Goons have landed.
Been playing with a pretty good group of guys on TS and smashed em good yesterday.
Their strategy consists of having a few small mechs distract and draw out people for a chase, then having a giant mob of fast knife-fighters blob your group from another direction. Usually with an Atlas in front to damage-sponge.
We had similar loadout but not the huge engines, and therefore had that much more armor buffer. Went bad for them but was fun as hell with 16 mechs in a giant close-quarters melee of death.
Of course my Atlas was primaried almost immediately and came apart in short order. But we won
Also have been having much much success with small bands of roving medium brawlers or jenner heavy teams. Kind of equivalent of throwing nothing but damage mods on a minmater frigate or cruiser and mobbing a battleship in Eve.