The Hunchback is the definition of “bring it” in mech terms. It can slug it out with machines twice it’s tonnage for short times and leave them crippled or dead. It is the urban mechs bigger, nastier older brother, scourge of close in fighting, and the Swayback variants range from mediocre to ungodly dangerous. But they all have the same soul that says “Bring it, let’s see what you’ve got.” The Quasimodo has a similar energy and is a worthy successor in that it will make even clan mechs cry up close and personal. On the defense, accept no substitute.
@@Twilit777 The 4N is decidedly the least Hunchy of the Backs. The Quasimodo is nice, especially with its blueshield anti-PPC countermeasure, but the VSPL is just too much hassle and could be replaced by Clan PL. So my first choice would be to replace the three medium VSPL with 6 medium CPL. Better range, more consistency, and I can turn lasers on and off with more fine tuning to manage heat.
It's pretty much the King of the "Fuck Around and Find Out" mechs. In most cases, you just DO NOT test your luck against these things unless you're willing to take some hard knocks
Yeah, that poem fits the Hunchback perfectly. It is a mech that regardless of what situation it's in, even if there's a whole lance at it's back, it stands on its own. If it could affix a bayonet on its shoulder gun, I am sure it would.
Man now I'm thinking about the 40k warhounds that were made with grapple launchers to snare larger titans. Hunchback with a myomer net launcher to snare assaults... interesting concept.
Invictus. One of the most powerful poems I've ever read. 'I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul' has been my mantra for fifteen years and counting.
"I thank whatever gods there may be, for my unconquerable soul" ... Invictus ... This is the poem my mother chose to define my father at his funeral, nearly a year ago. I have struggled with not having shared Battletech with him before he passed, abd he only got one year of retirement (to the day). I have been trying to pick a mech to paint and declare as 'his' since then. Thank you Tex, the tone in which you read that was phenomenal. I look forward to the vid, like all of them that have come before.
You could do much, MUCH worse, than to paint a hunchbot as your daddy's mech, though that choice is obviously yours. I am so sorry for your loss, I do damn near everything hobby wise with my father, i don't want to imagine what that would be like 😞
As a father, all of my children got a Hunchback painted and given as a Christmas gift when they were old enough to learn how to play. When my youngest son joined the USMC, I painted a Hunchie in Dress Blues and gave it to him when he graduated Boot Camp. When my brother died this year I bought and painted a MAD4A in a junkyard heme that matched his Mechwarrior character's ride. I agree that an Orion would be a good choice, but it's up to you. For my father, I'd have to go with a Highlander 432.
Well, canonically, the hunchback's Kali-Yama AC20 doesn't shoot one massive shell. That''s the atlases (federated ac?) ac20. The hunchies ac20 lets rip massive fat long bursts. It's the king of BRRRRRRRRRT.
That poem is pretty awesome. It got a bad rap for a few years because a child-killing asshole used it as his last words before execution, but that's luckily faded.
Anyone else out there keeps coming back to this video, because it is one of the most powerful readings of Invictus they have ever heard, and they simply cannot get enough of it? It is not just me, right?
Over a year later, I'm back. My brother loved Battletech and Invictus, so it was only fitting I read it at his service. I was deeply saddened as he was looking forward to the Hunchback video and died before it was dropped. Never take this life for granted: make NOW the most important moment of your life. Never give an inch and never surrender. I'll see you in the clearing at the end of the path, mi amigo. Wait for me.
