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Totally did not know he wrote battle tech. Did he write anything in first person limited? His book, I, Jedi is one of my favorites, specifically because he used that perspective.
Oh thank GOD it's not just me with Tom Clancy.... Tried reading SSN once. Got four chapters in, had no clue what was going on, but by golly I could dive a damn sub!
Mr. Stackpole is one of my favorite authors of all time, and I was tickled pink to shake the man's hand at the GenCon booth this past summer. Class act through and through!
The assassination attempt of Victor on luthien is one of my favorite scenes in all of Battletech literature. That and the fight between Joanna and Natasha. Ooof....just serious stuff.
I read and enjoyed many of Stackpole's books in my adolescence. I enjoyed his X-Wing books and decided to give his Battletech books a try ... decades later I'm still a fan of Battletech. Thanks for the interview!
You're very welcome! And wow, what an awesome way to get introduced to the BattleTech universe :) Do you remember which was the first book that you picked up?
@@RenegadeHPG Yes, I remember it clearly. It was Lethal Heritage, the first novel from Stackpole's Blood of Kerensky trilogy. At that time I did not know anything about Battletech, so there were lots of characters and subplots that I didn't pick up on during that first read. But I do remember enjoying the characters, especially Kai. I had no idea of the significance of Wolf's Dragoons, or Anastasius Focht's real identity. This was the mid 90s so I was basically picking up whatever books I could afford at a Borders bookstore in midwest USA. Anyways, thank you for the interview, I really appreciate the thought you put into your questions. I'll be sure to check out some more of your interviews!
I remembered when I figured out (waaaay before he was revealed) That Fredrick Steiner was still alive. It was such a blinding epiphany, done as I was walking home from school and thinking of my favorite books, that I wanted to hug myself, and was awe-struck by the planning and foreshadowing Mr. Stackpole had built into not just a book, or a trilogy, but do it across MULTIPLE books! I still geta little thrill from that moment. Has any other franchise ever had a single writer done so much to independently create it????
The Warrior trilogy was my intro to Battle Tech, then rolled right into Blood of Kerensky. Hearing Mike talk about those early years was like a shot of nostalgia right in my veins. He remains one of my all-time favorite authors, thank you for getting this interview.
Great interview, loved to see it, big fan of Michael stackpole , have missed many opportunities to meet him, his writing had a impact on my younger years. My son is named Kai , I always assumed it was pronounced ky cause of his Asian heritage.
Thanks! Definitely check out the conversations with Robert Charrette and Blaine Lee Pardoe also if you haven't already. So much incredible BattleTech history there :)
I got into Battletech novels and PC games around 1999. I used to hate reading. In my country the publisher changed the order of the books to Blood of Kerensky trilogy being the first 3 Battletech books available. It blew me away. I have 33 Battletech novels and I keep reading all over and over again. I am on my 10 th reread session. God give me 20 more years, I want to read them another 10 + times :) Thank you for this great interview Renegade. Thank you Michael Stackpole for teaching me, reading is super fun.
While it was Kerensky trilogy that was my introduction to both him and the Battletech lore, let's not forget his role in the Wasteland series of games!
The march of history continues. This incredible interview with The Man Behind The Curtain reveals MUCH of how the lore itself was collated. Easily the best of this series. Each one Just. Keeps. Getting. Better!
I recently re-read the "Warrior" trilogy and thought it was pretty good "tank opera". Makes me real sad when the Fed-Com Civil War came along and unravelled so much.
Stackpole is my favorite author by far. It started with his BT novels, but love his Star Wars and original stories as well. Talion Revenant and the Dragon Crown Wars Cycle are amazing fantasy worlds. Great interview!!
Having read and collected around 90% of the BT Novels, starting with William H. Keith, Jrs Grayson Carlyle trilogy "Decision at Thunder Rift, "Mercenaries Star" and "The Price of Glory", followed by Ardath Mayhars "The Sword and the Dagger" leads us very nicely into Michaels WARRIOR Trilogy and the 2nd favourite of my BT Characters Justin Allard and his crazy extended family.
