Added a new sheet to Charles EWAR Table which details mix-and-match damps on Minmatar Scouts.

Completely different play style at that point. You just moved your engagement from 200-550 meters to 1-10 meters.
Honestly speaking going into shotgun rain right now will have you dieing.

A lot.

If you decide to try the shotgun game, swap your sidearm. Don't run knives as a backup to the shotgun until you're super comfortable with it.

On the other hand, if you choose to run the shotgun as a backup to your knives, this is viable. The SG will pound the pud of whomever thinks they can just backpedal away from your knives. I did this for a few days, but I felt kinda bad about it. Then I fell into the mental trap of just using the SG, and when they got out of range of it, or it ran out of ammo, being 8m away, and having knives as a backup got me killed.

So I went back to knives/pistol or knives/CR. Safer that way (I still die a lot because I commit to the knives and don't switch to my firearm but vOv)

I'm the last guy to ask about ARs, tbh. I don't really run them, never have. If I had to spout conjecture, though, I think that in theory it should be okay if your gun game is decent, because if you're trying to knife then you'll be getting pretty close in anyway and I hear tell that the rail rifle suffers in close quarters.

I should note, though, that if you're intending the knives as your secondary weapon, if you run out of ammo on your primary, you will always be caught out by not having a fallback gun. If you're swapping from AR to knives because someone's gotten in too close, you'll die in that second it takes to charge the knives OR you'll die because they survive the uncharged slashes, OR you'll die because you miss with the knives. IMO, any gun is the secondary to your knives - if you're going to carry the blades, you gotta commit to living and dying by the blades.

Embrace the death. The ancestors will reward you with glorious kills. If you're good, maybe even hatemail.

Are you going for consecutive headshots, or just engaging with a full clip, headshot and two quick followup body shots?

I don't 'get' tac SR.

Scouts are relatively SP intensive by comparison to assault or heavy. For instance, if you intend to use cloak, you'll need a level 4 or 5 scout suit just to fit cloak, and heavy investment in electronics to part with your overhead red chevron.

Is your merc new or are you cross training ?

Mostly just Delta changes and more shop talk.

New players tend not to come onto the forums, much less the Locker Room, so we don't often get them, though we do on occasion.

School does that...

o/ hi scoutly people