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I was challenged by an unnamed author-type to make something that could take on a the Hellstar, star vs. star.
Thus the Svartalfa LRM was born. I've had a few doozies, but I think that takes the cake.

Back at university I was in a Mechwarrior campaign built around a handful of mercs who hated the Clans and joined forces to form a unit that would only take jobs that pitted them against the invaders (this was late 3050s).

With a mission like that you either get very good in a hurry or you die in an embarassingly fashion. This was a few rules iterations ago, so there were some loopholes that we could exploit that have since been closed.

For example, we converted dozens of YellowJacket VTOLs to carry Arrow IV launchers instead of Gauss Rifles. The Clans hated our artillery with a passion - they could almost never find them but any time they concentrated their forces... boom! Barrage on top of them.

And then there were the anti-elemental Assault Mechs: Atlas chassis packing a Long Tom Cannon that plastered Elementals from outside their effective range and generally shredded them any time they ventured into range.

The capper on this was the command lance of six PCs, each an elite mechwarrior with equivalent skills in some area (tactics, training, logisitics...) and with a few spare mechs each to be filled out by loyal adherents we'd picked up. My PC's preferred Mech was his modified-Banshee although he was scary enough outside of it (he once captured a Jade Falcon Marauder IIC after ejecting  (with 5 kills already that battle), landing his parachute on the back of the 'Mech and blowing the cockpit's hatch to get at the Mechwarrior inside).

Inside the Banshee? Let's just put it this way.

One battle, in close terrain, an entire Star of Clan assault Mechs closed in on him while the rest of the Lance were leading their own parts of the battle. He fired up his TSM, opened fire with seven Clan Medium Lasers (mix of ER and Pulse) hooked up to a Targeting Computer and waded in with a Hatchet. It took three turns for him to destroy all five Mechs.

Munchkin, oh yes. But a lot of fun.