With the recent introduction of scouting missions and the prevalence of the "splat crow" I found it necessary to build something to counter that nonsense, thus I give you the "Bang-taro". It takes a lot of practice to get comfortable running this thing with the XL, but the speed and agility helps keep you alive more than you might expect
I certainly noticed. I have since dropped the ML to a flamer as well as dropping an SRM6 to an SRM4 and getting an extra ton of ammo.
Faster, cooler, more ammo, higher accuracy, little less DPS. Armor @Link is quick and dirty, can be optimiced
DPS is not a problem since you don't have to fire the ML being backup. More important problem is that only 3 tons of ammo for a 5x SRM6 system is a bit sad as you will run out quite early.