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Eisenhorne, on 04 September 2018 - 06:34 AM, said:

I've been rocking the 5x MPL Crab lately in scouting on the IS side... and it will shut down any SRM brawler pretty hard as long as you can aim. The Huntsman isn't really fast enough to present a challenge to aim at, and with those big blocky shoulders it's easy to hit. Just take it down from 200+ meters out and boom, you're done.

Probably the mech I hate seeing the most when I've been playing scouting on the Clan side.

[thievingmagpi]

I would love to watch some mwowc style scout battles. While be cool to watch a round robin elimination tourney with some good colour commentators.

seems most strats all have interesting counters and watching one team's decision for how the other is going to build their deck would be a ton of fun to watch. Big risks/reward here, probably more than standard championship matches.

[FireStoat]

The Pakhet and the Bushwacker are both pretty even in strength for scouting in my humble opinion. The Bushwacker is obviously more durable (or was if its armor quirks got nerfed recently) versus the Huntsman having jump jets for janky hitbox action, even if it is 5 tons lighter.

I think the Vapor Eagle is going to be the new king of scouting though. Jump jets, tons of hardpoints for different build options, 55 tons, endo and ferro, humanoid profile for twisting. It's going to be very mean.

[Eisenhorne]

FireStoat, on 04 September 2018 - 10:18 AM, said:

I think the Vapor Eagle is going to be the new king of scouting though. Jump jets, tons of hardpoints for different build options, 55 tons, endo and ferro, humanoid profile for twisting. It's going to be very mean.

QFT.... you can do a vapor eagle with LBX20 + 4 SRM6. That thing will be NASTY to fight against with IS mediums.

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

I love my pakhet. srsly, wouldn't trade it for anything out there.

that being said: dropping on IS side, it's so damn squishy and gone before you know it. so many mechs kill enemy paks with ease, it's not even funny.
TL;DR: it certainly is not OP.

[Bowelhacker]

For whatever it's worth my best QP result (9 kills) was done in a Huntsman. 6 SRM6s. The carnage only stopped because I ran out of ammunition.