MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries/Campaign Missions

Overview

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Campaign Missions detail the game's main story, seeing Commander Mason rebuild Nik's Cavaliers to seek revenge against the Black Inferno.

Like Harebrained Schemes' BattleTech game, each step of the Campaign opens up in response the player reaching certain Reputation levels, thus a number of procedural generated Contracts or High Reward Quests must be played to "Improve your Reputation" and unlock the next campaign mission.

Tutorial

Commander Mason takes out a rebuilt CN9-A Centurion BattleMech with his father Nikolai Mason, this training mission is interrupted by an surprise attack by a mysterious mercenary unit demanding information from Nikolai. Refusing to divulge the coordinates they seek, Nikolai orders his son to return to base and flee aboard the unit's Leopard-class DropShip, sacrificing his life to ensure their escape.

As its name implies, the Tutorial is primarily intended to familiarize the player with MW5's controls and how BattleMechs function.

Smash and Grab

• Reputation Level: 1
• Tonnage Limit: 30

The battered Cavaliers head to one of De Berry's icy outer worlds to strike a bandit held abandoned power station for supplies to keep afloat while Spears works on a way out of the system.

Imminent Threat

• Reputation Level: 1
• Tonnage Limit: 30
• Rewards: 50,000 c-bills

Hired on Spear's recommendation by mining interests operating in the De Berry system's outer worlds, Commander Mason must defend the mining company's facilities from pirate attack.

Takedown

• Reputation Level: 2
• Tonnage Limit: 50
• Rewards: 50,000 c-bills

With Black Inferno closing in, the Cavaliers must perform one more contract, launching a risky strike to destroy the pirates' base of operation for good to earn passage out of the system.

Last Man Standing

• Reputation Level: 2
• Tonnage Limit: 50
• Rewards: 50,000 c-bills, Pilot Leon Freeman, JR7-D Jenner

Obligated to Spears for his assistance, Commander Mason arrives at Brookeland to reinforce the depleted mercenaries defending an Interstellar Expeditions dig site from pirate raiders.

This is the final "tutorial" mission, with player now having access to the Starmap to go where they wish in the Inner Sphere, with the full repair and modification system unlocked. "Last Man Standing" being completed is required to unlock co-op play. At this point the player can rename Cavaliers, for convenience they remain so-named here.

Noble Causes

• Reputation Level: 6
• Tonnage Limit: 200

Seeking to expand their reputation and standing, the Cavaliers are hired by indentured Interstellar Mining Corp employees to hit the Apex Minding Syndicate in its pocketbook, damaging vital facilities to force the iron-firsted company to the negotiating table and more fairly treat its workforce.

Target of Opportunity

• Reputation Level: 6
• Tonnage Limit: 200
• Rewards: 120,100 C-bills, 150 Reputation

Free Worlds League refugees forced from their homes by the Black Inferno fled into Liao space, only to be trapped by a malicious governor blocking their passage back over "ongoing security concerns". Deducing this is a ploy to destalbilise the region, the League government hires the Cavaliers to assassinate the local governor on Hisen to teach House Liao a lesson and let the refugees come home.

Collateral Damage

• Reputation Level: 6
• Tonnage Limit: 180
• Rewards: 220,250 C-bills, 200 Reputation

With an incensed House Liao launching raids against Marik border posts in response to the Hisen governor's assassination and the refugees still trapped, the Free Worlds League hires the Cavaliers to destroy a Logistics Center in an Urban Military Complex on Capolla to weaken the CCAF enough to allow their return.

First Strike

• Reputation Level: 7
• Tonnage Limit: 250
• Rewards: 100,000 C-bills, WHM-6R Warhammer, 2 Medium Pulse Lasers, 2 SRM-6 with Artemis IV FCS, 4 tons of SRM-6 Artermis ammo.

Ryana and Spears' investigation into the refugee movements and Black Inferno attacks in search of a pattern appears to have paid off, discovering the Black Inferno have seized control of a fuel refinery on Foot Fall to power their offensive. Hired to defend a civilian settlement nearby, Spears gives the Cavaliers an opportunity and funding to strike the first blow against their hated foe.

