BNC-3M Devastator (2x LLas, 6x MLas, STD375)

48 point alpha, no ghost heat. Ability to continuously fire the LLas while cooling off after alpha.

 

By dropping 1ML and a negligible amount of armor you can fit in 2 more heat sinks:


Or if you want to keep that 6th ML, you can still drop the armor a bit for another DHS which would be wise.

 

the essence of this build is to max the number of lasers without having ghost heat.

Dropping a ton of armor for an extra DHS may or may not be better. i won't know till CBill release and I test it out. The Banshee has massive arms meant to shield the side and center torso. 21 DHS is enough to continuously fire the dual LLas without overheating

 

I've found that the 22 DHS version works fairly well, although not perfectly. I am, admittedly, much more used to running Heavy brawlers than assaults, and I always tend to have survivability troubles with how slow and unwieldy these larger mechs are. But I've found this build to be fairly good at both surviving a long time and inflicting good amounts of damage on enemies. It may be because the weapon loadout reminds me of my Jester build. Two more medium lasers in the Banshee, and of course this thing is a much slower, heavier, non-jumping, AMS-less, and somewhat more durable of a target, but the Jester got me used to the principle of how to work with a laser-boat, and I can still apply some of that knowledge here.

Other times, of course, things go bad, and one remembers the downside of assaults is that they can't get back to cover quickly. Walk around a corner into a shooting-gallery, step out of cover when a half-dozen people on the other team brought missile-boats, etc, and it goes down before you can haul its massive butt back behind something. But those are unavoisable problems with assault mechs, as far as I can tell, particularly with the current LRM situation, and the fact that I can get kills and do good damage in this thing despite not being very good with assaults in general flags this as a good build in my eyes.

 

std 375, 22dhs, ERLarge, w/ AMS:

 

I sided with STD 370, 21 DHS, AMS, full armored arms, 75 armored legs, and LLas over ERLLas for heat reasons. Might have gone for non-AMS and 375 before patch.

Long live BNC-4P!

 

I chose not to pay for the DHS and Endo upgrades on this chassis. Surprisingly, it's working out very well. I've never played a 'Mech that cools so fast. Even on Terra Therma, the heat meter quickly succumbs to the monstrous 43 heatsinks(26.42 DHS equivalent).


I already put down a match with 4 kills and 863 damage in this 'Mech pre-basic'ed. In a 1v1, I basically cannot be matched. I even smashed a fresh AC40 Jager's face in with this bad boy. His first shot hit my arm, bringing it to red armor. Two alphas into his shoulder and he was gone. He couldn't even get a second shot off on me.


Also try ER Large Lasers. It makes hardly any difference in heat with this build.

 

hell if you go XL than at least take the XL400 from the BH and then replace two MLas by a third LLas for God's sake.

 

I got ninja'd damn

Finally a build that is more efficient to take SHS instead of DHS.

At the cost of some armor and a couple SHS, you can opt for a faster version:

 

ridiculous... I shouldn't have sold my 3M.... guess I'll have to revisit it again and give it another chance

 

For another 3 kph less you can get away with just 500k for ferro-fibrous and you'll get a 6th Mlas as well.



And a tiny bit of armor.

 

Endo is only 400k more and gets you several more tons... Even on a budget build I won't consider Ferro over Endo.

 

True, but here you couldn't fill up all the free tonnage that endo would provide. But I'll admit that I only would recommend this if you have the std320 lying around though.