Mr Stackpole's insights on fan fiction are on point. It's useful for learning very specific aspects of writing, but shouldn't be a writer's sole focus by any means. It is getting more and more common to see both books and screenwriting that really fail at developing their worldbuilding and character implementation and growth, and one has to wonder how much a background too focused in fanfic could have contributed to this, particularly since author interviews often mention it proudly.
Neat. Liked his writing since the Lone GEV story way back in Space Gamer - although I think my favorite work of his is actually the Wolf & Raven compilation for Shadowrun.
I only read his SW stuff and the Warrior Trilogy, plus his one World of Warcraft book going back from 1996ish Mike to 1986 Mike is interesting. He definitely improved a lot but the talent was always there. (Though you could tell at a few parts of the Warrior Trilogy he really wanted to write first person stuff. There were some sections where characters start telling a story mid conversation, sometimes coming off as a bit stilted transition wise. And lo and behold, his First Person short stories and novels in both BTech and Star Wars were great.
Great insights there. It is interesting that in my conversation with Robert Charrette he spoke about how maintaining a consistent perspective as the writer was a challenge for new practitioners of the craft. Cool to be able to see Mike's experience bring him past this hurdle as well.
Fascinating :). I was immersed in BattleTech and Mechwarrior for about twenty years and bought every novel (I think :)). I even half wrote one of my own, based on my adventures as part of the 3rd Crucis Lancers in battle against or alongside my friends (who each had a different House unit). Does anyone know if the copyright issues with BattleTech has been sorted out or is it still a nightmare mess?
There's a short story setting up the Red Corsair in the A Time of War Limited Edition (this story isn't in the regular version). However the story ended on a cliffhanger which Stackpole hasn't followed up yet.
Mike is among my top three favorite authors. Equal to Crichton and Kerr. Books that have shaped my interests and hobbies. Of course if we just talk about Battletech its Mike and Blaine all day long.
Ah that question where you mentioned the walking nuclear reactor. I was hoping you'd ask him outright how he felt about his name becoming a verb for a certain ...Interpretation of fusion reactor breaches.
On house name pronunciations: assuming that Japanese pronunciation has not significantly changed in the future where BT is set, "Kurita" would be pronounced close to "cooreeta", but with "oo" and "ee" at about half length. And yeah, I also always used to pronounce Kai as you did, but there was a hint in one of the Blood of Kerensky novels where he covers up a slip-up by Deirdre calling him by his real name, pretending that Kai was a nickname he got because he said "okay" all the time. Still, by that time I had gotten so used to thinking of him under my pronunciation that I conveniently ignored it 🤣
My Top 5 Tabletop related writers: 5 : Robert Thurston, the true Aidan Pryde 4 : Loren Coleman 3 : Graham McNeill 2 : Dan "Gaunt" Abnett 1 : Michael Stackpole Your pronounciation of Kai is the german Pronounciation
Do I need to know anything about the Battletech universe before diving into the first Warriors novel? I'm a bit Stackpole fan from his Star Wars novels and I want to try it. Thank you!
Nope. And Warrior: En Garde is actually my suggestion for the best place to dive in :) Warrior Trilogy, Wolves on the Border then Heir to the Dragon followed by the Blood of Kerensky trilogy. Enjoy the ride!
Nice! I still list him as one of my favourite writers and I haven’t read anything new since Rogue Squadron I think… So it’s Kay Allard! I thought he was referring to Katrina Steiner and I’d missed a story on why they started calling her K… lol.0
I would like to ask Mr. Stackpole if it was wrong of me to imagine first Tsen Shang, then Max Liao as just James Hong playing Lo Pan. The mix of imperial finery and paranoia just makes me think Lo Pan.
Michael Stackpole´s trilogies are my favorite BT novels, both Warrior and Blood of Kerensky are awesome. Perfect? No, they HAVE their flaws, but that just contributes to being a masterpiece.
Much as I love Stackpole's Battletech stories, it surprises me that he did the waves of the Clan Invasion. Given they don't always match his novels. (Not as if I've never made a mistake though).
I liked your question about cover art. Which made me jump to my own question I would like to hear an authors thoughts on. How does concept art, or a library of art like in the Btech IP, help an author visualize or inspire an author's writing of that world? Also needed to know basic grade school answers. Favorite mech, also hex map, or grid free terrain? In IPs like Btech the mechs can be characters unto themselves. Or an extension of the character. Like the Falcon in Star Wars, or Kaneda's bike in Akira.
