I always thought of Marik as the faction you play when you only have one company of minis and they are all painted the same color. You pick four mechs, give four to your buddy, and mumble something about a civil war. Some part of the free worlds is pretty much always attacking some other part over whether the state color is lavender or aubergine, or something equally silly, so you don't even have to pretend you are Mercs!
Anyway, there are some pretty good descriptions already, so,I'll just add the 3025 mech/weapon stereotypes.
Davion: We love autocannons! Even the small ones! Oh, and we like combined arms as well...in theory.
Steiner: We also like autocannons, but only the huge ones...and only on assault mechs. In fact, we are pretty sure any mech that isn't assault-class is a myth or Marik propaganda.
Kurita: We like PPCs, and we prefer our mechs to be assaults or lights. No point in getting all wishy washy with those other in between classes.
Liao: we like...whatever the hell we can get ahold of. Hetzers are cheap and easily crewed by expendable conscripts, so yeah...those sound good. We couldn't afford a 55-ton iconic medium mech, so we got a 45-ton mech instead. Give us a break, our leaders are working on several straight decades of pants-on-head crazy over here!
Marik: LRMs! All the LRMs! On everything! Oh, and we have a hard time making assault mechs and PPCs...except for that one assault mech with a bunch of PPCs. We have boat loads of those.
