To all of you complaining about the rare item salvage from Standoff, beat this one !

I beat the campaign, now what do I do? Is it worth keep playing? Pirates hate me -100 with them. Can I still get good gear and are there more campaign style missions? It’s my first play through and I have vanilla with the battlepass.

Hi there, I am wanting to either get into RogueTech or BTAU because I like the look of the complexity. I want something more than just ausing and AC10 ++ and changing more of the mech honestly.

However I have zero experience with the tabletop and all the different components that is quite overwhelming.

Is there like a cheat sheet of what to look out for / what to do early game? I have seen that getting high tactics and gunnery is important but that is about it. The mech situation is harder to comprehend with all the options available.

PS I have done a career and campaign in vanilla so not totally new. Also haven't looked at BEX 2.0 as my impression is it is still very close to vanilla mech assembly when I want more complexity. I could be wrong however 😅

I've never played the tabletop. The only Mechwarrior games I've played before this one and Mercs were 3025 on SNES and one for the original XBox 20 years ago.

This game has made me LOVE all of the mechs I would never touch in Mercs.
* The Javellin, while not the worst in Mercs, is super solid here. 4 M lasers in the rear arc is absolutely atrocious.
* The Spider (disclaimer, I do love the Anansi) mobility and jump capability is astronomical. Clear across the map
* The Griffin, in Mercs it just feels like a dud to me. Due to the live action combat, it simply doesn't pack enough punch IMO, and I never grew to love it. In HBSTech it has taken the role of harraser / scout, replacing my usual scout position in Lance.

Etc.

I think a big part of it is the way Jumpjets actually make sense in this game compared to Mercs, they function and look / feel as they should, rather than basically being just a convenience in Mercs for certain scenarios, like avoiding artillery, infiltration missions, and the occasional hopping over a rock in my wolverine for funsies.

edit: forgot to mention the Grasshopper, because I haven't had one since I played the vanilla campaign. I used it once in MW5, it wasn't bad but there were better options. in HBSTech, its extremely fun and dangerous.

On my first play through with vanilla. After the last mission I played I got a prompt that I should have a couple lances ready for my next drop. I started watching a video to see what size lance i should be targeting and the dude had a king crab and atlas’. I haven’t seen anything that big. I have a highlander732b, 4x stalker 3f, 1x awesome 8Q 1x marauder 3r. Is that good enough for the final run? Or should I be booting around looking for heavier mechs to buy. The last missions I made it through with a minor repair bill, 3days worth repair time, no lost weapon.

Edit: I ran both missions with my stalkers and Highlander. Took damage to one stalker and pilot in the first mission but you get the atlas for the next so that replaced my lost pilot and mech. That King crab put up a fight. I tried to salvage it but i must have missed and hit the ammo on my targeted strike to the leg. Thanks everyone for your help! Now I gotta figure out what to do next, do I keep playing? My rep with pirates is terrible and it seems they are the gate keeper for good mechs. May start a new career and try to stay on the pirate good side.

That's right folks, nothing to see here. Move along now. We're here to help this poor Black Knight out.

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So im playing tactics. Middle mouse button switches ammo types on normal AC weapons, but for UAC weapons it changes between single and double fire. What am I missing? Can I not use different ammo types with UAC weapons?

I’ve been on and off with the game since it came out, and I’m looking to spice it up/expand my options, but I don’t want to append too much time/effort modding.

What are the best single mods I can try for new gameplay?

Are any of the DLC a stand out above the rest? Do any of the DLC add additional campaigns or is it mainly mechanics and mechs?

Also this game is great! At least for me it was the perfect level of difficulty, with that being quite hard. I almost rage quit because of a few of the missions, but I am glad I did not.

It is just now turning 2030 in my BEX campaign, and I have some cash to spend.

I have been farming some Comstar missions (thanks to everyone who helped me find them!!) and I am at best coming away with some slightly upgraded mechs and double heat sinks.

None of the highly lethal stuff you guys suggest, like snub PPC's and the like.

I have a grand total of ONE Med Pulse Laser, and some PPC's and LL's that are not any better than I find in shops.

I can handle 2 skull missions pretty well with a mix of FS/Phx backstabbers, an Enforcer sniper, and a few mixed midrange mediums, with an LRM boat subbed in as needed.

Where and what should I be hunting for?

I know the Marauder 2R have been optimized to high heaven, but I was wondering why UAC20++ (+20 damage, -3 tons) have not been considered as an option. Combined with 6 Medium lasers ++ (+10 damage), the probability of head shots is actually significantly higher than the commonly used 6 ER medium laser + UAC2 combination.

