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[VonBruinwald]

The Challenge:

Create the best* drop deck from a selection of random mechs split between the Clan and IS.

Spoiler

Two mechs were selected for the Inner Sphere and two were selected for the Clans per class.

Mech selection was based on two rolls (rolls were generated from random.org - no re-rolls!)

The first roll was used to determine the chassis: Commando, Firestarter, Flea, etc.

The second roll was used to determine the variant: COM-1B, COM-1D, COM-2D, etc.
Duplicate variants were excluded from the second roll: Champion, Founders, Special, Etc.

The Rules:

Drop decks must consist of 2 lights, 2 mediums, 2 heavies and 2 assault mechs from the options listed below.

You can fully customise mechs as per the standard build rules apply in MWO, Omni-mechs may switch pods but may not select hero-pods unless it is a hero variant.

The Mechs:

LIGHT MECHS:

Jenner - Oxide

Spider - SDR-5v

Adder - ADR-B

Incubus - INC-1

MEDIUM MECHS:

Vindicator - VND-1R

Vindicator - VND-1R - Holy fudge-sticks fat-man!

Stromcrow - Lacerator

Hunchback IIC - Deathwish

HEAVY MECHS:

Dragon - Flame

Warhammer - WHM-9D

Linebacker - LBK-H

Sunspider - SNS-B

ASSAULT MECHS:

Fafnir - FNR-5

Stalker - Misery

Highlander IIC - HGN-IIC

Gargoyle - Kin Wolf

*The best dropdeck is subject to popular opinion

Go forth and have fun!

Edited by VonBruinwald, 01 December 2020 - 01:24 PM.

[Gagis]

Assaults: Fatnir and Spurdoyle are bad, so that leaves us with the two mediicre mechs:
Misery
HGN-IIC

Heavies: The Dragon is bad but the other three are sorta valid. SNS is a bit too clunky so
WHM-9D
LBK-H

Mediums: Lacerator is an omnimech sp it'll work. Deathwish is so bad a random variant of Vindicator has to be better
Lacerator
Vindicator

Lights: No obvious good choises here. Adder and Jenner have problems but they bring the biggest damage here.
Oxide
Adder

[LordNothing]

there really needs to be an undertonnage bonus. would be interesting seeing pro teams do all squirrel runs to try to pad their scores. pugs would max out their tonnage and hope to not die. of course i could see this resulting in a lot of butthurt pugs.

my decks are currently full of rando mechs anyway, anything with under 50 games, but from the higher scoring of those. of course those scores are meaningless with so few datapoints logged, which is the whole reason for running them. to see if any pass muster.