u/wadesauce369

How does average skill work?

I know you want to keep them as low as possible to earn more platinums, but I have a question regarding skill diversity.

If I say, have B rank in fist and shotgun, but then let’s say I go into simulator and rank up missles to A, will the new A in missiles worsen my average?

Basically if I train all my pilots in multiple weapon skills, will their averages get worse because I’m lowering the floor of my average, or does training new skills change the equation by adding a new factor it didn’t calculate before?

My buddies and I are getting into various tabletop games besides Warhammer. We’ve been playing frostgrave, OPR, and we’re also gonna play drop fleet. One of my buddies has battletech minis. After talking I realized I used to kinda play, I played mech warrior, the one on the click bases.

I remember one guy at our hobby shop was really into Highlander stuff, and another guy was into like, jade falcons or something. I didn’t know the lore so I just used whatever good mechs I had access to.

My favorite was a sphinx, big boxy guy, it was a real bruiser and I remember he could kinda bully some of the opponents mechs if I was careful not to get him outnumbered.

Anyway, I came to ask, where’s a good place to get some modern lore so I can figure out the factions I like best, what’s a good starter set, and is it possible to get a sphinx in battletech?

Thanks. Seems like a cool game and lore, but don’t know where to start.