I'm getting ready to play some more Battletech, both Classic and Alpha Strike, using the sourcebook for the Battletech Animated series. So allow me to introduce you to the original 1st Somerset Strikers.
The 1st Somerset Strikers are lead by Major Adam Steiner in his Axeman mech. House Steiner pioneered the hatchet or ax armed battlemech. The Axeman has a mixture of missiles, lasers, and a fearsome melee weapon.
Captain Miles Hawkins is a FedCom intelligence officer that pilots a 90 ton Mauler. The Mauler is a cool looking mech but I've always found it a bit funny because in my head I think of FedCom Intelligence within the context of mech lance or company as being akin to a recon function and yet Hawkins drives one of the heaviest mechs in the Inner Sphere.
Captain Valten Ryder is a merc who joined the Strikers to escape some debts and obligations. He's a hotshot maverick mech pilot but he starts the series off piloting a Centurion which in the animated series (and arguably in the game itself) is the most average mediocre mech going. This is something that will improve later in in the series...we'll come back to the subject in a future.
Lieutenant Ciro Ramirez rounds out the original version of the Strikers in his Wolfhound. Ramirez is a loyal FedCom warrior and a fierce believer in the old Star League but he's a bit of an uptight pain in the butt for his squad-mates.
This lance is a bit of a mix of models. The Centurion is an old FASA plastic figure from their last CityTech box set. The Wolfhound is a current Catalyst model available in the BattleTech Inner Sphere Striker Lance. The Axeman and Mauler are 3D prints, those same 2 models are also available from Iron Wind Metals in metal, but personally I felt the 3D prints scaled and matched up better with the current Catalyst plastics.
Thanks for checking out the 1st Somerset Strikers, and please check out your friendly local game store for BattleTech rules and miniatures.
-Jay
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