Scrombles The Mechwarrior: A Battletech Story [Episode 9]
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The Little Urbie that could, punched the shit out of a Locust, shot a laser that blew its arm off, then just falls over. God I love Battletech
I've recently been introducing a friend's son to the game, and he was overjoyed at learning about some of the things that can happen when you bring in the full standard ruleset. Mechs falling off buildings and landing on each other. Pilots passing out from heatstroke if their life support's damaged. A Stalker having about a 1/3 chance of exploding if it fires everything at once. Mechs pulling tree trunks out of the ground and beating each other over the head. Almost anything he imagined, I could say "Yep, there's a rule for that!"
God I love Battletech.
@@patrickcoyle5469 can you give one a weapon that fires bees?
@@csmead209 Hmm... well, there are LRMs that deploy minefields, and rules for insect swarms. Would missiles that explode into clouds of bees work?
@@patrickcoyle5469 yes, that would be more than satisfactory.
@@csmead209 I mean, they just have to pick up a beehive and toss it.
"That Crab is taking a f*ing beating; either the pilot dies or everything goes sideways."
Impromptu zoology class!
I think that Eisenhorn is a decent place for them to try and make a 40k series. Just the fact that they didn't immediately go for SPESS MEHREENS is a relief.
They’re also doing a couple of animated shows, one of which is about a Blood Angels successor chapter. It’s actually being produced by the same guy who did the Helsreach series.
I've only seen spess marines done well once, and I cannot see anyone topping Astartes... ever?
@@Gigas0101 seen Death of Hope yet?
Imo, that's at least on the same level as Astartes.
Best thing is that they are showing different eras and thus aren't competing.
@@SonsOfLorgar I will concede that death of hope takes place during a more interesting time period and has a more interesting story. Though Astartes is a great representation of spess boys by the mere virtue that they are not balanced for a video game. Helsreach is somewhere in between with a strong narrative and while not as impressive visuals, shows the 40k scale expertly.
Tex: has dedicated missile boats
Also Tex: rushes dedicated missile boats forward.
There are old mechwarriors and there are bold mechwarriors. There are no old, bold mechwarriors
Big thing to remember with this missions are you only have to save six - or three - crates. I see 2-3 'mechs surrounding a boom box, I make it go boom.
Earthdawn. It's ok, Professor Tex. You can say it here.
what was the deal with earth dawn? I've heard of it and i know it's the precursor to shadowrun but almost nobody i know has heard/played it and those that have are few and very in-between.
@@kurskfirebrand4494 a lot of it had to do with the break up of FASA... they had interwoven immortal elves and dragons from earthdawn into Shadowrun. And with the breakup they had the issue of them being in both... but not owning the full rights to the other setting. And while Earthdawn had some nice features and quirks... it was still just another fantasy rpg which is a super crowded genre. Where shadowrun while on one hand cyberpunk style.. the addition of magic made it stand out (though later editions and such kinda jumped the shark in power creep and story arcs)
@@kurskfirebrand4494 Earthdawn was the ancient history of Shadowrun Earth, basically the Age of Legends when magic was in full flower. I played it for a while, but the GM and group mostly didn't know what they were doing (we were around 14-15 years old at the time.)
What the fuck is Earthdawn?
@@csmead209 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthdawn
I lost my shit when the il' Urby popped its small laser AFTER successfully taking down the target 'mech. Pew!
Once I desperately DFAed an Orion with an Urbie, which missed and then exploded from the leg damage killing the trainee pilot (Not my problem as only one rookie had to survive...). Even after it was destroyed, the small laser still fired.
Tex finding out that some of the story missions are utter bullshit... The hard way. Just like the rest of us.
Those crates are there for a reason, you are allowed to blow up 2 of them and last time I played they made quite a dent in anything in their explosive radius. Could made the mission more doable.
I do dislike how tanky and fast those damn transports are.
@@legolas66106 oh I know, my fav is the first two in front, one takes both turrets out, the other behind it messes with the panther and another medium. I'm normally fielding 4 mediums on that mission. It is a nightmare.
I always wait until there are at least 2 mechs in the radius, preferable the heavier ones. I'm usually able to take out the panther along with the LRM turrets with the middle one, and cripple the Dragon and Griffin with the back one.
It's so polite of the enemies to leave high explosives all over their base, and then walk right up to them during battle.
Yeah, the key to this one is using the crates to your advantage. Use it to destroy turrets and soften up enemies. It is still a little tricky though, but a lot more doable.
