The 8Q is pretty awesome, and dead simple. Overall the Awesome is a bit of a one note mech, but as we will see with the variants, that one note is usually a really, really good one. In 3025 I love using a Javelin for this, but in later periods most light mechs with pulse lasers make good buddies for the Awesome. It can’t really reposition or get new angles, lacking jump jets or significant speed, so it needs to find a commanding position with good line of sight, or it will be outmaneuvered and shot in the back until it dies.Īwesome’s are also big on the buddy system, and really enjoy having some sort of light mech hunter or quick response type mech lurking behind them, ready to swat anything that tries to get too close to them. Movement is for other, lesser mechs, The Awesome is basically a rolling, semi-mobile turret and should be treated as such. Therefore, your main goal when using an Awesome should be to find a good hill, preferably with some nice, thick woods for it to sit in, and camp it there the whole game. The Awesome is fairly slow, even at its fastest, as a fire support mech should be. They all are completely addicted to hills and dense woods. No matter which Awesome you pick, they all share a few common traits and tactics.

The mech’s identity is primarily as a fire support mech, and I am adding this section mostly just to say that the Awesome commits harder to having one single identity across all variants than most mechs bother to. It is mostly an Inner Sphere tech mech, and generally it can be divided between PPC variants and LRM variants. This is pretty Awesome, but it burns when I PPCĪ quick note before we carry on, and absolutely not just an excuse to use that ancient, ancient Battletech joke as a section header, the Awesome is one of those mechs that has a few running trends/sub categories throughout it’s variants. So, lets talk about it.īattletech Awesome. It’s simplicity is probably why it is in the A Game of Armored Combat box, and I love it very much. It is a blunt instrument and is very beginner friendly. It is an iconic mech of the Free Worlds League, and is the second greatest mech that House Marik gave the rest of us. It is a hideous slab of metal with all of the grace and refinement of a cement mixer and half of one’s charisma. The Awesome was for a very long time the mech that I considered the ultimate ideal of the assault mech, perfect and resplendent in its glory.

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