Crusader class

"Offensive momentum is your friend! Keep on moving and look for the soft underbelly of your enemy!"

-NCO drilling Crusader pilots on the combat doctrine of the Crusader

Specs

Classification: High performance Assault Frame

Superior Alliance nick name: One man army, Eggsy

Height: 5 meters

Shielding: None

Armour: Nano-crystalline reinforced blast steel w/ refractive overlay

Powerplant: Cold fusion reactor x 1

Top speed Running: 140 Km/h

Top speed w/Jump jets: 300 Km/h

Max jump height: 100 meters

Max Jump length: 50 meters

Weapons:

Fixed: None

Hard points:

1 x Swivel mounts on each shoulder for Main guns

1 x magnetic latch point for main melee weapons behind each shoulder

10 x magnetic clamp points for smaller equipment (ie: spare ammo magazines, knives, grenades, secondary weapons and sidearms), two located front of shoulder, six on front, side and back of thighs, two on "butt"

1 x hardpoint for mission equipment

1 x "head" hardpoint for specialized equipment

Background:

The pinnacle of assault frame development the Crusader was the realization of the philosophy of the assault frame doctrine. Due to not needing to worry about breakage of humans limbs due to over amplification of speed or strength due to human limbs not being at the core of any moving part, this assault frame was given the highest levels of speed and strength that could be produce with Alliance technology. The arm joints could easily lift into the 50 ton range and the speed produced was easily faster then any assault harness. Due to this the Crusader could easily fire two mech class weapons akimbo with great accuracy and speed. Added to this was the blistering running speed both with and without jump jet assistance, coupled this with great agility and the Crusader was a very hard target to hit. To allow for the survivability to the shock and stress of such combat maneuvers and to survive heavy enemy fire, the pilot was incased in a thick layer of non-Newtonian fluid in the tight fitting cockpit. The main weakness was the lack of sufficient shielding or armoring technology to match the physical performance, the Crusader could best be described as a "glass cannon".

The combat doctrine was for Crusader platoons to either:

a) Deepstrikes into enemy territories where elite units or facilities were eliminated

b)Flanking supporting strikes against armored units too much for infantry to handle

c)Solo Hunter-killer missions against enemy armor or elite units