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- From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
- Subject: Re: Which weapon is best? (Was: Re: btech lrm)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.194318.9998@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:43:18 GMT
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- In article <C01p3r.66t@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (RedSwordTarga) writes:
- >lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) writes:
- >
- >> /-\h, but those 5 ER mediums are going to give you 25 heat if you
- >> fire all of them. The 3 Pulse mediums are only going to give you 12.
- >> So those 5 ER MLs would require 13 DSHSes, for a total of 19 tons.
- >
- >Yes, but that assumes that the 5 ER's are being fired in addition to the
- >main guns. I find that the 5 ER's and a targetting computer complement
- >LRMs very nicely. That way I only really need 3 tons for DSHS, since
- >I am firing ER Mediums when I have managed to move close enough. That is
- >why I like the ER Medium, because you can tack that lethal 5 pack on
- >top of a Clan missleboat. We have had great success with a binary
- >LRM 20 Ryoken using this "5 ER Medium's and a targetting computer"
- >combo as our secondary weapons system. Speed for days and the guns
- >and armor of a heavy. So, as you can see, the attractiveness of the
- >ER Medium is more the result of a 'Mech design philosophy than an
- >attraction to an individual weapon (I myself love the Large Pulse
- >Laser, especially in a quad mount on Warharks.)
-
-
- \_/
- |eah, but as you yourself stated, that's design philosophy. That
- includes factors other than the individual weapons systems, which is
- what we were discussing. Personally, for a SINGLE weapon system, I
- still much prefer the Pulse ML over the ER ML, for Clan weapons. BTW,
- I rarely use LRMs, especially with the Clans (they're just not that
- "long range," anymore, when an ER PPC and Pulse LL both have the same
- max medium range, and an ER LL is even one hex better).
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