First Base:
- Pick your mechs in your drop deck wisely. Just picking mechs to level up doesn't work well and makes it tougher to get the credits you are looking for. I suggest looking at: http://metamechs.com/ (More importantly the tier 1s are what you want to try and take, but tier 2 isn't bad either.)
- Get your mechs mastered at best (at least elited). If not then be very good in that mech (which means you will be mastered in no time anyway).
- This base is very important because you are prepping for success or a very long time in CW so please take the advice serious or you are wasting your time.
Second Base:
- Next is mech building Meta Mechs can help you with that as well as just picking which mechs for drop deck. Your builds will need to be useful in the way of removing enemy mechs not just doing damage. So laser builds or other direct fire front loaded damage are great builds (pulse, gauss, Inner Sphere Balistic are best).
- Have your modules for those mechs and your builds set for long time battle. If you have ammo dependent builds then you need to have enough ammo to last a match that you might be in that mech for the total 30 minutes or at least a good solid 15 minutes.
- Builds need to be verse to play on random maps from hot to cold just like any other game mode.
- This base is also in prep for CW if you completed first and now second with this simple advice you are half way home.
Third Base:
- Selecting who to play is very important. While defense is always easy counter attack is not so take that into account when picking which planet to go to and getting matches.
- Check where the matches are (PGI has given out many tools to help you find matches quicker than when CW first came out).
- It use to be said you couldn't make C-Bills in CW unless you where apart of a CW dedicated unit that won a lot, because if you where not you couldn't get matches for about 10 minutes and then got smoked causing 30 minutes and maybe 300k for the match. BUT if you follow the three bases you get in matches faster and do better just by being prepared for it.
HOME RUN:
- OK here is how you get the home run. Play smart ... sounds simple but many and I mean many people do not and then come onto the forums bitching up a storm about CW. (That would usually be those who rush in and die in 15 minutes ... all 4 of their mechs.)
- So how do you play smart? Well it takes a few things but first slow your game down and control the situation. Let the enemy come to you instead of your rushing out into 5 or more enemy mechs.
- Other tips would be angle. Find places where only one enemy mech can come at you.
- Follow your team ... to a point. If rushing into an area is a bad idea then don't do it. But if the team is holding up in a set area with plenty of cover ... then stay there with them and find your spot.
- Aim for a goal and hit it (even if you are a 12 pug vs a 12 man you can still make a goal and hit it). A reasonable goal for every match in CW is 1k damage and 4 kills. Why? Well you get 4 mechs and that is 1 kill and 250 damage per mech ... not bad you can do better though.
If you follow these and put some C-Bill boost mechs into the drop deck then you get around 500k C-Bills or more ... I have gotten 800k and higher on my own in pug on pug matches because I followed these tips and bases. By failing to prep you are prepping for failure.
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Now some side notes.
Clan mechs are better, but not all of their players are. So using Base 1 and 2 you can get pretty damn good IS mechs to give you the edge if you are a better pilot.
Clan mechs have the range, but some IS mechs do as well and most fighting is at 600m or closer anyway so keeping mech build able to do damage out to 600m is a good idea.
Clan is ECM heavy so if you are IS don't bring lrms unless your team is a group and prepped for lrm usage (narc, tag, uavs).
Having ECM is a great thing, but it isn't required. What is required is good aim and piloting.
Use Meta Mech Tiers to find which mechs to use ... because Tier 1s get used the most and so on down.
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Now ... let the flaming begin!!! I will be here till the game dies to answer questions

Edited by clownwarlord, 22 July 2015 - 08:57 PM.