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[Phelan P Kell]

Go IMP

It's just a giant urbanmech

[Watchit]

actually I'd be happy with anything besides the Imp...

[neodym]

I love Annihilator,I didnt know about devastator,looks great but I vote King Crab becose it looks very different,I dont remember any mech pythoon or crab with these strange thin legs ever been in mw game before,also I love ac20,and he looks like keeping low profile

whatever it is please god just not imp,what a ugly mech

Edited by neodym, 29 March 2012 - 07:27 PM.

[Logan Winters]

Annihilators not a bad mech. But I'm definantly more fond of the Devastator.

[Fooooo]

Annihilator for me...

I have fond memorys of stacking multiple LBXs or AC's or even ditching it all and going all MGA's (machine gun arrays).

I was pleasantly surprised with how fast it cut stuff down with all MGA's....fun fun fun

[Tadakuma]

Siilk, on 28 March 2012 - 06:45 AM, said:

Dude, this design is as old as Mackie. Mackie, for Kerensky's sake! That will be more than 500 years old for MWO's "now". It's sluggishly slow and has an armament of a medium at best. As for armour, BNC-3E has 15 tons, but is it that much for an assault? Awesome has the same amount of armour while being 15 tons lighter and having a decent loadout. Atlas has 19. Oh, and it costs almost as much as Atlas with Awesome being almost two times cheaper(TRO values but still). Who would take this instead of an Atlas? And what for?

Basicly people who can't get Atlases, my fondness for it comes from a Table Top game, we playing a militia unit and we captured it from Pirate raiders.

I ended up piloting it because I lost my enforcer taking it down, and while I griped and moaned about it, I came to really like the machine. There nothing quite as satisfying as taking down a supposedly superior mech like an Atlas or Stalker down with a supposedly inferior Banshee.

And yes I took down both of these in the underrated Banshee. The trick is you have to either commit to a long range sniper duel or get in their face and go for a melee close combat battle.

The other point I was making was that the Banshee is a great place to plunk your commander. Part of the reason it makes a good command mech is that people don't tend to target it, I've lost track of the number of games were my commander was riding the biggest baddest mech in the force and when down quickly because they were a massive target. As an added bonus it's preferred position as a sniper means that your commander isn't mixed up in a close combat battle when he should be commanding.

In table top games I now tend to run my commanders in fast well armoured mediums or very heavily armoured long range assaults and heavies. It's the same reason why Jamie Wolfe and Morgan Kell Pilot the Archer.

And to my mind the Banshee is on par with an archer, so all up not great mech but not a bad mech either.

Edited by Tadakuma, 30 March 2012 - 12:13 AM.

[Soviet Alex]

I once took out a brand-new Grand Titan in an old Banshee-3M. Two punches to the head.

Not directly applicable to MW-O, where there's a lot less melee combat. But it has a place in my heart after that moment.

[Robert Rogers]

King Crab & Banshee(just not the 3E-Variant).

Devastator was AFAIK introduced 3058, I wouldn't be too thrilled seeing a "downgrade" appearing 10 years earlier(and the Twin-Gauss Variant just wouldn't be fair against AS7-D)

[Giftmacher]

I voted urbi- I mean Imp. Good weapon spread, even if it is a bit energy based and therefore hot for my tastes.

Devastator came close though.

[EDMW CSN]

Lmao the Banshee is such a loaded question.

Edit: I need that GIANT THRASHCAN.

Edited by [EDMW]CSN, 30 March 2012 - 02:11 AM.

[SirDenOfYork]

Annihilator because "it is" and the Banshee-3E for kicks....

[Nor Azman]

You need a 100 tons guardian Imp to protect all the cute little urbies out there.

[Verithrax]

Fome the list Annihilator and Banshee.

[Omigir]

Really? who would turn down two guass and two ppc!? with four, count em, FOuR med las! its a beast! or.. if your poor, like me, you can take a dual ac 10 dual lg las variant which would still bring pain at med and short ranges! love you devistator <3

[William Petersen]

Omigir, on 30 March 2012 - 05:55 AM, said:

Really? who would turn down two guass and two ppc!? with four, count em, FOuR med las! its a beast! or.. if your poor, like me, you can take a dual ac 10 dual lg las variant which would still bring pain at med and short ranges! love you devistator <3

Because it packs an Xtra Liable engine? You lose any of your torsos and you're done. The ANH has a very similar range profile with its 4 LB 10-X ACs. The ammo presents a similar danger if the sides are exposed/destroyed, but it's not a guaranteed destruction. It also packs 4 MLas. It's much slower, I admit, but looks so much cooler. The King Crab packs some crazy firepower, but its very short-ranged.

...not sure why the Imp is on here, what with being a Clan design and all...

[Gozer]

Verithrax, on 30 March 2012 - 03:10 AM, said:

Fome the list Annihilator and Banshee.

Yep. The Annihilator is just looks the best to me.

[Lethal Joke]

Devastator (Because it carries some of my favorite guns in fair number) and Banshee BNC-3E.

EDIT: Why the Banshee BNC-3E? Because if I have only one option told three ways, I'll pick the most detailed one!

Edited by Lethal Joke, 30 March 2012 - 12:59 PM.

[TimberJon]

Gigaton, on 28 March 2012 - 12:19 AM, said:

Not sure about Nightstar either. It's a relevant 'mech for the general period of clan invasion, but it might be one of those that gets into production in '50 or '51 or so. Anyway, the 'mech suggestions are undoubtedly coming directly from Randall Bills, so if he says there is only Banshee available then there is only Banshee available.

Actually it says the Nightstar started production again as early as 3036 so Nightstar should be an option, not to mention that it was produced in both halves of the FedCom and very popular. It's nearly equal to the Devastator at medium range.

Reference: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Nightstar

Edited by TimberJon, 30 March 2012 - 12:55 PM.

[Soviet Alex]

TimberJon, on 30 March 2012 - 12:55 PM, said:

Actually it says the Nightstar started production again as early as 3036 so Nightstar should be an option, not to mention that it was produced in both halves of the FedCom and very popular. It's nearly equal to the Devastator at medium range.

Reference: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Nightstar

Dunno where that sarna date comes from, but the Nightstar entry in TRO 3058 doesn't say anything about any production prior to the Clan Invasion.

[Sychodemus]

Lethal Joke, on 30 March 2012 - 12:32 PM, said:

Devastator (Because it carries some of my favorite guns in fair number) and Banshee BNC-3E.

EDIT: Why the Banshee BNC-3E? Because if I have only one option told three ways, I'll pick the most detailed one!

In contrast, the more ambiguous one allows for greater customization. Maybe.