Where can I find an Annihilator mech?

[Torchfire]

Found a cantina mission that required killing an Annihilator battlemech. But so far, I had not encountered it once on the battlefield, though I did find it for sale at one point as a rare mech.

[Blue]

lot of the assaults spawn in Steiner and Kurita space, as those are the places you end up late game and with the highest difficulty missions. hitting "Q" on a selected system will bring up a menu showing what mechs can spawn, who uses them, and how likely they are to appear.

I'd probably hit up missions/stores in Kurita for the best chance

[necro55]

There is an Anni close to the end of the main campaign.
If memory serves when you find the uhhh super nice assault mech with the beacon in an old city from SLDF era sorry being vague dont want to give spoilers, but the last lance dripped on you in that old city has an annihilator, thats where i got my first one, iirc it’s
a 1X

[endcrab]

Pretty sure vanilla annihilators do not spawn as enemies at all, like the marauder II (outside of a couple specific missions). Never saw one in hundreds of hours outside the campaign missions until I started playing modded.

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Originally posted by endcrab:

Pretty sure vanilla annihilators do not spawn as enemies at all, like the marauder II (outside of a couple specific missions). Never saw one in hundreds of hours outside the campaign missions until I started playing modded.

Marauder II's and Annihilators both spawn in the high difficulty sections of Kurita/Steiner space.

[Torchfire]

Originally posted by endcrab:

Pretty sure vanilla annihilators do not spawn as enemies at all, like the marauder II (outside of a couple specific missions). Never saw one in hundreds of hours outside the campaign missions until I started playing modded.

Really? I got a Marauder II as my second 100 ton mech in the campaign. Was a mission chain that had me destroy jamming stations and hit an enemy base from behind. The Marauder II was one of the enemy mechs that I was able to salvage afterwards.
The first 100-tonner I got was an Atlas from a mech shop.

[Torchfire]

Originally posted by necro55:

There is an Anni close to the end of the main campaign.
If memory serves when you find the uhhh super nice assault mech with the beacon in an old city from SLDF era sorry being vague dont want to give spoilers, but the last lance dripped on you in that old city has an annihilator, thats where i got my first one, iirc it’s
a 1X

Sounds like I need to be ready for it, then?
Out of curiosity, how close is that mission? The last mission I completed had me run a diversionary attack against ComStar somewhere in the periphery and am now at the second coordinate location, but hadn't checked it out yet.

Edit: It turned out to be the next mission in line. Got a good Annihilator duel from it, as I used the one I bought from the mech store. Too bad I wasn't able to salvage it afterwards... Would be nice having a spare.

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by Torchfire:

Found a cantina mission that required killing an Annihilator battlemech. But so far, I had not encountered it once on the battlefield, though I did find it for sale at one point as a rare mech.

If you don't have the latest DLC they won't spawn as an enemy.

[Torchfire]

Originally posted by Strayed:

Originally posted by Torchfire:

Found a cantina mission that required killing an Annihilator battlemech. But so far, I had not encountered it once on the battlefield, though I did find it for sale at one point as a rare mech.

If you don't have the latest DLC they won't spawn as an enemy.

The only DLC I have is HotIS.

[Kay]

In campaign, I find Anni's most in the upper-right of Kurita space. Never fought against, only ever found ones for sale. You definitely need to be in the 14/15 Level areas, and they show up only late-game.

In theory, with Wolf's Dragoons now part of the Rasalhague DLC, they might spawn in with them as ANH is an exclusive deign they own.

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by Torchfire:

The only DLC I have is HotIS.

Yeah not going to find one to kill outside of that one mission in Campaign. I'd honestly drop the mission.
If you see missions to kill things like Stalker 3Fb's, Marauder II's, Highlajnder 732's, drop those as well. You'll never get them done.

Originally posted by Kay:

In campaign, I find Anni's most in the upper-right of Kurita space. Never fought against, only ever found ones for sale. You definitely need to be in the 14/15 Level areas, and they show up only late-game.

