A little late for the skill tree rant, like a year late. Just go look up videos on youtube about how to manage the trees. Once you get it down it's all the same.

And that's the whole point of omnimechs. They lock in the engine and internals in exchange for the ability to switch out weapon omnipods. It's the closest any mechwarrior game has gotten to omnimechs on tabletop. What does it mean for players? It means you don't have to buy several different chassis to play different combat roles. The same hellbringer can be outfitted for laser vomit or missiles. But really it just means they are worst then regular battlemechs at specific roles and is more of a way to nerf clan mechs.

Also get of your high horse. You just started playing after how long? Didn't even catch up with all the new tech using a hilariously bad that can't even outgun a medium with terrible game sense.