The Dire Wolf is one of the OmniMechs that became feared throughout the Inner Sphere during the initial Clan Invasion, and rightly so. The Dire Wolf weighs in at an impressive one hundred tons and has a relatively slow cruising speed of 32.4 km/h provided by a 300 XL engine. Its speed and armor protection matches that of an Atlas, but it has superior potential firepower with fifty and a half tons of free pod space for weapons and equipment. It is these traits which saw the 'Mech code-named Daishi (pseudo-Japanese for "Great Death") by the criminal underbelly of the Draconis Combine, a name that would be proven grimly accurate time and time again.

In its primary configuration, the Dire Wolf carries an extensive long range payload that is backed up by good close combat weapons. Its primary weapons are four ER Large Lasers which give the Dire Wolf an impressive long range punch. These are backed up by two Ultra Autocannon/5s for even more direct fire capability and an LRM-10 launcher to give the Dire Wolf some indirect fire capability. For close combat, the Dire Wolf has a simple yet effective array of four Medium Pulse Lasers. A hefty 22 Double Heat Sinks provide heat mitigation for its impressive arsenal, though it still falls on the pilot to regulate weapons use to avoid overheating.