help me get back on track

It looks like you definitely have some catching up to do, but you came to the right place, the forum is full of great information.
To start with you want to have no more than 1 spectre, you can run scourges or shocktrains on it, or even storms (storms are REALLY good and cheap to upgrade) Tarans are still decent but orkans got nerfed and are way worse now. if you need another heavy I would level up that redeemer you have laying around, it's gotten way better than it was before.
For bots I'd say
-Spectre-
-Lancelot
-Inquisitor
-Bulgasari
-And then a place runner until you get a better bot (I'd suggest the mender, hard to take down and it can heal, if you do have storm and gust)
For weapons to geet, you can't go wrong with the glory, corona, and halo, really good weapons, same with the avenger, the avenger is ridiculous for how cheap it costs.
For weapons use
-Shocktrains, scourges, tarans, and storms
-Ember and redeemer
-Gust and magnum

Example.
Spectre-Shocktrains
Bulgasari-Scourge
Inquisitor-storm-ember
Lancelot-Tarans-redeemer
Kumiho-Orkans/Storm

The modules can give you additional health or special abilities like last stand, it give you invincibility for a short time when hitting a certain amount of health. Or battle born for damage resistance after the first time you take damage. Those are the passive ones, the active ones ca let you heal, shoot bots in stealth, stop people from moving, or protect yourself.

Pilots give you bot special skills like healing over time, additional health/speed/damage, decrease lock on time, and even reduced spread for machine guns and shotguns.

The workshop is going to be your best friend, you make all of your new bots and weapons there for silver.

Titans, newest thing in war robots, giant robots. You need to fill your titan bar by dealing damage, killing bots, and capturing beacons, after it is full you can drop in with your titan. They cost platinum to buy, upgrade, and equip. You earn platinum through the bonus tasks.

I hope you can find this helpful, and if not find some of the other people on this forum to help you out.

-Psyco

Ok, for starters, don't worry about leagues or league points. I don't know if you're F2P or not but you have a nice chunk of silver and gold. Take your time and don't be in too much of a rush to implement any of the advice here. Weigh what people say and then make the best decisions possible.

You have two hangar decks so maybe focus one hangar for smaller maps and the other for larger maps.

Large map hangar:
Lancelot with Dragoon/Pulsars or Calamity/Scourges and Ghost Pilot Skill
Bulgasari with Scourges
Spectre with Shocktrains (this one is optional. Shocktrains were heavily nerfed, almost to oblivion. They still have uses, but are almost ineffective against Titans except as a target to bounce the Shocktrain off of. My full HP L9 Ares got one shot killed by a Shocktrain Spectre with Mk2 Shocktrains today.

If you want some new bots for this hangar, consider getting an Ao Jun, Phantom or Tyr. As for weapons, you'll want a pair of Avengers for the Ao Jun and energy shotgus (Corona/Halo) for the Phantom. The Tyr can use either energy shotguns or Pulsar/Marquess or Hussar/Marquess. Again, it depends on how much you want to spend.

Small map hangar
Outfit a Spectre with 4 Vortexes. This build if played well can counter most new OP stuff and can really dish out a ton of damage. If you'd rather put a Shocktrain Spectre here, that could work too.

Consider getting a Leech, Mender, Mecury for this hangar. Leech can use Scourges to start off until you find a weapon that you like better. Mender can run energy shotguns or Taran/Shredder. Mercury is best with Glory/Halo.

I saw Hovers in your inventory. This is a fun bot and very challenging and I would encourage you to try it out.

Take your time, try things bit by bit and see what works for you. If you get the chance, get on the test server whenever it's available to see what kinds of builds work for you.

I’m in the same boat tricky. I came back four days ago after year and a half. Definitely a learning curve again with these new bots and weapons. I am amazed at how hard orkans were nerfed....wow

My advice.....workshop a Ao Jun, 2x Avengers....this bot counters most everything in game.

Next, come here often, read, search posts......soon, you will fill a hangar with good bots.

Best of luck!

I came back 6 months ago after a year off.  The easy-no brainers to do that you didn't have to before:

1st - add silver modules to every bot you plan to play with.  Upgrade them to maximum.  It takes 9M Ag, but it's worth it.  Pick based on what you think is important (offense or defense) for the bot, but add them.
2nd - pilots.  Get cheap, low level pilots for every bot you want to play.  Equip them and they will gain experience as you play.  They can significantly add to the game play of your current bots.  Do research on the forums or ask here on which skills are best for each bot as it varies widely.  Know this though, the staples for most bots are Armor Expert, Mechanic and Road Hog.  You probably don't need more than 3 pilot skills per bot at this point, but they can be moved between bots and skills can be relearned so start training you up some pilots.

Next, prioritize OE stuff that hasn't been nerfed significantly.  Your Scourges are super effective right now still.  Shocktrains kinda suck now with bots that have Damage Resistance (DR) running all over the place.  Orkans and Tarans got nerfed, but the Tarans can still pack a big punch and are relatively cheap.  Your 8 Storms are also effective with a pilot skill called Sharpshooter (SS).  They are cheap too.  Any Avengers you have are also really effective still too.

Lastly, start learning the status effect symbols.  You need to know these so you know what's happening when you're playing.  (Someone really needs to do a summary of these on the forums...maybe I need to do this...lol).

I would prioritize weapons over bots.  You will slowly aquire the newer bots as you play through gold chests and (maybe) super chests.  Just a few things to think about.  Also, ask ask ask people on here.  We are happy to help.  

What Deadeye said..

Take your time, don't spend your resources until your sure its solid move.

Also I run a redeemer Ao Jun, it hits like a tank.

Again I would go slow and get a feel for things. You really have plenty of resources to work with.

One thing not mentioned...Pix is squeezing our nuts hard and only a drizzle of Silver is coming our way......due to this, you will save many tens of millions of Ag going with Avengers.....Redeemers and Dragoon are the most expensive to upgrade, as are these new fancy cryogenic rocket weapons....

If you have a huge reserve of Ag, then up to you......otherwise, best to roll cheap, use real skill.

It's ok to have differences in opinion. With so many people running AJs and people running Quantum Radar to compensate, I do agree that Mercury is getting harder to run and is squishier than normal. The days when it dominated during the Halo insta-root bug is long over. But, in the ambush role, the Mercury is great. Against Titans...not so much. I've several configurations for Mercury. The best cheap build is Avenger/Gust. After the Gust nerf, I've found Avenger/Punisher to be decent too. Avenger/Shredder is an excellent all round type of build but slightly weaker in the ambush role than Halos. Avenger/Halo is great with the usual pros and cons. With the "balance" to the energy shotguns, I find Glory/Halo to still lock pretty fast if you hit your target square on. I can't harass with it anymore though the way I used to at 500m where I could often get random roots for the fun of it. Ember/Blaze was ok, but I think you really need to get those flamers leveled up high. Mine has stayed at L9/8 for a while. In the ambush role, Ember/Blaze do well cause when you're that close to your target, the chance of missing goes way down. But, this build is often weak against fast bots and there is a significant learning curve to the flamers.