Hellfire, 60 Ton Battlemech

[Mistasandman]

https://mwomercs.com/hellfire

didn't see a thread yet so decided to make one about it.

What's so special about it?

60 Ton Clan Battlemech.


Currently, the only other 60 ton clan mech is the Maddog, and it's a Omnimech, meaning locked engine and upgrades/heatsinks.

The real question is though, should you get it?

Honestly it's just for more variety, if you're looking to go after something different than a maddog but just want clan tech, this is it. It has MASC, so that helps out for maybe making it fit into the role of maybe a black lanner/linebacker?

Standard pack seems alright. You get access to two variants that are just about the same, minus/plus a hardpoint of energy or missiles. The third variant included is the real gem here. 4M+1B+2E. Could do some ballistic missile splat, LBX10+SRMs with MASC, to make a speedy brawler. It's also the variant with the most missile hardpoints out of all of them.... bleh.

The reinforcements are worse, which leads me to belive that they'll try and pass that off with some "unique" quirks or something dumb like that.

The hero is.... odd. It would have been nice to have both ballistics mounted in the torsos, make it a bigger hunchback IIC maybe. Granted, you can mount the Gauss in the Arm and in the shoulder, but.... I don't think it will work out so well. However, maybe just using the shoulder Gauss with Lasers could work out well, maybe something like;

1 Gauss Rifle, 4 Medium Lasers, 1 Heavy Large Laser

Armed with MASC, maybe make it a fast medium range direct fire mech?

I give it a 6/10. Don't know much about it, and to add, It's for people who want variety in a mech or don't like the maddog. If you have the maddog already, I suggest you wait.

[Dakota]

Its basically a Mad Dog but in battlemech form instead of omnimech form and it will likely have worse hitboxes.

You could go in with one of the versions that gets an extra high engine rating then throw masc onto it then try to basically be an ultra fat light mech, but I'm not really seeing that as something that's super effective.

The low mounted arm weaponry look like something that would cause a lot of trouble for it unless you were going with ATMs or LRMs so that you can just peek the cockpit above ground to get locks on targets.

Its definitely not an outright meta mech, most of it is just really average performance with a few builds that could be considered pretty good. Even single gauss with some lasers is just 2016 tier meta, and the mech can't do that well due to the low mounts. I can see a potential underdog role of max engine, MASC, and a short range high damage build so that it can work as a low weight striker build similar to a Linebacker on a budget that moves faster. Ironically enough, it might actually obsolete the Linebacker since due to engine scaling the Linebacker spends 6.5 tons more on engine weight to get the same speed as the 5 ton lighter Hellfire. Meaning that the Hellfire actually has 1.5 tons extra weight over the Linebacker and doesn't have 4 locked in engine heatsinks, so you can actually work with 5.5 tons over the Linebacker and don't have locked slots from the ferro and endo. Then ontop of this you have the MASC kicking the speed up a knotch.

Linebacker would remain as a dual ERPPC mech with high mounts that repositions quickly while the Hellfire takes over the other roles.

[Ishan451]

I don't see what niche this mech fullfills... the Masc is interesting but they should rather have expanded the Medium roster. I know everyone plays heavy mechs but still....

[Mistasandman]

Originally posted by Ishan451:

I don't see what niche this mech fullfills... the Masc is interesting but they should rather have expanded the Medium roster. I know everyone plays heavy mechs but still....

It's really hard to see with this one. Mainly it's what we don't know what they'll be giving it as far as quirks.

Because right now this mech is kind of meh, But I can see why they added it in. Clans Currently only had 1 60 tonner, they're more than likely just filling out the roster for clan mechs and choices

[Shadow of the SPQR]

Eeeh... another one.

Whoopee, honestly.