#Battletech commando free#

For the best tonnage efficiency, a 3xML + 2xSL build is quite effective at carving up both the sides and rear of poorly maintained 'mechs and destroying lighter vehicles early in the game (use melee hits for this if you can).

If you plan on using support weapons anyway, drop the SRM2 you can deliver stability damage with a punch instead, whose damage will be helped by the support weapons.

If you're brave and are fine with throwing the Commando into the thick of the action, replace the LL with two MLs and invest the three tons you saved into armor, JJs, or some support weapons.

If you really don't want the Commando to ever get close to the enemy, replace the SRM2 and ML with an LRM5 and a ton of ammo these weapons work together a lot better and even allow the COM-2D to still inflict a little stability damage, but they still don't offer much of a punch between them.

The LL is very useful for poking from a safe distance over the duration of a fight, but its weight means that it comes with a lot of trade-offs.

The only real reason to keep the SRM2 is if you have a big LRM 'mech that brings enemies from the edge of instability to the edge of falling over in a single salvo, in which case the SRM2 can let the COM-1B deliver the final little push to knock them over, but if stability damage is your thing the COM-2D does the job better.

#Battletech commando free#

Replacing the SRM2 with another ML will free up a ton by dropping the ammo, which can be invested into armor, JJs, or support weapons, whichever you fancy.The stock build is a mixed bag the LL can poke at enemies from far out, which keeps you pretty safe, but at that range the ML and SRM2 (and its ammo) are wasted tonnage, while at close range the LL's poor damage-per ton compared to MLs makes it suboptimal and the armor sacrificed to mount it sorely missed.Support weapons are also easier to use on light 'mechs since they can close on enemies more quickly than other 'mechs. Energy weapons are by far the best weapons for most light 'mechs since the ubiquitous ML offers high damage-per-ton and light 'mechs are more capable than any other of buying themselves time to cool off by maneuvering. The COM-1B compares favorably to its stablemate, the COM-2D, by exchanging two of the latter's missile hardpoints for energy hardpoints and adding on a support hardpoint to boot. Since single large source of damage are more effective mech-killers than massed small attacks, the large laser makes the Commando 1B a marginally more effective mech-killer from the front or the rear, but at the cost of losing a large amount of the threat it can pose to enemy stability and to an enemy mech's flanks. This gives the 1B a longer attack range, as well as less reliance on resupply during protracted battles.

The Commando COM-1B is a Light-class 'Mech in Battletech.Ī Lyran variant of the Commando 2D, the 1B model eschews the larger SRM racks of the more common model in exchange for a Large Laser and an SRM2. Best to keep these units at range for flanking and spotting. The Large Laser mounted by most 1B models is nothing to sniff at, but it lacks the close-up impact of the SRMs it replaces.