Bear Ribs
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Here's the Longbow's Dashboard:Seems odd to turn a fire support mech into a direct fire mech but a assault weight flying Rifleman is a interesting take. Quick question I am not seeing the base Longbow being that much a upgrade to something like a Archer. A LRM 50 to the LRM 40 and the Archer actually has a secondary battery of 4 ML to the longbows 2. with the Archer being 15 tons lighter, faster, and having almost as much armor as the assault platform. Give the Archer 10 double heatsinks in the engine and its heat management issues become much less. Nice chapter it shows that Katrina and LIC is pulling out all the stops to ensure that the core is put to good use and not bite them in the ass later. Lockheed is one thing I would like to see the fallout should be impressive.
It's not terrible for what it does but the 7Q is dreadfully limited by the fact that it only does one thing. I've personally had decent results with it* but it has the problem that it's slow, and once an enemy gets within the minimum range of its missiles, it's got about the firepower of a Stinger despite being an assault. Generally, it's not good for something so slow to also have problems with range.
*Disclaimer: I've pretty much only used it in MegaMek against the computer. Human opponents are probably much tougher.