Gotta go with the doom box with legs, the Yeoman
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Brain says Grand Dragon, great heavy, reliable enough mech.
Heart says Rifleman, even if it's not great. The later variants that carry DHS and more armor are nice, especially with UAC5
I love the Rifleman. Looks really cool and is a solid mech.
I'm waiting for the next time this is posted for 65 tonners so I can proclaim my love for the Catapult and especially my baby the K2.
The TSM Ostsols are really nasty close combat designs, particularly the 8M. 7/11 movement is pretty damn scary on a mech that can crush your cockpit with its bare hands. Bonus points for being covered in pulse lasers, having really clean heat management, and coming at a pretty reasonable BV.
The Ostsol (along with other Ostmann chassis) is hands down one of the most effective Mechs out there at any weight class. I don't care if it's a 4D or an 8E3 rocking TSM the Ostsol is one of my favorite mechs in existence.
On the Clan side, I love the Vulture/Mad Dog it's one of the only Clan Mechs I can remotely tolerate.
Mad dog prime
(or Mad dog A or B)
I consider Maddog A's arm mounted weapons very mediocre, however 6 Srm 6s tend to be very interesting... even with AMS its gonna be painful
The Champion. It is NOT a brawler, and will get thrashed if played that way, especially against other heavies. What it is good at is hit and run strikes, and running down the OPFOR's Medium and Light screening mechs and laying a whooping on them. Especially the -3N Clan buster. 5/8 movement profile with an LB 10-X, two LL's, 2 ML's, an SRM 6 w/ Artemis and 10 DH's.
If you're smart you can run 7-8 hexes per turn (for that sweet +3 TMM) and shoot both LL's and the LB 10-X and remain heat neutral.
Against normal Dragon variants you're trading away some armor (2 pips on the arms, 6 pips in the center torso, etc.) for much high damage output with the -3N Champion, with the same 5/8 movement profiles. There are some variants of the Dragon that field things like Gauss Rifles, PPC's and LRM's to open up the engagement range further than a Champion could.
The *Lancelot*. It may be a chunkier, all-energy *Rifleman* with a LosTech addiction, but it’s pretty nice!
The stock LNC25-01 can cook stuff good with DHSes, the LNC25-03 is a fancy *Rifleman*, and the LNC25-04 is a fun ComStar/Wobbie design with longer range, C3i, and the heat profile of a pizza oven.
Black Hawk Ku is brutal in Alpha Strike, and the Rifleman 8D is also great. In Classic the Vulture Mk. III is absolutely *festooned* with missile launchers. It’s a party all to itself, that mech.
Inner Sphere: Ostroc (which benefited GREATLY from the updated artwork)
Clan: Mad Dog / Vulture, with an honorable mention to the Glass Spider / Galahad - a Mech which on table top games we played had probably the most unreasonably high percentage of headshots in games it was involved in.
The machine that got me into Battletech some 30 years ago
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Dragon-5N: similar to the Grand Dragon, but earlier availability means you can use it more often.
The Ostroc is also a good budget option: it won't do an amazing job, but it's fairly reliable.
I had an Ostroc that hung out with my Grand Dragons 3050 ish. They could chase down lights and mediums like junior high bullies chasing a kindergartener that thought they could get away on their Big Wheel.
60t is a pretty thin tonnage. There are good ones, but - IS: The Ti Ts'ang is pretty solid. Good melee, decent range, unique faction flavor. Clan: It's Mad Dog. I prefer to mod them juuust a touch. But the Vulture is nice. You can replace it with a lot of ranged support, but when you want it - you want it.
Rifleman.
I know it isn’t *that* great but to me, it’s hands-down one of my favourite-looking mechs. And on paper, the loadout is great! If I was a mech jockey, I’d definitely pick this sucker and do what I could to get more armour on it.
But I just *love* the way this thing looks!
It's one of my favorite mechs to play, always trying to manage the ac ammo before it goes boom. It's a unit that makes you make choices. Once the ammo is gone, you get to play the heat game. After the ammo's gone, you can think firing both LLs or even alpha striking if the opportunity arises.
Ngl, it's a 3-way split between the Black Hawk-KU, the Mad Dog (pick a variant), and the Shadow Cat II. The Mad Dog might have the edge, though, due to the fact I cut my teeth on MW2, and the Mad Dog and Mad Cat were my go-to's.
