I like piloting medium mechs but I feel I should try my hand at some other weight classes. Plus I'd like to start building a deck I can use for faction warfare.
Therefore I'm looking for a heavy or assault mech to master next.
I have three criteria that the new mech need to fill for me to consider it.
1. It need to be heavy or assault IS mech .
Tbh, if I could take a clan mech this would be no brainer. I'd just take the EBJ and be done with it since it perfectly fits all other requirements I have on a new mech. However, since I'd like a deck that I can use in FW sometime in the future and all my medium and lights are IS it has to be an IS mech.
2. One variant should be able to rock dual ( or quad) ballistics with a calibre of AC5 or above.
I love my dual AC2 BJ-1. Plonking away with those cannons is really fun. I'd like for my next mech to allow me to do the same but with a bit more omph to the impacts. Cept no gauss. I suck at using gauss.
3. You should be able to make three completely different builds from the three variants needed to master it.
So basically the opposite of a Crab. I don't particularly have any preferences of types of builds (besides that one need rock ballistics and that I rather not have a lurm boat if it's avoidable). As long as I don't have to elite three carbon copies I'm happy.
3.5. I don't plan to spend real money so if a variant needs to be a hero or special mech to fulfil the above criteria I'm not interested. Also no Jaegers.
Now I'm hoping you people can give me some sound advice to help me pick one. Because the tricky bit isn't finding a mech matches these requirement but that there are at least 9 IS mechs that do.
At the moment at the top of the list are the warhammer, mauler, rifleman, orion and the mauler. But since I'm no expert on heavies and assaults I'm willing to bet there are things I've missed about these and other mechs I've overlooked.
Just realize one thing I should add.
It would be very helpful and interesting to know how XL friendly a chassi is and/or if its better to run STD or XL engines with a particular mech.
Edited by Chryckan, 22 July 2016 - 08:08 AM.