Aspis Mecha Review By Pat Willis#224534

The Aspis mecha is available from Alpha Corp it will cost you 16,000 Ferrite, 13,500 Bioptics, and 145 niodes to obtain one. Their beginning stats are as follows, Tonnage 90, Armor Points 250, Start Weapons 13, Min Level 77, Min Heavy Skill ,45 Levels/Weapon 4. These also come with the following weapons 3 Tri-Slagger niode lasers, 1 Sikuiaq niode ice weapon,  2 H. Blast Plate crystal based slug throwers, 1 crystal based Death Head missile, 1 Ol' Willie Pete crystal flame weapon, and 5 crystal Rail cannon Slug throwers. So right out of the box it has a little of everything for weapon ability.

So that is the basic show room floor model without any bells and whistles. I own a few of these myself and have them sitting at my current level of 108. They are good machines to be honest and at level 108 I have available to me 5 Cockpit slots, 5 Chassis slots, 4 Engine slots, and 6 Shield slots. So you definitely have room to outfit it as you like with equipment. Basic build stats for this model at my level are ...

Tons: 90
Level: 108
Armor: 1337
Class: Aspis
Bonuses before equipment:
Trample Shield 88%
Speed - 30
Precision (12)
Speed + 22
3X Damage 18%
2X Damage 18%
Trample 12%
Splash Shield 30%
Fork 15%
Fork Shield 25%
Wide Fork Shield 50%
Crit-Kill 6%

As you can see this is a pretty defensive model. Unless you add in equipment that gives weapon perks or bonuses in your equipment this mecha is one of the few blank slate machines that doesn't cater to one weapon type or another, like the Regis with lasers, or the Ignis with fire. It does however specialize in shielding to counter Trample, Slpash, and Wide Fork weapon abilities. It also allows a decent bonus stat to X2&3 damage,  Trample ability, and Crit-Kill. Overall a very solid mecha especially if you can equip one right to enhance their admittedly lumbering speed.

Submitted by Pat Willis#224534