On a more serious note, may I swap from the Hamkar to an Ishim-A? I feel we have an abundance of uber-tanks (two Sraoshas and three Hamkars) and lightweights (Harbingers, Ishim-Ds) without anything in between.
yeah, everyone mostly chose a heavy mech. Our maneuver will be really weak...
It's interesting. With space to move, a harbringer with a 6 range 100mm cannon will never be touched by the Hamkar's frontal weapon, which is it's strongest-at best, they can plug away with their 60mm gun, with something like 60%-50% accuracy. In return, the light mech can constantly bring shots on them with pretty much 100% accuracy.
Of course, the Hamkar can take around 6x as much damage in the same area. Still, we can probably expect a lot more smaller mechs than big ones.
IMO, we need all three-light mechs are good at plinking heavy mechs with low retaliation (avoiding the heavy guns), medium mechs are good at thrashing light mechs with their speed/firepower1~, and heavy mechs obviously have an advantage against medium mechs that can't get out of range of their big guns. Artillery mechs are good against everything they can reach...that doesn't run close to them and start to melee their legs, which light mechs are good for due to high speed.2~
1~The combination of 5 speed Ishi Line A with 5 range repeater cannon is best for range and firepower.
2~It's my estimation all of you who take the Hamkar should take the spear rockets for your top weapon-the Ham doesn't get a melee attack, and the 60mm gun has a minimum range of 2. If someone gets into 1 range of you, you won't be able to counter at all. And if you do move to make room for the gun, you can't use your bigger artillery due to the setup penalty-which is great for negating your attack, freeing up his allies to move around. The rockets can be fired point blank tho, while not giving up your AOE damage zone.
See, I think about these things.
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