BATTLETECH: The Awesome
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2022
- During the #SuccessionWars there is few machines more intimidating. #Battletech and #Mechwarrior have a weapon of war that truly is... #Awesome.
The Awesome is the subject of our video today. Powerful, brutal, and the embodiment of much of what an assault mech should be, this monster lumbers onto the field and shatters any that come before it.
Let's talk about why this mech is so overwhelming.
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The awesome is an example of what happens when you trim out complexity, focus on a simple, effective, well-rounded weapon and build your stuff to last. Lots of mechs field missiles, cannons, machine guns, lasers and all sorts of various weaponry simultaneously, requiring weapon grouping, switching, range bracketing and explosive ammo; the awesome just shoots lightning all day long. Some mechs are good at dodging cannons or shooting down missiles; EVERY mech melts when hit with repeated blasts of man-made lightning...and the awesome NEVER RUNS OUT OF LIGHTNING.
The Awesome is a rook; it doesn't make complicated maneuvers or tricky plays; it doesn't blitzkrieg you out of nowhere at blazing speed. It hits the field, starts walking and bulldozes you. If facing an awesome (or god help you, a squad of them) You either bring overwhelming firepower, overwhelming speed (and a LOT of luck) or you get the hell out of it's way. It's a siege machine that never stops frying things until it goes critical, meaning it ALWAYS gets your money's worth no matter what falls off first.
Is it any wonder the awesome is so beloved by so many?
Awesome epitomizes big stompy robot even more so than the much more popular Atlas
It's all fun and games until you run out of ammo.
@@chaz706 Awesome is better than the Atlas for that specific reason. PPC's don't run out of ammo and neither do battle fists
@@chaz706 It's an awesome.... What ammo?
@@OmniMontel My point precisely!
God I love it when the mechs in battletech have that almost eye slit like visor it just looks so menacing on some of them
It's a menacing monster.
Same. For me it's the Zaku effect. It's just so damn indifferent yet menacing.
It looks so good but it is such a pain to paint
The Battletech game had a hilarious build called the Narcoleptic Awesome.
No heat sinks.
Six PPCs.
Alpha Strike target.
Take a nap.
Wake up and do it again.
sounds like the ER Stupid.
take a big mech.
stuff it full of Clan tech ER Medium Lasers no other heatsinks beyond what's in the 400 rate engine.
turn it loose.
melt a mech, wait 5 turns.
Repeat!
Narcoleptic Awesome. I love it!
Reminds me of a Nova Cat design I built in MechWarrior 4. Took off a lot of equipment, and put 5 ER PPCs on her...
The inevitable (Nova) cat naps weren't always appreciated, but seeing heavy-class Mechs blow up gloriously from an Alpha Strike definitely was! XD
I love that its only "weakness" is being the same speed as most heavy and some medium mechs. Truly awesome
It's power overwhelming.
Is this the battle mech that Tex used to fight that clanner for clan ghost bear.
@@mikecampos1193 I think you mean beat that ghost bear
There are no 3/5 medium mechs and I can't think of any heavies that slow either
@@kairakuwaeldreor3868 I was more talking lore wise, as the enforcer, hunchback, centurion, vidicator and panther are only 10kph faster which really isn't that much
This is the reason why House Marik Warhammer and Marauder PPC were downgraded to Large Lasers. Almost the entire PPC production went to the Awesomes.
i wouldnt say downgraded, i allmost allways switch out ppcs for LL in MW5 bc i like lasers better and the saved two tons can be used for more heatsinking
@@Genesis23OPB And if you're dealing with Clantech, going from an ER PPC to an ER Large Laser earns you range, too. The Clan ER Large Laser is one of the longest-range weapons in the game, ER PPCs and LRMs can't reach out and touch someone as far. Only certain variants of AC/2 and 5 can match or exceed it.
I love that the best upgraded Awesome (in my opinion) is "Upgrade to double Heat Sinks, add 4th PPC, add ECM... DONE" There isn't much that the 9Q isn't a threat too.
The 9Q is a beast-machine.
there is one more that i think is even scarier then the 9Q... the 11H...
