Garth Erlam, on 26 September 2012 - 10:51 AM, said:
May I suggest the Atlas-D? Upgrades the AC/10 to an AC/20, the LRM-15 to an LRM-20, two medium lasers to four medium lasers, the SRM-4 to an SRM-6, and 14 tons of armour up to 19. And all at the cost of ~12 km/h.
I was initially perplexed by this post, but I am now choosing to interpret it as sly satire on the people complaining about getting a tiny 'mech: if a small 'mech is bad, then the bigger the better, right? Why have an
Orion when you can have an
Atlas? Why have anything BUT the biggest 'mech, amirite?
In all seriousness, part of the
Orion's appeal is that it's basically a mini-
Atlas. Actually, I am pretty sure fluff-wise the
Orion is older, so you could say the
Atlas is just an enlarged version of it.