Damon Howe, on 29 April 2015 - 07:09 AM, said:
Dominant and successful strategy against lights/rushs:
1) Leg light/rushing mech
2) Kill light/rushing mech
So you're saying that we shouldn't leg mechs because its too hard, even though everyone knows the only way to stop a rush successfully is to leg the mechs.
Explain this to me, because I really must be missing some key element to an advanced level of thought.
Explained it before, you must have skipped over that post.
Recap: The only time legs should be the focus on anything over a light mech is when 11 are focusing to stop a generator rush.
Additional note - that is not a brawling situation, that is intercepting mechs that are running past you with no intention to fight unless legged.
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Ceding the fire angles is when you stay locked/focused on a bad one giving your opponent the choice and control over what firing angles are being used in your encounter.
Basically put - you are giving them the control over your brawl, willingly and intentionally.
You start firing at their legs in a brawl - they have open season on you because you are not forcing them to do anything but move their legs - that means they get to choose not only where to shoot you - but also dictates how you can proceed because you will be the one with wide open armor and at risk of losing your armament.
Even if they overheat while you are employing the poor tactic of shooting legs, they will have gotten a full burn on whatever part they wanted, when they pop back up the next shot shreds off a component instead of grazing across good armor. At most you get a leg, while they get a kill and still have full weapon power.
Edited by sycocys, 29 April 2015 - 09:47 AM.