Heres the latest addition to my Battletech project, a rather beaten up looking Cougar called Ella piloted by David Wilson, the current commander of the rather hapless Wilsons Hussars!
Wilsons Cougar
Wilson is only forty years of age but looks ten years older due to the strain of keeping his misfit outfit up and running.
Having been stranded on the Periphery for over a year, the Hussars have become desperate enough to take service with the Draconis Combine and are being used as pawns by their Kurita masters to cause disruption to the Federated Suns defenders without having to commit loyal and expensive house units of their own.
Eat This!
For their part the Hussars are happy to just have work again and Captain Wilson has hopes of raising enough to put his badly mauled Mechs back in proper operational order.
Rear View
Despite is forlorn appearance, Ella is actually in fairly good working order other than having to have her shot up medium lasers replaced with a pair of medium autocannon while out on the Periphery where parts became increasingly scarce for the Hussars after their last contract ran out and left them stuck in the boondocks.
Despite being run down, Wilson pilots Ella with great skill and determination
Thus far only a lance of the Hussars have arrived dirtside as the rest are in need of extensive repair before they are remotely capable of seing combat. Fortunately for them, their Kurita paymasters have offered them a generous line of credit with the Combine supplies division. Thus far Wilson has resisted the temptation to put them into the debt of the Dragon as he is fully aware of the difficulty of climbing back out of it and some surreptitious raids on some of the Federated Suns stockpiles and some underworld contacts have managed to furnish his Mechs with just about enough to keep them going.
Wilson is ambushed by Kitty DeVries while on patrol
I did a small amount of conversion to Ella, reposing her legs to give her a slightly more dynamic pos and greater height and replacing her puny lasers with a more substancial pair of Autocannon along with ammo bins and a small laser mounted on her left flank, one of the few pieces of high tech that Wilsons Hussars have managed to lay their hands on.
Things seem to look grim for Captain Wilson as DeVries's lancemate Mac arrives to back her up
I hope to get the rest of the Hussar lance sorted soon as I have three modified civilian Mechs lined up to provide a cheap and interesting lance for my Davion forces to fight against!
All the best!
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