I would have flamers as my back weapons and have sombreros painted just above them. That, or if I was making a Solaris jockey, have an Archer with MASC and use it for show as it runs up close to use some SRMs
By suggesting that troons are not members of the state as they have given up their government approved identities
If they had citizenship they'd probably lose it considering how the Capellans run things, considering the test and requirements require being at least notionally productive and not a menace.
I'm not overly sure about what tech was available at that point, but does Comstar have access to C3 by then? If so I cannot recommend blowing any lights down as quickly as possible. I referenced my weekly game a bit further up the thread and found that having assaults and an archer on one end throwing out massed fire with a locust and super jump-capable mech on the other backstabbing worked wonders.
I'm a filthy heathen, that got into all of this via Mechwarrior 3 and MechCommander. No matter what caught your attention, as long as you made it to the best Hard Sci-Fi setting featuring stompy robots out there.
According to Sarna.net C3I was developed around 3052 as a way to improve the Combine's C3 but it went into production in 3062. So maybe they had some prototypes working by the time they bashed the Clan's collective heads in but I doubt it. Remember they would have to modify their Mechs / vehicles and I doubt they could do that right before the epic showdown.. I know Focht had some Mechs rebuild as so called "Clan busters" but those were often weapon swaps and fitting double heat sinks.
If it makes you feel better, my initial exposure to Battletech was the cartoon, Tex of the Black Pants Legion just reignited my interest into it. So who's the real heathen?
It's just about the hardest "mainstream" sci-fi franchise out there. Which says less about Battletech, and more about how incredibly unpopular truly hard sci-fi is. It took the Expanse, a show with a lot of visual pizzazz behind it, for the genre to get a little bit of traction in the mainstream. Just a tiny little bit.
BT's Semi-Firm sci-fi take is a good part of what I like about it. There's just not as much weird wizardry that isn't understandable. Like yeah there's the Comstar 'religion' that started as a pseudo religion but you can at least see why. Historical stories and anecdotes have gained near mythical status in less than a century, so in a titanically large galaxy I can see the ancient Southwestern Bell agents gaining some mystique. Especially when they go out of their way to act mysterious and inscrutable.