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The commonly circulated chart (link above) has this latter combination at 79%, 79% 51%, and 24% headshots at 0%, 20%, 40%, and 60% damage reduction respectively. However, using a UAC20++ instead of the UAC2++ (and Mlaser instead of ER Mlaser), you get a 83%, 68%, 68%, 50% head shot probability respectively. This is because a single UAC20++ hit combined with one MLaser hit is enough even at 60% damage reduction.

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This loadout is actually possible with the default MAD-2R armor (before making adjustments) with -18 heat and 5 rounds of UAC20 ammo (or -24 heat with 7.5 rounds of ammo). You can sacrifice more armor to increase ammo or decrease heat, but I find 5 to 7 rounds of UAC20 enough for most missions (with good ammo management) and I always use a cooling vent pilot on the marauder (best ability for heavy and assault mech pilots imho, or at least vs AI) which helps to manage heat greatly (Mlasers also need significantly less heat than ER Mlasers). I personally wouldn't reduce armour below the default configuration, but I am comfortable enough with the default Marauder armor, but maybe that is just me. (edit: default armor is 11.5T)

Not sure what is the most common Damage reduction % observed in game (probably either 20% or 0%), but usually, the most annoying mechs are those with 40% or 60% damage reduction. Having my MAD-2R being able to quickly and consistently dispatch them helps A LOT, and my other mechs can easily dispatch the remaining mechs.

Of course, this mech is much more limited by range than UAC2 with ER Mlaser, but I personally have rarely had range issues on a jumping marauder, since vision is usually a more limiting factor. Plus, with this build, you can dump the rangefinder for comms to improve morale regeneration, which I find to be another major factor if you want to complete missions fast.

Any thoughts or feedback on this?

EDIT: LAM = Land Air Mech - a mech that has a flying mode.

Trying to take the Rattler down without community content EDIT: (or nukes) has made me revisit my original approach to LAMs.

Like many others, I came out of the vanilla game with a four-mech-lance combined arms strategy. My recon and headshot specialists were a pair of jump-capable SLDF Marauders armed with six ERML++ each, my sniper was a four UAC2 boat Annihilator with one gauss rifle just because it was cool and I liked the sound and firing effect, and an 80 to 90 tube LRM Bullshark for indirect fire support when necessary.

I went straight into RogueTech right after I finished the vanilla campaign, and suddenly, I couldn't get the practically guaranteed headshots per turn that I was used to once enough resolve had built up by the second round of enemy contact. Not only that, missions could spawn as many as five lances AT THE SAME TIME. This wasn't the 'an extra lance will appear by turn 6, another one by turn 9' and so on. No, you reach a certain part of the map, find a sensor trace, and suddenly, the two lances you were facing turn into five. I needed a better strategy.

Back in the days of my vanilla campaign, a kind and knowledgeable player, u/DoctorMachete (the guy who beats vanilla missions with a single unarmored mech) showed me how to build long-jump brawlers with SNPPC-wielding SLDF Warhammers and Royal Phoenix Hawks. I didn't use them too much back then, though, because you just received so much more salvage with headcappers. Backstabbers were lucky if they got two pieces of a given mech.

In RogueTech, however, I quickly gave up trying to maximize salvage and I just wanted to be able to successfully complete the missions. I found a shiny new 55-ton Dervish in a Davion mech dealership one day, stuffed it with jump jets and SRM6 launchers, and I was off to the races.

Both BTAU and RogueTech have undergone many updates since then, but my four-mech lance of jumpers has adapted and changed with them.

Which brings us to LAMs and u/bloodydoves Rattler challenge, where you have take down a monster unit that has armor and structure points in the tens of thousands and its entourage of 20+ to 30 mechs, ground vehicles and VTOLs without the use of nukes or community content anything.

At the suggestion of u/bloodydoves himself, I've been trying LAM builds, the theory being that they might have the evasion and movement range to survive the hundreds of combat turns necessary to whittle down tens of thousands of armor and structure points.

First, I went with various Nagual iterations. Then the 80-ton Hector LAM (Yes, u/bloodydoves advised me against using that one, but I had to give it a shot. For science.). I also tried the 60-ton Champion and the 55-ton Screamer.