3 heavy PPCs and enough heatsinks to allow them to be fired CONTINUOUSLY
1 ER small laser
@@mrgoob76 Yep, but I only have so much time to cover the variants (I try to keep the videos short) so I mostly wanted to cover ones from the most played eras. :)
It is of course 33% more awesome
Yo dawg I heard you like the awesome. So we put more awesome in your awesome. That's 33 percent more awesome per awesome.
The 8Q and 8T are two of my favorite Succession War era Assaults. Comparatively cheap, stupidly powerful, and scary enough to make any mech think twice before engaging. Tack a Swayback-4P on as close quarters cover, and you got the Free World's scariest combo.
That's a really nasty synergy and I'm a bit ashamed that I didn't think of it myself
A brick wall that shoots lightning. Always a solid choice.
Honestly? The Awesome lives up to its name. The design philosophy behind it defines Assault mechs: A reliable firing platform for heavy weapons. The Awesome balances heat vs firepower and focuses on using long range weapons so it gets the most opportunity to take advantage of all those heatsinks. This mech isn't all about one good alpha strike, it is sustained fire and repeatedly hammering opponents into submission. PPCs do have a "dead zone" at point blank range, but that dead zone isn't as safe as some pilots might think. Any pilot entrusted with an assault mech isn't going to be a rookie. Elite pilots can hit targets in the outer edge of the dead zone, or they can close to melee. Any mech that survives to get in melee range of an Awesome should be soft enough for the 80 ton punches to breach their armor. Even a fresh mech should respect an 80 ton punch.
And the Awesome has Battlefists, making getting within punching distance an even worse idea.
The AWS-8Q is my favorite mech of all time, in our table top campaign we're allowed one customized mech for the commander, and mine is an Awesome with a 300xl engine, and 3 ER PPC's with double heatsinks, it's called Perun.
This Mech is like Pizza.
Even when bad, still pretty awesome . .
Too much heat for you?
Replace 1 to 3 of the PPCs with Large Lasers.
You lose minimal Firepower and Reach, but the Mech also runs so much cooler.
It also has no more minimum reach anymore. And it frees up several tons for
either more armor, more heatsinks or other goodies. Like a 4th Large Laser for example.
Use the ER Large Lasers and you actually gain an extra 30m of range, and six extra heatsinks to offset the 2 extra heat per shot.
What you didn`t mention is Awesome`s standout feature, it`s price. It`s an affordable, if not cheap, assault mech that can stand to mechs of higher tonnage and double it`s cost. Awesome is basically Warhammer of assault mechs.
I got carried away in all of its other good features :)
@@BigRed40TECH Completely true.
One of 4 assaults will use in a non fixed objective game and ride of my RP character it truly is awesome. Has the other team cursing it as I put a 2/3 pilot in it with ppc specialization. Needless to say he is an ace.
Got one with two SRM-6s and enough large and medium lasers for a small rave along with some upgraded parts so it punches harder. Shure it's slow but it's a great urban brawler that I bring to city fights in Hairbrained's BattleTech game,along with a Stalker packing Inferno's and a second laser light show. Can't run from the Awesome when you are overheated.
Most owned Assault behind the Atlas for a reason. Have a whole lance ready to make anyone hesitate.
The awesome was always one of my favorite assault mechs
faced down one of these things in a blackjack in MW5 yesterday, and oh boy, it nearly took out an entire lance before I managed to headshot it with an all of my ac2 ammo. Zombie mechs with PPC's are no joke
This is one of my favorite assault mechs. It slots in just slightly behind the King Crab and ahead of the Mad Cat Mk2.
Mad Cat mk2 is a beauty.
@@BigRed40TECH If there's anything which could be described as a "perfect" mech, that one comes the closest.
@@BigRed40TECH mad cat mk.2, a wall of fire.
That jumps.
The Awesome is like what the British did by introducing the Dreadnought battleship... they skipped the whimsy of having all sorts of different weapons for various targets and armed it with as many primary weapons as it would fit. I will never in my life fight fair against these things because that's a sure way to lose.
Between the Warhammer, Awesome, Atlas, and Catapult, what else does one need? I think the longevity is proof enough.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
@@BigRed40TECH THAT is what the Exodus was all about.
A Marauder perhaps?
