RIP Behemoth

[i64man]

I lost my first pilot, Behemoth (after 27 deployments) on a 2 skull mission and on the same mission, Dekker was injured and out of commission for 94 days. Have anyone played a mission named Forward Observers after liberating Panzyr? This mission was to eliminate a scout lance and their reinforcements.

My lance consisted of a Dragon, Centurion, ShadowHawk and a Thunderbolt, figure not a problem... WRONG. The scout lance was a ShadowHawk, a Griffin and a Casida (sorry if wrong spelling), but the reinforcement lance consisted of a Hunchback, an Enforce, another ShadowHawk and a Vindicator.

Talk about an ambush .... I won the day, but it was expensive.... have anyone had played that mission?

 

[XTRMNTR2K]

This mission has been showing up for me several times now. I've completed these at least two or three times, maybe more.

If I remember correctly, however, Forward Observers was the one and only mission I had to withdraw from. An earlier mission had left my then small merc company with a lot of damaged mechs and injured pilots, so I decided to drop into this mission with a light/medium lance of only 3 mechs. These were only supposed to be a lance of scouts, what could possibly go wrong, am I right?

Turns out, it went completely sideways because a second lance of lights (Panther, Jenner, Firestarter, etc.) showed up immediately. Tried taking down as many as I could before I withdrew, but only managed to kill 1 mech from each lance. Since both mission goals were still only at 25%, it was a bad faith withdrawal on top of that. Ugh.


On the up side, I haven't had that much of a problem with Forward Observers since then. But I guess when you get one with a considerably higher difficulty than is being shown, it can end up as a nasty surprise.

 

[Chaotic-Entropy]

Behemoth is definitely my top pilot in my campaign, been wrecking things in her Centurion most of the game and now in a Highlander.

 

[Dheran]

My Behemoth also sadly died. She was pretty experienced too - Juggernaut/Evasive Piloting. A Hunchback killed her with a single punch to the face. Random bad luck I guess, but it made me sad .
Had my 'mechs kill opponents with punch to the face twice since then, so I guess karma turned around.

 

[i64man]

This mission has been showing up for me several times now. I've completed these at least two or three times, maybe more.

If I remember correctly, however, Forward Observers was the one and only mission I had to withdraw from. An earlier mission had left my then small merc company with a lot of damaged mechs and injured pilots, so I decided to drop into this mission with a light/medium lance of only 3 mechs. These were only supposed to be a lance of scouts, what could possibly go wrong, am I right?

Turns out, it went completely sideways because a second lance of lights (Panther, Jenner, Firestarter, etc.) showed up immediately. Tried taking down as many as I could before I withdrew, but only managed to kill 1 mech from each lance. Since both mission goals were still only at 25%, it was a bad faith withdrawal on top of that. Ugh.


On the up side, I haven't had that much of a problem with Forward Observers since then. But I guess when you get one with a considerably higher difficulty than is being shown, it can end up as a nasty surprise.

XTRMNTR2K, at the time, I didn't notice the withdraw button otherwise I would it had withdraw. Just like you, I had a lot of damage mechs and not to mention Behemoth dead and Dekker out of action. It was a slug fest, but I prevailed, lucky me, I had a second lance of available mechs ready and almost 4m in C-Bills.

 

[Socratatus]

I lost my first pilot, Behemoth (after 27 deployments) on a 2 skull mission and on the same mission, Dekker was injured and out of commission for 94 days. Have anyone played a mission named Forward Observers after liberating Panzyr? This mission was to eliminate a scout lance and their reinforcements.

My lance consisted of a Dragon, Centurion, ShadowHawk and a Thunderbolt, figure not a problem... WRONG. The scout lance was a ShadowHawk, a Griffin and a Casida (sorry if wrong spelling), but the reinforcement lance consisted of a Hunchback, an Enforce, another ShadowHawk and a Vindicator.

Talk about an ambush .... I won the day, but it was expensive.... have anyone had played that mission?

Yea, done that. It is a bit of an ambush mission. I beat it, but I lost two mechwarriors and my personal warrior (me) was incapacitated for 110 days. My mechs were right offs, costing a lot of money and time to fix.

 

[Democratus]

I will be very sad if I lose Behemoth. She's my LRM valkyrie.

 

[XTRMNTR2K]

XTRMNTR2K, at the time, I didn't notice the withdraw button otherwise I would it had withdraw. Just like you, I had a lot of damage mechs and not to mention Behemoth dead and Dekker out of action. It was a slug fest, but I prevailed, lucky me, I had a second lance of available mechs ready and almost 4m in C-Bills.

Yeah, it's rather easy to overlook. It's almost as inconspicuous as the eject button!

Glad to hear you managed to get things up and running again afterwards, though!

 

[i64man]

yeah that revive button (load from earlier) is a savior!

 

[Zeusbunnyears]

My Thicc died during “Served Cold” mission after bashing some faces in and then getting catapult K-2’d to death

 

[Fab555]

My waterloo was an Assassination Mission with the name hard Target. Usual Target and Escort Size but reinforcements came in form of 3 heavies and 2 mediums, full armour. 3 skulls my arse. I had one heavy, a quickdraw, at this point. Lost glitch and behemoth.