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[jss78]

The6thMessenger, on 17 January 2017 - 04:07 PM, said:

I upgraded the engine to 235, and added more LRM ammo. I also replaced the Med Lasers with ER Med Lasers, and readjusted the quirk accordingly.

I like the concept here. Though a part of me is screaming "Sir, you've turned your Crab into a Shadow Hawk!", the mini-KGB concept humours me.

I guess what I might do here is try and squeeze in that stock STD250, since you're already close. Need 2½ tons. You'll save 1½ ton by removing that half ton of LRM ammo and one DHS. You might also replace the ERML with 1 ERML in CT and 1 ERSL in head. So the same laser setup as stock, but upgraded to ER versions. Then you only need half ton, which can come from armour -- you'll still be above the stock armour of the CRB-20.

If you go STD250 and eliminate the half-ton of LRM ammo, it'd have the side benefit of making the 'mech tabletop legal. Now that's not of course a requirement, but it strikes me that a lot of MWO heroes are designed this way: though they're made for MWO, they're designed as variants in tabletop terms, using those engine ratings which are multiples of tonnage, etc. Again not a requirement, but I think it's always fun when we can make it work that way.

[The6thMessenger]

jss78, on 18 January 2017 - 03:47 AM, said:

I like the concept here. Though a part of me is screaming "Sir, you've turned your Crab into a Shadow Hawk!", the mini-KGB concept humours me.

I guess what I might do here is try and squeeze in that stock STD250, since you're already close. Need 2½ tons. You'll save 1½ ton by removing that half ton of LRM ammo and one DHS. You might also replace the ERML with 1 ERML in CT and 1 ERSL in head. So the same laser setup as stock, but upgraded to ER versions. Then you only need half ton, which can come from armour -- you'll still be above the stock armour of the CRB-20.

If you go STD250 and eliminate the half-ton of LRM ammo, it'd have the side benefit of making the 'mech tabletop legal. Now that's not of course a requirement, but it strikes me that a lot of MWO heroes are designed this way: though they're made for MWO, they're designed as variants in tabletop terms, using those engine ratings which are multiples of tonnage, etc. Again not a requirement, but I think it's always fun when we can make it work that way.

It would work if i simply removed the extra heatsink, 1/2 LRM ammo, and one ER ML, it sums to 2.5t, and just enough to upgrade it to STD250. After all the King Crab has only as single large laser lorewise.