[Spoilers] So, just did the final mission for Heavy Metal

[Xero]

Gotta say, it's really disheartening to have to fight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like Bounty Hunter and not really get anything for your troubles...

[artygame]

you live :) its something

[terrycpa1972]

Bragging rights and most of us found it fun. Also the way battle is set up it could be super easy for a player (although not so fun) by simply staying out of the way and letting them kill each other. the Thumper would let you do a bit of damage before they could shoot at you as well if you brought the Shark.

[Xero]

Originally posted by terrycpa1972:

the Thumper would let you do a bit of damage before they could shoot at you as well if you brought the Shark.

First turn that bounty hunter could act, he shot my bullshark and immediatly broke the thumper...

[terrycpa1972]

The Bounty Hunter lance isn't on the field when you land the Black Widow's lance is the first one you face. There's a 1 turn delay I believe before the Bounty Hunter shows up. And you don't need the thumper to win but it was fun to use in that case.

If you have anyone with sensor lock and LRMs or ACs you could usually stay out of the enemy sight and whittle away at them. I actually didn't bring any LRMS but was staying at range and exchanging shots with the Blackwidow's mech for a couple of turns before fading back to let the Bounty Hunter and them mix it up.

[wesnef]

Yeah, OP - as I said in my version of this thread: "I beat the Bounty Hunter & the Black Widow, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." :D

Originally posted by terrycpa1972:

The Bounty Hunter lance isn't on the field when you land the Black Widow's lance is the first one you face. There's a 1 turn delay I believe before the Bounty Hunter shows up.

Yeah, that one turn delay (before the drop location was marked) was just enough time for me to run my Annihilator & Bullshark forward so that they were stuck in that patch of woods in between the two forces. They took a bit of damage. :P

[Xero]

Originally posted by terrycpa1972:

The Bounty Hunter lance isn't on the field when you land the Black Widow's lance is the first one you face. There's a 1 turn delay I believe before the Bounty Hunter shows up. And you don't need the thumper to win but it was fun to use in that case.

And Black Widow's lance isn't even a threat, I had broke all but Black Widow's Warhammer in that first 2 turns. But again, the issue is the risk vs. reward you get for this mission.

Bounty Hunter himself went and really hated my Marauder, he broke all the weapons I had on that as well as 2 double heatsinks and a Heat Bank++ I tossed on for the warm environment. And what do I get for my trouble? A bunch of tech that is pretty common at most shops. Yay...

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Xero:

And Black Widow's lance isn't even a threat, I had broke all but Black Widow's Warhammer in that first 2 turns. But again, the issue is the risk vs. reward you get for this mission.

Hmm, I recall having terrible luck with precision shots/etc, on top off all their crazy buffs & debuffs. When the Bounty Hunter landed, I think all the BW mechs were still up.

[Xero]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Hmm, I recall having terrible luck with precision shots/etc, on top off all their crazy buffs & debuffs. When the Bounty Hunter landed, I think all the BW mechs were still up.

Well, I had a KGC with dual UAC/20s, that tends to delete multiple mechs a turn when in range.

[DiceWrangler]

I just completed this mission -- on the last day of my career(!) -- so I did not care about the rewards, all I wanted was bragging rights!

That said, the material rewards were disappointing but it bumped my Mercenary Review Board rating to 1000 so it was a perfect ending to a career; that and we partied afterward like it was 1999!

[MortVent]

It is one where money vs salvage is good.. but you can get a decent loot of + grade weapons. The main thing is disengaging and letting them pound each other...

It is a mission that screams bring the Raven!

[Zloth]

Nah, just hang back and let them blast each other. I was really looking forward to the salvage I was going to get, too, but ended up with squat. The story was a bit of a bust, too. It felt more like a "part 1 of 3" than a full story. Given the subject matter, though, the rest of it could be the subject of a whole, new BattleTech game.

[Ichthyic]

^^agree. would make a nice campaign storyline all on its own, if it was fully fleshed out.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Given the storlyine, it's a bit odd that there are no missions involving the Black Widow Company vs. all the pirates that have already received shipments of loot from the Dobrev and are so openly selling it. Handwaving it as BWC being interested specifically in, say, preventing leaks of information from the ship's data banks don't work when she's so adamant about gathering all the mechs/weapons etc. and blasting htem too; but then the pirates are clearly in possession of other loot from world to world to world.