I played the “Take Intact” scenario from Instant Action with a buddy this afternoon. Since he’s new, I let him pick from a bunch of pre-designed and pre-painted mechs for the match, so he wouldn’t have to do any prep work. Fun scenario - his Gargoyle made a fun Prize mech to maneuver around, and since I designed his force to carry 3 UAC-20s, all his mechs were insanely threatening at brawl distance, which we reached very quickly. Unfortunately, his Ebon Jag and Stormcrow both suffered massive ammo explosions and were out of the game by turn 4. We called it there since we didn’t want to chase elementals the rest of the match.

One situation we ran into: if you’re carrying elementals on the Prize mech, you can’t exactly shoot at them (unless you swarm with elementals of your own) and since you’re not allowed to shoot the Prize, you could potentially just leave them on there and claim victory because the elementals are totally fresh, and thus the Salvage player hasn’t crippled all of the other units. We didn’t end up playing it out that way, but we considered that it could be exploited easily.