While I apreciate hard work for new mech selection (ye not that 50% compresed portrait), i think something more dynamic could be fine.... like extended garage, where you have all mechs in line, and can scroll with mouse left and right(or with wheel better), and the line will go left, or right, with your owned mechs on it... you can then click ONE time on the mech , and then launch..... something like this...:
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