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[Brody319]

With the release of many clan mechs we have found that 2-3 of them are solid mechs with plenty of good hard point and omnipod options. However some of the other mechs are suffering. I am going to go through the possible omnipod options we could give these mechs.

Mist Lynx:
F: 3 energy, 4 energy, 1 ECM + energy
G: 8 ballistics. 4 energy
Both of these would give the mech plenty of hard points and allow people to play support much better. with a rescaling of the arms that they said would be looked into for the 16th, these omnipods would enable the Lynx to bring a lot of fire power.

Adder:
J: 1 ballistic, 1 ballistic, 1 ballistic, and 1 ballistic.
Would allow the Adder to bring much better ballistic builds. It already has plenty of energy and missile, but it is lacking in ballistics hard points.

Nova:
E: Missile hard point(s)
U: 8 Ballistic hard points
This would give the Nova some more options for weapons. Both missiles and ballistics, enabling the nova to carry a much better payload of ballistics and give it some missile slots as well.

Summoner:
F: 1 ballistic + 1 energy in each arm, torso mounted missile and energy.
H: for side torso energy slots
The Summoner lacks the ability to boat energy and ballistics effectively. This leads it to having a franken type load out in most cases. The F would allow it to boat ballistics better and the H would give it those much needed side torso energy slots to give it better fire power.

Maddog:
F: Ballistic arms, and Energy side torsos.
The Maddog is a solid mech as is, but could use a little extra hard points. The F would normally be used to mount 2 HAG rifles, but could easily be used to mount different ballistics such as normal gauss rifles. The energy side torsos 2 hard points in each side, would give the Maddog the ability to boat energy weapons.


I realize I didn't mention the Ice ferret, but most of its variants could run the same builds. Though I suggest some side torso energy slots.

I think these hard points could go a long way to help these mechs. Some of them would require quirks to go along with the omnipods, but these would greatly improve these mechs. of course I can only estimate the hard points and their locations because of how the battletech wiki lays them out. I assume it goes arms - side torsos - CT with exceptions explaining their locations.

Any suggestions for other variant hard points or comments?

[Mcgral18]

Nova U also has a ECM head.

A-LT has both a E hardpoint (to compliment the B RT) and a AMS, for possible tri AMS with the S CT.

The C-LT apparently has a model in the game assets, as demonstrated by this pic:

Missiles slots are nice.

Ice Ferret D right arm has 2E hardpoints, rather than the single E two currently have.

Edited by Mcgral18, 07 December 2014 - 06:10 PM.

[Andi Nagasia]

easy add ALL in Time-Line Omni-Pods,
even perhaps some out of Time-Line Omni-pods it they can be made,
Example= WHK-H RA (2LPL 1LRM10)(2E 1M),
much like the WHK-P LA, but opposite side,

[Angel of Annihilation]

Yeah I do hope they get around to adding more pod, even some made up pods to be honest.

Right now Clan mechs just have so few options available to them with only 13 chassis available for selection. I mean compare that to the IS which has 40-50 chassis available.

[Brody319]

Andi Nagasia, on 07 December 2014 - 06:23 PM, said:

easy add ALL in Time-Line Omni-Pods,
even perhaps some out of Time-Line Omni-pods it they can be made,
Example= WHK-H RA (2LPL 1LRM10)(2E 1M),
much like the WHK-P LA, but opposite side,

I think the Warhawk is pretty close to being good, could use some quirks. but otherwise its a good assault mech.

[Jazzbandit1313]

ohmygod if the lynx had 8 balistics.......

that means 8 UAC2...wait...i mean 8 mg's.

PGI PLS 8 MG lynx