I just did the Flashpoint where you have to hit the convoy then you find out it was the wrong convoy and you have to hit the right convoy (or go after the jackhammers that gave you the bad intel.) It was supposed to be for a lostech reward. It was... A SMALL PULSE LASER!!!! :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame:
It was a 4 skull flashpoint and I figured I didn't have the tonnage to go head on so I dropped with 2 Griffins and 2 T-Bolts. All 4 could jump so the first mission went fairly well and I was able to take out the convoy and the guards while coming out fairly unscathed. Then the second drop I took the same 4 units. This time, however, they dropped heavy reinforcements right on my flank. I still got the convoy but they cored 2 of my units (1 Griffin (Cdr) and 1 T-Bolt) I thought the other two would make it to the evac zone but I ended up ejecting from the other T-Bolt before it went boom. Fortunately her sacrifice allowed my remaining Griffin to make it to the evac zone.
Something else I found out recently, fun fact, even if you make your mission objectives if you end up ejecting all your mechs it counts as a loss. They really ought to have a warning about that when you go to eject your last mechwarrior. :P
So I got to rebuild 2 mechs and have 2 mechwarriors spend 80 days in sickbay for a SPL. That's really annoying.
Are the rewards hard coded or randomly generated? I'd just as soon avoid the ones that have stupid rewards like that.