@russ_bullock: New Assault Mech in March

ugh - the hero looks...worthless. and ugly.
Terribly.Terribly.Ugly.
http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/152068-hero-banshee-la-malinche/

And here I was saving cbills for it. Might go through and redo loadouts on my older mechs instead.

 

Wooof. That's a rough one. I was thinking of getting it, but that's really really not good. I might still, because I love to tinker with new things and assaults are my babies, but damn...

 

Yeah I'll be passing on that... FUGLY.

 

And more shit gets announced from NGNG rather than PGI/IGP. Did they buy the company? They need to get off each others balls. There are children present.

 

All I wanted was an Assault with two ballistic hardpoints, each in a different location. I'm even find if they're in arms with hand articulators so we don't wind up with dual AC/20 monsters. I would just love to have a true assault (EG: 90t+ tank w/o JJs, focused solely on tanking) that is more apt to ballistics. We can have an LRM40-50 assaults that rain incredible death, we can have energy boats that shred the enemy with pin-point (although DoT) but, no true ballistic focus assault. Hrm. :sleep:

Oh, well. We'll see what the hardpoints turn out to be in this behemoth. (although it does look like a Highlander and an Atlas had a fisting contest and we all lost!)

 

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=144&l=561fbb4932a2011a0b0307ecdc8bbb57fc4c5090

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=144&l=c3f05c80f9bfa1e0c5676c66626a5d9da54db373

 

Yeah, Sol. I had the same thought pulled up here in another tab at work. The JagerBreaker.
http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=144&l=0858557415330a3bc69e944c315636ed1fdcdde7

We'll see how high the ST hardpoints lie. Could be another Shadowhawk/Stalker style ridge peeker OR, it may be the Jager style hip points...

 

From the art, it looks like it's gonna be an Awesome style Boob/Love Handle hardpoint. Boob, because it's a Banshee, not a Manshee.

 

= Steiner Mech design competition?

 

Wouldn't a Manshee have boobs?

Sorry, I had to.