The answer HAS to be Dr. Feelgood
Can I point out that it's probably worth a look at selling some of our existing heavy ASFs and picking up that pair of Royal Rapiers? Those ASFs have 20-class ACs, making them more effective in a Heavy Strike role than anything else we have (aside from the kinetic strike caused by crashing our DropShips into a planet at a fraction of c).
It might also be worth looking at the Challenger tanks as well. Maybe swap out the Manticores for the Challengers. Challenger Xs are a Gauss/LB10X/LRM combo, with support weapons to boot and *heavy* armor.
As for the recruits, if the elite tech wasn’t clan knowledge I would say give them to Pilum. I’m ok giving new lance priority with the markets until they catch up a bit. I would also be ok with a chit and lottery for recruit. If a lance wants one specific recruit for themselves then chit for it.
Blitzkrieg chits
elite mech tech recruit (if we do lottery) would release current elite tech.
Reg mech tech Susan Guttuso would release reg tech Smolko
May also chit for elite heavy mech warrior. Will decide this afternoon and update this post then.
Lucifer R20 (Black Market)