Your Favorite Mech of All Time

[CHHš Aethon]

For me, it would be the Ebon Jaguar.  Quick, low profile, versatile...like a Hellbringer, but substituting armor for electronics.

[Mazrix]

Preta. Normally I laugh at mechs with melee equipment, but the sheer coolness of the Preta makes up for it.

Besides, it's a retractable blade in the arm, not an actual sword or some lame crap like that.

And tell me: Is it not the best looking mech of all time as well?

[=CJW=YalK]

I guess my main grief with melée mechs is it reminds me too much of transformers...now don't get me wrong I love me some transformers but I mean they WERE the giant robot not a pilot controlling one...idk I just think it's too close, I like thinking of mechs as giant war machines being piloted by elite warriors, key word machines, not super articulate living toasters...and if melée combat isn't super articulate then I'd imagine it would be like go go action G.I. Joe....which isn't appealing either.

[~SJ~KorbinWimmer]

Preta. Normally I laugh at mechs with melee equipment, but the sheer coolness of the Preta makes up for it.

Besides, it's a retractable blade in the arm, not an actual sword or some lame crap like that.

And tell me: Is it not the best looking mech of all time as well?

I'll give you that... It is very attractive.

[=KoS=Zeus]

Melee combat was key in CBT before 3050 because mechs would often times run completely dry of ammunition, lose heat sinks, have weapons blown off, engine damage, etc and the only recourse to retreating was to head into Close Combat and kick the enemy's leg off or try to club him over the head with an uprooted oak tree. This is the kind of knock-down drag-out fights that 3025 CBT was famous for. Then came Tech 2 equipment and everything glorious about battletech disintegrated under a hailstorm of Gauss slugs and double heat sink supported ERPPCs.

[MerfMerf]

<...> into Close Combat and kick the enemy's leg off <...>

Come back and I'll BITE your LEG off!


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Arthus: "You have no arms left! What are you going to do? BLEED on me?"
Black Knight: "Have at ye!" *Hobbles forward on one leg and bumps into Arthur who promptly cuts the Black Knights remaining leg off*

Doesn't the above (The text, not the image) kinda remind you of one of those arm-less kitfoxes from the early game skirmishes?

/Merf - <3 Monty Python

[snooggums]

Melee combat was key in CBT before 3050 because mechs would often times run completely dry of ammunition, lose heat sinks, have weapons blown off, engine damage, etc and the only recourse to retreating was to head into Close Combat and kick the enemy's leg off or try to club him over the head with an uprooted oak tree.

Or if one of those pesky hard to hit light mechs tried to run up and shoot you in the back with their short ranged weaponry a successful kick from a heavy would remove a leg in one shot. Only reason to field a Charger in my opinion

[RenoBlade [GDL]]

To the point of melee in BT... i love to do DFA attacks.
but then i always roll bad numbers on tabletop and kill myself too often.

the Marauder is my fav for a loooong time.
specialy the Mad-5L
http://sarna.net/wiki/Blood_Asp
tho when the unseen disappeared, i noticed two new mechs similar to the marauder.

for clan:
-Blood Asp prime
http://sarna.net/wiki/Blood_Asp

for is:
-Nightstar
http://sarna.net/wiki/Nightstar

[Jaso the Sniper]

this shall take years of consideration for me 

[Ressk [CSF]]

Bushwacker. Adaptible, capable at all ranges, a nasty brawler, almost better at ranging, fast enough for me, tough (for its class), realistic looking, low profile and all in all just awesome.

Does 30 days pause make this a dead thread?

[DFDelta]

30 days? The last post was over 1 year ago 

Necro aside, my favorite mech of all time would be the PTR-6T Penetrator.
A ER large laser in each arm, 3 ER medium lasers in each side torso, enough double heat sinks to keep firing with most weapons each turn, lots of armor, a AMS and jump jets. The only disadvantage is the low speed, but aside from that this thing is walking awesomeness. And its lyran tech 

Favorite MWLL mech of all time is the good old Thanny C, I just love the mix of weapons, armor and speed.

[Bill]

Archer was a bro.

[RabbidFerret]

Gonna have to go with the Cauldron Born. Low profile and very adaptable. Been falling in love with the Puma for the same reasons.

[=KoS= Eldragon]

Some serious thread necromancy is going on here. Break out the holy water and find a Cleric or Paladin.

[Ressk [CSF]]

Hahahahahah oh jeez i really should have read that timestamp, the forum warning only said "over 30 days" i didnt think it was a year old