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[Rebas Kradd]

The current uselessness of SRM's have crippled this build. Try it again when they're restored to relevance.

[NRP]

Sweetandlow, on 12 May 2013 - 01:08 PM, said:

Is this still a viable build? I feel like I'm getting rocked when I try to use this, but I might have jacked something up or I'm just playing it wrong, but I'm not sure (I feel like a "brawler" should be able to brawl), check out my build and please advice. Thanks!
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...9a77992ef78ccad

PGI nerfed missiles (I believe they cut the damage in half). So, the 8R brawler build isn't quite what it used to be. It can still be effective, but you have to play it carefully. Also, the current meta game has sort of moved away from close range brawling to a more varied range game. You can still brawl, but it's harder to do these days.

[FearNotDeath]

Little throw back vid to the good old days I used a similar build when running with a splatcat replacing the LL's with a lpl/tag. The benefit to tag on 6 more srm6 pods was amazing and could just surprise teams from behind and kill half of them before word got out. AWS 8R was my fav mech now it's a dust collector. The best moment ever was me and my wingman sneaking up behind a full health atlas on forest colony and timing out a double alpha while we were 10 yards behind him and completely destroyed him in a tenth of a second.

tl:dr Bring back srm's.

[SuriViruS]

Greetings,
I changed the build to:

Group 1:
ER-Large Laser
Group 2:
4xSRM6 + Artemis
2xMedium Pulse Laser

17 DBL Heat Sinks
XL Engine 300
Beagle Active Probe

480/494 Armor (Reduced by 7 points leg armor each side)

This is more the "finisher"-build. You can give some shots longe range with the ER, but then You gotta get movin.
Heat dissipation is quite good, 2 alpha-strikes with group 2 on Terra-Therma should be possible.

hf