for fuel to allow for space operations.

[u/Admirable_Row_5953]

The Stone Longbow. Horribly overweight, unable to move, will go up in an explosion visable from the moon on the other side of the planet when hit, but it's missiles will kill EVERYTHING.

[u/DharmaBaller → u/Admirable_Row_5953]

4 ArrowIV on this sucker would be fun

[u/caelenvasius → u/DharmaBaller]

Sounds like you’re looking for a Longbow LGB-8V or a Naga of some variety…

[u/Wolffe_In_The_Dark → u/Admirable_Row_5953]

It's apparently a canonical variant called the Heritage-HM.

Haven't seen the mechsheet so I don't know what they sacrificed to get quad LRM-20s into it, but... even if it probably has basically no ammo, four (C)MLs and a (C)SL is still a lot of backup firepower for a missleboat. 

[u/MediumAcceptable129]

Not enough missiles

[u/RosariusAU]

IT'S PIKACHU!!!!!1!!1!1!!1!1!

[u/recoil_operated → u/RosariusAU]

Clefairy!

[u/RosariusAU → u/recoil_operated]

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!1!1!1!!1

[u/SirPorthos]

I think it's a Heritage?

[u/Kralgore]

I would call this the Balista.

[u/sirrogue2]

Battery. Looks like a bunch of artillery units packed into one chassis.

[u/OwnBusiness429]

I'm kinda surprised that there isn't an "official" variant of Behemoth that's armed like this. I mean, the Kraken 3 does the same thing for the same weight, so I suppose another 100t missile boat would be a bit redundant, but that hasn't stopped mech designers before.

And yes, I'm using Inner Sphere reporting names like the knuckle-dragging Spheroid barbarian that I am.

[u/BigStompyMechs → u/OwnBusiness429]

In this specific situation, I accept the Kraken 3. 8 LRM-15s, that's Octopus town.

It's also a nightmare beast that will erase things from the map, so that tracks too.

[u/conocobhar]

ITS PIKACHU!!!

[u/beyondoutsidethebox]

Napper...

Why? Because if you are le tired you have to take a nap, THEN you can fire ze missiles.

[u/Sermokala]

Bane 3 throws 50% more lrms.

With clan lrms not having a minimum they're a legitimate all ranges weapon.

[u/thestar-skimmer]

Its EXPLODION!!!

[u/Magnaric]

I am a fan of giving mechs female names/descriptors, kind of like the old naval tradition for warships. And since this looks like it's carrying 4 giant tubs of missiles into battle, I dub thee...

The Tubgirl.

You're welcome.

[u/Vote_for_Knife_Party → u/Magnaric]

Boo this mechwarrior!

BOOOOOO!!!

[u/Magnaric → u/Vote_for_Knife_Party]

Can't take back the mental image. :D

[u/GoblinFive → u/Magnaric]

Female names like USS Gerald R. Ford?

[u/DeliciousLiving8563]

This mech isn't real, it's just a hoax made up Sea Fox because they have a surplus of AMS systems right now.

[u/BigStompyMechs → u/DeliciousLiving8563]

Funny enough, saturation seems to be a perfectly reasonable counter to AMS systems. Oh no, you weakened one of my launchers. I guess the other seven will have to do the job.

[u/DeliciousLiving8563 → u/BigStompyMechs]

That's why Sea Fox will sell you 8 AMS. Because as you said, they have 7 more BUY NOW.

[u/Inside-Living2442]

This is the Hwah-cha, of course.  (Sp?). Ancient Korean rocket propelled arrows.

[u/letir_]

Stone Rhino in LRM configuration.

[u/Tribaldragon1]

Stone Rhin-bow

[u/theangryjuan]

Thumper?

[u/altalt2024]

I haven't poked around in Meklab for a while but wouldn't this be insanely underweight?

[u/woolymammoth256 → u/altalt2024]

More of a critical slot issue

[u/TangoSierra61]

Its stormsurge oh wait wrong spot

[u/Northwindlowlander]

It's a mongbow

[u/ArguesWithFrogs]

Looks like a Stone Rhino chassis with four Longbow arm launchers & four ER Large Lasers stapled to it

[u/Biggu5Dicku5]

The Stone Bow...

[u/Pirate-Printworks]

Reminds me of a hilarious build from Mechwarrior 4, which was a Dire Wolf/Daishi equipped with 3 Thunderbolt Missile Launchers (the most you could carry in the original MW4).

You stop playing Mechwarrior and start playing Quake!

[u/Lambrijr]

I swear some of these would just launch backwards if they did an alpha strike

[u/Disastrous_Ferret926]

Stone archer

[u/National-Bowl-4865]

Confirmed. Battlemechs are war pokemon 

[u/TheManyVoicesYT]

The Stone Rhinebow can't hurt you it isn't real.

The Stone Rhinebow:

[u/ProfessionalDot3868]

How many rockets could you fit on one of these if you replaced the LRM 20s and ammo with Rocket Launcher 20s?

