HOW TO PLAY THE MARAUDER II! (GUIDE) - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC Heroes of the Inner Sphere

A detailed look on all the Marauder II assault mech models available in MW5 Mercenaries - Heroes of the Inner Sphere DLC.

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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is an upcoming BattleTech """"Mecha"""" game under development by Piranha Games and due for release on December 10, 2019 on Windows. It is the first single player MechWarrior game since 2002. It will be Epic Games Store exclusive and is slated to have raytracing powered by Nvidia RTX as well as DLSS.

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is set in 3015 during the final decade of the Third Succession War, casting the player as a rookie mercenary MechWarrior rising from the ashes of a demolished mercenary unit. They are able to accept contracts from the various factions available in this time period. The campaign is said to go all the way up to 3049, just before the Clan Invasion."

[Captain_Razor_]

With my MAD-4A, I switched out the PPCs with large pulse lasers, the mediums with short burst medium lasers, the shoulder mounted large laser with a PPC, full jump jets, max armor, and filled it with as many double heatsinks as I could fit and singles to fill the gaps until I reached the weight limit. This is my personal command mech and it hasn't let me down yet.

[rainsilent]

According to lore, it could fit a Gauss so it should be a ballistic heavy hardpoint.

The 4L had a Gauss in each arm and had stealth armor.
The 4S variant had a heavy Gauss in the torso.
The 5B had a standard Gauss in the torso directly replacing the LB-X AC10 in the 5A.
The 6S and 8K also had a gauss in the torso.

It looks like when they implemented the 5A they just took the size of the LB-X 10 as the determining point of what the size of the slot was when it should have been a bigger slot lore-wise. If anything the mods making that slot bigger are correcting the error and making the 5A lore-friendly.

[sniffermovies]

To be honest my favorite Mech is the king crab with auto cannons and missile firing

[artyom-does-something]

Kinda sucks the Marauder II didn't have better hard points like you mentioned but the marauder is still one of my favorite mechs visually.

[jameswright]

As a huge lover of Marauders I cannot agree that the Marauder II is a "hunk of metal". The MAD-4A is my main mech. I have 70% of my game time in that mech. Its not a mech meant for brawling so it does not need all the weapons.

A lot of people forget the MAD-II is an upgrade to the base MAD not because it has more weapons but because it can reliably deliver fire. It heats up so much more slowly and cools so much faster. That's what you're getting with the MAD-II. You just get more Marauder for your Marauder and that's never a bad thing.

Ideally this baby should be headclipping assaults before they break into medium range. If you're trying to brawl with an Atlas or a King Crab you're gonna have a bad time.

The Marauder II is a command/fire support mech. You CAN charge into the fray against lighter mechs but that's far from ideal. You want to let your buddies whether they are AI or human kite the chaff while you hammer the big bois from afar. And for those who say the AI sucks and that doesn't work, it does. I play on console and have more than a solid month of actual gameplay in the game. Most of it played solo. You need to be patient with your AI teammates while using the Marauder II. It can take a hit but it can and will be worn down if you aren't smart. Pick your targets, use AI to kite the chaff and aim for the head. If you're accurate you should have no problem running the Marauder II. Its a beast of a mech and deserves to be treated as such.


P.S its medium ballistic slot in the 5A variant absolutely needs to be upgraded to a large ballistic slot. They did my baby dirty.

[roymuerlunos]

Thank you for the video kind sir, very much appreciated laying out the Super-rauder

[ThePraetorianOfTerra]

I utterly adore the Marauder. It's hands down my favourite Mech of all time. If I could only ever pilot one Mech, that'd be it.

[skyvipers]

I can't believe that the Ballistic hard-point is only for a medium ballistic, what the heck were they thinking?

[bluedevilsfan]

Just switched out the ER PPCs for regular in my Marauder...you are 100%...syncs up much better with my Heavy Rifle. Clapping heads and removing arms at range easily.

[shadewolf]

I wish they had the marauder’s biggest strength in this game and that is the fact that it’s a command mech with systems designed to better coordinate with the rest of the lance. That and the fact it’s slopped armor allows to minimize the damage it takes by turning and spreading it out over a wider area. So basically make it able to give you lancemates buffs to targeting and awareness and making it harder to strip the armor off it and this thing will be a huge asset

[darrenpask]

I've had this game a few days now and I love it I'm playing on xbox series x, I came from world of tanks and it is hella fun !!!!

[ninobecirevic]

I was super hoping they would introduce a Heavy Gauss Rifle and have it equipable on the Maurauder 2. I'm very disappointed :(

[harvestblades]

It's just wrong to see a Marauder, Marauder II or IIC with more than 3 big guns & 2 lasers. A Gauss on the C torso is sick though. I love the Marauder in Classic BT & am looking forward to MW6 Clan Invasion or whatever they call it & run the IIC! I'm really just excited to get a Warhammer in MW5 as it has been too long since I last piloted one in a MW game. Thanks for the great videos!

[dazley]

I remember being excited about the Marauder II when i saw it in the list, but then i went to try a loadout and was immediately disappointed by the medium balistics hardpoint.

[Friedbrain]

Mechwarrior4: Mercs...Marauder 2 had a rail gun from Hell! I want that in this game. RT least you got close with your build :) I still haven't found the Marauder32 in-game though LOL I always run SB lasers. The quicker follow up is more useful.

[harvestblades]

A missile boat Marauder breaks my heart!

[ccsomat]

Sounds like its time to go back and play with this bad boy.

[iOnlySignIn]

Your modded build is very similar to the Marauder II Bounty Hunter.

[MegaMrdusty]

whats mods are you running? maybe give a list of mods you recommend to use and maybe some that are a good idea for coop or coop friendly? I'm personally not using any because I'm not sure where to start with them yet.

[liquidleopard]

If I knew how to *get* a Marauder II, that would be great. Sure, I've seen the advice on where to look for them, but I haven't seen one for sale. I've played a campaign from 3015 to 3068. I've played a career from 3026 to 3036. Haven't seen it for sale in either play-through. :-/