Once, ever since then it has sucked. Right now it is purely 'eh' and just shits on the lore and theme of Reapers. I feel the Dev team have no idea what Dark Reapers are or how they work. Since they are currently the worst of the Heavies, which is saying a lot since most are pretty bad anyway. Because if you read any of the fluff or know what Reapers are, you would know they at the best heavies out there. But really they suffer now because the devs wont rework Reaper Launchers. The Reaper Launcher right now makes no sense and completely goes against the actual Reaper Launcher in fluff.
Fair enough, and others here like Galen mentioned it's possible, so I'm not so 'unsure' of it on those maps. My main questions though is how well do others do on non fortress maps with LC and scoreboard / xp?
Unless they are good at tank hunting and get ignored a lot not near as well. You can do well on smaller maps but you have to skirt the edges and snipe from afar. If any JPA sees you though you may as well redeploy when he reaches you because there is nothing you can do about it since he can outrun you as well. Although against eldar you can do really well since you can just hide from SH if they try to kill you.
That was back when heavy weapons could kill transports easily. One DR with a shuriken cannon could kill a rhino easily.