Schrek the Third

Schrek the Third is a 100-ton IS combat vehicle based around three ER PPCs and a targeting computer, an experimental development of the popular Schrek PPC carrier.

Deployment and specifications
Costing nearly 14 million C-Bills (mostly due to its XL engine), the vehicle is only deployed in specific circumstances as limited numbers of them were made. Some complained that for the same price, better Battlemechs could be bought. However the three turret-mounted ERPPCs give the Schrek an attack flexibility at all ranges possessed by no stock battlemech, while at the same time it never overheats due to the 35 extra heatsinks (plus ten on the Fusion engine) integrated to the vehicle chassis.

It also features 18.5 tons of Heavy Ferro Fibrous Armor, giving it over 92% of the maximum armor for its tonnage.

Overall, the combat performance and ability to aim the PPC shots made it a powerful force, yet, it suffered from the standard vehicle problems such as damaged motive systems when attacked; as such, despite its high armor and capability to fire point blank, is was considered more suitable to use as fire support while other units held the line. There was no tonnage left without clantech to solve this problem with the likes of an Armored Motive System.

Further developments
Its battlefield performance would be analyzed by the Clan Ghost Bear and give rise to the Schrek IIIC. Meanwhile the IS would go on to produce the Schrek 4, Schrek 5, Schrek 6, and Schrek Zero.

Timeline

 * Prototyped: 3064 (Lyran Commonwealth, with illegally trafficked Draconis Combine ERPPCs)
 * Advanced: 3064-3069
 * Standard: 3070
 * Extinct: -