What I've found is pretty much what caused me to shun LAMs in the first place. Their huge movement range and evasion comes at the price of durability and damage potential. The most well-rounded in terms of armor, mobility/evasion and weaponry is the 55-ton Screamer. It can mount an Osprey gyro, harjel, modular armor, a called shot FCS, and it has more weapons tonnage than the Nagual. The Nagual looks great on paper, but even with all the maxed evasion from a Sparrow gyro, and the defensive bonuses from the CLPS and NSS systems, it was still getting hit from all the way across the map by ERPPCs and gauss rounds on 5-skull missions. And you can't mitigate the damage because thanks largely to the regular endo steel structure, there aren't enough slots to put in harjel or modular armor.

The 80-ton Hector LAM is saddled with a poor selection of hardpoints, and both it and the 60-ton Champion LAM are hobbled by the weight of the massive engines that their airframes require.

In actual combat, it takes multiple rear armor passes and strikes by the entire four-LAM lance to take down an enemy. By way of contrast, I can send any one of the jump backstabbers in my normal four-mech setup to deal with a surprise OpFor spawn all by itself, without any support, and many times, when reinforcement units have become available, at least 50% of the enemy units are already dead.

Part of the problem also lies with the fact that a LAM is almost always visible unless you land it and take cover behind something. It's much easier to control or deny line of sight with a jumper, plus, you can face in any direction, unlike a LAM in air mode.

I got rid of the Champions and Hectors, but I'll probably keep a mixed lance of Naguals and Screamers to use, partly because they're sort of cool and partly for the novelty of it, but I'm certainly not bringing them along for things like defend base or ambush convoy missions, where I need to kill stuff fast.

As always, good luck, and above all, have fun!

Started a new run with the SLDF cache start and managed to get two M Coil lasers from the crate which is a first for me. Slapped them both on the Talon I started with and even a rookie pilot can get 5 pips of evasion for 75 dmg on each Coil laser. Still can't hit anything with the changes in the new patch but it's made the grind of the early game more manageable.

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I am doing my first BTAU campaign, started in FedSuns space and did the campaign flashpoints until Sanctuary space opened up. Went there and got several mechs, specifically the bombard focused Rashnu and Archer. Then I wanted to check out clan space and these Sanctuary mechs make dealing with battle armor so easy. Just fire it at a mech carrying BA and it destroys both pretty easily. Is this an intended counter? I was very scared to go to clan space but so far it's a walk in the park. Further question, what's the best way to increase difficulty for a campaign? Are there certain options that Amp things up more than others?

So I have been playing BTAU for some time after finishing the vanilla campaign and all official expansion, and I must say, it is easily a sequel we never officially got. While I generally only have enough time to squeeze in a mission or two every couple days, it is full of memorable moments so far.

The latest one was the first 3 skull mission I decided to handle on my current playthrough after feasting on lower skull missions to build up my arsenal and get my pilots some skills. By now, I am running a unit consisting of 3 vehicles (2 Hunters and a Condor Davion version), 3 lights (Mongoose, Jenner, and Firestarter), 4 mediums (Shadow Hawk, Centurion retooled as a missile boat, Huron Warrior with Gauss rifle, and a Phoenix Hawk), one heavy (Balar), and one assault (Longbow). Most of my mech bay backups are in the light to medium range, with one Merlin and a few 50-55 tonners the heaviest of the bunch, all Inner Sphere tech.

The mission was supposed to be a battle on the urban map where I was supposed to trigger a heavy mech trap and kill whatever shows up, with pirates as the employer and local government as the OpFor. So, I figured I can kill an occasional assault machine or a couple heavies, grab the salvage, and maybe get a few more powerful mechs for the higher skull missions.

The first thing I see when I am dropped into the map is a 100 ton blip, which turned out to be an Atlas. Then, my scanners started lighting up, and my joy at seeing easy salvage turned to concern. I ended up facing a Kell Hounds unit with an Atlas, an Executioner, a Battlemaster, a Nova, two Adders, an Ice Ferret, an Avatar, a Rifleman, an LRM/SRM heavy tank with a German-sounding name, and a Shrek PPC carrier.

This was one of the most fun battles I had in the game. I concentrated most of my forces on the Atlas, maneuvering around the urban landscape and using my light mechs' mobility and jump jets to draw fire while at high evasion and at altitude, all the while laying everything I had into the enemy assault machines. The Atlas went down, followed by Executioner, Battlemaster, Avatar, Nova (though by then it was nearly disabled after losing one arm and one side torso with most of its weapons gone and heat through the roof, thanks to my Firestarter), and the vehicles. The Clan-tech light and medium mechs went down to LRM fire and a few Gauss rounds.

