Taran Lancelot vs Orkan Lancelot

Orkan and thunder for me. if you use taran you need to break 1st the opponent's shield before you can make great damage, while orkan do plenty of damage even those shields are in full health because of the splash damage. other than thunder?? hmmm... i havent tried any other weapon.

I am using both (with Orkans and Tarans) but mostly with Orkans and prefer to remove Lanc with tarans and exchange it on mid-range bot. Why? It's easy to explain...because of Thunder which does more damage in 200-300m range comparing to 350m range for Tarans.  

Lancelot with Orkans doing 180-200k damage in 5-6 seconds. It's a weapons against every robot in close range. And you should be always near safe place for cooldown to wait at least 6 to 10 seconds.

Lancelot with Tarans is used from 330-350m to burn ideally non-shielded robots but Thunder is not very effective.

Good question than would be - Galahad with magnums/taran or Lancelot with Thunder/Taran? Currently i prefer second, but easily see also first one on a bigger maps.

What i don't like in Galahad than he can shoot only from right side (when you near the wall) - Lancelot is cooling down and universal (shoot from left taran or right taran). Lancelot is slower but much healthier against rockets currently everyone use. But again i see easily that instead i use Grif with plasma or even 2nd mid range bot (RDB, Tridended/Zeused Carnage or Fury).

I am currently using Tarans. Started with taran, then switched to Orkans because I didn't like getting blown up by other Orkans but switched back because i didn't like missing with my entire Orkan clip, and then having nothing left to fight with as the red bots drive directly at me, melting me, and cackling all the way. I actually ran a mixed set-up at one point while I was leveling up an orkan. Don't know what I will like in the long run

I've switched back and forth a few times... as I am in low gold at the most, I may not have the relevant info for you though, as it isn't the rocket fest that I understand upper gold to be.  Firstly, I prefer the Tarans, even if I haven't made up my mind yet as to what the best is...

One factor in my lack of certainty is:

If you wait until 100m or less with the Tarans like you would the Orcs, and come right up on them, getting in their face... climbing up the front of them almost, those Tarans point inward... if done right, they should point around the shield of a Rhino, shooting directly into the flanks, since the Lance is so wide and the Medium Hardpoints are so spread out... that may mitigate the weakness of Tarans a bit. 

Now, I have not tried this against a Galahad, nor another Lance, and if the bot is dancing around you trying to get past your shield as well, it may not be possible.  I first realized it when coming across a Rajin that was in Bastion mode and was just sitting there... Climbed right up on top of him and the Thunder was positioned over his shield shooting down onto the top of it while the Orcs were shooting around it.  A Rhino with his shield up will most likely be just as stationary... but definitely not a Galahad or another Lance.  ***DISCLAIMER***I have yet to try that with the Tarans to see if it actually clears the shield or if it was just the splash damage from the Orcs... But it sure as heck looked like it was hitting the body and not the shield. 

I intend to try Tarans again tonight and see if I can prove or disprove that theory, because I definitely prefer the shorter reload time of the Tarans...