It’s heeeeeere!  The rotund lad!  The death disco ball!  The Crazy Sun!!!

I’ll admit, I went through Megamek’s library to apply proxy icons for each of these machines as I made them, but I had a hard time with the Crazy-Sun - there’s nothing quite as round as this lad, so it’s rocking the Annihilator icon for now.  Just look at that form - peak performance, I tell you.  Looks like a Baby Magnum with arms.

…okay, okay, I’ll actually talk about the stats.  First off, the Crazy Sun is absolutely festooned with weapons.  Three Medium Lasers, an SRM4, and 14 Small Lasers.  With 16 heatsinks, you can fire the longer-ranged MLs and SRM all day without concern, or all the SLs at a run without shifting the thermostat.  A full alpha will put you up 10 before movement, but it won’t shut you down - and it will deal up to 65 damage to the target.  Four tons of armor, gone.  Reduced to atoms under the Crazy-Sun’s glare.

This fusillade is carried into battle at a 5/8 pace which is…  Fine.  5/8 is not slow by any means according to 3025 standards - it’s modern cavalry speeds.  The speed of the Clan Invasion.  But for something hoping to be in base Small Laser range, every last bit of speed helps.  Thankfully it has the MLs and SRM so as to not be completely helpless on the approach, and in the one-map context of Battle Over matches (not to mention building cover in an urban environment) it gets to the frontline very quickly.

Once there, it can rely on 10 tons of armor, spread pretty normally across its spheroid form.  Medium Laser protection in back, AC20 proofed legs…  My only matter of complaint is that the side torsos are a single point away from being AC20 safe as well - surely a couple points could have been reallocated.

Decent speed, withering firepower, and solid armor all add up to an even 1200BV - just a few points below the [Blizzard](https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1rdgdsm/rpg_dragon_the_blizzard/).  It’s hard to compare something so specialized, but in context of its cost, it’s just a couple dozen BV cheaper than the flexible Merlin or reliable Ostroc, or a few more costly than the same-weight Quickdraw, from which it can strip all armor in two rounds of combat.

For quirks I gave it Battlefists for those big ol’ mitts, but also Weak Legs due to supporting all that girth, so try to avoid getting kicked when you get stuck in.

The Alpha Strike card is 33PV for a 5/2/0 with an Overheat of 1.  I was impressed with the [Hammer](https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1rklf1q/rpg_dragon_hammer_time/) for being able to get up to 5 points of damage with an OV2, but the Crazy Sun hits that before Overheat.  6 damage potential is rare among Inner Sphere Assaults, much less 3025 heavies.  This is, frankly, nutty.  And with it concentrated at close instead of medium range, you get it at a considerable discount.

Cost-wise, you’re 5PV more pricey than the 4G Hunchback, or on-par with the 3/3/0 Ostsol-4D.  With a solid 5/5 health line, the Sun comes in between the two, outpacing the venerable Hunchback.  So long as there’s a respectable amount of terrain on the field for the Crazy-Sun to make its approach, it will prove quite deadly for its cost.

I think this project is getting to me - I’m starting to like SL boats.  Shame!  *Shame!*  We hate Small Lasers!  They have no range and don’t even have MG utility!  *Hate!*

…however…

For the cost of a Quickdraw?  Why not?  Melt your opponent down and ship them home as ingots.  Worst case scenario: you’re a lightly-armed medium mech with a built-in no-no zone around you.  It's a professional area-controller.

My rating:  Eh...  Kinda want to love, kinda want to loathe...  It's situational.  Will command an objective or absolutely murder someone in an alley, but it's just okay outside of that.  Consider it.

RPG Dragon: Crazy Sun