This is probably a point thats been made before but it bugs me when people act like the manticore is a suicide bomb mech because like. random guy in a cheap everest clone might not know about the angry water, or the fucked up horse, or why their mech is walking out of the airlock, but Everyone knows about the manticore. everyone knows that if you kill me, I'm taking you with me. Everyone knows 8d6 burst 2. and I'm standing right next to you. Which means you and your little friends have a Vested interest in keeping me alive. Castigate isn't a weapon, its a promise, and a suggestion that maybe you should shoot the saladin.
I actually made a point of this in my Manticore ransom note meme.
The Manticore has so much more tactical application than "walking bomb" but the discourse surrounding its one trait that almost never gets used in actual play is straight up impossible to cut through




















