Guy in Back: GDI adds these to Mechs, partly to get another set of eyes on the radar screen, partly to keep an eye on new recruits.Also highlighted by their products, be it electronics or machines, all have insane output for their size and/or mass at the expense of lifespan.Glass Cannon: Despite their BVR advantages, C-Earth vehicles are very fragile.

Gadget Watches: Specifically, a wrist-mounted aerosolizer loaded with bhut jolokia-based pepper spray.

It was supposed to be called off, but the cell got busted before the message got through.

False Flag Operation: Loki was running one to make GDI think the Draconis Combine had hostile intentions.

His Inner Sphere XO starts laughing because that is what any Mech commander works with.

A C-Earth tank Colonel, now in charge of a mech battalion, goes on a page-long rant about the endless logistical clusterfuck that is trying to piece together a functioning logistical chain for 36 wildly differing 'Mechs, most of which are constructed mostly of scrap bits from other 'mechs and armed with whatever his science & engineering attachment ('.to a mere battalion command!.

Also, some writers are arguing for a standardized loadout to ease supply issues.

Easy Logistics: Averted GDI ran low on supplies after the Port Krin battle.

Then it stops with a shareware-esque notification.

Durable Deathtrap: the GDI team sent to New Dallas encounter a laser turret dating back to the Star League still guarding one of the places they try to explore.

Dressing as the Enemy: GDI pulls a variation of this off to take Port Krin before the other forces outlined in Melee A Trois below get there Claiming to be the very forces whose ships they'd taken to be let right in the spaceport without a shot.

Less than an hour later, YouTube crashed due to the sheer number of users trying to access this one video on the website. Five minutes after the pirates' departure, the video of their jump was on YouTube.

Conservation of Ninjutsu: Averted and discussed, with the conclusion being that if lone ASFs can give C-Earth trouble, a proper unit will be much tougher.Caped Mecha: Done during the Battle of Port Krin by.Blood Knight: Brox isn't obsessive about it, but he starts missing the rush of battle, which is something simulations can never match.

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