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No, better to have an Urbanmech.

10 savannah masters will do just as well.

It is the reminder to pirates and raiders that their fcking about does in fact have a "find out" response.

As a Capellan, this is true. I'd love to have this mech as a sort of "padding" mech to my lances.

Eventually there are going to be similarities between designs, there are thousands of variants, its bound to happen lol

Look at the Clint “Denton” sometime. It’s just as you described

Captain Reven Mercer would have been livid at seeing Davion steal his favorite tactic.

oh lol i forgot about the sentry!

It could be so in a non-canon timeline campaign, just add a half ton of standard armor and its all-good for the Succession War era.

The first time I saw the Watchman I said to myself, "Why aren't there more 40-tonners like this?"

​@@Linkous12 it's because most of them either mount an oversized engine, spend their available weight poorly such as on an AC/5, AC/2, or LRM-5, or both

⁠@@scytheseven9173my preferred custom build on the concept, called the Brigador, (assuming 5/8/5 is your movement profile, and you mount the near max 7 tons of armor) has around 11 tons of weight for equipment of your preferred kind. Now consider the 200 series standard engines are found in hunchbacks and centurions.

While not explicitly mentioned, I feel like the designers of the Watchman took a few lessons they learned from ubiquitous enemy designs such as the Vindicator and Panther, as well as a few from the Wolfhound.

The Watchman: "There are better mechs and there are cheaper mechs, but you won't find a better cheap mech."

Valkyries poorly match with most mechs :P Kidding, I just don't like um lol

Thank you Gigas!

So it does. I misread the sheet XD

Thank you Athen!

"John can give you cancer, and turn into a car!" lol

"If I could only get that kiss!" lmao

It's always nice when you have a relatively inexpensive pointman, which might make headshots less common and letting it ironically be on the field longer

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks Haligaz!

I think I was pretty nice to the Enforcer in video lol

More like the Corolla

Better to have 5 men on the battlefield than be absent with 5000. :)

I was thinking double heat sinks, and add 2 medium lasers. Large laser and 4 medium lasers put you in Grasshopper territory, with 2 mgs, you do 32 points of damage for a heat neutral alpha strike!

@@Nerve_CheckI could actually see a great case for producing both. Easy upgrade to brawler or sniper.

It has a cousin that's 10dhs, 2spl, 4mg, and a flamer. a decent 10 damage punch vs mechs and tanks, but a terror to infantry. (Honestly 4MGs and a flamer is probably enough to justify replacing the SPLs with MLs but eh)

Merlin was debuted in TRO form, in 3058. So I'll be covering that when we get to 3058. :)

Good enough is a superb way to win wars :D

​@@BigRed40TECHespecially for the mechs that need to hold out until reinforcements arrive with the fancy toys

they did, the chameleon

1000%

put them together and you have a nasty city fight.

@@KMCA779 You'd be better off with either turrets or vehicles if you're looking for budget defenders or you could just pony up for a panther which is just objectively better at everything the urbanmech does.

Mechs that are too optimized I do think suck a bit of the joy out of the game. The Hellstar's a pretty good example of this, imo.

@@BigRed40TECH only if the designer is not creative enough though. Granted cERPPC might be the best weapon in the game, but its not much better, its quite easy to go around it. We have stealth armor, JJs, reflective armor, Blue Shield, LPL, atms, so many builds one can do, by optimizing weapon ranges and movement/tonnage. I just dont like seeing intentionally gimped designs. Now, changing designs because a faction doesnt have access to certain tech, or rather have it in rather low numbers, that is absolutely great and should completely be driving force for mech designs. But seeing a mech then immediately knowing you can make a better mech with same tech used, is immersion breaking to me. It is usually this incoherent designs that grind my gears. Even in ilclan era there are so many builds that is custom only because of this choise. For example i would've loved if Regent had a variant with 2xArrowIV+5xMPL+TAG for example. Something that does artillery well, can defend itself adequately to not need bodyguards, and is available to everyone. Not even the most optimized version you can build, but we didnt even get something like this. At best we have Longbow 8V which uses expensive XL engine and for some reason uses ERLL. If i have Arrows, im not gonna be on LoS. Anyways enough rant from me.

​@@BigRed40TECH There has to be mechs like that though. Feels silly when you can make mechs like that with ease in SSW yet somehow make ourselves believe it would never occur to those who are using it in universe. Tbh, only thing that feels like a cheat mech is IJJ+PartialWing mechs with pulse tech. Hellstar is good, but it is a clan assault and they are supposed to be the biggest threat on map. We have specialized armors or Blue shield to deal with things like that, and personally mechs like Hellstar would only feel buzzkillers, if they are the only optimized mechs on the board, or its IS vs clan. I personally think all factions, at least in one era, should have mechs optimized for specific roles within the resources the faction has, and let us play with those no hold barred. There are so many builds you can make that doesnt exist, even though by all means, it makes sense for it to exist. (Not talking about pulse+tc boats, i personally despise those). Even those that do exist, quite often are only limited to specific factions, which isnt good for gameplay imo. For example, i do not understand why Regent doesnt have Arrow IV variant, it has standard internal/armor since it is designed to give everyone easy and cheap access to clan tech, would make a ton of sense to have one variant which would be in use by literally everyone. A cheap assault with 2xcArrowIV+5MPL with 8tons of ammo+CaseII. I'd argue it'd sell more than every other variant it has combined. Because its competition, in lore, is weak. We have Longbow 8V for IS and Naga for clan and thats it. Both XL engine so, they're quite expensive, and Naga is underarmored and moves too fast for weaponry. Artillery mechs dont necesserily need speed or specialized armor, and ideally you dont want them to be expensive, and they should be able to defend themselves against their most common threat which would be light mechs, hence the MPLs. And if you dont need artillery for the mission, change it to another variant because it is an omnimech. If we had purpose build mechs, like that, for every faction that is cohesive in terms of doctrine and tech? I cant think of anything more immersive and exciting than that.

Ares is the best lol

I absolutely did lol

Davions are thieves! Thieves I tell you! :P

Just in an era where that weapon is up against so many others, it's not without value, but when its the only real offensive tool the mech has against real armoured targets, it leaves a bit to be desired.

It's a 40-tonner, it can't have as much armour as a 55-ton mech, the game restricts that.

@@BigRed40TECH Well, bruh

Might've been cost related lol

PXH is a frontline machine, and isn't built by the Draconis Marches. :)