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[Piousflea]

The Banshee is one of those 'Mechs where weapons are first mounted on the low hardpoints before the high hardpoints.

Take for example a BNC-3E. If you put two AC/5s in its LT, it will put both of them in the "low torso" hardpoints and leave the shoulder hardpoints completely empty. This means that you'll spend a lot of time shooting the ground.

On the other hand, if you put two MGs and then two AC/5, you'll get two shoulder-mounted AC/5s. These are *considerably* more useful than low-mounted AC/5s. It's such a big difference that it's worth throwing MGs in there even if you don't have any MG ammo.

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IMO, for all 'mechs that have both Shoulder and Low Torso hardpoints, weapons should *always* be mounted on the shoulder first. There are zero situations in MWO where you would rather have a low weapon than a high weapon mount.

[Artemis Ellis]

Thanks for this. I just bought the 3E and I was wondering how to mount the autocannons higher.

[Carl Vickers]

There are other mechs where this happens too. I think there needs to be some kind of selection for low and high mounted points when they exist together in the same torso. Ebon Jag with the 3 laser torso is an example, need to put in a small laser to get to mediums up on the high points.

Id rather be able to select which points to use and not waste half a ton just to get the weps I want up high.