Basically, the Crab and the Awesome do the same job, in different ways; they're both Area-denial units.<br/><br/>A lot of people are (justifably) scared of the Autocannon 20; with the crab having Two of them, It turns a 270-metre radius circle around it into a 'Do not enter' zone, at the cost of at least 29 tons invested in the guns and ammo. Its at-range profile, however, is embarassingly bad, with only a single large laser for mid-range poking, and an LRM-15 rack for mosquito-bite attacks.<br/><br/>The Awesome, in comparison, has 28 tons invested in its Four PPCs (21 and three if you're in the original 8Q), giving its 'bubble of doom' twice the reach of the autocannon for the same total damage output, but the PPC has issues focusing within 90 metres; It's an exceptional sniper, but urban combat is Not the awesome's favourite thing in the world.<br/><br/>Thus the whole 'hammer and anvil' playbook. Scare out the defenders with something bigger than them, cause them to run under the guns of the two biggest Area-Denial units in the area and watch the parts fly. Considering that Alton and Erich have been in the company ofr around 7 years, each, they probably have the playbook down to a science.<br/><br/>Amusingly, between the Awesome, the 2K Shadow Hawk, and the Marauder, the company's remarkably PPC-heavy. 7 of the Man-made Lightning Cannons so far.