Well make some magic pixie dust change then because the Warhammer and the Awesome being in the same price bracket is just stupid from a gameplay point of view. The Catapult and Thanatos should fill the 80k range(which at least the prime does even though its pretty crappy) the Warhammer fill with 90k range and the Awesome fill the 100k range. By "filling" I mean have at least two of the variants (preferably the bread and butter ones) in that range while the other too can be cheaper or more expensive. The Awesome does this and that helps make it awesome. If the Warhammer prime was 89k rather than 91k that would make a HUGE difference to its strategic use. Take off the BAP perhaps?
The Bushwacker is a good example of this at 62k,57k,66k,70k Filling the 70k category and having one more expensive and one less expensive. This system has been followed well except toward the heavy category, just around 80-90k, which end game is going to be where many people are.
As for the Atlas, I think it just needs some long range weaponry, someone said on these forums once that later designs had to have long range weapons because the option of closing range was no longer available towards the clan invasion times. When you look at it now, it has none, there is the Hgauss, the LBX20 Prime, the RAC, and the UAC. All of those require close range and most people take UAC , which has no electronics but nice weapons. I say replace the LBX20 with Gauss again to give it punch at all ranges. The LRM5s I suppose make sense, they don't really do anything but neither did the LRM10s to be honest. IS PPC NEEDS full damage but that is another thread. If those changes are made I will consider Atlas Prime worth taking, the RAC variant however is roflworthless. I would actually like the Hguass to have a pulse laser or two, take the LRMs back down to 5 again because this one has DPS and self defense problems close range.
BTW: I love how both in game and on the wiki the Awesome prime has the fabled ERLPL.
