NOTHIN ON EARTH CAN MAKE YOU FALL Dump everything into survival, mobility, and ammo quirks and let the bodies hit the floor. Except yours of course, because you are a walking wall of metal and anger. Your heat dissipation is frankly ridiculous and so you shouldn't have too much to worry about during combat besides maintaining good torso angles so you don't get cored. An alternative setup to this one swaps the places of one of the left arm DHS and the right torso SNPPC. This leaves the entire right side free for shielding with only speed to lose, and also grants you better range of motion with one of your SNPPCs, but the arm is more vulnerable to destruction and I personally find it easier to manage weapons when they're all torso mounted as it's less to focus on. (I generally have arms unlocked as I like how the camera moves in unlocked mode better.)
Orion can do it too - two mediocre mechs with bad hitboxes compensated somewhat by armor quirks, and bad weapon locations compensated somewhat by weapon quirks... The Banshee still has 124 more total armor, while the Orion has significantly more useful speed and general mobility. I’d say the Orion is the better brawler and BNC is better at leading the push. P.S., My (little) experience with piloting Banshees so far has been pretty bad, and the only Orion that really worked for me is the 3LPL+LB10X “Orion’s Belch” https://mechspecs.com/threads/on1-k-orions-belch-ac10-3xlpl-le300.14827/
