Deathlike, on 18 January 2015 - 01:01 PM, said:
There's still the wonderful Thunderbolt-9SE Champion (what the build is for, who knows...), the Kintaro-18 Champion (with XL AND CASE!!) and who could forget the Atlas-RS Champion (that has LRMs).
The 9SE simply isn't there (yet?).
It has decent quirks, but they don't really go far enough to counterbalance the poor placement of all of the energy hardpoints.
The 9S actually has better -heat gen for LPLs than the 9SE and the 5SS has better range with LPLs than the 9SE.
The 9SE has the overall best combinations for using LPLs, but no sniping mounts and the weapons are separated into LT & RA which means you can't even realistically sacrifice a shield side.
This variant likely got shafted due to being the only one that is JJ capable, which should have just been ignored considering the points above and the fact that JJ sniping with LPLs isn't actually much of a tactic.
This mech is what you get when you take a Thunderturd and don't give it enough quirks to counterbalance all of the bad aspects.
Edited by Ultimatum X, 18 January 2015 - 01:08 PM.