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[WrathOfDeadguy]

C H E E K I E Z, on 16 July 2018 - 10:05 PM, said:

If you're only gonna get one shot anyway...


My go-to trollmech is still the good 'ol BoomBird. Which, I guess, now has a brother, since I picked up a new toy in the hero sale just so I could do it on the Huginn with a cbill bonus. Or... should I say... HugeGunn?

Edited by WrathOfDeadguy, 17 July 2018 - 08:08 PM.

[Vellron2005]

- World Eater -, on 17 July 2018 - 12:34 PM, said:

Humping and shooting an LRM mech that only has a couple of backup weapons. Yeah, keep shooting your missles, it won't do any damage.

Yeah, I actually managed to kill a Hellbringer yesterday that made the mistake of thinking "LRMs don't hurt"... clan LRMs do, even at point blank.. not much, but they do

It's not often that I can save myself when facetanked while in a LRM boat, but I have learned that the best backups are actually 4 machine guns.. lights don't like those for some reason.. who could have guessed that?

[Michelle Branch]

When you're a Piranha that gets legged by a Cyclops, but the Cyclops doesn't realize it can't bend all the way down to shoot you, so you just hug it's leg and eat away at it with Machineguns.

True Crimes of L.A.

[Eisenhorne]

- World Eater -, on 17 July 2018 - 12:34 PM, said:

Humping and shooting an LRM mech that only has a couple of backup weapons. Yeah, keep shooting your missles, it won't do any damage.

That's why I don't bring backup weapons. I'm not a threat if you're within 180 meters, so you're more likely to engage the light that's trying to defend me (or literally anyone else near me, they'll probably try to shoot you because I stand in the middle of my team instead of the back) than to bother attacking me, because you think if you kill the light you can get 2 kills instead of just 1. Meanwhile I'm dumping LRM salvos into your team. Seems to work pretty well so far.

Edited by Eisenhorne, 18 July 2018 - 10:59 AM.

[Weeny Machine]

DrtyDshSoap, on 15 July 2018 - 11:40 PM, said:

Anyone have some particularly evil things you do in matches that would probably make a pilot bash their head on their keyboard?

I use to do a "leg em and leave em" strat. Where I would find an assault or heavy trailing behind the main body, take their leg, and just let them struggle from there on.

My all new favorite thing to do now, and I call this "giving them the Dirty Special," is to take my Piranha and strip weapons off of torso's, bonus points if they're carrying all their weapons in their torsos, and then just leave them. I won't kill them, but I find it hilarious seeing a mech with no weapons just kind of wander around doing nothing for the rest of the game except to look good.

LRM Atlas. Your team will bash their heads against the keyboard for sure

[Michelle Branch]

I'd bash my head in if I saw it on my team. Lol.

[Prototelis]

Found a catapult in the back all LRM no armor.

I paintbrushed him in the PIR until he had no weapons and left him.

[Requiemking]

Couple of things I've done in the past:

-wander off on Canyon Network with an ON1-K stock Champion build. Team berates me for leaving them one Heavy short, they shut up when my sudden appearance in the enemy's rear line costs the enemy three mechs and swings the match.

-LRM Adder. nuff said.

-Lolcust 3S with RL80 and one ML. Carve out a Black Knight's behind then run away giggling while the Knight looksaround for the giga-alpha mech that cored him.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

Quad-Rainstopper Trollfish: Now with enough ammo to be useful as a match-long lurmbrella!

Warning: Do not attempt to squirrel with ~120kph 20-tonners. Only pain will you find.

Alternate version with le bigger engine.

Remember, kids- now that the fishie is out for cbills you, too, can make LRMboats cry.