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[Vellron2005]

H Seldon, on 19 September 2017 - 12:20 PM, said:

They run warm also it's hard to spread damage to arms and legs. Except LRMs seem to target just the legs on the supernova. Lost quite a few legs from LRM fire... Weird. I have a little over 1100 matches in a supernova.

I have no problem to spread damage to the arms.. I just torso twist, and give the arms to the enemy, and it works great.. finding it super tanky..

I usually use up my LRM ammo and then tell the team to use me as a meat shield..

[H Seldon]

Vellron2005, on 20 September 2017 - 02:05 AM, said:

I have no problem to spread damage to the arms.. I just torso twist, and give the arms to the enemy, and it works great.. finding it super tanky..

I usually use up my LRM ammo and then tell the team to use me as a meat shield..

I've got over 10,000 matches, most of those playing assault mechs, so I have an idea how to torso twist. But more often than not, damage finds my torsos and not my arms.

[Brain Cancer]

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I have no problem to spread damage to the arms.. I just torso twist, and give the arms to the enemy, and it works great.. finding it super tanky..

I usually use up my LRM ammo and then tell the team to use me as a meat shield..

Yeah, turning your arm into LRM fire does tend to let it soak much more damage, and certainly a lot of it that might hit leg armor. But honestly, I find it spreads damage respectably period.

As for ammo, having ATMs + LRMs on the -A means you have a good excuse to be flinging fire at that just-barely-brawl range of 200m -> 500m, and it's perfectly reasonable to dump 70 or so damage (more at "sweet" range) at the point where you can fire, turn away, and still get missiles into the target.