I've always perfered the Archer over the Catapult. but that's an even older design
Scored this awesome *no pun intended* mech during the bow and arrow quest line with salvage share purchase enabled. Ngl this thing has been my mainstay since. Sure its slow but wirh lancemates in faster lights or mediums to cover this thing can just casually walk right into your face and keep pummeling you mercilessly with its 3 PPC's
I always viewed the Awesome as, effectively, a semi-mobile turret. I always hated when one of those landed on the field. Over two decades later and I still remember the session where ONE Awesome wiped almost my entire two lance strike on a factory. lol
The Free Worlds League also suffered from shortages of PPCs and some Mech variants reflect that
We all know the Free Worlds League suffered a shortage of PPCs because they went to Awesomes.
@@JiyuKishiParn look it up 🤷♂️
4:30 - It added 33% ... because it had 3 and added 1 ...1/3 is 33.33333333....% giving total of 133% of INITIAL firepower ...and you do a "LOGIC CRUNCH REDUCTION" in which you think like it already had 4 and how it would be if they removed 1 ...in that case 1/4 is 25% so it would run at 75% of INITIAL firepower. The less weapons you have, the more each single one rise your firepower in % ...1 single PPC firepower in % has diffirent value depending on how many there are already. It might get confusing at first. i guess...and no, i actually hate math, but don't like errors either.
Cheers and thanks for great content !
I can certainly see the appeal of the Awesome - both in terms of durability and ammo-independent long-range firepower. And since it is so much more readily available than my personal favourites in the succession-wars-era (these being King Crab and Annihilator), I suppose the Awesome would make for an adequate replacement thereof in most situations.
My first assault mech ride. Still my favorite. Simple to use. Walk towards the objective and reduce everything in front of you to rubble.
The other challenge of playing against the classic awesome is it's weight. If you try to run into close range and get inside the min range of the PPC, the Awesome kicks you, and does a lot of damage.
what an awesome video
It's so awesome.
I think I ended up finding that first AWS 8R variant in MW5 that carried 2 large energy and 2 large missile systems. I ended up decking it out with 2 LRM 20s and 2 PPCs it worked as a real nice long range direct and indirect support unit. I think it has to be my favorite of the Awesome mechs
I love me some PPCs, and that's why the 9Q in particular strikes a chord with me.
In an old RPG campaign, my Taurian Mechwarrior upgraded from a Phoenix Hawk to a captured Awesome. That was her ride ever since during the 4th Succession War. She was offered Battlemasters and Atlases, but she said, "I'll never give up baby!"
There’s a reason I chose it as my YT Image, I love my big brick wall of a Mech!
The Awesome became one of the four mechs my unit regularly fielded alongside an Atlas (my command mech) a Commando (best light mech ever) and a Catapult (Later an Archer) after the Draconis Combine STOLE our Star League ers Highlanders. The guy in the Awesome left for a different unit when the guy in the Archer died but came back when we found the highlander that belonged to the guy that died and helped us retrieve it, he also died in that mission and his Awesome was lost as he stayed behind to cover our escape, it was also the most noble thing that character ever did as most of his actions were out of greed and impatience up to that point but sticking it to the Combine trash and getting back his dead friends highlander was more important to him than his life or money as this job had 0 pay, it was done purely out of a sense of loyalty, indignation, and a need to set things right.
Of course that set up later became the inspiration for how many of our custom mechs got built. More reliance on energy weapons that have long ranges and deal devastating damage, lots of armor making it hard to cut through them, plenty of short range power, and plenty of heat Sinks.
While many designs take inspiration from or are built using clan mechs into something completely new they still incorporate these ideals. My Arctodus may be designed with the Kodiak as it's base but it's weapon layout is inspired by the Atlas and outside of its two LRM 10s it's reliance on Energy weapons and having enough heat Sinks to fire them continuously comes from the Awesome. Same with my command mech, it may resemble a Nova Cat but it's heavy armor and payload of energy weapons and heart Sinks is owed to the Awesome. My Artillery quad mech that also uses linked targeting computers may take inspiration from the Catapult for it's Arrow IV/Long Tom/Thumper(whichever variant you choose) but the rest of its weapons were all energy and the ability to fire them continuously came from you guessed it, the Awesome.
