Warhammer (BattleTech)

This page is for the 'Mech from BattleTech. If you are looking for the page about the weapon (and Geedubs' various games under that name), please see Warhammer.

Natasha Kerensky's Warhammer from her days as a Dragoon - arguably the most famous Warhammer in the setting.

The WHM-6R Warhammer is one of the most iconic BattleMechs ever put out by BattleTech. How iconic, you ask? Well, it both was the cover 'Mech all the way back when the game was BattleDroids and is considered the Heavy 'Mech of the setting.

Overview

The Warhammer was rolled out in 2515 by StarCorps Industries with the intent of the 'Mech being an absolute menace to other 'Mechs of the same or lower weight class. It achieved this using balls-to-the-wall firepower while making itself hard to kill by being relatively heavy-armored. Needless to say, it did its job and went on to practically define its weight class. Back in the heyday of the Star League, it was both a mainstay of their Defense Force and one of the 'Mechs selected for the Gunslinger Program.

After the collapse of the League brought everything to shit due to the Succession Wars, the Warhammer remained a mainstay since the factories to make it were still prevalent across the Inner Sphere, though the rate of production was a shadow of what it once was. And of course, it underwent a downgrade for a while due to the original specs becoming LosTech like almost everything else made in the era of the Star League. Eventually, the Helm Memory Core would allow the Warhammer to regain its former glory, especially after the Clan Invasion made StarCorps get off their asses and start producing significant numbers of the 'Mech again, this time making variants for each of the major Successor States.

Of course, the 'Mech is also found in the Periphery, with some Periphery powers making their own variants of the 'Mech. And The Clans get their own lineage in the form of IIC variants, based on OG Warhammers brought with them during Kerensky's Exodus.

Gallery

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  Where it all began. (Also Unseen since the design is pretty blatantly "borrowed" from Destroid with dubious legality. And let's not get started with the original name...)

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  A Warhammer headlining a squad of 'Mechs.