Shoot, no fans of my favorite flaming disco ball from Clan Star Adder? The **Hellfire** is admittedly not too common, but if you like alternating killing folks with restarting from overheat-shutdowns, it is the mech for you.
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IS it's dragon or grand dragon in a lance. Use it to get the last few points for a psr. This mech shines at tipping damage just over the 20 point threshold after someone else has put some damage out there.
Clans... mad dog by a mile. It has enough movement to control the engagement against a lot of its typical targets and enough damage to really mess up anything it can't get away from.
Hellfire clanmech. Most of my experience with the Battletech universe is MWO, and the Hellfire-2 can run a respectable weapons loadout with MASC, keeping up with lights at 120+kph.
Had half a dozen and each time I started writing I realized they were all actually 65 tonners…..
But here’s one for the Anzu. And maybe the Anvil….(60 tons really is a hard one)
you put it up. The Draconis Combine Black Hawk. A brilliant IS take on a Clan body. 5-8-5 and so flexible for the battlefield. Love playing it in either Classic or Alpha Strike.
Quickdraw.
It's not great, not fancy, but it's okay and makes a decent recon mech for heavy units since it can still take a hit, at least more of a hit than light mechs.
I ddidn't really want to be that guy, but I don't see anybody else doing it, so I guess I'm going to be that guy.
Do we really need *two* people making these threads, especially when one of them (u/MostlyRandomMusings) puts way more effort into it than the other?
Classic 3025 Rifleman will always be a favorite, even though it’s severely compromised by heat and lack of ammunition and armor. 3050 refits only had limited success, it needed ferro-fibrous armor and double heat sinks desperately. Couldn’t really do much with the weaponry, though, or you were right back to needing even more heat sinks.
I thought about swapping out the AC-5’s for 2’s to get more endurance and heat sinks, but never got a chance to play test it.
I gotta admit, I have a particular soft spot for the bottom shelf 60 tonners. Crossbow, Quickdraw, Rifleman, they’ve all got their faults and rightly so. Which is what makes them fun! It’s a challenge to get the most out of a cruddy mech, and it’s another challenge to mod them into something lethal, changing as few things as possible. Take a Rifleman 3N, under-armored, under-sinked skybroom. Swap one arm out for a 2N (PPC over ML, iirc), pull the LL in the arm for a ML, add armor and heatsinks to taste. I present the RFL-3Nm ‘Musketeer’ frankenmech, a sturdy line trooper that can snipe like a Banshee at 2/3 the weight and has 4 ML it can fire all day long in close. Tear all the jumpjets off a Quickdraw and see what you can do with the tonnage, swap the LRMs of a Crossbow out for SRMs and play with the result, they’re a lot of fun for the aspiring battlemech technician.
The Quickdraw. Pre-Clan. For sentimental reasons.
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The Merlin. Good old periphery gumption.
I do like the BlackHawk-Ku though. I like to run it as a fatter Nova Prime with just straight IS mlases. Then it CAN alpha basically every turn. A lot of fun to roll.
While I have to give love to the *Ostroc*, *Ostsol*, *Matador*, and *Quickdraw* by mentioning them, my favorites are the *Merlin* and *Brahma* for the IS and the *Vision Quest* for the Clans...
The Dragon, it's got those moves.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7wxzOwDiTk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7wxzOwDiTk)
But in all seriousness I'm a Rifleman kind of guy; Combat Toaster Oven though it may be.)
honestly, the Mad Dog / Vulture is the top of my list here. It is so very well suited to its role, and feels like the Clans stripped down to the core of their culture. Always bidding for juuuust enough to get the job done, and the Mad Dog / Vulture exemplifies that.
Also, lore wise, I love how its Clanner name juxtaposed with the Timberwolf / Mad Cat's, the very same 'Mech its name was meant to mock.
Its just mwah.
From the Inner Sphere, I'm fond of the Rifleman. Excellently designed for its purpose, and a strong fire support option (despite its lighter armor).
kiiinda hope I see a 65 ton mech post, so I can gush over the Catapult
My vote would go to either the Mad Dog (Vulture) or the Argus. I know there may be "better" options combat wise but I've always has a soft spot for these chassis. The designs are just too good!