If it wasn't impressive enough to rightfully claim that name to begin with that it is the inspiration for so many other mechs, Clan, Inner Sphere, and other should help one to realize just how Awesome it really is.
The Awesome is one of my favorite mechs. Unlike many it actually works well even in 3025 because its so solid. Its flaws are "its not 100 tons", and thats about it. More tonnage for Armor, Heat Sinks, and Weapons would help it, but its not bad by itself.
The Awesome 8R and 8T models bring a variant concept, the missile support Awesome. Still fairly solid.
What I want in an Assault Class battlemech is something that can beat a heavy mech in a direct confrontation. This means more armor, weapons, heat sinks, ammunition, but less speed.
Ton for Ton and C-bill to C-bill, probably the best mech in the game. You could make arguments for the CN9-AL Centurion or the AS7-D Atlas but especially if you're running a campaign where you have to account for logistics, the awesome is the absolutely GOAT.
My old Clan invasion Marik merc unit was made up of an Awesome, Banshee (-3M), Trebuchet and Orion. A friend of mine loved dropping clans but *hated* that Awesome. We could square off with his Executioner and Summoner at range and it made his life hell whenever I could get it in the field.
One day he just said ‘fuck it’ and rushed the Awesome with the Executioner while the Summoner kept the Orion locked down. He almost managed to melee it down but the Banshee was right beside it and between the fists of a 95 tonner and an 80 tonner it just turned to scrap.
Love that old machine. One of the best battle values, ton for ton without question.
The Awesome ... What else can you say about it the name dosent already. Got to love them beefy boy mechs ✊
Kind of interesting how many mechs had variants that went with the XL engine when that became readily available. Seemed like a high risk/high reward kinda thing to me. But I guess it fits some peoples' style.
It's almost like freeing up an average of around a dozen tons is useful or something.
Without a doubt, the Awesome is my go to 'Mech in almost every situation, especially during the Succession Wars era.
A fine choice. :D
Announcer: "New target, Awesome"
Me: D:
An awesome video about an awesome mech. Thank you for the video now to dream about triple PPCs.
Great mech....only real weakness is when fast mechs get so close to exploits the ppc minimum, even then it has a fist n small laser and enough rear armour to survive...great front line zombie mech that can kill anything with 1 lucky head hit :-) all self respecting mercenaries should have one in their company...great vid :-)
To be fair. An awesome is rarely alone and will certainly have lancemates in mediums or lights to keep anyone from trying to flank it. In return the Awesome acts as the shield for said mediums and lights as it can take a srupendous amount of fire before goinf down.. heck. Sonce i got it in mw5 my 8Q rarely suffers an armor breach unless i stay on the front and take constant fire throughout a mission
also take note that Rookie Pilots do not get assigned an Assault Mech.
meaning that whoever is driving that Awesome will have at least a 3 or better gunnery skill. more often a Veteran with a 2 or possibly even 1 and potentially a PPC Specialist.
at this point, minimum range is a minor annoyance readily overcome by experienced handling.
IE. light mechs don't live long in close to an Awesome nor do mediums. anything else has to weather the storm and live long enough to return the favor.
Dash & Blast tactics against an experienced Awesome is suicide!
doing this in one of my games would see you running into not 1, but several Awesomes and their friends in a line breaker company.
The Awesome: Because simplicity can give you great results!
This is awesome. I would say you did an awesome job on showing how awesome the awesome is 🙂. Thank you thank you I'm here all week, be sure to tip your waitress 😀.
I tweak the 'Mech to have better heat control and a little extra armor, but yes, overall, it's one of the best 'Mechs.
Four PPCs... my gods, I think I have a new favourite 'mech.
I always found the arms of the Awesome weird, the way they link up to the shoulder along those thin planes with the big shoulder flaps not connected in any way. I always thought the arms on the Mauler were hand-me-downs from the Awesome.
You said it best, though, the Awesome lives up to its name! Not even being in the Battletech cartoon can stop this monster.
