Mm...okay, I'll admit, I didn't think of going all XL and stuff right away. Just some retooling of already existing lines. :) I was considering going the boosted C3 route myself for a bit, though; I just figured that since C3B still gets blocked by Angel ECM I'd get more flexibility out of just mounting one of those myself for the same weight, either for ECCM purposes or where that should prove unnecessary for some creative jamming of my own. (I suppose C3B has some more perks at tables where the ECCM rules just aren't used, although I don't know how many of those there are considering they're in the very same book as both C3B and AECM.)
Bit unsold on that scout hunter; as I've mentioned in the VotW thread, I see a lot of the Minion's primary value in actually acting as a spotter with some backup guns, which that model (like the canon TC one) forswears in favor of just trying to hit things. Now a 9-point hit at -4 at knife-fighting ranges is nothing to sneeze at, there are plenty of 'Mechs on which that will go internal on a rear torso somewhere...but with only the ability to deliver a single one of those each turn it's literally rather a one-trick pony.
