White is full armour - grey is damaged armour on the health bar sections. Your mech also has 3 rearside sections for Torsos
Battletech: Any other backers?
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What he means is that if left arm is gone, damage is done to left torso. etc. I understood there is some kind of hit table being rolled and that's how a missing part is handled. You could argue but if arm is not there then it is miss! Ye, no. Because you rolled for a hit in the first place and this is to streamline the whole resolution.
The game has got 100 times easier since I got a Highlander with a gauss rifle. I've taken it on maybe 6 or 7 missions and I haven't needed to repair it yet, I did one last night where I had to fight two enemy lances at once so I sent the highlander off to fight one lance while my other three mechs went for the other. Still no repairs needed on the Highlander
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Yeah, similar to the board game. It was always fun to hit a light mech with an AC20 on an arm and have it chew all the way through to the central torso!
What I mean here (if we get back into the context of discussion) is it's not immediately obvious to newcomers, if at all, since I did not see any reference to it in the game. An in-game "refresher" of actual board game rules with these little but important details would be welcome...
Playthrough finished. Dekker survived. Scrubs these days just don't know how to roll these type of games. Over the course of the campaign I had 2 casualties, mostly due to recklessly getting into knockdown states. Twice I used ejection - it might have been more if that hadn't been possible.
Started a new campaign. Lost Dekker in the 2nd battle after the prologue. My supreme confidence isn't shattered though. It was a 1 in a million situation of a lethal headshot. That's what I keep telling myself. Spider vs AC5. Now with a more thorough understanding I'll do some other decisions for speccing and equipping, but without the called shot masteries, it instantly feels a bit harder. I think the early game is quite challenging.
So far my first venture into the Battletech sphere has been quite satisfying. I regret nothing.
Started a new campaign. Lost Dekker in the 2nd battle after the prologue. My supreme confidence isn't shattered though. It was a 1 in a million situation of a lethal headshot. That's what I keep telling myself. Spider vs AC5. Now with a more thorough understanding I'll do some other decisions for speccing and equipping, but without the called shot masteries, it instantly feels a bit harder. I think the early game is quite challenging.
So far my first venture into the Battletech sphere has been quite satisfying. I regret nothing.
One of my favorite games of recent years. I am really excited about Heavy Metal in November.