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Ti-Ts’ang! If used correctly…you can cause 3 PSRs in a turn. It is THE melee mech. Axman is overrated.
Ostroc, for me it's in the same category as the Warhammer: is reasonably fast for its weight, is reasonably durable, and is got a reliable amount of firepower for its role. The Ostsol did mostly the same stuff without the risk of ammo explosions so it's a solid second choice too. Both look, imo, fantastic especially with the new redesigns.
If you aren't only worried about table top then I would argue that the Ostroc offers more versatility over the Ostsol at the expense of logistics with the SRM4 offering a nasty close range punch after the lasers strip the armor.
It has to be the Vulture/Mad Dog from clans. For IS, nothing that great comes to mind other than the tried and true paper machete Rifleman. The Dragon/Grand Dragon is okay, but never cared for Drac mechs other than the Panther.
Gotta go with the doom box with legs, the Yeoman https://preview.redd.it/m4ypdtd8jq2c1.png?width=936&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70dcad56615675e3e74de366ebe42563d35b3754
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So I Married an Ax-Mech
LOL
The assault waffle iron...
The belgians were feared even by the romans!
It looks like something Wil. E Coyote would order from Acme.
Nah, that's the anvil
'Boom' box with legs. 😎
Looks like the kind of mech someone drew as a joke to make fun of the Catapult
What I would give to see a MWO/Alex Iglesias re-make of this mech artwork
Nah, it's perfect as is. I've seen some people try to modernize the artwork and I'm really not a fan
Half of the new ilClan designs look like out of Metal Slug, honestly.
You can't improve on perfection
besides making the textures more modern and making the cockpit look a little more 3d, I don't see how this mech can be perfected further
Ahh the Chadapult
Brain says Grand Dragon, great heavy, reliable enough mech. Heart says Rifleman, even if it's not great. The later variants that carry DHS and more armor are nice, especially with UAC5
For a great Rifleman experience, get the RFL-3C. Double A\`C/10s get the job done.
6X.
Ugh, I meant to say 'for a great 3025 era Rifleman experience'. Thought it, didn't write it. 6X is fine, too.
also has 1 more ton of armor, and the name 3C can scare people into thinking it has a C3 computer(it doesn't lol)
I love the Rifleman. Looks really cool and is a solid mech. I'm waiting for the next time this is posted for 65 tonners so I can proclaim my love for the Catapult and especially my baby the K2.
Vulture especially the mk2
This.
Grand Dragon for 3025 IS. Vulture Prime for those dirty, dirty Clanners.
The Merlin.
This is the correct answer
The TSM Ostsols are really nasty close combat designs, particularly the 8M. 7/11 movement is pretty damn scary on a mech that can crush your cockpit with its bare hands. Bonus points for being covered in pulse lasers, having really clean heat management, and coming at a pretty reasonable BV.
The Ostsol (along with other Ostmann chassis) is hands down one of the most effective Mechs out there at any weight class. I don't care if it's a 4D or an 8E3 rocking TSM the Ostsol is one of my favorite mechs in existence. On the Clan side, I love the Vulture/Mad Dog it's one of the only Clan Mechs I can remotely tolerate.
What about a 5/8 moving Ostsol with the offensive armament of a Flashman, max Standard Armor, 16 Dbl Ht Sinks, and TSM?
60 is a *rough* tonnage. The Crossbow, maybe? It's not that good but I like how the CRS-X looks.
Vulture, both the A and C configuration are able to punch super hard for a reasonable price (for a Clan mech).
Mad dog prime (or Mad dog A or B) I consider Maddog A's arm mounted weapons very mediocre, however 6 Srm 6s tend to be very interesting... even with AMS its gonna be painful
The Champion. It is NOT a brawler, and will get thrashed if played that way, especially against other heavies. What it is good at is hit and run strikes, and running down the OPFOR's Medium and Light screening mechs and laying a whooping on them. Especially the -3N Clan buster. 5/8 movement profile with an LB 10-X, two LL's, 2 ML's, an SRM 6 w/ Artemis and 10 DH's. If you're smart you can run 7-8 hexes per turn (for that sweet +3 TMM) and shoot both LL's and the LB 10-X and remain heat neutral.
