The Mighty Resources list! There was a ton for this video: TRO: 3060: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-technical-readout-3060-pdf TRO: Clan Invasion: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-technical-readout-clan-invasion TRO: 3058 (Night Gyr): Unavailable in Original form TRO: 3058 Upgrade (Night Gyr): store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-technical-readout-3058-upgrade-pdf-1 Rec Guide 23: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-recognition-guide-ilclan-vol-23 Historical Operation Klondike: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-historical-operation-klondike-pdf Era Digest: Golden Century: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-digest-golden-century-pdf Path of Glory (novel): store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-legends-path-of-glory-digital Invading Clans: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-invading-clans-pdf Field Manual: Update: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-field-manual-updates-pdf It Ends in Fire: Shrapnel Issue 12: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-shrapnel-issue-12-the-official-battletech-magazine Wars of the Republic Era: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-historical-wars-of-the-republic-era-pdf Jihad: Final Reckoning: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-jihad-final-reckoning-pdf Era Report 3145: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-report-3145-pdf Era Report 3052: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-report-3052-pdf-1 Era Report: 3062: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-report-3062-pdf Era Digest: Dark Age: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-digest-dark-age-pdf Empire Alone: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-empire-alone Shattered Fortress: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-shattered-fortress-book-pdf Field Manual 3145: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-field-manual-3145-pdf BattleTech Legends: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-legends Sarna was used in order to acquire several of the maps that I have placed in the video as well.
Don't have digital copies of Target of Opportunity, Heretic's Faith, or Pandora's Gambit to pull quotes from? Lots of good Spirit Cat stuff in there. Still great video.
@@jameshojnowski8455 It's also a matter of not having unlimited time to make every video. This was a 5-week process, including research. Adding in reading through 3 additional novels, and suddenly this becomes a 7-8 week video. Which just doesn't work.
@@BigRed40TECH I can totally get that. The novels too didn't really reveal much about the Spirit Cats as a society or faction, just mostly stuff about their characters. I really wish we could see a Republic of the Sphere House Handbook one day, just to get a lot more info on all the crazy things in Republic society like how Clan enclaves really worked.
The spirit cats becoming marik, and having internal squabbles with other marik, is the most marik thing ever. This is their home now. You have accomplished the mission, I need to buy more novacats.
Clan Nova Cat has had Chronic Backstabbing Disorder since Phillip Drummond sideswitched and screwed Amaris so Alexander Kerensky could go blow up Amaris
In MW4 my 7 ER Large Laser vomit Nova Cat would decimate ... with a coolant shot you could fire 2 alphas without shutdown ... & although usually not necessary to finish a target ... you could fire a 3rd alpha without self destructing ... my Nova Cat was excellent for capture the flag base defense ... one shot capability with enough speed & range to chase
Never been a fan of the Clans nor their 'mechs, but Red tells their tale in a compelling manner. BattleTech, for me, is a perfect mix of technical details, drama, stompy Robotomachy, and and pure setting. Every time I think of the Wolf holding Terra, I feel viscerally angry and want to strike back. Terra belongs to the Terrans, not the monsters born from the mind of a madman.
Amaris Rat leaves sinking ship after a failed betrayal. Hops on Kerensky's Ship. Rat becomes Cat, betrays Kerensky's Clans, proposes friendship with dragon. Betrays dragon, finds new ship in spirit.
As a Ghost Bear main, i always loved being next to the Nova Cats, it gave me a great excuse to field this mech in my forces. Watching this thing walk in MW4 was a thing of beauty...
You really captured the spirit of the Cat in this piece. Between the tech, history and storytelling- it’s beautifully sculpted and very successful as a research. The Cat was always a mech I loved in clan that I didn’t. Its playstyle of long range control was always a personal favorite, and I grooved with the way this machine functioned. Thank you, Professor, excellent class 🫡
I appreciate that the Nova Cat is a heavy Omnimech that _doesn't_ go 80 kph at full tilt. It's a more methodical, harder hitting platform that can stand up and slug it out instead of zipping around the outside of the battlefield and taking pot shots where the opponent can't effectively return fire.
