Wrong place, wrong time?

[LongRange]

Completed an assassination mission. After dropping in I moved to the right edge of the op zone then up, moving away from the support force and putting the target between us. Once I got positioned a Shadow Hawk popped up so I thought it was maybe part of a reinforcements lance and took it out. Never got a reinforcement notice or % counter and he didn’t count against the primary support lance. Also was not the main target.

Do we now have to deal with random mechs traversing the op zone? Are we going to need IFF on all the units?

 

[mjbroekman]

Nope. In assassination missions there is, very often, one mech that is neither reinforcement nor supporting forces in addition to the target. When I see them, they are usually a random light or medium.

 

[MeiSooHaityu]

I've seen it too. I just assume it is one of the Jones family that has, by chance, found themselves stumbling into my contract.

If HyperRPG's Death From Above (DFA) show has taught me anything, it's that the Jones family is everywhere in the Periphery and they have a tendency of wandering into fights unexpected .

 

[mjbroekman]

I just always refer to them as Portia, and make them shut up.