On a Mission my Lance had to defend a certain Facility and when the waves of enemies came a later wave had a lance of 4 Mechs which one of them was a Cicada.
It happened that i got to fight the Cicada in my Centurion (i am still pretty much at the beginning at a reputation level of 6 by now and was still at Mercenary Row).
Ofc the Cicada was not really a match but that little thing reconized it when damaged enough and as there were several obstacles high enough to offer cover from my aim it stopped figthing me and opted to avoid destruction by waving around the cover allways keeping me out of LOS and it acted accordingly when i tried to change direction and angle so it clearly reacted quite reasonably to the situation.
The problem of MW5 being a "shooting ducks in a barrel" game ended its live eventually but that is a problem of mission/game design that no way of retreat exists.
Battletech has the same problem aside of the few Missons where the Mission tries to let 1 of the Mechs escape.
So, i was pleasantly surprised that in the restricted options it had still tried to survive as long as possible and did not braindead die in a suicide attack.
Edited by Thorqemada, 15 June 2022 - 11:22 AM.