Anyone have some answers?Īs for a fix, less assault mechs, or longer time limit, (12-16 turns if they don't touch the mech spawns) or guarenteed backup would all make the mission possible. I haven't downloaded FLASHPOINT yet, as I'm on business trip and will get home only tomorrow night, so my following thoughts might very well be simple (and partially or totally wrong) strategy hipothesys BUT, IIRC, Light Mechs act on Initiative mark 4, which should mean that using very fast lights such as Spider or Locust, with maxed armor, max JJ and ++ Hit Defense Gyro you should be able to reserve the whole Lance until Initiative mark 1, then sprint or jump into 2 spot zones on Turn One. Of course, on turn Two you will have to stay put and Brace, but the next turn both beacons will have been activated.

However, your strategy sounds even better, and extremely sound, so I'll surrely try it right away whenever I get a Target Acquisition mission, if I find out that my previous hypothesys doesn't work! However, as far as I remember from the previous Twitch streams, simply being within a spot zone at the end of your turn does count against the 2-turns hold position needed for activating the beacons moreover, IIRC, you do not need to be actually still within the spotter zone… you might move your mech IF you remain within the zone’s boundaries – so you might be able to jump up nearly on-spot within such zones, and with 8-JJ mechs you should get a lot of EVASION chevrons wich should help you to survive the next round’s enemy volleys, and then move to the last spotter zone in a rush. Having run 3 different Target Acquisition missions (excluding the Target Acquistion mission in the Flashpoint), I can say with absolute certainty that they are winnable and, at least for me, relatively easy to do without lights. In all 3, I've had a Kintaro, another medium, an Orion, and a Catapult K2. The heavies go to the closest beacon location while the mediums each race towards the farther beacon locations. This usually gets me to the farthest beacon with no time to spare (i.e. Then it's a matter of figuring out where the extraction point is and sprinting there with my heavies.

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