Bit of a hypothetical design overhaul, I've decided to go completely modular for HardWired II - Practically everything on the machine will be bolted together so I can adapt and replace things where needs be in a decent enough time frame since I'm about as far from being an engineer as anyone can possibly be. Not going to go and change everything every battle - the chassis will stay the same, but this way I can have both Brushless and Brushed drive available in case the brushless system I've got planned packs in or is generally unreliable. It also means I have a bit more freedom with weaponry, I could take side skirts off to allow for more weight in the drum, for example. Again, it won't be a completely different machine every battle, chances are I'll leave it in either the drum or lifter setup and not mess too much with it, but just in the scenario that something packs in like the Brushless drive, it makes it easier to swap out for a more tried and tested drivetrain. Drills, basically. The idea was to have everything (or just the weapon and drive) in mounts not too dissimilar to the Gimsons GR02s and just bolted into the main chassis.
Because of this, too, I'm thinking of switching from Stainless steel construction to Aluminium since there'll be more surface area to make everything modular I'd guess, and I want it to weigh into the Featherweight category, not the Aircraft Carrier category.
Oh, also, forgot to mention too - part of this is to make it easier to get in the innards of the machine, and make it a bit more organised too, should anything get damaged, it's easier to take that one bit out and have a look at it rather than trying to work round everything whilst it's all still in the machine or whatever.
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