Meme TNS-5S "Ghillie's big brother" (1xGR, 1xLGR, ECM, LE315)

Thread in 'TNS-5S' started by J S, Nov 16, 2017.

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    This build is immensely fun to play. And can do surprisingly well. No need to turn off stealth.
     
  2. Excalibaard

    Excalibaard 101 010 Staff Member

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    Haha, this is a really clever combo!

    Personally removed some arm armor and mounted a more common light engine than the 315 rating.



    If able to replace/remove endo steel rather than upgrade the engine with that tonnage, you might also be able to equip some jumpjets in that space.
     
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    The point of the armor on the hands is that if they get destroyed, you will be smoking like a chimney. Thus be a lot more visible.
    I learned this the hard way with my stealth cicada
     
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    Fair enough, but as long as they're not stripped, it should be fine right? With ~20 armor on each arm they'll not start smoking from just a bit of laser damage, and might even survive some gauss shots (granted, 17 may be a bit low)



    Each arm is still a non-smoking area after taking a heavy gauss
     
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    Yep, this is a lot better. And the armor should be sufficient. With this in mind, and the tonnage reduction coming out of it, you can also put in a smaller STD engine and squeeze in 3 JJs.



    I personally value speed more than JJs when using stealth, but for some use cases the JJs can be quite helpful.
    Nice 'Mech the 5S. I still like my warhammers more, but this one comes in 2nd :)
     
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  6. In before The B33f takes a 12 man of these into Invasion and camps the gates and back shoots waves of pugs.

    Three of these would be evil on the hot maps.
     
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