B&B has Justin asking you for help because a guy with a merc company keeps harassing him. He wants you to deal with the guy because he is too busy/can't be bothered because he has work to do on Kittery (if so, why is he on another planet multiple jumps away??). He tasks you with blowing up the bar where the guy usually drinks. Seriously. He wants you to blow up a bar full of bystanders because ONE GUY is harassing him. And he is willing to pay hundreds of thousands of C-Bills and rare items for you to do it.
Sounds dumb indeed, probably an attempt at "humor" that falls flat due not making any sense in-universe.
Hmm... I don't recall that Kurita mission. But MW2M was a long time ago. I only recall the first one because it was aggravating as hell. You have to nail that stupid Jenner and then save the tank on the other side of the map in what is likely to be your starting Commando. Then you have to double back to kill some helicopters. Otherwise you fail mission objectives. In the end, I just sort of cheated by targeting the Jenner's massive head area and hope to kill it with the very first alpha strike. That is only something that veterans of the game would figure out, so newbies to the game is generally boned.
Raiding military targets to get the response they want is pretty normal for the IS. It's like the FedCom mission chain where they hire you to work with an uprising on that DC planet. Advancing their goals is what's important, if some people have to die for that then that's too bad. And trying to get an advantage is pretty sensible anyway, given that they've been fighting for centuries and the FedCom already tried a major invasion of the DC a few years before the game started. Everyone knows they would have tried again if the Clans didn't show up and get everyone's attention.
FedSun, not FedCom.
MW2 Mercenaries is set in the 3040s so I feel comfortable calling it the FedCom. LC and FS were working together pretty well at that point even if they didn't completely combine until later. Though if you'd prefer for me to say FedSuns then okay, sure, you are correct. Either way, FedSuns are happy to sponsor rebellions on DC worlds. It doesn't cost much and it hurts the DC, so it's the smart thing to do. And Hanse is extremely smart. Being incredibly good at leading a nation is basically his defining attribute.
3039 was a Davion loss. Davion already knew something was up when the Kuritans started fielding weird 'mechs. He wasn't going to attack them again until he figured out what, although he had a good idea.
Yeah, exactly. He was going to figure it out and then they'd attack again. DC were right to try everything they could to shore up their defences while they could. Even though it probably wouldn't have helped anyway, since the FedCom was just too strong. Which is why the writers made Kat ruin everything, I guess.
FedCom was strong, but it was also too big. If not Katherine, some one else would have done it. Probably Nondi. The thing with the FedCom falling apart was the stupid way it was done. Katherine had nothing other than author fiat to do the kind of damage she did. It would have been more believable for Nondi to do it or a coalition of Steiner "loyalists" like what happened in the Combine (the Black Dragons). Katherine was a nobody. She wasn't even a 'mechwarrior, which automatically disqualified her to BOTH thrones.
Falcons yes, the Jade Falcons are probably the smartest of the dumb asshole brigade, they're good at what they do and you fuck with someone like a Pryde at your own peril.
No. Axman is a post-3050 'mech.
XL engine, IIRC. And DHS. It would rape 'mechs of this era.
You can get a mini-Axman by getting the Hatchetman variant (the one without the AC10). It has 2 energy and 2 missile slots, so you can drop in 2 medium lasers and 2 LRM5 or something like that. It also has 4 support slots, I think, which would make it better than the stock variant at melee combat.
That sounds about right.
