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[Red1769]

Back in closed beta (I think?), when SRMs were worth something at the time, I had a centurian with three or two SRM 4s, two mls, and an AC 2, stock engine, max armor. It was on Frozen city, and I think it wasn't long after the Cataphract was released. I held off two cataphracts from going around a building all on my own. I killed the one, and that same one killed me. It wasn't until after the match had ended in our loss that I realized that we had killed each other at the same time. I laughed for a good five minutes.

Another one was on Tourmaline Desert. In that same Centurian build, a Cataphract and I went left, every one else went right. The Cataphract fell fast to long range fire. I lost my AC 2 and a leg shortly after. Two to three mechs spent close to three minutes trying to finish me off while the rest of my team rolled their flank. I even typed up on chat that they spent waaayyy too long killing me. One of the guys that was trying to kill me took it in good humor and had complained about me not dying yet before then. Me and him had a good laugh at that. I didn't do very well in that match, but I didn't care.

The last time was somewhat recently. I was in my Dire Wolf (nicknamed the White Whale with matching paint job). One of our teammates had spotted an LRM 60 Awesome, that was wrecking some havoc. Me and two other had flanked them. From right in front of me, a damaged Catapult emerged. I killed him pretty quickly. I popped up, and there was my target, with a hunchback and Thunderbolt (I think, could have been a B-Master) escort. I killed that Awesome, and almost took off the heavier mech's right arm. I don't know how much damage I did to that Hunchback. I was proud of that match. And of that specific Dire Wolf build.

Those are the three that I got that I am most proud of.

[JohnyBlack]

My favorite moment was on Mordor. We were playing assault and winning handly.
3 were left on their team when we realized that they were capping our base.
I was in my LRM Shadowhawk (2ml and 3lrm10) and the nearest and fastest on my team left.

Told my team to not let me die in wain and went charging in against a Atlas, Jager and an ECM Raven. Took a lot of damage on the way in - torso twisting like hell - and was running circles inside the base. The Atlas and Raven tried to take my down once inside while the Jager got distracted by the arrival of my team.

I survived long enough that my team could get them with almost no energy left on the base.
I did not expect to make it. Was a great moment!

[beerandasmoke]

Probably one of my most memorable was just recently after the clandrop. I was in my hybrid build wub wub 3M Cicada 1xERLL, 3xMPL on Mordor. Team had died leaving a 5vs1 situation one of which was a disco though i didnt know it. I retreated too base and awaited the inevitable. First one in was a Centurion brawler. Took him down pretty handily because he had suffered some damage. Next though was an almost unscratched Warhawk. Pretty good duel but i cored him out from behind finally. Next one was a Timberwolf with some leg dmg who had a damn good pilot. He ended up dmging my mech heavily but i kept working his legs till i sheered one off and he tried to jump and snapped the other one killing himself. The last guy having seen all his teammates die refused too engage me and instead went and hid settling for a win with killcount since i didnt have enough time to find the disco. They were calling my Cicada the Ultimate Assault Cicada in chat lol. Ended up with 5kills and around 750dmg for that game. Not my highest killcount or most dmg but definetly the most memorable when the enemy refuses to engage out of fear lol.

[KuroNyra]

It was with my Centurion. (Yen-Lo-Wang, XL 300, AC/20)
Fighting against some clan mech on mordor.

I choosed to not follow the "blob" and get by a sneak way.
There I spotted 3 Timber Wolf showing there rear armor to me...

Ho boy it was epic.

In a matter of second, I destroyed all 3 Timber Wolf rear CT because when one of them was down. The other's didn't saw it, focusing on firing LRMS.
It was so funny to watch them on the chat.

TB1: What the.... BEHIND US!
TB2: *sight* too late.
TB3: Have a place for me guy's?
TB2: Sneaky YLW FTW!
TB1: Now I know what it feel to be humiliated by Kai Allard-Liao


Funny thing. It was my first sortie with the Yen-Lo-Wang after customising him to make it suitable for me.
Since that day, I take my YLW out once a day at least.

[Y E O N N E]

I had a similar game in my Arrow, before the clans hit. Back then, I ran it with an LB-10X, 5MG, and 3 SL. Game was Skirmish on Mordor, and I had to go AFK for a few minutes. I came back, ran straight toward the middle, and found 5 'Mechs with their backs to me. A Shadowhawk was in full reverse moving toward me, and died quickly. Nobody else saw it. I mosey on up to the rest and then a Cataphract, Centurion, and Atlas go down in short order. By then, my allies had pushed in and helped me with the Stalker, which by now had turned around to shoot at me.

