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[A banana in the tailpipe]

Ever since missiles started targeting the legs of lights, the damage is spread fairly even between both legs unless (god forbid) someone uses a weapon that actually requires aim and skill to pick off an individual one. Clever fellows have taken to turning those lemons into lemonade, and when realizing they've forgotten their umbrella at home or on the losing side of a brawl can easily hop down from the height of your average piece of patio furniture to "pop" both of them off at once to effectively deny their assailant the killing blow while raising a glorious middle finger to the world.

My humble question for the powers that be is, fair or foul play?

[Malleus011]

I'd go for option C, comic relief.

[Wolfways]

/yawn

[Quick n Fast]

ive found missiles hit ur legs more if ur actively running away from them. cause of the angle they follow when trying to get to you + you running away bring them on a low angle an then tend to hit ur legs more

if you stand still or run towards them (yes I know that's dumb to do) more will hit ur upper half.

[Ultimax]

While yes, I have ECM, I don't have this issue in my Kit Fox when my ECM is denied (TAG, NARC, it happens).


However I don't run off away from the team and I try to make sure cover isn't far behind.


Maybe trying to outrun everything all of the time out in the open isn't the answer?

[Roland]

lockwoodx, on 18 August 2014 - 09:29 AM, said:

Ever since missiles started targeting the legs of lights, the damage is spread fairly even between both legs unless (god forbid) someone uses a weapon that actually requires aim and skill to pick off an individual one. Clever fellows have taken to turning those lemons into lemonade, and when realizing they've forgotten their umbrella at home or on the losing side of a brawl can easily hop down from the height of your average piece of patio furniture to "pop" both of them off at once to effectively deny their assailant the killing blow while raising a glorious middle finger to the world.

My humble question for the powers that be is, fair or foul play?

Paul himself did this once in his Catapult after we legged and stripped him, and then left him.

[Jon Gotham]

lockwoodx, on 18 August 2014 - 09:29 AM, said:

Ever since missiles started targeting the legs of lights, the damage is spread fairly even between both legs unless (god forbid) someone uses a weapon that actually requires aim and skill to pick off an individual one. Clever fellows have taken to turning those lemons into lemonade, and when realizing they've forgotten their umbrella at home or on the losing side of a brawl can easily hop down from the height of your average piece of patio furniture to "pop" both of them off at once to effectively deny their assailant the killing blow while raising a glorious middle finger to the world.

My humble question for the powers that be is, fair or foul play?

Fair.
If 5 people are all slavering after you, all trying to get that last shot on the gank......if you can single finger salute their greed-go for it!

[A banana in the tailpipe]

Roland, on 18 August 2014 - 09:50 AM, said:

Paul himself did this once in his Catapult after we legged and stripped him, and then left him.

Thank you for providing a post that addresses the question besides a subtle l2p or troll.

Ok Kross too but we posted at the same time

Edited by lockwoodx, 18 August 2014 - 09:59 AM.

[CocoaJin]

[Wolfways]

Another option is not to let yourself get hit often by LRM's. It's especially easy in lights because they have the speed to get to cover easier than the slower mechs.

If you want proper replies maybe you should just ask the question instead of the majority of your posts being not-so-subtle "OMG LRM's suck and LRM users are no-skill losers who can't aim" posts.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Legging enemy mechs is a good and smart tactic, but really only viable if...

A. The enemy is a light
B. The enemy mech took a lot of leg armor off to get an additional ton or so of extra weight.

If you fall into "B", you definently deserve to get your legs blown off.

The only people who don't recognize a good advantage like legging are those Clan Truebirth test tube oafs.

Edited by MeiSooHaityu, 18 August 2014 - 10:38 AM.

[Clit Beastwood]

MeiSooHaityu, on 18 August 2014 - 10:36 AM, said:

Legging enemy mechs is a good and smart tactic, but really only viable if...

A. The enemy is a light
B. The enemy mech took a lot of leg armor off to get an additional ton or so of extra weight.

If you fall into "B", you definently deserve to get your legs blown off.

