So i been enjoying the game so far. But i been seeing something odd and rather frustrating. The enemy always attack the Shadow Hawk, and it isn't just one guy attacking it, its all enemy units attacking it, even if they don't have line of sight. But they ignore my other mechs like the Vindicator or your personal mech you get.They keep doing this even if the Shawdow hawk is in the back, the front or even on the side flanking the enemy. I lost Glitch cause of that, and now it keeps doing that over and over again so i always lose someone cause they only attack it first then the others. It doesn't matter if if i keep it away from the fighting. Its like they know where its at and just chase it down like a blood hound. I even had one case where the enemy walks by my other mechs and ignores them just to attack the Shadow Hawk.

Anyone else having that issue?

Not really. But they do attack my shadow hawk a lot, but I want them to.
I put it in the front with Behemoth piloting it and with her bulwark skill I have her stay still a lot because she takes half damage she is basically the "tank" . while my others are concentrating firing on the opposition and not taking very much damage

Is damage reduction better than evasion, then? I haven't tried it (other than selecting foresty places to stop).

I haven't really had them go that crazy for one mech.

But my experience is that the AI does like to focus down the mech that has taken the most damage and sometimes they will ignore a closer fresh target just to try and destory a piece of a damaged mech that is much farther away. It's great to have both if you can, jump around in forests with snipers and light mechs while heavy's stand around with bulwark up.