In the end, I suffered some damage on the Jenner (lost a leg) and Mongoose (stripped armor from a few lucky shots), but no casualties or injuries along my pilots. Instead, I walked away with enough salvage to rebuild an Executioner, an Atlas, and an Avatar, plus some Clan-tech weaponry.

Now, this was probably far from the most impressive victory on here, but it was fun and I enjoyed it, especially now that I have Clan-tech mechs to use in future missions, and I got there with much individually weaker machines. Certainly memorable, and I look forward to getting to use those assaults down the line.

By now, I've tried a number of Nagual LAM builds and have thrown four-mech lances of them at various 5-skull missions, the logic being that if they couldn't do well in those situations, there was no chance of them being able to beat the Rattler.

So far, I think that the Nagual is not the Rattler antidote that I was hoping for. For one thing, it takes too much damage. I gave it the Sparrow gyro so that it could gain as much evasion as possible, and retrained my pilots from Ace Pilot to the skill that grants sensor lock immunity because I couldn't shoehorn in a Clan ECM. The result? Even with evasion of 10 or more, the Naguals were still taking at least 10 to 30 points of armor damage per turn. Now, that was still okay for the five skull missions that they went on. The Naguals did successfully complete the missions with only minor damage. The Rattler fight is a whole different ball game, though. They would literally have to survive hundreds of turns in order to seriously damage the Rattler. Assuming that each Nagual only gets five points of damage per turn, over a hundred turns, that's already 500 points, which is enough to seriously cripple or kill the fragile LAM. And since there aren't enough slots or excess tonnage for harjel or modular armor, even 5 points of damage per turn isn't survivable in the long run.

The other problem lies with the weaponry. Because of the poor choice that the mech's designer made by using regular endo steel on a mech where the majority of slots are already taken up by fixed equipment that can't be swapped out or altered, those fourteen endo steel slots don't really leave you with much to work with. My first choice was the Super M Lasers that I salvaged from some Crosscut mechs. The lasers only weigh a ton, but do 50 points of damage each. Perfect, right? Nope. Not only do they take up two slots each, they also generate 20+ heat per laser. Now this might seem like a lot of damage for the heat, and it is, but the problem lies in the fact that the Nagual is a bit of a heat hog. The LPS and NSS systems that make it difficult to hit already generate nearly 50 points of heat per turn. This uses up practically all of the heat sinking ability of the Clan DHS kit. So you're left with a huge heat delta, and no way to add more cooling because you're out of slots.

How did we run out of slots? In addition to the 14 slots for endo steel, we needed to give up 7 slots for Clan ferro fibrous armor, or you won't have the free tonnage for the weapons and other necessary equipment. When you factor in the cooling required to allow you to fire all of your weapons every turn without overheating, which is a two-ton bulk heat bank that takes four more slots, you're left with three slots for weapons, and they shouldn't generate much more than 30 heat.

My second choice was a toss up between the Clan ERPPC and the shotgun ERPPC, for both the damage and the accuracy debuff. But even with the Precision FCS that grants breaching shot AND -1 recoil to offset the +1 PPC recoil, to-hit percentages were pretty lousy.

Then I moved on to the medium piercing laser, with its +2 accuracy and 1 evasion ignore. Although each one weighed two tons, they only took up one slot, and the 30 or so heat generated by all three was quite manageable. As a nice bonus, each one does 9 structure damage in addition to the 18 points of regular armor damage.

In practice, however, it took forever to complete a mission, even with 100% rear armor shots. To-hit percentages were much better, but each enemy mech required four to five backstab alphas, on average, before they gave up the ghost.

My criticisms notwithstanding on its viability as a Rattler killer, the Nagual is actually a pretty good LAM for its tonnage. I plan to keep the four that I've customized and use them as long range recon scouts, but I just don't think that they can survive the Rattler challenge.

Oh, well... back to the drawing board!

I love the big guns. AC20++, Gauss Rifles , PPC. I’m less about total damage as single location damage that punches holes in mechs and tears off limbs. What are the best big guns in the game and best big gun mechs?

A usual tactic for me is to run three or four big shoota mechs that have pilots with breaching shot and multi target. Then cycle through three enemy mechs that think they can hide in cover.

I'm under the impression based on other posts I've read that you can buy/pilot vehicles in BEX but I'm almost 3000 days into a run and I've never seen one in store. What am I missing?

