When I played campaigns we used it as a command mech. It can serve in a lot of lances with it's acceptable speed and variety of weapons, and it is well armored for it's weight class.
@AccessAccess It's a great choice for command (think there was even a command/dual cockpit variant mentioned at some point), and serves well for a long enduring player 'mech as well!
In the first tabletop game I took a Fafnir in it headshot the Orion. A veteran 3/4 Fafnir 5X is incredibly expensive but this one managed to pay for itself before being turned to slag. Killed something each turn, except the one where it's shots hit partial cover dirt. 10k game, so at 3445 pts it was over a forces. The person I played against sent me a message today that they just headshot an Orion with their Fafnir, so that's added amusement.
One of the best. Need to use it more often, personally. 19:48 The spoiled post-3050 player in me agrees wholeheartedly with this statement, but the more reserved Succession Wars player in me has to dispute you here. It's not the heat sinks you're running into an issue with, it's your overconfident banzai charging play style. The Orion is a fantastic brawler, but it's more than that. It's a bracket fighter with a solution for every situation. When you're firing the LRMs and autocannon, you're not going to be firing the lasers and SRM. When you get in close and holes start appearing in your enemy's armor, that's when you want to drop a medium laser or two and start using the SRMs alongside the autocannon. Try to think of it less like a small Atlas and more like the left half of a Stalker, and all the tactical considerations that come with that idea.
@WolfHreda Hehe, you've got me there. While I may not be as Alpha-Strike happy as my younger self, I do still have a nasty habit of opening up for as much damage as possible and looking at my heat gague a little too infrequently. I suppose I should have said, "It needs heat sinks if you want to brawl hard and fast," to be more accurate. Still a great machine either way!
When I played campaigns we used it as a command mech. It can serve in a lot of lances with it's acceptable speed and variety of weapons, and it is well armored for it's weight class.
@AccessAccess It's a great choice for command (think there was even a command/dual cockpit variant mentioned at some point), and serves well for a long enduring player 'mech as well!
In the first tabletop game I took a Fafnir in it headshot the Orion. A veteran 3/4 Fafnir 5X is incredibly expensive but this one managed to pay for itself before being turned to slag. Killed something each turn, except the one where it's shots hit partial cover dirt.
10k game, so at 3445 pts it was over a forces.
The person I played against sent me a message today that they just headshot an Orion with their Fafnir, so that's added amusement.
@@ObiwanNekody Ah the Fafnir, my classic favorite. As tough as the Orion is, very little can withstand Twin Heavy Gauss rifles!
Thank you for sharing 😊
@@ObiwanNekody Absolutely!
One of the best. Need to use it more often, personally.
19:48 The spoiled post-3050 player in me agrees wholeheartedly with this statement, but the more reserved Succession Wars player in me has to dispute you here. It's not the heat sinks you're running into an issue with, it's your overconfident banzai charging play style.
The Orion is a fantastic brawler, but it's more than that. It's a bracket fighter with a solution for every situation. When you're firing the LRMs and autocannon, you're not going to be firing the lasers and SRM. When you get in close and holes start appearing in your enemy's armor, that's when you want to drop a medium laser or two and start using the SRMs alongside the autocannon. Try to think of it less like a small Atlas and more like the left half of a Stalker, and all the tactical considerations that come with that idea.
@WolfHreda Hehe, you've got me there. While I may not be as Alpha-Strike happy as my younger self, I do still have a nasty habit of opening up for as much damage as possible and looking at my heat gague a little too infrequently. I suppose I should have said, "It needs heat sinks if you want to brawl hard and fast," to be more accurate.
Still a great machine either way!