Posted 13 March 2016 - 01:16 PM
The original mission of Wolf's Dragoons was to scout the inner sphere for the Clan Invasion. You can already play out that role yourself staying a mercenary and changing faction loyalties every contract. I've been doing that since I started doing CW drops.
As to Dragoon mechs. They arrived in the inner sphere with pristine Star League ERA mechs which however included ones developed from prototypes/plans taken with the exodus fleet not realizing they were either extinct or unheard of in the inner sphere. The canon TRO histoy has revealed other such mechs which even the exodus fleet / clans lacked, such as the War Dog which didn't go into production until post-invasion in the inner shere (the plans and prototypes were found in 3052). While the dragoons did have some rather odd mechs like the flea, imp, marauder II, Annihilator and some of the Hoppies, they also
had versions of the Archer, Warhammer, Rifleman, Marauder, etc.