Thumper Artillery

The (IS) Thumper Artillery Piece is the smallest conventional artillery piece in MW:LL. While it can be used as Field Artillery weapon, the Thumper is perhaps best known for its use as a direct firing main gun.

Overview

Using the Thumper as indirect artillery piece can be challenging as it lacks the Long Tom's targeting computer, and the shell explosion radius is fairly small compared to the Long Tom counterpart.

Thumper projectiles arc toward there intended target so lining up your cross hairs on the target may cause the shell to drop short, in which case you'll have to aim above the target in-order for the shell to strike. The amount of arc is trial and error but with a little practice one can become proficient at devastating the enemy in a couple of shots, at the least you will remove much of their armor causing them to retreat. Thus taking them out of the fight and reducing their CBills having to repair and possibly keeping them from moving up to a larger variant.

Weapon Stats

Weapon	Max Range	Dmg Drop Range	Dmg Drop /m	Hit Damage/Shot	Splash Damage/Shot	Damage Type	Splash Radius	Shots /min	Sustained DPS	Speed (m/s)	Heat /Shot	Ammo /ton	Ammo cost /ton
Thumper	13900m	---	---	1000	1000	Energy	10m	9	316	700	200	8	2400
Snub-Nose Thumper	970m							6	210	300	250

	All stats are current as of release 0.14.10

Gameplay & Hints

Thumper

• The unit must be anchored down (Left CTRL - Deploy/Un-Deploy) to fire

History

Smub-Nose variant was added to the game in release 0.11.3

Canon

Thumper was created by Brooks Incorporated as a cheap knockoff of the SLDF's Thor Artillery Vehicle. The vehicle was mass produced and sold to the Successor States from 2735 to 3046. Sales of the vehicle fell off in the years following the Fourth Succession War. The vehicle was put into production again and refitted for modern combat during the Jihad. During this chaotic time, Brooks Inc. used the advantage of defense spending increases to begin selling its vehicle to the Word of Blake. It is suspected that Brooks conspired with the fanatical Blakists to ensure that newly revised equipment and sales would go to them. Brooks Inc attempted to sell the vehicle to other powers, including Periphery realms, however had failed in their endeavors. The current version of the vehicle is noted for its mobility, crew comfort, and electronic defenses. By the time of the Dark Age, it has become the most common mobile artillery platform used in that era.

BattleTech reference

Usage

The following Inner Sphere assets equip Thumpers:

Thumper	Snub-Nose Thumper
Rommel (A)	Marauder (A)