BATTLETECH: The Demolisher

The #Demolisher is one of the most shockingly powerful #tanks in the history of the #InnerSphere. Built after the #SuccessionWars, this monstrosity is a slayer of #Battlemechs and other #Battletanks. It isn’t fast, and it’s not extremely well armoured, but it is exceptionally well armed.

There are legends and fables about this thing’s lethality.

Even the #Clans and their Warriors would find these things a truly dangerous opponent, as they were ambushed, and blasted out of their mechs, if they were lucky.

It has fought in every war, and in every major campaign since its appearance. The #GreatHouses were truly blessed by this #Comstar sponsored machine… unless you count all those who suffered because of it.

Better yet, this will be appearing in plastic, on the tabletop for #Battletech soon. If you want to know more about the upcoming Kickstarter on March 23rd when it’ll appear, you can find the Backerkit page here:

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[idioluh]

- Demolisher? What a stupid name! Do they call it a Demolisher because it demolish mechs?
- Actually, yes. It does.

[paladinslash]

To quote a certain Texan. “How am I going to stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer is a gun. And if that don’t work, use more gun.”

[Bomfunker]

More than once in HBS Battletech, I've been cavalier about sending my lance into a terrain-heavy area, only for one of those red blips to turn into a pair of AC20s eager to say hello. Horrifying little monster, this thing.

[dehibler]

Demolisher are the only things in the battle tech universe that a Steiner scout lance will actually make a plan to attack.

[Alverant]

In HBS Battletech I dismissed a Demolisher and it removed the head of my most experienced pilot. I felt like King Author in Monty Python's Grail movie when they saw what the rabbit could do.

[kitirena_koneko]

Before TR3050 was released, I was playing a classic BattleTech game against a friend, and we were fielding a lance each of Mechs and vehicles. My friend fielded a Demolisher he named "Moses". I asked him why he named it that, and he replied, "Because when you encounter him, you're going to beg me to let your people go!"

He was right.

[guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac]

My favorite story involving the demolisher has to be one from the TRO's; a group of pirates were trying to raid the warehouses of a Combine star port, but while they had a full company of mechs and an assault lance... there was only one way they could credibly approach from and it was guarded by 4 demolishers. Unable to bait them into the open or outflank them, the pirates decided to try and bulldoze their way in with their assault lance, guessing that they could use them to absorb the firepower and distract the tankers long enough to allow more units to simply storm in.

The plan failed utterly as the tankers concentrated their 8 heavy AC on each mech as they rounded the corner, tearing the 85 ton rampages to peices, and ultimately forcing the pirates to retreat with the brutal losses they'd incured.

[Somewhat-Evil]

An ICE engine means no "power up detected" warning from your mech's on-board computer assistant. 💀
Thankfully it needs regular refueling. ⛽

[michaelmorford]

Demolisher is everything the Urbanmech UM-R60L was supposed to be, but twice as effective (or more)

[Archangelm]

"Good enough is fucking perfect." --Professor Tex

[meining-mech]

My buddy is very proud of his Demolisher. He scored the old BattleDroids 4-treaded version in a eBay sale, and always deploys it when he can. I’ve felt its caress a few times, and ooof, that hurts!

[Chris_Sizemore]

When mech pilots gather together and start telling horror stories, the Demolisher is the boogeyman. A monster that stalks the concrete jungle. The beast that barks from the forest. The lone gunman haunting the hills. The legend of the Demolisher is its biggest weakness. Even when mech pilots have other more vulnerable targets, they will focus on the Demolisher first. That is the kind of respect the Demolisher has earned.

The Demolisher is one of the few vehicles that would make a clan warrior lament that this tank isn't fair. It would raise fear amongst the clanners, who more than death fear the dishonor of being bested by a tank. In a galaxy dominated by mechs, this is one of the few tanks that get treated as an equal.

[mikedowd]

I recall one fun (for me, not the opponent) encounter between a Crusader and a Demolisher. The Crusader managed to get partial cover behind a low ridge and was laying waste to my tank lance with its missiles. The Demolisher rolled up and let go with both barrels. I hit and rolled a pair of sixes on the punch table... One AC/20 hit the head, the other went through the space the head formerly occupied....

[Hardbass]

"The Demolisher. We called it Baba Yaga."

"The Boogeyman?"

"It was not the Boogeyman, per se. It is the one you send *after* the Boogeyman."

"Oh."

[dreammirrorbrony]

I would use a matching pair of these, painted to appear identical. One is the double Gauss Rifles model to lure enemies in to kill it, only to lead them into the close range with its double AC-20 partner.

[ambientlight]

This thing is as terrifying as an Atlas to some. Having playing with and against these monsters, if properly employed they simply outgun most older tech mechs for a fraction of the cost.

[theapostatejack]

Interestingly The Clans learned from their initial encounters with these tracked monsters.
In 3058 a new version of the Demolisher entered production. This one was armed with twin LB 20-X cannons, a pair of co-ax medium pulse lasers, and a six machine guns to keep enemy infantry away.
My best guess is that some Elementals pointed out just how vulnerable tanks are to determined powered infantry, and it spooked the design staff.

[Charon-]

When you simply must give the enemy the old one-two punch.

[rainmaker]

Waiting for Long Tom Artillery Platform. Because fuck that grid in particular.

[wungee]

"There is a fairly awkward weapons system that can, if a pilot is crazy enough, stumble into, take a hit from and then say 'hi' to a Demolisher. This same system can then roflstomp it into 2 dimensions. It can then find that one last guy who survived and decide whether or not to punt him back to his own lines before disappearing, warcrimes unexplained, fading into the fog of war like a cryptid made of dying mens nightmares."