r/battletech • u/StatsPilot • 9h ago

Tabletop Classic Tabletop Long Range lobber preference

My group is playing an Amaris War era campaign. The good guys are naturally the SLDF.

For the next game, it's recommended to either bring speed or range. My question is: what would the advantage be to bringing an Archer over a Catapault? The archer has LRM 20s to the Catapaults LRM 15s, but not even enough heat sinks to shoot and move. Both are the same speed, but the Catapault has jump jets.

I turn to the wisdom of the crowd if I might be missing something.

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u/1001WingedHussars Gauss enjoyer 8h ago

The archer variant with 4 light PPCs and two LRM 20 racks slaps. Sure it only moves 3/5 but when you can reach out and touch basically everyone on a mapsheet, it doesnt really matter.

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u/AGBell64 8h ago

I think you're probably thinking of the 9M which is pretty decent but unfortunately for OP:

My group is playing an Amaris War era campaign

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u/StatsPilot 8h ago

Exactly, yeah. Otherwise it's an easy choice!