and just to admire the look of a mech (they should give a team this if they are out numbered in one of those odd 7vs8 matches)
Ok since this is a thread about strengths of cats and why to get them i will now talk about the pros of launching all of your missiles at once
Pros:
Stealthier:Harder to notice an lrm user firing one *little* group of missiles over a ridge then one firing a long stream of them over a ridge
Easier to accurately dumb Fire if no lock due to things like ecm
More ams resistant, ams effectiveness is measured in missiles shot down per salvo, so the more salvos the more shot down, if one mech fires 40 missiles in a solid group each ams shoots down 5 missiles per barrage leaving 5 missiles shot down total and another fires 40 missiles in groups of 2 ams will shot down 5 missiles from each group leaving 10 total shot down, an entire team of dual ams mechs CAN NOT shoot down the entire group of 90 missiles fired by a roflpault, but they can shoot down 100 missiles fired in 2 groups
works better with narc: Narc is destroyed after the mech it is attached to takes 30 dmg and missiles that havent already hit it will loss the boost, but if all of those missiles hit at once they would have already hit when the narc is destroyed, not so when you use a stalker lrm boat, the first 30 will destroy the narc the the rest will be less effective
Needs Shorter Lock to get going in right direction: when missiles have a lock and are fired they will go to where that mech was even after the lock is lost so if the mech doesn't move they will still hit, but when you fire in multiple groups and the lock disappears half way during the time your firing the missiles half will just go were your aiming cursor was and hit the ground, also requires a shorter lock from scout to let all of the missiles to guide them selves to target and hit
Simply more instantaneous, imagine if your about to die from a damaged atlas that is also about to die, do you want 5 groups of ten missiles to hit him or do you want one group of 30 hitting him so he dies first, also allows the lrm user to get back behind cover faster
Cons: none at all (seriously) it is said smaller tube count means smaller groups that are more accurate and tend to only hit the ct, but thats arguable
Edited by Just wanna play, 16 June 2013 - 09:51 AM.
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Whiskey Dharma, on 16 June 2013 - 04:19 AM, said:
