Thanks, Coyote. I appreciate the feedback.
I did see your earlier thread and was already planning to give Redlynne's "Airborne Rangers" strategy a whirl as a way of dealing with the lack of crowd control options in the sets I'm considering. I get that they are probably all sub-optimal choices, but if I cared about optimal, I probably wouldn't be playing Mercs in the first place.
I would welcome additional feedback from anyone else with thoughts about how /Thermal, /Pain, or /Elec would synergize with Mercs.
Thanks.
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