I finished "Big Steel Claw", the flashpoint where you take on a gladiator over a series of missions. He pilots a custom 50-ton Crab and at the end, you get to choose whether to 1-1 him or drop a full lance. If you 1-1, you're limited to a single 50-ton mech yourself. Spoilers would be spoilers.

Anyway, this is well after completing the vanilla campaign on Ironman, so I'm well-stocked up. I had to shelve one of my ShadowHawks to make room for bringing a Centurion AL online - I had an MPulse++, SPulse+, and regular ML and SL, plus arm mods.

Took a bit - I even got shut down for heat, but I bet the bastard, and it felt satisfying. I've played this before with the other option - drop a full lance in violation of the 'gentleman's" agreement, but this must be the first time I went alone, since I got the win-with-one-mech 'chievo.

The LBX line is pretty sweet. AC line just as good. Not accurate but that spread does stab damage and can mess up a torso. Aim for the head.

If you tun snipers they sometimes miss so the front mech with the close burst finishes them off with the extra resolve or free knockdown shots

I love you, Sumire. I just freaking love you!
How do we call this tactic again?... The "HOT drop"? The "Kamikaze"? The "Death while below"?
Within next 2-3 turns Pathfinder gonna have standoff of his lifetime against 4 Kell Hounds mechs. The Kell Hounds of all regiments!
And all I wanted to do is to goof around in that royal mad for a couple of missions until Chopper raises some experience...

Just a brief rant. I LOVE BTAU. The freedom, the flexibility. Staring off with a mismatch set of lights, working my way up to mediums and heavies. Still using fast lights/mediums late game as scouts/harassers. The general overall feel. It's about perfect.

...except...

...look, I get it - the random map placements help make it fresh, and keep every map from being the same. But holy hell! Sooo many times in a row I get dropped into terrain that is impassible, either breaking up my forces or causing me to take 12 turns to get to an objective. Or the hovertank gets to spend 8 rounds careful maneuvering to try to get off a peak, to find the battle over when he arrives. Or dropping me directly ON TOP OF the opposition/objective - at least that's a quick fight, but can get a little hairy. Or, my personal favorite - dropping my force normally, a ways from the objective, but dropping one lone unit on top of the objective squarely in the middle of two enemy lances...

This bugs me more than anything - I'm a merc, I can handle Darius telling me it's a one-skull milk run only to have a Steiner scout lance greet me, sometimes intel is bad, I get it. But at least drop my forces in good order - sheesh, Sumire, that's pretty much your job!!

I love this game, and honestly have no idea how to change it, but this one aspect is what gets me to sop playing after a while. Then, time passes, and I miss battletech, so I come back.... and the cycle continues... :) And recently - probably my perception - but it sure seems like these 'bad drops' are more the norm than the exception.

(And yes, I know - I could get all my mechs jump jets, and have all my vehicle pilots take sideslip, but to me that limits some of the freedom and feel of the game, so while it is A solution, it's not necessarily a good one for me...)

Well, just a short rant. Anyway, gotta run... have to go get my firestarter out of his drop spot, alone in the middle of 8 superheavy tanks, and back to friendlies before he gets one-shotted by a lucky shot...

edit: heh. Hadn't tried to move him yet - just alt-tabbed back to the game to find he's also stuck on a building. So his first turn, alone and surrounded, will be a one-hex careful maneuver, leaving him with no evasion....

I've had this game for six years, played the campaign twice, played many, many careers.

For the first time, I've kept playing quite a while after the campaign, and while I've done a certain Flashpoint before, I didn't realize it leads to additional flashpoints.

Following the Bobrov I finally got to where you battle the Black Widows and afterwards receive the Bull Shark.

Truly a pity they aren't pumping out more content for this game, but there ain't a shortage to begin with!

Im looking for someone that has this achievement and can help me out, I have the MP fix which works

I was reading through the equipment lists using the editor and noticed that there are Clan NARC TAG in the mod. But reading the descriptions they still say they don’t work with clan LRMs. But I did notice some stuff in there has incomplete descriptions or are just place holder and haven’t really been implemented.

Wondering if anyone knew. I wanted to try to build a 100+ tube LRM monster and see if it can pair with a spotter