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[TELEFORCE]

Now that we're getting more guns to play with, I hope we see the Light AC/2 and AC/5 soon! The IS light 'mechs deserve moar dakka!

[Hauptmann Keg Steiner]

LACs would definitely give IS ballistic builds some more flexibility (and give the Juggernaut a reason to exist).

[LordNothing]

and pacs on the clan side. light ballistics are good.

also things like vgls, magshot and apgauss. anything thats not a machine gun.

[TELEFORCE]

I'd be up for the AP Gauss family of weapons and Protomech ACs. Decent dakka for all light 'mechs!

Edited by TELEFORCE, 26 August 2023 - 03:16 PM.

[KursedVixen]

TELEFORCE, on 23 August 2023 - 03:57 AM, said:

Now that we're getting more guns to play with, I hope we see the Light AC/2 and AC/5 soon! The IS light 'mechs deserve moar dakka!

only if clans get protomech ACs

[Meep Meep]

LordNothing, on 23 August 2023 - 03:17 PM, said:

anything thats not a machine gun.

While I think mg are in a good place I wouldn't mind if IS lmg were reduced to .25 tons for easier fitting on light mechs. The clan balance would still be upheld since IS mg and hvy mg would still weigh twice their clan counterpart.

As for light ballistics if they can make blazers and xpulse and hag work that more or less paves the way for all the rest of the weapons.

[TELEFORCE]

It's never made much sense to my why the canon IS light MG weighs the same as the regular one. Same for the Clans by that logic, but 0.25 tons is kinda hard to work with without fractional accounting or the construction rules optimization for 0.5-ton lots.

[Meep Meep]

Using fractional accounting they could go with .125 on clan lmg but then that would make the current clan mg boats incredibly powerful. Imagine a pir with a full rack of lmg AND room for a heavy weapon or even two? Nah. But for IS reducing lmg to .25 would mean a handful of mechs can get the full potential out of their hardpoints. As it stands most of the mg boats like the flea have to drop down to small energy if they want to run a full rack of lmg and enough ammo to matter which means the extra range is wasted and might as well go with mg for the extra dps since the range is similar. This would allow them to mount mediums and actually be a threat and similar to the firepower of a pir which to me is the clan flea.

[pbiggz]

I would like to see more equipment before we see any new weapons, but yes, light ballistic options for lights and mediums would be very welcome.

[LordNothing]

Meep Meep, on 26 August 2023 - 03:35 PM, said:

While I think mg are in a good place I wouldn't mind if IS lmg were reduced to .25 tons for easier fitting on light mechs. The clan balance would still be upheld since IS mg and hvy mg would still weigh twice their clan counterpart.

As for light ballistics if they can make blazers and xpulse and hag work that more or less paves the way for all the rest of the weapons.

mgs are fine, but i dont like it being the only ballistic option for most light mechs, especially those < 30 tons. try putting a pair of ac2s on a pirates bane. you can do it but you will be slow, unarmored, and wont be able to install the ecm (which is the whole reason to own a pirates bane).