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Why Do We Love The Stone Rhino? #BattleTech Lore / History
Why Do We Love The Stone Rhino? #BattleTech Lore / History #Behemoth
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“Mechanical Frog”
Today, we look at the Stone Rhino, or Behemoth if you prefer, and see why people like this big lug of a battlemech.
Stone Rhino MF Record Sheet:
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I like the Stone Rhino/Behemoth, and the MF variant is actually something I like, though I am wary about mounting the Gauss weaponry in the arms. The only real change I could argue for is stripping out the Jumpjets in it so you could upgrade the HAGS to HAG-30 models, but that's just because I suffer from both Vertigo and a fear of heights and suffer a +4 modifier to all pilot difficulty rolls as a result before anything else when Jumping.
I feel this thing's predecessor was built because Amaris didn't quite understand what "the SLDF juggernaut" was referring to.
Saw this posted in a battletech group. Nice video.
It has a very close profile to the MAC II Monster
Stone Rhino: An Amaris Vanity project turned into a Smoke Jaguar Vanity project. Both less effective than just building another Atlas. Also the Marians made a battle armor that looks like a Stone Rhino Mini-me. Thanks for the video.
Ahh there’s my baby behemoth was my go to for the Ttrpg though there were some liberties taken in that regard sported gauss in left and right arms and the center torso packed ER pulse large lasers, didn’t go fast but it was good for fire support. Had a rotary ac in the nose , practical no but the whole thing was a what if Frankenstein design.
In the first tactical campaign for Battle Tech I ever played, I got my hands on a Stone Rhino. I equipped two ppc one in each arm and two gaus rifles in the left and right torsos. It was backed up with an Atlas AS7D and two Warhammers. I kept getting lucky and getting city maps that made it extremely easy for me to pick off everything that got sent at me. The only person who worried me because of how much they could soak was the guy in the Awesome, but that's where my Atlas was able to really earn its own. Any thing lighter than the Warhammers was picked off at long range from the Warhammers and Stone Rhino in one or two shots. Anything that was a threat to the Warhammers was focused down by everything that could hit it.
This was also the same campaign where I designed my own atmospheric fighters. They had two engines, which did make them heavy, but their thrudt to weight/weapons to thrust ratios were insane. I made three different A10 models. Each one had a different main gun, but they all had mrm 6 or 8. But the Stone Rhino is one of my favorite mechs. Whenever I can I field one.
EDIT For spelling.
I love the little "paper doll" showing the armor distribution. I don't know if it was in any videos before this because I usually am just listening to them while I drive to work. Which is why this comment is also a bit late. ^^'
Stellar video as always. I wonder what's next?
Why do we love the Mad Dog W H E N?
Whenever I see one of these lumbering mistakes I wait to see that giant shiny cockpit window I am really surprised anyone plays it but I guess people just like the front seat view of a cockpit kill
So far, the original and II seem the best to me on paper with Gauss and large ER Lasers. Not a fan of the VIII removing jump as these are direct fire platforms that suffer if they can't get a direct bead on a target.
Where's my LAM stone Rhino. You telling me that all the clan science boys in the world can't crack LAM?
Stone Rhino 6? More like Stone Rhino whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub whub.
This beast is a picture of excess, and I am here for it. The Stone Rhino, despite its abysmal speed, is one of the deadliest mechs in the BT universe.
I currently have 2 CGL Stone Rhinos 1 painted in Smoke Jaguar colors and 1 in Ghost Bears colors 😊
Not really in love with it. But the modern redesign is very pretty from Catalyst and from Piranha. Im only on the year 3049 so I have a lot of time till I ever encounter it xD
Love is a strong word. I love that it gives my artillery tons of practice.
it's just coming out today, but they already nerfing it in mwo. i don't really like the first p2w, later when you can buy it for game currency, nerf model
While I'm a fan of the Stone Rhino I feel that taking them and similar mechs too often is kind of like being fun police to your opponent
Used one of these guys during a game set during the Battle of Huntress; it positively demolished anything in its wake, sitting back and sniping the advancing lance of heavy/assault mechs.
I like to think that after watching the last enemy, a Battlemaster, collapse after the Stone Rhino blew its legs off, the Rhino pilot let out an animalistic roar of dominance…before being carpet bombed, along with the Huntress Manufacturing facility behind it.
I’ve had good fun with the standard variant of this mech. A buddy of mine and I had a head-to-head match with his Blood Asp vs. my Stone Rhino. It was a glorious fight, though I believe it ended in a draw. Good times. – Also, the new artwork for this beautiful monster is 10/10 in my opinion. It’s one of the absolute best art-redesigns to come from Catalyst.
As someone who is in love with the Catapult, I can't figure out why there isn't a 2c version?
Those sneaky Wolf’s Dragoons fielded one in the Battle of Misery in 3028
Awww, was never a fan of this Mech until……. the MF version, I think I will name mine "MechaFrogzilla"
The Stone Rhino is a beast in most forms. I think it's one of the more underrated 100 tonners in the Clan inventory, and works well in assault roles.
To me the Stone Rhino will always be an oversized Marauder, however I do not say that disparagingly.
The Stone Rhino 5 is what happens when a Rifleman and Charger are very special friends, and have a very fat baby. Little known fact is that the 6 has the best PA system ever deployed by the Clans, as it is THE disco ball and disco isn't silent. Agreed, not as much fun as the "hero" heavies- this guy is the oversized sidekick, the brute of the star, a regular Fezzik.
The Stone Rhino gets really confusing once you look at the Nightstar. Surely that would have been a more worthy mech to bring to Clan spec.
Stone Rhino 5, the Clan's version of the Malice.
The 8 probably works as the anvil for the Hell's Horses Mongol Tactics, so maneuverability is not as important as accuracy with weapons.
Your version is nice, and it does ask the question, why hasn't there been a HAG version for the Stone Rhino.
the stone rhino 5 is a MAC from Robotech, at least in theory.
One of my first forays into digital kitbashing was to slap a pair of Stone Rhino arms onto a Timberwolf. I had also swapped out the torso missile launchers for some more (shorter) barreled weapons, CPLT-K2 style. While on my main record sheet for this frankenmech, I count those as Light PPCs, I do have a different record sheet where those are meant to be Plasma Cannons, which I'm sure Froggy would approve of. Surprisingly, it looks pretty cohesive visually, but I couldn't help but assign it the Hard to Pilot and Unbalanced Quirks for having so much laser barrel at the ends of its arms.
I died at "succulent internal bits". And again at "emotional support small laser"😂
"No, not plasma weapons, though I'm glad your head went there first" — Get OUT of my head, it's dark and scary in here! 😀