battletech heavy metal warhammer 6r builds

#Battletech heavy metal warhammer 6r builds upgrade#

This is suited to a highly aggressive playing style. This is the smaller build which sacrifices alpha to have more speed and cooling.

#Battletech heavy metal warhammer 6r builds upgrade#

You can even upgrade to a bigger 6MPL+1ERSL by dropping tonnage from a combination of your choice from engine, heatsinks, and jumpjets.

The reason we have ER Small lasers is because they are very similar to MPL in terms of range and burn duration, yet cost less tonnage. Focus on poking, harassing, and poptarting from moderately close ranges.

MPLs are a hybrid weapon between poking and brawling - you really need to get quite close to your enemies to make the best of them, but you don't quite have the sustained DPS to go brawling. This version has 12DHS, but you can drop one more heatsink to upgrade your engine and/or jumpjets and the sustained output will still match the ERML build. This version downgrades to shorter range lasers to get more efficiency, this way we can sacrifice heatsinks and still maintain more sustained output to the ERML build. We lose an engine, a heatsink, and a jumpjet, but now we get AMS. When you are pressed into a brawl or sustained DPS situation, you can fire just 5ERML or 6ERML to avoid the heat penalty and deal slightly higher sustained DPS. We do have ghost heat when firing all seven lasers, but it's rather minimal so you can alpha straight through it. The S is the only Firestarter with a heat quirk and more than six hardpoints, so it's the optimal variant for this build. It's up to you whether you are willing to make that sacrifice. The AMS won't really protect you personally that much, but when combined with AMS from your allies it can really help reduce team-wide missile damage. In exchange, you will shoot down some missiles throughout the match. However, as a light mech, the tonnage cost of AMS significantly eats into your budget for speed, jumpjets, and heatsinks - it's a big sacrifice and you will notice the negative impact it has on your performance. Normally I do not recommend ever running AMS unless a mech has at least two hardpoints, which this does. However the FS9-S does have a heat quirk which brings it very close to the top.Ībout AMS - this variant of the Firestarter is one of the few light mechs which can run dual AMS. The FS9-S is not the best Firestarter variant, the FS9-A is superior for having an extra hardpoint. The FS9-S(C) is a Champion version of the standard FS9-S, which means it is identical in all regards except it earns bonus XP so you can level it up faster. Unlike the competing Wolfhound family, all Firestarters have jumpjets. The Firestarter family is currently the best light mech chassis in the game - it has plenty of energy hardpoints to stack weight-efficient weapons so that you can invest tonnage into mobility and cooling. Here are some builds for the (C) of this Firestarter with commentary from Tarogato.