@tennmuerti: It feels like they did. I don't run scared whenever I see clan mechs and I do pretty well.
Someone was saying jack-of-all trades builds are garbage but that just hasn't been my exprience. I run thunderbolts and orions with fairly balanced weapon loadouts and I'm loving it.
There totally are rear-mounted weapons in the lore (I kinda wish they'd implement them in the games just as a neat thing). I've killed an enemy in the board game with a butt-mounted small laser, it was awesome.
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