2009. Clan grinder held in Gaithersburg, MD. A battered but still-active Thor D run by Redshirt is standing on top of a Lv.5 building with a CF of 150. Hellbie stands in a near-mint Stooping Hawk Prime nearby. Hellbie knows that he can't do enough damage to the building to cause a collapse- which is a bummer. Hellbie DOES have an idea though- if he jumps up on the building as well, another nearby unit will be sure to oblige- and with the Thor in bad shape, and the legendary-tough Hawk being fine, the chances of surviving vs. Redshirts are pretty high. Plus, it's a grinder, doing stupid things is almost required, right?
Hawk hops up on the building, the two Mechs exhange fire doing little beyond armor dings. Sure enough, a nearby Night Gyr put both Gauss rifles into the building, and down we both went (we were playing full building damage vs. per hex).
The Thor lost every square inch of armor it had ever had, took damage to a couple of backup components like an arm actuator and such, and was just fine.
Hellbie rolled a double basement, landed head first, and immediately applied most of the damage to the head, and took a cockpit crit. The last thing to go through his mind after what was basically a seven-level fall was a 55-ton Omnimech. Hilarity was had.