ShadowedR, on 01 March 2015 - 01:08 AM, said:
And the sky wept tears of fire.
We're a bunch of over proud idiots who prefer mechs and loudouts based on years of Table Top and MW2 (possibly 4).
We've always had a light in the drop for maneuvers and recently stacked the other 3 with the best tier mechs we own currently.
Gotta grind them C-Bills for new mechs and all.
Big shout out to the guys that stepped up with their opinions and advice.
We'll definitely give everything a bash as far as possible. Unfortunately, we're not a full 12 man at the moment, so PUG will be PUG. At least taking over command seems to get the coordination of most people as long as your are polite and sound like you've got a plan.
Yeah, my group of folks is basically a bunch of friends I've known online for years that have very small amounts of knowledge, or even interest in BT. They're just in it to play shooty robots with friends and win, mostly.
I'm the BT lore turbonerd and long-time mechwarrior that has shoehorned new blood into the game. I feel you on using mechs that you love from previous iterations of BT and from tabletop. I don't think my Orion is all that great in the meta, but I still get a raging hard-on from using it because of MW3 Pirate's Moon.
God, that game's such a ***** to run on modern systems.
Oh, and holler at me to piss off if I'm just ******** out walls of text to anyone's dismay. The third shift is conducive to extreme amounts of spergish theorycrafting on my part.
If you've got 4 good light mech pilots with properly set up mechs, with two of them on ECM, you could have an effective "*********** lance", I think. You'd need all 8 of the remaining mechs to be heavy/assault with a large amount of armour. Everyone moves as a deathball, but instead of breaking to a position to defend, the lights break through the weakest point and proceed to act like massive *****, drawing fire from the friendly force.
I'm not really advocating a WIDE flank or anything, but a bit of separation is ok. You'd REALLY need some good ECM as well as handy piloting on those lights, though. Good thing is, besides the ECM mechs, you can use your "trashcan mech" in the small force. Hell, a trial firestarter can be a real annoyance. 2 ECM with 1 of them preferably having NARC (that was one thing you guys did do quite well, your NARC cadre was great.) and 2 lights with as much firepower and armour as can come on them.
..this forum isn't so great for colourful language. Shame. I think it gets the point across better!
Edited by Sandersson Jankins, 01 March 2015 - 01:39 AM.
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