If we are only restricted to 4 mechs per missions is it possible to have a lance of tanks on our missions cause I feel like it would be pretty freaking cool to have them on missions they may be small but they pack a hell of a punch I wouldn't mind having a couple of maltcores on the team. or more mechs at that
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Saying that, completely agree. I would love to be able to control vehicles in this game.
Saying that, completely agree. I would love to be able to control vehicles in this game.
Combined arms is definitely a direction they could go with this. Not as if it's a totally alien concept to Battletech... 
Combined arms is definitely a direction they could go with this. Not as if it's a totally alien concept to Battletech...
It'd be an excellent addition for any Clan Invasion DLC, as Lore-wise it was during the Clan Invasion that the IS really began to seriously start getting Battlemechs and Vehicles working together, as an attempt to offset some of the Clans advantages, even if that advantage basically boiled down to "throw more stuff at the Clans in utter desperation"...
And you could also train the drivers/pilots...
Mechcommander did a good job with fielding the tanks.
Mechcommander did a good job with fielding the tanks.
And by a lucky coincidence one of the designers of MechCommander who was also the producer for MechCommander 2 happens to be co-founder of HBS. Imagine that huh?
And by a lucky coincidence one of the designers of MechCommander who was also the producer for MechCommander 2 happens to be co-founder of HBS. Imagine that huh?
Spooky.
Combined arms including tanks, infantry, artillery and aerospace support, was one of those things that the devs had been looking into since the Kickstarter, but ultimately fell by the way so they could focus on the core features of the game. Count it all as firmly in Mitch's "In Success" bin though.
While I have mentioned this to my brother who also plays the game, adding vehicles is... quite difficult with the current balance in the game.
If you gave me 4 Mechs and 4 Vehicles (say) for a game, those 4 Vehicles would almost certainly be LRM Carriers and my Mechs are the spotters/brawlers who both spot for the LRMs and also are tasked with preventing the OpFor from getting in range of those vehicles.
More generally, the biggest difficulty with expanding the number of combatants on the battlefield is that the battles will attrit more. If you pit a company against another company, with current rules, I don't see how you're not losing a Mech or two every combat.
If you gave me 4 Mechs and 4 Vehicles (say) for a game, those 4 Vehicles would almost certainly be LRM Carriers and my Mechs are the spotters/brawlers who both spot for the LRMs and also are tasked with preventing the OpFor from getting in range of those vehicles.
More generally, the biggest difficulty with expanding the number of combatants on the battlefield is that the battles will attrit more. If you pit a company against another company, with current rules, I don't see how you're not losing a Mech or two every combat.
I'm thinking if we ever do get to command some tanks and vehicles alongside our lance they should be temporary local auxiliaries exclusive to the mission. Sort of like in Panzer General, you would have your core army that transfers between battles and the game gives you some supplemental forces if the mission calls for it.
As much as the idea of tanks would be great, the thought of how long it would take for each turn scares the crap out of me. I'm currently loosing my mind with the current amount of time I'm sitting there staring at the screen while the OPFOR is doing it's turn.
Maybe in a few months if they speed up the OPFOR, then it could be revisited, but the amount of time it would take with BOTH sides having tanks would be astronomical.
Maybe in a few months if they speed up the OPFOR, then it could be revisited, but the amount of time it would take with BOTH sides having tanks would be astronomical.