#battletech lore

The newest version of "what does a K-F jump look like?"

I got players that are really into Combined Arms, talking about infantry (Foot, Mechanized, and Battle Armor) and transport vehicles. They have both focused on Clan factions (Raven Alliance and Clan Sea Fox, good fits as they are favoured enemies of each other), and OF COURSE they can play around with infantry for a myriad of reasons even if the lore states infantry isn't a primary military asset (Battle armor excluded).

But what factions do use Combined Arms-tactics using vehicles and infantry? My gut instinct tells me about Federated Commonwealth Regimental Combat Teams, but are there other options? Obvious an non-obvious.

...as far as I know, the Bane 3 is still the 'mech that carries the most LRM shots, of any extant model. 120 LRMs total, and that plus the Streak side armaments.

However, in terms of overall propelled-exploding-ish-thingies, never mind the exact genus, the Archer ARC-6W, I have learned, actually has it beat, with one hundred and eighty rockets.

...Hafnar Ghost Bear, but that is okay, Hafnar Ghost Bear is one of those men who it might be considered a benefit to not know. His reputation runs as such: "The large, bearded man carried a battleax inside his 'Mech cockpit, learned Norse specifically so he could scream curses at his enemies over open comm lines, and dedicated his kills in battle to the Norse gods."

But Hafnar is noted as being of the Invasion era, and thus we are left with two possibilities surrounding his religious beliefs:

The Neo-Nordic traditions which would eventually evolve in Rasalhague were, in fact, also preserved in the Clans, or-

...just a typical case of authors not writing anything smarter than the audience (or themselves), I like to think that there was an intentional parallel between the 4th Succession War and Operation GUERRERO in one particular aspect.

See, the reason the Davion onslaught met with such success was that the Capellans had their forces arrayed spiderweb style. Light outposts that would serve to hold against raids and skirmishes; a central well of force that could be dispatched to reinforce. This failed spectacularly when the AFFS attacked heavily across multiple fronts.

Now, you fast forward- a measly handful of decades -and look at how Sun Tzu plays it. He harries the Davion border marches by effectively reverting to the Third Succession War-style raiding and brushfire strikes that the CCAF had been geared for. Hit-and-run attacks fatigued FedCom forces, diffused their troops to manage trouble spots- such that when he launched his state troops' invasion, they met with much the same kind of blitz success that the Davion invasion did.

In summary, I feel the notion there is something like: