Yen Lo-Wang "Scytrack's" (1xAC20, 2xMPL, XL300)

4.5/5,

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Some people might find an xl-engine questionable in a cent which i can understand as it makes your shield-arm less usefull, but if you can learn to use your godly speed to your advantage you can actually survive much longer.The only thing you need to fear are those srm boats out there since they can take you down with one alpha.

Playstyle: You should always avoid being in the frontline and search for a separated target so you can make him regret leaving his team with your ac-20, basically you can strip off the armor from anything in the matter of seconds without taking any damage as you are able to run away before the enemy realises what on earth did just happen.Never start brawling with this mech that you might actually win against an atlas as well if you can avoid a straight face-to-face fight which is not that difficult, but you will surely end up having critical injuries. In short this mech excells in finishing off enemies who have their armor penetrated already, or sneaking up on heavier mechs than you are and taking them down extremely fast from behindh34r:.

Sometimes I use it with std 250 with med lasers and ferro fibrous, depends on what you prefer : speed or survivability.

 

Almost 100kph. That's pretty cool.

I think XL 300 is one of those things you have to have in your mechlab.

 

I'm using this exact build on my YLW. He is fast. If I can learn to just back off and wait I may get better kill ratio. I have surprised more than one Jenner running them down and smacking them with the AC/20.
Sure seems to have a "Please shoot me" sign on him though. Could just be me.

 

I run nearly the same 'mech, XL Engine works just fine.

 

Close to stock, added DHS, med pulse, and more ammo and replaced the stock engine with an XL 270

 

An interesting take on the Yen-Lo-Wang! Personally, I figure if you're gonna go speedy, you might as well go all the way, so I put in an XL300:



While it may not have as many AC/20 shots, the ability to go 106.9KPH means you get to pick and choose whom you engage and when. The AMS is for some additional cover, though you could easily drop it for another ton of AC/20 ammo, and have a floating .5 tons.

 

I really like both builds, the Yen Lo is a really fun Skirmisher and I do alot of C-Bill farming with mine.

Myth.

 

Subject, I like yours, although I'm more likely to go with an XL 300 and take half ton of armor off between the legs and the shield arm.

 

I like this build, and the possible variation of dropping the MPLs down to MLs and getting an extra ton of ammo and DHS.

 

If you dropped the MPL to ML your Heat Efficiency would go up more even w/o the extra DHS. You could consider AMS or putting on half a ton of armor all while gaining another ton of ammo still.

 

Doing both would make the efficiency jump up even more. There's a lot of options for tweaking this, but I think the general consensus with the various builds posted here is that AC/20 + 2 Medium (Pulse) Lasers with 320-336 armor and 4-5 tons of ammo on a 270-300 XL engine is the best build. All of the builds are minor tweaks within that respect.

 

I like that variant better as well, Subject; dropping that half-ton of armor made more sense than letting it float.

 

I bought the YLW yesterday and ran the exact same build.

Oh my god, the damage is great. That AC/20 is monstrous. It lops off light 'Mech limbs left and right when you land solid hits. Scary stuff.

I wasn't a Centurion fan, but now I'll try the other variants as well.

 

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This is a great skirmisher takes the Mythweaver build and swaps out the AMS and Ammo for Pulse Lasers vs Regular Lasers. It may be a play-style thing, but it just feels more powerful to me. Neither build suffers from heat problems. I was originally hoping to drop heat sinks for the lasers because the Mythweaver NEVER seems to overheat. Unfortunately, the pulse lasers DO take heat to high levels with just one DHS missing. So I chose the AMS since its sorta overrated in PUGS IMOP. (Great when in packs that use them) So when I find myself under enemy fire support, I tend to operate near those that do have it. Easy fix.

 

Looks good. I tried it with the Med.PLasers before I posted my version, as you say, it runs pretty hot. Even "the" Mythweaver shuts down when in the heat of battle; from time to time. I definately understand that feeling of greater power coming from anything pulse...wub, wub, wub...

For anyone good at maintaining heat discipline, I recommend taking this one for a spin.

Mythweaver

 

recent simple build used for the YLW, in conjunction with a fast AC20 BJ its a great combo.

 

This builds is Fun, with a capital 'F'. Fairly effective too.

 

In my opinion this is THE build for the YLW, making him an unvelieveable durable and storng brawler, especially for a medium mech. When mastereed you can push your damage output to the limits - in every single game.

Thanks for sharing this superfun cashcow