I still only have 1 useful heavy (I guess I have not been doing enough 2.5 - 3 challenge missions). I know I got it from a random mission (had to fight a group of damaged heavies). Two of them were thunderbolts, and I was able to salvage a complete chassis. Really wanted to get the grasshopper or orion (which were both in the mission), but I only had 2 pieces of the grasshopper and 1 piece of the orion (ammo racked him which blew his mid with it). So I had to settle on the thunderbolt. It isn't bad, but just not that great either.
I have had a bunch of dragons, but they are worse than almost any decent mediums (so I have sold all but 1). I just changed up my shadowhawk (cut some rear armor, and dropped the LRM20 and lasers I had on it for 2 LRM15++ (crit and stability damage). My pilot I use in it has the first guts skill and the 2 gunnery skills (multi-target + breach shot). I am glad I decided to cut on the armor to fit another ton of ammo (4 tons total) because of the last mission I just did. He was raining missiles all match, and I was against 3 lances of mechs/vehicles (it was an ambush/trap which I realized the moment I was on the map and luckily made for a corner which had some good hills to be able to take cover, but had to take out the lance that was over there first).
Only had 1 mech go into structure one 1 part (a wolverine which had 3 of its 4 medium lasers in that location and I was down to 3 shots of LRMs with the wolverine which I had started to really ration halfway into the battle). Obviously the worst part was the beginning when I had one enemy lance in the direction I was going and another chasing at me from the middle of the map. Once I cleared the one lance and took up position in the corner, I was in a good spot strategically since most of the enemy mechs did not have jump jets and had to try and walk up the hills I was on, letting me focus fire them down. Was worried for my heavy since it was knocked down 2 times from missile fire, but its jump jets were enough to keep it from being primary target for multiple rounds. I was starting to bring my 2 missile support mechs out front to absorb a lot of the hits on cleaner armor than one my wolverine and the thunderbolt (which was armor maxed). But that was a tough mission as I was against 5 heavies (2 thunderbolts, 2 dragons, 1 orion), 2 wolverines, 2 centurions, 1 griffon, 1 cicada, 1 locust, and 2 80ton vehicles (behemoths?, they had at least 1 large laser each and/or PPC and missiles).
I have had a bunch of dragons, but they are worse than almost any decent mediums (so I have sold all but 1). I just changed up my shadowhawk (cut some rear armor, and dropped the LRM20 and lasers I had on it for 2 LRM15++ (crit and stability damage). My pilot I use in it has the first guts skill and the 2 gunnery skills (multi-target + breach shot). I am glad I decided to cut on the armor to fit another ton of ammo (4 tons total) because of the last mission I just did. He was raining missiles all match, and I was against 3 lances of mechs/vehicles (it was an ambush/trap which I realized the moment I was on the map and luckily made for a corner which had some good hills to be able to take cover, but had to take out the lance that was over there first).
Only had 1 mech go into structure one 1 part (a wolverine which had 3 of its 4 medium lasers in that location and I was down to 3 shots of LRMs with the wolverine which I had started to really ration halfway into the battle). Obviously the worst part was the beginning when I had one enemy lance in the direction I was going and another chasing at me from the middle of the map. Once I cleared the one lance and took up position in the corner, I was in a good spot strategically since most of the enemy mechs did not have jump jets and had to try and walk up the hills I was on, letting me focus fire them down. Was worried for my heavy since it was knocked down 2 times from missile fire, but its jump jets were enough to keep it from being primary target for multiple rounds. I was starting to bring my 2 missile support mechs out front to absorb a lot of the hits on cleaner armor than one my wolverine and the thunderbolt (which was armor maxed). But that was a tough mission as I was against 5 heavies (2 thunderbolts, 2 dragons, 1 orion), 2 wolverines, 2 centurions, 1 griffon, 1 cicada, 1 locust, and 2 80ton vehicles (behemoths?, they had at least 1 large laser each and/or PPC and missiles).
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