Zetrein, on 05 December 2014 - 08:17 AM, said:
This will never fly, because an underweight heavier mech does NOT equal the weight it has. I could build a D-DC Atlas with a few SRM4s and a pair of ERLL, and it'd come in around 72 tons, with full Atlas armor. Going by tonnage, this should be about equal to a Cataphract, right? Have them stand in front of eachother and start firing, see which one walks away.
tl;dr Heavier mechs mounting smaller guns get to keep their higher internal and armor numbers, and have no reason not to use them.
This is a misleading argument, yes it gets its full Atlas armor but it also gets its full Atlas maneuverability. Which is to say that your argument is misleading because you place them toe to toe shooting at each other. When an Atlas is going to be easily outmaneuvered by a Cataphract of equal weight.