The Hunchback is my go-to Medium. I love the Centurion. Hatchetman. Phoenix Hawk. Hell, I even love some of the Clan offerings in the weight-class. But nothing feels as tough as the Hunchback. I brawled down an Atlas in one. I was barely standing afterwards. Both arms were gone. AC20 got blown off but after it ran dry so that wasn't too big of a problem. I had to do it to gain entry into a clan/guild, and I'm proud of the Hunchback for allowing me to do that. The other guild members had a problem because I used the urban setting as cover, ducking in and out. They said it was sneaky shit, but the Hunchback was built for urban warfare. I was just utilizing what I knew about the mech and I didn't want the Atlas to engage me on an open field. But the pilot of the Atlas stuck up for me. We became good friends. He took on the bigger mechs, I kept tiny ones off his back. He passed away in his sleep, and not a day goes by when I don't think of him. I'm sorry, I think I got off-topic. Point is, the Hunchback has sentimental value to me, and I won't accept anything less than the -4G when it comes to that model.
You didn't know this when you made this Tex, but I've been going through a lot of tough times lately. I'm the type to put my head down and do the work I need to even if it's too much to chew, but this poem...this poem, and your reading of it just hit my soul like a freight train and sent shivers down my spine. This is what I needed to hear to keep pressing on. Thank you, sincerely. And I can't wait for this episode, and maybe more Tex reads poetry to classical music.
I just apreciate that the response to hearing Tex read poetry was positive enough that we distracted you from working on the thing you were trying to get us excited for. That's lovely.
Oh my god the way you said that final quote is awesome. I don’t know if you have been told this Tex but you have the BEST voice for things like this. Keep up the good work
The Hunchback was my first medium mech, after the Thunderbolt was my first model. The -4G carried me through several campaigns and duels with friends. It doesn’t like to give up, even when it’s losing. The armor isn’t the heaviest and the speed isn’t the fastest, but it’s enough. The AC20 is the heart of the Hunchback, and what sets it apart from other succession wars mediums and gives it a purpose. I’ve won with it, I’ve lost with it, but I never stopped loving it. What a wonderful machine. I can’t wait to hear you talk about it.
I remember thinking the Hunchback was nothing special, but after I played Mechwarrior Online I learned the HBK-4P was my soulmate. We were good together for a time. Can't wait for the video!
The Hunchback. With the Advent of the Ilclan Era, I now have 3 of them. One for the Clan that is a Refit. One for my Inner Sphere and potentially one for my Word of Blake force.
THE hunchback was the only mech I could afford to buy when I played MWO looooong ago. One of my funnest moments that I remember fairly vividly was me winning a match in a hunchback after killing a nearly full HP atlas in the car garage area. I had just killed a heavy mech in a desperate knife range fight when the atlas just straight up hello thered me. I managed to "disarm him" and work behind him via pillars. Took a bit of time as at least half my weapons were destroyed prior to the fight. Those were the last two on the enemy team so that felt good. All three variants provided me with a lot of fun and silly moments such as sniping with the ac20..
That's a pretty low bar. If Tex Talks Battletech is a perfectly cooked steak dinner with loaded mashed potatoes and a complimentary hand job from the waitress, Netflix by comparison is being bitten in the face by a rabid raccoon while scavenging for beef scraps in the dumpster behind an inner city Taco Bell.
This series just keeps getting better. Has anybody cried while watching a documentary? I have. Tex and his team did me in on the Charger. I also can't hear bagpipes without getting misty. Much love to you guys. You're all awesome.
Been struggling with health issues since childhood, and only got into Battletech recently. Never in my life have I needed something this much and never know until I had received it. This poem and your voice describe the fight I have every day, the darkness, the pain, the refusal of self deletion and the stubbornness to push on each day. Thank you for this! In return, I will refrain from calling this mech the "High school dropout that needs to overcompensate" cause his sweetheart ran off with a more... cultured individual, that had a Centurion.
The Hunchback truly is an "all or nothing" Battlemech, which is why men like Tex who understand real military history understand it represents a warrior spirit of pure aggression like the Berserkers or Spartans of old. Makes me as excited to be a Mechwarrior as I was when I was fourteen. Best wishes to you.
As someone who has the Hunchback as my first “favorite mech” in the series, I’m so very excited for this installment. I still to this day in every new game of mech commanders, mech warrior, or Battletech for pc I always pick up a hunchback.
