Crivens! Rng Luck based anecdotes[Merged];

[Marc_Hicks]

Seriously, what are the odds of this?!?!

So, for some context, I am fighting a group of poorly armored ex-Canopian Mechs. However, two of them are Hunchback-4G's, so I make a point of trying to remove their primary weapon, which I do in fairly short order. Then my Griffin, piloted by Lunchbox, adds insult to injury by knocking out one of the Hunchbacks' legs with a melee strike. So far so good.

Then, out of nowhere, this Hunchback stands up & punches my Griffin square in the head-decapitating it & killing Lunchbox in the process.

The upshot of this lucky hit was also to leave me outnumbered by the remaining Mechs nearly 2 to 1 (some reinforcements had already shown up at this point).

To my credit, I stuck it out & managed to win the day.....but at some significant cost to my Mechs.

RIP, Lunchbox, you were one of the very best!

Has anybody else suffered such a major shift in their fortunes? Please share your stories!!!

 

[starscream]

Yeah i have had a charger put its fist through my supernova cockpit before i couldn't believe it

 

[Amechwarrior]

In general, only melee when you are sure you can destroy the unit before it can act again or remove your unit from melee range. You can't risk taking a return blow once melee damage gets over 60 for the exact reason you lost Lunchbox.

 

[Marc_Hicks]

In general, only melee when you are sure you can destroy the unit before it can act again or remove your unit from melee range. You can't risk taking a return blow once melee damage gets over 60 for the exact reason you lost Lunchbox.

Had it not been a head hit, my Griffin could have probably soaked it....perhaps gaining a nasty "Structure Exposed". I just wasn't expecting to get punched in the head like that .

 

[KDubya]

I use melee a lot and might lose two mechs in a career due to an enemy punch. Its rare enough that I don't consider it something to avoid at all costs. It was more dangerous when the AI would do a lot of DFAs but they seem to be quite rare now, I'm using Better AI by Amechwarrior perhaps something has been changed in the weightings?

 

[unclecid]

i use a mod called melee mover that allows one to 'run' instead of just 'walking' up to a unit and doing a melee.
the upshot is the opfor uses it also....so you can withj planning do a melee move that gives the attacking unit full evasion.

it makes for some dramatics when out of nowhere some speedy guy comes up and waks your mech

 

[gh0s7]

Yup, happened to me twice that I can remember (first in a Campaign before Flashpoint, the second in a Career pre-UW), one of the mechs in the OpFor suddenly going Melee and decapitating one of my units. Sucks when it happens, but it's in the contract.

 

[Azural]

The first melee damage I took during my initial campaign was to my PC who was still piloting the starting Blackjack. I walked over and kicked the torso out of a Locust or some other light mech, then an enemy Dragon ran up to me and punched the head clean off of my Blackjack. I just stared at the screen for a minute in disbelief because at the time, I didn't know that my character couldn't die and he was by far my best pilot. Took months of recovery before I was able to field him again.

 

[Jorlaan]

I have yet to see a head punched off and I do have a fondness for melee at times. Luck I suppose, luck that will likely run out in spades when I lose 3 heads in a row...just wait .

 

[MerryVulture]

Hunchback stands up and punches your head off? I'll raise you an armless, one legged Shadowhawk head butting an elite piloted thunderbolt in the head.

Knowing is half the battle moment:
Just because all the weapons are gone, and you think you are well out of melee range, shoot it one more time. That Jaeger will wait a turn, maybe...

 

[DarkSpade]

I've got a shadowhawk that's kicked a few heads off. Thing must be way more nimble than it looks.

 

[Jade_Rook]

My first pilot loss in the campaign was from a Shadow Hawk punching the head off my Dragon. Naturally Dekker was the one piloting it.

 

[mjbroekman]

Campaign Mission during my very first ever playthrough, escaping from Artru with the SLDF mechs. Kamea, in her shiny Atlas is moving towards the real evac zone. Enemy mech had been stripped, legged, and knocked down. It gets up, limps over to Kamea and kicks her in the head, killing her and ending the campaign.

 

[Marc_Hicks]

Oh, I am so *loving* these stories......really takes the edge off of my disastrous loss . Thanks for giving me a good old belly laugh guys! @mjbroekman's was by far the best though!

 

[Technophobe]

I had a punch both work for and against me in my first campaign.

The first time it happened I came accross a Catapult K2 and didn't have one yet. I wanted to knock it down and had my mech do a melee attack and was suprised when a kick to its head took it out instantly.

The second time I had a new. Banshee beefed up for melee and took it out for the first time. I ran up and punched the mech wrecking the arm and damaging the side torsso. It responded with a punch right to the Banshees head, instantly killing my pilot.
You win some you lose some I guess.

 

[Bubbasan]

Had the almost the exact thing happen once with a downed enemy Hunchie. Got all cocky cuz I took out the AC20 and a leg. Then it got up and punched out the cockpit of my melee Shadowhawk, killing Glitch in the process.

 

[Marc_Hicks]

Had the almost the exact thing happen once with a downed enemy Hunchie. Got all cocky cuz I took out the AC20 and a leg. Then it got up and punched out the cockpit of my melee Shadowhawk, killing Glitch in the process.

Ouch. Losing Glitch is worse than losing Lunchbox. I have yet to find a "Glitch analog" in my current game, sadly. Cosmo,the recovering alcoholic, is the closest to her that I have found.

 

[Shameless]

first encounter with multiple hatchetman. I blow their right sides off, removing the main threats as it were. Thinking, "their harmless now. " This pissed the AI off. I was not careful, and started shooting at the heavy lance of reinforcements that had dropped, thinking the hatchetmen were no longer dangerous. The got in range and then in a row, had two of them DFA my SL highlander, and my SL Atlas II. both fatal headshots.

I learned after that to make sure they're dead.

 

[MeiSooHaityu]

A long time ago, in a much older playthrough. I had a beat up OpFor Jenner of all mechs run up to my pristine Quickdraw and kick it's head in killing the pilot. I think it was the heaviest mech I was fielding at the time. That was an "Oh Crap!" moment for me.

It stinks, but what are you gonna do *shrug*. We still won, but I was real bummed about that one.

 

[Marc_Hicks]

A long time ago, in a much older playthrough. I had a beat up OpFor Jenner of all mechs run up to my pristine Quickdraw and kick it's head in killing the pilot. I think it was the heaviest mech I was fielding at the time. That was an "Oh Crap!" moment for me.

It stinks, but what are you gonna do *shrug*. We still won, but I was real bummed about that one.

I am playing in Iron-man mode, so all I can do is shrug & move on .