The Storm Giant is the heaviest mecha currently in production (there are a few heavier prototypes, but they are years away from entering service) and has been built in very low numbers (estimates range from 35 to 50). The main problem is that it has, in general, the performance of a low-end main-battle tank but the price tage of a high-end tank. The Storm Giant is a little more reliable than one would expect and can lift 50 tons, but still isn't as good as a tank at the same cost.
Primary armament is a pod-mounted 120mm liquid-propellant tank gun over the right shoulder. While it has good perfrormance, it's location, along with high recoil, can destabilize the mecha if fired on the highest-powered setting. A 15mmC chaingun is mounted in each arm to deal with infantry and unarmored vehicles. A 127mm launcher fires through the top of the left shoulder, fed from a six-round magazine of SAMs (a top-mounted launcher is not a real problem for a humanoid mech). As an afterthought, to make use of a large amount of empty torso space, two multi-tube muzzleloading launchers were installed, firing the popular 102mm Raptor artillery rockets. The launchers are wired to allow firing the rockets in multiples of five; the presence of 100 rockets gives the Storm Giant a quite noticable added punch.
Notes: When rolling for breakdowns, treat the Storm Giant as TL9. If the cannon is fired on the high LP setting, a (Driving(Mecha)+SR-footing penalties) roll must be made or the mecha falls over (normal effort to stand back up).
Subassemblies: Body +4, full rotation Turret +0, Pod +3, two
Arms +1, two Legs +3
P&P: 2150 kW gas turbine w/2000 kW improved legged drivetrain,
4246 kWh rechargable battery (2 hours full power)
Fuel: 500 gallons diesel (fire chance: 7) in five 100-gallon
self-sealing tanks, 4.23 hours fuel (160 miles @ 60% top speed)
Occ: 1 CCS
Cargo: 5 cf (40 cf empty in body, 80 cf empty each leg)
| Armor | F | R/L | B | T | U |
| Body | 6/2,000 L | 5/450 L | 4/400 L | 4/350 L | 4/200 L |
| Turret | 4/250 L | 4/250 L | 4/250 L | 4/250 L | 0/0 |
| Gun Pod | 4/500 L | 4/500 L | 4/500 L | 4/500 L | 4/500 L |
| Arms | 4/350 L | 4/350 L | 4/350 L | 4/350 L | 4/350 L |
| Legs | 4/350 L | 4/350 L | 4/350 L | 4/350 L | 4/350 L |
Weaponry
15mmC minigun [Right Arm] (2,000 AP)
15mmC minigun [Left Arm] (2,000 AP)
120mm LP cannon [Gun Pod:F] (60 APFSDS)
2*102mm launchers [Body:F] (50 HEDP rockets each)
127mm launcher [Body:T] (6 HEPF missiles)
Equipment
Turret: HUDWAC, radar (40 miles, Scan 20), thermograph (60 miles,
Scan 21)
Body: basic cockpit, advanced comsuite, basic comsuite, trauma
maintenance
Gun Pod: full stabilization for tank gun
Right Leg: 6 dischargers (blackout gas), 12 reloads
Left Leg: 6 dischargers (blackout gas), 12 reloads
Right/Left Arms: ST 5,100 cheap arm motors
Statistics
| Size: 10'x3.3'x3.3' | Payload: 9350 lbs | Lwt: 100,361 lbs (51.18 tons) |
| Volume: 1034 cf (Size Mod: +4) | Maint.: 8 hours | Price: $5,900,000 |
HT: 10
HP: 2560 [body], 884 [each leg], 612 [each arm], 164 [turret]
| gSpeed: 51 | gAccel: 5 | gDecel: 20 | gMR: 1.5 | gSR: 3 | GP: high (1/2) |
Design Notes
Frame is extra heavy for 600 cf body, 10 cf turret, 130 cf pod, 25
cf arm (each) and 122 cf (each) leg. Structural and surface features include
sealed, psi-shielded, basic IR cloaking, basic stealth, basic sound baffling,
and basic chameleon. Body has ST 5120.
New Weapons
15mmC minigun: six long barrels, electric gatling
API ammo: Dam 13d+2(2) Cr, Malf Ver, SS 20, Acc 14, 1/2 Dam 1100 yds,
Max 5100 yds, ROF 60; $3.36 and 0.21 lbs per round; gun $17,100, 76 lbs,
1.27 kW
120mm liquid propellant smoothbore cannon: one long barrel, slow
autoloader, smoothbore, LP
Dam 6dx18, Malf Ver, Type Cr, SS 30, Acc 15, 1/2 Dam 3100 yds, Max
9700 yds, ROF 1/6
APFSDS ammo is 6dx36(2), 1/2Dam 4650 yds, Max 14550 yds, +1 Acc
Sidewinder II (127mm short-range AAM): IIRH, normal HEPF-ABF warhead, Dam 6dx128 [20d] Exp, Skill 19, Max 25,000 yards (14.8 miles), Speed 2000 yds/sec, 195 lbs, $29,800
Raptor 102mm artillery rockets: 6dx88 HEC or 6dx27(5) HEDP, 1/2 Dam 1500 yds, Max 2800 yds, Acc 13, SS 20, Speed 900, unguided; rockets are $500 (HEC) or $585 (HEDP) and 25 lbs each.