NARC's are so few and far between that I rarely bother with A4 carriers
As someone who does love to play Ravens with Narc... or generally Narcing people... i can tell you: Yes, they are few and far in between. First of all.. i need to know someone wants to have narcs. Second, a lot of people love to play variants with PPCs. PPCs removing Narcs, is a nice though, but it turns the whole job obsolet. Whats the point on loading 2-3 Tonns of Narcs, which only come at 4 shots per Tonn, when half of your team does disable said Narcs anyway.
And people give a damn anyway. Preaching "don't shoot with PPCs at Narced Targets" is a waste of breath. They do it anyway. They have their favorit variants and noone really does bind his arm to his back just to preserve the Narc of his teammate.
Long Story short... I love Narcing, but its just frustrating to stick your head out to get that narc landed, late in the game, you at times get quite the beating in a light mech (and other than that.. there is only the loki iirc, who does have Narc), just to have some of the bigboys just ppc it away again.
Its just unrewarding. But when you have people on your team who know about the whole narc stuff, most of the team playing missile boats, then going out narcing is fun. Seeing how those Missile Swarms coming flying from afar... is just a georgeous sight, when you know you just called that down on the enemy.
The best Huit drivers I've seen are those who use terrain in their favor and draw me into them. Seeing an AA tank on the field is like putting a cup cake out for a fat kid in the open for a pilot because that pilot wants to eat that cupcake since its the greatest threat to it.
Always makes me smile when the Flyboy suddenly starts to waste his attention on me. More so since there were lately a couple Flyboy Threads in which most of you guys confirmed that most AA is no threat to you guys and how you would drop your load anyway.
But seeing how said flyboy just wasted his attention on me, sometimes needing as much as 2-3 Attackruns on me, just because they perceive me as biggest threat to them... just makes me smile. Each of those attackrun they just wasted on someone who wouldn't pose as much threat (not insignificantly enough to be ignored and its so great to peel off enemy assaults and heavy limps at max distance) as opposed to drop their weaponload on the frontline, where their weapons would do real damage. Taking someone out who is just focusing on them... well... it doesn't make as much differance to the team, except.. the flyboy just wasted his time.
The onlything annoying about that (i don't mind jumping infront of teammates i consider a more valuable asset to the team).... that damn huit is so slow.... it really hurts to get him out and lug him about.
Appart from the UAC variant... i love the steelrain one. Is the only time i bother with Arrow system. I really love it for the ATM Rain (Though lately i like to play alot Missile boats).
To use it: its not a front line asset. Find a valley like one of the ones in mirage and sit in it and poke at long range. [...] it takes forever to get to the front and your a back line support asset (i will rarely get kills, but i do a LOT of damage).
I can attest to that. Its no killer, but you can peel of the armor of enemy assets in spades. I usually get one out when i see the opposite team is starting to bring out Novacats or LRM Boats... then its time to roll out in a huit. They are usually camping somewhere, meaning you do not have to "chase" them down.. and you outrange them, if you deploy your huit smart, with ease. Sending half the enemy team back to base to repair, does help your team in the long run. I actually started to go for arms and Pods when i am in the huit. They are usually less armored and it really pisses people off (well it annyos me more than dying), when they do not only need to have their paintjob refreshed but need to sell the Asset to replace some weapons.
A Novacat just loosing one of her arms, will be likely be forced to retreat and it lost a lot of is weapon load. Much more effective than just gunning for their CT. Unless they are not paying attention, you won't really get them past orange that way. They usually notice it before it gets anywhere near critical. But chewing through arms is much faster and seeing a limb fall off is priceless.
