"BOOM!" Need I say more? It works extremely well, both at long and short ranges, though obviously it's perfect niche is sitting right about 150-200 meters from the opponent. The burst damage of this thing is so awesome, I frequently alpha the backs out of things with one shot; it's hilarious! Also, with the different speeds of the AC20 and the PPCs, it's actually surprisingly adept at hitting lights. I remember one match on Alpine where I killed 2 spiders with alphas of my AC20 and PPCs, while they were running full speed across my screen. (One of them was at roughly 400 meters, the other at 160.) If you fire too soon and the PPCs miss, the AC20 will likely hit; if you fire too late and the AC20 misses, the PPCs will likely hit. Either way . . . BOOM! Alternate range build, which drops the 2 MPLasers for a LLaser (or ERLL):
Until now, the 2PPC+AC20 combo was something that hogged all available tonnage to be useful. The addition of the small backup weapons at the optimal ranges when the speed difference between AC20 and ppc doesn't matter as much is downright awesome, especially combined with the standard engine and thus the zombiepotential. The only thing I have issue with is that this is such a large mech. The top speed is 61 kph and smart players will not let you advance on them with that AC20 or at least outmaneuver your slow twisting speed. I've run the combo on a jager with 20 kph more (and an XL of course so much less sturdy) and if you can get more speed with this, it's absolutely perfect. I think that's only really possible on a Victor or something and this is a great adaptation for the banshee though, so 5/5 from me!
I had to knock a star for not putting more armor on those massive shield arms. I use mine all the time. Also, I still prefer the range of a standard medium laser over a medium pulse in a 'Mech this slow. Pretty good build though, and with some tweaks, it's damn near perfect. Here's my rendition of this build:
My take.... or Possible to place the LL/LPL in the CT and redistribute some armor from the arms back to the legs as you wish
I am using something similar, however I still use the stock engine (cause i'm poor) and add 2 more medium pulse lasers. Slow and hot as sin, but the extra firepower is nice.