I am very far from a Battletech noob. I've got 1340 hours into the game as of writing this. But I am getting murdered by this mod. Early game was okay, but now that I'm doing 2.5-3 star missions, I am getting the absolute hell kicked out of me despite taking as much or more than the tonnage limit into every fight. If I win, I come out of it missing serious components. Vanilla tactics are just not getting it done; I can't kill the enemy fast enough to even the odds before getting swamped by superior numbers. Any ideas what I should be doing differently? Am I building mechs incorrectly? My present line-up is a Griffin with three MLs and two SRM launchers, a Warhammer with four large lasers, a Marauder with two PPCs and an AC/5, and either a Wolverine or a Hunchback depending on how I'm feeling.

I did some maths and found that ballistics don't do much damage for the tonnage they occupy.

M LASER

Tonnage efficiency: 25 damage per ton, Heat efficiency: 2.08 damage per heat

SRM6

Tonnage efficiency: 16, Heat efficiency: 4

AC 20

Tonnage efficiency: 7.14 damage per ton, Heat efficiency: 4.16 damage per heat

AC 10

Tonnage efficiency: 5, Heat efficiency: 5

AC 5

Tonnage efficiency: 5.625, Heat efficiency: 5.625

AC 2

Tonnage efficiency: 4.16666..., Heat efficiency: 6.25

Ballistic weapons are more heat efficient but since lasers are so lightweight I can pack my mech with extra heat sinks and do fine. Could a rules expert explain it to me?

I spent last night strategizing and removing community content stuff from my mechs for some trial missions against the Rattler. My builds only use one piece of community content gear and one community content chassis, which is the Highlander, and I obviously didn't bring that to the fight.

After testing the Rattler's defenses, I've come to realize that there's really only one thing that needs to be overcome or neutralized in order to succeed. It's not the capital ship energy weapons, or the gauss cannons, or even the large number of OpFor lances or reinforcement VTOLs that the Rattler poops out. All of those can be dealt with. That's pretty much what one has to do to beat an Overlord dropship.

The key advantage that the Rattler has is the Barracuda. The damage and area of effect of this one weapon is so great that even a superheavy can be overcome with a single strike. So you need units that have enough movement range to either get outside the huge AoE envelope (that seems to cover about 70% to 80% of the map area) or at least get to the edge of it to minimize the damage.

I thought of using LAMs, but pretty much all of them are community content. I think that the 55-ton Screamer is considered usable, but it's also really fragile and can't carry too many powerful weapons. So then, I went to jump designs. For twelve hexes, the best that I could do was a 55-tonner. If you exclude the community content Highlander, the heaviest mech that you can get to leap up to 10 hexes and still carry a decent number of weapons is around 80 tons.

As for weapons, if you can't bring nukes, forget about using anything else that needs ammo. Even if you filled your mech with nothing but ammo plus the weapons that use them, you're going to run out long before you even get close to destroying the 50,000 armor point central core, and that's assuming that all of your shots land, although it sort of stretches belief when you miss when trying to hit something that big. Ammo resupply and repair trucks are no good because they can't survive the Barracuda barrage. They have neither the speed nor the armor.

So far, I haven't really come up with anything that could work, and when I compute the amount of damage that can be done versus the number of turns that one would have to survive against multiple Barracuda strikes (I think it has three of them) in order to hurt the Rattler that much, it honestly doesn't seem achievable. However, it is an interesting, if perhaps Quixotic exercise, and I'll continue to plug away at it whenever the mood strikes me.

I am, of course, all ears if any of you have had any luck with this mission.

EDIT: I stand corrected by u/bloodydoves. Yes, there are several non-community content LAMs, but after going over their specs, I'm not convinced that any of them could last long enough to defeat the Rattler. Most are too lightweight, and the few that seem heavy enough, like the 80-ton Hector, still lose a lot of stability in air mode, and believe me, the OpFor in this mission has LOTS and LOTS of missiles!

Griffin-1N 3x M Laser 1x SRM6++ 1ton SRM6 ammo 5x FF 5x HS

Have been utilizing him as a skirmisher / distraction, getting the enemy to turn and take side shots from the Sniper / LRM's,

Open to completely reworking if needed I am starting to have to really step up my game. I am at the point of getting out-tonnaged, and am slowly adding in Heavies to my stable.

I can get like 2x turns of Alpha + Jump, then I have to spend a turn or 2 cooling down, or stay at low weapon utilization.

I basically have to be jumping to stay alive,

Please, provide any suggestions you may have!

Also, just picked up a Centurion CN9-A, any good? Worth building out?

