Natasha Set-Ups

^ Agree.

There's not much point having an ECU or Aphid on a long-range Natasha.

Don't waste your money and time on a Natasha it will be obsolete in the upper tiers. Save your money and get a Griff, Carnage. You won't do enough damage or be fast enough for beacons so you'll never be in the gold! Take a look at the legends league players, those bots and weapons are what you should be getting.

Especially if you plan on Having a Trident Fury in the future.  Not only will you be able to use and level your weapons while you wait but using a Trident Pin Natasha now will probably make you a better Trident Fury pilot down the road.  I used that setup while saving for my second Carnage and had no trouble keeping up with my Clanmates Trident Fury.  You will be closer in than the other 600m midranges so so your Tridents will reach targets out of range of theirs.  Staggering the fire of your Tridents then the Pins is a great defense against rushers (Gary & Stalker Pilots!)  waiting for a reload cycle to advance.

My favorite Tash setups are Trident/Pins and Zeus/gekko. Molots can be substituted for gekkos on a budget (I do this with my current account).

Fair enough, but I did say "long range". 

Molots! Love em! The secret answer to the dreaded "oh's no's a midrange Fury!"
Can't wait for the accelerated fire mechanic to go live.... muahahaha!

This isn't directed Big Jake but this type of reponse is a huge pet peeve.
A: per the OP, he is fairly new with limited resources. The Fury, Lances and Plasmahads that run legend leagye are not really options for him.
B: like them or not, Natasha's are near meta currently and very much worth upgrading till it can be replaced with a Fury.

Just have a look at the numbers: You need 4.3 days of upgrading time and 10.7 mil silver to get a level 10 Natasha. In the cosmic scheme of things, that's nothing. One average 12/12 robots will need about 70 days of upgrade time and more than 250mil. So, you might need some light weapons on the Natty that is not part of the meta. If we assume a pair of Pins (that could go on a RDB Griff too) that's another 9 days of upgrade time and 20 mil, but you can stop at level 8 or so if you like.  

If you upgrade only what you'll need in higher tiers, you'll have a very inferior/mismatched hangar for half a year or so. And this assumes that the meta doesn't change.  Chances are you'll spend 10-50 times as much on something that will be nerfed down the road.

Me, I use a system that I spend about 90-95% of my upgrade time on "endgame stuff", weapons/robots that I expect to use in a TT hangar too. The remaining 5-10% I use for "recreational" robots and weapons.

Call me crazy, but I run a knife fighter Natasha (currently level 7) with 2x Thunders (currently level 8) and 2x Mags (currently level 7). I slug my way out of the spawn region and usually catch more than a fair amount of damage, crushing Carnage dreams of glory as I deflate their petty shields as my yellow mags and blue compatriots wreak havoc on their delicate outer armor. I destroy all stalkers and geps in that thing, and I've given my fair share of DB's, and PDB's a run for their money, both Griffin and Rhino. Leos want no part of my twin canons of destruction. I have pelted the frameworks of many an unsuspecting aphid Patton sending them to reconsider their priorities from the depths of an early robot grave, and I have even slain a good number of mechs who carried their fancy British shields to the battlefield to little avail, in hopes to deter my slaughter fest. 

Can you please write all your posts like this!  Love it!

Speaking of sticking it to Treb. Snipers.  Lancelot with Nash/Kang or Treb with Dual Molot MkIIs until they make medium Gekkos.... untouchable beyond 650m.  Saw a Nash-Mo-Lot on the test server, boy did he mess reds game up lol

Your bad spelling does not cover yet another unprovoked personal attack. Give it a rest, it's annoying and not at all helpful.

The Natasha has a hidden extra benefit.

One of the cheapest and quickest bots (aside from most lights) to get up to 12.

I have started the upgrade to 8.  within a couple of days it will be at 10.  (not going beyond that just yet).

As for setup.  I have tried poor mans fury and it takes me too close to the action.

I ended up putting a pair of molots on, just so I am not tempted to get too close.  Now need the stop the temptation of remaining in the open too long.

It works reasonably well with molot / trident.  especially with the molots being able to do a bit of ancille take down.  Generally I am saving my tridents for carnage or future fury.

I tried the three big long ranges at varying levels.  Trebs are too difficult to use with molots but would otherwise I think be best.  Kang Dae is SLOW!.  

Nashhorn / KWK is what I have settled on.  Plays very nicely with the molots (just the big red button) and fires at full strength regularly.

If anyone can handle the slowness of the Kang Dae - it is also cheap and quick to upgrade.  I prefer the nash though.

Budget Tasha.. yep.. know it well.

So if you have tridents, add some pins and at least you have a 500/600 mid-range build. I haven't tried molots but the idea is valid, this would let you be 800/600, and a bit further away. ECU and aphids are not what you want at all, anything close enough to see that is gonna stomp you outright quick. I don't own trebs or geckos so I can't say if this is a useful build.. but.. given there are not too many useful builds mathematically possible on a bot that is itself, not too useful, maybe see how a trident pin build fits for now and go from there.