Dragon Slayer "Gauss Rifle's Revenge" (1xGauss, 3xLL, AMS, 3xJJ, XL330)

So I was playing with the "Autocannon Five" build and found that I was getting a little too trigger happy with my AC5's at range, often missing my shots. I figured that if I need to take more time casing my targets, why not dust off the old gauss rifle and see what I can do with that? It weighs just about the same and I can use some of the ammo to pad my XL engine.

Now I can't speak for anyone else, but I seem to be more effective running with a Gauss Rifle than with 2 AC5's even with the charge up mechanic.




Sorry about the low quality image, but I didn't have a program set up to take screenshots at the time. This was my first match with the build, and even though it was a blowout defeat I managed to take two enemy mechs with me and make sure plenty of others were missing arms, legs, and torsos.

Fire Groups:
1 ) Arm Laser (Left Mouse Button)
2 ) Gauss Rifle (Right Mouse Button)
3 ) Side Torso Lasers (Mouse Wheel Click)

This build also works pretty well with three ER Large Lasers, though I often found myself within 450 meters of the action anyway and decided that the extra heat efficiency would be worth the reduction in long range firepower. You could try taking out 1 ton of gauss ammo and one jump jet to put two more DHS in the engine but this build suits me the way it is.

With more heatsinks:


With more heatsinks and ER Large Lasers:


With PPC in the arm:

 

Looks good to me, but i wish it had more Heatsinks for the Triplet of LLasers. How about downgrading to XL325 and taking off one JJ?

 

Im trying it and im liking it a lot. Link the LL to the Gauss and you have a laser pointer for it. I did took the AMS out in favor of another Heat Sink.