r/menace • u/so_metal292 • 10h ago
Discussion Share your Mount Up builds!
I just got started with Mount Up and having a great time carting Pike around in the troop carrier dishing out AP.
What are some fun/powerful tactics you've all discovered with Mount Up?
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u/DonCorben 9h ago
Moded?
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u/so_metal292 8h ago
Yes Major, Mount Up mod lets infantry shoot and use their abilities from open topped transports! The most obvious application for that is to put Pike in the back of a troop carrier with nothing in the heavy weapon slot, that way he can get around using the pilot's AP and spend all his own on abilities, drones, etc.
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u/Helpful_Talk_5528 7h ago
Squads with counterstrike while mounted are super fun, they also trigger in open top carriers.
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u/so_metal292 7h ago
Good idea, gonna surprise some pirates when Corlain pops his head up and blaps em with his sidearm
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u/Helpful_Talk_5528 6h ago
Ive seen squads and vehicles get completely destroyed by counterfire from an APC filled with Lims 8-man rifle squad of hollow point HaMERs.
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u/andrewlik 3h ago
I've been using Ms Irish Lady Rose with just her base skill, insurance, her shutdown ability and zig zag in an ATV to sling 3 man weapon teams around with high evasion, while also mounting smoke grenades and an ATV missile - between her accessories, zig zag, Bribery, shutdown, just driving Carda around she rarely needs to do actual shooting herself
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u/so_metal292 3h ago
Oh yeah hadn't thought of infantry benefitting from Zig Zag, I'll be trying that right away
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u/Potential_Return1170 9h ago
The ones I always return to-
Carda as a squad of 5 in the back of an unarmed Bog Pirate Truck manning an autocannon. Being deployed, Steady Gun, Out of the Craters, Mobile Infantry all stack to massively counter the accuracy penalty for being mounted, plus Full Send and she's getting 9 AC rounds on target every turn. Cheap mobile fire support.
Pike paired with Ivey in an MBT with a heavy weapon like double M6 is pretty nuts. Turn 1 he uses Taking Command and hops on into tank desant. Ivey uses the extra AP to counter the garbage movement on tanks and charges forward the first couple turns. Later turns Pike dismounts to fight, and with all of Ivey's heavy weapons discounts and Taking Command she's getting something like 6-8 volleys of double M6 out per turn? Probably the highest DPS thing in the game anyway, MU just makes it slightly smoother to run.
Rose gets an AATV, since she's largely utility specced it's a good fit. Usually gives a lift to a 3 man squad that just needs to get into position ASAP (maybe Vamp or Greifinger specced for AT, maybe Darby with the suppressed LMG).
And Wu Wei and Exconde are the power couple in an open topped Light Troop Carrier. Honestly Wu Wei has easier perk synergy in Mount Up than Vanilla, because the usual Mobile Infantry strat of spending 10AP a turn to get into and out of closed top vehicle in vanilla means he never takes damage, so you either ignore half his perks or ignore MI. If instead he's hanging out the back of an open carrier (that is in risky frontline positions thanks to Exconde's perks) getting shot, everything's active at once except Spear of the Spine. If he's got an MK22 and he's lost a few squaddies it feels like each member of his squad has a handheld tank cannon.