But that game has nothing on this one:


Most of the team turned to fight the enemy as they moved from city to under the platform. I and a few others went through saddle and came up behind them. Unfortunately, the enemy were much better shots than my team and I found myself as the last man standing with 4 enemies to go with a crit CT. Those four were (in order of destruction) a Raven, a Thunderbolt, a Banshee, and a Direwolf. The Direwolf had used up all of his AC/20 ammo, but it still took 4 minutes to kill it due to the new C-LRM range mechanic.

It was a very good game. Very fun, good effort by both sides.

Finally, nice game OP! Few things are more nail-bitingly enjoyable than winning a close match in a Locust and putting up Assault-class numbers to boot.

I think my record in the Locust is 730 on HPG. Didn't survive the round, because I got cocky at the end and tried to bull-charge a cherry Cataphract, but it was a good match:

[Naduk]

had a few moments worthy of song

used my centurion as a shield for a random atlas
was on frozen city there was only a few enemy left, they had about 6 to our 3
i was following our atlas and we engaged a enemy stalker, atlas lost an arm but we were taking him down
as he died the atlas shut down from heat and another stalker came around the corner
stalker was on his good side and i couldn't let him lose all his weapons so i ran max speed
just as the stalker lined up the atlas i jumped in the way, took his full alpha to my rear armor
lost all armor and red ct ! i turn and face him let rip my lbx10 and 2xML, i get off two volleys
stalker readys for next alpha, atlas is powering up, i am wetting my self, i twist and absorb another full alpha lose my whole left side, i swing back drop another LBX round and accept that death is only a few seconds away
as i fire my lasers in last ditch effort my screen fills with ATLAS
he marches on that stalker and takes him down so fast it was unholy
battered and smashed we manage to win the game that should not of been possible
the chat was going crazy, it was epic

one of my all time best moments was actually a loss
it was before the gauss nerf, i ran gauss,2xML and 3xLRM5 on my centurion
i was just me left on my team, my mech was fairly fresh, was kind of a weird battle lots of little small skirmishes beteen squads
had left everybody spread right out, so 3v1 i knew my chances were low but i was determined
because of the spread they came at me one by one, that suited me just fine
first mech was a dragon, a little damaged, i used the last of my lrm ammo and took of his leg
with his maneuverability gone he was easy pickings
as he died a jagermech came over the ridge, he lit me up with AC rounds
i twisted left, right, left and fired gauss and laser when i could, i focused his shoulder and eventually took off an arm
suddenly the enemy fire was far less than i perhaps should of been, i think he has alot of stuff in that arm
or perhaps i was lucky and snagged his ammo, with his dakka so much reduced i took his other arm with ease
as i finished him off i caught a glimpse of what their last mech was
ATLAS!
team chat went nuts, run hide, flee
its skirmish guys, where can i go, i respond
i stay in the open just long enough to get his load out, he is long short mix
frak it, there was no safe zone, so i threw a gauss round his way and stepped into cover, LRMs smashed the area
i popped out a few times to throw a gauss and keep him coming the same way
as he got into brawl range i ran around behind the building i was using as a shield
as i passed behind him i shot his right side, he turned right but i was now on his left, i dropped gauss slugs into his cannon side
desperately trying to take out that AC20
he reacted quicker than i expected and gave me full alpha and peeled my CT wide open
i kept firing on his cannon side
i twisted to my shield arm, and his next alpha ripped it clean off along with the side torso.... good thing i used all my LRM ammo
i swing back and take his side torso out too, he lost the AC20 and a Large laser,
i twist again using my gauss arm to block his next strike
i take off his arm, must of had previous damage , oh my god i can do this
chat goes super sonic crazy ! both teams are frothing
i twist again blocking his 2xML with my gauss arm
it comes off, its a zombie battle
i still have a little armor on my right torso, each time he fires i show him that side
everything is gone now, but his ct is open and red
all i need is one shot
all he needed was 1 shot about 3 mins ago
he kills me
we lose
that goes mental and both sides congratulate me on my valiant last stand

most recently
i got into the top10 Centurions bracket in the mediums vs the world tourney
was very proud of my centies that day

[Rogue Jedi]

Early in early 2013 shortly after I joined a unit (the Praetorian Legion) we were playing a match on Canyon Network, the other 3 members of my lance (a 4man premade on teamspeak) were all in slow Mechs.
The teams were about even and this was fairly early in the match, I noticed the base is being captured warning (this was before turrets) so took my Spider (with 4 MG + ERLL) to head off the capture, which seemed to be going very fast. When I saw there was a full lance on our base, and asked for help (both on TeamSpeak and by typing “4@base HELP” into team chat), then I ran into the base capture zone (with about 1/8 of base health left) and, as only a Spider can, evaded fire using the enemy Mechs and the base itself as cover, and my jumpjets to make me unpredictable.

