Actually I'm curious....
Why is it that everyone is getting 300k BV designs, but mine is only 190k according to Megamek?
A Killer Whale launcher (your primary weapon) is 769 BV. A HNPPC (Puppy's primary weapon) is 3780 BV. A NAC/35 (my primary weapon) is 4956 BV.
Your ship is 64x Killer Whale and 48x NL/55 = 49,216 + 66,528 = 115,744 base weapon BV(ignoring small weapons, ammo, and the mass driver).
Mine is 24x NAC/35, 8x HNGauss, 32x HNPPC, and 48x NL/55 = 118,944 + 48,384 + 120,960 + 66,528 = 354,816 base weapon BV.
Puppy's is 60x HNPPC and 4x HNGauss = 226,800 + 24,192 = 250,992 base weapon BV.
Giovanni's is 48x HNPPC, 24x AR-10, 8x LNGauss, and 64x NL/55 = 181,440 + 23,064 + 24,192 + 88,704 = 317,400 base weapon BV.
The actual BV formulas do get more complicated, including stuff like heat efficiency and arc positioning. But for a first approximation, that's why our BVs are so much higher. Killer Whales just aren't very powerful weapons - your NLs actually do slightly more total damage than your missiles, despite the smaller number of weapons, and your total capital-weapon damage is pretty low. And really, that in turn boils down to your substantial weight investment in things that aren't capital weapons - 51kton in advanced fighter and small craft bays, and just over 200kton in cargo.
I had less than 38kton total between all my bays, which gives me over 200 kton of capital weapons and armor that you don't have. Probably closer to 300 kton when you consider that my ship is also a fair bit heavier(2.4Mton vs 2.1 Mton).
Puppy's ship was even heavier than mine at 2.5Mton, and had less than 15kton total in all his bays, so he has even more space to play with. He spent more of that weight on the HNPPCs than I did, which are somewhat less weight-efficient (hence why his weapon BV is lower than mine), but he would really beat the tar out of me at long ranges, which is what that mass buys him.
Giovanni's bays are around 75kton, so a bit heavier than mine, but his slightly lighter armor gives him more weaponry than I have, and again he'd beat me soundly at long ranges.
Also, if you add in the fighter forces that'd accompany our ships, your BV will climb a fair bit more than ours. You have 152 more fighters than I do - at 1k average BV each, your total force would have a BV slightly higher than mine.