The only people who don't recognize a good advantage like legging are those Clan Truebirth test tube oafs.

well, sometimes if you see a huge weapons loadout its worth waving a laser across the legs. if they turn orange... someone cheated their armor

[Lostdragon]

Sometimes when you are struggling mightily at the end of battle against overwhelming odds the most satisfying thing you can see is "lostdragon has killed lostdragon" whether it is from legging yourself or intentionally overheating. If you can't win sometimes you can at least deny the enemy the satisfaction of the kill while going down fighting.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Fierostetz, on 18 August 2014 - 10:43 AM, said:

well, sometimes if you see a huge weapons loadout its worth waving a laser across the legs. if they turn orange... someone cheated their armor

Always a good idea.

P.S. I always try to keep my leg armor in the high 30s or 40s with heavy mechs or assaults. Anything lower seems like asking for trouble.

Also. With most mechs you can get away with stripping armor from your head due to most mechs having a way too small head hitbox. I run 8 armor in the head of most mechs and i almost never get headshot. Only once did I get loose my head in a Hunchback (already damaged and finished off by an airstrike). The only mech I run full armor in the head is a Catapult (for obvious reasons).

[Clit Beastwood]

MeiSooHaityu, on 18 August 2014 - 10:50 AM, said:

Always a good idea.

P.S. I always try to keep my leg armor in the high 30s or 40s with heavy mechs or assaults. Anything lower seems like asking for trouble.

Also. With most mechs you can get away with stripping armor from your head due to most mechs having a way too small head hitbox. I run 8 armor in the head of most mechs and i almost never get headshot. Only once did I get loose my head in a Hunchback (already damaged and finished off by an airstrike). The only mech I run full armor in the head is a Catapult (for obvious reasons).

I love lightly armored heads!

[Lefty Lucy]

Kahnawake MechMaster Prime, on 18 August 2014 - 09:38 AM, said:

ive found missiles hit ur legs more if ur actively running away from them. cause of the angle they follow when trying to get to you + you running away bring them on a low angle an then tend to hit ur legs more

if you stand still or run towards them (yes I know that's dumb to do) more will hit ur upper half.

Yes, I solved the problems of missiles doing too much damage to my legs: just let them core me faster!

[Kassatsu]

MeiSooHaityu, on 18 August 2014 - 10:50 AM, said:

P.S. I always try to keep my leg armor in the high 30s or 40s with heavy mechs or assaults. Anything lower seems like asking for trouble.

That's because with anything lower you're a very slow light mech and a free kill to anyone that accidentally grazes your leg with a small laser.

[Voidcrafter]

MeiSooHaityu, on 18 August 2014 - 10:36 AM, said:

Legging enemy mechs is a good and smart tactic, but really only viable if...

A. The enemy is a light
B. The enemy mech took a lot of leg armor off to get an additional ton or so of extra weight.

If you fall into "B", you definently deserve to get your legs blown off.

The only people who don't recognize a good advantage like legging are those Clan Truebirth test tube oafs.

C: the enemy mech is IS heavy with ballistics and you're quite certain the ammo is in the legs(where else would an XL heavy put it? DOH).
D: It sounds really stupid probably, but it's the case you're facing a healthy DWF - I ordinary aim for the right leg(since I just KNOW a DWF can't hold of the ballistics/missiles/whatever and had put the ammo in the leg - since that's the last one consumed I know it's there). In the moment it get cored --> bye bye leg, and ordinary it cores the other leg. Since I am kinda "fan" of the LBX20 you can imagine what follows

Even if it sounds stupid I've won not a single fight against DWFs that way - sometimes it's really quickly(cause prolly I am lucky - if there's luck in firing SRM16 + LBX20), sometimes not so much - but either way 3 alphas and the DWF is a goner.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Yea, for the most part, going for the legs keeps people honest . No cheaply skimping on leg armor or storing excess ammo in the legs.

[Deathlike]

Darwin happened.

Seriously, the first thought it to get away from LRMs, only to drop a long distance to your own death. If it was ever intentional, it's one less mech to chase down.

This is not even worth a complaint.

Edited by Deathlike, 18 August 2014 - 02:23 PM.