@@legolas66106 I don't think he's talking about completing the mission. He's more talking about competing all the objectives
34:05 Every time Tex passes by the Training Modules, the more I weep. He is losing out on free EXP for his mechwarriors.
Okay, watching two Urbies DFA a mech to death just made my day!
At 24:08 I can't be the only one to have heard that as bee'sness especially after the shook up box of bee's commentary from tex
The falling animations in this game are pure joy to watch XD
Edit: PS: Demolition Urbie!
I like to imagine on missions where Capellans crash the party everyone else stops shooting at each other, torsotwists immediately towards the Capellans and begin firing again.
Are the Capellans really that garbage?
@@csmead209 they're basically space china so yes
@@csmead209 The Capellan Confederation is literally the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China in space. EVERYONE hates them, and rightly so.
Space people republic of China, not to be confused with the rightful government, the Republic of China.
*Loads Ac-20 with contempt* Fucking cappelans. Backstabbing POS nearly refused to pay me last job i completed because we didnt fist fight a awesome in a fucking champion
Flops pilot vid was real fun, hope we can see more of him
22:48 That was some excellent DFAing by the two Urbies.
I like to think those pilots named their mechs "Humpty" and "Dumpty" afterward. Had some great falls, indeed.
Just when i thought this was gonna be a bad day, Scrombles to the rescue :)
tex being the denmother of a squad of urbie babies is makin my day
In regards to the Argo, Ive heard an interesting fan theory: That Sumire at least ( I think maybe the Engineer too) are ROM agents and they let you keep the Argo to help prepare the IS for the Clan invasion.
They didn't know about the Clans, they only suspected their existence; even if they did know, the Argo wouldn't help because it can't jump on its own. It's also a VERY good thing it can't jump on its own, because the entire crew would have been murdered by all the house intelligence agents fighting over it, before COMSTAR came in and killed everyone to take/destroy it themselves.
As it stands, the thing is basically a white elephant: expensive to run, can't jump, has no warship level weapons, can't outrun something that DOES have weapons, and can't land on planets. It's a great mobile barracks for people completely unconcerned with space warfare, but it would die in minutes if it was used in an actual war.
An easier explanation is that it's Arano propaganda. The campaign is a framed narrative after all, it could just as easily have been a heavily modified overlord or some kind of barge.
Sumire definitely knows some interesting tidbits, that drop here and there, about COMSTAR and LOSTECH and about what happens to people who go hunting them if nothing else.
Fascinated to see what Tex's alternate strategy was. Personally I loop around to the left with fast mediums swatting down the turrets, making the cargo haulers run a gauntlet, while driving hot heavies into the water to exploiting ammo piles to take out multiple mechs.
I ignore the trucks. They're only bonus money anyway. I keep 3 mechs behind the hills, and put a jumper on the cliffs to the right to remove the LRM turrets. Then I wait for 2 or more mechs to get in the ammo blast radius, and make the crate go boom. Anything that gets into the pass gets mobbed from 3 mechs. And the jumper comes in behind to clean up shop once the turrets are dead.
Black library has added a mystery section to the forty first millennium. The first book bloodlines is a great police proceedural .
Oh god. The Smithon mission. That mission is rated too low for dealing with 2 lances.
I ignore the transports and blow a couple of crates. Also stay in the back ground. With the Archer he can pummel the survivors, but only if he keeps his distanced.
Agreed! It took me nearly an hour my first time, and I remember feeling like that fucking jack-o-lantern-looking building up frontwas staring at me and mocking me the entire time.
It is one of the worst missions in the game. This and the fight with the K2 Catapult of that other royal bore :). At least in this one you can say f it, "eat explosions you cheating bastards !" and just take the penalty to the cash rewards.
The extra drops mod is a life saver on the regular missions when the game decides that a two skulls mission = 3 waves of lances heavier than what you fielded with turret support from an "unoccupied base" and one "reinforcements drop" just for the hell of it :)).
Maybe some of the mech scrap/salvage is being repurposed for the ship? That seems like something the Periphery would do from what you've said. An unsightly patch with what used to be a Locus leg would certainly be better than working in a vacuum or vital systems running on battery power in the hopes of finding proper cable.
12:00. I'm a Malazan fan. Just like people who ask, "Star Trek or Star Wars," I say, "Babylon 5." And I love the series, Tex. :)
You need an Archer-W.. it has 4 missile hardpoints. Oh like that term.. Urbie Derby.. yea, it's gotta ring to it!
