I was looking for mech to NARC with, so instead of buying a new raven, jenner or this anansi thing, I thought let's give good old commie a try. I placed the NARC in the right arm for its better range of motion and went for 2 SSRM2s and a MLas as weapons. That's still enough to reliably kill anything up to a spider and severely damage or scare off jenners and firestarters. It's also cool enough to run single heat sinks which is necesary due to the space taken up by endo-steel structure, ferro-fibrous armor and the XL engine. Mine still runs artemis because there wasn't really a reason to take it off and is does seem to help with lock-times for the streaks. I'm having good results with this so far. EDIT: Just changed the name to something even worse !
If you are a good player and NARC well your team will love you, that said if that aplies I honestly think you'd do better with a RVN 3L. CMD 2D is too hungry for weight to get a 0 dps 4+ tons equipment and it shows, a RVN3L would be faster, have more weapons and more armor. CMD-2D has such hardpoints that really Mythweaver's commando (3xsSRM2+1ML) is the best build you can get in such a tiny and ammo hungry chasis. Definitely the best thing of this config is the name, it's great!!
On the other hand, Everyone hates a 3L-Raven... no one takes a Narcommando serious, till they get LRM`d.
This build is too slow. Better using a 3A with NARC and 2x mplas. A fast scout out on his own hardly needs ECM when radar deprivation is available.
Well, I can confirm that people don't take the Narcommando serious. I've had matches where I fired the narc together with the streaks and the enemy team didn't even realize who it was that narced them. Nobody seems to expect a relatively heavy narc launcher on a COM-2D. Speed is an issue though... I've come up with an idea to remedy this at the cost of some armour. With a rough 140 kph and ECM you shouldn't miss it too much. dropping the streaks for standart SRM2s could also work for those who don't want to scrape off armour but this doesn't seem to be the way for me thanks for your suggestions !
If u are a good shot with those NARCS u could run with 1/2t of NARC-Ammo thus allowing u to wear full armor. True, 6 rounds are not much and the weight-efficiency ratio sucks. But in a 12man match, and considering that u will probably not be able to fire away all your 12 rounds anyway (due to dying, good UAV placing... or just because there is already one narced Mech) it seems good enough for me. I like the idea of NARCing with a Commando. Just yesterday we had a league drop, where the enemy used NARC Ravens and Mandos while 2 Stalkers rained missiles on us. They eventually lost, but it sure gave us a hard time avoiding the missile barrages.
