From: bo033@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joe E. Stainbrook)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Re: BTECH: Light Vs. Heavy (maybe even Assualt) [BSW Pub.]
Date: 15 Dec 1992 21:01:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bo033@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joe E. Stainbrook)
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In a previous article, lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) says:

>In article <1gj3f7INN815@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bo033@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joe E. Stainbrook) writes:
>>
>>High!
>>  I have been playing for a few years now and found that in my units a well
>>piloted well designed light or even medium mechs can match most heavy and
>>some assualt mechs.  I prove this case with the Habet WolfHound (posted
>>earlier) and two of these designs can keep another mech occupied and pepper
>>it enough so a heavier mech can catch up and finish it off.  
>>  (I had a nice 3 hour long battle against soeone in a 3050 Warhammer try
>>to defeat my WLF-2L on a map with minimal terrain. The Keyword is: TRY. 
>>Never-the-less I toasted it being about to keep moving fast enough to avoid
>>shots, keep up a steady rain a fire which peppered the WarHammer, and this
>>was only using a green Habet cadet agaist a reguar Lio officer.  I wasn't
>>an officer after that battle.)
>>  Light mechs, on the whole, are cheaper, faster, and more readily avalible
>>than heavy and assualt mechs whichgives a strong pooint to their use as a
>>standard mech as the Wasp ans stinger were the warhorses in many units
>>throughout the 3015-40 Inner Sphere. There whole idea on using assualt
>>mechs for all missions is fun fer gamming but in this Btek universe it is
>>very uneconomically feasable. 
> 
>    ___
>     |his is close to one of the "secrets" of pre-3050 BatleTech.  It
> was possible to create a mech that was only half the tonnage of
> another mech, and have them be evenly matched if played properly.
> 
>    |\|ow, with the Clans, the tech is such that being light and fast
> isn't enough of a defense against a heavier mech with Clan weapons
> like pulse lasers, targeting computers, and low base gunnery skills.
excuse me but I must say here that even though clan's mechs are getting
faster and more powerful a key to playing against them is not to be hit. 
This is one key reason My regiments are mainly composed of 2/3 light-medium
uinits while I skip most of the heavy uinits and go straight to assualt
units.  with the more I play against the clans the more fault I find and
exploit. (sometimes due to the unexperienced pilots) but They are not
invinceable.  
  Another note I care to make is that clans DO NOT and can not be totally
made up of heavy and assualt units.  I have a few people under my
supervision that I must continuelly state that fact to them and impose a
tonnage limit to their units.  
  Inconclusion I would like to point out that my fast units are more
readily to deploy against clans units and have a more favorable advantage
over them with my, well some would say 'excessive deployment', but I have
won 68% of my battles against clans due to the fact of my 'excessive' use
of fast , yet armored, mechs. 
 Have fun but remember that the Clans cannot
win back a home don't have.  the I.S. will win!!!
P.S. I should have deleted some things but I don't have that capabilities
on this terminal. Sowwy but too bad fer the reader.. ;p
Catch yals later....
>    ___
>     |hat, I'm sure, is one of the reasons so many people who have been
> playing the game for a while don't like Clan technology.  Similarly,
> I'm sure, at least subconsciously, one of the reasons people new to
> BattleTech actually like Clan technology is because it's more of a
> linear progression of power with respect to mech's weights.  i.e. with
> the Clans, heavier mechs are pretty much assured to be more powerful
> than lighter mechs.
>
>-- 
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>
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