"Run flats?"
"Never-flateds"
*becomes Duncan Fisher* "...a trek to the stars; a star trek."
29:43 "Time for urbies to save the day; said no one."
Urbies: "...and I took that personally."
The thing I love about Battletech (this one) is that it's so much more complex and deep than MW5 for example. I mean sure I can headshot or core a mech in MW5, but it doesn't feel the same. I also don't shit myself at a mech full of flamethrowers in MW5.
They each have their appeal. I *really* enjoy ripping out the cockpit of an awesome from 800m, plus with a MAD-5D you can get to some truly silly perches
Suprised crimson skies never got another video game. I loved that on the xbox back in the day
The Xbox game was ok, but the PC game that preceded it was just perfection. Absolutely spectacular blend of pulpy storyline, betrayal, dames, top secret projects, areal stunts all mixed in with a really solid dog fighting gameplay with wonderful maps full of arches to fly under, skyscrapers to dodge and wrecked blimps/railway tunnels to fly through.
Wonder if I can get it to run on windows 10.....
I remember Crimson Skies when it was a table top game by FASA, my buddies and I used its dogfight movement rules for Battle Tech. Everyone plots out their movement in secret and then moves; it really sped up the game. Some rounds everyone spread out across the map, with no clear shots and other rounds everyone is doing piloting rolls to avoid collisions. The only Initiative came into play was for who was quicker on the trigger.
The base mission with the ammo boxes is a git. Don't hesitate to blow up the Ammo crates if enough bad guys are standing near them. :) Lady Arano won't be pleased but its not a deal breaker. :)
You can blow two or three and still get the full bonus. Keep 6 alive for all the money or 3 to not fail the mission outright.
For the love of Battletech use your abilities, your inspiration bar just sits there full.
Yes and also please don't use LRM boats as front liners. When watching Tex play Battletech I have to remember to chill. Tex's incompetence is part of his charm!
I too love Eisenhorn, years ago when I sold all my 40k books to make some room, I kept those books. I'm excited to see the series, but like you worry what they might do to it. Hopefully it'll be the rare breed of a good adaptation to the world and characters.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Eisenhorn. The stories in the margins are a great way of exploring a setting. I feel that GW started to do that with the Horus Heresy series, but the plot armor got thicker and thicker for certain characters, and a lot of the Astartes suffered from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern syndrome and were largely interchangeable.
Been waiting for more scrombles!
Keep it up Tex ! Love the content my guy !!!!
Lol I love the fact that you are impressed by simple callsigns.
-Snackpack
Can't wait to see an awesome on the field
Got to hit like when it was at 366. Its a lucky number for me. As always good stuff Tex.
"I have no idea what I'm doing with my life" -Tex
We ALL know your pain Tex 😅
you can get extra goodwill by putting both the money and salvage sliders down
The priority mission's difficulty is from the sheer amount of mechs you face at once. You need to take a shielded position where the turrets can't reach you (hopefully) and ignore the trucks escaping. The trucks are just bonus money, save your shots for targets that shoot back at you.
Scrombles adventure continues
Her last words were we are doomed and that exploded
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the skull building they got.
This mission, had to sacrifice a couple of the crates to damage enemy mechs grouping up. Meanwhile I had a blackjack leaping and running after the transports and only just managed to snipe them before they got away.
Good old marauder. In MechWarrior 4 mercs with the expanded mech selection I would always grind Solaris until the marauder was available. Then proceed to hammer smash all the early missions with it. Three ER large lasers with either a clan gauss or a clan uac10 is a very lethal build. Bringing 6 of those to the party could get you through most of the game. Isn’t until late late in the campaign that all of your lance mates need to be in 100 toners.
Edit:
Wheel of time was a great book series. A bit dry at times but otherwise fond memories. Between rereading that and Dune my reading list is full for awhile.
Damn, I woulda loved to play a Marauder in that game. Do you know if that mech pack is still available anywhere?
David Fellner
They are a right pain in the ass to find, best bet is torrents. Look for the “mektek” packs. Sarna has some info on them. Fully worth it if you find them and get MW4 to play on modern computers. Took me a while and a fair bit of searching for arcane sciences hidden in old Microsoft updates but I finally got it to work on mine.
