When I was a young lad drooling over source books, it was the mechs that drew me to this game. Not the combat vehicles, or the aerospace fighters, or the battler armor, or the warships. Mechs are what got me into BattleTech. Now, mine own spawn like to play Alpha Strike with me on occasion, and it's the same with them. They want the stompy robots. I actually bought them each several of the DA packs that come with a mech, a vehicle and some infantry. The infantry are long-gone, and most of the VTOL's and tanks are MIA somewhere under beds or in random piles of toys, but the mechs...well, the kids each keep their mechs all together in boxes and will play with them like normal toys as well as bugging me to play Alpha Strike. I didn't tell them to keep the Mechs separate or to put them all in a box. I didn't tell them Mechs are better than vehicles or infantry. They decided they liked them better on their own. To them, the mechs were something special, and they took better care of them and played with them more than any of the other stuff that came in those DA loot boxes. Sure, it is a very small data set, but something about the mechs in this game registered as special and more interesting to my kids than any of the other units. According to my house at least, mechs are the coolest part of BattleTech. I'm not asking that other units be dropped from the game, but you won't hear any complaints from me about the two starter boxes being nothing but mechs. It's a decision I support.