I love the Nova Cat 'mech now. It feels like it has just enough weaponry to where it can threaten most 'mechs fron light to assault. Plus, it looks very spooky, with the cockput reminding me of Samus Aran from Metroid. Thanks for the fantastic video!
Your video on the Warhawk convinced me to grab the Force Pack with it... The Nova Cat now makes me realize the horrifying amount of firepower that Star is bringing.
I think once you were giving single-sentence summations of various Houses and Clans and I asked about Nova Cats and you said something involving betrayal. I see why now, damn.
The Black Knight's daughter with a furry fetish. One of my absolute favorite mech chassis. I asked for the Nova Cat in one of your past streams. You said: "Not this year, there's too much other stuff to do!" But here we are and oh boy am I excited. Thanks a lot for your sweat and determination.
The Nova Cat got decided on in August IIRC, as there was enough popular demand in the chat for it. Though I dunno if there's been a lot of popular demand for the video overall. XD Still, I'm glad people who wanted it are enjoying it. :)
I love the idea of the Nova Cat. I first saw it around 20years ago in Mechwarrior 4...where i was sorely disappointed. That game to this day is a reminder of how to "break" energy weapons in Battletech/Mechwarrior by excluding Double Heat Sinks. Its Prime configuration does go nova, then shuts down. Funny because that was made after the clans learned they shouldnt make short-sighted designs, but does so anyways. At least its designed to not carry ammunition that explodes when it overheats.
@@BigRed40TECH haha, no pressure. I mean, if it's not, every remaining Nova & Spirit Cat will declare a Trial of Grievance. But your videos are always amazing, so my vision for you is strong, trothkin!
It is a Pocket assault mech. And it's cheap in BV and Credits. 4/6 saves on both. Not all loadouts are completely optimised.....but most are very solid. I always envision it as either a filler mech for Assault lances or a command mech for Second line formations.
@dubuyajay9964 probably part of why clanners ended up liking them so much; Nova Cat in particular appreciates the combo of "sneaky" "fast" "likes PPCs" and "crazy samurai robots"
An amazing video. Thought i was just watching a video about a mech and got informed about novacat clan and the word of blake? Well done Red. An absaloutely superb video
I think Clan Nova/Spirit Cat just become my new favorite clan. Also the nova car F feels like a ripe bastard to deal. I mean the mexh as whole is too but definitely the F config
Nova Cat is a favorite for a clan heavy. It always reminded me of the black knight in the IS. Have been a huge fan of the pocket assault concept especially when playing it around something big and nasty to ether take advantage of diverted attention or to punish it for paying too much. Have had a lot of luck with the first 3 configs and the T. Thick armor and incredible firepower many of the players of my group have died to its guns or more likely the missile launchers of the B. Ironically I don't play nova cat but have used it as a clan tech capture and Star Adder does use it. It was a favorite to play in mechwarrior 4 too though had a tenancy to over heat constantly
I am a "sphere head" at heart when it came to the clans and their mechs... The Timberwolf got me in the door. The Nova Cat got me to stay. It's the smaller meth'd out Awesome. If I have the points I slap that on my list for tabletop because I can. No other reason needed.
in TT my opponent brought a B variant that my merc unit managed to capture. trust and believe this IS merch unit did not advertise this acquisition - we would play double blind tt leading my opponent to believe i had an LRM carrier on the table. I added to this misconception by showing a missile carrier going behind a hill. This was the SRM carrier that my support lance used for "Close Encounters". they would come hunting the LRM carrier and come around the corner to an SRM carrier and a ton of clan (no min range) LRMS pointing at them. We had house rules that if a unit was not known to be on the field and the set ups were blind - if a vehicle moved in and out of site in one movement phase the opponent could roll to see if they ID'd it, levels of Ident based on roll - Vehicle/type (hover, tracked, wheeled) ; vhcl type + wieght ; Vhcl type, weight + basics (IE carrier, tank, apc, etc); Positive ID.... It was fun... was decades ago, need to work out an updated version of it. ... I also used the hell out of it in MW4 Black Knight that i had many many hours in when it came out.
