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/WestRider3025 Canopian Queerasser 7h ago

Catapult. They both average out to about the same damage per turn when you take into account the Archer's breaks for cooling, but the Cat stays more consistent, and is much better at brawling with its lasers once the missiles run out.