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aniviron, on 08 July 2013 - 03:07 PM, said:
I run a 380XL AWS-9M pretty regularly, and I have to say, the thing is alarmingly fragile. It's got 464 armor, but that melts pretty fast when someone puts two and two together and says "Hey that 80 ton machine is doing almost 90kph, let's shoot it in the side." Running an engine that large also means making some tradeoffs. The two best loadouts I have found for it are 3xPPC 3xSSRM2 or 3xLLAS 2xSRM4 SRM6. While they were both much better when SRMs did damage instead of firing off party favors at your opponent, they were hardly OP. I'm willing to wait and see if I eat my words and it turns out that the only things keeping the 9M in check are its terrible hitboxes and questionable hardpoints, but while those are serious drawbacks, the big engine really is a "shoot here" sign on your side torso as an assault, which good opponents will take advantage of every time. The only thing that really does concern me about very large engines being OP is the fact that you can stuff 15-18 crits worth of double heatsinks into them at no extra cost.
If an Awesome player thinks it is fragile with XL, then what chance do XL Battlemaster have when it has even larger side torso than the Awesome?
