Did a little searching and found myself unable to find anything that really matched up with this idea of a build I had - it's yet to be built for me, although I have my hopes. It's very much my style, able to stay way back and either indirect or direct-fire support to the rest of your team. While I could have sacrificed the engine size for some energy weapons/more ammo/more launchers, I figured almost 50 volleys and 30 Gauss shots was enough to last, and the mobility is nothing to sneeze at over stuffing a XL 255 in there. As it is this thing has some considerable cooling efficiency, allowing you to fire almost constantly with both weapons. For those who shudder at the idea of not having some sort of short-range backup weapon, something that I don't value much as I typically have little luck dealing with lights as it is, you can do anything from swap the launchers for a LRM 15 (using the gained weight and dropping a ton or so of ammo) to gain some MLas's or some SSRM/SRM, going to the XL 255 for the same, or doing both. It wouldn't be too much of a challenge to work in some more armor and/or some support-oriented weapons (TAG comes to mind) as well by way of the above-mentioned swaps or dropping a ton of ammo for the launchers, either.
That armor dude, you will be a snack for anyone who sees you. Here's a counterproposal. Full armor, except legs. Same ammo count but included a tag, dropped artemis (requires a line of sight) and went for 4 LRM5's. That increased your reload speed so you can spam out missiles faster and it saved 2 tons. And yes, I'd like a laser in there.
Fair enough. Artemis stacks with TAG in most aspects from my browsing the wiki, but I suppose unless I'm going full boat it isn't worth the extra slots/weight. And as for the lasers, this forum seems to have a bit of a laser fetish going, so no surprise there xD Thanks for your thoughts!
Haha, yes, I suppose we do like lasers. With 12 potential targets, you do run the risk of running dry on ammo. That's a concern I have with you're build too. 30 Gauss on Alpine goes quick and 900 missiles is not much (45 cycles). Artemis is great and it stacks with TAG, yes. Artemis enables faster lockon, tighter cluster of missiles and better tracking. So does TAG. Combined, you have more then 50% improvement in tracking and cluster tightness. However, LRM 5's and 10's are already pretty tightly clustered and since you are not going pure LRM boat it's too much extra weight. Good luck, come back with some screenshots of scores.