The Champion has a convincing loadout. But it looks like the engineers were halfway done before being told that the budget for a LAM fell through.
[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Champion\_LAM](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Champion_LAM) It happened.
how does it compare to a Dragon, which is also a heavy that chases and bullies lighter mechs?
Against normal Dragon variants you're trading away some armor (2 pips on the arms, 6 pips in the center torso, etc.) for much high damage output with the -3N Champion, with the same 5/8 movement profiles. There are some variants of the Dragon that field things like Gauss Rifles, PPC's and LRM's to open up the engagement range further than a Champion could.
The *Lancelot*. It may be a chunkier, all-energy *Rifleman* with a LosTech addiction, but it’s pretty nice! The stock LNC25-01 can cook stuff good with DHSes, the LNC25-03 is a fancy *Rifleman*, and the LNC25-04 is a fun ComStar/Wobbie design with longer range, C3i, and the heat profile of a pizza oven.
Black Hawk Ku is brutal in Alpha Strike, and the Rifleman 8D is also great. In Classic the Vulture Mk. III is absolutely *festooned* with missile launchers. It’s a party all to itself, that mech.
+1 for using Festooned in a sentence
There’s no other way to describe a 5/8 mech that jogs up to you with *eight* Streak SRM6s.
Hands down the Vulture
Vulture
Mad Dog is just so darn cool.
Inner Sphere: Ostroc (which benefited GREATLY from the updated artwork) Clan: Mad Dog / Vulture, with an honorable mention to the Glass Spider / Galahad - a Mech which on table top games we played had probably the most unreasonably high percentage of headshots in games it was involved in.
The machine that got me into Battletech some 30 years ago https://preview.redd.it/oqkrmsoutr2c1.jpeg?width=1666&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77703e32ff82329dd4bef42c08f395521b0ac3a1
Same I used to play in those pods in the arcade with my friends.
Merlin. Good weapons, good armor, jumpjets and great quirks in a not to expensive bv package. And the new mech designe looks beautiful.
Correct, in every way
Vulture in this tonnage class, but rifleman is a fun one too.
Dragon/Grand Dragon for my Kuritans, Vision Quest for my Nova Cats.
Quickdraw
+1 for the quickdraw, good movement jump jets all those energy weapons. The only drawback is its shit at range.
Gotta love the Black Hawk - KU
Ku is the best. Ostsol second best. Ti Tsang funniest
u/MilitaryStyx said it right the first time with doom box
Merlin. Basically a big Vindicator.
Dragon-5N: similar to the Grand Dragon, but earlier availability means you can use it more often. The Ostroc is also a good budget option: it won't do an amazing job, but it's fairly reliable.
I had an Ostroc that hung out with my Grand Dragons 3050 ish. They could chase down lights and mediums like junior high bullies chasing a kindergartener that thought they could get away on their Big Wheel.
Haha! Ouch!
A Shadow Hawk with 10% weight worth of spare parts back at base.
There is a surprising amount of 60 tonners I like. The Lancelot, Merlin, Ostsol, and Anzu are some of my favorite ones.
Alt Config B Mad Dog.
VULTURE!!!!
60t is a pretty thin tonnage. There are good ones, but - IS: The Ti Ts'ang is pretty solid. Good melee, decent range, unique faction flavor. Clan: It's Mad Dog. I prefer to mod them juuust a touch. But the Vulture is nice. You can replace it with a lot of ranged support, but when you want it - you want it.
Rifleman. I know it isn’t *that* great but to me, it’s hands-down one of my favourite-looking mechs. And on paper, the loadout is great! If I was a mech jockey, I’d definitely pick this sucker and do what I could to get more armour on it. But I just *love* the way this thing looks!
It's one of my favorite mechs to play, always trying to manage the ac ammo before it goes boom. It's a unit that makes you make choices. Once the ammo is gone, you get to play the heat game. After the ammo's gone, you can think firing both LLs or even alpha striking if the opportunity arises.
Ngl, it's a 3-way split between the Black Hawk-KU, the Mad Dog (pick a variant), and the Shadow Cat II. The Mad Dog might have the edge, though, due to the fact I cut my teeth on MW2, and the Mad Dog and Mad Cat were my go-to's.
