Mechs getting the short end of the stick

I loved playing as a Mechanic in the original DAUT but now he's got the short end of the stick it seems.
Machine guns have preselected spots, same with ammo crate and the mech doesnt need to supply ammo anymore either. As far as I can tell we dont get any points from the sentries we construct and we dont even have mines anymore? All mechs seem to do is babysit the AI guns and sometimes repair the ammo crates! The class is pretty boring, and we dont get very many points for it.

How about giving mechs 1 point for every 1600 hitpoints repaired (twice the health of a turret) so they arent always at the bottom and dont have to leave the defences to get any action. What about atleast letting us make mounts for the machine gunner that we can place and they can setup on them so the machine gun nests arent always in the same spot! And mines, or claymores, something with explosives!

The mod looks and plays great, and cheers to whoever did the particle effects, they are definitely at a professional level.

I wasnt aware the mech could build turrets anywhere, the V command didnt bring up a build menu so I assumed it was only for repairing.

But that makes turrets more of a build and forget kind of weapon, which means the mech can still go out and kill points by killing but also stack that on top of the points he gets from the godlike turrets mowing down dozens of people, were as giving points for repairing the turrets motivates mechs to actually maintain and repair the turrets, instead of just building them and running away. The original mechs had to literally stand next to the gunner and that was alot of fun having conversations while the gunner just held the trigger down and pointed down the chokepoint.

Nothing like pelvic thrusting the gunner from behind either.
Are taunt animations included in DA2?