Invictus (by William Earnest Henley)!!! Probably my favourite poem ever! It goes without saying it's gonna be special, Tex. The stuff you guys make always, always is, even for battletech noobs like myself.
I've never been more excited or anticipated a video release more than this. Take all the time needed to get it done, this mech is my absolute favorite and deserves a proper story.
There are no words Tex. You have the ability to stir the soul with your delivery. I hope you know how much we all appreciate you (and the rest of the BPL crew). Your love of the setting and the ability to spin that with the very real complexities of human existence is incredible. Hope you are well.
Ok, so little tidbits I saw in this image: 1: Hunchback is a Van Zandt Free State Militia Mech 2: Tallies on side of cockpit likely kill markers, or number of pilots killed by the Mech, not sure which. 3: Driver is likely a younger Professor Tex (as shown by his helmet and lack of an eyepatch) 4: Tex’s techs are mad at him (likely due to the missing arm on the hunchback).
I will stay respectful as all possible, I can't wait, Tex is the absolute best Lecture Professor of all thing Battletech. He singlehandedly got my old Battletech buddies going mad looking for our record sheets and notebooks with all of our homemade Mechs and playing again. We even got our kids involved, man, we have a senerio centered around the remains of the Clan Wolverine survivors, the Black Lion that possible carried the last members of the Cameron family away to safety and them coming together with the last of Comstar to retake the Inner Sphere. We started our adventure last year on Thanksgiving night and its not over. Thanks to Tex and all hail the BPL!!!!!
I hope your campaign gets meme'd into canon. It's befitting to BattleTech to have centuries go by, and then suddenly the descendant(s) of the overthrown, suddenly "kick ass and take (blood)names".
Oh god I'm so ready. I feel blessed that my absolute favorite mech is getting all this attention. A special episode, for my beloved slug delivery system
SHIVERS at the poetry...I have been excited for each of your films so far (LOVE the Christmas to Remember film!), but I am soooooooo excited for this one! I beg you sir, more poetry shorts as you have time, they are phenomenal!
The Hunchback-4G has been my main mech since MechCommander Gold and was even the first mech I bought in MechWarrior Online, I cannot express how well that poem fits both the mech and myself as a mechwarrior. Thank you Tex.
Tex, I could listen to you quote Shakespeare or poetry any time. Mostly because you link it to something relevant and interesting to me that makes it all come together into something I want to hear.
The Hunchback is, I think, the very definition of "Death or Glory" in BattleTech, it's the only mech as crazy as the Charger, but able to back up that crazy, at gun point no less.
I can’t tell you how much I love watching Tex Talks Battletech, have watched episodes over and over and they have only gotten better with each one. With the new Mercenary kickstarter having finished I’m going to have a whole bunch more minis to paint while watching.
I have had an unhealthy love for the Hunchback, since about 5 minutes into my first Battletech game many moons ago... I have been looking forward to this video, ever since you wonderful misanthropes of the BPL first teased that it was coming.
Jumping on a bandwagon here! Tex! Your skills as a narrator/storyteller have been more then adequately proven over the last few years. While I need only to point to your subs/views for evidence, I'll also mention your the excellent pacing, enthusiasm and dare I say the "buckle up we ain't got time for BS". Everyone here calling for you to read poetry to us is right. For example Rudyard Kipling's If....that is a wonderful poem that has been performed by likes of William Hurt. You sir, would (I believe) provide the world with an amazing rendition of it!
Launched Battletech, threw YT on and saw this on my landing page. Was hyped. Am now staring at the loading screen not sure I want to continue my Campaign because...that delivery was epic.
I can't wait for this one as the Hunchback is one of my favorite mechs. Either Laser Boat or AC20 Freedom shells the size of Volkswagens the Hunchy can and will ruin your day. Thanks Tex and the BPL for all the amazing content that never disappoints...
Everybody at the BPL welcomed me here when I started playing MW5, I don't regret coming here despite the outcome of vanilla MW5. I am now a life long member.
