Yep, I miss it so bad I actually dug out the old manuals and re-read the rules, campaigning, read up on the Mechs.......even tripped over my 5 spiral notebooks that I used during campaigns. One even had my master roster of Mechs and such from my last campaign, complete with all the KIA marks next to them. My total losses for the last campaign was 107 Mechs, 16 Aerospace Fighters, 83 Armor and 44 Infantry squads destroyed. Total casualties including my support personnel was over 10,000 people.
Looks like my support bases got over run 4 times over the 3 worlds with heavy losses. 85% of my support troops KIA/MIA. Over 80% of my combat forces failed to escape.
Final OOB looks like this:
15 Mechs.........3 light, 6 med, 4 heavy and 2 assault 7 Aero.........2 light, 1 med, 3 heavy 9 Armor........3 light, 2 med and 4 heavy 5 infantry.........2 foot, 1 mech, 2 jump
Total Personnel
Mechwarriors............33 total, 14 combat ready, 17 WIA, 2 retired by wounds Aerospace................13 total, 8 combat ready, 5 WIA Armor crewmen...........87 total, 29 combat ready, 33 WIA, 25 retired by wounds Infantrymen...............126 troopers, 83 combat ready, 22 WIA, 21 retired by wounds
The list is longer but it gets hard to read, lots of smudges, might be tears of shame at destroying my command.
Pre-Battle OOB was exactly this:
Mechs.............168 Mechs Aerospace........38 fighters Armor..............260 (includes artillery tracks, units based on 4X4 BN with 4 BN in Reg) assume 4 men per vehicle Infantry...........2169 troopers Support...........4583 personnel (includes, techs, astechs, mechanics, medics, docs, admin, transport)
Space fleet which included dropships and jumpships totaled
2 Starlords with 60 crewmen (1 survived, 1 captured) 6 Invaders with 144 crew (2 survived, 2 destroyed, 2 captured) 3 Leopard Dropships with 27 crew (2 survived, 1 destroyed) 3 Overlord Drops with 129 crew (1 destroyed, 2 captured) 2 Union Drop with 28 crew (1 survived, 1 captured) 2 Seeker Drop with 40 crew (both captured) 3 Condor Drop with 72 crew (2 destroyed, 1 captured) 1 Excalibur with 50 crew (1 survived) 2 Triumph with 30 crew (1 destroyed, 1 captured) 4 Avengers with 60 crew (4 destroyed) 1 Mule with 20 crew ( captured)
Not sure I agree, the Clans were needed to fulfill the story line, and also to add some fresh to the game. I was a big enough unit that I could basically fight a Davion RCT to a standstill and even money defeat it. Kurita, Marik, Lio units got slaughtered facing me.
I thought I was king crap, the Clans taught me humility and defeat. And to add to that insult, I never faced more than a Cluster in any 1 battle. Cluster being roughly a BN in size. The last battle was only a Trinary of Mechs with 1 Star of Elementals facing my 1 Mech BN plus, 1 1/2 armor BN's and 2 Infantry BN's. I lost handily.
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