Knightshadowsong, on 16 February 2014 - 07:50 PM, said:
I'm sorry. Crab and King Crab are Parifrancy mech's. SOOO out of date that every major and minor power in the Inner sphere stopped using them YEARS ago (according to Lore) Plus as cool as another all energy mech would be. there just so Ugly that they'd make an anorexic start eating again.
I'd like to see something a bit more... Current time line like Mauler. (Case in point the Awesome shouldn't even be available yet because it was made AFTER wave one of the clan invasion.)
Umm, I'm slightly confused as to where you are coming up with this lore? Either I've been very mistaken (which I wont really doubt with BT lore sometimes), but the Crab was not "outdated" or "not used because it was old". It ended up not being used for a long time because there wasn't very many of them left to use. They started (the Crab) to be reproduced around 3050ish with the technology granted by the Helm Memory Core. Comstar gave the Combine a bunch of Crabs during one (3rd succession I believe) war to help them out, but they downgraded a lot of the tech when they did give it away.
The King Crab was used to fight the clans and was described as a "Clan Buster" design, as it seems to preform well against the Clans.
Crab:
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Crab
King Crab:
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/King_Crab
(PS: I love how the Crab's (and the King Crab) look, and would love to see them placed into the game under Alex's conception of them. He drew some sketches that have roamed around the forums, and I love how they look.)
If you want to do with "antiquated" designs, then the Atlas should be old and not desired, as it was made by the SLDF, just like the Crab was...