Thinking about it more it does seem like a bad idea, I just always considered the LRFs as the real world equivalent of artillery and missile batteries. You can't very well fire those at point-blank range. Then again reality doesn't make for good gameplay, so like I said earlier don't take that suggestion worth a grain of salt.
That's true, I never really considered that the forces could be split. That does pretty much negate everything I had to say. That'd be a pretty neat idea though, the enemy splits his LRMs into two groups planning to attempt a pincer strike, but then an advent player brings in guardians and herds all the LRMs back into a giant blob. Oh well, Anti-Medium is a crazy powerful damage type. Don't really know how to mitigate spamming LRMs since my idea pretty much gets thrown out the window
If LRFs had a minimum engagement range they wouldn't be so much of a problem as it wouldn't be such a viable tactic to spam them since the opposing player can simply close in and force the LRF to cease fire. This seems like the best way to balance LRFs out so that they are used more like their description, heavy hitters sitting in the back row to provide support and not the front line. Then again, this would mess with the Illums ability to fire in 3 separate directions at once