This is my favorite author of all time; I'm about to commit heresy, but it must be known... Michael Stackpole, to me, is better than J.R.R. Tolkien, and I'm a humongous Middle-earth fan, so Tolkien takes a very close second. I don't know why I've not heard of this podcast, before, but I'm grateful you've done it.
Also I wonder has Mr. Stackpole noticed any similarities between his Patricidal genius dwarf outcast and another now more famous one? Because I sure did. There are obvious differences, book wise Tyrion was ugly to start while the fellow from the Warrior Trilogy who's name I forget (the Duke of Skye's illegitimate son) was handsome, and their talents lie in different fields. But I sense some inspiration. Though GRRM is pretty good about naming his inspirations so maybe he even forgot.
@@richardignizio794Search for Robert Charrette and you'll find everything. Most notable among his stories is Wolves on the Border, considered by many (including me) to be the greatest BattleTech novel. th-cam.com/video/sPtyiavzsMg/w-d-xo.html
This is the Live action Battletech Movie I'm making all by myself at the moment. Trailer #1. th-cam.com/video/qUf_HzLFeA4/w-d-xo.html Trailer 2. th-cam.com/video/BE3lxBppydQ/w-d-xo.html Are you kidding me? Why am I just now finding this! That guy is A freaking amazing man! And Great work Renegade for getting this on video. Side note : I am a big Battletech MechWarrior fan. Although not as old school as most of you. I came into the Battletech Universe about 7 years ago through a game that my TH-cam channel is based on "MechWarrior Online". From there I started getting into Lore. Books. Table top box sets. Then I started making Short Live action Mechwarrior Movies. Do alot of green screen work and stuff. Design a cockpit backdrop That's half animated with lights and ya know Buttons and little screens with Analog Stuff on it. Then I costume up Maybe "Davion" styled with a random Pilot Helmet I snagged from my dad's Air force stockpile. And Shoot background footage with my Drone. Usually eyeball it. Say in the video I'm in a hunchback. Try to fly the drone up to where I Think The cockpit of the hunchback would be in real life. And I just fly it backwards. I usually always Leave some windows behind the pilot As the camera is looking straight forward at the pilot in the videos. So you can so outside the mech too. Flying the drone in reverse makes it look like in walking forward. I use footage like that for the background behind the cockpit I design. Then add in the camera shake but also camera shake that coassigns with the Stomping. I have got alot better with this than at first . And I'm working on a movie that I'm basically making all by myself called "Bravo leader 1". I'm not an animator or 3d designer so I'm using PGIs MWO Mechs as my Model dolls. Have to extra carefully and time consumingly Roto scope or Cut them out from The Testing ground section and into A real life video hand cam recorded shot. That's where the hardest part comes in for this. Motion tracking. And I just use HitFilm and Filmora to do this. So It's pretty tough but so worth it! If you want to see a few trailers I made for my Battletech Movie here are two Links for two trailers that I made. (I'm also the actor in the mech) lmao
Mike needs to delve into some of the better BattleTech fanfic, there are some writers that are exceptional in adding or expanding on the characterizations of the available players in the universe.
I haven't been able to track down contact information for Thurston yet. If you want to help with the search ping me on Instagram or Facebook with what you turn up! Same with William Keith.
I am currently reading the Michael Stackpole BT paperback Ghost War. And it is some of the worst writing I have ever read. From terrible wording to pages and pages of "main character thoughts" I can only hope that this is a one off.
UPDATE: I made it to chapter 12 and cannot continue reading this book. I will not be trading this book in to save another reader the same fate as I. This book is going into the fitepit
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Stackpole missed a fantastic gag. When asked how he pronounces "Daishi" he should have said "Dire Wolf."
lol that would have been gold
Was thinking the same.
Wow. Mr. Stackpole rates very high on my list of influential creators, and that's with more than one franchise. Great interview.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
Yikes. You stole the word from my mouth.
Totally did not know he wrote battle tech.
Did he write anything in first person limited? His book, I, Jedi is one of my favorites, specifically because he used that perspective.
