TBR-S "Oh No I Been Flanked" (4xERLL, 1xSRM6, 1xSRM4)

Why not put all the 3 ERLL in the LT?


Changed the SRM6 into an SRM4 because of same cooldown and spread, makes it easier to use reliably close range (and adds a little bit of armor)

 

short answer, no.

And ERLL are best used from range, high hardpoints. You have bursty SRM4s for close range (though it's still best to take second line and stay ranged)

 

What about sniping with the left side and short range defense from the right side?



You can acquire at least 1 missile ammo node easily for your SRMs, so 1.5t should be enough for the backup weapons. Arm mounted ERML will reach out to nearly 1k as well (remember, they are back to double their effective range for the max range). They are also fully actuated so you got some tools for aiming up and down (shooting UAVs is a thing!) or for fighting fast mechs close up.

The heat efficiency from using triple ERLL should be pretty ok. Try to shoot them in groups of 2, so here we are looking at a 2-1-2-1-2-1... rhythm here. This should be sufficient for some nasty long range damage farming and won't overheat you anytime soon. When filling your skill tree, take advantage of your massive amount of DHS (= aim for some points into Cool Run).

Finally, using 1 JJ should be fine here as you're not a classic poptart. 1 JJ is sufficient for a lot of small obstacles, climbing small hills and so on.

Here's a proposal for skilling such a mech:

https://kitlaan.gitlab.io/mwoskill/?p=jsonbin1.597c7db3d3dc77608b0262e2&s=Weapons

Please share you're experience here!

 

Good suggestions Aylek!

I personally prefer to have the ERLLs on chainfire, and doubleclick or single click based on my heat. As long as you never click three times in a row, the ERLLs will be easy to manage that way I've only been using them with laser vomit so far (3ERLL, 4ERSL), but it's interesting to combine with missiles, as it also makes your right torso better at blocking fire. I tend to lose the LT even when twisting. My edit from your build:



Regarding the question about the TC1: definitely worth it for laserbuilds due to the instant 4% beam range, and a little increased crit.

 

You'll want Firepower for the heatgen/laser duation, 9 points in operations for the easiest heat containment/coolrun, and the rest mostly mobility and sensors. Survivability tree is still decent, but without quirks to multiply mobility and survivability are pretty close.

You'll end up in mid range at some point in PUGs anyway. cSRM4s aren't heavy, just a little insurance in close range,like AMS is insurance for LRMs. the ERMLs are great in addition to cHLL or cERLL, still useful up to like 600m.

You can always invest the SRM4 tonnage into more heatsinks, if you don't like spending 3.5 tons on an insurance policy, but I think the burst is a good reason to include them.

 

https://kitlaan.gitlab.io/mwoskill/

 

MetaMechs wrote a guide I mostly agree with!