The Lyons on the other hand could have spread their two Lance units into a complete surrounding manuever while stepping back just a bit to avoid Davion long range weapons. If the Lyrans were to stay out of range and Surround the Davions then they could have turn by turn close in and anihilate the Davions. If I were commanding the Lyran forces I would first surround from affar to avoid long range weapons, then turn by turn close in and demolish the cities buildings so that the Davions wouldn’t be able to hide behind them and if I can get a few skyscrapers to fall down sideways I could cause good damage. After that i’d just push foreward bit by bit to avoid overheating and just lay down as much firepower as I can on the Davions.

Now aside from what could have been done, I’d say objective wise the Davions won because most of their Mechs escape, but as for losses I wouldn’t give the Davions any mission completeion bonuses. I’d give that amount of points to the Lyrans for taking out the Davions Mechs.

I agree with Brian. While XL engine’s allow mechs to perform in terms of speed and firepower at a significantly higher rate, it also makes them much more vulnurable to destruction. Basically the loss of any torso now kills the mech as oppossed to just the CT, and it is slightly easier to get 3 engine hits in other ways too. That being said if you play in a campaign, XL engines and CASE mean it is easier to take the mech out of the game, but easier to preserve the mech to be repaired and brought back and for the Mechwarrior to live.

Thanks for the comment and welcome back to the game! Another objective observer in favor of the Davions. Not looking good for the poor Lyrans!

XL engines provide extra tonnage for more weapons and armor but with a critical vulnerability. XL engines take up extra criticals in both side torsos. A Mech is destroyed by ANY three engine hits. That means the poor Inner Sphere ‘Mech Jockeys will find their tools of the trade belly up after any torso location is destroyed.

There is just more opportunities to kill the ‘Mech without having to core all the way through the center torso as is the case for 3025 ‘Mechs.

In this match, I agree with BullLifter – as losses were about even, Davion must have gained the upper hand as they accomplished their objective in part – better than Steiner (Lyrans, if you must) stopped them doing so.

One quick query – in my recent games, about 1/2 the kills in 3025 are from head shots, with CT/Engine destruction and ammo explosions about 1/4 each. How much does having XL Engines increase the kill rate?

Great AAR.

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