If only comic book writers had the respect of characters like Stackpole mentions for BT.
Oh thank GOD it's not just me with Tom Clancy.... Tried reading SSN once. Got four chapters in, had no clue what was going on, but by golly I could dive a damn sub!
Mr. Stackpole is one of my favorite authors of all time, and I was tickled pink to shake the man's hand at the GenCon booth this past summer. Class act through and through!
The assassination attempt of Victor on luthien is one of my favorite scenes in all of Battletech literature. That and the fight between Joanna and Natasha. Ooof....just serious stuff.
I read and enjoyed many of Stackpole's books in my adolescence. I enjoyed his X-Wing books and decided to give his Battletech books a try ... decades later I'm still a fan of Battletech. Thanks for the interview!
You're very welcome! And wow, what an awesome way to get introduced to the BattleTech universe :) Do you remember which was the first book that you picked up?
@@RenegadeHPG Yes, I remember it clearly. It was Lethal Heritage, the first novel from Stackpole's Blood of Kerensky trilogy. At that time I did not know anything about Battletech, so there were lots of characters and subplots that I didn't pick up on during that first read. But I do remember enjoying the characters, especially Kai. I had no idea of the significance of Wolf's Dragoons, or Anastasius Focht's real identity. This was the mid 90s so I was basically picking up whatever books I could afford at a Borders bookstore in midwest USA.
Anyways, thank you for the interview, I really appreciate the thought you put into your questions. I'll be sure to check out some more of your interviews!
Michael Stackpole also wrote X-Wing Rogue Squadron book series after the trilogies and a brief Jedi book.
I’m extremely thankful to Mr. Stackpole, this man’s works gave me hundreds of hours of enjoyment.
Mr Stackpole is without a shadow of a doubt the author that has done the most to build my fandom of Star Wars and Battletech.
When Michael Stackpole Speaks, the galaxy shakes!
I remembered when I figured out (waaaay before he was revealed) That Fredrick Steiner was still alive. It was such a blinding epiphany, done as I was walking home from school and thinking of my favorite books, that I wanted to hug myself, and was awe-struck by the planning and foreshadowing Mr. Stackpole had built into not just a book, or a trilogy, but do it across MULTIPLE books! I still geta little thrill from that moment. Has any other franchise ever had a single writer done so much to independently create it????
The Warrior trilogy was my intro to Battle Tech, then rolled right into Blood of Kerensky. Hearing Mike talk about those early years was like a shot of nostalgia right in my veins.
He remains one of my all-time favorite authors, thank you for getting this interview.
Stackpole is a master of letting dialog drive story and character development. Love reading his stuff.
Interesting to hear Stackpole talk about respecting other people's characters considering what he did to Trent in Prince of Havoc.
Blood of kerensky trilogy was one of my first dives into battletech. Love stackpole's writing.
A Battletech TV series is something i still pray for...
There was one in the middle/late 1990's. . . I'm sure it's on youtube somewhere
Live action SOA style story about a merc unit...
@Bob Burris It is fun but didnt age that well IMO. We need an updated show with all the modern design and technology!
Should be a movie adaptation of Wolves on the Border
Great interview, loved to see it, big fan of Michael stackpole , have missed many opportunities to meet him, his writing had a impact on my younger years. My son is named Kai , I always assumed it was pronounced ky cause of his Asian heritage.
Love this man's writing. Read all the BT stuff plus some of his other works.
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Thanks! Definitely check out the conversations with Robert Charrette and Blaine Lee Pardoe also if you haven't already. So much incredible BattleTech history there :)
Thank you Mr. Stakpole and thanks for a great interview
Few years later listening while playing MWO in a Catapault… Life is good!! Loved your Novels
I read all of his BT books.
Ah yes, Michael Stack " 's of books" pole. The man!
I got into Battletech novels and PC games around 1999. I used to hate reading. In my country the publisher changed the order of the books to Blood of Kerensky trilogy being the first 3 Battletech books available. It blew me away. I have 33 Battletech novels and I keep reading all over and over again. I am on my 10 th reread session. God give me 20 more years, I want to read them another 10 + times :)
Thank you for this great interview Renegade. Thank you Michael Stackpole for teaching me, reading is super fun.