Currently Running: Archer LRM20x2 MLaz x2 Enforcer sniper - PPC & AC10+ Firestarter - MLaz x2 and all the MG's as a Sensor Lock / Back Stabber

Hi all. Title is pretty self explanatory.

I have played the game on and off since release. Looking to make another go of it. What are the best mods I could get that don't fundamentally change the game, but instead focus on adding additional content?

In the past I've tried Roguetech and hated it. Too hard, too complicated. I respect it, but I don't like it.

What mods would you suggest I pick up? I see Vanilla+ is offline/abandoned. Is Battletech Expanded my best option?

Ok I am not all that computer savvy, at least not for modding stuff. So I have to ask the obvious question what is the BTAU? Is it a mod that the game designers did or is it an add on I need to buy or what? I am sorry I am curious and would LOVE to see a a broadened game universe cause I have gone through campaign a few times and still keep getting killed on career but still wanna see the stuff. So any help or information would be greatly appreciated cause I am still completely loving the basic game with the dlcs I have.

Playing BTAU and currently trying to save St. Ives from being swallowed by those *expletive deleted* Liao. Is it possible to do so or will the game require them to be absorbed?

I'm curious if anybody's started a playthrough in a version of BEX at the 3025 starting point, played through to 3061, and then switched over to a version of BTA? I suppose from what I've seen, one could just do that in RT without having to switch mods, eh?

I got hit with the random idea that I wanted to play through everything that happens between 3025 and 3061 instead of it just being history as I played BTAU, and BEX-T offers that. I haven't played BEX in forever and a day - basically being all about the BTA offering.

Definitely been a rude awakening with some of the differences and the difference in difficulty being a major one. Everything is so damn squish, lol. But it's nice to be able to stomp vehicles instead of getting stomped by them.

It's just this pseudo-RP thing where I intend to have one character in BEX-T play those 36 years, retire, and have their son or daughter take over in BTAU.

Course, I've been tempted to ignore the 3025-3061 and just write up a history of sorts for the Zero Point Battalion and use a combination of the Save Editor and Fell Off a Cargo Ship to create everything using rolls on the tables from the tabletop game. Grab Total Warfare to determine what the three companies lances look like - then hit up the Xotl RAT for the 'mechs. So like for the first part...

Rolled a 1 - 1 Light, 2 Medium
Rolled a 6 - 2 Heavy, 1 Assault
Rolled a 3 - 2 Medium, 1 Heavy

...then hit up the weight for what's in the lances in those companies...

Rolled a 2, 6, 6 - 3 Light, 1 Medium - 2 Medium, 2 Heavy - 2 Medium, 2 Heavy
Rolled a 6, 4, 3 - 3 Heavy, 1 Assault - 1 Medium, 2 Heavy, 1 Assault - 2 Heavy, 2 Assault
Rolled a 4, 5, 5 - 3 Medium, 1 Heavy - 3 Medium, 1 Heavy - 1 Medium, 2 Heavy, 1 Assault

...and then I'd hit the Xotl tables closest to what the background would suggest for the battalion.

-OR-

I do the playthrough of BEX-T from 3025 to 3061 and then switch over to BTAU in 3061 trying to match what I've got the best I can using various "cheat" mods/apps.

So, has anybody done anything like that? Any thoughts or suggestions on the topic? Thank you in advance.

edit: After reading some of the helpful replies, I'm in serious doubt of being able to pull this off - but I'm going to go ahead and give it a try just so I can test out some BEX-T since I haven't played BEX in years. Believe it was BEX-CE when I last played it.

Still, I've got a backup plan for just using the Save Editor and Fell Off a Cargo Ship to create the Zero Point Battalion in BTAU from stuff generated with the tabletop books - in this case using MechWarrior 3rd Ed (not a fan of AToW), Field Manual: Mercenaries, and Total Warfare. Heh and meh, it leaves me wishing somebody would do a decent BattleTech 4X game, lol.

edit2: Man oh man, I'm getting slaughtered in BEX-T compared to BTAU. My guys couldn't hit the ground while the enemies are just shredding me.

edit3: I gave up on BEX-T because of the player vs computer targeting. My guys couldn't hit the ground with a full alpha strike while the OpFor couldn't miss and were hitting structure with plinking shots.

King Crabs are almost as rare as unicorns in this game. I've already got four Atlases and I'm just 1/3 salvage away from a King Crab but after weeks of playing procedurally generated missions I still have no King Crab. What must I do?