Gasoline, on 30 December 2017 - 02:40 AM, said:
The Fafnir might actually be quite iconic and I can see why people like it, but it has some serious issues.
There're 2 variants available which share the same exact hardpoints. Unless Alex pulls out some miracle it will have gigantic side torsos which will make the Thanatos look like a decent mech.
But let's take a look what we got recently regarding IS mechs.
Uziel - Medium
Annihilator - Assault
Osiris - Light
Nightstar - Assault
Thanatos - Heavy
Hellspawn - Medium
I sense we can safely say that it won't be another medium or assault. Most likely it'll be a light.
A light....both factions (since there are only clan and inner sphere left what is royaly stupid in the times of civil war) are a bit underrepresented in that matter.
And there are indeed some interesting candidates left to be introduced into this game.
Strictly featuring Mechs that only use available Tech at least in primary config (since pgi makes their own configs anyway) and only mechs that could be realized without braking the magic 170kph wall or the no quads due to no inverse kinematics rule.
35T:
-- Falconhawk
Light striker and one of the slower energy based lights but honestly in a duelist environment like solaris who gives a sh... and a well played Wolfhound or Panther can be quite deadly
-- Hollander
because GAUSS
-- NightHawk
like the Falconhawk energy based and not the fastest in its trade..its a matter of taste
-- Spector
A stealthy energy based light scout
-- Stiletto
light chickenwalker missile thrower/ supporter
-- Talon
quite fast sniper mech
-- Venom
Based on the spider and quite lackluster
30T:
-- Anubis
A light lurmer
-- Battlehawk
An other slow light with (for TT) astonishing firepower, bugsquasher, toadhunter
-- Falcon
A premium Starleague alternative for the venerable Wasp and Stinger Scout Mechs
-- Firefly
A chickenwalker reintroduced by Wolfs Dragoons armed with lasers missiles and electronics
-- Hammer
House Marik Battlemech with quite interesting and different Variants....honestly one of my favorite lights to be added due to the large variety of possible builds
-- Hermes
An ages old Scout mech with Spider like armament and speed but without JJ and more electronics
-- Hitman
A dedicated Spotter Mech with lots of electronics and oneside wonder weapons (3 lasers one arm...good idea...not)
-- Hussar
An inverse Chicken walker mech...with a large central laser gun and ridiculous speed and big Ballistics as well as EWF options variants. Oddball but flat low profile + high speed and a big gun....
-- Jackal
A light sniper mech with few variants too smal leggs and too big torso
-- Razorback
A light diggiwalker with a big laser quad MGs and few legal variants
-- Valkyrie
THE Davion light mech. Armed with a combo of a single laser and a single big missile laucher and lackluster speed it would most likely fare quite poor in MWO.
25T:
-- Brigand
A Pirate produced Mech light mech with 4 lasers and jumpcapability, it excells at nothing but has no obviously cripling downs either
-- Dart
fast lightly armed humanoid with few variants that carries lasers
-- Duan Gung
a fast light with missiles and lasers that has the same roots and vaguely familiar appearance as the Koshi/MistLynx
-- Eagle
a slowish Marik scout/sniper mech with some jumpcapabilitys and longrange lasers
-- Mongoose
Ages old digiwalker, but longtimes the fastest existing battlemech with surprising firepower 4 lasers at 130kph in its standart variant.
-- Nexus
Fast starleague offspring harrasser Mech with 5 Lasers and AMS
20T:
-- Flea
A locust alternative with less speed and more firepower
-- Hornet
Urban recon mech and dedicated slowpoke...not as slow as the urbie but still slow for a 20T mech
-- Kabuto
Fast light striker with Streaks few variants
-- Stinger
THE light classic Battlemech in my eyes....it was my first one *swipeawaysometears*
Laser and some MGs, averange speed and some jets
Also there sh..loads of variants with all kinds of weapons that could be juryrigged to it
-- Wasp
THE OTHER light Battlemech

oldest jumpcapable fully developed Battlemech and in myriads of variants to be found all over the IS with all kinds of light weapons that could be mounted