You dont need close range protection if you never let anything get in close. Big brain logic
the profile of the awesome has remained consistently pretty cool but by god some of the earlier art for it was absurd. Arms locked at 90 degrees, a thin piece of sheet metal connecting the arms to the shoulder sockets, what on earth
My favorite mech throughout all the BT games and the first one I bought in MWO. I just wish they didn't make it so wide in MWO.
It should have been wider! People need to know when your there.
Its chest should have been bigger than the dropship :P
Hello Red.
The Awesome. Another favorite Mech. One that I have used extensively in 3025 era games. Some may claim that the Atlas is a superior Mech. I, disagree.
Post Succession Wars, the Awesome has several worthwhile upgrades. Any Merc Commander can appreciate an Awesome's 'awesomeness'. Especially due to the fact that it is relatively 'cheap' to purchase and field, since it carries NO ammunition based weaponry at all.
Although, I will point out that PPCs are NOT common, nor cheap, if you are playing any sort of 'campaign' type gaming. So, a Mercenary Commander will stockpile replacement PPCs whenever they are available and not marked up too high in pricing.
Having more than 2 Awesomes in your forces means that any PPCs that turn up as battlefield salvage become 'primary' picks for the Merc unit. Even, sometimes, above salvaging another Mech, if your supply of PPCs is exhausted, or very scarce.
A very canny Mercenary Commander will purchase old Awesome Mechs for parts. Especially so, if any of the PPCs are still attached to the 'salvage Mech' thus purchased. And ripping PPCs off of Panthers is an old Merc's trick.
I absolutely love the Awesome 8R. A walking bunker with more missiles than God and space for 2 PPC’s or large lasers in the right arm. Favorite assault mech.
Awesome is one of the examples of "lower border weight" bracket mechs that actually does not suck.
Oftentimes, lower weight brackets tend to have too big of an engine for their own good and tend to sacrifice too much for too little gain - like say... a Dragon for example.
Awesome is a mech that knows what it wants to do - dedicated, sustained direct fire support mech. Decently armoured, reasonably mobile, well armed.
It is like Marauder, or Warhammer, but eliminates the heat problems.
It is not a subtle machine by any means, but it does exactly what advertised and does it well.
My third most beloved Assault mech, second being the Highlander, first being the Stalker.
Lol I just bought the awesome and I was like the meme with the lasers🤣
" so anyway I started blasting bang bang"
The Awesome is just such a sick design and classic shape.
Awesome is just awesome. It looks awesome and has awesome firepower. They couldn't get better name for this mech. :)
I agree, it's awesome :P
Can't forget that chunky battle fist. It may not have good close quarters weaponry, but get a little too close and that left arm will pay you a visit in the cockpit.
It's like a Light PPC, but free! :P
6 months late to the party but taking a 8Q in MW5 giving it 4 maxed ppc's and some other upgrades, is a head shot machine. First mission i dropped on in it I insta killed a atlas with a clean AF head shot, nothing else touched. I fell in love that day.
Loving your mech video!
Thanks!
A well around good front hitter in MW 5. Combined with Highlander (leader), stalker (far hitter), and charger (scout) It's a well rounded squad. Each handles the others weaknesses.
I find it funny looking back that Tex & the BPL's first mech video was on this legendary mech & Tex's favorite & yet both Tex & Red only spend 6 minutes on it! What a travesty! Definitely a mech I hope Red does a deep dive on!
Ah, the Tex special. Very angry, very heavy, incredibly tough. Slow, but has enough long range blazing firepower for it to not matter
Wouldn't know what makes it a Tex special, but I'm a big fan of the Awesome.
@@BigRed40TECH I call it that since it's the favorite mechs of one of the definitive 'loremasters' of the Battletech fandom by the Username of Tex.
@@chaosknight9131 Ah, yea, didn't know this was Tex's favourite. Good to know. :)
Hello big red 40 K From Florida. I’m new to your channel I’ve been a lifelong battle tech player. My preferred armies are usually combined arms regiments of the lyran commonwealth. So I watched a video about the awesome and you were spot on with the facts. According to technical readout 3050, the awesome has 3PPCs, And SRM packet and one laser.In your opinion how is the awesome match up against a house Steiner stalker?
I'm not a big fan of the AWS-9M personally. I don't like Inner Sphere ER weapons, I think they generate too much heat sadly.