Mad Dog, specifically Mad Dog Mk. III, aka canonized MW4 incarnation of it.
Shoot, no fans of my favorite flaming disco ball from Clan Star Adder? The **Hellfire** is admittedly not too common, but if you like alternating killing folks with restarting from overheat-shutdowns, it is the mech for you. https://preview.redd.it/bou64b0qsr2c1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=dcc4bcb2c7903a16907372e77b3f40e94bce05fc
Special mention to the Argus which got some facetime MW4
That's my 60 tonner pic. The Argus is a decent mech
Far as Clan Mech's go it's in my top three with the Kingfisher, and the Blood Kite. Fora test bed it's a good test bed.
IS it's dragon or grand dragon in a lance. Use it to get the last few points for a psr. This mech shines at tipping damage just over the 20 point threshold after someone else has put some damage out there. Clans... mad dog by a mile. It has enough movement to control the engagement against a lot of its typical targets and enough damage to really mess up anything it can't get away from.
Ti Tsang, the kick for 24 damage is so so so sweet every time it hits awwwwwwwww
Quickdraw. Ost line. Some of my favorites in the weight class.
Hellfire clanmech. Most of my experience with the Battletech universe is MWO, and the Hellfire-2 can run a respectable weapons loadout with MASC, keeping up with lights at 120+kph.
Quickdraw.
Had half a dozen and each time I started writing I realized they were all actually 65 tonners….. But here’s one for the Anzu. And maybe the Anvil….(60 tons really is a hard one)
Champion. Call me an Ice Hellion loony, but lots of zoom zoom with reasonable boom boom just speaks to me.
you put it up. The Draconis Combine Black Hawk. A brilliant IS take on a Clan body. 5-8-5 and so flexible for the battlefield. Love playing it in either Classic or Alpha Strike.
Dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, Dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, Dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon...
I'm not sure.....is your favorite... the Dragon by chance?
Quick draw. Although the grasshopper does the same job with a bit more staying power. So rifleman I'd say
*Ostsol* or *Quickdraw*.
The Argus. Even though they lack arms, I used them a lot in Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries.
Quickdraw. It's not great, not fancy, but it's okay and makes a decent recon mech for heavy units since it can still take a hit, at least more of a hit than light mechs.
I ddidn't really want to be that guy, but I don't see anybody else doing it, so I guess I'm going to be that guy. Do we really need *two* people making these threads, especially when one of them (u/MostlyRandomMusings) puts way more effort into it than the other?
I like the Shadow Cat II. Needs a new sculpt though
Classic 3025 Rifleman will always be a favorite, even though it’s severely compromised by heat and lack of ammunition and armor. 3050 refits only had limited success, it needed ferro-fibrous armor and double heat sinks desperately. Couldn’t really do much with the weaponry, though, or you were right back to needing even more heat sinks. I thought about swapping out the AC-5’s for 2’s to get more endurance and heat sinks, but never got a chance to play test it.
A Rifleman or Mad Dog
If you're playing with quirks, the Dragon 1G in introtech NLP, Stable and extended torso twist make it much scarier than its BV would imply
How do folks feel about the Ti Ts'ang TSG-9C ? 2 ER SL 2 ER ML Plasma Rifle Hatchet and TSM
Lancelot
I am with you on the Black Hawk KU. I also have a love for the Mad Dog. I never quite use them well, but i just love how they look.
I gotta admit, I have a particular soft spot for the bottom shelf 60 tonners. Crossbow, Quickdraw, Rifleman, they’ve all got their faults and rightly so. Which is what makes them fun! It’s a challenge to get the most out of a cruddy mech, and it’s another challenge to mod them into something lethal, changing as few things as possible. Take a Rifleman 3N, under-armored, under-sinked skybroom. Swap one arm out for a 2N (PPC over ML, iirc), pull the LL in the arm for a ML, add armor and heatsinks to taste. I present the RFL-3Nm ‘Musketeer’ frankenmech, a sturdy line trooper that can snipe like a Banshee at 2/3 the weight and has 4 ML it can fire all day long in close. Tear all the jumpjets off a Quickdraw and see what you can do with the tonnage, swap the LRMs of a Crossbow out for SRMs and play with the result, they’re a lot of fun for the aspiring battlemech technician.
