My money on Solaris favorite. Dual AC5 to keep em' too shaken to stir you, and some streaks to let 'em know who's boss!

Of course, the Clanners shit bricks over seeing their designs in 'filthy games'.

Hahahahaha, I love this 'Mech, too, man. :P erLLas and either a Gauss or xAC20. Stand 'em up, knock 'em down!

Eh, I tend to strip the engine down too much for anything more than the LBX 20. I like to carry what some people call 'excessive' ammunition.

You can never have too much money, to much good looks, or too much fuckin' ammo.

I keep two tons handy and have no heat sinks on board. A single laser of that caliber is not detrimental to the heat gauge.

Add: I leave the engine alone.

I'm a descendant of grease munkys I have to touch the engine. Always.

Pumas were great, definately my choice of mech for the light class. However, I do much prefer the Hunchback II - C over this as far as lighter mechs go. :)

Ohhhh, HBK-IIC.... *shiver* x_x

Meh, Puma's a mean little light mech, but still prefere armor over speed...though if i HAD to pick a light mech to go out in.


Owens with a MASC system >_< XD, and a Slave CO-Computer
that and Ramp the engine as HIGH as possible for that little thing XDDD, when i go for speed, i WANT speed hehe

Twice it's size?

I've sodomized assaults using one properly configured, before. Of course, that implies a very specific and very short-lived variant designed pretty exclusively for sapping and dueling.

Usually I mean in respects to average piloting and gunnery skills as opposed to elite players. Pumas are always fuckin' nasty no matter what.

I think you're assuming a lot to say I'm better than average. XD

It just takes a good map with an obscene amount of topography, a few overladen fatties carrying too much armor and too many guns...

And then you get to munch on soft, chewy rear armor. ^v^;

MekTek finally released the legal free version of MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries. Have you got it yet?

I owned the CD version damn-near release time. It won't matter a lick though as long as I can't play online.

THe version in circulation right now is patched to use a different set of servers that no longer rely on Zonematch. It's pretty awesome. Patched version now includes a tremendous number of canon battlemechs and tons of new equipment, much of which has been torn right from original canon BattleTech. The next patch coming out is supposed to include even more.

CHeck out https://www.mektek.net when you've got a chance!

Oh, I'm very well aware, I use a Marauder very frequently. I can't play online because of my hotel's network settings; I can SEE the games, just not join them. ;)

Ah, so the ports aren't forwarded...

I think I love you.

MekTek has essentially hept MechWarrior 4 alive and well when Microsoft turned their back on the greatest sci-fi franchise EVAR.

I owe you.

I never would have found that if not for you.

Don't mention it, buddy. Drop me a line, another friend and I have been on-and-off trying to piece together a sort of ad-hoc mercenary unit. At the very least we can talk 'mechs. ^v^

Puma always looked a little weird to me. Looks like a good ride though.

It stands a good chance of tearing any 'mech of similar size - and more than a few larger chassis - to pieces; just watch your heat and keep moving.

The squat profile makes it a harder target for assault chassis to hit at close ranges. If you can keep speed up and either closely monitor heat or deal with severe ammunition limits on a pair of large ballistic weapons, it makes a very, very good attrition chassis for paring down your archetypical Atluses and Daishis in urban maps or heavily cratered lunar/martian maps. Particularly in team-only radar.

Really? This baby can hold its own against an Atlas? Pretty neat!

It's really the only way an underweight chassis *can* take on an Atlas. The smaller, faster and more nimble machines can maneuver, under the right pilot, to take advantage of the soft, chewy rear armor on an assault chassis.

Of course, an Atlas' slow turn rate and relatively inhibiting torso rotation puts it at a particular disadvantage to the Anklebiter.

It's tough to do, but it's downright suicidal to go toe-to-toe with a heavy or some of the lighter assaults with 360-degree torso twist using one of these. And when you do find potential prey, you've gotta be crazy on the throttle to stay right in the target's dead spot no matter how they maneuver. It's tricky to get down, but once you can, you're the holy terror of the battlefield.

Hmm, not very much joy in it though as there is always someone manning a Maraduer mk.II with a fracking railgun.

You've gotta get into the right servers. Pop snipers are always the bane of the game, and they don't ever seem to realize how lame they are, but all the same... In the right map, you have to remember, that the anklebiters are their worst fear.

When I was still with RGMU, on the rare occasion we'd end up stuck playing against a bunch of guys who just wanted to pop-snipe, we'd run our entire team composite of either light-gauss chain boats or ALRM boats, with the exception of two players. One of these players two was always rocking a heavy-class brawler designed to castrate any enemy lights that slipped in behind the firing line, and the other was usually a Firemoth/Dasher or a FLea packing a NARC beacon and some times a flare launcher.
Though the flare launcher got fazed out once 3.01 came out and the cockpit camera could no longer be occluded by a burning object stuck to the canopy of a battlemech's in0game model.

Hmm, interesting. Sometimes someone gets a little bit brave and charges me wit ha firefly, but I feel that they take predictable paths. I don't know why, but some people decide to use power armor against an assault mech. Now, I don't know if they're actually confident in their abilities, but I don't think they should be in the game. I take joy in running them over!

Thanks for the tips though. I'll be sure to use them next time I'm in the battlefield!

Yeah, I definitely replied to the wrong comment.
Power armor can be fun, but you've gotta know how and when to use it.

Well, I hope in the reboot, they will keep the multiplayer as fun. I'm looking forward to it if it comes through.

As am I! Though shame, 3015, no Clans, no battle armor. :P

Damn straight! Good ol' fashioned Inner Sphere rumble!

Downside: We will not see some of our favorite 'Mechs such as the Timber Wolf/Mad Cat!

Power armor can be fun, but you've gotta have two or three really good players highly coordinated against a single target in a very dense area, and even then you're really only in the running if you've got team-only radar or no radar.

Don't think this argument was meant for me, personally. Do make it to Chris when you can, but thanks for bringing it to my attention, anyway. :)

Yeah, you probably saw my comment to him already.