<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=207350.msg10384323#msg10384323">Quote from: TheGlyphstone on 15-08-2014, 23:57:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">That's something for a great house or Successor State to engage in...and there'd have to be a political motive of some kind ultimately behind it. Battlemechs are too valuable, and mercenaries generally to expensive, to literally just throw at each other for a game.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>For political motive:  Perhaps it's a way to not go to war?  I believe that's the point of the Olympics (I know, bad example).  Really, it'd be cheaper to pay mercs than to engage in an all-out war.  Besides, it'd likely just be a few groups engaging in this.<br/><br/>That said, it's just an idea.