This Formation is the Scariest! Battletech Alpha Strike Formation Overview: Assault Lance

[@boateye]

I appreciate the walkthrough of this formation and i would love to see more content like this about Alpha Strike on YT. I do need to mention some rules mistakes i noticed. I think you're misunderstanding how Multiple Attack Rolls interact with Multi-tasker. My playgroup also uses MAR, and we have use the multi-tasker SPA with it. In the base rules for MAR as stated in Commander's Edition(pg. 174-175), you can always split your fire between targets. This does not need to be done evenly. So a unit with an odd number of damage, say 5, can do 3 damage to one target and 2 to another, or even do 4 to one target and 1 to another. Unless this is the part where it becomes your house rule, you are never forced to divide damage in half rounding down when splitting fire, rules as written. Then, in that same section it covers how MAR interacts with various SPAs. Under the entry for multi-tasker and ground hugger, it states that all it does is remove the +1 mod to a secondary target. Relatedly, you can't ever do more damage at a given range bracket than normal when dividing fire. So your situation where you split a minimum damage roll (0*) into two instanced of 1 damage is not allowed, AFAIK. I think you just can't split that damage at all. I had a similar discussion with NCKestrel and the rule of thumb is that if there's a situation where you could end up doing more damage than normal at that range bracket when split firing, you can't do it. It's why you can't make a unit that has 3/5/5 damage split fire in a way where they deal 4s damage at short and 1 at medium.

[@MatanuskaMechworks]

It's definitely in the works! Also yes I definitely lack the big brain to wrap around the nuances of those rules interactions, but you did a great job of explaining them! I feel like after the first round of formation overviews are done, I will probably need to do a corrective refresh on a lot of them.

[@Kaiju-Driver]

Nice. Breakdowns are always welcome.

[@arcangellord5372]

spooky scary juggernauts send shivers down your spine

[@MatanuskaMechworks]

I heard the song as i read it 😅

[@ObiwanNekody]

12" would be way too short, I'm glad this has changed.

[@MatanuskaMechworks]

Me too! I originally wrote this formation off completely, but the errata makes it situationally useful at least

[@kierdalemodels]

Good stuff. I’ll have to look through my biggest bots and see what I can put together🤔

[@Starmada]

The most expensive unit I can think of to drop into this is the Turkina Z at 86 PV. But we don't talk about the Turkina Z.

[@thomascraiker6449]

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