Micro Pulse Lasers

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

The only thing i couldnt really grasp were the Bombast Lasers. Heavy Lasers i can appreciate and understand. All of the weapons above i can understand. But what exactly are the benefits of installing a bombast or binary laser instead of just putting two large lasers in that arm? :) i aint saying its useless... i just dont understand how this weapon might be used and why? :D

Blazers are useful for the IS because they're a headcapper.  If the HPPC hadn't been added to the game two years earlier, we'd probably all have a more positive view of them.

Bombast lasers, OTOH, are rather pointless.  They're a Solaris weapon and really aren't worth using anywhere else.

[Cryhavok101]

Blazers are great in their era, since they are available in 3025. Heavy PPCs weren't available until 3067. During the succession wars, the Blazer's only competion as a headcapper was the AC/20.

If you don't play in the Succession Wars era, the blazer isn't very good.

The bombast laser is a great weapon to sell your enemy on.

[Luciora]

The Bombast was MS's idea for MW4 that got canonized, unfortunantly.  Great for console gaming for that big energy bang, but otherwise......

[Weirdo]

Anything that can take a mech's head off is by definition not pointless. It may be inefficient as all hell, but that's not what we're looking at. The question is if it has a job, not if anything else does the job better.

[GermanSumo]

gotcha. thanks for the answers, everybody. got it now! :D

[Hellraiser]

Looking over Clan Micro Pulse Lasers, they seem like yet another pointless weapon (like MRMs, LGR's, and such).

Is this a common consensus, or do they actually have some kind of worthwhileness I'm just not seeing?

I'm curious what Clan weapons are worthwhile, and which are generally considered white elephants?

If you consider MRMs & LGRs pointless then I'd say you haven't been using them correctly :)
Niche for sure, but pointless..... OH NO.

Micropulse are fine for Battle Armor, Vehicles, & Light Mechs that need to deal w/ infantry.
I might not put them on my Direwolf but that isn't saying much.

I have very little use for Heavy-Small Lasers.  (Firemoth-H I'm looking at you)
They are super cheap for BV, but I'm not a fan of the results I get having to be so close to get a decent to-hit #

[Col Toda]

The Battle Armor and anti-infantry use for the micro pulse laser has been addressed , I will move on to the MRM and Light Gauss Rifle . The MRM before Apollo FCS you would be correct but after in conjunction with C3 it shines . It is meant to be used with C3 as evidenced by the stock Shugenja, with 1 MRM 30 and the Catapult model with 2 MRM 30s , 2 med pulse lasers and a C3 slave clearly shows this. As for the Light Gauss Rifle it shines in Aerospace combat as it has an extended range bracket and does enough damage to break the threshold number of 90 percent of aerospace fighters armor. Throw that in with pocket warships and Navel C3 a warship with a bay of 5 LGR gets ugly . For ground units you are mostly correct as to it's utility for the tonnage , but I have seen a few fast units with Stealth Armor and targeting computers that make a modest argument for them . 1 Brackets permit you to be in medium range while the enemy is at long and the weapon tonnage is evenly divided by 4 for computer weight purposes and a single ton of ammo is normally enough while a standard Gauss Rifle requires 2 tons of ammo minimum . It has it's niche any era it exists for ground combat before the Dark Age ERA . The Dark Age ERA tends to have as common practice designs with a single Clan tech spec weapon so the Light Gauss Rifle is less of a win tonnage wise .

[Nightsong]

I'm not a FWL fan, but I actually rather like the Light Gauss, especially as a refit for older AC/10 carrying units, giving them a role as cheap direct fire support units. Take a few CN9-As with some surplus Imperator IIs replacing the old Luxor-Ds and you've got a nice group of snipers.

I rather like MRMs as well but that's because I'm a long time C3 player. If not playing with C3, though I'd prefer to have them on units with high mobility. (imagined a salvaged Blitzkrieg with an MRM40 and a Supercharger to put the fear of Itano into someone...)

[JadeHellbringer]

I'm not a FWL fan, but I actually rather like the Light Gauss, especially as a refit for older AC/10 carrying units, giving them a role as cheap direct fire support units. Take a few CN9-As with some surplus Imperator IIs replacing the old Luxor-Ds and you've got a nice group of snipers.

I rather like MRMs as well but that's because I'm a long time C3 player. If not playing with C3, though I'd prefer to have them on units with high mobility. (imagined a salvaged Blitzkrieg with an MRM40 and a Supercharger to put the fear of Itano into someone...)

This guy? He gets it.

Remember, the LGR is a Marik weapon. VERY few Marik units are designed to just be fantastic right out of the box- they're meant to work as part of a group. So what looks often like an underwhelming weapon, or platform for that weapon, becomes a part of a larger picture- one that can become absolutely terrifying if built and used right.

So yeah, the LGR is a big, heavy, clumsy weapon that only does eight points of damage. It has great range, yes, but still, eight points. Four of them though from the Centurions mentioned above? That's a little worrisome- that's four hits coming in at ranges where you may not even be able to respond, or at least where their medium range bracket starts where your long range is still going on. That adds up fast, even on an assault Mech. Now back that with signature Marik LRM support, some close-range muscle in case things get in under the umbrella... and a company with an LGR lance becomes a very tough nut to crack.