KingCrab

[RGGStriker07]

Hi I just started to play the game again (never really played it a whole lot but now I am getting into it.

I wanted to know where can I get and more specifically buy the parts needed to build the following mechs.

ARCHER, King Crab, and Maurader?

[pete]

Black market - unless the pirates loathe you

[wesnef]

There's a good bit of randomness to the stores on planets. Just keep an eye out for the parts at every planet you stop at.

(the black market is quite random, too. I just has access to rarer & fancier things)

[isemados]

I did get a king crab salvage part this week in a random event, a bit south of the Liao star systems from a pirate faction, ...

that dialog happened on travel, and I was asked something to buy a leopard animal for I believe it was 100.000 or 1.000.000 and the dialog sayd one of my mechwarriors would trade it into "rare mech parts", I payed the cash, and I only got ONE mech part, but it was the one for a king crab assault type.

so, its similar to diablo 2 set items: play on play on play on... and you see different things accumulate in your storage,

at first its few things, then its more things, then you have 2 of 3 from 80% of all mechs, after 80 hours, and after 1000 hours, you get king crab 3 of 3. but maybe you want it more difficulty? then instead try to find 9 parts of them hahaha

[revenantsknight]

The King Crab and the Marauder MAD-2R can both be purchased from the black market. Of course, not every black market system will have them, but just keep looking and they'll turn up eventually. If available, they usually sell 3 parts, so if you haven't messed with the parts per 'Mech setting you can assemble a full 'Mech from one system.

The Marauder MAD-3R is available as a single part in many systems, including some of the starting Periphery ones; in one campaign I got MAD-3R parts from Bellerophon, Liu's Memory and Cluff's Stand. The first two systems have the Battlefield tag, and the third has Black Market, Rich and Manufacturing. I haven't seen any instances of a system selling more than one part, though, so you have to go scavenger hunting.

I'm not sure where to buy Archer parts, as I've never bothered to hunt for that 'Mech specifically.

I haven't confirmed this personally, but according to a guide linked below, faction shops also carry these 'Mechs. Specifically, the Free Worlds has the King Crab and the Archer 2S, the Lyrans have the Archer 2S, the Federated Suns sell the MAD-3D and the Taurians stock the MAD-3R. I don't know if those are 'Mech parts (and if so, how many) or fully assembled 'Mechs.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1577326260

[danko9696]

Besides salvaging them the King Crab can be found (sometimes) in Marik shops, the Marauder-3R in Taurian systems and the Marauder-3D in Steiner systems. The Archer-2S I think is Steiner too.

If you already have access to the Black Market then you should aim for the lostech Marauder before anything else. Also when you find it you'll see three parts or the full mech, not individual parts. That should make a lot easier to buy one if you're set up for three parts in the difficulty settings.

[isemados]

im going to play for one with 9 parts difficulty. whats the point of making things easy?

what does purchase mean? does it mean chasing something i dont know what it means in the connection "buy" is it a greadily hunt for it originally?
whats the "titulation" the name, and in contrast to that whats the "actual being" what it actual means or why did your culture loose contact to that kind of knowledge?
how can greedy hunt make you loose a word connection i wanna ask. im sure its important to find more king crabs.

[madpraxis]

...what the hell?

No, it means "to purchase", as in hand over some kind of monetary unit or work for something in return.

[New Moon On Monday]

Aside from stores, do certain types of mechs appear more often on contract missions, depending on area or OpFor?

With less than 100 days left in my current campaign game, the single biggest thing I can do to boost my score is obtain a Battlemaster to get chasis completion bonuses. I'm about to hit Taurian space to search through stores, but I'm wondering if I can do anything to increase chances via contract missions as well.

[madpraxis]

Yes, and yes.. I think..
It's been ages since I haven't played without BTA 3062, but as far as I know the houses tend to use certain types of mech. At least that is what I remember. Hell if I know that is right, or where that information is... if I remember correctly.
Worse case, go buy em, which is what you had already thought of, heh.

https://battletech.fandom.com/wiki/Battlemech_shop_locations

[New Moon On Monday]

Originally posted by madpraxis:

Yes, and yes.. I think..
It's been ages since I haven't played without BTA 3062, but as far as I know the houses tend to use certain types of mech. At least that is what I remember. Hell if I know that is right, or where that information is... if I remember correctly.
Worse case, go buy em, which is what you had already thought of, heh.

https://battletech.fandom.com/wiki/Battlemech_shop_locations

Maybe this was coincidence. But I found a Taurian store to sell me the last part I needed for the Battlemaster. I'm sure that in total I bought 4 of the 5 parts I needed, with only 1 coming in salvage. That probably means I had only seen 1 Battlemaster on the field in the entire game to that point. But with the Battlemaster completed and no more need for Taurian stores, I was free to ruin my Reputation with them. The very next mission I took with the Taurians as the OpFor, they fielded a Battlemaster. I need a few more missions against them for the negative Reputation points, so I'll see how many more Battlemasters they throw at me.

[Smokescreen1000]

Best bet is to hope you get lucky. However, stores like the black market and faction stores generally have higher level stuff

[Jeff Lewis]

Run tier 4.5 or 5's missions against the Capellan Confederation and their heavy mechs will be King Crabs and Marauders as of me playing last night in Free Worlds Territory. I didn't see any Archers tho. I found that the missions where you fight an elite squad of four is rich pickings for heavy mech salvage.

They don't seem to spawn for the long missions or where you destroy or defend a base. Although I did see about four Highlanders spawn in a convoy mission.

Good luck mate. Hope you find your mechs.