This budget build was simply to see what I could put together with what was at hand. With the exception of heat sinks, everything was just laying around in my mech bay. Chances are if you have the Mad Dog, at this point, then you probably have a lot of this too. As I was fresh out of cERML's, I built around the cMPL's. It's a work horse without all the pizzazz but has enough kick and heat management to be effective. In the end, it cost me $72K for heat sinks and I'm averaging 400-600 points per match, so no complaints until a proper upgrade is made. Weapon groups: 1 - left arm 2 - right arm 3 - all missiles 4 - chain fire missiles A few of the first matches:
I would go 2 ERL over 4 MPL then so all your weapons complement eachother. Though 4x MPL would be the more "balanced build."