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[Togg Bott]

yada yada yada, BING BANG BOOM.


unless its already in the game, i refuse to acknowledge these polls.

[Siilk]

Tadakuma, on 28 March 2012 - 01:05 AM, said:

The Banshee is actually a pretty good command mech, and I think people under rated how effective it can be. It's so massively over armoured and under gunned that people don't tend to waste time shooting it, so it generally survives to get into close combat where the machine is devastating.

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?

[Siilk]

irish, on 28 March 2012 - 05:22 AM, said:

Banshee Banshee Banshee (Crab for 100) Banshee Banshee

I see what you did there.

[Daz Favor]

Absolutely King Crab

[Trogusaur]

TheSpartan, on 27 March 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

These all suck. Where's the Fafnir, Hauptmann, or even Dire Wolf?

I find your lack of BT knowledge disturbing. MW4's era will not be for some time, so feel free to educate yourself here in the meantime.
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Main_Page

[RedHairDave]

the console kiddies(as i call them) will want nothing but the best clan tech day one, and will be looking to make ppc boats. this is not that game, it wont be a fps with mechs, there are other games for those people. find them(they are console). THIS IS BATTLETECH!!! *kicks someone down a hole*

[Sug]

I plan on making a Lava Gun Boat.

[Hodo]

Garth Erlam, on 27 March 2012 - 12:16 PM, said:

There's your list, get to voting! Will it be the:

Annihilator?

Devastator?
King Crab?
Imp?

(And for the bonus - will it be the: Banshee? Banshee BNC-3E? or the BNC-3E? Vote now!)

Redundant last part. Banshee, Banshee BNC-3E and the BNC-3E are all the same mech... unless you mean. BNC-3S, BNC-3E, BNC-3M, or BNC-5S. Those are difference Banshees.

[Gigaton]

SeDevri, on 28 March 2012 - 03:30 AM, said:

Actually the Devastator DVS-2's production year was 3048 so i see no reason why it shouldn't be given the field....thats not to say you may start our with the DVS-1 then work your way to the DVS-2 but i'm still all for the Devastator.

It's technically available, I'm not saying it's not. But it has not been confirmed or denied if the initial game will have lostech. If it's no (think MW2: Mercs early game) then obviously no DVS-2. It might be available in-universe, but just not for players.

Edited by Gigaton, 28 March 2012 - 08:18 AM.

[phalanx]

RedHairDave, on 28 March 2012 - 07:41 AM, said:

the console kiddies(as i call them) will want nothing but the best clan tech day one, and will be looking to make ppc boats. this is not that game, it wont be a fps with mechs, there are other games for those people. find them(they are console). THIS IS BATTLETECH!!! *kicks someone down a hole*

I am sick of seeing people asking for Clan Mechs from 3060-era.

Also someone needs to retrieve TheSpartan from that hole.

[Cattra Kell]

Banshee's eh?

[AlaricKell]

Well, out of the choices, I was gonna run the Annie because of my affinity for MW3, but the Devastator is also a nice choice, if we don't have some contorted MW4-style mech lab...

If they keep to the original variants for each 'Mech, and allow us to buy the rights to those variants in mech lab, then that is how custom mechs should be, we should not allow a Catapult to mount twin Gauss Rifles and twin large lasers, that is just not fun or true to BTech...Only the richest should be allowed to bastardize their 'Mech in such ways, House leaders, nobles, and very, very wealthy mercs...

We should be able to change weapons and equipment (modules as equipment?) in mech lab, such as replacing a Streak-6 SRM with an LRM-15 or replacing a Large laser with an AC/5 or AC/10, whatever is balanced and within the rules, but replacing dedicated missile mounts with Gauss Riffle mounts, such as I've seen with the Catapult, should not be allowed, it breaks balance and btech rules.

Sorry for the off-topic, but we ARE voting on variants, I think I should put some commentary down as far as how far MWO should go in the mech lab, especially with variant 'Mechs.

[Barbaric Soul]

Ahhh, 2 ppc and 2 guass rifles. I think I just found my stock mech of choice. To bad it doesn't have JJ.

[Slaytronic]

I like the crab but after the ammo drains it's useless so i picked the classy imp

[CycKath]

King Crab, factional bias wins again

[SMDMadCow]

BNC-3S please. Also, see below siggy.

[pursang]

RedHairDave, on 28 March 2012 - 07:41 AM, said:

the console kiddies(as i call them) will want nothing but the best clan tech day one, and will be looking to make ppc boats. this is not that game, it wont be a fps with mechs, there are other games for those people. find them(they are console). THIS IS BATTLETECH!!! *kicks someone down a hole*

Believe it or not, many people here don't live and breath MechWarrior/BattleTech - that does not make them "console kiddies" (as you put it). Shocking I know.

[HIemfire]

A: 32.4 kph top end and packing 4 tons of AC ammunition split between the side torsos and no CASE..... No Thanks.
B: XL engine.... Basically an overpriced paperweight if it looses one side torso section, I'll pass.
C: Not enough ammuntion for it's main guns, atleast it doesn't have an XL engine and has more armor than most heavy mechs.
D: Best of the lot, Ugliest too.... Worse than an Urbanmech actually.. I'll pass

Hmm no vote from me.. Maybe if the factions had decided to bring the original Titan (TI-1A) into production I would have had a choice I could have made (reference: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Titan_II , it is the first of the listed variants).

As for the bonus... Ha Ha Ha............. eeeeuuuuuucccchhhh!

[William Petersen]

Devastator beating out my Annihilator. /sadfacepanda


EDIT:

HIemfire, on 28 March 2012 - 01:26 PM, said:

A: 32.4 kph top end and packing 4 tons of AC ammunition split between the side torsos and no CASE..... No Thanks.

You realize the ANH was designed as a practically stationary weapons platform for defense, right? 4 ACs, 4 tons of ammo. Perfect sense is made. Furthermore, the tech exists in 3049 for the ANH-1X, which IS protected by CASE. I don't know off-hand the date of availability of that variant, though.

Furthermore, the ANH looks *fantastic* in that "AHHH! IT'S GOJIIRA!" way. B-) No better mech for pounding the Snake- I mean "dragon". /eyeroll

Edited by William Petersen, 28 March 2012 - 01:43 PM.

[Strumtruppen]

i remeber playing the annihlator in MW3 oh good days i chose this over the devastator because of that experiance and the fact that i just generally perform better with that mech