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PostPosted: 08-Apr-2005 10:32    Post subject: User Review: Phoenix Hawk PHX-17 Reply to topic Reply with quote

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On 2005-03-29, Blackhand wrote:
As a Phoenix Hawk is okay. Better than a lot of 3050+ upgrades in cannon. Trading the TAG for Machine gun/half ton of ammo would be good in my mind as this mech usually ends up in scout units who frequently bump into infantry in various bases.

I like the reasoning behind the denial of ER weapons on this design. It just seems to run too hot and needs something to kill infantry.

TAG kind of seems out of place to me, because this is a decent scout mech. Why add something that means it can't fire its weapons.



The idea was to deploy this in a lance with other PHX-1s, or some Stingers, in order to provide infantry defense. If you run into a big cluster of infantry who are well dug in, this can light them up with the TAG and your artillery can finish the job with no risk to your 'mechs.

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PostPosted: 08-Apr-2005 23:50    Post subject: RE: User Review: Phoenix Hawk PHX-17 Reply to topic Reply with quote

I'm a little confused on this one. He said TAG is good then he said TAG is bad. Which is it? Good or bad?

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PostPosted: 10-Apr-2005 01:20    Post subject: RE: User Review: Phoenix Hawk PHX-17 Reply to topic Reply with quote

Use tag in a match.

Realise you have to turn off all the rest of your guns to use it = BAD

Realising that on a hot design turning off your guns to call in the arty will cool you down = GOOD

Its both. Its a weapon I FREQUENTLY hate knowing I have. Its a calculated risk to use. The hotter the mech runs firing one of its brackets the more use it gets out of the TAG. As for how hot it needs to run before its useful. I've never found that number yet.
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PostPosted: 10-Apr-2005 09:50    Post subject: RE: User Review: Phoenix Hawk PHX-17 Reply to topic Reply with quote

MASC is also a calculated risk to use. As are UAC's. It's part of the game. A calculated risk is also stepping onto the field of battle.

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