Bromineberry, on 28 August 2014 - 05:50 AM, said:
I somehow hate the AC10. It's such a fragile weapon. It gets destroyed exactly the moment, you loose your armour. The AC20 is much more durable, it simply has more "hp/crit".
Reading this thread has surprised me a lot. I never thought, that I run relatively hot mechs. On most builds that are posted, I'd get rid of heatsink for more weapons/bigger engine.
Well, that's why the Grid Iron/4G (same build, just the Grid Iron gets me bonus CBills and supports Da Bears!) is higher than the 4H. I mean, I could run another AC/20 + 3xML Hunchback in the 4H, but what's the point? Honestly though, what I always wanted for that mech was for the stupid LBX-10 to actually work. That's what I started running in that, and it can be brutally effective up close...but that's about it. It's inability to put even half it's damage on target severely hampers it's effectiveness. An AC/5 is too much tonnage for too little damage IMO, and it doesn't have the hardpoints and lack of hunch that the 4J has in order to run it as a laser boat.
Now I'm making it sound like I don' like it though... Honestly, it's a solid enough mech, but it just can't specialize well. 4P and 4J are better laser mechs, and the 4G is a better ballistic mech. If the heat on ML's came down, then I could run an AC/10 + 5xML build that would have more punch. Or if the LBX-10 somehow got turned into an effective weapon then I could run with that and use the extra tonnage for an additional heat sink or ML as well. Or if it had two ballistic slots instead of just one... Basically, I like it more for nostalgia for when I ran it all the time back when I had like 5 mechs, but it really needs just a little something to make it shine again.