Lets talk about our Leopard dropship...

[Der Kopfsammler]

I know its just a game and all, but isnt the Leopard on the inside a bit "too large" than what we used to remember them? I mean, its a lance sized floating brick, it can only carry 4 mechs and 2 fighters, and support a crew of 9... and has NO cargo space.

Where the hell do they store all those extra mechs when we place them in the storage???... And how does 6 mechs fit in a single mech bay?... Is this a Dictator sized Leopard or something?

[Rabidnid]

Lets not mention the 5 mechs in storage or the bits of 20 other mechs, the 14x AC5 i have laying about, etc, etc.

I'm assuming that there is a much bigger civilian transport with all this crap on it and the Leopard acts as a shuttle.

[ウィッチ（？）]

Devs should have used Union class instead. Then it can be explained why we can store all these junks in one place.

[dergefata]

Early game spoiler below

You do get the Argo pretty quickly, especially if you go for actual progression instead of really heavy farming, and that ship is way, way bigger than a Leopard. It looks like it might be about Overlord-sized, so it makes sense that you'd be able to store a whole bunch of stuff. The Leopard just holds on to the side at that point.

If you progress through the plot to mid-game at a pace that keeps the missions challenging, you probably only have a couple completed 'Mech chassis in storage on the Leopard. That's not too bad.

[Ishan451]

Its a video game... people would be quite upset if the early game wouldn't allow you to have the extra video game space. This bothers me a lot less than the lack of proper dress code of the mech warriors.

[evilauthor]

Where do you keep the two extra mechs?

A stock Leopard actually comes with 4 mech bays and 2 aerospace fighter bays. Fighter bays are allocated the same tonnage as mech bays. So I think it's obvious. Since the merc unit has no fighters, we're obviously storing our spare two mechs in what would have been the fighter bays. You just can't deploy mechs from the fighter bays, hence the four mech mission limit.

BT ships are flexible in that regard since everything is defined by "tonnage". Each mech and fighter is allocated 150 tons. Since mechs and fighters max out at 100 tons, the remaining 50 of those tons must go into things like maintenance equipment, drop equipment, quarters and life support for the mech/fighter pilot. And if you're not carrying a 100 ton mech/fighter (remember we start the game with light and medium mechs), then you have extra tonnage for supplies and cargo, even if those supplies and cargo are piled up against the mech bay walls or around the feet of a mech.