In fact, I have. :D The Stone Rhino = Smoke Jaguar: th-cam.com/video/W2F2e1VqJEE/w-d-xo.html The Executioner = Ghost Bear: th-cam.com/video/VvyRV9KhUgs/w-d-xo.html
Amazing video as always! The Nova Cat B lives rent free in my head as in one of my first games, I killed the opponents Daishi with a lucky headshot turn one, only to lose the match to a Nova Cat B who did 660 damage and basically solo'd by lance with a spotter. Also, sorry for your loss.
The Nova Cat is truly the totem mech of Clan Nova Cat. Whilst it was inspired from the Night Gyr, it was built based on Nova Cats' debacles from Luthien & Tukayyid, to match the Spheroids' way of warfare doctrine. The Nova Cat has a lethal firepower of an assault mech in a heavy mech package that puts a Warhawk to shame. It represents the Clan's strength in fortitude perseverance with lopsided firepower & good enough mobility & decent armor. As well as represents the Clans' strength in their absolution in righting their wrongs from the past - believing that they were doing the right thing for what they thought it was the best for their Spheroid allies, only to be often misguided by a mystic vision that eventually became a self-fulfilling prophecy leading to their tragic end. In the end, even the Nova Cat Omnimech, as a totem mech for the Clan itself, imbued the legacy of what came before that was rooted from misguided sense of absolution that others would perceived it as "an intolerable betrayal punishable by death" as a ramifications the Nova Cats thought they don't deserved, even though they did prove themselves they genuinely fought against tyranny With the Spirit Cats being the descendants of the Nova Cats through their totem mechs, would they learn from their past mistakes to avoid making a self-fulfilling prophecy to become flesh?
One minor mistake at 2:08.34, Kev Rosse was not the leader of the Nova Cats in the Republic of the Sphere, he was only the Galaxy Commander of Nova Cat militia clusters in Prefecture III. The leader of all Nova Cats in the Republic of the Sphere was Juno Devalis, mentioned in one of the documents CGL/sarna editors collected after Wizkids closed up shop. I believer she/he was invented by those editors for that document specifically.
Thank you for the correction. I just tried to compile what I could based on the resources to hand, I didn't see this Juno mentioned. I also saw Kev getting his senatorial seat and just put the facts together wrong. Apologies.
@@BigRed40TECH Dude, you do not have to apologize. I love the amount of care you put into this video for my favorite factions. To be frank, the only people who know Juno Devalis even exist are me, all the other weirdo Nova Cat fans on the BT forums, you, and Phillip Lee, and everyone after me only knows about Juno because I keep bringing them up. Dark Age lore is a mess of pdfs and documents that most people don't even know exists, and Juno is from a pdf that is currently in dubious canon territory. Still I love Dark Age stuff since I got in via clix so I try to know everything about it I can. Thanks again for this great video. I learned stuff I didn't even know, like the FWL-connection with Phillip Drummond.
@@BigRed40TECH Everything Wizkids put out always had Kev Rosse as the leader, so wherever Juno Devalis cropped up, it was after they stopped producing things and was presumably a retcon.
This has always been my favorite clan. Absolutely love the Nova Cats. Between their aesthetics and amazing mechs. The sphinx is still regularly in play in my battletech circle because of one fateful headcap from a large laser lol. The nova cat mech is one id take any day over a hellstar or warhawk just because of its sheer flexibility. Direct fire is always just more glorious than otherwise. Long live the Spirit Cats.
Nova Cat configurations are strange. Either long range punch, or short range punch. Not a lot of having solid long range punch supported by short range crit seekers. How hard would it be to slap 4 ER LL into the arms and back that up with 4 SRM-6 launchers with 4 tons of SRM ammo? Or if that is too much crit space, then 2 Streak SMR6 launchers and a Snub-PPC for short range backup.
Hey Red! Have you heard of Caveman Delta? He makes AI music where the topic is Battletech... It's really good, particularly his piece on the Nova Cat clan!
I kept hearing Bears 8th Curious Ears and my mind immediately says “that’s their recon Cluster” and it made perfect sense. Might need to make a Trinary.
Hey, it's been a while for me. Took a hiatus from Battletech content for a while. Good to see another video from you. It's always good to hear a familiar voice!
It is a shame that the NCats are no longer around, they like the Smoke Jaguars were the more interesting clans. The Ghost Bear are just another Innersphere collective. Clan wolf is just writer plot armor with a wolf skin , Raven and Fox is merchant magicians who have seemingly unlimited resources and the power of money .. Jade Flacon is all but gone and HH is finished as well.
