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[Gas Guzzler]

Metus regem, on 03 January 2017 - 03:38 PM, said:

In the same trash heap it belongs in.... It's got too big of an engine (locked 385xl with locked MASC), lack of armour and lack of pod space to do anything but ERSL vomit, and only if they include the Charlie variant....

That's what they said about the Linebacker and that turned out to be a fun little surprise...

[Metus regem]

Gas Guzzler, on 03 January 2017 - 03:38 PM, said:

That's what they said about the Linebacker and that turned out to be a fun little surprise...

All I said about the Linebacker was that it was going to be competing against the Hellbringer and Ebon Jaguar for field time, meaning it is in a rather cramped weight bracket for FW, and in an even more cramped weight class for Quick Play....

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Gas Guzzler, on 03 January 2017 - 03:38 PM, said:

That's what they said about the Linebacker and that turned out to be a fun little surprise...

Yeah, but the Black Lanner is in a bit of a worse situation given the difference between engines of the Linebacker and BLanner is only 5 and the BLanner has MASC on top of that. It could be good given enough quirks to be a solid mech with 6 ERML and ECM, but it is even more inflexible than the Linebacker given that it has as much locked up in engine/speed as the Linebacker but is 10 tons lighter.

[Gas Guzzler]

Metus regem, on 03 January 2017 - 03:40 PM, said:

All I said about the Linebacker was that it was going to be competing against the Hellbringer and Ebon Jaguar for field time, meaning it is in a rather cramped weight bracket for FW, and in an even more cramped weight class for Quick Play....

I said it was going to be worthless. Didn't pan out that way. The Black Lanner might end up being kind of fun, with all the speed boating cSPLs...

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 03 January 2017 - 03:45 PM, said:

Yeah, but the Black Lanner is in a bit of a worse situation given the difference between engines of the Linebacker and BLanner is only 5 and the BLanner has MASC on top of that. It could be good given enough quirks to be a solid mech with 6 ERML and ECM, but it is even more inflexible than the Linebacker given that it has as much locked up in engine/speed as the Linebacker but is 10 tons lighter.

But... its so fast. I know it won't be great, but I could see it still being pretty fun to play with the mobility, boating either cSPLs or cERMLs +ECM...

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Gas Guzzler, on 03 January 2017 - 03:49 PM, said:

But... its so fast. I know it won't be great, but I could see it still being pretty fun to play with the mobility, boating either cSPLs or cERMLs +ECM...

It would also have the Wolverine disease of having everything in that one arm unless it happens to have two 3E or three 2E pods that I'm not aware of.

[Gas Guzzler]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 03 January 2017 - 03:51 PM, said:

It would also have the Wolverine disease of having everything in that one arm unless it happens to have two 3E or three 2E pods that I'm not aware of.

I think you could end up with 3 in left arm, 1 in LT and 2 in RA, but yeah that isn't that great. But it is better than the Wolverine...

[Ovion]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 03 January 2017 - 01:20 PM, said:

You are missing the Rifleman btw in your count/charts.
You are missing a couple variants somewhere as I have 390 counted including all announced mechs.
Here are the correct counts:
Total 77 Mechs (390 variants) we have:
14 Lights (63 Var)
22 Mediums (118 Var)
22 Heavies (107 Var)
19 Assaults (102 Var)

I did in fact miss the rifleman, I'll go over it tomorrow.
I'm not including Champions, the Sarah's Jenner, or 'Special' variants either.

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Ovion, on 03 January 2017 - 04:26 PM, said:

I'm not including Champions, the Sarah's Jenner, or 'Special' variants either.

Neither am I.

Here is a sheet I keep to better keep track of my progress of mastering, it is up to date so far: https://docs.google....#gid=1946000667

It looks like you missed a light and a heavy if I'm looking at your numbers right.

Edited by Quicksilver Kalasa, 03 January 2017 - 04:52 PM.

[TheArisen]

Ace Selin, on 03 January 2017 - 03:29 PM, said:

Still want the Anvil


60 tons
Guardian ECM
Jump Jets
300 Engine

This mech really deserves more love.

[MadHornet]

I really want the firemoth. I love absurd 'mechs so much.

[zolop]

vote 1 of clan mech Other clan omni Mech Blood Asp

[Requiemking]

For IS I voted Champion(fat Locust), Dervish(non-useless Missile-based 55 tonner), Longbow(we really need a decent IS Missile Assault) and Other(Lancelot). Why the Lancelot? Because, it's pretty well optimised right out of the box. Ammo free, lots of heatsinks(16 doubles to be precise), good sized engine(360 XL on a 60 tonner. You'll be keeping up with the midgets easily), all the highmounts, and it actually looks good(Unlike the Rifleman and the Urbie....I mean Jaegermech).

For Clan I voted Firemoth, Rifleman IIC, Bane, and Other(Howler)

Edited by Requiemking, 03 January 2017 - 06:20 PM.

[Ovion]

Fixed my numbers and the chart - includes up to the mech to-be-announced this month.



We desperately need more Lights we don't really need more Mediums right now, and we don't need more 65T mechs - we have enough _{(9% of all mechs being 65T is enough I think!)}

Edited by Ovion, 03 January 2017 - 10:40 PM.

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Ovion, on 03 January 2017 - 09:12 PM, said:

We desperately need more Lights we don't really need more Mediums right now, and we don't need more 65T mechs - we have enough _{(9% of all mechs being 65T is enough I think!)}

Some of your lights aren't counting, should be 69 I think with the yet unannounced light, but is showing up as only 44? Interesting that the total is correct however.

[RestosIII]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 03 January 2017 - 09:24 PM, said:

should be 69 I think

Uh, oh, right, ahem... I honestly really hope we get more light and assault mechs as our next batches. Either that, or finally jump onto the IS omnimech train. (Assuming PGI will finally fix the XL disparity alongside them)

[Navid A1]

Your poll does not have the blood asp (Paul's official favorite mech)

[Ovion]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 03 January 2017 - 09:24 PM, said:

Some of your lights aren't counting, should be 69 I think with the yet unannounced light, but is showing up as only 44? Interesting that the total is correct however.

fixed it.
For some reason it was reading mediums for IS in the total.

What I get for doing it when I can't sleep.

[Bombast]

RestosIII, on 03 January 2017 - 09:27 PM, said:

Either that, or finally jump onto the IS omnimech train.

Oh yah, more people on the #InnerSphereOmnimechsOrIRiot train!

[Myke Pantera]

Archangel.84, on 03 January 2017 - 01:16 PM, said:

Poll doesn't include the Valkyrie or Javelin for IS. Both are pretty important over Strider and Hauptmann. Ought to have the Thug in there as well.

As mentioned by others already: The Javelin is missing. We need a good missile 30t mech on the IS side.

[TheArisen]

The Annihilator is doing well. Nostalgia is a big reason but I hope you guys realize it will be absolutely terrible in game.