I see. I've only been able to play MW4 on a fantastic computer from the early 2000's that somehow still runs well, but cannot safely connect to the internet. So it sounds like I won't be able to use it for now, but maybe if I figure out how to run the game on a new computer. Thanks for the information!
David Fellner
I should say I have an older version of windows. Forget if it’s 7 or 8. Windows 10 is supposed to be easier to get it to run on, but you still need to download some older versions of random things. Windows claims to be backwards compatible, but some of these old games need the direct X version that was around when they came out, not the current version. It’s all arcane and feels like computer sorecery, however plenty of people that know more then anyone should have walkthroughs on how to do it. My computer was just more stubborn then most. Good luck, the game is worth it, for a little while at least. I can’t complete the main campaign thanks to some mid mission cutscenes not working correctly, so I had to go to the level selector and make some custom cookie cutter mechs for them. It works, just doesn’t feel the same. Also those missions are very very late in the campaign, pretty much good until you have to make the hard decision as to which side to back.
Flapjack is my new favorite callsign
In fairness, Comstar probably wouldn't know/care about the Argo:
1. it's basically similar (in function,) to a Behemoth, except it has weird hab pods.
2. It can't jump, so it isn't a warship.
3. It can't land, so it doesn't have some uniquely amazing engineering.
4. It has no unique weapons or armor, so it can't defend itself against warships.
5. They were smart enough not to talk about the Argo being Star League over the HPG net, so Comstar would at least need to work to learn it's special.
6. The thing is very obviously in bad condition.
As far as Comstar see's, it's just some weird ass cargo-hauler probably modified by pirates, and then stolen by yet more pirates when the crew of a jumpship decides to retire by selling it to some periphery state, who buys it third-hand. They might look into it eventually, but not before the Helm Memory Core gives Comstar something way bigger to worry about.
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So I started my own game because of Tex, with some mods to shake things up, and the first time I needed to hire somebody to replace a wounded pilot, there's a catgirl there looking anime as hell with a nonsense backstory on the store menu. There are other custom pilots, but they all look in line with the artstyle, so it isn't jarring; and yet, none of these mods were supposed to add pilots. A moral system, yes, mech varients, yes, a Timberwolf that shouldn't exist but does now because fuck you but please don't tell the phone company about it because they'll send ninja cyborgs to kill everyone and take it, yes, but no pilots and NO ANIME CAT GIRLS. WHERE DID SHE COME FROM.
I nearly spit my drink across the room when I got humpty jumpty xD
RIP transylvanian hitman, you ve been fun.
Always fun listing to you play. (Alfa has a new video out today and fingers crossed that you finally made it in.)
I've been waiting for you to get to this mission. It's rough. It took me easily 10-15 tries with my best mechs.
The precursor to Shadow run, Shadow Jog
@4:31 Crunch agrees. Firestarters are unwanted opponents. He had a Warhammer taken down because of a Firestarter. Frak flamers!!
The thing we don't talk about is EarthDawn. Also, I'm convinced that Tex as disabled the ejection seats
In that DFA, Flapjacks Flapped that guys jacks good!
What a great way to start my morning. I love your work, Tex. Thanks so much to you and Mike for putting in so much effort for us. Also, could you do the Marauder for Tex Talks Battletech?
OSEAN
I have some of the old Earthdawn books, they have some pretty cool monster design and art.
A few tips for this level for posterity, though admittedly no use if the playthrough was already recorded. The first is that you can deliberately blow up two ammo crates while still meeting all of the bonus objectives, (and you can afford to blow up some more without failing the mission) so if the enemy is within the blast radius you should definitely consider it. The AI is normally pretty good at spreading out its mechs, but once in a while you'll find multiple mechs standing next to the same ammo crate. If they do, its an opportunity too good to refuse.
The other important thing is that you need to make kills very quickly to avoid being badly outnumbered as increasing numbers of hostiles converge on you. Actually makes for a great training exercise in focusing fire and target priorities. It is a desert environment, and some of the enemy light mechs will play defensively which can be very frustrating. The counter to this tactic is to melee them, which negates their guard/cover/evasion and other defensive bonuses. The Shadowhawk in particular is fantastic at punching smaller mechs with its good mobility and very strong melee hit for its tonnage. Otherwise, just a textbook case of shooting intelligently and not getting into a battle of attrition.
