According to MCG X Pulse lasers were apparently a Star League era weapon, and they have better range than Clan pulse lasers. The expansion is a different story in that it doesn't give a shit about CBT stats/canon. Making them Raven exclusive for IS mechs makes sense somewhat, since it was the first EW mech for a long time, but there's no reason why Clan mechs should have any restrictions, other than as a way to make light mechs more useful. There's also the way the best sensors/ECM/Probes can only be equipped on the Raven/Kit Fox/Cougar, too. I can understand their logic (they wanted Clan weapons to weigh less than IS ones, they wanted Clan ER lasers to be an analogue to IS standard lasers, therefore the ER medium laser should weigh less), but that still makes no sense, unless they somehow invented heat sinks with negative weight. The most obvious example is that ER medium lasers weigh less than standard ones. They have the same general theme, but the stats can get pretty different. Strategy/tactics, not really.Д¬lick to expand.That's not really true. There are quite a number of RT top down action type 'mech where you control an upgradable 'mech and blow up swarms of enemies, though. Like I said, there isn't many turn-based 'mech games. Top down, RT mecha combat, where you control one 'mech (of up to 10 on your side) Quite entertaining, and even though the map is static (I don't recall if the space in a sector changes), it has surprising replayability. You choose what to build and each sector has a limited amount of space that you can build things on as well as a pre-dominant environment. Top down perspective and limited graphics, but good for its time.ДЇor a bit of strategy with RT combat, there is Cyber Empires (known in some areas as Steel Empires). It is BTech, follows the lore and the TT very closely if not completely faithfully (weapon recycle is the biggest difference here), top down and surprisingly difficult due to a variety of mission objectives. And then speed it up again to see things happen. You can turn the speed down to 1 and that is practically pausing the game. The Crescent Hawk's Revenge is practically turn-based. It is pretty faithful to the BTech franchise, though.

Once you get the hang of it, you will breeze through things and combat starts becoming boring. The Crescent Hawk's Inception is turn-based, but has a simplistic plot and not much replayability, unfortunately. I haven't played it either as it has always been a sort of an automated TT calculator as far as I knew. There is MegaMek, but that isn't a game with a campaign or a story or the like, from what I understand. Click to expand.Someone was posting one in the HBS game thread.

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