Battle Armor is gonna have a field day with this thing!! 
Edit: but look at all that space they have to 'run' around on if they get up top.
BA Battleboat???
I like how the weapons are on the same level as the cockpit, how the cockpit is the highest point, and how heavily armored it looks. Not flimsy or artistic (often one in the same), but functional.
Flip-side of this is the severely limited view area for the pilot and the off-center cockpit (a first for the game, should be interesting).
This is pure Steiner excess taken into the 3067 era, and the dual iHGauss...going to be something for all of us to fear! *wonders just how many clan 'mechs it can core in one alpha*
Yeah, got to say congrats to Defender, an excellent model with lots of chatacter (and better I think than the old model IMHO).