JES-I
| JES-I | ||
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| Class: | Hovercraft | |
| Faction | Inner Sphere | |
| Ticket cost: | 6 upon destruction | |
| Tier: | 6 | |
| Tonnage: | 50 tons | |
| Speed: |
58 km/h (87 km/h with boost) | |
| Turret rotation: | 15° | |
| Turret pitch: | -8° to +35° | |
| Variant Armament | ||
| Variant | Weapons | Equipment |
| Prime: Price: 63 200 CBills Total armor: 16 924 Engine: I.C.E |
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| A: Price: 58 500 CBills Total armor: 16 924 Engine: I.C.E |
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| B: Price: 58 900 CBills Total armor: 19 684 Engine: I.C.E |
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| C: Price: 62 700 CBills Total armor: 16 924 Engine: I.C.E |
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All stats current as of release 0.18.2
The JES-I Tactical Missile Carrier (T.M.C.) is an Inner Sphere medium hovercraft. The JES-I is an odd duck in MWLL's stable, with only slightly more armor tonnage than a Harasser and with poor speed for a hovercraft. Woe betide any pilot naïve enough to underestimate it! All that extra tonnage has gone to mounting absurd amounts of missile weaponry that give it a gravely serious punch. For its pilots and its opponents alike, careful attention must be paid to engagement range and sightlines.
Like its patch-mate the SM1, its weapons have extremely limited traverse and so its pilot must turn the entire asset to engage targets. To compensate, its front panel and 'turret' have less damage transfer to the internals and its reversing speed is much closer to its forward speed than normal. In these assets, positioning and situational awareness is more important than ever to employ them effectively.
Roles and Gameplay Hints
Prime
Variant A
Variant B
Variant C
Canon
Missile carriers have been a staple of the modern battlefield for centuries, and for most of that time Joint Equipment Systems (JES) has been a provider of those vehicles. The Ghost Bear conquest of Alshain and the loss of their main production facility, combined with the loss of the contracts for the upgraded SRM/LRM Carriers in the mid 3050s, nearly killed the remaining Inner Sphere branches of the company. The JES I Tactical Missile Carrier is Joint Equipment Systems’ and the Federated Suns-based company’s first new offering, and while it mounts an impressive number of missile batteries, many believe that the JES engineers did so at the expense of nearly every rational design philosophy. Strong proponents of thinking outside the box, the Panpour-based JES engineering team is hoping the vehicle will stimulate new sales with its unorthodox design and construction. The reason behind JES’s design choice was quite simple; lacking the capital to invest in military-grade fusion engine facilities and with interstellar shipping heavily disrupted, JES adapted one of their civilian engine lines to produce the tiny 15-rated fusion engine used on the JES I. Although hugely inefficient, the designers felt that the ready supply of engines and their reduced cost would at atract buyers.
Date Introduced 3068 during the Era known as "Clan Invasion" (Jihad (3068 - 3080)) - Unit Role: Striker
