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If you're keeping it far away from the fray, you can get creative, but otherwise you need to frown, take off some toys, and just add metal to the front. Front line heavies should bear at minimum 1100 points of armour, more if they're against enough enemy heavies. The long and the short of it is this though: the stock Warhammer WHM-6R is simply lacking in armour as a brawler. You can stick an LRM in there, team it with LLAS or PPCs and really skimp on the armour to create a fire support 'Mech that can hide behind terrain and then peak to give some serious pinpoint damage. Shtog all the MLAS, SLAS, and SRM you can on there, max armour, and add jump jets for short range oomph. Nearly any ultra autocannon is good if you have access to them. A quartet of LLAS is boring and, honestly, a little anemic, but it's dependable fire support even if they do leave you in the funny spot of having a heavily armoured mech that doesn't get shot at much.ĮR PPCs give you one-shot headshots.

The Capacitors suggest you shouldn't, but a big ol' fashioned AC/20 isn't a bad choice here. That gets you over 300 damage on an alpha strike.

What else can be done? Your best bet for guns is a pair of Snub PPC (+10 dmg if you can get 'em). From here, remove the machine guns and add a couple of heat sinks, pile on the armour and you've got a WHM-6D. The SRMs go first-the Optimized Capacitors make the medium lasers better.

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So, you'll want to free up tonnage for armour if it's wading into the fray. It can get there, but there are just other 'Mechs that are capable of dishing out more hurt. To make matters worse, it really struggles to mount a convincing armament once you start tinkering around under the hood. Because it's bigger-you called it-it's easier to hit. And yeah, out-of-the-box this thing is flimsy and runs hot. If you're finding a Warhammer weak to incoming fire, I'm going to assume you're talking about the WHM-6R. Why yes I will jump down in front of that entire lance so I can blow the King Crab's brains out before it even gets to move, that kind of thing. Like my standard headshot Marauder build was 4x ERML and 1x UAC5, and while that may not be quite as optimal as the UAC2 build in terms of pure headshotting, it was a maneuverable and durable mech that could quickly go anywhere it needed to make the big shot and be confident of surviving even if it exposed itself to fire in order to do so.

Usually when I have reasonably skilled pilots and some good weapons to make up the difference offensively.

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Past a certain point I take every mech in the lance, strip everything, install max armor to the nearest half-ton and max jump jets, and then assign my weapons and heat sinks last. The best way is to strip the equipment, hit the max armor button, and then trim off armor points until you get to a half or whole ton increment one support weapon to use up the half-ton).Īs a general rule - try to get maximum armor when you customize a 'Mech, even removing extra weapons or heat sinks in order to do so. I'm not trusting my own memory of the exact number, but my usual loadout is 2 ER M Lasers, 2 Snub PPC, and one ER S Laser (i.e. 5 ton increment with 1380 total points of armor.

You'll have less room for gear but you'll outlast the OpFor with your armor. Generally shave air off to a half-time if you have support weapon slots (since S Lasers weight half a ton), or a whole-ton otherwise. The best way is to strip the equipment, hit the max armor butoom, and then trim off armor points until you get to a half or whole ton increment (e.g. Regular PPCs generate a lot of heat, and I don't think the extra range or stability damage is really with all the tradeoffs.Īs a general rule - try to get maximum armor when you customize a 'Mech, even removing extra weapons or heat sinks in order to do so. If you don't own the Heavy Metal DLC, then you can't get Snub PPCs. that's per shotgun 'pellet' - stacking with the Warhammer bonus, I do 5x30 damage per PPC (I use two)). However, it really shines with Snub-nosed PPCs (looks for the ++ variant with +10 damage. You can mount M Lasers and ER S Laser for a similar effect to the Hunchback, although you'll need to get close unless you have some ER S Laser. Depending on which Warhammer you got, you have 6 energy and 2 support, or 4 of each.