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The Mighty Resources list! There was a ton for this video:
TRO: 3060: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-technical-readout-3060-pdf
TRO: Clan Invasion: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-technical-readout-clan-invasion
TRO: 3058 (Night Gyr): Unavailable in Original form
TRO: 3058 Upgrade (Night Gyr): store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-technical-readout-3058-upgrade-pdf-1
Rec Guide 23: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-recognition-guide-ilclan-vol-23
Historical Operation Klondike: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-historical-operation-klondike-pdf
Era Digest: Golden Century: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-digest-golden-century-pdf
Path of Glory (novel): store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-legends-path-of-glory-digital
Invading Clans: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-invading-clans-pdf
Field Manual: Update: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-field-manual-updates-pdf
It Ends in Fire: Shrapnel Issue 12: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-shrapnel-issue-12-the-official-battletech-magazine
Wars of the Republic Era: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-historical-wars-of-the-republic-era-pdf
Jihad: Final Reckoning: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-jihad-final-reckoning-pdf
Era Report 3145: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-report-3145-pdf
Era Report 3052: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-report-3052-pdf-1
Era Report: 3062: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-report-3062-pdf
Era Digest: Dark Age: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-era-digest-dark-age-pdf
Empire Alone: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-empire-alone
Shattered Fortress: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-shattered-fortress-book-pdf
Field Manual 3145: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-field-manual-3145-pdf
BattleTech Legends: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-legends
Sarna was used in order to acquire several of the maps that I have placed in the video as well.
Don't have digital copies of Target of Opportunity, Heretic's Faith, or Pandora's Gambit to pull quotes from? Lots of good Spirit Cat stuff in there. Still great video.
@@jameshojnowski8455 It's also a matter of not having unlimited time to make every video. This was a 5-week process, including research. Adding in reading through 3 additional novels, and suddenly this becomes a 7-8 week video. Which just doesn't work.
@@BigRed40TECH I can totally get that. The novels too didn't really reveal much about the Spirit Cats as a society or faction, just mostly stuff about their characters. I really wish we could see a Republic of the Sphere House Handbook one day, just to get a lot more info on all the crazy things in Republic society like how Clan enclaves really worked.
Thanks for all the sources!
Thanks for the video!
The spirit cats becoming marik, and having internal squabbles with other marik, is the most marik thing ever. This is their home now.
You have accomplished the mission, I need to buy more novacats.
Now they need to get Cameron-Jones Bondsmen. :P
Clan Nova Cat has had Chronic Backstabbing Disorder since Phillip Drummond sideswitched and screwed Amaris so Alexander Kerensky could go blow up Amaris
My earliest memories of Battletech are of watching my dad push his novacat to the brink of reactor meltdown in MechWarrior 4.
Hell yea.
I remember doing that. great game, and an iconic machine.
The NHUA servers were where it was at though...prime nova cat hunting grounds
Haven't used a Novacat since that game.........
In MW4 my 7 ER Large Laser vomit Nova Cat would decimate ... with a coolant shot you could fire 2 alphas without shutdown ... & although usually not necessary to finish a target ... you could fire a 3rd alpha without self destructing ... my Nova Cat was excellent for capture the flag base defense ... one shot capability with enough speed & range to chase
Hot take.
The Nova Cat is what happens when an Awesome goes to fat camp in the deep deep periphery and comes back jacked and 10 tons lighter.
Never been a fan of the Clans nor their 'mechs, but Red tells their tale in a compelling manner. BattleTech, for me, is a perfect mix of technical details, drama, stompy Robotomachy, and and pure setting.
Every time I think of the Wolf holding Terra, I feel viscerally angry and want to strike back. Terra belongs to the Terrans, not the monsters born from the mind of a madman.
Amaris Rat leaves sinking ship after a failed betrayal. Hops on Kerensky's Ship. Rat becomes Cat, betrays Kerensky's Clans, proposes friendship with dragon. Betrays dragon, finds new ship in spirit.
You're so mean! lmao
So betrayal is built into their dna
@@mattmaple7032hard-coded even!
