Mech Commander Gold Showcase: Hunting the aces. Operation 5 Mission 2

All videos demonstrate gameplay at Hard difficulty.

Again, I'm going to bring along damaged Mechs to repair in-mission. Force Group 1 (F1) does most of the fighting, so I slot in both my Mad Cats, a Thor-A salvaged from Op4Mis6, and one of my Loki-As' - outfitted with many C/LRMs', ideal for shooting enemies behind trees and buildings.

F1 clears a path to the hill, seeing a shutdown Thor-J in a patch of trees, and Falcon lets loose with a tremendous barrage of C/LRMs', activating the Thor. It jumps out into the open, right into a withering storm of C/ER-PPC fire. Ow.

Now F1 needs to move with all haste, as the Mad Cat near the Thor starts moving. I keep Falcon behind, as a single heavy hit might bring the damaged Loki down; as the Mad Cat-J jumps out into the open, it meets F1 and tries to run away.

Now comes the foray into the base. The jump-capable Mechs in F2, one equipped with an ECM device to let them sneak into the base, Jump across a few rivers and enter the base, linking up with F1. When the two Thors attack, they crumple quickly under the fire of all seven Mechs. F1 gets fixed up, then they head west to deal with the shutdown Hunchbacks and another Mad Cat.

F2 crosses the bridge to clear away the Fog of War, whilst F1 heads to the riverbank, and Falcon hits a stationary Hunchback IIc with a missile barrage. When the Hunchbacks try to attack, the clear view I already have of the area means they don't get anywhere near my Mechs.

The Mad Cat-W comes next, and loses its cockpit to a headshot.

Everyone gets fixed up one last time, then they head north to tackle the Masakari-W there. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to salvage that too. Then again, with all four salvageable Mad Cats in the game now in my arsenal, and another set of C/ER-PPCs' as well, I'm not complaining!

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• Mech
• Commander
• Gold
• Showcase
• Salvage
• Walkthrough

[jonesmbones]

This is great stuff! Wanted to ask you though, how did you manage to salvage all those mechs? In all the years I've played MC1, I've never got part targeting to work, and I seem to recall reading that was a known bug with the game. I couldn't tell, were you doing that as well? Or did you just get extremely lucky?

[Carsomyr80]

@jonesmbones I don't bother targeting parts. Just the right weapons mix will do if you want to maximise salvage. My Mech loadouts are right there for you to see, plus I've explained the concept in some of the Mech Commander videos I uploaded.

[tsensor]

I want see your operation 4 mission 4 :)

[Carsomyr80]

Request granted! I've uploaded my old video of Op4 Mis4.

[ThePingasMightier]

Something I never understood about this game why did they make the weapons effects so slow? The PPCs would have looked a lot better flying through the air at twice their current speed, ESPECIALLY when they're curving in mid-air.

[LipSheZ]

Awesome! All your videos are awesome!! :)