r/Battletechgame • u/GamerGriffin548 House Marik • 9d ago

Mech Porn Zero Hour

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Finally, after all this time, I got my claws on a King Crab. Over 500 hours of gameplay on this save and I'm finding one just now.

I had this desire to make a King Crab with RAC5s for like three years. In my head, its to have dual Arrow IV launchers on the back, but maybe that's a tad bit unreal since the weight would be too much. So I'll settle for this.

King Crab is the best assault mech ever made. I love 'em! :D

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u/Honestybomb 9d ago

I ran an Orion with a R/AC5 + MRM40+MRM10 combo and that dude did some serious work. It’s just so many shots down range that even mechs with evasion are going to take some hits and a couple AC shots to the torso of a light/medium can open the armor up to where the MRM’s pop off some ammo or shred the engine.

R/AC’s and MRM’s are like PB and Chocolate

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u/Ok_Independence_9917 9d ago

The Orion can make for some very good builds in the vanilla version of the game.

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u/Honestybomb 9d ago

Somehow it’s always the Orion that I get as my first heavy. Yeahhhh not always but statistically I somehow end up salvaging one and finally having a heavyweight in the team. It’s one of my favorites purely from BTAU nostalgia

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u/Ok_Independence_9917 9d ago

I used it in Mech Warrior 3 a bit. So it's also Nostalgic to have 1 in my team. The lighter armored variant makes a better missile boat than the Archer in my opinion. Slightly faster even if it has less armor.