Man… Controls? Did they map backspace and ijkl by default or there is a proper scheme?
Where are you at in the game?Taking a quick rest after a disastrous mission in Battletech, learned a few lessons. I won the mission, but 2 pilots died (no sweat, pilots are easily replaceable), but 2 mechs went down (lots of sweat, mechs cost a lot to repair but more importantly, takes a long time to repair). So mission paid 300K credits, but my lance is now down for 2 months for repairs, having to pay $250K/month in maintenance, loans and salary means I lost 200k from the mission, not including the cost of repairing the mechs and rebuying lost parts. Granted I can sell some of the salvage, but not sure if the 2 months the game will advance has any effect (like, will something happen at certain date that I need to be powerful enough or something?).
Well, lesson learned, when the mission says there will be heavy opposition… believe it!
I completed the first story mission and then decided to take a good mission in another system, after that one, all easy so far, only 2 available missions (other than the next story mission), so I picked the most lucrative one and paid for my greed. It was also unlucky, a simple tank destroyed one of my mechs with a lucky head shot (it may have received some shots before but nothing serious). The second mech got destabilized, fell, then another mech came, stepped on it and it got destroyed.Where are you at in the game?
I seem to be breezing through for now. I'm starting my next story mission which is house decimis or something like that…
I've not had more than two wounds on my pilots and my mechs have mostly been fine.
I tend to go very offensive with all my mechs sacrificing some movement and armour for it.
So I tend to be able to kill any one enemy mech within one round or two if heavily armoured. I am using a wolverine, trebuchet, centurion and one more I just got and forgot the name of.
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I completed the first story mission and then decided to take a good mission in another system, after that one, all easy so far, only 2 available missions (other than the next story mission), so I picked the most lucrative one and paid for my greed. It was also unlucky, a simple tank destroyed one of my mechs with a lucky head shot (it may have received some shots before but nothing serious). The second mech got destabilized, fell, then another mech came, stepped on it and it got destroyed.
My lance was 4 medium mechs (my 2 light ones were in repair), the enemy was one heavy, 1 medium, 2 lights, and 3 tanks.
A couple of tips then:
1. Ensure you refit your mechs to have more armour in the front (they should never be attacked from the back - if they are you're making tactical mistakes).
2. Try and specialise your mechs. For example, I have one super long range mech with LRMs and L Laser and then I have one Mech with SRMs, M Laser and AC/5.
3. Look at the standard mech model, but you don't need to keep to it. If a Mech has very strong Melee, then it might be worth outfitting them as short rangers with M Lasers and SRMs as well as with a MG/S Laser and try and get in close
4. In combat try to focus the enemy with the most dangerous weapons first. Locusts and Spiders are annoying but they are unlikely to kill your Medium Mechs.
5. Ensure you use the Precision strike ability. It does not only allow you to choose what to target, but it also provides aim bonuses.
I re-discovered King's Bounty The Legend & Armored Princess again … wasted 2 full days of my vacation for that …