My least favourite AWS is that design, but the STK-5S also has some problems, like an XL engine, but I think its weapon package is still more managable. It does however, have more ammo, which isn't a good thing.
Hard to know. If its the AWS-9Q, my money would be the AWS easily. 9M? That's going to be a slugfest. Hard to know who'd win.
Not my favorite mech, but the Awesome IS.
This thing is a monster. You can fire it's three guns in ANY combination, can one or two-shot light mechs, its armor makes it virtually a fortress, and it rarely overheats except in the worst firefights or if the pilot forgets he can overheat. It's basically a walking gun. I once called it 'THE big fat panda' and 'the Tyrannosaurus Mech'.
The Awesome has never failed me, ever
Great mech great video.
This one hasn't changed much over the years It serves the same function as a Tiger II or a SU-152 in ASL or Panzer Blitz. It's the truck that is going to run you over, so you move away from the truck...and keep moving...keep moving... I suppose some people are going to tinker with it, but why bother? It's an AWESOME mech, man!! I like how the oddly drawn left hand has over the years morphed into a mace that is a built-in brawling weapon against enemies that crowd it.
Please note the new primier version of the awesome is the Awesome C from the scorpion empire. Basically lets take the 9Q upgrade the ppcs to clan ppcs and double heat sinks and make it a true sniper battleline hybrid its tough it hits like a truck and shreads flankers that try to get near it
Wonder if there's any chance we get a Scorpion Empire video maybe when the fire scorpion comes around!
Tex tested and approved.
The Awesome is pretty cool, for its simplicity, straightforwardness, and its PPCS!
Always a fan of the big freaking weapon systems (Gauss Rifle, PPC, AC 20) and that extends to a fondness for mechs that are built around them. Hollander, Kit Fox, Fafnir, Panther, etc.
Even the freaking Urbanmech!
If I ever grumble about it, its only because everyone and their mum loves the thing. Yes, yes, its lovely, we know :D
I like the Awesome in a defensive role better than using it for breakthrough. Properly supported and in an entrenched position like a hilltop, never running out of ammo and having more armor than anything lighter than itself makes it a very difficult defensive position to assault. This also negates the weakness of slow speed, though it pairs very well with a Stalker in an assault/command lance for that reason.
The targeting distortions from ppcs are also not to be dismissed. If you don´t alpha but do a weapons rotations you can hammer an opponent with a ppc blast every second, the mech will barely be able to find a target to shoot back at before something explodes in it.
Between the Awesome and the Marauder, I can't ever decide what to pilot, in any medium. Tabletop? MW5? MWO? Battletech by Paradox? I always take at least one. Or both. You can't argue with an Awesome, ESPECIALLY if that Awesome is helping to corner you with a Marauder closing in from the side or rear. That, and the Awesome is the only mech I've seen in tabletop and MW5 that has a prayer of either bothering or gunning an Atlas out of the way, or til critical overload.
I run an Awesome build with 4 L-Lasers and 2 PPC's, with a AMS suite and double heat sinks
We all know the Awesome's true heavy weapon, its small laser.
Firstly BOO THIS MAN FOR THE INTRO!!!! So corner
Secondly awesome 👌 👏 👍 video GIVE ME MORE
Come on bro. I had to. :P
@@BigRed40TECH bonk on the head for being corny
@@beskar66 Stop being so OLD Beskar.
personally my go to choice for offensive firepower.
the AWS-9Q knows no equal anywhere. Clan ER PPC's are deadly, but have a deadly downside in unmanageable heat loading with more than 2 aboard despite being lighter and smaller. something many Clan Pilots fail to take seriously.
the AWS 9Q delivers the phrase. Effective Firepower!
4x PPC's and the Heat Sinks to USE them!
nothing more, and no frills or fancy to do it.
it's slow, but who cares about slow when you can melt the center torso off most mechs in 1 round.
only another Assault could theoretically withstand it's assault, but it won't withstand it twice!
those who try the use terrain to close in tactic soon learn that the PPC's minimum Range isn't that big a problem for an Awesome Pilot who knows their machine well. since I tend to put good pilots in Awesomes. they don't miss much and leave a trail of death in their wake.
my only changes, replace the standard Engine with a Clan Tech XL one. replace Heat Sinks with Clan Tech Doubles. I only need 21 of them to run heat neutral.
drop the ECM Suite
a Lance of these supported by a lance of my KGC-100K King Crabs toting twin Gauss Rifles and a lance of Phoenix Hawks to guard the flanks and pick off cripples means I am likely to utterly rip a hole through the enemy line that lighter and faster mechs can exploit and run amok in the rearguard areas.
adored by many.
