Had an awesome mission in my "Push All the Buttons" Ironman Campaign:
Proc Gen mission where I need to retrieve an artist and his politically controversial painting.
I drop in my Commando, BJ, Shadow Hawk, and Centurion. (Vindi was down for 35 day repairs)
Opposition is 2 Bulldogs, 2 Strikers a Thunderbolt and a Shadowhawk down the hill to the left, and another Shadow Hawk and two Wolverines up the hill to the right. There are two more sensor contacts far off in the distance, but I never found out what they were.
I had to sprint into the first retrieval point with the Commando for three turns. The Shad 2D up the hill to the right got vision on him, and the Strikers down the hill to the left started raining LURMS. I was considering withdrawing (again) when Glitch took the Shad's head clean off with a lucky AC10 hit. (they all had 75% armor).
Enemy forces down the hill to the left lost LOS on the Commando, so I was able to pick up the Artist and stay LOSed from enemy forces. My three other mechs then engaged the two Wolverines up the hill between the Commando and the second retrieval point from the painting. Unfortunately, this gave the strikers, Shadow Hawk, and Thunderbolt vision to start pelting my Shad and Centurion with LRMs.
We ground down the Wolverines with help from the Commando who had hit the 2nd retrieval point, completing all the mission objectives. The fun part, is that I actually had to run to the dust off point instead of just gunning down all the enemies. The Bulldogs never got in range, but the Tbolt, Shad, and two Strikers were still grinding down armor on my bigger mechs. I didn't want to face the tanks and the 2nd mech lance at the same time, so I just bugged out. It was actually a feeling of relief to get my 4th mech to the drop point and see our drop ship come in and save us.
The new difficulty levels have made the game way more challenging, suspenseful, and fun!
