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While the advent of Ferro Fibrous Armor and Double Heat sinks made the WHM-6R Warhammer a greatly improved machine, many Critics of the design noted that the so called "Royal" Warhammer was over sinked for what it could do.  the solution for the SLDF was to sell of 6Rb Warhammers and focus on an improved WHM-7A.  it did not take long for House Mechwarriors to figure out the same thing most SLDF pilots did.  the 17 Double heat sinks allowed the WHM-6Rb to fire all of it's weapons at a run... but by time it could practically do so, the Donal PPCs were inside their minimum range.

Most houses just grinned and beared the privilege of never overheating in their mechs, but the Quartermaster Corps of the LCAF started ordering the excess double heat sinks to be ripped out and think tanks to figure out how to effectively replace the equipment.

the tonnage and space provided by removing the Double Heat Sinks made the torso as canvernous as the Reunifacation War Warhammers.  an engineer from the 16th Lyran Guard suggested adding CASE to the mech and relocating the maching gun ammo bin to the same location as the short ranged missiles.  An AFFS officer attached to the Skye Rangers on Military exchange told of an unofficial modification of their Warhammers that removed the SRM Rack in favor of up-armoring the entire mech.  with the removal of excess heat sinks this up armoring could be done while retaining the SRM pack.  Finally Star Corps insisted on adding a Beagle probe to the Warhammer at it's own cost, a piece of equipment regarded by the LCAF as a "cute toy for scout mechs."  after action reports from the filed showed howver the probe was invaluable in urban combat

the new WHM-6Rs was distributed to officers Hauptmann rank and above acting as "point men" among lances and companies of Warhammers.  a few of these found thier way into the SLDF as well and became valued among non Royal command officers. 

The removal of the "excess" Double heat sinks had a secondary effect for the LCAF during the succession wars, in sofar as the LCAF was the last house to functionally "lose" the technology in the mid 29th century

Warhammer WHM-6Rs

Mass: 70 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: Age of War/Star League
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/E-F-D-A
Production Year: 2599
Cost: 6,961,783 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,577

Chassis: StarCorps 100 Standard
Power Plant: VOX 280 Fusion Engine
Walking Speed: 43.2 km/h
Maximum Speed: 64.8 km/h
Jump Jets: None
    Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Leviathon Plus Ferro-Fibrous w/ CASE
Armament:
    2 Donal PPCs
    1  SRM-6 w/ Artemis IV FCS
    2 Martell Medium Lasers
    2 Magna Small Lasers
    2 SperryBrowning Machine Guns
    1  Beagle Active Probe
Manufacturer: StarCorps Industries, Olivetti Weaponry, Vandenberg Mechanized Industries, Taurus Territorial Industries
    Primary Factory: Emris IV (StarCorps), Sudeten (Olivetti), Pinard (VMI), Taurus (TTI)
Communications System: O/P 3000 COMSET
Targeting and Tracking System: O/P 1500 ARB

Additional:


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Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
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Internal Structure: Standard                     107 points                7.00
Engine:             Fusion Engine                280                      16.00
    Walking MP: 4
    Running MP: 6
    Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks:         Double Heat Sink             13(26)                    3.00
    Heat Sink Locations: 2 LT
Gyro:               Standard                                               3.00
Cockpit:            Standard                                               3.00
    Actuators:      L: SH+UA+LA    R: SH+UA+LA
Armor:              Ferro-Fibrous                AV - 215                 12.00
    Armor Locations: 1 HD, 2 CT, 1 RT, 3 LA, 3 RA, 2 LL, 2 RL
    CASE Locations: 1 RT                                                   0.50

                                                      Internal       Armor     
                                                      Structure      Factor     
                                                Head     3            9         
                                        Center Torso     22           32       
                                 Center Torso (rear)                  10       
                                           L/R Torso     15           24       
                                    L/R Torso (rear)                  6         
                                             L/R Arm     11           22       
                                             L/R Leg     15           30       

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Equipment                                 Location    Heat    Critical    Mass 
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Machine Gun                                  RT        0         1         0.50
Small Laser                                  RT        1         1         0.50
Medium Laser                                 RT        3         1         1.00
SRM-6                                        RT        4         2         3.00
    Artemis IV FCS                           RT        -         1         1.00
Beagle Active Probe                          RT        0         2         1.50
Machine Gun                                  LT        0         1         0.50
Small Laser                                  LT        1         1         0.50
Medium Laser                                 LT        3         1         1.00
PPC                                          RA        10        3         7.00
PPC                                          LA        10        3         7.00
@SRM-6 (15)                                  RT        -         1         1.00
@MG (200)                                    RT        -         1         1.00
                                            Free Critical Slots: 9

BattleForce Statistics
MV      S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:      7    Points: 16
4          4       4       2       0      3     0   Structure:  6
Special Abilities: PRB, RCN, CASE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA