Howdy everyone and welcome back to Mech Overview. I want to preface this one by saying that, bluntly, the original Clan Invasion era, TRO 3050 Clan light OmniMechs are, for the most part, terrible. The Adder/Puma and Fire Moth are useable to good, even if the Fire Moth’s best variants wouldn’t come until later with the H and P. The Mist Lynx and Kit Fox though are some of the worst light mechs in the Clan tech base for a variety of reasons and it brings me a lot of pain to say it. This week we are looking at the Kit Fox, and to all of the Kit Fox stans that surely exist somewhere… Who hurt you?
This article is not going to be as much of a review as it is an autopsy or dissection. The Kit Fox is more interesting as an example of how badly you can fuck up a perfectly good light mech than it is as a game piece. We will still give like, scores and stuff but good lord.
Chassis
The Kit Fox is an OmniMech so all variants share the same structural components and I am so fucking sorry for it. It was crippled the moment it was born and it couldn’t do anything about it. The Kit Fox shares a disease with the Loki and Dire Wolf, some of its other TRO: 3050 brethren. There is too much fucking space in this thing. It has 16 tons of pod space in it. It weighs 30 tons. It moves 6/9/0 base and has a mere 9 points of CT armor, without a single location that can take a Clan Large Pulse Laser and not go internal. There is a lot we need to talk about with this mech, lets break it down by each of its sins. I am writing this blind of what Liberty or Jack might chip in but I don’t expect much defense here.
Sin One: Armor
The Kit Fox being this fragile is unacceptable. The Kit Fox has a worse armor layout than a base model LCT-1V Locust, an infamously fragile mech. It has a higher total armor value, but lacking that 10th point of armor to the center torso is debilitating. 10 damage weapons are everywhere, and the Kit Fox is slow enough that an ER PPC or Ultra AC/10 or something is eventually going to find its way into this things CT, and it won’t even take particularly long in most games. This leads very naturally into our second point.
Sin Two: Speed
The Kit Fox only moving 6/9/0 is unacceptable. The above mentioned Locust has the decency to go 8/12/0 instead of 6/9/0, and, reminder, has a better armor layout in terms of survivability. 6/9/0 is only fast if you are comparing to IS heavy mechs, most mediums or Clan heavies can move either marginally slower at 5/8/0 or the same speed at 6/9/0. The Kit Fox can’t dictate fights against mediums or heavies that heavily outgun it, and it can’t outrun actual light mechs that it outguns. Even then…
Sin Three: Firepower
16 tons of pod space. Everything in this mech was sacrificed to get that delicious, delicious pod space. The problem is, as it is using weight saving technology, it could go up to 7/11/0 and nearly max the armor while only dropping to 13 tons of pod space. You pay a ludicrous amount for that extra pod space, and, to be blunt, 3 tons of pod space isn’t worth anything if you can’t survive to use it. The Kit Fox’s main trick, the thing most people remember off the top of their heads, is that it can fit a gauss rifle. At 7/11/0 and with near maxed armor, it can still carry the gauss rifle and a single ton of ammo! The benefits from that extra pod space, a handful of backup weapons and extra ammo, are more than outweighed by the fact that our hypothetical Kit Fox MkII could actually fucking survive a single rogue PPC shot. Having 16 tons to cram with highly expensive Clan weaponry leads cleanly into the next sin.
Sin Four: Guns
The Clan tech base, bluntly, can pack so much value into so little tonnage. With only 4 tons of pod space a Clan light mech can already outgun an Ostsol by a slim margin, and with 16 fucking tons you can see the problem that creates. You can cram so many guns into this frame so quickly that it will sting horribly when it inevitably dies. This mech really shouldn’t have anywhere near this amount of tonnage, because those guns don’t come cheap and, well…
Sin Five: Cost
The Cheapest Kit Fox is 974, and is an Arrow IV variant. The cheapest one that isn’t artillery is 998 and is using an ultra AC/10 to eat most of its tonnage.
Those are the only Kit Foxes below 1000, and the most expensive one is 1936. Nearly 2000 BV on a mech that is meaningfully threatened with instant death from a single standard IS PPC.
Kit Foxes are in a terrible position of costing enough to be worth shooting while also being so fragile that they die nearly instantly. The Wasp can get away with being this fragile because it is only 400-500 BV, same with the Locust, Stinger, and Spider. The Kit Fox is far too expensive to die like a fucking mook in a mecha anime the second someone looks at it.
Sin Conclusion
Good lord there is so much wrong with the Kit Fox. It is under armored, under engined, over gunned, and could effortlessly fix all of these issues with only 3 tons of its pod space. This is a master-class in how not to design a light mech. It is too fragile, too expensive, and too slow. There is not really a single redeeming quality to the Kit Fox, and absolutely nothing to encourage you to use this over the Adder, which was in the same original set of mechs and effortlessly succeeds at everything the Kit Fox fails at.
Now that we are done roasting the base frame of this thing, let’s talk about what the poor, abused FASA/CGL interns crammed into it to try and fix it.
Liberty: I love it when Omni-mechs start bad. Really reminds you that the clans usually have about as much of a clue on how to build ‘mechs as the IS does. But at least most of the IS ones have the decency to be able to have their problems fixed by not being omnis. The Kit Fox is an inch from being the premier Clan ‘Little Bastard’ platform and yet it falls short because of cost. Again.
Hell, the armor and speed are in such a bad spot that a pair of bug ‘mechs, which is usually going to be cheaper than it, are a meaningful threat to this thing. Everytime I have ever seen a Kit Fox on the table it has been turned inside out and left in a crater of its own shame. Something that costs this much should not be this scared of a bog standard PPC. I agree with Peri, stuff a bigger engine in it and up the armor and you’d still have a fire support platform capable of doing both stuff and, possibly, things while having a far more reasonable amount of podspace onboard to try and keep cost runs down. This thing could be 8/12 and one of the premier bad bitch light hunters of whatever era it got dumped into. But I don’t think we’ll ever get that.
Shame, he’s such a cool lookin’ dude. Real peak lil’ goober vibes.
Variants
I’ll link the rubric here and put the standard section down below this, but like, it doesn’t matter. All of these suck. The Kit Fox isn’t even funny bad like the Loki, its just badly made. Jail. Jail for the Kit Fox for a quadrillion years.
These mechs have all been reviewed based on a standard F through S scale, which you can find described on our landing page here (along with all of our other ‘mech reviews, the name of the box you can buy to get any of the mechs we have covered, and our general methodology).
Prime
All right so to start off this fucking train wreck we have the Kit Fox Prime, coming in at 1,085 BV with a confusing and bad set of weapons. We have an ER large laser, a small pulse laser, a streak SRM-4, and an LBX/5 autocannon. These aren’t the absolute worst things you could cram into this mech, we will get there, and it has a clear idea that it wants to hang out at 8-15 hexes and sling the laser and autocannon out. The first problem is that we only have one ton of LBX ammo despite having all that yummy pod space to spend, so you have to pick between cluster and solid and can’t just load both. The second is that it can’t proc a PSR at that range and needs to close in to use its SRMs to do that, which will rapidly convert it into a pile of scrap metal. Even trying to hang back it still probably dies, because any actual light mech hunter will be fucking thrilled to have a Kit Fox on the table with it and can just bum rush it for a positive BV trade in most cases, even if it dies.
This is mediocre damage output for too high of a price on a fundamentally bad chassis.
Peri’s Rating: F and get used to seeing that.
Liberty’s Rating: F-. Actual waste of BV, Ferro-Fibrous, Endo-Steel, Guns and Mech Warriors.
A
The one everyone thinks of when they think of the Kit Fox. At 1,310 BV I can stop typing there, its not worth the cost. It carries a Gauss Rifle and a pair of ER medium lasers, which is cool I guess, but it suffers from being a Kit Fox and can’t really win. It either can try to trade blows with other long range mechs, which will kill it, or can try to skirmish around and use its mobility, which will usually get it eaten by other light mechs/light mech hunters. Most good light mechs are either mobile enough to avoid the particularly dangerous light mech hunters (The TR1 Wraith or Phoenix Hawk 3PL) or dangerous enough up close that they can fight back (Spider 9M, some Panthers/Wolfhounds). The gauss rifle is tempting, its sexy, its on a small frame, but please don’t.
The base model, OG Hollander BZK-F3, which was built as the “Kit Fox A at Home”, is 400 BV cheaper, has 10 points of CT armor, and the only problem is that it is 5/8/0 instead of 6/9/0. 400 BV is enough savings that it is worth it, because both mechs are fragile and going to die when a light mech hunter/heavy mech looks at them, so the point of speed does not matter at all. In addition, the Hollander looks cooler and is less threatening by virtue of being an IS mech. Do not take this mech.
Peri’s Rating: F is for Failure
Liberty’s Rating: F. Fuck… how did you make the base Hollander look that good? Fuckin’ embarassin’.
B
B variants often are good for some reason but this one… it tries. For 1,087 BV you get a UAC/10, ER medium laser, ER small laser, and SRM-6. I mean its at least a Piloting Skill Roll, sometimes, when you roll that 40% ish chance to hit with the second round.
Also, hi, checking in, we have had entire articles shorter than this and we are only on variant 3. Its bad out here.
This is a good set of weapons and on a normal mech I would be happy to have them, but “Being a Kit Fox Disease” is terminal and has no cure. It barely edges this mech into a D- simply because it can maybe force a PSR on something that jumps it without being too expensive.
Peri’s Rating: D- is for D O N T
Liberty’s Rating: F+. UAC/10 and iffy PSRs or no, when a PPC hit’s you in the right torso and knocks a crit there’s a 50/50 chance that you lose your main weapon and are left with a singular ER medium laser and his good buddy the ER small laser. And, being a slow ass kit fox, you’re gonna get hit.
BLO
Hey the Word of Blake one. Its the same as the above for 988 BV and it trades the SRM-6 for a C3i. Please don’t spike the BV of a Kit Fox even higher with C3i. Its very ill.
Peri’s Rating: D- is for please don’t put this in a C3i lance
Liberty’s Rating: F+. But… But why?
C
Kerensky’s shaved taint where do I start with this one. Somehow, infantry guy has returned, and has really badly fucked up this already very fucked up mech. For 1,147 BV it carries an ER large laser, and that is the last weapon dedicated for fighting other mechs. Everything else on this mech is either for support, for anti-infantry work, or for exploiting old game mechanics. It carries a small pulse laser, 2 machine guns, 2 anti-personnel pods (basically single use land mines to pulp infantry), a TAG, an ECM, an active probe if that matters, and 3 Anti-Missile Systems with a mighty 4 tons of ammo.
Back in the day AMS used to use far more ammo than they do now, and there was some sort of significant bonus for stacking them, but in the modern game this is hilariously overkill and pointless. The Kit Fox should never be close enough to shoot infantry, it can’t move fast enough to do good EWAR stuff, and while 3 AMS is funny you can’t do the MWO thing and protect the rest of your team with it, it only matters if people are dumping missiles into the Kit Fox for a 32 turn game.
Peri’s Rating: F is for at least this one is funny.
Liberty: Genuinely would be a great idea, and a good use of the frame if AMS was capable of intercepting missiles coming for friendlies. I think there’s like an alternate rule about it somewhere? It has the speed to play escort for a heavy or assault star and could very well keep them quite safe from missile based ambushes if this works. On the other hand you could also just… put an AMS in your big boys and bring a fifth clan-bomination about it.
Liberty’s Rating: F. Damned shame that AMS’ are lame and selfish. I want some not shit E-WAR ‘mechs, CGL, give me them. I know you’re hiding them back there somewhere.
D
D variants are often some of the better ones, and this is no exception. For 1,142 BV you get 2 LRM-15s, an LRM-5, and a deeply comical Narc missile beacon system. The Narc requires you to get close, so it really shouldn’t be on a mech this fragile. Clan LRMs are nice though, and in theory this mech can sit out of line of sight after tagging something with its Narc, or once something else has Narc’d a mech, and then indirect fire all day. The issue is that this is done for less BV and with more tubes by a basic LRM carrier vehicle, and even within the Clans the Adder A or any of a wide number of other LRM variants are going to do this job way better. It isn’t unusable, but it is still really bad.
Peri’s Rating: D-, I wish it was an Adder
Liberty’s rating: F+. Clan fire support is done better by so many other things. Just go take those.
E
Oh god. At 1,415 BV the E doesn’t understand how to be an ATM mech. E variants are usually ATM variants, and this certainly does have one. It carries an ATM-3, mighty and strong, an ER small laser, and an ER PPC. That is where all the BV is coming from, and therefore this mech basically does the same job as the A for 100 more BV and with explosive crits in a side torso with only 8 armor and 2 engine crits.
Peri’s Rating: F
Liberty: Do you want a zippy ATM light? WRONG PLACE, GO TRY THE FIRE FALCON. Do you want an ERPPC platform capable of ducking from place to place? WRONG PLACE, GO TRY THE PACK HUNTER.
GO TRY SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Liberty’s Rating: F-. F is for ‘Filled with rage.’
F
Really tempted to literally just give this one a rating and nothing else, but for the sake of it, the F costs 1,219 and carries a HAG/20 with 2 medium pulse lasers. I mean its cool I guess, it can inconsistently proc a PSR, but HAGs really aren’t very good until you hit the 30 and 40, the 20 is just a disappointment most of the time. It is kinda funny to imagine a little shitbot unloading with a massive gauss machine gun, but it isn’t good.
Peri’s Rating: F
Liberty: Stop mounting big ass guns to fragile little dudes like this. With some extra speed this would be hilarious. In the optimal world of the Kit Fox Mk.II we talked about earlier that’s got some extra speed and armor under the hood this would be peak little bastard fuckery. But here? For 1,219 BV and with a deep seated fear of any 10 damage hit? This is just sad.
Liberty’s Rating: F is for F
G
So there are like, a lot of Kit Foxes. Like a ton of them. This one is basically a Toro! I love the Toro! The Toro is my friend and special little guy! This is way less good than a Toro though. For 1,368 BV-
Rating: F
For 1,368 BV it carries an ER large laser and an ER medium laser in the right arm, an LRM-10 in each side torso, and an ECM in the left arm for some reason. This is like, theoretically cool I guess but not for that price. Never for that price.
Peri’s Rating: F
Liberty’s Rating: F. I’m tired Boss. And I’m not even the one writing this review.
H
Its the H variant, and by now if you are a regular reader you know that that usually means its a bad heavy laser one. For 1,214 BV this is functionally an A that trades the ER medium lasers out for medium heavy lasers. Cool, this changes nothing. It is still bad and the pathetic range on heavy lasers compared to ER lasers means that it will explode and die if it tries to use them.
Peri’s Rating: F
Liberty’s Rating. F. I love Heavy Lasers but stop stickin’ them where they don’t belong.
I
The Kit Fox I is 1,936 BV. I know I mentioned this above but… but.
1,936 BV.
I cannot begin to describe how loathsome and terrible of a price that is to pay for a Kit Fox. The I transcends history and the world, undergoing a tale of BV and optimization that has never been told, to be so much worse than merely being a Kit Fox for 2000 BV though.
It carries an ER PPC, an ER medium laser, an ER small laser for some fucking reason, and a targeting computer. This is already cataclysmically bad for its BV cost, but it gets so much worse. It carries modular armor, 6 entire fucking tons of it. Now, modular armor is insanely cool to use on an OmniMech. It gives you extra armor on any location you want at the cost of speed, and slows the Kit Fox from 6/9/0 to 5/8(10)/0. Wait, that.. That is a boosted movement speed?
The Kit Fox I uses a supercharger to boost its movement. This is horrifically bad from a BV perspective. There are worse movement rates for sure but holy hell 5/8(10)/0 is horrible from a BV perspective. It adds extra speed factor and an extra 10% upcharge from that extra point of theoretical TMM, which it will basically never get as it has to run in a straight line for its whole turn and not fuck up and explode the supercharger.
So at least they used the modular armor to fix the CT being so vulnerable, right?
RIGHT???????
The Kit Fox I has Modular Armor on every location it is allowed to except the CT. This mech has 17 points of side torso armor but only 9 points in the CT. I direly want to talk to whoever made this mech. Not to spew hate, or to be angry, just to ask why. I need to know why this mech exists, why it is the way it is. What in universe or out of universe cause created a record sheet this dogshit for the BV. I am dead serious if you know who made this or, perhaps, are the person who made this sheet, send us an Email. I need to know. Is it bad on purpose?
Peri’s Rating: H is for Hell. I can’t… It doesn’t even deserve an F. This is such a rancid record sheet only saved from being the worst we have looked at by the Phoenix Hawk 99, which was a deliberate meme record sheet released in a book entirely filled with comedically terrible record sheets. And I honestly think that in the right situations I would rather have the 99, a mech that can barely even move.
Liberty: This is why shit box light omnis should do their best to avoid hard mounting anything outside of the legs. That Hard mounted DHS in the CT means that now every location on the front of this ‘mech has more armor than the CT. Also, that damnable super charger makes it hit the 10 hex breakpoint which is a good clip of why this thing is so expensive. Terribad. Get this shit away from me.
Liberty’s Rating: F. Fuckin’ stop trying already.
J
The J, or Jreg as I will be calling him, is way more normal. It costs 1,178, too much BV. It boosts the movement speed to 6/9/6 with jump jets, which is genuinely really nice, and carries a UAC/5, a streak SRM-2, and 2 ER medium lasers. It is in a lot of ways very similar to a base model Sentinel, but I would rather save the BV and take the Sentinel. Jreg is one of the Kit Foxes that doesn’t deserve to be punted directly into the center of the sun though, and that is worth something.
Peri’s Rating: D-
Liberty: Much like Jreg the J just wants to die in a war and, luckily for it, that won’t be terribly hard considering it really is just an expensive 3L Sentinel that jumps… and somehow has worse armor.
Liberty’s Rating: D-. Probably the most useful of the Kit Foxes so far but damn is it still expensive for what it is.
K
Have I mentioned that there are a lot of fucking Kit Foxes and they are all terrible enough times yet? This is my punishment for being mean to the Marauder, I am stuck in the fucking Kit Fox mines looking what a truly unusable mech is directly in the face, and I am cringing away in fear.
The K is 1,109 BV and carries a large improved heavy laser and an LBX/10 autocannon. This is a perfectly ok pair of weapons, it only builds movement heat, but I really wish this wasn’t on a Kit Fox. I’d actually be completely on board with most light mechs carrying this much gun but just, not a Kit Fox, not ever. It is in the same “Not completely worthless” category as Jreg, but I still hate it. Improved Heavies are good weapons, even if trying to close in to use it is going to kill this mech stone dead.
Peri’s Rating: D-
Liberty: REPENT, REPENT FOR YOUR CRIMES AGAINST MY BOY THE MAD. Wait… shit. I’m stuck in the Kit Fox mines too. Dammit.
I adore improved heavies, I love LBX 10s. I love both of these things on the same ‘mech! Just… just not this one. This is a loadout for a ‘mech that craves close in brawling combat and the Kit Fox just cannot provide that ride without exploding horridly. And this makes me sad.
Liberty’s Rating: D-. If it gets a hold of something it’s gonna hurt it but man are there better options for the job… also it will explode immediately after getting a hold of it.
R
At least the R is extremely funny. At 1,232 BV it carries a Clan grade Rotary AC/5, and a streak SRM-6. For those unaware, a RAC/5 is a minigun that shoots up to 6 shots of 5 damage each, adding up to 30 damage. This is extremely funny. The normal IS model one has the same range as an AC/10, but the rare Clan model has the same range as an ER PPC. Clan RACs are only on like 20-30 mechs or something, but every single one of them is hilarious. Its a fantastic weapon system and I love it, but this is still a Kit Fox and will probably just explode before it gets any significant value out of the gun. At least it doesn’t have too much ammo so it has a pretty realistic view of its own lifespan.
Peri’s Rating: F
Liberty: I am the RAC’s strongest soldier. The archon of the rotary. Bathed and sanctified in mountains of spent brass and wafting cordite. I fall asleep to the deafening roar of the GAU-19’s cacophony and rise to the lonesome call of the Vulcan’s whine. I see that which is meant to be done here.
And I hate it for its hubris.
RAC’s should be near the front line screaming hate and hell into existence. Not because it’s where they’re most prominent but because it’s where they’re scariest. A good RAC ‘mech is big, heavy and well armored so it can drag attention onto itself and away from things like Kit Foxes. This thing is just going to explode the moment it opens up and lands a good salvo into something.
Liberty’s Rating: F-. You deny your weapon its purpose.
S
Costing 1,342 BV I don’t want to write the rest of this.
At that BV it moves 6/9/6, which is nice for escaping from enemy heavies/slow mediums, and carries a sorta funny weapon load. It has one of each pulse laser, small, medium, and large, so that it can pick which one to fire as the true connoisseur of pulse that it is. It also carries a streak SRM-4 and 2 machine guns, in case it has to deal with any filthy and foul little wormlings. If it wasn’t a Kit Fox I’d be happy, this is most of a Horned Owl or Goshawk, but it will fucking evaporate in a way that neither of those mechs will. The price just isn’t right. It is sorta usable purely because Clan pulse lasers are badly undercosted and overpowered.
Peri’s Rating: D-
Liberty’s Rating: D-. The Wraith would like to know where you are.
T
The bees the bees the bees the bees the bees they are under my skin get them out.
At 1,397 BV Terry the Terrible Mech carries an ER large laser, ER medium laser, protomech AC/4 (AC/10 range but only 4 points of damage), a streak SRM/4, and an active probe if you are playing with Tac Ops bullshit. It also uses a supercharger to move 6/9(12)/0, which is bad for BV but not nearly as bad as the I. Honestly the Kit Fox could badly use the extra speed, but Superchargers and MASC can’t be used every turn, meaning that around half the time this is just going to be a perfectly normal Kit Fox and it will die just as fast. Plus, you might blow up the Supercharger if you get unlucky and then you would die horribly. Which, at least, would get the Kit Fox off the table faster so you could stop looking at it.
Peri’s Rating: F
Liberty’s Rating: F-. So many bad choices.
U
U variants are for unusual environments, and at 1,486 BV this had better be fucking king of that environment.
Okay so having read the sheet the U is funny as hell but you will never use it. It is built for underwater operations and carries an ER medium laser, enough UMUs (underwater maneuvering units) to move 6 hexes underwater, and it has 8 fucking LRT/5s. LRTs are just LRMs, but torpedos, Long Range Torpedos, LRT, its very clever. I mean that is a lot of damage and if it is allowed to fight enemy mechs that aren’t built for underwater combat it’ll kill them, but like, who the hell is ever actually playing underwater combat games???
Peri’s Rating: N/A, underwater mechs are so hard to review. A lot of the weapons that are good at killing it suck underwater though, so this is probably not that terrible?
Liberty’s Rating: ??? Blub Blub, motherfucker.
