<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=8897.msg321425#msg321425">Quote from: Anathanasia on 27-02-2007, 23:32:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hehe, I never see light mechs as being strikers. They don't have the firepower to pull it off, or the armour to stick around and use what little firepower they do have against any kind of prepared position. Unless you're talking about hitting a convoy of unarmoured transports, but then there's the guards... Strike missions are where I think mediums really excel.<br/><br/>That said, recon, and strike for that matter, is matter of mission type and skill, not mech weight or speed. The original Black Widow Company had a heavy (sort of, a <em>Rifleman</em>) in charge of the recon lance. The rest of the Black Widow company was pretty big, as things went back in the old days of Battletech (before they introduced the clans and everything went lame...talk about jumping the shark tank. :p), and they were used like a spec ops 'strategic' raiding force for the most part.<br/><br/>But things are never so easy or simple. The Eridani Light Horse is a tremendous merc outfit, almost as good as Wolf's Dragoons (Natasha Kerensky even said as much), and the Light Horse is almost all light and medium mechs. Again, it's what you're skilled at...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I found a PDF of the breakdown of Wolf's Dragoons during the 4th Succession War (I'm a self admitted BTech nerd, and there is NO 12 step program for it. hehehe).  The Black Widow Company was a light raider force.  If it had to be done fast and dirty, they were the ones that you called.  Here's the breakdown of the company.<br/><br/>Command Lance<br/>Captain Natasha "Black Widow" Kerensky      Elite       Warhammer<br/>Sergeant Colin MacLaren                           Elite       Marauder<br/>Lynn Sheridan                                         Elite       Crusader<br/>John Hayes                                             Veteran  Griffin<br/><br/>Fire Lance<br/>Lieutenant Takiro Ikeda                            Elite        Panther<br/>Sergeant Mikos Delius                              Elite        Whitworth<br/>Nikolai Koniev                                         Veteran    Firefly<br/>Delmar Lindstrom                                    Veteran    Shadow Hawk<br/><br/>Recon Lance<br/>Lieutenant John "Gentleman Johnny" Clavell   Elite       Firefly<br/>Sergeant Piet Nichols                                Elite       Hornet<br/>Simon Fraser                                           Veteran  Stinger<br/>Mohammar Jahan                                     Veteran   Stinger<br/><br/>The Black Widow Company was 3 Heavies, 3 Mediums and 6 Lights.  A unit like that is made for raiding.  Get in, hit it and get the "F" out.<br/><br/>And don't hate on the Battlesuits.*smiles* I made a merc unit one time with the rules from BattleTech. I think the heavies Mech in the unit was like 60 or 65 tons, and that was only one or two of them. The rest were lights and mediums.  They were a snatch and go unit.  I called them the Steel Swarm.