Add penalty to missed attacks

[prisma totem]

As far as I'm aware, there are no punishment for missing an attack. In this post's image, when 2 mechs are 2 tiles away diagonally, there are little incentive to get into melee range. You can just stand your ground and spam attacks without repercussion. It's a win-tie scenario where if your opponent walked into your attack, you win, and if they walked to the side of your attack, its a 50/50.

My suggestion: when missing an attack, the attacker suffer the staggered effect (or something like it) to give the player that baited the attack initiative.

[acoustic sequoia]

RJ has expressly said he wants to encourage aggression, so it's not likely whiffing an attack will get penalized as a general thing (because then no one wants to swing unless they're sure they have an advantage and it turns into a super defensive game)

[prisma totem]

But how about my example above? Why should both player move into their opponent's melee when they can sit back and spam attacks?

How about another solution: spam detection. A player will lose something (like gut bar?) when they attacked 3 times in a row and all missed?