The current event, featuring assault mechs, has brought out a plague of BUGS. Locusts. Arctic Cheetahs. And JENNERS. They're everywhere. Everywhere! Orbiting assaults. Ambushing you from a distance with ER Large Lasers and a single PPC. Wolf packing you. Will no one rid us of this turbulent mech?
So...I've discovered something fun. And, ironically, I have the Jenner and its brethren to thank for it.
Last night in the group queue with my unit, we were practicing tactics and trying to train a new caller. The caller happened to be a kid, about ten years old, so our 12-man was getting had by PuGs routinely. And we were subject to weight restrictions. I got out a Pixie.
45 tons. Six jump jets. Standard 270. One large laser, two medium lasers, 3 machine guns, and AMS. Pathetic, right?
Maybe not.
Pixie is fairly fast...104 kph speed tweaked. It literally can out-fly a Shadowcat. It has fairly decent hitboxes and durability for a 45 ton chassis that is about as tall as a Black Knight used to be. It has great visibility as a result. And it is agile.
It can turn with a Jenner. Heh heh heh.
Enter The Jenner Hunter.
"Be vewy vewy quiet...I'm hunting Jenners!" I went looking for the elusive Jenner in its natural habitat: Backstabbing the nearest Atlas. I screened the assault lance. Every time one of the little €%#[\¥s started sniping from a distance I went trooping off In Search Of. You ever see a Pixie and two Arctic Cheetahs wolfpack an Oxide? Glorious! It was visiting sweet, sweet revenge on my natural enemy using its very own tactics!
By the time the hunt was over I bagged three of them. And two Arctic Cheetahs! And participated in a bunch of other kills obtained by much better pilots than I. Thanks, Obama!
For those who don't know...the Pixie is the derided Phoenix Hawk. PHX= "Pixie."
Edited by Chados, 14 August 2016 - 04:51 AM.