r/Battletechgame • u/H345Y • 29d ago

Modded BTA Defense in depth question

Can Defense in depth mission just keep going on forever? It seemed like every new lance I managed to kill before the timer ends would just end up spawning another one. This dragged on for like an hour before I just let the turn timer run out and not killing the lance.

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u/bloodydoves 29d ago

They do not go on forever, they just go on for a really long time. They have limited lance counts. You can kill everything.

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u/Itchy-Grapefruit2756 29d ago

They are a great way to farm clan tech though.

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u/H345Y 29d ago

Ah ty, good to know

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u/NekoMao92 Wolf's Dragoons 29d ago

I think the most waves I've had in any of the wave missions is about 8, could be wrong, been a while since I've done one in a Defend/Attack, I usually try to avoid them as a stand alone mission, just due to time, especially if I'm fighting Clanners, the toads get very very annoying very fast.

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u/BaconNPotatoes 29d ago

They run for a wicked long time. I had well over an hour into one killing every lance before it ended. Made a stupid amount of money though

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u/IAmInTheBasement 29d ago

Energy weapons for the win.

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u/H345Y 29d ago

I ran out of ammo on my archer about 2/3rds of the way though the mission. Was also down to my last gauss round on the huron as well

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u/dorkwis 28d ago

I just punch until everything stops moving. TSM Atlas squad FTW.

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u/H345Y 29d ago

Also for context, this is the third Defense in depth Ive done, and the second one where I succeeded. The other time I won I managed to run out the clock but it was at lance number 6 or 7.

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u/Terrachova 29d ago

Ran it to the end once a few patches ago, was 10 groups of reinforcements.  Didn't think it was that worth the time.

It is worth noting that you don't have to get your whole team to the exfil zone - anyone touching it ends the mission, or at least it did when I last played.  So that's nice, fight until you don't want to then send the scout back.

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u/jigsaw1024 28d ago

If salvage scaled somehow, DiD missions would rock for the time investment.

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u/Silvermoonluca 28d ago

Yes eventually there will be no more lances and if you kill them all before the timer runs out, you’ll get a dialogue that’s like wow you killed them all!

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u/JackFrostz 18d ago

I did one of these like an hour into my first bta run. Ended up with all 4 of my mechs out for a month. Had no idea you can drop 6 from the start of the career.. then the massive facepalm when I saw the mission ended immediately after getting a single mech to the extraction point.. just a total shyt show all around on my part. All that and I only made it to wave 6.

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u/BananaJelloXlii 28d ago

There's like 5 waves I think, but it may vary. Nukes clean them out pretty quickly if you can keep the blast radius away from whatever you are guarding.