V
The V is the only good one but that comes with a lot of caveats. At 974 it is the cheapest Kit Fox, and it carries an Arrow IV missile launcher and 2 ER small lasers. Arrow IV is, bluntly, insanely overpowered, sometimes. When you buy an artillery piece in BattleTech, you can either set it up on-map to provide direct fire support, where it shoots and does damage like a regular weapon that happens to hit an area, or off-map, where it can’t be shot. When off map, you fire the missiles, marking down where they are going to land, and they arrive either next turn or in the next couple of turns and damage anything that is walking into them.
Off-Map artillery is a counter for slow moving mechs and forces things to not stand still, because if they stand still, they might get a shell on their head. On-Map has the major problem that it targets hexes, not mechs. This means that it is ignores all TMM, and if I read it right it also gets the -4 to hit bonus for shooting an immobile target (the map hex obviously can’t move). I could be wrong there, but either way that turns On-Map artillery into a hard counter for fast moving units and high TMM. You can just thump a 20 damage missile directly into a Fire Moth without it being able to build TMM or protect itself.
The sheer overpoweredness of Arrow IV alone makes the V usable. That said, there is an Urbanmech with an Arrow IV that can do all the same bullshit for significantly cheaper. Those who know me know that I fucking despise the Urbanmech. It is a terrible mech that people latched on to and wouldn’t let go of, and after 15 years of the same fucking 2 jokes about the hee-hoo trash can mech I am getting deeply, deeply sick and fucking tired of the Urbanmech. I hate hearing about it, I hate using it, and I hate every single meme about it.
I would rather take the Urbanmech AIV than the Kit Fox V and that is a horrible thing to say. The Kit Fox is just a genuinely irredeemable chassis.
Peri’s Rating: C+ actually purely on the back of how overpowered Arrow IV is. Ban On-Map artillery in all of your games, it is so heinously overpowered. Take the Urbanmech tho.
Liberty’s Rating: C+ is about right and it really is only because of the absurdity of on map Arrow IVs.
W
For 1,431 BV the W is a Wolf’s Dragoons variant if I am remembering correctly, and Wolf’s Dragoons variants are always some of the most dogshit ones on the chassis. This isn’t objectively bad, its just a horrible thing to put on the Kit Fox, because the Kit Fox is shit. It carries 2 large pulse lasers and 2 medium pulse lasers, an amount of firepower that would make this mech overpowered if it wasn’t a Kit Fox and would die the second someone looked at it while costing 1,400 fucking BV. It isn’t unusable, the strength of Clan Pulse alone counts for a lot here and if it isn’t instantly killed it’ll feel vaguely good, but like, why a Kit Fox? Just find like, any of a number of really good pulse variants and let the Kit Fox sleep. He is nearly 40 years old and he is very tired, that is like… about 8 times the lifespan of a wild Kit Fox, according to wikipedia. Homie is like 500 years old in Kit Fox years, he needs his beauty sleep.
Peri’s Rating: D- ish. Still a Kit Fox, but it can fight a bit before it dies.
Liberty’s Rating: D-. With cLPLs it can kinda stay back enough to be annoying to kill and have good enough outbound shots but like… There are just other options that are so much better and the moment it lands a good salvo on something it will become public enemy number one.
Conclusion
Writing this article was soul-crushing and it sucked. Sucked nearly as much as the Kit Fox does. As I said up above, the Kit Fox doesn’t have the decency to be funny bad like the Loki. It is just a badly designed core chassis with a billion variants, none of which do anything to fix it because they literally can’t. We got a Thor II, a Loki II, and a Vulture III and IV to fix issues with those chassis. The Kit Fox is in dire, dire need of a MkII variant, and I would actually genuinely sacrifice someone on an altar somewhere to see that mech. Just cut the pod space back a little bit and give it some actual armor and speed and the thing could actually fight. As is it is a broken wreck of a mech from the dawn of BattleTech that barely works in the modern game and makes me profoundly sad when I look at it. I love the model, I have ever since I was calling it the Uller, but fucking hell there is just nothing good about it and nothing to make you use it over any other light mech.
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