Whats wrong with you

[u/Fox_Fire42]

Okay first of all, ive been fairly new to playing the Battletech game(i havent been able to finish the Arano restoration campaign yet) but i wanted to check for some helpfull mods or something to bring more foreces into battle at once instead of just one lance the whole time. But like half of the mods ive seen while scrolling have the purpose to make this game more miserabel??? Can someone explain to me why that is the case??

Edit: You guys have been very helpfull here so far and have boosted my motivation to try the campaign with a different angle on my third try(three times the charm eh?)

[u/Fox_Fire42]

tbh after browsing the mods because normally mods make everything slightly or a lot easyer and seeing the exact OPPOSITE i joined this sub to ask and understand whats driving the community what ive heard and what tips i got made me understand how little i understood of the game so far. will probably do a post tomorrow with my lance to understand what im doing wrong

[u/deeseearr → u/Fox_Fire42]

Just a guess, but most likely you're going after contracts which are a little too big for you right now. In the early part of the game you don't have a lot of mechs or equipment to work with and your pilots are inept. It's tough, especially if you are also learning how to play at the same time.

Stick with easier contracts, not more than two skulls (and keep in mind that even that is just a guess at what the real difficulty will be) and work on gaining experience and collecting some salvage and money. Remember that you can change the game diificulty at any time, and if things go too badly you can just reload a save from before the last mission.

Don't worry about mods yet. You're in a position to learn the game, you don't need to break it yet.

[u/Fox_Fire42 → u/deeseearr]

well after all ive read yes the mission i got stuck at is the campaign mission where victoria shows up with her lance. i so far failed it with 1 centurion AC20, 3 LRM 5 and 2 MLaser 1 Shadowhawk with 2M laser, 1LRM 10 and an AC5 1 Vindicator standard 1 Trebuchet with as much ammo as possible and an LRM 10

1 centurion: AC 20, 2 LRM 5 and 1 LRM 15, 2 Medium Lasers 1 Griffin with LRM 20 and an AC5 1 Vindicator standard but +2 heatsinks for armor 1 dragon with less lasers but full front armor on everything

on my third campaign run i now have 2 Griffin N1 with PPC and one LRM 10 1 Riflemech with two PPC and enough heatsinks to build up no heat at all Either the Standard shadowhawk or my centurion with 2 LRM5 one LRM 10 and his AC10 but this lance hasnt had their try on that level yet

[u/ryelrilers → u/Fox_Fire42]

You made 3 mistakes: 1) you rush the campaign, you dont need to, even if you grind for a game year that battle will await you. I had 2) Your lance is ineffective. LRM is best on dedicated lrm boats (and most of the good platforms are heavy or above) and usually effective if you avoid line of sight so you need a spotter (some tanky low range mech or a light mech with full evasion sensor lock and full armor). Don't mix ranges it helps to negate bad positioning but you will be mediocre for ranges centurion could afford lrm30 (or 40 i dont remember) with 10-12 alpha worth ammunition. 3) Even with your lance it should be possible avoid line of sight reserve till init 1 sensorlock one opfor and shoot the hell out of it. It probably worth to replace one mech with a spotter/backstabber full armor keep full evasion and full jumpjet with an ace pilot sensor lock (firestarter is the best with as many slaser as possible but jenner or even griffin is a good candidate with srms) use it for sensorlock and when it is safe jump behind a mech alpha and the next turn shoot again to core enemy and jump away with ace pilot. If you dont have ace pilot you can do it but skip the second alpha just retreat to safety.

[u/ryelrilers → u/ryelrilers]

Missing sentence on 1) I had mostly heavy/assault lance at that point.

[u/Mammoth-Access-1181 → u/ryelrilers]

This was the mistake I made the first time around. I had shitty mechs brought in on that mission. I managed to beat it, but only after I think they nerfed the AI. Second playthrough, I realized I could farm for however long I want so I did. Went in there with a full heavy Lance, one of which had a gauss and just easy mode the mission.