Restarting makes you go through several tutorial missions and can take roughly an hour to wrap them all up and start free roaming in earnest. It'd be easier to just keep going with the current save, and instead, tweak the difficulty.

Set the dififculty to 'custom' and a bunch of sliders will appear for you to tailor it. You can nerf the hell out of enemy AI accuracy, enemy artillery fire rates, reduce cost penalties and such, turn on infinite ammo and increased heat dissipation, severely reduce repair costs, reduce repair speed to be instant, etc, and can then start cruising through content as you rebuild your stockpiles and start saving cash. Can also remove the over-tonnage penalty so you're no longer restricted to bringing only a certain amount of weight into a deployments, and can bring heavy/assault mechs to roflstomp lower difficulty content, if wanted.

Once you have a better footing you can then tweak settings again so it's more challenging, etc.

Originally posted by FatMonkey:

Just getting back into MechWarrior after a very long time. I've played a few missions and got off the first planet, but I think I've messed up.
Lot of damaged Mechs, little money, long repair times. Is this a game I can find easier missions with lighter income to rebuild or would I just be better off restarting?

Custom Difficulty: Lethality: 0, Accuracy around 70%, Artillery: 50%, Repair Time/Costs around 50% is good, I even set player/lance received damage to 80% so I get an early bonus until my pilots can double up with the defense skill. Game throws unholy amounts of BS at you, no need to sweat even more......chill the game out a bit.

Originally posted by M14EBR Overwatch:

Restarting makes you go through several tutorial missions and can take roughly an hour to wrap them all up and start free roaming in earnest.

They haven't mentioned if they're playing campaign or career mode. There are no tutorial missions in career mode.

The beginning of the game is always quite rough in either variant, however, so taking the simple jobs and knowing which particular mission types are easy to complete with minimal casualties is usually the best strategy...

...or lowering the difficulty, of course, but that's for pussiеs :]

Its so dumb how there is no way to skip the tutorial in campaign mode.

Originally posted by Lord-Knight Fandragon:

Its so dumb how there is no way to skip the tutorial in campaign mode.

It's not dumb - it's simply a part of the "main story". Don't want it? - Play career mode. There's almost no reason to play the campaign the second time.