LordNothing, on 03 November 2017 - 01:15 PM, said:
you forget that clanxl means that clan srm brawlers generally have more tubes, more sinks, and tonnage left over for backup weapons. and if is wants clanlike engine durability they need to piss away a lot of tonnage on lfe. sure they get an extra 5t, but a lot of people are going under tonnage running cents and hunchies. even then i keep finding xl engines.
and the general clan == camp, is == brawl is a gross oversimplification. especially when considering the light-medium end of the spectrum and the fact that camping is not a very good strat in scouting. clanners can get higher short-med range laser alphas on smlaller mechs if they want to go that route (if i really wanted to clean house id bring my 50 alpha ferret). clanners also have better machine gun mechs, i like my scat with 2 hlls and 6 machine guns, ran that several times and it was more successfull than not. the only thing is can do that clan cant are bring the heavy ballistics (and thats not entirely true because hunchback iic), and again thats not a great strat in scouting unless your packing the bigger lbs.
I'm just talking the meta between the two sides, when comparing the top tier meta mechs in scouting the IS blows the Clans away, pugs are going to pug though.
Also Bushwacker with LFE280 and one stripped empty arm has 24 tons available, Huntsman has the same amount available if it strips some of the head armor, Hunchback IIC has 28 tons available if it strips both arms and a little off the head. This is with light FF armor on the Bushwacker while the Hunchback IIC and Huntsman gets ferro and endo. With the weight advantage of the Bushwacker the LFE isn't a hinderance.
Even with 4 ASRM6 and 4 tons of ammo with the LFE280 the Bushwacker still has room left over (I usually fill it up with some RL20s). This leads to the Bushwacker having higher effective DPS (damage output during the time of engagement, which is the only way to really calculate the DPS when the RLs are considered), higher alpha strike for one shot then equivalent alpha strikes afterwards, way higher durability, same speed, and superior maneuverability stats.
Even if the Bushwacker wanted to bring an XL engine its side torso is only 8 points less durable than a Huntsman's CT, which lowers to only a 4 point difference after skill tree. I don't really see how an IS XL engine makes the Bushwacker suddenly less tanky than the Huntsman when the Bushwacker's side torso is only 4 points weaker than the Huntsman's CT, what does it matter anyway if everyone goes for legs as they say? Bushwacker spreads damage to all the torsos well too.
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