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[SaltBeef]

Have not seen a Pretty Baby in game for a long time.

[Absurdia]

CDA-3F. I said another damn medium, not good with them, f that. But...that jump distance. Had so much fun.

[Funkin Disher]

Black Knight (BAP, 2 AMS, 8 MPL)
Crab (4 JJ, 3x LL or ERLL)
Cicada 3F (PPC, ERPPC, JJs)
Mauler (2 PPC, 3 AC5)
Nova (6 CERML, 1 SSRM6)
Shadow Cat (2 MPL, 1 LPL)

[RedDevil]

Kit Fox

[LordNothing]

gargles certainly surprised me. now its a prime mech in my clan cw dropdeck.

adder of course. who would have thought a slow light would be so badass with the right loadout. 5mpl, a pair of uac5s, gauss+erll. just lots of great loadouts.

i was also rather impressed with the ice ferret, mostly because of its speed. its loadout options are less spectacular. but you can stick on 5 erll and do pretty well with it.

that loyalty cicada is pretty good too. but ive only ran it twice, both with great results.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Lolcust. Who'd have thought that something that explodes in one good AC20 hit would be so epic at taking out isolated targets...

[Bobbys Gherkin]

I have about 60 Mechs and I keep going back to my spiders... even the 5v.
Just love the way they force you to play super aggressively along side the team.

It's always fun when people get tunnel visioned about killing the spider and will get themselves torn apart trying get the little fellow.

Love my Locusts as well.

[CMDR Argo]

Centurions.
Highlanders

I hated them at first, but after I got them mastered, the really started to be fun

[Foxfire kadrpg]

1) Dragon. I like mobile combat, and the Dragon can sport a lot of firepower, very quickly, and up steep cliffs around the battlefield. It's also a good trainer for combat awareness, because you do NOT want the enemy to see you. Dragon 1C with Gauss, four medium lasers, and an SRM 6 gives me a lot to hit with.

2) Urbanmech. My Urbanmech has very much surprised me with it's gameplay. Not only do I LOVE being able to train on targets without getting my torso locked (120 twist plus 30 arm on the Dragon, btw), but the small size of the Urbanmech means I can stay out of fire as long as I still have allies. I'm not dangerous in it, but I do a lot better than I ever expected.

[Troutmonkey]

The enforcer and the grasshopper.

I figured the enforcer would be just as bad as the Vindicator, but it actually turned out to be a decent chassis, with each variant offering valid builds, except for maybe the ® one.

Grasshoppers were proclaimed DOA due to being as tall as an Atlas, but they turned out pretty damn solid too. You could spam pulse for a decent brawler, or jump snipe by abusing the high mounted torso slots (after propping up PPCs with small lasers)

[Xenon Codex]

#1 Panther. Thought a slow IS light would really suck, but this is my favorite light to have fun with. Don't know what the secret sauce is, but I really do enjoy them.

#2 Hunchback. I played one long ago when I was a newbie and hated it. Abandoned the medium clas mechs for a long time after that. Eventually got bored and decided to try it again and now it's almost my fav medium chassis (SHD still holds top spot).

[Kushko]

Shadow Cat: When i got them with my pack i tried it out and it was horrible. Couldnt really do any significant damage or take a hit (as soon as someone noticed me i was pretty much dead), so i benched it till i mastered the other clan mechs i got and came back to it because im a completionist. After a few matches and changing up my tactics a bit i feel in love with it. Atm its one of my goto "i want to play this round for fun" mechs.

[627]

Is the thread title a pun about the awesome-mech?

[Atlasian]

Tyler Valentine, on 15 October 2015 - 08:12 AM, said:

Why, the AWESOME of course! I built this: http://mwo.smurfy-ne...b5df1796527d819 to have a variety of energy weapons and for my love of PPCs. Given everything that's been said about Awesomes, and their barn door torso, I wasn't expecting much but it turns out this thing is a beast. Just stay at long range and pepper people with PPC and LL fire. There's enough armor that the giant torso doesn't matter as long as you can keep people from closing into their optimal ranges and, if they do close, all of the weapons still work plus the MPLs enter the mix. It definitely runs hot at close range but, you know, self control, and it's cooler than it looks on paper when you're not using the MPLs... Love this mech

I always glad when someone finds the Awesome is working for him. It is one of my favs in Battletech and the vey first and only Assault that I bought through grinding Cbills. Unfortunately I found it extremely tedious to pilot the target board in MWO. I feel that MWO did not do justice to that mech.

[Spleenslitta]

1. Cute Fox - It's now my favorite and best performing mech. It does a bit better than my Firestarter even.
2. Panther - It managed to surprise me. After i got used to lower speeds in lights thanks to my KFX the Panther is actually decent.
That really good arm yaw brings the arm weapons to bear at incredible angles.

[Vellron2005]

For me it was the Enforcer I play on my other account..

The mech seriously sucked and felt sluggish at first..

But later, I learned it, basiced it, tricked it out.. and now it rocks..

[Jazzbandit1313]

627, on 15 October 2015 - 10:04 PM, said:

Is the thread title a pun about the awesome-mech?

It wasn't when I created it, but sure, why not!

[WrathOfDeadguy]

Panthers: huge, not very fast compared to the then-dominant FS9, suboptimal hardpoint locations... heaps and heaps of fun. It became my favorite light pretty much instantly when Resistance I dropped. My "Wubfist" MPL/SRM 9R is one of my overall best performers. I don't drive my 10K{R} much now, but it's easily the most dynamic- I run it with a mixed loadout, ERPPC, ML, and 2xSRM2... not optimized, but it's the one config I have that feels the most like driving a TT 'Mech. I'm still trying to find my groove with the 10P though.

Adders: won a Prime over that one challenge weekend, and the first few times I drove it the results were atrocious. Then I tried it again with a UAC20 and now it's one of my favorite trolls. What's that, Mr. Streakcrow? You think you're gonna have an easy kill? Say hello to my little friend! *DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA--DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA* Oh my... what happened to your face? So much fun... the only Clan 'Mech I spend any significant amount of time in (really, the only one I even own aside from my triple AMS ECM Fox).

Urbanmechs! I waited so long to try them... immediately after my first drop I couldn't understand what I was worried about. There should be a law against having that much fun. Two of mine have slightly more practical pulse laser builds, and the other two are super-stock with nice, punchy ACs. I don't know if they're going to unseat the Panther as my favorite lights, but damned if they aren't trying to! I've been doing pretty good in them, too. Just before I left on my latest trip, my UM-R60L shot past my PNT-9R's W/L ratio (albeit with many fewer games). Run or shoot? Run or shoot?! Both! Well, jog anyway... Slow lights are a special kind of crazy... crazy awesome!

The ZEU-6T. It's not so much that I expected it to be bad, as it is that I expected to be bad with it... but mine is incomprehensibly lucky. I'm a frakking awful assault pilot, but somehow this stupid thing has my best W/L ratio at a solid 5.0, and a 2.0 KDR to go with it (the complete opposite of my 9S, which is my absolute worst performer with 0.17 W/L and 0.5 KDR)! It's gotten to a point where I'm getting afraid to keep driving it lest I suddenly derp into a horrible losing streak and tank its numbers.