VonBruinwald, on 20 November 2020 - 08:21 AM, said:
Only if you lack hardpoints, if you got the hardpoint an extra LL is a better option, I can almost guarantee you'll save the extra weight in heatsinks. I imagine GH is will have more of an influence in their usage than anything else.
Depends on a combination of damage and the Ghost Heat grouping, honestly.
If the gun does 16 damage and I can fire two BLCs without ghost heat, that's going to enable stronger builds on heavier 'Mechs more often than using regular LL will since I can do 62 points with just 8 hardpoints (2BLC+6ERML) instead of needing 9 for the 3xLL+6xERML combo. If the GH group is 3 on it, and I don't think that would be game-breaking, then I can do some properly nasty builds:
3BLC+6ERML = 78
3BLC+5ERML = 73
2BLC +1LL+6ERML = 71
1BLC+2LL+6ERML = 64
It would make IS laser assaults actually usefully more potent than IS laser Heavies.