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[Lightfoot]

Time for the Bandersnatch . I am okay with the Roughneck, but before the next created Heavy please do the Bandersnatch, counters the Loki with the BND01-AR, has a Hero variant, the Horus.


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[AnTi90d]

I like it, but it does have that Awesome-esque barndoor-itis.. and it's an XL mech.

I'd kind of rather see more IS 80 tonners than 75 tonners, too.. I don't care for our current 80 ton mechs.

[cazidin]

No. Simply because of that horrible name.

[Novakaine]

Uuuuuuuugly.

[cazidin]

Novakaine, on 08 December 2016 - 01:46 PM, said:

Uuuuuuuugly.

The Bandersnatch is so ugly, Novakaine doesn't make poetry!

[El Bandito]

IS needs a good 75 tonner, though I dunno if Bandersnatch is it. It does have ECM variant.

[TheArisen]

Candidates for best 75 tonner

-Penetrator
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Penetrator

- Falconer
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Falconer

- Dragonfire
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Dragon_Fire

- Flashman
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Flashman

[cazidin]

Wait... the Flashman... is that the Urbie's big brother?

[Lightfoot]

I think Bandersnatch would do okay and look cool after Alex got done with it. Narrow CT, wide, but short STs, could be a good damage spreader, good hardpoints. I don't see any other candidates in the 75 ton range that are as good or don't just repeat what we already have.

Bandersnatch is a creature from Alice in Wonderland, also used in Larry Niven's, "Known Space" stories, which are all good reading. Ringworld, The Man-Kzin Wars, World of Ptavvs, Neutron Star, The Long ARM of Gil Hamiltion, Protector more. Sometimes I feel like the aliens in Star Wars are from Known Space. In any event some amusing Sci-Fi.

[Davers]

AnTi90d, on 08 December 2016 - 01:22 PM, said:

I like it, but it does have that Awesome-esque barndoor-itis.. and it's an XL mech.

I'd kind of rather see more IS 80 tonners than 75 tonners, too.. I don't care for our current 80 ton mechs.

Meh. Not frumious enough.

[Lightfoot]

AnTi90d, on 08 December 2016 - 01:22 PM, said:

I like it, but it does have that Awesome-esque barndoor-itis.. and it's an XL mech.

I'd kind of rather see more IS 80 tonners than 75 tonners, too.. I don't care for our current 80 ton mechs.

Naw, the Bandersnatch is slender though widely distributed, or should be in MWO, that model is a little off from the drawings. Awesome is just a fatty. We had a very good 80 ton IS mech, the Victor, but it was too good and PGI turned it into a slug. Used to be all you saw were the Victors. It still has the smallest target size of any assault though. Low number of hardpoints makes the Victor hard to work with in Mechlab, but it can be done.

Edited by Lightfoot, 08 December 2016 - 10:19 PM.

[Archangel.84]

I'd be down for the Bandersnatch for sure, but I want mah Flashman first.

[Jackal Noble]

TheArisen, on 08 December 2016 - 06:41 PM, said:

Candidates for best 75 tonner

-Penetrator
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Penetrator

- Falconer
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Falconer

- Dragonfire
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Dragon_Fire

- Flashman
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Flashman

Dragonfire looks like it would have some serious potential, plus ecm var.

Only thing is not a lot of difference between variants