Taking Stock Post-Holiday... Help Me Escape Bronze Tier

You are currently in bronze tier so with that in mind you already have two gepards so you will want to upgrade at least one of them and probably put magnums on it. For your gold I would say get fifth slot and then aim for a hanger like this:
MagGep (others may not agree however it is the best bot for your level)
Taran thunder boa x2
Plasma golem
Orkan thunder boa
However MM is changing soon so this may not work afterwards

Oh, I'm absolutely saving my gold for a fifth slot. I don't often go through all my bots in a battle, but if nothing else, it'll give me a little extra variety in my load-outs.

You know, I played around with a 1/6 MagGep for a bit. Either the Reds were so green (hah!) that they had no idea what they were in for, and I slaughtered them... Or they had run across seal-clubbers before and then suddenly I'd become

THE ONLY TARGET EVAR.

I'm not yet sure if they're my cup of tea.

(written before I saw any of the other responses)

Your close to that 5th slot, so get that next. Sell the Noricums and Zenits. You might want to get rid of the Kang-Daes as KwKs have a higher DPM. Don't think you'll need more than 2-3 KwKs, as you don't want more than one sniper bot in your hangar.

For your lineup, I'd just suggest upgrading it to 4/6, which I think is the limit of high Bronze. You can stick around there to farm gold for a while or push on into Silver at 4/7 and then 4/8. It'll be a bit of a bump in difficulty, but not too bad. For your knife fighters, you may want to give Thunder/Taran and Thunder/Orkan Boas a try, as well as 4X Pinata Pattons, but if the Golems work well, just stick with them. I'd replace the sniper Vityaz with a midranger such as a Zeus/Tulumbas/CRV Pin Golem or Quad CRV-Pin Patton (you'd have to buy 2 more Pins). Quad Spiral Patton can do some damage and be fun, but Spirals lose effectiveness higher up and you don't really learn much from them. Kinda similar for Quad-Mag Patton, which can dominate some matches at your tier but won't be able to higher up. And try a Taran on the Cossack too, if you haven't already.

When you get the 5th slot, I'd say make it another knife fighter and to use it to experiment with a variety of setups with it, now that you have all this equipment to play with. When you get into Silver, try taking the Griffins for a spin, starting maybe with Russian Death Button (Tulus/CRV Pins) and then Death Button (Orkan/Pinata) and Plasma Death Button (Taran/Magnum). The next gold purchases to look at would be 2 more Orkans and perhaps some Aphids and then a BritBot. For next WSP, consider Trident, additional Taran(s), Rhino, or Carnage.

Just my $0.04 (inflation).

And if it were me, I'd actually keep the Gepard shelved in favor of the Cossack, as the Gep seems way too OP in Bronze to be fun or to learn anything (but yeah, it is the best bot in the tier). If you really want to bring it out, do it in High Silver, where it will still have quite a bit of effectiveness but not unbalance things so much.

Quite.

Okay...  Before I dive into mucking out my stable, a quick question on 'tiers'.

Honestly, they baffle me.

I see a lot about what people say should or should not show up at different tiers, and I see a lot about 'bot and weapon level combinations should or should not show up at different tiers.  With my current typical stable of 2/5-ish mediums, I occasionally run across Yamantau and/or heavy robots, when I wouldn't necessarily expect to.

That said, I think the bottom line is simply making certain that 'bot and weapon level are consistent (and that weapon levels are a few levels higher than 'bot levels), so that no matter what 'tier' you're at, all your 'bots are viable.

Okay, so maybe not a question...  Unless the question is: "Tiers...  「whiskey tango foxtrot」?"

Ah, when I think Gep, I almost automatically think tri-Mag or tri-Aphid. Yeah, I would agree that pretty much any other setup on the Gep will not be ridiculously overpowered in Bronze. Ditto if you use it primarily as a beacon-capper and not a wipe-all-of-the-Reds-off-the-face-of-the-map bot, of course.

*flies in* IIIII AGREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Falling, mostly

Bit of both.

its a lot more vertical though, like directly vertical. Like a griffin you thundered that decided to jump over your head vertical.

Yeah, it took me a while to get the hang of Pins and significantly longer for Pinatas. Just give it time. Orkans are supposed to be a lot easier with their reloading-while-firing and ability to stop firing when you want.

Yeah, that sounds good. Plus, mistakes aren't as costly in a midranger, so you have more time to learn.

Alright. Working with this team for now... 

The plasma Golems are tearing it up almost as much as any MagGep, and I'm rather enjoying the mid-range Golem.

It's a good start. 

You have 2x tarans and 2x orkans, put those suckers on some griffins.

Interesting - I don't have the Orkans yet - grinding gold for them now. I have a Griffin and I just won a Rhino with my end of contest box, but I'm not feeling ready to step into that deep end of the pool quite yet.  I want the Orkans for a rocket Golem like above.

Do you prefer an Orkan or a Taran on your Cossack? Maybe the Orkan Cossack works better once you face shield bots more often.  I'm going to run one of each for a bit with 2 Golems and my Aphid Gep to see how it goes. I like having a second Cossack to pick up beacons late game to save a win.

But boy - I'm finding it hard to adjust to the slow Golems after running nothing but Cossacks and Gepards for a while.