As much as I think the Awesome is the worst assault chassis this variant and build is rapidly becoming my favorite. It has great cooling efficiency, plenty of ammo backed up by some large lasers it works well operating at second line support able to get most use out of TAG and Artemis as well as provide some direct fire. I was able to achieve a very high XP rate on this mech on a X2 as well as seen in the picture below. Game play video to follow.
a good build for the 8T. I would run it with extended Range Large Lasers! The Cool Efficiency is high enough for it. The Amount of Missiles for 2x LRM15 is very high. Maybe it is a good option to replace two tons for two MLas instead for even higher Defense Firepower!
I used a similar build a few months ago and really struggled with it. That said it was a few meta's ago before the LRM or armour buffs. perhaps it's time to try it again.