I'm completely unfamiliar with the jihad storyline. Only hint of it I got was the Mechassault game on the xbox.<br/><br/>Personally, I'd love to see an alternate timeline where the Gray Death Legion finds that memory core, but the clans don't ever show up. That could have jumpstarted a return/renaissance of technology all on it's own, throw in that it lists the locations of other possible lostech caches and the Successor States would have grabbed their guns and started blasting before the printouts finished, you know?  :D<br/><br/>I figure part of my problem with the Clans is that I liked Wolf's Dragoons from the start, just that little blurb in the original BT rulebook and then when I picked up the Black Widow Campaign book. Really cheesed me off to learn my hero, Natasha Kerensky, was a genetically modified super-mechwarrior and not just a smart and talented woman. Hell, the whole 'return of Kerensky' thing might have been tolerable if they hadn't been so cheesy about it. Really, I don't much care for what they wound up doing with the Dragoons after their contract with the Draconis Combine went sour. The Dragoons kind of lost their mystery after that, and that was a big part of their appeal.<br/><br/>Back on the mech thing:<br/>I never meant to say that light mechs aren't so hot. I took out a<em>Dragon</em>with a<em>Commando</em>once...light mechs are awesome flankers, and only the biggest mechs have the rear armour to ignore them for more than one turn, usually. Rear mounted weapons are so rare, as well, but there's a reason I always keep those 2 medium lasers facing back on my<em>Atlases</em>. ;)