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[AntiCitizenJuan]

Build #1
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...538c046e2cf4b30

Build #2
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...8f21ce53760f0f2

I'm currently running Build #2 to pretty good success. It's speed is pretty good and it packs a decent punch. But I stumbled upon Build #1 and it's looking pretty tempting. Although it is not as nimble and slightly less heat efficient than Build #1, it has more long range firepower.

What do you think?

[Homeless Bill]

I'd throw an XL in there and have the best of both worlds. If I had to choose, though, I'd pick #1.

[Ilwrath]

The best thing to do right now is to put two ppc's into it and build around that. Try to get used to them before the change.

Other than that its okay to run it with all medium pulse lasers. Kinda depends about what you like.


Edit; and I would use a faster engine really. It make the whole mech perform better.

Edited by Ilwrath, 29 January 2013 - 01:28 PM.

[Green Mamba]

With the changes a PPC would be of benefit to your team

[Vlad Ward]

Build 1 is too slow. The Awesome is really just too fat to move at regular Assault speed and not get pummeled.

Build 2 is better, but I think you're sacrificing a lot to keep a Standard engine in there.

The Awesome is so squishy anyways that running with an XL really won't drastically lower your survivability. I'd just snag an XL385 and pump Build 2 with more DHS.

[TheStrider]

This is my version I run around with... Emphasis on run.

I call him the Honey Badger.

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...4b3b2ffada5677d

Edited by TheStrider, 29 January 2013 - 01:31 PM.

[MonkeyCheese]

after driving a 9m myself the key to this mech is the speed it has, so max xl engine or find a new mech

[Kyrie]

I agree with the max-XL approach for the Awesome 9M for sure.

[Thuzel]

Agree with others. The Awesome needs, and I mean needs speed if you're going to have it around the front lines. 70kph isn't really fast enough.

Drop in an XL 380, max out your armor (bring it back to the nearest half ton after), and don't stop dancing. Ever. No joke, do not stop moving.

The hitboxes on an awesome are large enough to hit with a dead chicken at 2k.

[Endrick]

I've got a Stalker that does everything you're trying to do only better:
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...7f206a315be0bc2

[Odins Fist]

3 L-Lasers, 2-SRM(4), and 1-SRM(6) Awesome-9M
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Figure the rest out yourselves... 62 Alpha... Drop a Heat Sink, put a Med Laser in Head you get a 67 Alpha

[Stingz]

#1: Missile pods on the -9M are 2-shot's, those SRM-4 are being wasted. 33 is too much rear armor on anything. Endo-Steel saves space, leaves more room for engine

#2: Seriously too light on the weapons, use a Hunchback-4SP instead.


Past 64 k/ph in an Assault mech you need an XL engine, or risk being outgunned by lighter mechs (Dragons have this issue, going 81 with a STD engine). A heavy mech is better for going 64 k/ph with STD engines.

Edited by Stingz, 29 January 2013 - 01:49 PM.

[AntiCitizenJuan]

So this?

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...0cc66f01adc1a23

[MonkeyCheese]

Endrick, on 29 January 2013 - 01:42 PM, said:

I've got a Stalker that does everything you're trying to do only better:
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...7f206a315be0bc2

hahahaha XL srm stalker oh my you have made my day with that one

[NRP]

Neither of these builds are particularly good, imo. With it's terrible hard point layout, it's really hard to mount a powerful weapon setup on the 9M while maintaining it's only advantage (i.e. speed).

[Odins Fist]

Stingz, on 29 January 2013 - 01:46 PM, said:

#1: Missile pods on the -9M are 2-shot's, those SRM-4 are being wasted.

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Tell that to the Atlas-RS I wasted solo on live stream... Funny casue I see more than 4 missiles firing from center bay..
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Weird huh..??
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Was one of these matches, don't remember which one... The "Awesome" is no "Atlas", but it can be piloted with good effect.

Edited by Odins Fist, 29 January 2013 - 02:25 PM.

[Endrick]

MonkeyCheese, on 29 January 2013 - 02:09 PM, said:

hahahaha XL srm stalker oh my you have made my day with that one

You don't see the sides too much when it's firing at you.

[p00k]

if you're not taking a big engine, you shouldn't be taking an awesome 9m. you'd be better served with one of the other awesomes, or really, one of the stalkers. the whole point of the 9m is that it's the speedy assault

Endrick, on 29 January 2013 - 02:18 PM, said:

You don't see the sides too much when it's firing at you.

yes you do. the stalker's front profile is like an X; a lot of what you intuitively would call center torso, what would be center torso on a catapult, counts as one of the side torsos on a stalker

Edited by p00k, 29 January 2013 - 02:26 PM.

[Wrenchfarm]

If you love PPCs as much as me and have more Cbills than sense, you can try my build.

[Wrenchfarm]

p00k, on 29 January 2013 - 02:25 PM, said:

if you're not taking a big engine, you shouldn't be taking an awesome 9m. you'd be better served with one of the other awesomes, or really, one of the stalkers. the whole point of the 9m is that it's the speedy assault



yes you do. the stalker's front profile is like an X; a lot of what you intuitively would call center torso, what would be center torso on a catapult, counts as one of the side torsos on a stalker

Shhhh, let him keep running an XL. We need more glass Stalkers out there.