These are a quicker way to generate 'Mechs and work in the following way. You fill in the Mech Data sheet (putting all tonnages in column D, and all other data (movement rates and the like) in column B). This will then tell you what values you have for your armour and internal structure, and then using Excels bordering function, you can border the armour and internal structure of your 'Mech. It's all incredibly simple and quick too.
Remember: When filling in these sheets, each item of equipment must fit into the critical slots on the sheet (inside of the thickly bordered areas) and each critical slot takes up 2 of the small grey internal squares. You cannot put equipment anyway with the internal area, it must fit within the critical areas.
Please check out the rules clarification regarding the assigning of equipment to critical slots.
Because these Excel sheets are easier and quicker to fill out than the standard PDF files, they are going to become the de facto record sheet for all 'Mechs found on this site. You can download the completed sheets from the various Technical Readout section.
For those who don't own Microsoft Office, rest assured that Microsoft do have Free Excel Viewers available for download on their website, so you don't need to buy additional software to be able to view these sheets.
Note: If you had downloaded any Excel sheets before September 2004, please discard them and download them again. The early sheets had a lot of critical errors which have now been corrected.
Filled in record sheets can be found scattered throughout the various Technicial Readouts.
The record sheets use a lot of abbreviations. Here's what they mean. Vehicle notes are tagged in with the Other Equipment section.
Head:
- P - Pilot
- LS - Life Support
- SN - Sensors
Arms:
- SH - Shoulder
- UA - Upper Arm Actuator
- LA - Lower Arm Actuator
- HA - Hand
Torso:
- E - Engine
- G - Gyro
Legs:
- HP - Hip
- UL - Upper Leg Actuator
- LL - Lower Leg Actuator
- FT - Foot
Other Equipment:
- HS - Heat Sink
- JJ - Jump Jet
- SC - Supercharger
- ECM - Various ECM measures. Actual types will be listed under the Equipment list.
- PA - Power Amplifier
Weapons:
- SL - Small Laser
- ML - Medium Laser
- LL - Large laser
- PPC - Particle Projector Cannon
- MG - Machine Gun
- AC - Autocannon
- SRM - Short Range Missile Rack
- LRM - Long Range Missile Rack
- A1, A2 etc - Ammunition
- FLAM - Flamer
Weapon Data:
On the weapon data lists, the damage listed is as per normal BattleTech stats. This is useful for building and other types of damage.
