You can get infernos and all of that stuff. You need to suck up to the pirates and get black market access.
I love ELRMs but I can't bring myself to use them on any design because Jesus fuck these things are heavy. For the mass of a single ELRM-5 I can pack six normal LRM-5s and just hit things at long range for the same or higher damage just through sheer weight of numbers. The larger sizes are a bit more reasonable but still: 18 tons for a 20-missile salvo is not a good trade even if you're hitting from the next table over. At that mass I'd just get an Arrow IV.
I know our group made them lighter but I don't remember the exact weights ended up using. But I know it wasn't six tons for a ELRM-5 or 18 for a 20 pack. Considering it has a minimum range of 10 and short range is 0-12, so you're pretty much always going to be shooting at med. or long range, we may even have gone with something like 1/2 the book weight for the launcher.
The problem with just using an AIV is that past 17 hexes you'll have a flight time of a turn.
Yep, and I might take my chances for a guaranteed 20 damage (10 on a near-miss), instead of the average 12 that a ELRM-20 would give me. Or just use Homing Missiles since I'm gonna have something with TAG on the field already.
Arrow IV are a godsend against Battle Armor. 20 Damage on each unit? Yes please.
Off the top of my head, the O-Bakemono, at least one Pillager variant, a Longbow variant, and a Thunder Hawk variant. What really tickles me is that the Clans of all people have more artillery 'Mech designs than everybody else.
You can fit three individual Air-Launched Arrow IVs into a Chippewa's bomb hardpoints, but I don't know of any flyers carrying AIV launchers themselves. Not that it would be hard to retrofit it to some of the Big Gun VTOLs out there, anyway. Replace the Gauss Rifle on a Yellow Jacket with an Arrow IV rack and watch the fireworks.
That's an official variant already. The Yellow Jacket also comes in an equally insane RAC/5 variant, because a helicopter needed to have all that BRRRRRT at its disposal.
Hah, nice. I had completely forgotten about that variant, then. Now that I checked Sarna again, that's not just a RAC/5 variant you're talking about, it's a RAC/5 variant with two tons of ammo, extra armor, and a fucking Targeting Computer. Sure, the range isn't stellar but that is a lot of (accurate) fire going downrange, out of a reasonably mobile platform. If I order four of them, do I get a custom Michaelson Heavy Industries minifridge as a bonus, too?
If you think that's bad there's a Hawk Moth variant with a Thunderbolt 15 and a Mast Mount so it can make like an Apache Longbow and fuck you up from behind cover.
If you mean Harebrained Schemes Battletech? Yes...Yes it is.
Kamakiri aside, god I hate dealing with Warriors in MW5, and that just sounds even worse. That and the fucking Igor and its quarter of AC/2's... That last one is like PGI decided to go for the most dickish creation they possibly could, especially since it has to break half the rules of VTOL construction to fit that armament...
Just shoot the engines on it, unmodded they'll go down in a single PPC hit if you do.
At that price, yes. However, please refer to my prior posts on the game: it's a resource hog and I strongly recommend having at least 16 gigs of memory.