While it was Kerensky trilogy that was my introduction to both him and the Battletech lore, let's not forget his role in the Wasteland series of games!
I love this Stackpole Works with FASA! The best RPG novels I've read! (Batttetech, Shadowrun and others).
First book ever read Exodus Road MechWarrior Trent you always be my hero
The march of history continues. This incredible interview with The Man Behind The Curtain reveals MUCH of how the lore itself was collated. Easily the best of this series. Each one Just. Keeps. Getting. Better!
I recently re-read the "Warrior" trilogy and thought it was pretty good "tank opera". Makes me real sad when the Fed-Com Civil War came along and unravelled so much.
Stackpole is my favorite author by far. It started with his BT novels, but love his Star Wars and original stories as well. Talion Revenant and the Dragon Crown Wars Cycle are amazing fantasy worlds.
Great interview!!
Thanks for this! great to hear these stories after reading all those books.
I need all the classic novels in UNABRIDGED audio book form!
seconded, I hate having stuff not on audio or a bridged.
Having read and collected around 90% of the BT Novels, starting with William H. Keith, Jrs Grayson Carlyle trilogy "Decision at Thunder Rift, "Mercenaries Star" and "The Price of Glory", followed by Ardath Mayhars "The Sword and the Dagger" leads us very nicely into Michaels WARRIOR Trilogy and the 2nd favourite of my BT Characters Justin Allard and his crazy extended family.
Mr Stackpole's insights on fan fiction are on point. It's useful for learning very specific aspects of writing, but shouldn't be a writer's sole focus by any means. It is getting more and more common to see both books and screenwriting that really fail at developing their worldbuilding and character implementation and growth, and one has to wonder how much a background too focused in fanfic could have contributed to this, particularly since author interviews often mention it proudly.
I used to have a lot of Battletech books there were some really good ones like the Warrior Trilogy and Measure Of A Hero.
Neat. Liked his writing since the Lone GEV story way back in Space Gamer - although I think my favorite work of his is actually the Wolf & Raven compilation for Shadowrun.
Awesome interview, really enjoyed hearing some of how the fiction and lore came together
I only read his SW stuff and the Warrior Trilogy, plus his one World of Warcraft book going back from 1996ish Mike to 1986 Mike is interesting. He definitely improved a lot but the talent was always there. (Though you could tell at a few parts of the Warrior Trilogy he really wanted to write first person stuff. There were some sections where characters start telling a story mid conversation, sometimes coming off as a bit stilted transition wise. And lo and behold, his First Person short stories and novels in both BTech and Star Wars were great.
Great insights there. It is interesting that in my conversation with Robert Charrette he spoke about how maintaining a consistent perspective as the writer was a challenge for new practitioners of the craft. Cool to be able to see Mike's experience bring him past this hurdle as well.
Fascinating :). I was immersed in BattleTech and Mechwarrior for about twenty years and bought every novel (I think :)). I even half wrote one of my own, based on my adventures as part of the 3rd Crucis Lancers in battle against or alongside my friends (who each had a different House unit). Does anyone know if the copyright issues with BattleTech has been sorted out or is it still a nightmare mess?
I hope he does go back to do the original Red Corsair stuff. It seemed like a really fun time.
There's a short story setting up the Red Corsair in the A Time of War Limited Edition (this story isn't in the regular version). However the story ended on a cliffhanger which Stackpole hasn't followed up yet.
What a great guy
Wow what’s catch. Found you through that colab with bpl bless the algo
Welcome!
Loved this! He really provided the body that everyone worked from. Truly my favorite of the BT writers. So glad I stumbled on this.
Mike is among my top three favorite authors. Equal to Crichton and Kerr. Books that have shaped my interests and hobbies. Of course if we just talk about Battletech its Mike and Blaine all day long.
You'll enjoy this one then if you haven't seen it already, th-cam.com/video/lv0oxjDhX08/w-d-xo.html
Ah that question where you mentioned the walking nuclear reactor. I was hoping you'd ask him outright how he felt about his name becoming a verb for a certain ...Interpretation of fusion reactor breaches.
Ah yes, Stackpole. If Matt Ward and Micheal Bay had a child, but that child had better PR than both.
