What’s your favorite campaign start that made you try something new? Mech setups, Lance comps, weird strategies - let’s hear em

Many moons ago when I started playing the vanilla game, I overlooked heat damage entirely. Then I had a start that had me fighting against Circinius early and I ended up with 2 Havocs.. many war crimes ensued.

My current campaign started with me having both a Wolverine and a Clint early on as well as some unexpected R/AC 5’s showing up. I had a couple other more ‘normal’ starting mechs filling things out but after coming up on a medium targeting comp and some Autocannon FCS’, Big Iron and C*nt Eastwood carried the early game by blowing off limbs and crushing low-armor Periphery cans left and right. I’d used R/AC’s before but never from the start.. and it was some of the most fun I’ve had in a long time. One lil kick from one of my other goons and either of those two were gunning fools down from 100-0.

You saw the title, what are yours?