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[Valdarion Silarius]

Yeonne Greene, on 02 November 2017 - 06:27 PM, said:

I would buy everything in there except the Blood Asp. 2 uggo 4 me.

Yeah I don't blame you. Don't have really any personal connections with the mech itself. Still going to vote on it if 2018 turns out to be the year of IS Omnimechs just in case.

[N0ni]

Fafnir.

Won't be getting Peter's 4A as a hero because that just screams P2W. (10 missile hardpoints, 5 energy, 1 ballistic, ECM / in-game weapon limit caps out at 16 which is exactly what this variant has)

FNR-6U would be interesting to have (Jihad / 3081 though) that comes with UAC20s in the arms and 2 Light PPCs in each ST.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Most votes are looking good, may end up PMing people again towards the end, depends how many are wrong

[Dace Darkhunter]

IS, Medium, 45 Tons, Firestarter (OmniMech)

[TheArisen]

Well the IS just got an assault so...

Inner Sphere
60 ton
Heavy
Argus

Not my desired mech but it seems likely.

[Myke Pantera]

Uh, n!ce1. You rock Jay!

IS, Assault, 100t, Fafnir

[Battlemaster56]

N0ni, on 02 November 2017 - 06:40 PM, said:

Fafnir.

Won't be getting Peter's 4A as a hero because that just screams P2W. (10 missile hardpoints, 5 energy, 1 ballistic, ECM / in-game weapon limit caps out at 16 which is exactly what this variant has)

No we need this hero, I NEED THIS HERO!!!!

This is a missile monkey's wet dream here, I can see the salt when I one shot heavies and assaults and laugh maniacally at the sight.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Battlemaster56, on 04 November 2017 - 02:47 AM, said:

No we need this hero, I NEED THIS HERO!!!!

This is a missile monkey's wet dream here, I can see the salt when I one shot heavies and assaults and laugh maniacally at the sight.

Well, the lore friendly Thanatos Hero was reduced from 9M to 5M, so maybe the Fafnir Hero would have 6M, but certainly not 10M.

[Battlemaster56]

Jay Leon Hart, on 04 November 2017 - 03:01 AM, said:

Well, the lore friendly Thanatos Hero was reduced from 9M to 5M, so maybe the Fafnir Hero would have 6M, but certainly not 10M.

Don't see the point we already have a medium running around with 9M hp's, but It'll be behind a paywall so I say 6-8M hp's will be fine, and it's not like one side is pushing the powerscaling to universal levels or anything.

Edited by Battlemaster56, 04 November 2017 - 03:10 AM.

[Kanil]

IS, Assault, 100 tons, Fafnir.

This is a lot less obvious than the Black Lanner. Still, it seems a reasonable enough choice.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Battlemaster56, on 04 November 2017 - 03:09 AM, said:

Don't see the point we already have a medium running around with 9M hp's, but It'll be behind a paywall so I say 6-8M hp's will be fine, and it's not like one side is pushing the powerscaling to universal levels or anything.

I guess some other reasoning with the Thanatos is the Hero is flat out superior to the standard TNS-4S (it has 3M more, no other differences), so PGI likely wanted to minimise Pay-to-Win accusations. With the Fafnir, I suppose it's not as bad since no other variant can run Missiles anyway and I don't remember any complaints about the Wolf Phoenix (Nightstar) or Mean Baby (Annihilator), though they lost all their Ballistic slots in the process... A replacement for the AS7-S, perhaps?

[Aleski]

I am thinking about the Argus too... So my guess is this : 60t, IS, Heavy, Argus

MW4 mechs seems popular, and 60 tonners are not a lot on the IS size.

Edited by Aleski, 04 November 2017 - 04:28 AM.

[TheArisen]

I'd rather get the Anvil for an IS 60 tonner but judging from popularity the Argus seems more likly.

[Koniving]

IS
Light.
20 tons.
Flea.

[Y E O N N E]

Jay Leon Hart, on 04 November 2017 - 03:01 AM, said:

Well, the lore friendly Thanatos Hero was reduced from 9M to 5M, so maybe the Fafnir Hero would have 6M, but certainly not 10M.

We have an Archer with 9M already. Several Clan 'Mechs have 8M. Why so skimpy?

[Jay Leon Hart]

Yeonne Greene, on 04 November 2017 - 08:07 AM, said:

We have an Archer with 9M already. Several Clan 'Mechs have 8M. Why so skimpy?

Unless I'm reading it wrong, Peter's Fafnir has 1 HGauss (RT), 2 ERLL (LT), 3 MPL (Head, RA, LA) then 10 RL10s dotted about.

1B, 5E, 10M + ECM with cockpit level mounts seems a little too good, especially is it's £££ only.

[Y E O N N E]

Jay Leon Hart, on 04 November 2017 - 08:13 AM, said:

Unless I'm reading it wrong, Peter's Fafnir has 1 HGauss (RT), 2 ERLL (LT), 3 MPL (Head, RA, LA) then 10 RL10s dotted about.

1B, 5E, 10M + ECM with cockpit level mounts seems a little too good, especially is it's £££ only.

It's a 100 ton brick using IS tech. All those hardpoints really do is give you the option to boat missiles or boat energy+ballistic because you ain't got the slots or tons to do otherwise.

Besides, the Ultraviolet is a thing and it's the only 'Mech that lets you do 8x dakka.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Yeonne Greene, on 04 November 2017 - 08:38 AM, said:

It's a 100 ton brick using IS tech. All those hardpoints really do is give you the option to boat missiles or boat energy+ballistic because you ain't got the slots or tons to do otherwise.

We'll see. The Thanatos Hero being dropped from 5E 9M to 5E 5M suggests a 1B 5E 10M Fafnir is unlikely, though as mentioned, it may have also been because the Thanatos Hero was just outright superior to the basic variant.

[Y E O N N E]

Jay Leon Hart, on 04 November 2017 - 08:49 AM, said:

We'll see. The Thanatos Hero being dropped from 5E 9M to 5E 5M suggests a 1B 5E 10M Fafnir is unlikely, though as mentioned, it may have also been because the Thanatos Hero was just outright superior to the basic variant.

Also probably because the Thanatos can run pretty fast to gank targets with missiles. That said, I wish they hadn't reduced it. It's a gimmick anyway, and why can't the IS ever get 'Mechs with more than 10 hardpoints? We've got Novas with 16. C'mon now.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Yeonne Greene, on 04 November 2017 - 08:51 AM, said:

why can't the IS ever get 'Mechs with more than 10 hardpoints? We've got Novas with 16. C'mon now.

Come on Raptor, Komodo & Black Hawk-KU!