On house name pronunciations: assuming that Japanese pronunciation has not significantly changed in the future where BT is set, "Kurita" would be pronounced close to "cooreeta", but with "oo" and "ee" at about half length.
And yeah, I also always used to pronounce Kai as you did, but there was a hint in one of the Blood of Kerensky novels where he covers up a slip-up by Deirdre calling him by his real name, pretending that Kai was a nickname he got because he said "okay" all the time. Still, by that time I had gotten so used to thinking of him under my pronunciation that I conveniently ignored it 🤣
Nice catch! I never picked up on that hint myself.
I loved Ghost War it one my favorite books!
My Top 5 Tabletop related writers:
5 : Robert Thurston, the true Aidan Pryde
4 : Loren Coleman
3 : Graham McNeill
2 : Dan "Gaunt" Abnett
1 : Michael Stackpole
Your pronounciation of Kai is the german Pronounciation
Do I need to know anything about the Battletech universe before diving into the first Warriors novel? I'm a bit Stackpole fan from his Star Wars novels and I want to try it. Thank you!
Nope. And Warrior: En Garde is actually my suggestion for the best place to dive in :) Warrior Trilogy, Wolves on the Border then Heir to the Dragon followed by the Blood of Kerensky trilogy. Enjoy the ride!
@@RenegadeHPG Thanks for the information.
Nice! I still list him as one of my favourite writers and I haven’t read anything new since Rogue Squadron I think…
So it’s Kay Allard! I thought he was referring to Katrina Steiner and I’d missed a story on why they started calling her K… lol.0
I would like to ask Mr. Stackpole if it was wrong of me to imagine first Tsen Shang, then Max Liao as just James Hong playing Lo Pan. The mix of imperial finery and paranoia just makes me think Lo Pan.
Michael Stackpole´s trilogies are my favorite BT novels, both Warrior and Blood of Kerensky are awesome.
Perfect? No, they HAVE their flaws, but that just contributes to being a masterpiece.
Love his books!!!
Much as I love Stackpole's Battletech stories, it surprises me that he did the waves of the Clan Invasion. Given they don't always match his novels. (Not as if I've never made a mistake though).
I liked your question about cover art. Which made me jump to my own question I would like to hear an authors thoughts on.
How does concept art, or a library of art like in the Btech IP, help an author visualize or inspire an author's writing of that world?
Also needed to know basic grade school answers. Favorite mech, also hex map, or grid free terrain?
In IPs like Btech the mechs can be characters unto themselves. Or an extension of the character. Like the Falcon in Star Wars, or Kaneda's bike in Akira.
That's a great question about the influence of concept art! I'll definitely include it in a future conversation.
This is my favorite author of all time; I'm about to commit heresy, but it must be known... Michael Stackpole, to me, is better than J.R.R. Tolkien, and I'm a humongous Middle-earth fan, so Tolkien takes a very close second. I don't know why I've not heard of this podcast, before, but I'm grateful you've done it.
Most excellent, dudes!
Thanks! subbed
Wait, there's a Michael Stackpole Ogre story?!?
Good podcast. Really like Michael's books. Although thanks to HPG i have learnt a new word for a drinking game "Yeknowl"
I can't stop! lol Nothing more effective than recording your own voice for highlighting all on your bad speech habits :)
I stumbled into the novel series because of my fandom of Mr Stackpole. :) Great interview
Hello Mike I have not seen you since Wolfcon 92 in wolfville NovaScotia when you wrote assumption to risk book.
Cool cool. Does he ever apologize for the Stackpoling phenomena he gave birth to?
Frederick did make himself precenter marshall of comstar so he didn't change that much. Early hanse davion would be awesome
o shit! The writer!
Also I wonder has Mr. Stackpole noticed any similarities between his Patricidal genius dwarf outcast and another now more famous one? Because I sure did. There are obvious differences, book wise Tyrion was ugly to start while the fellow from the Warrior Trilogy who's name I forget (the Duke of Skye's illegitimate son) was handsome, and their talents lie in different fields. But I sense some inspiration. Though GRRM is pretty good about naming his inspirations so maybe he even forgot.
Clovis Holstein. You know I never considered Aldo Lestrade and Tywin Lannister to be similar characters but now I can see the comparison.
