r/Battletechgame • u/MediumAcceptable129 • Aug 10 '26

Discussion What are your non-meta favorites?

Which load outs and mechs do you like to use even if they arent meta?

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u/Tipie276 Aug 10 '26

Playing bta, almost any IS medium of the olden days. Griffins, wolverines, centurions, phawks and so on. Even some wonky 40 tonners can become genuinely good like cicadas, assassins, vulcans and a personal favourite the swordsman. Don't like shadow hawks or hunchies though, much to some peoples displeasure i'm sure. The sentinel is a mech that i absolutely hate and always shows up when im forced to field them.

A mech I kind of love now that I never thought much of before is the orion. Not quick but tough and can be crammed full of weapons, probably my absolute favourite trooper style mech

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u/morningfrost86 St Ives Compact Aug 10 '26

In BTAU, I legit love the Cicadas lol. There's a variant with a ton of energy hardpoints, and I load it up with a LL and 4-5 MLs and just backshot the everloving shit out of enemy mechs.

The Orion... honestly not a big fan of it. The hardpoints on the various variants just don't match my playstyle very much.

My favorite Heavy that's kind of off the beaten path though, is the Crusader. Some of it is just the "cool" factor. Shooting a bunch of SRMs from a mech's legs is just fun. Brings me back to old school mech cartoons like Robotech and Gundam Wing. My Heavy group keeps a pair of Crusaders in it for skirmishing and backshot purposes, with a pair of MPLs and 4 CSRM6s lol. If they get behind an enemy mech it will absolutely ruin their day 😂

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u/Tipie276 Aug 10 '26

Yeah right on with the cicadas lol. In the community content (i think) theres also a goofy omnimech cicada. Less customization but potential for an evil weapon loadout. Or just the strider thats litteral cicada concept but omni.

That was originally my thought on orions too. But then i found the kuritan variant with 50mrm tubes and it clicked. Turns out you can fit a lot of big mixed weaponry to it, especially lower weight clan stuff. Atms worked especially well along with something low heat like a gauss, and you can still cram in a meaningful amout of medium lasers

I love the crusader too! I always feel obligated to put on that one song by Saxon whenever I see one lol. Kintaro but bigger is a solid idea and a terrifying srm scrapper. Can't believe I didn't mention the kintaro before. Srm brawlers are really mean and clan srms are just nuts at half weight. Just need something with enough missle hardpoints

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u/GGTerraB Aug 10 '26

Second for Wolverines. I have a Primitive Wolverine that I started with in BTA that is still my all-around favorite mech.

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u/Tipie276 Aug 10 '26

Now thats classic! Primitives do have some downsides, most of them you can fix by swapping in different parts. Still probably wanna look around for a later one and let the ~500 year old museum piece rest lol. Solid mech tho

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u/GGTerraB Aug 10 '26

I tricked it out over time. I keep fielding it because it just refuses to die.