As a Ghost Bear main, i always loved being next to the Nova Cats, it gave me a great excuse to field this mech in my forces. Watching this thing walk in MW4 was a thing of beauty...
You really captured the spirit of the Cat in this piece. Between the tech, history and storytelling- it’s beautifully sculpted and very successful as a research.
The Cat was always a mech I loved in clan that I didn’t. Its playstyle of long range control was always a personal favorite, and I grooved with the way this machine functioned.
Thank you, Professor, excellent class 🫡
I appreciate that the Nova Cat is a heavy Omnimech that _doesn't_ go 80 kph at full tilt. It's a more methodical, harder hitting platform that can stand up and slug it out instead of zipping around the outside of the battlefield and taking pot shots where the opponent can't effectively return fire.
I love the Nova Cat 'mech now. It feels like it has just enough weaponry to where it can threaten most 'mechs fron light to assault. Plus, it looks very spooky, with the cockput reminding me of Samus Aran from Metroid. Thanks for the fantastic video!
Thank you Hoshidont!
Your video on the Warhawk convinced me to grab the Force Pack with it... The Nova Cat now makes me realize the horrifying amount of firepower that Star is bringing.
Yea, that pack is bananas.
I think once you were giving single-sentence summations of various Houses and Clans and I asked about Nova Cats and you said something involving betrayal. I see why now, damn.
The Black Knight's daughter with a furry fetish. One of my absolute favorite mech chassis.
I asked for the Nova Cat in one of your past streams. You said: "Not this year, there's too much other stuff to do!"
But here we are and oh boy am I excited. Thanks a lot for your sweat and determination.
The Nova Cat got decided on in August IIRC, as there was enough popular demand in the chat for it. Though I dunno if there's been a lot of popular demand for the video overall. XD
Still, I'm glad people who wanted it are enjoying it. :)
God damn it. Now Imma add "she went to Canopus for obvious reasons" to the joke.
I love the idea of the Nova Cat. I first saw it around 20years ago in Mechwarrior 4...where i was sorely disappointed. That game to this day is a reminder of how to "break" energy weapons in Battletech/Mechwarrior by excluding Double Heat Sinks.
Its Prime configuration does go nova, then shuts down. Funny because that was made after the clans learned they shouldnt make short-sighted designs, but does so anyways. At least its designed to not carry ammunition that explodes when it overheats.
Yes! The Clan with the sickest name and the sickest background! I once stencilled “N O V A C A T S” on a ‘Mech’s fists.
I have a vision that this will be outstanding!
God I hope so. lol
@@BigRed40TECH haha, no pressure. I mean, if it's not, every remaining Nova & Spirit Cat will declare a Trial of Grievance. But your videos are always amazing, so my vision for you is strong, trothkin!
@@ChrisMerwin It is in the visions, so it must come to pass, quiaff?
Aff, trothkin! Such were the words of Khan Rosse and so it shall be. Seyla! @@BigRed40TECH
This was so damn good. Love these ultra deep dives that provide the background context of the loadouts. Great job and Rest well Bentley.
Thank you,
It is a Pocket assault mech.
And it's cheap in BV and Credits.
4/6 saves on both.
Not all loadouts are completely optimised.....but most are very solid.
I always envision it as either a filler mech for Assault lances or a command mech for Second line formations.
Aaah, the Dragon
Purveyors of "noble" and "honorable" genocide
The Dragon's just like... being honourable and stuff. No cultural or murderous genocide here! No sir!
Do not forget backstabbing.
@dubuyajay9964 probably part of why clanners ended up liking them so much; Nova Cat in particular appreciates the combo of "sneaky" "fast" "likes PPCs" and "crazy samurai robots"
An amazing video. Thought i was just watching a video about a mech and got informed about novacat clan and the word of blake? Well done Red. An absaloutely superb video
Many thanks!
Comment for our algorithmic masters! Thanks again red!
Great video red. Loved the Spirit Cats info.
Well done Red. Outstanding history.
I think Clan Nova/Spirit Cat just become my new favorite clan.
Also the nova car F feels like a ripe bastard to deal. I mean the mexh as whole is too but definitely the F config
My condolences for Bentley. He looks like such a sweet boy, and I hope you and your household are doing alright.