Respected by All! even the Clans give pause when an Awesome arrives.
their take on the AWS 9Q while terrifyingly deadly cannot cope with it's heat loading. even downgrading to ER Large Lasers only partially compensates
I like it slow but it packs a punch probably be good to use lrm to harass enemies and lure them in and then smashing I wouldn't use it on Open ground probably dominates in City environments as well as mountains that is as long as you don't push up too fast with lighter units LOL
Who needs speed when you can obliterate anything that stands before you?
The Awesome is a great example of the differences between tabletop, lore and video game implementations of the same chassis. I love an Awesome in tabletop or the turn based Battletech video game but they are absolutely terrible in MWO as their ludicrously large side torso are easy meat for pinpoint damage heavy mechs. Even in a PUG game you're not likely to get more than a handful of PPC salvos before somebody or a collection of somebodies reduce you to a big walking stick devoid of side torsos and all of your armament. Too bad too because I just LOVE they way they look.
love the awesome!!!😉
Love it. Love it. Love it. A hulking bruiser with a huge battle fist and three ppcs. What is not to like?
If you don't love it, he's going to PPC him until you love him. lol
@@BigRed40TECH If the ppcs don't work he'll stomp you into a greasy stain.
The Awesome looks MEAN!
It is!
This video is Awesome.
I concur.
My farvorite mech ever 😆
Its in the Name 0:14
You missed the backup weapons on the 9M. 2 streak srm 2s, 1 medium pulse laser, and 1 small pulse laser.
Do the maths, if you start of with 3 PPC's then add a 4th, you increase the firepower by 33.33r %. leona
Razorfist's favorite mech.
With that amount of fire power it didn’t get named the awesome for nothing.
I always wondered why there never was a variant for the SLDF let alone Royal Command. Call it a 8Qb, use FF and 16 DHS allows upgrading to a 320 SFE, more or less rectifying the only negative of the 8Q, and being a VERY cheap upgrade (even more so than the 9Q) and getting the same speed as the 9M but without the fragile XL. You don't get the shiny ERPPCs, but that'd be for the Royals ;)
ERPPC's for the Inner Sphere are just so bad :(
@@BigRed40TECH I run a custom model with 3xPPC with 6xMedium Lulse Lasers and an ER Small Laser in case anyone tries to get under the minimum range of the PPCs
In many ways the awesome is the Marauder done right…
It's a excellent 80 ton assault mech. One of the best
So *that's* what the earlier poll was for? 😘
I try to do polls related in some way to videos coming out. :)
Awesome MechWarriors awesomely pilot awesome Awesomes awesomely.
The Awesome: so awesome, the Clans stole it and made the Hellstar.
Awesome has a massive torso making it easy to hit at all ranges.
In Mechwarrior, definitely. In the Tabletop it's less on an issue. :)
Yes an Awesome is simply Awesome, I'll take one over an Atlas any day of the week and twice on Sunday. There is no need for variants, it's simply perfection at what it does. Personally I don't care for the XL engine version, it decreases its durability.
You don't need durability as much when most of your targets die before they can get you in range.
Big ppc energy
Big swinging PPC right there .. 🤣
Everybody comes for that PPC but all he's giving those badguys is the D.
Nice electrical system you got over there 800m away. Shame if it went on the fritz every few seconds.
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The Awesome is awesome for one reason. Because it's a fucking awesome. If you get hit with just two of the three PPCs, you better be a crack pilot because if not, you're out of the fight struggling to get back to your feet. And fancy that you got to your feet; good for you because there's another volley coming. Oh and if you want to bar fight an awesome, that small laser is just the welcome wagon to a pounding you will never forget.
That said, Awesome is godlike in the open or on high ground. If there is ample cover, it is an 80 ton paper weight.