Posted 07 October 2014 - 06:55 PM

Seeing a lot of post saying only meta-builds were winning, so thought I'd drop a post about finishing 14th place in IS Assaults (was as high as 7) using only Awesomes.



Main rig:

Pretty Baby

XL 350

1 Large Pulse Laser

2 Medium Pulse Lasers

1 LRM 15 (right torso)

2 LRM 10 (left arm)



Fire till the tubes run dry then brawl with lasers. I use LRM's to keep me from jumping into brawl mode too early, and by the time you've emptied the tubes you'll have some low armor targets to go after.



Backup:

XL300

Awesome 8T

3 Large Lasers

2 LRM 15



3 Large Lasers are practically heat neutral for Awesomes these days, this config lets you fight at any range.



Change-up mech:

Awesome 9M

XL 375

3 PPC

1 Large Pulse Laser



Run and gun, lots of fun, usually died around 400 damage, but higher kill rate. Funniest kill was sneaking up on a Raven and putting an alpha in his back. The 9M can do 2 3PPC blasts before needed to cool off, and the big engine lets you get out quick.



The Alpine match was on minimum rotation, so missile tactics were more difficult, with caustic being the only map where LRM's had an advantage.



Anyway, just thought I'd say that not only meta wins, and the game can be fun. In fact, if you have any Lrms you love seeing DW's, because you know they can't dodge and will take a lot of damage.



Peace.