Bentley was a mean spirited little bastard. But he was very loving and affectionate to a small inner circle of people and other dogs.
Nova Cat is a favorite for a clan heavy. It always reminded me of the black knight in the IS. Have been a huge fan of the pocket assault concept especially when playing it around something big and nasty to ether take advantage of diverted attention or to punish it for paying too much. Have had a lot of luck with the first 3 configs and the T. Thick armor and incredible firepower many of the players of my group have died to its guns or more likely the missile launchers of the B. Ironically I don't play nova cat but have used it as a clan tech capture and Star Adder does use it. It was a favorite to play in mechwarrior 4 too though had a tenancy to over heat constantly
You don't realize how good a job hbs battle tech did with thier musical score u till you hear it and can immediately identify it.
Bottom line is: smoking weed and listening to "spirits" might work for designing mechs, but noot for doing politics with the Combine.
Ah yes, because the Dragon does not have its own brand of mysticism...
Wait..
Tbh it's even more silly than smoking weed - it's staring at a fire while burning stolen pocket junk, until you start seeing things.
One of my favorite mechs, with my favorite clans, and probably the first video I watched all the way through.
Hope you enjoyed :)
I see 'modern time' House Marik on the map of the Inner Sphere and I say, "Look how they massacred my boy!"
That's not the latest map, to be fair. But yea, it's still... errr... not doing well. XD
@@BigRed40TECH Right!
To paraphrase a certain Jedi, "They did that to THEMSELVES!"
Narratively, great job interspersing the mech designs between the history
Hail from Northwind Red.
As foretold, this was an outstanding homage to an incredible Mech and it's equally incredible namesake Clan!
Thank you!
Another great history video, a win
Nicky K: Family bad, make it go away.
Also Nicky K: Follow me because of my family.
Oh look it's the pilotable Robocop 2! 😂
Too bad it's not Ed 209, as then I could do the "Drop your weapon" joke, but this is KAIN. lol
I am a "sphere head" at heart when it came to the clans and their mechs... The Timberwolf got me in the door. The Nova Cat got me to stay. It's the smaller meth'd out Awesome. If I have the points I slap that on my list for tabletop because I can. No other reason needed.
Great job as usual Red.
Did like the continuation into the spirit cats and yeah this mechs always a terrifying thing to face on the table top.
On a different note, my condolences for your loss of Bentley.
Perhaps, as with the Nova Cats, you may catch glimpses of Spirit Bentley.
Peace.
Well done. it is one of my favorite omni mechs.
What an iconic mech. I'm glad it ended up isorla for the Bears. 😂
Nova cat mech is number three on my list . super nova , ebon jagar then nova cat
The clan’s views on nepotism never cease to perplex me…
5:00 How ironic that Ghost Bear doctrine of family basically goes against Nicolas Kerensky's vision lol
Every Clan kinda has a piece of their personality that goes against Kerensky's vision. Its weird.
Because his vision is impossible?
i heard comments help the video buble up
It's only now, looking at the design, that it strikes me now much it looks like the Dragon
It's a slow Dragon, that breathes fire :P
@BigRed40TECH That is exactly why Toranaga took it for our Combine!!! Ahahaha!
This mech was my ride in mw4. Never got to field it table top. Also way to convince me to run nova cats as my clan.
I know this may be annoying but what mod did you use for the nova cats in mw5 mercs
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My favorite Clan heavy.
Cats tenacious to the end
Another geeat lore video!
Bro has cooked with this video
5 weeks of work. I hope people enjoyed it.
in TT my opponent brought a B variant that my merc unit managed to capture. trust and believe this IS merch unit did not advertise this acquisition
- we would play double blind tt leading my opponent to believe i had an LRM carrier on the table. I added to this misconception by showing a missile carrier going behind a hill. This was the SRM carrier that my support lance used for "Close Encounters". they would come hunting the LRM carrier and come around the corner to an SRM carrier and a ton of clan (no min range) LRMS pointing at them.
We had house rules that if a unit was not known to be on the field and the set ups were blind - if a vehicle moved in and out of site in one movement phase the opponent could roll to see if they ID'd it, levels of Ident based on roll - Vehicle/type (hover, tracked, wheeled) ; vhcl type + wieght ; Vhcl type, weight + basics (IE carrier, tank, apc, etc); Positive ID....
