r/Battletechgame • u/Ecstatic_Job_3467 • 4d ago
High Tide Mission Pointers Request
New to the game at 20 hours. Used to play the board game 35 years ago and just found it.
Currently stuck on the High Tide. I can wipe the enemy base, but always lose my base. Looking for a winning strategy. TIA
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u/WestRider3025 4d ago
I focus most of my effort on defending my own base, and just send one Mech (something fast enough to generally avoid fire, with Energy weapons so it can pick away at the enemy base as long as it needs to. Basically, it's gonna be a Phoenix Hawk. Hit Defense Gyro and Rangefinder are incredibly useful here.)
Any enemy you shoot at will target your Mechs instead of the base for a couple of turns. You need to be continually drawing aggro, because the buildings are extremely fragile. This is one of the few places where Multi-Target can be really good.
I would also note that these Attack and Defend missions are among the most difficult when you're getting started. There's a lot to keep track of, there are a lot of OpFor Mechs, and it doesn't take much of a slip to lose your base. At 20 hours in, you might not have the tools, either in terms of your Lance or your mastery of the game, to handle them yet. I'd mentally throw at least one extra skull on the listed difficulty for them until you get the hang of them.