Quote Originally Posted by gbprime View Post
Next, you need to work on situational awareness... and teach the new player to cry when a hovercraft starts taking fire from SRM's and LBX cluster rounds. It's all fun and games until they start shooting back.

Hover skirt destroyed? By a 1 point hit? Yessir, leg 'em and leave 'em.
If you need to emphasize this, every time (preferably only once per salvo, in the case of things like HAG, LBX or missiles, unless you really want to sound like a broken record) one of his combat vees takes damage, remind him that that's why the 'Mech is the king of the battlefield.