Kanatta Jing

So I've started leveling the Blackjack series. I've started with the bj-1 and bj-1x.

There are a lot of issues with the Blackjack. There are things that it simply cannot do.

Fighting with light mechs is a biggy. The stubby arms prevent it from effectivly engaging them. It needs bigger slower targets.

And on the note of bigger and slower targets, it cannot engage many those in a direct fashion. It cannot brawl against brawlers.

So what can the Blackjack do? It must do the other things. It must use it's mobility to flank. To seek access to the enemies back lines. It must prey upon vulnerable but guarded LRM boats and jump snipers and force them into the open. It must engage heavy brawlers that are themselves already engaged and unable to defend themselves.

Without the strength to kill on it's own, it is firmly a seaker of carrion on the field.

This is unfortunate as this role is already taken more effectivly by light mechs and the Cicada which already benefit from much superior mobility granting them a much wider range of battle field roles.

If medium mechs are inviable and uncompetitive against High Alpha Assault builds in the current meta-game... Then there should be an ELO band full of medium mechs that doesn't have a lot of High Alpha Assault builds.

Or just the incompetent and unlucky HAA builds.

Does this make sense? Have you encountered this?

My TAG equipped Raven doesn't get to play much with dedicated LRM boats. Today it got to. We killed a lot of mechs together. Assaults and Heavies. And a curiously slow Dragon... Most of them didn't try to get into cover. Maybe they didn't know?

We probably did so well because of the mandatory focus fire involved. Actually the whole LRM boat/spotter dynamic is nothing but focus fire made mandatory.

As much as people go on about how good PPC boats and poptarts are and how underpowered LRM's are...

I sure do miss the rain.

This glitch was annoying. But kinda pretty. You can sometimes see through parts of the perma cycling explosion graphic. so you can kind of tell that there might be a hunchback infront of you.

Well, this new control has not helped many of my mechs.

Except for the Dragon 1C.

For the Dragon 1C can now switch between fast wide ranging arm shots with the dual medium lasers and the full barrage of all 4 medium lasers.

Before it was very difficult to utilize both banks of lasers effectively.

What mech chasis of yours is improved by the implementation of this control feature? And how?