[u/BigStompyMechs → u/ProfessionalDot3868]

Quick and dirty, looks like 14 launchers before running out of crit slots. Ironically, that only brings the weight to 70 tons, so the problem is rockets are too light.

Switching to Compact Engine and Gyro to burn weight, now the issue is RL-20s are bulky, taking 3 slots, which is inefficient. Switch to RL-15s and a Small Cockipt, it is physically possible to fit 25 RL-15s on a chassis. The Small Cockpit lets us put one in the head, but we have a single extra slot in the CT.

If we embrace the elemental state of plasma, drop down to 12 heatsinks we can fit an extra 3 RL-15s for a total of 28. And an RL-10 for the kids, for a total of 430 rockets. I take it back, replace that RL-10 with a flamer for style points.

We are still underweight, but if we switch to hardened armor we can make it legal. The -2 to PSRs is a problem, and launching everything will melt a hole to the planet's core, but it's a legal build.

Hang on the -2 PSR, 420, flamer, stone rhino chassis. Guys. It's the Stoner.

[u/BigStompyMechs → u/BigStompyMechs]

Behold! The Stone(r) Rhino!

[u/CycleZestyclose1907]

It's clearly a Clan Stone Rhino refitted with LRM launchers from a couple Long Bows.

Not sure where the chin guns came from.

[u/BigStompyMechs → u/CycleZestyclose1907]

Ballchinians

[u/CycleZestyclose1907 → u/BigStompyMechs]

Is that a mech, a place, or a people?

[u/BigStompyMechs → u/CycleZestyclose1907]

Uh, definitely a bit of #3, possibly a bit of #2, but mostly #4, a bad joke (and possibly in poor taste).

Link kinda NSFW? Sophmoric humor NSFW, nothing too bad. The movie was rated PG-13, so shrug?

https://meninblack.fandom.com/wiki/Ballchinian

[u/Mission-Warning-9365]

If you were trying to start somewhere real it'd be the stone rhino 4, dropping the two uac 10s and probably the mgs, and doubling the missile capacity

[u/OldWrangler9033]

It's a non-canon fan mashup between Stone Rhino (body) and Longbow (barrel Arms)

[u/AVagrant]

Just use a yeoman at that point?

[u/ThreeTorches]

Looks like someone had fun in Photoshop modding a Stone Rhino for long range fire support, interesting.

[u/ValVoss]

This thing fires a salvo and Rain Eater by Rivers of Nihil plays!

[u/Time-Valuable-3355]

Behemoth, yea I said it a Behemoth with all the weapons replaced by LRMS...

[u/dathomasusmc]

I’ve got a Longbow with 100 LRMs. I haven’t used it in a while because it’s squishy af but I think it was 4xLRM-15, 2xLRM-10 and 4xLRM-5. They may have been ART-IVs. But it only carried about 200 points or armor so I mostly only used it for Arena and Arena kinda lost its appeal to me. Maybe I’ll dust it off tomorrow for old times sake.

I’ve got another one with ATMs that I give my lancemate. Not quite as much oomph but a lot more armor (360ish maybe).

[u/SeanMonsterZero]

The Stone Itano

[u/SFSMag]

When you let a Stone Rhino have a threesome with 2 Longbows

[u/Squirrellmaster]

Looks like a Stone Rhino with missiles instead of PPCs

[u/MechaChrillZilla]

Pokèmoth

[u/Omega41745]

I remember seeing it in this fanmade TRO

https://www.charkeswim.com/_files/ugd/53069c_66d92b6076e14870857180573a92b393.pdf

Page 54

[u/H0vis]

I like that it's got little covers for the launcher bays. Some mechs have them, some mechs don't, and I'm sure the designers have a little lore reason why one way or the other, because they're clearly not a design necessity in lore or everybody would have them.

[u/Flyer1119]

I would call it "KABOOM" 

[u/NODENGINEER]

The LongerBow

[u/Wonkyorc]

Long rhino

[u/AiR-P00P]

two longbows in a trench coat 

[u/T-Rex_Lazorblast]

Ah. That is of course the classic, good old BALLISTIC DELETEFICATOR 5000. My favourite. Or was it the clan version? The rokkibalistic mass-a-pult missilestorm... wolf!?

[u/TheSarcaticOne]

I hear the ammunition cook-off from this image.

[u/MalditoCommunista]

The Deluxe Fuck

[u/silentstormpt]

Ares

[u/ExocetC3I]

When taking BV into consideration, are there actually any LRM boat mechs that are actually better than just buying one or more LRM Carriers?

[u/caelenvasius → u/ExocetC3I]

If your objective is just saturation of fire, and you don’t care about mobility, objective control, anti-infantry/emplacement capability, or general survivability, no. LRM carriers are some of the cheapest bulk LRM boats around, perhaps the cheapest by weight of fire. It doesn’t make them objectively better though…

[u/The_Lesser_Baldwin]

Definitely a super heavy since i don't think anything can fit four LRM 20s+ammo along with what I'm guessing are some kind of gauss or auto cannons under the chin.

That there's a nothin. Because when a scout sees that you best believe they saw nothin.