Michael, Are you going to write the history of “Wolf’s Dragoon’s” much as you did with the Kell hounds?
Mike had done so much great work but what I'd really like to see is for CGL to reach out to Bob Charrette for a project like that. :)
@@RenegadeHPG I tried looking up Bob Charrette and couldn’t find him. What work has he done.
@@richardignizio794Search for Robert Charrette and you'll find everything. Most notable among his stories is Wolves on the Border, considered by many (including me) to be the greatest BattleTech novel. th-cam.com/video/sPtyiavzsMg/w-d-xo.html
@@RenegadeHPG thank you. I agree his work is epic.
This is the Live action Battletech Movie I'm making all by myself at the moment. Trailer #1. th-cam.com/video/qUf_HzLFeA4/w-d-xo.html
Trailer 2. th-cam.com/video/BE3lxBppydQ/w-d-xo.html
Are you kidding me? Why am I just now finding this! That guy is A freaking amazing man! And Great work Renegade for getting this on video.
Side note :
I am a big Battletech MechWarrior fan. Although not as old school as most of you. I came into the Battletech Universe about 7 years ago through a game that my TH-cam channel is based on "MechWarrior Online".
From there I started getting into Lore. Books. Table top box sets. Then I started making Short Live action Mechwarrior Movies. Do alot of green screen work and stuff. Design a cockpit backdrop That's half animated with lights and ya know Buttons and little screens with Analog Stuff on it. Then I costume up Maybe "Davion" styled with a random Pilot Helmet I snagged from my dad's Air force stockpile. And Shoot background footage with my Drone. Usually eyeball it. Say in the video I'm in a hunchback. Try to fly the drone up to where I Think The cockpit of the hunchback would be in real life. And I just fly it backwards. I usually always Leave some windows behind the pilot As the camera is looking straight forward at the pilot in the videos. So you can so outside the mech too. Flying the drone in reverse makes it look like in walking forward. I use footage like that for the background behind the cockpit I design. Then add in the camera shake but also camera shake that coassigns with the Stomping. I have got alot better with this than at first . And I'm working on a movie that I'm basically making all by myself called "Bravo leader 1".
I'm not an animator or 3d designer so I'm using PGIs MWO Mechs as my Model dolls. Have to extra carefully and time consumingly Roto scope or Cut them out from The Testing ground section and into A real life video hand cam recorded shot. That's where the hardest part comes in for this. Motion tracking. And I just use HitFilm and Filmora to do this. So It's pretty tough but so worth it!
If you want to see a few trailers I made for my Battletech Movie here are two Links for two trailers that I made. (I'm also the actor in the mech) lmao
Mike needs to delve into some of the better BattleTech fanfic, there are some writers that are exceptional in adding or expanding on the characterizations of the available players in the universe.
Ah the man who codified a mecha trope.
Please interview the author of I am Jade Falcon. My favorite novel.
I haven't been able to track down contact information for Thurston yet. If you want to help with the search ping me on Instagram or Facebook with what you turn up! Same with William Keith.
@@RenegadeHPG How about New Jersey City University's Opportunity Scholarship Program
@@josepablolunasanchez1283 Who's connected to that?
@@RenegadeHPG Thurston. Does he work there? Source: Wikipedia
What warcraft server does he play on I need to worship him for a min as he shaped my adolescence
Niice!
Cavil is doing Games Work Shop 40k tv, Battletech needs to compete now with a Star League Game Of Thrones type political space opera Series
I always thought it was pronounced "Kai" (k-Aee). (Like the assassin from Lexx.) So, it's "K" - like the Men in Black character. Weird.
Same here
Just name it by its correct name: Direwolf, freebirth 😂
Seyla
For the algo.
Also HATE copying that there were 20 and 2 are gone for mysterious unexplained reasons. Same crap with Clans and Astartes Legions.
I am currently reading the Michael Stackpole BT paperback Ghost War. And it is some of the worst writing I have ever read. From terrible wording to pages and pages of "main character thoughts" I can only hope that this is a one off.
UPDATE: I made it to chapter 12 and cannot continue reading this book. I will not be trading this book in to save another reader the same fate as I. This book is going into the fitepit