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[Evan20k]

Tired of waddling around in a Direwhale? Tired of being dumped on in a Gargoyle? Tired of being told not to put LRMs on your Fatlas?

THEN IT'S TIME TO BUY A DAMN WARHAWK



Why? IT ONLY DOES EVERYTHING. Cooler laser vomit than the TBR? CHECK. God of missiles? CHECK. Viable ballistics? CHECK. Not having to deal with the 50% Heavy queue? DOUBLE CHECK.


On top of being one of the sexiest looking things around, this monster can laser vomit and LRM simultaniously. Can your Timberwolf do that? NOT UNLESS YOU LIKE SHUTTING DOWN AFTER RUNNING HOTTER THAN TERRATHERMA! You can even swap out the LRM 10 for a C-NARC+Ammo. Run into some poor ******** and blast them with your Kool-Aid temperature'd laser vomit and tag them with a NARC. As they run away, remind them that there's no ******* brakes on this train and continue to introduce salvo after salvo into their puny non-Warhawk torsos. Remember, these aren't LRMs, these are ER-Streaks. With those new quirks, that **** flies right into the CT. Once the other team realizes just how badly you're messing their **** up and they start focusing you, you even have the option of putting all of those toddler-mechs you're carrying the **** out of in front of you and firing your manly death over their heads! This not only lets them feel like they're contributing, but lets you still take part in the horrific murder of all of the non-Warhawk heathens.

See this premade?
THEY COULDN'T CONTAIN THE MANLYHAWK AND NEITHER CAN ANYONE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO RUN INTO YOU AFTER YOU SLAP THEIR **** SENSELESS WITH YOUR MANLYHAWK!

[Lord Perversor]

Evan20k, on 12 April 2015 - 12:24 PM, said:

Tired of waddling around in a Direwhale? Tired of being dumped on in a Gargoyle? Tired of being told not to put LRMs on your Fatlas?

THEN IT'S TIME TO BUY A DAMN WARHAWK



Why? IT ONLY DOES EVERYTHING. Cooler laser vomit than the TBR? CHECK. God of missiles? CHECK. Viable ballistics? CHECK. Not having to deal with the 50% Heavy queue? DOUBLE CHECK.


On top of being one of the sexiest looking things around, this monster can laser vomit and LRM simultaniously. Can your Timberwolf do that? NOT UNLESS YOU LIKE SHUTTING DOWN AFTER RUNNING HOTTER THAN TERRATHERMA! You can even swap out the LRM 10 for a C-NARC+Ammo. Run into some poor ******** and blast them with your Kool-Aid temperature'd laser vomit and tag them with a NARC. As they run away, remind them that there's no ******* brakes on this train and continue to introduce salvo after salvo into their puny non-Warhawk torsos. Remember, these aren't LRMs, these are ER-Streaks. With those new quirks, that **** flies right into the CT. Once the other team realizes just how badly you're messing their **** up and they start focusing you, you even have the option of putting all of those toddler-mechs you're carrying the **** out of in front of you and firing your manly death over their heads! This not only lets them feel like they're contributing, but lets you still take part in the horrific murder of all of the non-Warhawk heathens.

See this premade?
THEY COULDN'T CONTAIN THE MANLYHAWK AND NEITHER CAN ANYONE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO RUN INTO YOU AFTER YOU SLAP THEIR **** SENSELESS WITH YOUR MANLYHAWK!

Gotta say i luv my WarHawks the Prime config with the 4x Cerppc rarely dissapoints and 500-600 dmg it's the normal on any game.

[Alistair Winter]

Buy a Warhawk, turn it into an LRM boat and congratulations. You have a lesser AWS-8R. Pray your opponents don't have AMS.

There's only one Manlyhawk.

Warhawk PRIME.

Stock.

[Evan20k]

Alistair Winter, on 12 April 2015 - 12:30 PM, said:

Buy a Warhawk, turn it into an LRM boat and congratulations. You have a lesser AWS-8R. Pray your opponents don't have AMS.

There's only one Manlyhawk.

Warhawk PRIME.

Stock.

PSHHH, CAN YOUR AWS-8R OUT-LASER A STORMCROW? I DIDN'T THINK SO! When lights come up to your manly hawk expecting you to be a typical defenseless LRM boat, you can kindly remind them to BACK THE **** UP with your 5 ERML laser vomit directly into their face, then NARC them as they try and run from your awesome manliness. After that, you can send them salvos of chest hair-growingly manly blasts of pinpoint pain!

[ibex230]

The peacedove is its proper name!

[DefinitelyNotMwHighlander]

If the Warhawks didn't look like trash in this game

(MW:LL or MW4 looked sexy)



Then sure I'd use it. But it doesn't. It looks like crap in this game and it performs just as poorly as it looks.

[Yokaiko]

Manlyhawk boats LRMs and hides till out of ammo?

Not very manly to me.

[Evan20k]

Yokaiko, on 12 April 2015 - 12:41 PM, said:

Manlyhawk boats LRMs and hides till out of ammo?

Not very manly to me.

I see you don't understand the purpose of the glorious LRMs. The LRMs are there to keep the commoners in a world of pain after they run from your face-melting manlasers. They're infinite range streaks that rip the armor off of anything dumb enough to get in your way! How many other mechs do you know that can put down an 80 point alpha strike 3 times before overheat?

Edited by Evan20k, 12 April 2015 - 12:44 PM.

[Yokaiko]

Evan20k, on 12 April 2015 - 12:43 PM, said:

I see you don't understand the purpose of the glorious LRMs. The LRMs are there to keep the commoners in a world of pain after they run from your face-melting manlasers. They're infinite range streaks that rip the armor off of anything dumb enough to get in your way!

