Cougar

Cougar
Class:	Light Mech
Faction:	Clan
Ticket cost:	4 upon destruction
Tier:	5
Tonnage:	35 tons
Speed:	86.4 km/h (120 km/h with MASC)
Torso yaw:	280°
Torso pitch:	-35° to +40° while standing -35° to +50° while crouching
Variant Armament
Variant	Weapons	Equipment
Prime: Price: 49 900 CBills Total armor: 34 335 Engine Size: 175 JF Extralight	2x CLPL 2x CLRM5 1x B-Pod	EOptics 6 DHS 0 free tons 7t Armor
A: Price: 53 150 CBills Total armor: 34 335 Engine Size: 175 JF Extralight	3x Heavy Flamer 1x HLL 1x ATM6 (HE) 1x CSRM6	iJJ 2 DHS 0 free tons 7t Armor
B: Price: 49 200 CBills Total armor: 32 400 Engine Size: 175 JF Extralight	2x CLBX5 1x CERPPC	EOptics iJJ 1 DHS 0 free tons 6.5t Armor
C: Price: 51 800 CBills Total armor: 32 400 Engine Size: 175 JF Extralight	2x CLRM15 2x CERML 1x CNARC	JJ 2 DHS 0 free tons 6.5t Armor
D: Price: 58 000 CBills Total armor: 34 335 Engine Size: 175 JF Extralight	2x CDSSRM4 2x HML 1x B-Pod	GECM iJJ 3 DHS 2 free tons 7t Armor
E: Price: 49 300 CBills Total armor: 32 400 Engine Size: 175 JF Extralight	3x CERML 2x ATM6 (Std)	EOptics JJ 2 DHS 2 free tons 6.5t Armor
F: Price: 55 350 CBills Total armor: 34 335 Engine Size: 175 JF Extralight	5x CSPL 2x CDSRM4	BAP iJJ 4 DHS 2 free tons 7t Armor
G: Price: 51 300 CBills Total armor: 32 400 Engine Size: 175 JF Extralight	2x CERLL 2x ATM6 (ER)	EOptics JJ 2 DHS 0 free tons 6.5t Armor
Armor Points Distribution
BT HD LA LL LT CT RT RA RL INT 2966 1380 2595 2595 4004 3213 5561 3213 2595 4004 2402

All stats current as of release 0.18.2

Most Cougars are fire support 'mechs. Cougars have good armor for its weight class and lots of weapons. Unfortunately, they have large hitboxes and slow speed for a light 'mech, often making them an easy target. Moreover, they are generally overgunned and struggle to use all of their arsenal at once; it is often prudent to rely on only a subset of its weapons at a time in extended engagements. Most Cougars function best at long-range. For those Cougars with short-range weapons, it is important to stay close to allies.

Roles and Gameplay Hints

Prime

An early-game long-range fire support 'mech. Can also twist fight. Good at cutting off individual components.

Player Comments:

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Group fire the cLPLs except against BA or when hot. Twist fighting makes the cLRM5s useless except at close range where they can be dumb-fired.

- Warlord Kentax

Variant A

A mid-game generalist, but works best as a brawler. Struggles against fast-moving Light 'mechs because all its weapons are relatively easy to dodge at speed. 3 Heavy Flamers are a major threat to all assets when they connect but a creative approach using its iJJs and engaging an already-engaged and distracted enemy will pay major dividends.

Variant B

Dedicated jump sniper.

Variant C

Fire support LRM Boat with self-NARCing capabilities and extremely limited ammo. Strong against slow enemies. Very weak against fast enemies.

Player Comments:

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After NARCing a target, flick the LRMs. Chain fire the LRMs for heat management. Use on open maps with ammo bases or with allied APCs.

- Warlord Kentax

Variant D

Stealthy skirmisher and brawler. Best on maps with rough terrain and short- to mid-range sight-lines.

Player Comments:

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Chain fire the SSRMs to spread out screen shake. Runs a bit expensive for a Cougar, best purchased when jump jets are needed and a Hellhound or Shadowcat are just a little too pricey.

- Warlord Kentax

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Variant E

Early game upgrade. Excellent fire-support, great choice on cold maps.

Player Comments:

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Create a second weapon group for chain firing the cERMLs to better manage heat. Watch out for the minimum range on the ATM6s.

- Warlord Kentax

Variant F

Extremely powerful brawler, one of the best for its tonnage. A go-to "starter" for Solaris Arena.

Player Comments:

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Have a second weapon group for both the cSPLs and cDSRM4s to help deal with heat and more quickly kill BA. High alpha makes the F good at seek-and-destroy tactics as well as capturing heavily defended objectives.

- Warlord Kentax

Variant G

Extreme long-range fire support 'Mech. Best on open maps and with NARC or TAG support.

Player Comments:

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Chain fire all weapons in order to better manage heat. Can use Jump Jets to get to an excellent LRM camping vantage point, but struggles with limited ammo. Too hot to jump snipe.

- Warlord Kentax

Historical

Variant A

Had a cLRM15, a cDSRM6 and two cMPL until version 0.18.0.

Player Comments:

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Works best within 350m. Good choice against enemy LRM boats. Have a second cMPL button for chain-firing to manage heat. If the heat gets too bad, don't fire the cMPLs at all. The free ton of ammo should almost always be for the DSRM6.

- Warlord Kentax

Player Comments:

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The A variant is a very capable all around jack of all trades. Fire Support, Skirmisher, Brawler, Support. All of these typical battlefield roles are ones that the A can fill at least in some capacity. The Cougar A is armed with a cLRM15, a cDSRM6 and two cMPLs allowing it to handle threats from long-range to short-range. The A typically has most success between 10 and 350m, because the minimum arming range of cLRMs is 10m. Fitted with Improved Jump Jets, the A can move around the battlefield quickly. Pilots would do well to take advantage of the iJJs vectoring capabilities. Jump forward to get the SRMs in range. Jump backwards to get outside of the LRMs minimum range. Jump to the side to get behind cover. When it comes to heat, the A can run a little hot when constantly firing its weapons 'and using its JJs. If one has enough buttons on their mouse, it is advised that pilots assign an extra chain fire button to the MPLs to better spread out the damage. If things are just too hot in general, the MPLs should be the weapon that is withheld as they are the least heat-efficient weapon in the A's arsenal. Rounding out the A as a true jack of all trades, is a LAMS giving the A a limited support role. Depending on the pilot's desired role, the A's one free ton of ammo should generally be used for SRMs (as they run out the most quickly), or LRMs in the case that the pilot expects to operate, primarily, at long-range.

- Warlord Kentax

Canon

After the Refusal War with Clan Wolf, Falcon Khan Marthe Pryde decided to upgrade the 'Mechs her Clan fielded as they rebuilt. Rather than waste precious resources designing a new OmniMech from the ground up, she instructed her scientists to improve upon existing designs. The design the scientists chose to modify was the Adder. Though the two 'Mechs are visually similar and share the same weight, the Falcon Cougar is slower and better armed, though it only has six and a half tons of Ferro-Fibrous armor. This process enabled the Falcon scientists to produce a new design in roughly half the time it would have taken them otherwise.

Date Introduced 3058 during the Era known as "Clan Invasion" (3050 - 3061) - Unit Role: Sniper

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