Does anyone have scans of the documentation that shipped with MW2: Mercenaries? A recent conversation reminded about a gap in my understanding back in the day. It was only after I bought the board game and RoW, AND saw a couple references in the novels to "protecting a vulnerable XL engine," that I realized what made Mercs so hard, IS XL engines. Yeah, losing a side torso in MW2 or Ghost Bear's Legacy sucked, brought you extra heat, and probably lost a good chunk of weapons, but you were still in the fight.
There was one mission in MW2: Mercs where my mighty AS7-K was fragged by a piddly little Nova, over and over again.
Anyway, was the fragility of IS XL engines spelled out in the book from that game or was it something you just had to know?