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A 'Mech as powerful as possible, as impenetrable as possible, and as ugly and foreboding as conceivable, so that fear itself will be our ally." - Aleksandr Kerensky
"With the largest amount of armor of nearly any 'Mech, crippling firepower, and the foreboding skull-shaped "Death's Head" cockpit/head assembly, the Atlas lived up to its reputation. The mere sight of an Atlas had been known to make even a veteran MechWarrior break out in a cold sweat, and theoretically a single Atlas can take on and wipe out an entire battalion of Stingers in exchange for minor armor loss."
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Yeah the MWO version of Atlas is really dumb, to be honest.
Some drawings of it are bad.
But yeah, the whole cool point about the atlas is that it DOES smash the shit out of mechs.
The "Badguys" of the setting, the Clanners, have these super advanced mechs that have awesome ranged weapons, but they have a code of honor that involves not really doing melee combat.
So when the Inner Sphere crazy motherfuckers in atlases march in and fucking SMASH A MADCAT'S FUCKING FACE OPEN it's cool.
By the by, here's one of my favorite illustration for how the atlas looks
