Thanks for the reply! Always been a big fan of your stuff even if I've mostly just managed to get Monsterpunk games off the ground. I wouldn't want extended situations that belittle their personal design and character choices, but maybe a short arc or session where they get in a desperate way and have to use GM or Zaku 2 equivalents during repairs or on an infiltration gone wrong.
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BCS is a little bit better at making a distinction between pilot and mecha, as well as making repairs between missions a thing that players have to worry about. It also makes grunt suits much weaker though, so PCs on those have to fight weaker enemy formations (roughly 75% of the usual power rating) to make the fight winnable. YMMV on whether this is a good tradeoff or not.
Thanks for the support! Regardless of the system you use, best of luck with the game.