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Is this where black carapace comes from?

An interesting creature. Practically introtech, arguably a throwback. But hey, if it works and is cheap, use it.

They were worried about firing arcs and then didn't add turrets.

Something I wish Mechwarrior games would get right is omni pods... They get treated as a universal hardpoint but in lore are more than that. You can remove an ac20 and replace an equal amount of slots with medium lasers lol... Actually MW3 came close, I remember the Madcat being able to stuff the LRM20 with 10 lasers.

Late by a year. I did watch this when it first came out but UA-cam re recommended it so I rewatched. I think mechs like the Nightstar should of been conceptual plans for the new age mechs that were going to be built once the Ameris Civil War was over, but where never built. Kind of like USA's Montana Class Battleship of WW2, but the war ended and it was never done. The Royal battlemechs in isolation, actually make sense. In modern sense it's like going from the M16A2 to the M4A1 with rail mounting systems. When in a shooting war, you don't reinvent the weapons system. You take what works already, modify it to take the new equipment, then send it to the field.

Let's be honest, Quads are bad because they are arbitrarily bad. It would have been just as easy for the authors to BS reasons why they are the best assault mechs around.

BattleTech needs an existential threat and I wonder what would happen if say I don't know a whole Army of mechs like the black Marauder we're out there sitting on some abandoned world out there in the void waiting to be awakened also black Irby would be funny

As we see from the revenant, I think quad mechs would actually benefit greatly from computer assisted controls. Like we have in modern aircraft with auto-pilot or auto-assist features, perhaps allowing it to overcome the inherent instability created by the bridge between the bipedal pilot and the quad mech via the neural helm.

Give me a hunting pair of Barghests, one mounting the default loadout and the other being any of the variants mounting an Improved Heavy Gauss Rifle, and I'll show you how viable quads can be. The drawbacks of a Heavy Gauss Rifle are almost completely negated by the benefits of a quad, and backing up a mech with a HGR with a crit seeker is absolutely devastating. Obliviously the second mech doesn't even have to be another Barghest, but Iike LBX autocannons and hunting in pairs is just cool to me.

But I want to hop in an Awesome and delete clanners 😢

Quad mechs sound like a good idea, but probably should've leant in harder in being a slower moving and harder hitting weapons platform. A turret with 4 legs and the ability to do 360 rotations would be a neat idea.

Quads: How does something with 4 legs misstep THAT BADLY????