MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries/Rasalhague Missions

Overview

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Rasalhague Missions details the unique campaign introduced in the Rise of Rasalhague DLC, which can be played in both Campaign and Career Modes.

At its base, the Rasalhague Missions are a series of multiple mission operations with extensively scripted events and unique map layouts on an exceedingly tight timetable. As the game itself warns, the player must maintain a stable of multiple pilots and 'Mechs with gaps between missions only long enough for minimal repairs or light injuries to be healed. Aside from the longer gaps when traveling between systems, extensive refits and lengthy pilot recovery can sideline a significant portion of your strength for multiple missions, requiring careful management of resources.

False Promises

Broken Promises

Date of Transmission: January 1, 3031

Transmission Expires: May 31, 3031

Following a mission on the Lyran Commonwealth world of Kelenfold, Commander of the First Tyr Regiment Colonel Christian Månsdottir approaches the Cavaliers to secure their services in response to their sterling reputation to perform a secretive mission.

Note: Once Månsdottir's offer is accepted, the player is immediately locked into the first part of the Rasalhague campaign through July 15 and cannot take on additional contracts or travel freely. Ignoring the contract prevents the player from participating in any further Rasalhague missions.

Depart for Kirchbach

After accepting his offer, Månsdottir explains the Cavaliers will soon be travelling to Kirchbach a world he helped to liberate during the Fourth Succession War but that is now a site of escalating tensions between the liberated Rasalhague population promised greater administrative control of the world on which they've resided for generations and Lyran nobles with historical ties to Kirchbach from its days in the Tamar Pact seeking to reclaim property lost for centuries. Månsdottir promises to explain further what the Cavaliers will need to do after they arrive.

Kirchbach

Date of Arrival: July 1, 3031

• Employer: Independents
• Targeting: House Steiner
• Mission Brief: Christian Månsdottir and his second in command Tor Miraborg have secretly hired the Cavaliers to strike the House Kelswa-employed Gotterdammerung Society who are openly assaulting and forcibly evicting the Rasalhague population to reclaim ancestral properties of Lyran noble familes, the First Tyr unable to stand idlily by but equally unwilling the betray the Lyran Commonwealth they serve.
• Rewards: CRD-3R Crusader
• Mission 1: 260 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 60 Assassination-like Mission where the Cavaliers, hiding their identities behind the IFF codes of the Blankenburg Beaters pirate band, must cripple the Gotterdammerung Society, only for both parties to come under attack from the forces of the Haakon Magnusson-led Tyr Resistance Movement seeking to also save the people of Kirchbach.
• Mission 2: 270 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 65 Demolition Mission to flatten the Kelswa Guards' Forward Operating Base supporting the Gotterdammerung Society under the banner and direction of Magnusson's Tyr forces, with Månsdottir put in a difficult position when Nicole Kelswa, niece of their ruling duke, angrily orders him to capture the Tyr attackers.

Message from Haakon Magnusson

Magnusson thanks the Cavaliers for their assistance on Kirchbach, explaining though Månsdottir meant well, his divided loyalty to the Commonwealth and the Rasalhague people blinded him to the fact the Archon would never truthfully have the Rasalhague people's interests at heart and that only full independence will ensure they are truly free. Though his funds are largely tied up with supporting the First Tyr following their breakaway from the LCAF in support of the Tyr Resistance Movement, Magnusson hopes the Cavaliers will assist the independence movement in the future.

Ronin War

Incoming Transmission from Haakon Magnusson

Date of Transmission: March 1, 3033

Rasalhague Independence

Date of Transmission: September 1, 3033

Transmission Expires: February 28, 3034

From Haakon Magnusson

Note: The player has roughly six months to accept or ignore this contract, providing a limited window for further preparation. Once Magnusson's offer is accepted, the player is immediately locked into the Kestrel Lancers campaign for the yearlong duration and cannot take on additional contracts or travel freely.

Depart for Rasalhague

From Haakon Magnusson

Rasalhague

Date of Arrival: March 13, 3034

Employer: Free Rasalhague Republic

Targeting: Ronin (Subsidiary of Outlaws)

• Mission Brief:
• Rewards: 4,000,000 C-bills, 100 Reputation, four Tier 4 SRM-4, three Tier 4 AC/5-BF, four Tier 5 flamers
• Mission 1: 320 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 70 Warzone-like Mission
• Mission 2: 330 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 75 Defense Mission

Depart for Predlitz

From Haakon Magnusson

Predlitz

Date of Arrival: June 1, 3034

Employer: Free Rasalhague Republic

Targeting: Ronin (Subsidiary of Outlaws)

• Mission Brief:
• Rewards: 5,000,000 C-bills, 100 Reputation, STK-4N Stalker, three Tier 4 LRM-10, three Tier 4 PPC, one Tier 4 AC/10-BF
• Mission 1: 340 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 75 Beachhead Mission
• Mission 2: 350 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 80 Warzone Mission
• Mission 3: 360 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 80 Assassination Mission

Depart for Gunzburg

From Christian Månsdottir

Gunzburg

Date of Arrival: August 19, 3034

Employer: Free Rasalhague Republic

Targeting: House Steiner

• Mission Brief:
• Mission 1: 370 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 85 Demolition Mission
• Mission 2: 400 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 85 Warzone-like Mission
• Mission 2 Rewards: 1,000,000 C-bills, CP-10-Z Cyclops (damaged)

• Mission 3: 400 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 90 Warzone-like Mission
• Mission 3 Rewards: 5,000,000 C-bills, 100 Reputation, AS7-D Atlas (damaged), two Tier 5 AC/20-BF, three Tier 5 medium lasers, two Tier 4 LRM-20-ST

Depart for Radstadt

From Christian Månsdottir

Radstadt

Date of Arrival: October 15, 3034

Employer: Free Rasalhague Republic

Targeting: Ronin (Subsidiary of Outlaws)

• Mission Brief:
• Rewards: 5,000,000 C-bills, 200 Reputation, one Tier 3 Gauss rifle, four Tier 4 Medium Pulse Lasers, two Tier 3 LRM-20 with Artemis IV, four tons of Gauss ammo, four tons of LRM Artemis ammo
• Mission 1: 400 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 95 Beachhead Mission
• Mission 2: 400 Tonnage Limit, Difficulty 100 Assassination and Defense Mission

Message from Tor Miraborg

Date of Completion: October 22, 3034