LT Satisfactory, on 18 June 2014 - 10:01 AM, said:
not viable at all - you can only fit 153/210 pts of armor with that build. UAC5 is all you can get. This mech can't even support 2UAC2's by themselves (same tonnage as 1 uac10, not to mention the other weapons) without serious drawbacks.
I don't know that the drawbacks are SERIOUS, but I ran a 2UAC2 build for a couple days and found that with 3 tons of ammo and 2 CERSmalls I could still run full armor, but my biggest problem was jams and being able to fire off all that ammo throughout the match. I usually finished with 150-250 damage just because there weren't enough opportunities to fire on enemies without putting myself too much in the line of fire.
A substituting in a UAC10 would have range problems, but you wouldn't have to worry about not being able to spend all that ammo. Still, I'll agree that there are definitely more efficient ways to build the little 30 tonner.