So the triple LB5Xs started out life on the Ilya Muromets, and that was genuinely good. Then I thought - I need a better chassis for this, one that doesn't have KILL ME NOW written in large letters across it's CT. Enter stage left my first Roughneck. She runs pretty cool as you only use the medium lasers when it's opportune - mostly you just lean on the baby shotguns like crazy - so therefore I went very deep on the Survival tree (in fact I have every node that gives either structure or armour). Effect? My CT has 92 on the front on a 65 tonner! Make no mistake, this thing is an absolute monster. I have named her the Backbreaker as I faced down a Linebacker earlier basically 1v1. The pellet spread is surprisingly tight on the LBs - I can hit one location out to maybe 300 and all the shot is still hitting my quarry at 700+. Remarkably adaptable weapon, the LB5X. Three of them in unison work like a 15pt shotgun with excellent cooldown at close-mid range yet you are still worrying your enemy consistently at mid-long range.
Find the XL a bit dangerous and the ammo a tad high, but my love for LB5s is just as you described. Get away from her, or do you want to take this outside!?
Yep when they crack my shell I'm a regular stick of dynamite, what with the 9 tons of ammo. I guess an LE version is probably workable, but I'm not keen on my choices of what I would have to sacrifice... Team baby shotgun gotta stick together
I originally had much less ammo and ran triple pulse meds but I kept running out of ammo so I switched things around. She's just so tanky!
I think there's too little tonnage to play with LE and 3 babyshotties on the roughneck. I'll do some brewing (this is also why I still run it on my Ilya with an LE300 instead of a rgh)
Cataphracts are such awful hitbox knuckledragging lumberers. Mine is triple LB10s now - the lack of any long range potential keeps me in cities and on corners where I belong. I look forward to your feedback, cheers.
They are, but at least they have 2 high energy hardpoints Best I could do with triple LB5 is reducing the ammo to 6,5 tons (should be enough with skills) and a LE250. which is too slow. But, going towards the real baby shotgun: Not sure if LB2s are my thing as much as 5s, because 5 has decent burst and does well in sustained fire, while LB2s are only for sustain. But it's worth trying out (except that I barely have time to play anymore) Combining the two, I came up with this compromise of a long range LBX12:
