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#3802199 - 06/27/13 04:09 PM HBK-4H looks to be one of my best rides... how about a Cata?  
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So I went on a little winning rampage for a little while last night and this morning in my HBK-4H. For some reason I hadn't really been running either of my hunchies lately and had been sticking with mostly Dragons, my Atlas, with some Cats thrown in every now and then. I just checked my stats and saw that my HBK-4H has my highest W/L ratio at 1.71 and second highest K/D ratio at 1.20. Surprise! I guess I'd just read too many "mediums are useless" posts and let that perception override what my actual results were.

My 4H is set up like this: HBK-4H Probably runs a little hot (especially since I tend to fire all the ML at once). For whatever reason, that mech and loadout seems to work well with my tactics and play style.

So I was thinking of getting Jagers next, but then I started wondering if I should go with Cataphracts and try to create loadouts that kind of match my 4H. I just threw these together real quick:

CTF-1X
CTF-2X
CTF-3D

These are just quick ideas, totally not optimized. I'd definitely play around with the 3D more to better utilize tonnage and crit space, and try ways to use both ballistics hardpoints maybe. I could maybe find ways to squeeze a 300 or 300XL (in place of the 280's and 280XL repsectively) to make myself a little faster if I needed to.

Have any of you guys run builds like these? How were they?

I'm up to 16M CB right now... starting to feel the burn...


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#3804191 - 07/02/13 10:08 PM Re: HBK-4H looks to be one of my best rides... how about a Cata? [Re: malibu43]  
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Went ahead and bought a CTF-1X and set it up like this:

CTF-1X

Had a few low scoring matches (one at 53 damage, ouch!) and then started to get the hang of it. Last match was over 400 damage, 2 kills, and 3 assists. I just had to remember to be a little more patient...


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#3804226 - 07/03/13 12:00 AM Re: HBK-4H looks to be one of my best rides... how about a Cata? [Re: malibu43]  
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That's my kind of build there! I may have to give those another chance and try that out.


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#3804493 - 07/03/13 02:42 PM Re: HBK-4H looks to be one of my best rides... how about a Cata? [Re: Raw Kryptonite]  
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Originally Posted By: Raw Kryptonite
That's my kind of build there! I may have to give those another chance and try that out.


The build is fun and simple. That's for sure. It doesn't work very well in a PPC/Gauss snipe-fest on Alpine or Tourlamine. But, if you can get into a brawl (and preferable have a friendly Atlas or Stalker to attract some attention...), you can deal some massive damage. I've had a few more <200 dmg matches, but I've also had a few >500 dmg matches as well. And that's something I didn't usually do before.


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