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[Warma]

Just a quick question. Does the Fang have a lower arm actuator in its ballistic hand? Ie. can you fit an AC20 in it? Couldn't find this info anywhere, so I had to ask.

I'm probably going to buy one anyway, but it would be nice to know this beforehand.

[Rifter]

Warma, on 18 December 2012 - 11:57 PM, said:

Just a quick question. Does the Fang have a lower arm actuator in its ballistic hand? Ie. can you fit an AC20 in it? Couldn't find this info anywhere, so I had to ask.

I'm probably going to buy one anyway, but it would be nice to know this beforehand.

If it doesnt its going to be gimped like the wang with little arm movement.

[Warma]

I am aware of this. However, I prefer the AC20 in the arm regardless, as it enables the use of an XL engine. The Flame can fit an AC20 in the side torso, but I kind of detest this, as you have to sacrifice a lot of space or speed to use it.

[Elizander]

Fang cannot use an AC/20. I just bought one. It has a shoulder actuator and only 9 crit slots in the right arm.

Edited by Elizander, 19 December 2012 - 01:07 AM.

[Warma]

Elizander, on 19 December 2012 - 01:02 AM, said:

Fang cannot use an AC/20. I just bought one. It has a shoulder actuator and only 9 crit slots in the right arm.

Thanks. Guess I will have to use an AC10 or Gauss then.

[Elizander]

Warma, on 19 December 2012 - 01:10 AM, said:

Thanks. Guess I will have to use an AC10 or Gauss then.

I'm currently using a UAC/5 + AC/5 on chain fire. Seems alright but a bit heavy.

[Spinning Burr]

Fang seems no better or different from the standard dragons with a hybrid hard point layout between 1C and 1N, which I think is a little better than either variant unless you like to boat lasers with your 1C. Otherwise it looks like it can't really do anything the other dragons can't do. 10 slots in right arm would be huge not only for AC20 but also for 2 UAC5's which gives the speedy dragon full auto fire mode with a damaging long distance weapon (doesn't include AC2). 2 UAC5's in right arm is very fitting for the dragon and no other variant can mount it (even Flame with standard engine gets only 1 torso hardpoint). Most dragons can mount AC5/UAC5 but this isn't quite full auto. The 5N can mount AC5/AC5/AC2 (for 22 tons!) but still lacks sustained 5x damage. The AC2x3 and UAC5/AC2x2 is a different animal and not apples to apples comparison. UAC5x2 is a machine gun sweet spot and would be unique to Fang.

[Strucker]

AC20 would be nice, but I'm thinking of getting a Fang for a fire support / interceptor role (2x AC2's, 2 ML, SRM or SSRM) even with stock speed 81km/h is enough to catch majority of smaller mechs... plus you know pewpew AC2 is pretty fun.

[Roughneck45]

I really with this thinng had another laser hardpoint in the shoulder. The hero mechs are pretty good, but the 1C is still better than both of them IMO.

[Spinning Burr]

I currently like 5N the best for maximum versatility of what matters for dragon: maximum number of arm mounted weapons with lots of lateral arm rotation for same convergence of all weapons on flexible platform. The 1N is great as a light mech killer with 2 SSRM2's. The 1C hardpoint layout is weird for me since the 4 beam weapons don't all converge. I basically use it like 5N and use the two torso beam mounts for ancillary stuff like flamer and tag. Plus your right arm is limited to one big ballistic and that's it. I chose to master 5N first as the flexible versatile dragon.