55 tubes of backup weapons 5 tons of artemis, 8 tons of ammo 16 tons of launcher.


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[Mcchuggernaut]

Evan20k, on 12 April 2015 - 12:37 PM, said:

PSHHH, CAN YOUR AWS-8R OUT-LASER A STORMCROW? I DIDN'T THINK SO! When lights come up to your manly hawk expecting you to be a typical defenseless LRM boat, you can kindly remind them to BACK THE **** UP with your 5 ERML laser vomit directly into their face, then NARC them as they try and run from your awesome manliness. After that, you can send them salvos of chest hair-growingly manly blasts of pinpoint pain!

I know this glorious feeling. Had a Timberwolf sneak around behind my team and shoot me once in the ass with his laser vomit. He was just outside 180 meters away, and after a blast from my four medium lasers and a volley from my 4x lrm15s he had both his side torsos nearly blown off and tried to turn and run. Problem for him was at that close range, my second volley of missiles were all hammering into his rear torso with pinpoint precision, and he went down like a sack of hammers in about two seconds. Sooooo satisfying to send that sneaky meta-scum easywolf to hell in a missile boat.

[Gamuray]

@Highlander

I have them, they perform quite well I'll have you know. As for looking poor comparatively.. Yes, the MW:LL one does look better. But then again they accomplished more impressive game advancements than PGI has so far.. (although, given, they didn't take the "all weight classes equal" approach.

@Yokaiko

That's why you forget the artemis and go 4 lrm10's, 2 erll, 2 erml. Then you're half and half, deadly no matter the situation. (trust me, I generally expect to have a 1000+ damage game and many 700+ damage games if I decide play MWO and pick the Warhawk as my mech for the night.)

Edited by Gamuray, 12 April 2015 - 12:51 PM.

[Wintersdark]

Yokaiko, on 12 April 2015 - 12:45 PM, said:

55 tubes of backup weapons 5 tons of artemis, 8 tons of ammo 16 tons of launcher.


rrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Laser vomit Lurmhawks are surprisingly effective up front. You don't "hide in the back", you get up there raining LRM's and cutting mechs apart with your lasers. LRM's needn't be all or nothing, nor does hiding in the back work well for them. After all, if you want Artemis benefits, you need LOS. An Artemis assault LRM boat is a front line much.

Edit: Somehow, my phone autocorrected "effective" to "ineffective". Fixt.

Edited by Wintersdark, 12 April 2015 - 01:55 PM.

[stjobe]

Yeah, I guess 3 kills, 8 assists is a good game.

For a light.

I'd expect more from a 85-ton assault though, especially a "manly" one.

Buuut I guess the vat-born must take what little pride they can get in their overpriced hunks of junk

(disclaimer: the above should not be taken absolutely serious, poster may be trying to "joke". Void where prohibited. If nausea continues after three days, contact your health provider)

[Mcchuggernaut]

Wintersdark, on 12 April 2015 - 12:51 PM, said:

An Artemis assault LRM boat is a front line much.

I don't run Artemis because I feel that it's benefits for the amount of ammo and heatsink space it takes up and making you step down the size of your CT missile rack isn't worth it because of the line of sight restriction. I DO however run a CTAG laser. You have to have line of sight to use it just like Artemis, but unlike Artemis it cuts through ECM, so using it's faster locking + Target Decay lets you hammer ridge-humping ECM mechs and target ECM mechs at a distance as long as you can see them. I think this makes it WAY more useful, as it also takes up a lot less room and weighs almost nothing.

[Evan20k]

stjobe, on 12 April 2015 - 01:02 PM, said:

Yeah, I guess 3 kills, 8 assists is a good game.

For a light.

I'd expect more from a 85-ton assault though, especially a "manly" one.

Buuut I guess the vat-born must take what little pride they can get in their overpriced hunks of junk

(disclaimer: the above should not be taken absolutely serious, poster may be trying to "joke". Void where prohibited. If nausea continues after three days, contact your health provider)

[Wintersdark]

Mcchuggernaut, on 12 April 2015 - 01:10 PM, said:

I don't run Artemis because I feel that it's benefits for the amount of ammo and heatsink space it takes up and making you step down the size of your CT missile rack isn't worth it because of the line of sight restriction. I DO however run a CTAG laser. You have to have line of sight to use it just like Artemis, but unlike Artemis it cuts through ECM, so using it's faster locking + Target Decay lets you hammer ridge-humping ECM mechs and target ECM mechs at a distance as long as you can see them. I think this makes it WAY more useful, as it also takes up a lot less room and weighs almost nothing.

Yeah, I don't either. When I'm rocking the Lurmhawk, I do this: WHK-B Alternatively, one can just run Mediums and bring many more tubes, but that's boring and suck. I much more enjoy cutting people up with mah lazors, then shelling them as they try to flee. If they're not the fleeing sort, the lurms chained are extremely disruptive.

[Burktross]

Assaults are just trying to steal glory from the locust.
Become a locust pilot today.

[Evan20k]

Burktross, on 12 April 2015 - 01:38 PM, said:

Assaults are just trying to steal glory from the locust.
Become a locust pilot today.

Please do! Tiny locusts melt under the might of the glorious Manlyhawk and all predators need to eat!

[stjobe]

Now 3 kills, 8 assists would be a great game in a Locust...

Just sayin'

[Ultimax]

Alistair Winter, on 12 April 2015 - 12:30 PM, said:

Buy a Warhawk, turn it into an LRM boat and congratulations. You have a lesser AWS-8R.

I sincerely doubt this.

His point is that the Warhawk can both boat LRMs while also having decent enough "backup" weapons to not be nearly as helpless as most LRM boats are.

Edited by Ultimatum X, 12 April 2015 - 01:57 PM.