The 'Mechs that never see use in your games

[truetanker]

Never got a chance to run this.

Panther-9K
Urbanmech-R60
Urbanmech-R60
Stalker-3F

BV2: 3,336 PV: 86

But I have high hopes of doing so...

And as for every mech that uses a ton of MG ammo, 200 points of BOOM is overkill...

TT

[Sartris]

I don't even own one in metal.

They're HUGE

[Mattlov]

I'm very aware of how enormous it is, it's one of the reasons I don't own one!  :D

[Luciora]

I bought a Targe before I even knew what the stats were.  One of the only few regrets I had buying minis.

[Death by Lasers]

  Gigads it is ginormous!  I can already think of a fluff explanation: the Targe is mostly filled with helium to make it more light on its feet.  This also makes it hilarious when one suffers a core breach.

  Imagines the last words recovered from a Targe's black box: "Armor down to critical to levels!  Torso breached!" *sounds of a gas leak in the background, voice begins getting progressively more "chipmunch" sounding*  "Heat at critical levels! Ammunition cooking off!" *voice now at a high pitched squeal* "Ejectiiiiiinnnnng!"

[Tymers Realm]

As someone not entirely familiar with anything post-3055, besides the King Crab and the Targe (looked that up on Sarna), what are the other 4 pictured?

[Mattlov]

Left to right:

DA King Crab, King Crab, Kraken/Bane XR, Targe, Pillager Anvil, Kraken/Bane 4.

Everything except the Targe is 100 tons.  The Targe is 40.

[Ice_Trey]

The captured clan mechs I have (Behemoth 1, Grizzly 1, Grendel, Arcas), because the BV is way too high to field against anything but other clan players.

My Naginata, which is only good to use in big games where you can keep a stronger perimeter to avoid getting flanked

My Hatamoto Chi, because if it's not Single Heat Sinked, the BV breaches the 2000 mark, making it not worth the price.

My Akuma, because all that ammo without CASE, and the biggest gun is the MRM30, which is only useful against slow targets with +1 TMMs.

My Crusader. Again, MRM30s only work against slow targets.

Sunder - Expensive and fragile

Daikyu - I don't mind the UAC5s in multiples, but it's expensive because it has too much engine. Speaking of which...
Dragon/Grand Dragon - Too much engine for any role but in support of lighter units.
Raptor / Kabuto - not bad, but I prefer jump capability and/or C3 support.
Hachiwara - Up until recently, all the experimental tech on the Solaris designs weren't used in most groups. I've never used it outside of megamek.

[Kit deSummersville]

My Akuma, because all that ammo without CASE, and the biggest gun is the MRM30, which is only useful against slow targets with +1 TMMs.

There are other versions of the Akuma that don't mount MRMs.

[Wrangler]

Thunderbolt IIC - Mini is to darn big.  I painted and everything in Rho Galaxy colors. It's a crime as well, since it's image by Matt Plogg is awesome.

Targe is to big as well, IWM messed up big time on sizing of that thing.  It has better stats in the late Dark Age

[Kit deSummersville]

Targe is to big as well, IWM messed up big time on sizing of that thing.  It has better stats in the late Dark Age

That's like saying the week old garbage smells better than the month old garbage.

[Mattlov]

There are other versions of the Akuma that don't mount MRMs.

And some that mount MORE!!!!

[Lord greystroke]

Thinking on this topic I suddenly realised I don't think I have used a panther more then once in the past 20 odd years that i have played consistently I may have before then but i doubt it

[Ice_Trey]

There are other versions of the Akuma that don't mount MRMs.

While true, it's been added recently enough that I've not been able to use it. Other alternatives are very heavy on experimental tech, which I've yet to try. Many players are still stand-offish about tech from the FCCW and Jihad.

Games are less regular when your only player is 2 hours by bullet train away.

[Kit deSummersville]

While true, it's been added recently enough that I've not been able to use it.
Games are less regular when your only player is 2 hours by bullet train away.

C'mon, it's been half a decade.

[sadlerbw]

Another thread in the fan section recently made me realize I'd never once played with or against a Lao Hu. Not even in MegaMek. I didn't avoid it intentionally, it just never came up. I'd never once played with any of its variants. I still haven't had a REAL game with them, but I made a point to at least give them a try in MegaMek. Turns out I like the Lao Hu quite a bit. I stuck it in a lance with a Thunder, a Ti Ts'ang, and an Anubis and had a fun time pummeling things. This game still probably has too many dang units, but I admit that 'finding' this one was kind of fun!

[Wrangler]

I've never seen Alfar in action before nor in action either.
It's a early Star League Mech used by the Lyrans which replaced some of the primitive Shadow Hawk and Griffin mechs. Itself was replaced by modern versions of the older machines.  The fluff reasoning is that they were high maintenance.