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[Kanatta Jing]

"But fire only happens to trees." I hear you say "Some things aren't flammable." I hear from others.

A mech mounted flamer essentially spews fusion fire from the limitless resources of the mechs fusion engine. Hmm. What isn't flammable again?

If you get it hot enough, it will burn. Anything. Water, rocks, the solid adamantium office buildings of river city. Anything.

What if in 5 seconds of solid flamer fire you could start a fire that would burn for 30 seconds?

What would fire do? Why it would apply DPS to every panel in it's field. It would increase the core heat of any mech within it.

Will it detonate missiles within 100 meters of it? I sure hope so.

Will hot balls of plasma fire encourage even mildly battered assault mechs to shy away rather then let the flames grope suggestively over their naked chassis looking of critical hits and exposed ammo? I sure hope so.

The flamer. An area denial tool for corralling pesky mechs.

Good idea? Bad? Maybe?

[Johnny Z]

Make it a module. Mines come to mind also, but was thinking dedicated ammo supply + mine laying large vehicle/mech meant more for base defense.

[BeardedGlass]

It sounds mostly good, but what if a hunchy with 9 flamers torches an area, and it looks like the fire of a one flamer? Would then the 9 flamer death-fireball melt the legs of lights passing over it or would all those flamers only stack once? Also, if you had enough flamers you could make ECM a waste of weight in that you could just torch the side/top of a hill/building and make yourself a missile shield. It sounds good, but there is room for abuse.

[Kanatta Jing]

Hunchback with 9 flammers would start the ball of fire in 5/9 seconds ot 0.555 seconds. Maybe.

As for replacing ECM, It would be signifigantly less mobile and create walls that you can't shoot missles out of and can't aim through.

There is signifigant play between usable and abusable.