Yep but with more firepower especially aft(where the medium lasers are vastly more useful than the smalle they replace) and slightly less armor in terms of tonnage but with the ferro-aluminum it actually has more points of armor.
Correction, he had 18 birds with him. His Union CV only carries 12 birds, and uses the spare tonnage for fuel bunkerage. He left two squadrons of Centurions at home, giving him a total of 30 ASFs.
Could be, but that is playing in easy mode.
Yes, but the others can be a) lucky or b) have a spy that gets them the info.
Yeah, ISF could only spare one jumpship for the mission, while Comstar could deploy multiple Explorer Corps teams
Not a lot there yet. The walls are meant to keep the local fauna out and serve as fighting positions for Battlemechs. Turrets were mostly wrecked in the attempted rebellion. They’re waiting on the LCAF to show up to really be in good shape on tanks/AAA and infantry.
It doesn't help that most of the people on the planet with the skills to get the turret spam online are kinda busy setting up the Battlemech lines. Oh I have no doubt that within a year or two there shall be literally hundreds of turrets but for now there's maybe a two or three dozen turrets online which given the size of the holdfast isn't nearly enough to cover it with anything approaching the appropriate levels of density
So a right pain in the ass for anyone whose pilots can't airdrop mechs in mountain terrain, but not as big of a pain as it could be.
At least not until he can import some longtoms and snipers. As long as you can spook the dropships enough to land a beyond artillery range, your turrets have done their job.
Only so much money to go around, and as Knowledge suggested, they’ve picked up a few, but Weber only recently got his license to mint Kroner. Technically speaking, he’s only actually sold two Phoenix BattleMechs thus far, and all the money to build the line came out of CAC’s coffers. They were just about broke, which is why they took the Sevren job.