It felt like a very long time but I am guessing was less than 30 seconds before help arrived, and it was a lot of help, turns out the rest of the team (8 Mechs) came to back me up, unfortunately I did not survive, I was legged at about the time the first allies arrived and down about 5 seconds later however we won.
the base had roughly no health left by the end, I had done almost no damage, 1 assist and no kills but I had proved instrumental in our victory

Another treasured memory, my first ever drop on Alpine Peaks, the map had been released on the Tuesday, this was the Wednesday. We started on Alpine in conquest mode, I noticed the rest of the team were all 60ton + so I said I will cap.
After about 7 minutes I had 3 points and the enemy only had 1 (this was when capturing a point only took about 20-30 seconds), they finished off the last of my team (there were 2 enemies left) and I decided to hide as the capture counter had passed 600, we won and my first experience on Alpine Peaks resulted in me doing 0 damage and never even seeing an enemy Mech

[3rdworld]

Beating SJR for the first time a couple of season ago.

They were the unwavering rock that no one had been able to topple, and we had no anticipation of winning. Our goal going into the match was just to push it to a game 5. We ended up winning in 4. It was a great night for all of SwK.

Or playing in the RHoD Season 2 finals. While we lost, it was the most tense/exciting/nervous I have ever been for a video game.

Hopefully we can have some success against the lords tonight.

[XxXAbsolutZeroXxX]

Dropped in a Boar's Head with 400XL and 5 ER large lasers on HPG Manifold.

Ran at 70 kph to the exit/entrance as soon as game started and played door gunner.

A slower atlas finally caught up and proceeded to shoot me in the back. I'd been standing in the exit/entrance since the game started long before he arrived.

I turned to look at him. He looked back at me. I said, "don't do that again".

He did it again.

I turned & shot him in the left eye with my 5 ER LL's and he died.

We still won the game despite being short 1 atlas.

I did 800-900+ damage and got 4-5 kills (not counting the TK).

.

[Lupin]

"And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor".

Before they nurfed jump jets. Jumped over an Atlas on Frozen City with my Jenner giving a full Alpha of SRM and lasers to get head shot.
Repeated it again on next match.

[H Seldon]

I guess taking out a 4-man of AC40 Jagers solo in my heavy metal (lb10x and 3 lg pulse) on alpine. No armor left, wish I had taken a screen shot. Had another match where we had a bunch of discos all on one team. I was in a DW so powered down behind one of the discos and waited. As soon as they started firing on the disco I powered up and took out 3 of them and would have taken a 4th if I hadn't lost one of my side torsos. It was a great loss.

[Y E O N N E]

Rogue Jedi, on 22 July 2014 - 04:02 AM, said:

Early in early 2013 shortly after I joined a unit (the Praetorian Legion) we were playing a match on Canyon Network, the other 3 members of my lance (a 4man premade on teamspeak) were all in slow Mechs.
The teams were about even and this was fairly early in the match, I noticed the base is being captured warning (this was before turrets) so took my Spider (with 4 MG + ERLL) to head off the capture, which seemed to be going very fast. When I saw there was a full lance on our base, and asked for help (both on TeamSpeak and by typing “4@base HELP” into team chat), then I ran into the base capture zone (with about 1/8 of base health left) and, as only a Spider can, evaded fire using the enemy Mechs and the base itself as cover, and my jumpjets to make me unpredictable.

It felt like a very long time but I am guessing was less than 30 seconds before help arrived, and it was a lot of help, turns out the rest of the team (8 Mechs) came to back me up, unfortunately I did not survive, I was legged at about the time the first allies arrived and down about 5 seconds later however we won.
the base had roughly no health left by the end, I had done almost no damage, 1 assist and no kills but I had proved instrumental in our victory

Another treasured memory, my first ever drop on Alpine Peaks, the map had been released on the Tuesday, this was the Wednesday. We started on Alpine in conquest mode, I noticed the rest of the team were all 60ton + so I said I will cap.
After about 7 minutes I had 3 points and the enemy only had 1 (this was when capturing a point only took about 20-30 seconds), they finished off the last of my team (there were 2 enemies left) and I decided to hide as the capture counter had passed 600, we won and my first experience on Alpine Peaks resulted in me doing 0 damage and never even seeing an enemy Mech

The value of IS lights! I had one of those last month, with my own unit _MTAC. I was in my LCT-1M on Alpine and we were finishing up the lance that we caught out in the open when the base cap warning came on. Being the only fast runner on the team, I booked it to the base (G10 side) and got into the box behind the rig, shouting into the comms that the base was on the brink. The enemy all tried to squeeze between said rig and a building to get at me; by the time they had disentangled themselves and gone around the other way, help had arrived. I died a fiery death, but the game was won!

