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[Homeless Bill]

I'm not talking about troll builds - I'm talking about the loadouts you have to look at twice, and even then you just don't get it. The kind of build that even the most intoxicated of mechwarriors would hesitate to take into battle. Machine gun, flamer, TAG, and NARC boats don't count.

A few days ago, I strolled up to an Atlas RS to discover it had four medium pulse lasers. That's it. Nothing else. I'm guessing it had to be something like this: http://mwo.smurfy-ne...85b1a3d5ebac82c

Why? Dear Jesus, why?

Update:
Folks, we have a new winner. I saw a horrific Raven 3L fielded last night. I have respect for the pilot because he had serious fight and did well with this piece of ****: http://mwo.smurfy-ne...91515b40dbc08c.

My favorite part is the SRM6 in the NARC launcher. Other features include: AMS instead of ECM, runs hot, slow as all hell (some forgiveness on this since that engine come stock on the 3L (I'm poor, too)), and under-armored. Just awful.

What's the most genuinely failed attempt at 'mech customization you've seen fielded?

Edited by Homeless Bill, 28 June 2013 - 12:56 PM.

[DegeneratePervert]

A Jenner D with only two Streak SRM2s, nothing else. No JJs either.

[Merky Merc]

An atlas RS with a lrg pulse, LL, 2 flamers and an LBX-10. He was trying to snipe with the lbx.

[One Medic Army]

I saw an atlas D with only 4 Med Pulse lasers.
Arguably worse than the RS since they're not even all arm mounted.

[KharnZor]

catapult with 4 med lasers and 2 lrm 5's....

[Royalewithcheese]

Does "all DDCs that run lurms" count?

[Alymbic]

I saw a DDC without ecm last night

[Merky Merc]

Hmm or a 4G with only 2 Ac2s

[Test Monkey 13]

I have seen A1 catapults with only lrms many times.
Worst was a DDC with 3 lrm 15s and tag only with 2 ac2s to support it.

[Kotsuno]

There was once a spider on my team that had no weapons because it was his role to 'capture points'... to each his own =/

[Dr Killinger]

An Atlas with 2 PPCs. Nothing else.

People are far too obsessed with trying to be heat-neutral. Unless he dropped with the wrong mech, in which case, I sympathize!

[Terror Teddy]

KharnZor, on 11 March 2013 - 09:59 PM, said:

catapult with 4 med lasers and 2 lrm 5's....

What did he do with the rest of the tonnage??? DHS/ENDO/FERRO???

Edited by Terror Teddy, 11 March 2013 - 10:10 PM.

[GalaxyBluestar]

in the past i've seen a spider with 2 erlrg lasers so his top speed was 40 and he could hardly fire 3 single blasts without shutting down, the jjs were no compensation.

i've made a gaf dropping with an unbuilt mech, never leave an engine in unfinished mech although now we have the tick launch system so that won't happen anymore. still most embarressing moment in the game is an awesome with 1 medium laser at your disposal. the memories still haunt me... ARGH!

Kotsuno, on 11 March 2013 - 10:06 PM, said:

There was once a spider on my team that had no weapons because it was his role to 'capture points'... to each his own =/

depending on varient if he maxed out his engine instead of filling up with near useless single or dual mgs then for the sake of leveling up it may work... man gotta get off this new drink.

Edited by GalaxyBluestar, 11 March 2013 - 10:15 PM.

[Bagheera]

Various under-gunned Atlai, similar to the ones posted above.

The atlas I saw with nothing but 2 ER-PPCs not long ago, we're talking about you, bro.

[ragingmunkyz]

Saw a splatcat full of SRM4's today...I can't even begin to imagine how he couldn't find the extra tons to upgrade them to SRM6's.

[ShadowDarter]

i accidental placed a Jenner out in the field with one SRL, i was half way rebuilding it when i wanted a game with my A1 and lets say i will never do that series of accidents again...

[Chou Senwan]

I saw an amusing Catapult with:

LRM 5
LRM 10
LRM 15
SRM 2
SRM 4
SRM 6

I think they were cross-hatched in different arms too, so each arm had 15 LRMs and 6 SRMs.



I rather liked the Gauss Spider.

[Deathlike]

Multiple LRM5s on any capable mech.

Assault mechs that have 4 large lasers or less.

[Juju Shinobi]

Deathlike, on 11 March 2013 - 10:22 PM, said:

Multiple LRM5s on any capable mech.

Assault mechs that have 4 large lasers or less.

having multiple LRM 5 is not really a bad build. Heat output is lower and higher rate of fire. Had a match with a Cat A1 6 LRM 5 and 1004 damage. And I don't understand what is wrong with having four LLs or less.

A spider which ditched all armor and put on an LBX while trying to snipe with it. Also a Raven 4X with one Large Pulse Laser and nothing else but JJs

[DegeneratePervert]

JujuShinobi, on 11 March 2013 - 10:32 PM, said:

having multiple LRM 5 is not really a bad build. Heat output is lower and higher rate of fire. Had a match with a Cat A1 6 LRM 5 and 1004 damage. And I don't understand what is wrong with having four LLs or less.

A spider which ditched all armor and put on an LBX while trying to snipe with it. Also a Raven 4X with one Large Pulse Laser and nothing else but JJs

An assault armed with only 4 large lasers would have been better as a heavy.