What role, if any will drop ships have in the game?

GET TO DA CHOPPA DROPSHIP! NAO! MOVE EET!

Sorry but you forgot the concept art



So this tells me that Dropships are a viable, purchasable, useable (not directly obviously) by the Commander possibly. It would be damn nice to have the Dropship become a often target to need to extract to. Personally I always loved that in the MW2 Mercs missions, Almost Always had to get the the dropship, unless you had more missions in the contract that relied on you traveling by foot.



Be nice to place where you want to start at the beginning of a mission, REALLY and I do mean REALLY spices things up if you have say 8km by 8km maps with say 6km x 6km usable terrain. And you could drop anywhere along those 6ish KM of the border, unless it was a canyon funnel mission, you have a whole lot of options to play. No longer is it, well it is this map, due to their spawn points this means they will probably come from there or there... maybe there but that takes a bit of work. This path is more direct, so a better chance here.

It'd be SO COOL if they could integrate drop ships into the game. Maybe if the things were big enough you could have fights INSIDE them. Or have them as an on-field captureable weapons platform.

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(In a different timeline no doubt) Colten's Commandos was a small but tight unit. Our first DropShip was the lancer Leopard Eldon Johnson. We bought it as part of a deal with Davion in 3021 and she was a wreck. Took me and my small unit through 8 campaigns and raids including a few top secret drops. She was a wonder of loose bolts and leaking coolant and I never found a better spacer crew even in my time in the clans. We ended up with three Overloads and a Union and don't you know I still missed that bucket of bolts. I left the old girl and most of her crew on a dead moon in the Periphery in 3050. (Still both in and out of character since it's a meta timeline convergence sorry if it's not appropriate). I sure miss them.

I sure hope so, Keydet hehe.

Orcinus, on , said:

Me likey the BOOM-BOOM!



Seriously, however, I like the idea of a merc unit having its own dropship(s).

It saves the trouble of having to ask the employer for dropships for hot drops on top of enemy lines.

Hot drops!



Guns and legs blazin'!

InnerSphereNews, on , said:

Dare we dream about commanders being able to set an LZ to extract to if we want to save our hopelessly outclassed mechs from becoming scrap in the game?

DarkTreader, on , said:

Mmmm... Dropships....



I wonder if this means that units will be required to pay X C-Bills to transport from planet to planet, if units will have to pay upkeep costs, and if they'll have things like Group Assets like Dropships, or even Jumpships, that can be purchased in the future.

Last time I read about a Fortress-class dropship was during the Skye rebellion's assault on Glengarry. The name says it all. The Fortress is a mobile field base that can take on all comers.

Even more in-depth unit management, me likey!

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