alcaray: I'm not that far along in the campaign, so I don't know. But do you only get one chance at a Quickdraw chassis?

Andariel89: Hence the randomness of enemy forces, I was forced to fight against Dragons, Catapults, Orions and Heavy Vehicles when I could only field a Lance of 3 medium Mechs and a single Dragon.

As time passed and I was able to get a Jeager... I only encountered Shadow Hawks and Thunderbolts.

Now I have Heavies and even an Assault mech.... and now only Mechs I encounter are many many many Quickdraws and Thunderbolts... took me Hours to get a Single Orion (rarely saw them spawning...) and even longer for a Black Knight.

Its frustrating, as I want more 75t mechs, and all I get are 65er and 70% of them are Quickdraws maybe 30% Thunderbolts.

After like 40+ Battles I only saw 2 Grasshoppers and maybe 5 Orion mechs.

AlbericStrein: Hey!

Unfortunately the information you got was incorrect. As far as I know the rules for salvage are:
1 piece : CT destroyed
2 pieces : Legs destroyed
3 pieces: Pilot incapacitated while the condition for 1 piece and 2 pieces salvage haven't been fulfilled.

So if you want your 3 Quickdraw pieces you should
1. Hope for a lucky headshot kill
2. Try and use weapons who hit multiple times in the hope of getting a quick headshot, it won't kill the pilot, but that's one wound. A lot of missiles may cause a knockdown, that's a second wound. Then concentrate fire on one side torso, getting an ammo explosion is one wound, destroying the side torso another. If the enemy pilot is still alive and the enemy mech is not destroyed due to stray shots to the CT, destroy the other side torso for another wound, maybe an ammo explosion for one more. If the Quickdraw gets up before you manage that, never fear! Just shoot one leg off, netting you another immediate knockdown, for one more wound, and then work on the remaining side torso. At this point you may want to moderate your fire to avoid destroying the CT. If the enemy mechs has only its CT, Cockpit, and one leg left, then either bite the bullet and accept that 2 pieces are still pretty good and shoot off the other leg (be careful not to destroy the CT in the maneuver) or just refuse probabilities and precision strike the cockpit, hoping for a lucky headshot. Repeat until the pilot, or the 'mech is incapacitated.

Have fun.

Ps: To answer your other question, yes I got 3 pieces of the Quickdraw, but I got Medusa killed in the maneuver. Greed is good for you, but bad for your pilots.

amcrowell: Can anyone get all 3 parts during the capture the Argo mission?

I have done the mission a few times, until i was successful in shooting off both legs while keeping the arms and complete torso in tact (one side torso had some damage). There were no ammo explosions and only 1 heat sink destroyed, yet when I got to the salvage screen there were only 2 parts available to salvage. *SIGH*

I was SO excited when I finally shot off both legs successfully like that too!
I am wondering if maybe a headshot would work? Take out the pilot? It is just a very long mission to keep trying over and over...

SoheiYamabushi: I think that mechs have a rarity value associated with them to modify the chances of seeing a particular mech and variant.

vonHardenberg: Black Knights also seem exceedingly rare, though admittingly, given the state of energy weapons, it's not that much of a loss.

MikeMaximus: I believe that's the case, sometimes you get some hilariously rare situations.

I once had a King Crab spawn in a 2.5 skull battle mission, along with a single Firestarter supporting it.

I didn't think I had any hope with my low tonnage loadout and my own Firestarter. But the map had a lot of hills and the King Crab is ridiciously slow, so I just stayed out of LoS and ran my Firestarter in a circle around the Crab to draw his fire. My Dragon got wreaked, and the Firestarter got his legs and arms blown off by one volley, but my mediums were able to take it down with shots to the back.

Situations like that is why i'm loving this game, but they do need to do some tweaks as you see the same mech types way too often.MikeMaximus: I was able to piece a Black Knight together yesterday. Their default load out is overheating low damage trash, but you can make them very good with some tweaks.

El_Bany: This is really strange. 2 skull mission!!. Assasination. Description point that heavy mech spoted with some support. 3 mins later that heavy target turned out it was a Spider! I was wtf? But this is nothing. then his support showed up that turns out to be 2 Locusts. Does this happened to somone else?