🚀 go-pugleaf

>>>Can anyone provide some hints on how to finish this mission:  You're 
>>>assigned to ambush and "take the place of" an enemy mech, then go in and 
>>>destroy the terraformer core.  --Once I get into the main compound, I 
>>>find I've got 3 mechs on top of me, none of whom are fooled by the stolen 
>>>IFF code....
>
>  My soloution to this one (after one or two tries) was to customize a 'mech 
>for the job.  I think I did something like a 60 or 55 ton 'mech with either
>a 5 or 6 walk speed (I still think in terms of the board game -- that is, the
>speed of the mech is five or six clicks on faster from 0).  Then I added 2
>LRM15s, and Med. Pulses.  To win, Make it by the encampment of Falcons, using
>the IFF code.  Then, when you enter the actuall terraformer core, destroy the 2
>or 3 mechs inside.  No others will enter the compound to chase you.  Wander 
>around to the south side of the core, blow open the vent, then blow up the core.
>Next, run like hell.  (the reason for using a _fast_ mech) Flee the explosion
>or you will bite it too.  

Well, you're a better pilot than I.  I tried several times, but was never
able to kill all the Mechs.  

Finally, I hopped in a Jenner, avoided the Mad Dog at the beginning, 
avoided the base, zipped over to the terraformer, blew through the door
(all at top speed...)

Then I turned on the jump jets, zipped over at 400 kph to the vent, blew
it, went inside, got behind the core for cover, blew it, and then (again
at full jump jets) zipped out, back around the base, and through the door
and back to my dropship.

You can't use the jump jets to scale the walls, however.  Gravity is 
apparently too high.




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