Your favorite mech/tank/aero/etc. to use in a game

[Sgtops54]

A good old fashion Crusader mech.

[Armond]

Mechs: Grendel, Zeus, Thunderbolt, Enforcer
Vehicles: Manticore, Hunter, Vedette

[Rainbow 6]

For me it has to be the Stormcrow, whilst I do not get to use it as often as i would like it always seems to do well for me.

[RoundTop]

There's a general theme going on here, but I can't quite place my finger on it.

Was my avatar not enough of a hint?

[Sartris]

Was my avatar not enough of a hint?

I was going to say they all had an odd number of letters but the Tokugawa screws they up

Back to square one...

[Verloren Hoop]

Ive got several favorites in each class; hard to pick just one.  Not surprising I tend to play a lot of mercs and FWL (although I hate UAC’s and try to avoid IS ERLLs).

Assault: Awesome (Berserker is a close second.  Those things are just scary)
Heavy: tie between the T-bolt (especially the 7SE—I get a crazy amount of headcaps with it) and the Orion. 
Medium: wolverine (6M and 9M) and the Huron Warrior
Light: Night Hawk


On the clan side of things:
Assault: Savage Coyote C (this either really works or really falls apart)
Heavy: Night Gyr
Medium: Stooping Hawk (especially C)
Light: Hellion

[Saint]

Mechs
Assault : Rampage, so so beautiful .
Heavy: Marauder , the whole reason I got into Btech
Medium : Shadowhawk,  The New Classic won me over
Light:Javelin awesome little speedster


Tanks:Saracen, great looks and multiroll unit.

Infantry: Ravager and Marauder.  What can I say I'm a Marion fan.

Aero: Shilone again because of the Marians

[The Eagle]

A good old fashion Crusader mech.

You sir are a brave man.

[guardiandashi]

in a lot of ways it depends on the era.

with that said I have been a huge fan of several mechs for a long time:
marauder, 3R, 3D in 3025ish 5S in 3050
Phoenix Hawk
I also really like the Marauder II's

for the Clans I like the timberwolf, and Direwolf a lot

there are of course a lot of other designs I like, along with a bunch of personal custom designs like the "wolf pup" which I have posted in the custom mechs section

[Ferrosol]

It's hard to pick just one.

Lights: The Locust is the quintessential light mech for me. I'll take any variant but the 5M and the 6M are particular favourites. Honorable mentions to the spider and the Jenner too.

Medium: This was a much more difficult choice for me as there are a lot of good mediums out there but I'd have to go with the Wolverine especially the 6M or the 7K or the 7M or well everything but the 6R. Honorable mentions though to the Wraith and P-Hawk.

Heavies: Again a difficult choice but I have to go with the Orion. If it was good enough for Kerensky and good enough for Teddy K it's good enough for me. Again especially fond of the 2M but I'll take any variant of the Orion. Honorable mentions to the Archer and the Barghest though.

Assaults: Stalker no questions asked. It's a threat at damn near every range and I'd take nearly every model of it bar the godawful Stalker II. Honorable mentions to the Pillager and the Awesome for doing the stand and deliver assault mission better than anything else.

Battle Armour: The elemental is still the gold standard of BA. Other suits may outperform it in specific roles but as a general purpose BA it's hard to beat. For the Inner Sphere though nothing quite induces such pants-filling terror as a Grenadier or a Kopis in a dark alley.

Tanks: Pegasus is the light tank for me. Fast enough to dodge. Heavily armed enough to be a threat to any mechs rear armour. On the heavier side there's the Alacorn and the Demolisher but my favourite is still the Ontos I'm particularly fond of the Light Gauss version and the LRM version.

Aero I can't comment on because  I never play with Aero although I will learn how someday...

[Crimson Dawn]

Do note that I really do not have much experience with the tabletop game so some of these are just ideas that I like or sometimes what visuals I like.

Battle armor- elemental mostly since it is the only one I know of and I also know it is effective.

tank- Patton mostly for the look it actually looks like a tank.

Aerospace fighter-corsair because it looks cool and has a lot of energy weapons.

light mech- spider.  Honorable mention the Urbanmech because it is hilarious though I am bad and give mine a PPC.

medium mech- phoenix hawk and wolverine if older tech and the Agrotera if newer.  Honorable mention bushwacker.

heavy mech- grasshopper and thunderbolt.  Honorable mention of the catapult.

Assault mech- battlemaster unless I am allowed my version of an atlas in which case the atlas.  Honorable mention thug due to mechwarrior 2 mercenaries.

Mech Assault- Thor because 4 machine guns wins the game no joke.  Also heavy mech with jump jets.

favorite weapon- PPC  Seriously most of the mechs on my list either have one or I give them one usually instead of autocannons which I tend to dislike.

favorite equipment- jump jets because I always want to get everywhere.

[FedRatCowboy]

Mech: Spector-5F, my custom Phoenix Hawk (if stock a -6D), Warhammer-8D, and the Devastator-2.

Vehicles: Alcorn Mark 6, Challenger X MBT, Yellow Jacket VTOL, and Myrmidon.

Battle Armor: Infiltrator Mk. II, Hauberk, and Nighthawk.

Areo: Corsair, Dagger, and Stuka-D7.

Its a heavy Davion lineup, but that is just my style.

[JPArbiter]

Here is a question, have you ever played a unit that you did not care for that you were suprisingly successful ?

The Jagermech went from a mech i loathed like most to being a mech I respected when playing the sword and Dragon Starterboook with my wife, and David Hills Jagermech became the MVP of the campaign.  Across an 18month deployment, he scored 37 killshots or assists including killing Shannon Burghoz (ammo explosion) Emory Wilk (failed seatbelt check) and Eldin Beradenelli (cored) in the final confrontation with the Sabres.