Custom career staring lance: ideas needed

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Ole122

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So, looking forward to a new career, using 4 or 5 part salvage and a tailor-made starting lance that allows me to play around a bit with some of the new stuff and older stuff I never used properly.

I do want to include a Hatchetman, as I usually end up doing the Flashpoint rather late and gathering enough salvage takes so long that the Hatchetman is no longer relevant to my needs once I can build one.
The second medium should be either a Phoenix Hawk or Asssasin, just to play around with the new stuff a bit.

No idea about the Lights, but I guess one of the new 'mechs would be in order here as well, so maybe a Flea.


What I'm rather afraid of though is having an overpowered lance that is much stronger than the one's the game normally creates in a random start. So any ideas on what might be a comparable lance to the random one that isn't too overpowered?
 

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Hatchetman (standard AC/10 variant), Phoenix Hawk 1K, Vulcan 2T, Flea (either variant) and an Assassin 21. Probably a little stronger overall than a Random Starting Lance, but the Assassin is the only thing with any indirect fire capability and there's not much "tanking" ability there. I don't think it'd be OP.
 

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The random lances can be pretty powerful, so I don't think you need to sweat it too much. I recently had a career start out with two CN9-As, a Firestarter, a Jenner, and a COM-1B. That lance steamrolled the early missions...