Yea a Sleepy Awesome is just one that has no Heatsinks and Lower Armor for all the PPC's it can carry. Then Alpha Strike, cool down a turn, Alpha again, cool down. It worked due to how they implemented heat in that game but not sure if they fixed it.
I might try a low rated mission with that set up. The AI oddly really likes going after the Awesome when I bring it with me, despite the Banshee's set-up being far more deadly in closer ranges.
I run it, and frankly, it shits all over the original. Yes, there is a lot more stuff and that makes it far deeper. Battlesuits, airdropped resources, vehicles, artillery (both tank and mech based), variant weapons. Evasion pips don’t get stripped by volume of fire, meaning Lights are actually useful. Expanded skill trees. Clans (and getting clan mechs and equipment). New and different events. Good fun.
The funny thing is the scene which is so often portryed in the source books (McEvedy letting her soldiers in the conlcave and securing her escape) may not have happened if we take the Wolverine novel as base. Plus the fact that the Wolverine saKhan used the McKenna's Pride to actually raze parts of Strana Mechty into the ground as retribuition. Though I am not sure how much of the novel is actually put into the lore.
As a general rule, novels overrule sourcebooks for "what actually happened". Sourcebooks are considered in-universe documents, and thus are prone to in-universe mistakes, obfuscations or outright lies. McEvedy actually had two shouting matches with Nicky K in the Council chambers, bits and pieces of which were combined with some deepfaking to produce the transcript seen in Warriors of Kerensky. They did in fact orbital bombard Strana Mechty, though only after the Widowmakes had framed them for setting off a nuclear weapon. In total they put one naval PPC shot each into the Council chambers, along with the halls of clans Smoke Jaguar, Jade Falcon, Snow Raven and Ghost Bear, plus two for the Widowmakers because fuck them in particular.
So I'll finally get to punch those pesky Commandos in my Atlas? Sign me the fuck up.
To be honest if I would have been the Wolverine SaKhan I would have blown the McKenna's Prideup instead of simply telling the corpse of Alexander Kerenmsky that his son is a bad man. Or pulled a Malvina Hazen and rammed the Pride into Katyusha because fuck you I am done with this shit.
I might need to play this again.
Sorry to double post my replies are being gay on mobile.
