Good alpha, good DPS, good heat-efficiency, great speed for a 'Mech that size. It's what I take when I don't want to be left behind, and am more concerned about the enemies dying before I get to them than I am about actually dying myself. Loving it.
Solid concept. I just made a build involving 3LL, 2 AC5 and 16DHS and 270 ammo. I feel like our builds fill the same exact roll. If I ever change mine up, it will probably be to this.
On second thought, I like the idea of the medium laser taking the crappy low hardpoint and the two hardpoints having LPL in them like you built it.
Updated with LightEngine and ERMLs (can stick with regular MLs still too o/c). This is still very much a favorite build of mine, as it combines both the dps of the ACs and the alpha of the Lasers, along with a fast engine, lots of ammo, and decent heat efficiency.
Nothing crazy, but a solid match all the same. Felt good to take the old BNC-3E out for a spin. Running the LE version, with STD MLs.
Don't run this mech with XL... <shivers>... - no armor or structure quirks on the STs and bad hit boxes guaranty a quick death. After many iterations, my most successful build is close to @Falconium build above. The changes to the hardpoints that were introduced ruled out many potential builds and required some creative thinking. For example, the ballistic hard point fill from the bottom up - BUT any ballistic that takes 6 crit-slots or more (or does 10 damage or more, I don't really know the rule), will drop to the lowest hardpoint. So, it is impossible to get an AC10/LB10 to the shoulder mounts. To get the 2AC5's to the shoulder you have to stack them on top of something else - 2LMGs were my choice. LMG is only 1/2 ton, has a similar range to my 2 medium lasers, has lots of ammo/ton, and players panic when they get plinged plinged by MGs. Your RT energy points have a similar issue - they stack from the lowest hardpoint, so you have to have 3 in order to get the last one into the shoulder. PPCs (of all flavors) will always drop to the lowest hardpoint and will only stack on top of other PPCs. So, to get a PPC into the shoulder you have to have 3 PPCs... So, I went with the lasers.
