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[Endo]

Technical Readout 2750 contains 20 'Mechs, and the poll allows for 20 options. It's fate! Most of these 'Mechs will be pretty rare outside of ComStar and the DCMS, but it's still conceivable that some could pop up in 3049.

My vote goes to the Exterminator. It's fast, sleek, and the original has Predator-tech. Better still, canon states that it was put back into production in 3007.

[DFDelta]

King Crab. Area denial weapon in its finest.
You don't want to stand where one of those is. Ever.

[Ghost]

Highlander.

What did 90 tons say to the face? Ouch.

[Lily of Thrace]

I think I've made my love of the Crab very clear by now, since it is in just about every post I make in mech-related threads >.>

[Joseph Mallan]

The Thug! the perfect War machine. Generates less heat than sinks and with a standard engine its one bad az Zombie!

[Aaron DeChavilier]

pretty much most of those machines, even in 3025 downgrade specs, the SL mechs are beasts
in their own right and look **** cool!

[Creel]

Woooh! Guillotine!

[Youngblood]

GIANT ENEMY CRABS

Failing that, the slightly lesser enemy Crabs.

Props to the Flashman and Black Knight as well, if only because they only getting better with age and weapon refits.

[Bubba Gump]

Voted for the Thug, loved being able to alpha strike with it and no heat build up

[Jimmy Ray]

Voted for one of my old faves... the Exterminator. You gotta respect anything that heavy moving that fast. Especially if you read up all the fluff on it.

[Kenichero]

Highlander for sure, mix the ability to jump off a building and crush smaller mechs with a gauss rifle and you have a very scairy mech

[Lab Rat]

Bombardier, until you run outta ammo at least.
Champion is a close 2nd

[macmerritt]

Highlander

Come on they named a special attack from it. Highlander Burial for the win!!!

[Von Ryan]

Guillotine, reminds me of the Awesome which is one of my favorite mechs.

[Syro]

Been quite some time since i"ve looked through the 2750 readout, but from what I recall, there were really only 4 mechs that really seemed fun to use. Hussar, Kintaro, Bombardier, and Highlander. I'm hoping the flow of MW:O will allow for only a trickle of these units appearing on the field early on, but after say a 3050 Invasion expansion, greater and greater availability.

[tyrone dunkirk]

Black Knight all the way!

[Twilight Sparkle]

Mongoose. Command level light mech good for leading recon lances, while still having good protection and fair armament for its weight class.

While the Mongoose earned my vote, other notable machines include:
Crab: A medium with good speed, armament, and armor. It had a bit of a heat curve, but nothing that couldn't be managed.

Executioner: Headhunter who's weapons load was only marginally weaker then the Guillotine's, but was far faster then it. Sometimes, the job needed to be done and an Executioner could do it.

Flashman: 15 double heat sinks on that array of laser weapons is frightening. It could fire all the large lasers without pause. Even worse, when one finally got within range of those medium lasers, It could fire all of them with two of the light lasers and eat mechs. with its 86kph speed, one might as well strip off the rear-facing medium laser, the flamer, and one of the large lasers for a PPC so that you can compliment its medium range volley a lot better. Hey! That array sounds familiar! Too bad the Black Knight didn't have the Sinks for it.

Crockett: A healthy array of weapons with the sinks to handle them. Another of those 'Crit Seeking Nightmares' older pilots try to scare younger pilots with at night. Its combination of LBX 10 AC and ER Large Lasers give it a ranged hole punch that rivals most others, and once you had holes, one would simply switch to cluster rounds and move in with the paired SRM-6s. Despite being slow, its maneuverability was augmented with jump jets. Dangerous in urban environments.

Highlander: Just as maneuverable as a Crockett, but definitely more of a fire-support machine. LRM-20 paired with the rare Gauss Rifle made it a machine to be heeded, lest it behead you from across the field. As another forum goer put it...

Ghost, on 04 November 2011 - 09:49 AM, said:

Highlander.

What did 90 tons say to the face? Ouch.

[Captain Nice HD]

No Helepolis? OK then, I'll go with the Highlander.

[Vallend]

This one was a tough one to pick from because I do like the Thug, Flashman and the Highlander. I had to go with the Highlander though because it was the Battlemech that introduced me to the gauss rifle. That and who can resist a assault Mech with jump jets?

[cabadrin]

It's all about the highlander.