[RetroActive]

I was in my Victor 9S back in it's brawling heyday before the nerf. The map was Tourmaline Assault before turrets and before lances spawned all spread out. I managed to get 1-2 kills before everything went South. I had had peeled off of the action to avoid the enemy's superior numbers when my last teammate went down. There were either 4 or 5 enemies left at that time, and since they couldn't immediately see me, they headed toward our base to cap.

I still had decent armor left and I headed back towards base to do what I could to go down in a blaze of glory. I took the low ground and was in the pit in front of the large crystals in front of our base. Instead of barging up the ramp toward base, i stopped short and engaged my jump jets to see what I could see, and there just happened to be an enemy Catapult lumbering by. Out of reflex, I sprayed my 3 ASRM4 at him. It only looked like about half cleared the hill, but down the catapult went. Not a bad start.

This alerted the rest, but they must have been spread out because they didn't all come together. First into the pit was a moderately damaged Stalker. I fired my AC20+ARSM12 at him and immediately turned his CT internals orange. I jumped and twisted to spread his fire, but he still managed to remove the last of my CT armor. About this time, another enemy Catapult joined the fray and commenced to stripping what was left of my armor. One more round of AC/SRM fire finished off the Stalker, and it turned out the Catapult was already orange CT from the main battle. He went down quickly after.

I don't remember what the last mech was, and I was down to red internals, but it was one of those times when you just know you're going to win. All my shots were on target, and I always managed to spread his damage perfectly.

We were victorious and I'll never forget that match.

[ExoForce]

Funny I was thinking to open similar topic..

Crimson Strait B6 base. I was in Alpha Lance - 4 diifferent Stalkers ! Mine was 3F.
One guy suggested Lets go to D5. Other one said Why not? So we went there (my favourite position on that map, hehehe.)
We formed a line, no retreat, noone shall pass... We took and inflicted enormous damage. End of the battle - we won!
All that was left alive at the end was ours 4 Stalkers.

On that day I was proud to be a Stalker 3F pilot...

[Odins Fist]

Arc Viper, on 20 July 2014 - 09:49 PM, said:

"Your Best Mwo Moment"

Firing from a hidden postion and causing a group of 6 enemy Mechs to start shooitng each other and TK'ing 3 of their own Teammates.!!

[ExoForce]

Odins Fist, on 22 July 2014 - 02:04 PM, said:

Firing from a hidden postion and causing a group of 6 enemy Mechs to start shooitng each other and TK'ing 3 of their own Teammates.!!

LOL, Ive seen similar situation on Caustic. I was slow behind my frontline and seen same havoc in my team. OMG...

[ExoForce]

My most epic battle:

Crimson Strait: my team was slaughtered trying to enter the tunnel. Current scoreboard: 2 of us vs 8, so in theory game over.
All that was left was my Stalker 3F and dakka Jager at D5. Without a word we just looked each other and decided to storm B6 base. We rushed down the hill and did *advancing in group* tactic. I was destroying turrets like 70 percent and Jager was finishing them.So we advanced from one turret to another and did the same. We entered the base and Jager was without ammo.
I stood in front of him to protect him and give him few more seconds. Enemy started to pile between the bulidings (instead of taking our base, love PUG). Firing all Ive got, even LRMs at close range... We captured the base!!!

Edited by ExoForce, 22 July 2014 - 02:36 PM.

[Johnny Z]

It was a cold wet day at River City (its always a cold and wet day at River City though), we dropped into a losing battle. Soon after the battle started most of my team mates mechs had been turned to scrap.

I checked radar and only one other friendly mech was showing, so I sent to him that we should head to the tunnel and try to hold out there. 10 mechs vrs 2. The other mech was a Boar's Head hero mech and I was in a HBK 4G. As they closed in I'm sure everyone thought the battle was over.

The battle raged on and soon it was 2 mech's vrs 2, Thats when my ct went finally cored and I had to eject, but not before using the remaining laser to seriously damage the Spider mech I think it was, that got me.

At the end we won the battle, and the Boar's Head was the last mech standing. Actually happened, was a great match.

Edited by Johnny Z, 22 July 2014 - 03:11 PM.