In theory, with Wolf's Dragoons now part of the Rasalhague DLC, they might spawn in with them as ANH is an exclusive deign they own.

They actually spawn as enemies for anything with the Merc Flag. Problem though is they will not be encountered without mods or latest DLC

[Kay]

Originally posted by Strayed:

They actually spawn as enemies for anything with the Merc Flag. Problem though is they will not be encountered without mods or latest DLC

Haven't touched mods yet, but if Rasalhague merc encounters make them appear, I can finally have hopes of finding the other model of Marauder II. YOU HEAR THAT WOLF'S DRAGOONS! I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER!

[necro55]

Originally posted by Torchfire:

Originally posted by necro55:

There is an Anni close to the end of the main campaign.
If memory serves when you find the uhhh super nice assault mech with the beacon in an old city from SLDF era sorry being vague dont want to give spoilers, but the last lance dripped on you in that old city has an annihilator, thats where i got my first one, iirc it’s
a 1X

Sounds like I need to be ready for it, then?
Out of curiosity, how close is that mission? The last mission I completed had me run a diversionary attack against ComStar somewhere in the periphery and am now at the second coordinate location, but hadn't checked it out yet.

Edit: It turned out to be the next mission in line. Got a good Annihilator duel from it, as I used the one I bought from the mech store. Too bad I wasn't able to salvage it afterwards... Would be nice having a spare.

Yeah thats a great mission, too bad about the salvage. Howd you like the other assault you got there? Its become my main ride.
Which anni did you already have, a ballistic or energy variant?

[Torchfire]

Originally posted by necro55:

Originally posted by Torchfire:

Sounds like I need to be ready for it, then?
Out of curiosity, how close is that mission? The last mission I completed had me run a diversionary attack against ComStar somewhere in the periphery and am now at the second coordinate location, but hadn't checked it out yet.

Edit: It turned out to be the next mission in line. Got a good Annihilator duel from it, as I used the one I bought from the mech store. Too bad I wasn't able to salvage it afterwards... Would be nice having a spare.

Yeah thats a great mission, too bad about the salvage. Howd you like the other assault you got there? Its become my main ride.
Which anni did you already have, a ballistic or energy variant?

The 95 tonner on that mission? Honestly, I did quite like it, though I've only used it for one mission. Switched back to my Marauder II for the final one. Finished it on the first attempt, but got cored in the proccess. Funnily, the one mech in my lance that go off almost unscratched there was the only one that wasn't a 100-tonner: The Battlemaster with the ECM suit.

And, as for the Anni variants, I honestly didn't realise there were multiple of them. This one has 4 large ballistic slots and 4 medium energy slots. I gave it 4 medium lasers, two AC/5-BFs for long range fire and two LB 10-X solid slug ACs for the main punch. Took out the enemy Annihilator's leg in two shots. And then killed it in a couple more.

[Kay]

Originally posted by Torchfire:

And, as for the Anni variants, I honestly didn't realise there were multiple of them.

Three models, no Hero variant.
1A - 4 AC10, 4 MLas. Great to refit with 4 LB10X.
1E - 4PPCs, 4 MLas. This and King Crab Kaiju are the only things to out Awesome an Awesome.
2A - Very similar to 1A. Forget what it has exactly, saw one, didn't buy it.

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by Kay:

Originally posted by Torchfire:

And, as for the Anni variants, I honestly didn't realise there were multiple of them.

Three models, no Hero variant.
1A - 4 AC10, 4 MLas. Great to refit with 4 LB10X.
1E - 4PPCs, 4 MLas. This and King Crab Kaiju are the only things to out Awesome an Awesome.
2A - Very similar to 1A. Forget what it has exactly, saw one, didn't buy it.

There's 4 actually.
2A is just 1A but with weapons swapped to 4 LBX-10's and 4 Med Pulses.
1X has DHS, 4x LBX-10's, 4 Medium Lasers, 2x Small Pulse and a Small Laser