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In Battletech, mechs can kick, punch, go prone, wield hatchets and katanas and shit. They can pick up tree limbs or dismembered mech limbs and wield them as clubs.
The Mechwarrior games have poisoned the imagination of westerners because the early games only depicted mechs with basic torso twisting, arms locked forward with no melee or interactions, and later developers barely bothered to build past that. Walking tanks is the meme, maybe only a fraction of BT's mechs strictly behave like that.