New Vandenburg: it's in the Taurian Concordat, just along the border of the Coalition/Directorate. Should I bop around other parts of space for no particular reason? Will the story take me out of this small corner of the map? Are there contracts waiting for you on every planet or can you end up other people have already answered 'yes,' so I'll point out a couple of places where I've had good luck: I don't want to fly away and find myself on a random planet with no work, though. But I'm thinking it could be fun to go out somewhere else and get reputation with other factions. You can do a lot goofier builds and have a lot of fun with them like my melee Grasshopper, just don't bring them to 5-skull missions.Īpologies if this has been answered, but the thread is a million pages long-if you fly out to some other part of space without a travel contract, will contracts just spawn for you? I've only been bopping around Arano restoration space farming money and mech parts (I'm storywise in between Smithon contract #1 and #2, and fielding 3 dots of mechs per engagement) and never traveling unless the contract pays for it. That's if you just want to win as fast and effortless as possible. If you want range you use LRMs, if you want lasers you use massed MLs and rush your targets. Really early on when facing lights and mediums LLs and PPCs still count as 'big hits' which makes their heat cost more tolerable but later on when a 50 damage hit will not do much on its own PPCs aren't that great either. Doing a big alpha strike and then cooling down is a lot more feasible tactic when you are facing even numbers.Ģ) Jump jets are awesome and generate a lot of heat. Two things make heat worse in this than tabletop:ġ) You are constantly fighting non-stop for 10+ rounds against overwhelming odds, so you need to be able to fire constantly. Didn't tabletop have a second dice roll for how many missiles hit from a salvo after to-hit roll? If they gave missiles a to-hit penalty and/or reduced the stability damage they do they would be more balanced IMO.

The only reason AC20 is good because it delivers all that damage into one location but you don't really need that either when you can just missile swarm everything, knock them down and then take called shots. Heat technically works the same way as tabletop, and LL were okay there.ĪCs aren't that great either, they are way too heavy for the damage they do. I'm wondering if LL seem lacklustre because ACs got a damage boost. This is working out better but I only had some brief Solaris matches to confirm its viability. Something about using the thumb button for the laser fire separately was making me sometimes botch my aim. Like it lasts forever in anything but extreme heat planets. Technically it is alpha-striking, but so low budget and low heat that it is consistent fire. So I have the pulse lasers on the same button for my machine guns, which also triggers my RAC/2s. I wasn't making use of the ERMLs that often, and when I did they would contribute to heat problems. I also swapped out my Jagermech's ERMLs for small pulse. Which changes my mind about the Kit Fox variant with all the support tools. The results? I suck at that playstyle, hard. Downgraded the weaponry from medium lasers to small pulse, just 5 of them and I think I dropped the additional heat sinks (I can't remember) since the heat isn't a problem anymore.

I gave it a tag, and changed the skills over to drop a lot of the firepower stuff (minus the easily-accessed range) in exchange for reaching deeper into mobility for the speed increases. I tried changing my Jenner up to being almost fully support, in addition to swapping the AMS system to non-laser since I was having heat problems.

Battletech jagermech build