It was fun... was decades ago, need to work out an updated version of it. ...
I also used the hell out of it in MW4 Black Knight that i had many many hours in when it came out.
We need a night gry episode! Come on red. Make it happen!
A vision of the great content to come! Such an amazing look into the coolest cats
Many thanks!
Warch out! Thus kitty has more than claws and fangs.
Rest In Peace , Mr.B
Love that this is more than just a mech video.
Have you ever done a video like this for Ghost Bears, or other clans?
In fact, I have. :D
The Stone Rhino = Smoke Jaguar: th-cam.com/video/W2F2e1VqJEE/w-d-xo.html
The Executioner = Ghost Bear: th-cam.com/video/VvyRV9KhUgs/w-d-xo.html
Epic! Theyll be the next watch
Amazing video as always! The Nova Cat B lives rent free in my head as in one of my first games, I killed the opponents Daishi with a lucky headshot turn one, only to lose the match to
a Nova Cat B who did 660 damage and basically solo'd by lance with a spotter. Also, sorry for your loss.
There is a reason this gets called a Pocket assault, definitely. lol
Condolences for the loss of your dog. I feel you. My good girl just died last week. At some age it is expected but it is always sad nevertheless ...
Yea, it hurt. :(
I'm sorry for your loss as well.
The Nova Cat is truly the totem mech of Clan Nova Cat. Whilst it was inspired from the Night Gyr, it was built based on Nova Cats' debacles from Luthien & Tukayyid, to match the Spheroids' way of warfare doctrine.
The Nova Cat has a lethal firepower of an assault mech in a heavy mech package that puts a Warhawk to shame. It represents the Clan's strength in fortitude perseverance with lopsided firepower & good enough mobility & decent armor. As well as represents the Clans' strength in their absolution in righting their wrongs from the past - believing that they were doing the right thing for what they thought it was the best for their Spheroid allies, only to be often misguided by a mystic vision that eventually became a self-fulfilling prophecy leading to their tragic end. In the end, even the Nova Cat Omnimech, as a totem mech for the Clan itself, imbued the legacy of what came before that was rooted from misguided sense of absolution that others would perceived it as "an intolerable betrayal punishable by death" as a ramifications the Nova Cats thought they don't deserved, even though they did prove themselves they genuinely fought against tyranny
With the Spirit Cats being the descendants of the Nova Cats through their totem mechs, would they learn from their past mistakes to avoid making a self-fulfilling prophecy to become flesh?
Self fulfilling prophecies are the best kinda though!
i love nova cat high risk high reward and the silhouette is beautiful! its the clans version of the black knight for me :)
Pocket Battleship of Battlemechs lol
Er ppc and er large laser are so fun for truborn pies@@BigRed40TECH
The irony is that the Nova Cats had the Royal Black Knight and the updated Black Knight 4D with shields in their forces during the Dark Age...
Cam at the perfect moment
Yay kitty! Love clan nova cat for obvious reasons if you consider my username and also cause the clan culture and history speaks to me.
Down with the patriarchy
Everyone got their vineers?
Another Great . but long Video 🙂
One minor mistake at 2:08.34, Kev Rosse was not the leader of the Nova Cats in the Republic of the Sphere, he was only the Galaxy Commander of Nova Cat militia clusters in Prefecture III. The leader of all Nova Cats in the Republic of the Sphere was Juno Devalis, mentioned in one of the documents CGL/sarna editors collected after Wizkids closed up shop. I believer she/he was invented by those editors for that document specifically.
Thank you for the correction. I just tried to compile what I could based on the resources to hand, I didn't see this Juno mentioned. I also saw Kev getting his senatorial seat and just put the facts together wrong. Apologies.
@@BigRed40TECH Dude, you do not have to apologize. I love the amount of care you put into this video for my favorite factions. To be frank, the only people who know Juno Devalis even exist are me, all the other weirdo Nova Cat fans on the BT forums, you, and Phillip Lee, and everyone after me only knows about Juno because I keep bringing them up. Dark Age lore is a mess of pdfs and documents that most people don't even know exists, and Juno is from a pdf that is currently in dubious canon territory.
