From mange@u.washington.edu Thu Oct 3 23:57:11 EDT 1996 Article: 74317 of rec.games.mecha Path: prism!gt-news!cc.gatech.edu!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!metro.atlanta.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!becker2.u.washington.edu!mange From: Charles Winston Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha,alt.games.mechwarrior2 Subject: Mercs: Unpassable missions (Hint) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 09:53:39 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Lines: 24 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: becker2.u.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: mange Status: RO There are two that I have found (so far) and they are passable, just tricky. Escort the prince: The only time I played it I personally killed the prince. The game acted like he survived, and gave me full compensation for the mission, and another person verified this result, and expanded it to 'any' mech can kill the prince. Just make sure he dies and you get paid. It is possible that the new patch will fix this. Circling Dropship: I tried this mission many times and found the dropship trapped a small way away from nav beta. Finally I tried a different strategy, let the Flashman take the first two mechs. If you don't fire at them, they won't fire at you. Go as quickly as possible to nav Alpha and kill both mechs there (nova?, stormcrow?). The dropship should arrive right after the defending mechs go down. You must kill the other two mechs quickly (I had an Atlas with 4 PPC's, 4ML's, lots of heatsinks) If you've already passed these, sorry for the wasted space, otherwise, hope this helps. Charles mange@u.washington.edu