I look at it this way; My 80-ton awesome has more armour than your 100-ton Crab, twice the range profile for its main guns, and enough heat sinks to run cool for damn near forever. (38 heat dissipation, max of 43 heat due to running and full alpha-strike including the small laser. 90% of the time an Awesome pilot just sits on a nice hill and vapourizes everything within half a kilometre one volley at a time)