u/AnAgeDude

Does anyone use them?

I feel like melee weapons are, more often than not, a liability. They weight a lot and for a Battlemech to make use of them they need to first get into melee range which means you'll ideally want your melee variant to also have a higher rated engine which in turn means less available tonnage for weapons...

From my experience the best melee mechs are the ones that also pack a MASC, but these are very very rare (are there any MASC melee vanilla mechs? I'm not sure).

What are some good melee variants? Do you take JJs with melee if possible?