As of the bonus objective with the ammo trucks, needless to say its optional so pointless to pursue them unless you can actually bring them down. Simply shifting your lance's position further to the left may let you get more shots off, but the trucks will floor it in a hurry. You should expect to need to send a fast mech to take them out within each of the trucks' first movement turn. Remember that melee attacks deal double damage to vehicles, so if you're close enough that is a clean solution. Otherwise, they do stop near ammo crates so that's also an option. And if neither is possible, the precision strike ability exists for a reason. It will improve your accuracy and also increase odds of concentrating fire on a specific component. In a game that's all about focusing your fire, that ability is kind of important.
I very rarely read if I can at all avoid it because I'm terrible at it. My brain wanders so no matter what it might be that I'm reading, I can read an entire page and not comprehend any of it. Sometimes I'll have to read it three or four times before I finally manage to get it all. So reading takes a long time for me, so I just don't.
But Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series is the only series of books that I've ever managed to read all the way through. (up to Salvation's Reach, I'm a bit behind now) He's entertaining and knows how to write 40K without making every character feel like a terminator constructed out of adamantine plot armor. And it's not all grim ark war either, he does an amazing job of exploring each character as well, even many of the throw away redshirts. You get to the point where it feels like you've known Larks, Bragg, Ven, Milo and all the others for years.
I fully admit there's likely better stuff out there to read, or maye a better author, but nothing that I've been able to bring myself to read fully and continue to go back to. For that I hold Abnett in high regard.
If your mind is wandering during reading that's the writer's fault. Bad pacing is to blame. Most readers only skim, publishers contract by volume, and so writers are emboldened to pad out short stories to novel length with info dumps, padded out scenes describing every molecule in a setting or complete non-sequitur shoehorned in to reach publisher demanded submission length.
TLDR it's not you, most writing really is garbage.
I'm ok with the Argo in the game. I think Comstar not messing with it is at least plausible given that it is a civilian craft and doesn't have lostech like a KF Drive or it's own weapons. It is essentially a defenseless dropship that can not drop planet side itself, but instead serve as an orbital dropship hub at best.
I could see Comstar risking the presence of their navy being known in 3025 to destroy a warship, but a civilian craft like this, maybe they are less likely to make that risk. Again, just saying I think there is enough plausibility to be in the game and left alone by Comstar.
I've said this in most of the other Scrombles videos, but I'll mention it here too. While the Argo doesn't have any tech or capabilities that would alter the balance of power, I think ComStar wouldstill have wanted it fire its databases, as those could contain Star League-era information.
13:09 Wow, that was Tex-book” 😜
Circus Urbies are always great. Love this series so far, was wondering any chance that we'll ever get a TTB on the Gray Death Legion and it's story?
the trick to this mission is don't try and save ALL of the ammo caches, you will need to destroy one or two to take out enemy units especially the trucks when they are getting out of range. it makes the mission immesurably easier, i was doing this my first time with a victor, Orion, and two Thunderbolts and they took ALOT of damage even with using the ammo caches
over kill is the BEST kind of kill.
when I'm playing BT18 (battletech2018)
career. I try to be the big doggos as much as I can
Ah, the Urb. The only 30 ton assault mech.
Yeah, that mission is probably one of the hardest, if not worst, in the game. No real cover, vehicles shrug off anything short of an AC20, and tons upon tons of mechs. To make it worse it's early enough that most aren't even as heavy in tonnage as Tex is by this point.
Also NO NOT HITMAN!
Godamnit - it's a Firestarter! ROFL my reaction too
40k has had a few good games. I very much liked Relic's Space Marine, and Dawn of War 1 and 2.
We played the Hell out of Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels on the PlayStation. We've never really been fans of 40K, but were aware of it due to being very long-time D&D and general RPG gamers, but Space Hulk was fun.
"SAMMAEL!!"
Firewarrior was kind of decent too :)
I just fell in love with the urbie
Always love the Urbie
I didn't realize they also did Crimson Skies. Dammit now I want to play it.
If people are looking for a good GW licensed game like Tex, I highly recommend Mechanicus. It is a solid little tactics game that nails the feel of the 40k setting.
Those transports seem to take more damage from ballistic weapons and PPCs. Don't know why, but missiles and lasers barely seem to ding them. Once the PPCs and ballistics strip the armour, then almost any structural will pop them.
Blow them crates!
SCROMBLES!
Yep, the Argo.. I think they would have offered the player a nice low age Union and some mechs for the Argo.. and then just simply taken it from if you had refused and killed every last member of the unit with the aid of one of their Lola Class Destroyers.
Something bigger than a Union, but yeah: a big Dropship, some mechs, and a promise to pay the ship's maintenance cost until most of the original mercenaries retire/die. They might not be happy about it, but the Argo isn't jump-capable, so they wouldn't have a choice.
Bed ridden cause of food poisonning. Thx for entertaining me Tex.
That LRM commentary at around 23:00. Not the bees!
THIS FUCKING MISSION
I agree that the human element must never be ignored in stories. It's the spice added to a make a meal perfect - I saw Gallipoli recently (a 7 episode australian mini0series) and the action was nice, the high command talk was interesting but it was following the PFI in the trenches and their struggles that made it hit home, seeing them have to deal with and live in horrible conditions. Also agree that stories in all eras should be told (I would love a coherent telling of the Jihad, reading about it in various short stories paints a very confusing picture - Case White was fun however). Regarding mysteries ... hmm, agree up to a point, like midiclorians are unnecessary and dull, adding nothing but Anakin's backstory via Clone Wars I enjoyed and liked. The Horus Heresy and bits of the Great Crusade being fleshed out are things I enjoy (I'd say the Primarch scattering is still a mystery, the stories don't really give a clear answer). Where it gets annoying is that you have fans who interpret everything as truth - even info from freaking Chaos Deamons. I mean, unreliable narrators are a thing for a reason but it's like most people can't grasp that concept. A proper Battletech show would be awesome but ... well look at Disney SW and the ST ..... yeah Rogue One was good and the rest was ... no comment. Plus a studio might want them big china bucks and how much pro-Capellan stuff can you stomach? That was 90% a joke, studios are greedy we all know it. Urbanmechs doing DFA. Looooool. They just need to be painted to look like Mario and you're golden.
I like to call the Urbanmech DFA "The Urby Curby"
Crabs seem to attract the most aggression from the computer.
Because Crabs are just the first step in the Crab People's plan to take over everything and that must be stopped at all costs!
The AI still has that special shampoo from the last time.
I remember having to restart that ammo depot mission three times with different loadouts before I nailed it. That mission is utter BS, especially if one of those lights turns out to be a Firestarter.
Hey to be fair, when you make a video game set in a specific universe or setting, it often requires addition to the lore to work.
Yessss. Scrombles... PUNCH, SCROMBLES, PUNCH!
FASA also made a pretty okay Star Trek Combat Game. The minis were incredibly good. Some of my favorite ST hull designs.
Eisenhorn books were so GOOD: Ravenor kind of fell off, toward the end
commence operation "load a saved game"
I saw Flop's video. It was awesome.
Very few of the novels captured the feel of the grunts, which is where I think Battletech could shine with new stories. We got the nobles and such.. the high powered groups. But the novels I enjoyed most were the down to earth ones.. like the Grey Death Legion's first and second ones. When they were still starting out... they were not the GREY DEATH LEGION they were just another merc unit.. barely scraping by.
Some of the other novels and a lot of the fluff bits/short stories made the world more real for the average soldier/citizen versus the elites.
Though I do prefer pre-clan invasion... though a lot of the good stories were during and post invasion.. Though Jihad and on just no..
The mission is easier if you use two of the ammo crates to wipe out most of the Mechs
Remember FASA had star trek as well. Also Amazon Prime will have something out next year that will resemble Wheel of Time
I legit think this is the hardest mission in the game, it's so ridiculous u almost have to play perfectly to beat it. It wrecked me for awhile when I did my first playthrough. It's the only mission I legit remember having issues with.
Thank you.
That last mission is one of the 2 hardest in the campaign I think.
Should've fought for Flapjacks contract and hire him along. I'm sure he'd happily tag along for pancakes and syrup.
all i want is a competant movie or even TV show set in the battletech universe.
i grew up on the live action intro's to the games so i can handle cheese i just want something more fleshed out than a 4 minute intro that leaves me craving more big shooty robits. Closest we've got was Pacific Rim and they did a great job on that.
inb4 i accidentally trigger the monkeys paw and we get some hack adaptation like the guy who made the resident evil movies and now a monster hunter movie.
Urbie MUST live!
The only way to win this mission with even some stuff walking back out is to lure the enemy into the blast radius of the ammo crates and light them up. You lose some money, but you actually complete the mission.
Also, don't forget your squad abilities! Called shots and vigilance will save your ass.
35:39 ♬ Who let the Crab out?
hopefully there will be another hairbrained schemes battletech game I am hoping for clan invasion personally