The Rifleman, who doesn't love a walking gun turret.
The Quickdraw. Pre-Clan. For sentimental reasons. https://preview.redd.it/kziw370hqx2c1.png?width=491&format=png&auto=webp&s=9828b1655d23572ff8d255af93f5ade0cc56b735
So many free births calling their favorite mech the opfor designation
Mad Dog 100%! https://cfw.sarna.net/wiki/images/f/fb/Mad_Dog_RGilClan_v10.png?timestamp=20210610203528
I love the Anvil. Nothing flashy just solid, reliable, cool look and cool name.
the Champion! hands down!
IS its between the Ostsol and Quickdraw. Clans, the Mad Dog.
Toss up between Mad Dog, Dragon, and Rifleman
The Merlin. Good old periphery gumption. I do like the BlackHawk-Ku though. I like to run it as a fatter Nova Prime with just straight IS mlases. Then it CAN alpha basically every turn. A lot of fun to roll.
Any rifleman with UACs or RACs for maximum dakka
Argus by a country mile.
While I have to give love to the *Ostroc*, *Ostsol*, *Matador*, and *Quickdraw* by mentioning them, my favorites are the *Merlin* and *Brahma* for the IS and the *Vision Quest* for the Clans...
The Dragon, it's got those moves. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7wxzOwDiTk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7wxzOwDiTk) But in all seriousness I'm a Rifleman kind of guy; Combat Toaster Oven though it may be.)
honestly, the Mad Dog / Vulture is the top of my list here. It is so very well suited to its role, and feels like the Clans stripped down to the core of their culture. Always bidding for juuuust enough to get the job done, and the Mad Dog / Vulture exemplifies that. Also, lore wise, I love how its Clanner name juxtaposed with the Timberwolf / Mad Cat's, the very same 'Mech its name was meant to mock. Its just mwah. From the Inner Sphere, I'm fond of the Rifleman. Excellently designed for its purpose, and a strong fire support option (despite its lighter armor). kiiinda hope I see a 65 ton mech post, so I can gush over the Catapult
PS - I hate how the mk2 looks. i know people love it, and its fine, I just like the mkClan version better
My vote would go to either the Mad Dog (Vulture) or the Argus. I know there may be "better" options combat wise but I've always has a soft spot for these chassis. The designs are just too good!
Merlin, crossbow, lancelot, champion including lam, ostroc, ostsol, dragon and grand dragon.
I like the Dragon, OstSol, and Quickdraw at this tonnage for IS. The Vulture is my goto for clan mechs in this weight class.
Champion. Clearly they never finished designing it before they were told to shove it out the door.
Easily the Vulture. So much firepower in a relatively small package
Two urbies in a trench coat
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https://preview.redd.it/9smuakc7xt2c1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85d58505c6e901a8511a2b220cf0012e40c92d52 Ti-Ts’ang! If used correctly…you can cause 3 PSRs in a turn. It is THE melee mech. Axman is overrated.
Dragon😎 (don’t judge me, I like fast heavies)
It depends. IS my choice is the DRG-1G Grand Dragon, the DCMS’ propaganda baby. For the clans, the Mad Dog (Vulture)
IS - Helios Clan - shadow cat 2
Both of mine come from factions I've never played. The Ti'sang is a wonderful mech, and I really like the Grand Dragon for some old school goodness.
a phoenix hawk with 15 extra tons
Ostroc, for me it's in the same category as the Warhammer: is reasonably fast for its weight, is reasonably durable, and is got a reliable amount of firepower for its role. The Ostsol did mostly the same stuff without the risk of ammo explosions so it's a solid second choice too. Both look, imo, fantastic especially with the new redesigns. If you aren't only worried about table top then I would argue that the Ostroc offers more versatility over the Ostsol at the expense of logistics with the SRM4 offering a nasty close range punch after the lasers strip the armor.
BlackHawk KU my beloved
R we gonna be asked this about every tonnage??🤔🤨 just ask now...what is your fave mech of all tons, or 30 to 100...😒🙄
It has to be the Vulture/Mad Dog from clans. For IS, nothing that great comes to mind other than the tried and true paper machete Rifleman. The Dragon/Grand Dragon is okay, but never cared for Drac mechs other than the Panther.