Best mech?

[Skree]

I am trying to make a list for myself for best mechs, one for each weight class.

Would you help me, or correct me with your preferences?

Light: Raven (hard choice with panther)
Medium: Hunchback (♥♥♥♥ is it ugly though)
Heavy: Marauder? I love the looks, so maybe i am biased. Other alternatives? archer too i like.
Assault: Marauder 2?

Do you agree? Disagree? What are your "best mech"?

[pRaX]

Oh boy. Pandoras box has been opened. I hope you are aware of what you've done.
Despair mortals! Doom will descend upon us!

[Bovril Brigadier]

Best is rather subjective and depends heavily on your playstyle. What works for you might not work for another. You'd probably get a better list out of making a "worst" of the weight class.

[Walk the Void]

locust-pb obviously nothing bettter then going 190ish and screaming pew pew to the wind

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by pRaX:

Oh boy. Pandoras box has been opened. I hope you are aware of what you've done.
Despair mortals! Doom will descend upon us!

It is okay. Mocking the choices of Capellans and testtubers has always been traditional.

[Evil Nox]

Fireatarter, crab, black knight, atlas. And I'll fight anyone to the death who says otherwise for the next 3 minutes or until i get bored.

[Momoo]

It depends on your playstyle. It seems you're going for overall highest armor + dmg per weight class.

I think I agree with Raven and Hunchback, not the marauders.

I personally like making a catapult-c1 into a close range fighter with SRMs and pulse lasers. Though, black knight is good if you put large lasers and lots of cooling to cockpit/ct snipe.

For assaults, you can either go with insane DPS (annihilator with 4 AC10's, but 0 speed.) or you can do some nice close range builds like the atlas-D or Stalker-3F. Prioritize SRMs, medium sized lasers. and cooling.

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by Evil Nox:

Fireatarter, crab, black knight, atlas. And I'll fight anyone to the death who says otherwise for the next 3 minutes or until i get bored.

Not sure why anyone would. All decent choices.

[Deadoon]

Lights? Javelin hero, good speed, high firepower, good sustain with energy weapons.
Mediums? Hunchback GI. Gauss+srm6 and a bit of energy weapons as well, downright terrifying.
Heavies? Orion-M or warhammer BW, Orion for mixed range combat, with it's SRM/LRM barrage ability, and with a lbx-ac it can handle mid ranges, with Medium lasers when enemies get a bit close. Warhammer is a great ppc carrier with a strong MG capacity, or can be reconfigured as a quac ac/2 build, either way srm 6 for close in shotguns.
Assault? This is murky. I would go with the banshee SR, which is a decent sniper, but has to use a lbx instead of gauss, but is a lot faster and has JJ.

There are a lot of uniquely good assaults, like the victor bsk has ecm and can dual lbxac/10 easily with higher than normal assault speed, but it is only 80 tons.
Atlas-k is a very impressive non-hero, and is a great long range unit with ams to boot.
Then you have my personal favorite for the absurdity, the KGC-CAR and it's ability to have quad uac/5 which when tier 5 deal 10.5 damage per salvo base.

[Blue]

Light: - Urban Mech
Medium: - Urban Mech
Heavy : - Urban Mech
Assault: - Urban Mech

Praise be the Trash can and It's mighty arm of justice.

[hghwolf]

Nope. Not touching this one. I can only deal with so many wrong opinions at once.

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by hghwolf:

Nope. Not touching this one. I can only deal with so many wrong opinions at once.

The Flea is love
The Flea is life

[EvolutionKills]

Heavy: MAD-BH2 - Bounty Hunter's Marauder. Equipped with a smaller XL engine with internal Double Heatsinks and Jump Jets, it moves as fast as an Assault mech (48.6kph). However it's the only Marauder in game that has a Large Ballisitc hardpoint to equip a Gauss Cannon with. Combine that with a pair of ER-PPC's, it can kill most mechs before they get close enough to start to engage, and it runs relatively cool so long as you don't face-roll the controls while standing in lava.

[wolf 7]

I think every Mechwarrior has there own favorite machines but here are a few I have had a lot of luck with.
Lights: Firestarter, Panther
Mediums: Shadowhawk Wolverine Vindicator (expecially if your a panther fan)
Heavies: Maurader, Warhammer, Blackknight (honorable mentions go out to the archer catapult and rifleman if you are into fire support.) the Jagermech might also be ok but its a bit harder to hide for me than the rifleman just so flat and fat i always leave an arm hanging out of cover and loose it
Assaults: Atlas, King Crab, Annialator (if you need lighter assaults in the 80 ton range try Battlemaster, Victor, Awesome, and Stalker)

[pRaX]

It's a videogame. There is always a Meta. We might like to pretend there isn't... but there usually is.

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by wolf 7:

Mediums: Shadowhawk Wolverine Vindicator

Eugh, never liked the Wolverine. Just never did anything for me.

Originally posted by pRaX:

It's a videogame. There is always a Meta. We might like to pretend there isn't... but there usually is.

Meta meta man, oh I want to be, a meta man....
we should get a song going