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I'll give it a try when my Grasshopper comes out of refit. Had a mission called Hard Contact. Went in with my Grasshopper, my Thunderbolt 5S (with the machineguns), my Centurion missile boat and my scout in a Shadowhawk. Ran into an Orion, Demolisher, Shrek PPC and an LRM carrier as the...

During some of my refits I've wound up at -0.02 or some such below max weight- is there some way to add armor in single points to use that up or do I have to deal with fucking underweight messages for the rest of time?

Yup, I did the same kinda thing with Locusts with 3 medium lasers and the tactics skill-I'd just bomb around at speed 12 and use trees and ridgelines to make their target numbers 12 or higher and pew pew them down on 9's or 10's.

My arm mod is a +15% damage mod thats either weightless or 2 tons, I forget which. The Tbolts are doing solid work. Got lucky on those. One was from old pirates coming out of retirement, I forget what got me the other except that it was within 2-3 missions of the first one.

Seen my first 2 orions in back to back missions, but one had a 2-salvage max and the other was on 1 salvage and theyre different models. :P Seen another centurion but had to destroy it so only 1 salvage there. The MG Grasshopper works well enough. Gave it a gyro and my only arm booster...

Ah, is missile boating what the Kintaro is good at? Better than the Centurion or no? I have only seen 2-3 of them but maybe I'll pay attention to getting one if the stars align. (just had one in the last mission but I was on max cash)

I think the key to multimissions is upgrading the Argo's engines so you spend less time in transit, but its too soon to be sure. I got 3 last system and 4 in this one, but those are the first places I've been after doing the engines. I'll keep you updated as things progress.

I know, but there were 3 other missions waiting in that system after the one I came for and I dont want to risk any of them poofing while I'm refitting. Had that problem a fair bit earlier only being able to get 2 missions per system before jobs dried up, which meant that one of the jobs was...

It was a good planet shift for me to build cash before doing Served Cold. Got not one but two thunderbolts a couple of missions before the grasshopper, so my max weight has gone up a noticeable chunk in the past half dozen missions. Didnt have either of the bolts for the grasshopper though-...

Did you load yours with 6 machineguns?

Got my first Grasshopper- bloody 5hp pilot made it a huge pain in the ass to capture.

I'm not sure thats what "shotgunning your beer" means...

RMA? Not sure if I could tell ozone or not given that my power supply blew recently and sorta cornered that market! :P But no worries, after my supply blew I got a bigger one in prep for a better video card so I said fuckit and went and bought one just now. :)

Sigh, another kid with shaken-baby syndrome... :P

fark. Tried updating my drivers and my video card seems to have bricked itself. Yay. And Battletech crashes when I try to start it which may or may not have something to do with the dead card. On my onboard graphics now, but cant play much with that, especially not on the pretty settings.

I dont know that impressed is the right word, but its served well enough.

?? I'm still using a Quickdraw as my main tank- 4 medium lasers and 2 SRM 6s.

Is there actually only 1 gauss rifle in the game?

And maybe Fallout 1 and 2 before that! :)

Reasonably fast jump-capable armed scout northwest past the left side of the turret on its hill to spot for killing the ammo transports, preferably by direct vision so it can shoot too. LRM boat (preferably with multitarget ability) west but not too far. Heavy west to kill the turret, last...

Or this-

Oh right, penetration = possible crit, and if so roll for location. Obviously its been far too long since I played tabletop. :(

How does a PPC one-shot you? They do 10 damage and the head has 9 armor and 3 structure. One PPC to the head leaves you at 2 structure left and a wound on your pilot...

Mmm, but what would the payout have been with all those bonuses applied to the starting 700k? I'm not convinced max salvage IS in fact more money if money is what you need, especially if a mission is likely to have bonus objectives.

Earlier in the game for us I think. You're playing more.

I just got one as an enemy (and a centurion too) in my last "sending a message" mission, which naturally was on max cash because I need to make next payroll (Bloody Argo sucking all my money! :p ), so I'm currently save-scumming to try and get one of the pieces in my random loot to go with the 2...

You know thats how THIS starts, dont you?

I was all excited when I got my first Trebuchet but it was a severe disappointment. Its faster than my Centurion missile boat, but the Centurion is much better armored for the same weapon loadout, which is 2 LRM 15s and an LRM10, 4 tons of ammo and 1 heatsink. The Trebuchet cant carry 3 LRMs...

First serious glitch in the game- I kicked the head off a thunderbolt, took all 3 pieces as salvage and a cockpit++. The thunderbolt did not show up in my bay. :( Loaded a save, finished the mission, the thunderbolt showed up fine but the possible salvage list was different so no cockpit...

I turned my Centurion (45 ton iirc) into a missile boat- 2 LRM 15s and an LRM 5, recently upgraded to an LRM 10. Works fine.

What it needs is to go more campaign-y style contracts- its not just a single mission and youre done, its a single goal but you have to prep the ground with light and medium mech missions to make the final goal mission easier or possible at all. That lets you run a full company but the other 2...

Happened to my friends car in Houston during Hurricane Alicia in '83. A tree between our driveway and the neighbors house fell right across his car without touching it, and took out the 7 or 8' long roof covering the path between the house and garage without touching either. 4 feet to the...

I'd suggest not aiming at the side torso for captures because anything that would otherwise go to that arm or the side torso instead goes to center as natural focused fire which as you've noted kills it. Raw stability damage for the first takedown at least. Then you can try for a stability and...

Only just got the dropship and havent finished the other contracts in that system, but the conversations after finishing the second storyline mission suggest you can go anywhere after that. I've been getting my Liao faction from missions in the local area. Ok, just checked on my star map, says...

Running an LRM35 Centurion, a quickdraw tank with 4 ML and 2 SRM6's, and whatever of my 45-50 tonners are online at the time with 1 tank pilot and one scout pilot to target lock for the centurion.

No crashes for me either, and some but minor memory leaks. The "reinforcements coming" is basically it presuming you hit the main target first rather than sweeping the map first. Sounds like youre sweeping the map to kill the reinforcements first, same as me. So it gives the message while...