Distress Call

• Reputation Level: 9
• Difficulty: 60
• Tonnage Limit: 260
• Rewards: 440,800 C-bills, 700 Reputation, three Tier 3 Medium Lasers

With Ryana and Spears deducing that the Black Inferno are after LosTech after discovering all the refugees come from locations rumored of being near hidden Star League facilities, the Cavaliers race to defend a Coalition of Farmers site near a suspected SLDF base from a Black Inferno attack.

Lock n Load

• Reputation Level: 10
• Difficulty: 70
• Tonnage Limit: 315
• Rewards: 100,00 C-Bills, MAD-3R Maruader, two ER PPCs, two Ultra Autocannon/5s, five tons of UAC5 ammo

Learning more about the man who killed his father, Andreas Kane, Mason eagerly responds to a call for help from another settlement on Cavanaugh seemingly under attack by Black Inferno, unaware their enemy lies in wait.

Black Harvest

• Reputation Level: 11
• Difficulty: 75
• Tonnage Limit: 250
• Rewards: 1,750,000 C-Bills, 500 Reputation, VTR-9B Victor, one AC/20, three tons of AC/20 ammo, four Small Pulse Lasers

Barely surviving the ambush on Cavanaugh, intercepted transmissions reveal the Black Inferno is backed and protected by ComStar and that Kane's homebase is on Xinyang. Seeking to enhance their strength while weakening Inferno's, Spears buys black market intel revealing the location of a key Inferno refit base on Eaton for the Cavaliers to strike.

Extraction

• Reputation Level: 11
• Difficulty: 75
• Tonnage Limit: 340
• Rewards: 3,202,500 C-Bills, 2000 Reputation, one AC/10, one [[LRM-10], one LRM-15

Having killed Inferno member Zavarov and reclaimed Nikolai Mason's 'Mech, the Cavaliers discover more clues to Mason's father's hidden past in the process. While the heavily encrypted coordinates are being deciphered, Ryana has secured a contract to extract a highly valuable Federated Suns pilot held hostage by pirates on Leganes in the Lyran Commonwealth.

Blood and Treasure

• Reputation Level: 11
• Difficulty: 80
• Tonnage Limit: 360
• Rewards: 3,501,00 C-Bills, 2500 Reputation, one LB 10-X Autocannon, two Tier 2 Gauss Rilfes, 2 tons of LBX ammo, three tons of Gauss ammo

With the Cavaliers almost strong enough to take down the Black Inferno, Spears proposes as a partnership to take their secret benefactor ComStar down a peg too. To assist in both goals, Spears offers a contract to eliminate mercenary group Death's Legion who've gone rogue and hidden a treasure trove of stolen advanced weaponry on Grumium.

Killing Kane

• Reputation Level: 12
• Difficulty: 80
• Tonnage Limit: 330
• Rewards: 250,000 C-Bills, 100 Reputation, KGC-0000 King Crab, one AC/20, one Large Laser, one LRM-15-ST+ARTIV, two tons of LRM Artemis ammo.

With assaults 'Mechs, advanced weaponry and Spears' assistance, the Cavaliers are finally ready to put an end to the Black Inferno by killing Andreas Kane and razing their home base on Xinyang to the ground, but ComStar will not take kindly to their interference.

Deliverance

• Reputation Level: 12
• Difficulty: 80
• Tonnage Limit: 360
• Rewards: 3,752,500 C-Bills, 2500 reputation, one AC/10, one AC/20, one AC/2

While Black Inferno's reign of terror has been ended, Kenzo Yamata, Kane's ROM handler was able to escape. He left enough information behind to determine that ComStar has been using a Star League Defense Force map found on Xinyang to recover Star League caches, and that ComStar's interest in Nikolai's coordinates was to fill gaps in that map. Cracking the encryption on the coordinates is proving harder than expected, with Ryana signing a contract with the ISF to break a siege on Sulafat to ensure the unit has funds to continue its mission while they wait.

Coordinated Effort

Investigate the facility on HD-276914.