Still I love Dark Age stuff since I got in via clix so I try to know everything about it I can. Thanks again for this great video. I learned stuff I didn't even know, like the FWL-connection with Phillip Drummond.
@@BigRed40TECH Everything Wizkids put out always had Kev Rosse as the leader, so wherever Juno Devalis cropped up, it was after they stopped producing things and was presumably a retcon.
I play Coyote but the Nova Cat is my favourite clan heavy alongside the Summoner
Wow...this mech is just...nasty.
Much agreed.
Is its name Miss Jackson? Hee hee! 🕴😂🤣
The greatest coup of all time
Ahhh just got to the End for the 1st time , now im sad........
Thank you.
Wooooo!
Mewoo prrr prrr!
In my sleep deprived mind, I read the thumbnail as "Not a Cat"
It's not a Cat! lol
Pro tip; Pair it with cougars so it's not targeted first.
This has always been my favorite clan. Absolutely love the Nova Cats. Between their aesthetics and amazing mechs. The sphinx is still regularly in play in my battletech circle because of one fateful headcap from a large laser lol. The nova cat mech is one id take any day over a hellstar or warhawk just because of its sheer flexibility. Direct fire is always just more glorious than otherwise.
Long live the Spirit Cats.
I hope the video lived up to your expectations! I tried my best to cover all the most important beats.
I am so ready for this
I love a good energy boat!
RIP Bentley.
I HAD A VISION AND ITS FINALLY CAME TO PASS! Wonderful work as always red glad to see my favorite back stabbers get there time in the spotlight
Excellent
Did this meet your hopes and expectations? :)
@@BigRed40TECH Yes it did.
Cat scratch fever!!
let's gooo
Like the Wolverines the Cats will rise again.
In theory they kinda have, they are just Spirit Cats now.
Ah Red. I'm sorry. Animals are more special than I even think they know. Hugs.
I have fond memories of this mech constantly overheating after each alphastrike from MechWarrior 4 Vengeance
Nothing is quite as satisfying as achieving shutdown :P
@BigRed40TECH it's hilarious; the AI would fire 1 alphastrike and keep shutting down consecutively
Nova Cat configurations are strange. Either long range punch, or short range punch. Not a lot of having solid long range punch supported by short range crit seekers. How hard would it be to slap 4 ER LL into the arms and back that up with 4 SRM-6 launchers with 4 tons of SRM ammo? Or if that is too much crit space, then 2 Streak SMR6 launchers and a Snub-PPC for short range backup.
Hey Red! Have you heard of Caveman Delta? He makes AI music where the topic is Battletech... It's really good, particularly his piece on the Nova Cat clan!
I don't listen to AI music.
@@BigRed40TECH Missing out
@@Ownedyou Not my point of interest, so I'm not missing out.
I kept hearing Bears 8th Curious Ears and my mind immediately says “that’s their recon Cluster” and it made perfect sense. Might need to make a Trinary.
Hey, it's been a while for me. Took a hiatus from Battletech content for a while. Good to see another video from you. It's always good to hear a familiar voice!
Sad this mech wasn't in the new game
Too many years out. introduced 10 years after the start of the invasion.
Hey red, whats the name to the music before the stream starts?, ive tried using shazam, but its not telling me, please and thank you
That's just from TH-cam. It's their "Sci Fi" premier.
Thanks man, that was driving me crazy trying to figure it out😅
It is a shame that the NCats are no longer around, they like the Smoke Jaguars were the more interesting clans. The Ghost Bear are just another Innersphere collective. Clan wolf is just writer plot armor with a wolf skin , Raven and Fox is merchant magicians who have seemingly unlimited resources and the power of money .. Jade Flacon is all but gone and HH is finished as well.
Kitty! 🐱
no u
MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED WHEN I GET THESE HOURS LONG VIDEOS FROM YOU
Good job RED. Another Masterpiece and the Conch on my shoulder is applauding as well.
we are here for the nova cat supremacy... oh ...oh no
Treachery and tragedy. . .
Sorry to hear about Bentley, but 17 years is a good run, thats about 84 in people years...
Absolutely. But it's still sad all the same.
@BigRed40TECH yeah
Anyone else having issues downloading?