I'm surprised by how well the Houses line up. Each has a base of 269, and then however many signature 'Mechs from the Lance Table, plus additional 'Mechs amounting to 61.2% of their signature designs.
Davion is a little off, which is discouraging; and the Hermes II (MW1e's signature Marik 'Mech) doesn't even appear on the table, so I need to check Marik some other way.
I think the Marauder-M and Wolverine-M could be considered signature Marik designs.
The Stinger, Wasp, Griffin, Locust, Warhammer, Archer, Shadow Hawk, Phoenix Hawk, BattleMaster, Rifleman and Crusader definitely aren't. Marik's manufacturing chart shows 257 of these/yr, and 14 Thunderbolts/yr raises the total to 271. That agrees pretty well with the 269 figure on my graph.
If each House builds 270 of these/yr, then that would mean the standard variants of these fourteen standard designs make up about 50% of the Inner Sphere's annual 'Mech production.
Marik's signature mech is the Hermes II. MW1e stipulates it as Marik's most common mech. Pg 127.
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DeleteMW1e is an interesting book!
The universe was being developed as the books were written, so the books don't agree perfectly with each other (and sometimes there's vestiges of multiple drafts in a single book). This is fine (and in some regards, ideal).
In this case (and often, really) we have to be careful of the text: what MW1e stipulates is that the Hermes II is in use by all the FWL's disparate provinces - *not* that it's the most numerous or most widespread or otherwise "most" common.
Even if it were most common, I would still need to somehow transform that into a number to plot on my xy chart.
Also, I did say (3rd paragraph of the post) that it was the signature mech, and I'm why you repeated that?