>>(Well, that and there isn't a Warhammer chassis to build on if
>>I were going to test it out in MW4, which is the most convenient way
>>of doing it. The closest I could get would be to build it on a
>>Thor OmniMech chassis. Which I've done; the "WHM Type"
>>Thor tends to be one of the mainstays of my arsenal in Mercs,
>>but I could be misremembering the number of lasers or what have you.
>>Come to think of it, if he has the tonnage for four medium pulse
>>lasers, why does he not just use two large ones? Eh, I'm examining
>>this too closely. :)
>
>The MPLs do more damage and produce less heat, the only advantage to
>using large lasers would be range, and you've got range covered with
>the PPCs.

That'd depend entirely on which version of the game VMW is closer to - I don't doubt you'd be right if it's the board game, but, at least in MW4, pulse lasers of any size or type are utterly worthless.

>>(As an aside, all the real roleplayers in MechWar name their
>>'Mechs; Nene's Mad Cat is called "Stompy McBangBang" for
>>convoluted reasons.)
>
>I can totally see Nene naming her 'Mech that.

Ditto.

Ja,
-n