The attack lance were light mechs, and I let the militia handle them, and they did pretty well.
Turns out, there's an attack lance, and a defense lance, plus any reinforcement lances that drops later. Sent the lance up the ramp, just as enemy mechs approached. I landed with Orion (sniper-75t), Grasshopper (brawler-70t), Griffin (generalist-55t) and Blackjack (fire support-45t). GOt it done, but it was touch and go for a while. The big doozy mission was an attack/defend battle where my medium/heavy lance (240 ton total, none heavier than 75 ton) have to fight off up to 5 Steiner lances, and I just have the militia lance to help me. Only Catapult (C4) got hit, no time to repair it. Helped two militia lances deal with invaders is easy enough. Just did the Liao FP where I have to beat off a Steiner invasion because the SOB "Hauptman-General" just want to get his hands on his wife, who escaped to Liao space.
Still playing through the flashpoints and the occasional missions. I don't even have a medium mech, as I apparently don't even get a Jenner, as Urbie is way too slow to be useful. However, I apparently absolutely suck or I get lousy mechs. *sigh*ĮDIT8: Had to start a new career, as it won't even load the mechbay if I tried to start one fo the 3025 Extended career saves. *sigh* Keeps mumbling about "out of space" even though they are gigabytes of space. UNFORTUNATELY, this also introduced some sort of incompatibility, that the game can't save any more if I load my old campaign save. Must be conflicting with one of the other Extended 3025 mods. Started a new career, it still won't draw the available paths, and AI turns takes forever compared to 1.5.1 WTF?ĮDIT7: Found the problem. Wish me luck.ĮDIT6: Won't load old savegames. I'm going to verify files and re-inject Modtek.ĮDIT5: 15 files had to be redownloaded. A turn usually takes no more than 30 seconds is now taking 3 minutes (or more), and mechs are no longer showing all the possible travel points until you click on the map. It's not loading my existing saves right, frame rate that was previously smooth as butter (I have a RTX2070!) is in the toilet. I'm adding a few of the minor mods, like Turbine, AIMĮDIT2: Did you get an error about BTRandomStartByDifficultyMenu?ĮDIT3: It could be an incompatibility between the Extended 1.6 vs.
Downloading it now, 90% done with the community single folder bundle.ĮDIT: Done, and done.