then you didn't do it right.
If that is what the dice rolls got you....I almost would have prevered an old Traveler style rolls where, instead of
crippling you, they were merciful, and KILLED you.
To the OP asking which people prefer? Well, first, let's not turn this into an Edition War(I have all 4 Editions of battletech RPGs),
and, honestly, of all of them, I prefer AToW. 1st and 2nd were just "Pilot Generators", basicly. 3rd Edition/CBTRPG went WAY too
far, and, honestly, a bit too complex over all. Mechwarrior 4th Edition/A Time of War basicly takes the best of Second Edition(directly
translates into Battletech rules) and of 3rd Edition(your character is shaped in part by their life), and put them together. AToW is basicly,
to me, if 2nd Edition was Chocolate, and 3rd Edition was Peanut Butter, and the Rebooted Core line was the speeding cars both were put
into the hands of the oblivious drivers, and Battletroops was the emergency first responder.