Can you please re-release this but as just Tex reading that poem? Because that was the best rendition that I have ever heard, and I fear that this gem would be lost forever if it was in just a trailer.
Thank you for the many thousands of miles you have talked me through Tex. This community that the BPL has built feels like a real family and the content you produce shames those whose job should be to be your betters. Incredible stuff.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! As one of the most rock solid mech chassis of all time I can not wait for you to sermonize, platitudinize, and expound on the venerable Hunchback's history!
Name a machine that always out numbered, out gunned, out classed, short of spare parts, replacement pilots, and fighting on world that are more ruins than city. A mech that has seen more galactic empires rise and fall, and still has their heads of trophies. And I will call it the hunchback two.
This has me excited, because while I'm luke-warm on the Hunchback as a mech, it's the background history around it that I'm excited about, because this was a mech created during the Reunification Wars and specifically the Taurian Campaigns. This is going to be good!
Tex reading poetry was not something I knew I needed until recently
Tex could read the ingredients on a box of pasta and I'd still need it.
I know right dame that was amazing
"Peckin" took me back to such a happy no care time in my life with the hard back "A light in the attic" in my lap.
🫠🫠🫠🫠
Damage to his voice it maybe, but I appreciate the tones of the words spoken. Then there is the twisted humor...
YESSIR! I think BPL should make this an entire channel personally.
We seriously need more of Tex just reading poetry. Especially of this sort.
Tex & George Ledoux doing Sagas from Ancient Greece. Everyone else can do Shakespere, we want the Ancient brutal Greek sagas.
@@drronin112 no we want noir pulp detective novels.
He's posted a few over the last few days - likely outtakes from the Hunchback episode script or cuts.
@@robertivey7644 ohhh Yessssss
Tex reads Beowulf.
The Hunchback is the definition of “bring it” in mech terms. It can slug it out with machines twice it’s tonnage for short times and leave them crippled or dead. It is the urban mechs bigger, nastier older brother, scourge of close in fighting, and the Swayback variants range from mediocre to ungodly dangerous. But they all have the same soul that says “Bring it, let’s see what you’ve got.” The Quasimodo has a similar energy and is a worthy successor in that it will make even clan mechs cry up close and personal. On the defense, accept no substitute.
The only Swayback that I think is mediocre is the -4N - the rest all have their place and are well-suited to their intended roles.
@@Twilit777 The 4N is decidedly the least Hunchy of the Backs.
The Quasimodo is nice, especially with its blueshield anti-PPC countermeasure, but the VSPL is just too much hassle and could be replaced by Clan PL.
So my first choice would be to replace the three medium VSPL with 6 medium CPL. Better range, more consistency, and I can turn lasers on and off with more fine tuning to manage heat.
@@Twilit777 I like building upon the 4SP with a light engine, 2 MRM 20, 2 ML, 2ER-SL. ...I prefer symmetrical builds ..
@@maxpelletier2237 The 4sp has a special place in my heart, brutal little 50 tonner
It's pretty much the King of the "Fuck Around and Find Out" mechs. In most cases, you just DO NOT test your luck against these things unless you're willing to take some hard knocks
Yeah, that poem fits the Hunchback perfectly. It is a mech that regardless of what situation it's in, even if there's a whole lance at it's back, it stands on its own.
If it could affix a bayonet on its shoulder gun, I am sure it would.
Man now I'm thinking about the 40k warhounds that were made with grapple launchers to snare larger titans.
Hunchback with a myomer net launcher to snare assaults... interesting concept.
With the right mindset, an AC20 is the bayonet.
battlefists and clawed battlefists fill that role quite well.
Well if you stripped out secondary weapons, you might be able to box better or get a light melee weapon with weight saving upgrades.
You can, and I have.
Invictus. One of the most powerful poems I've ever read. 'I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul' has been my mantra for fifteen years and counting.
BPL Mech Talk trailer complete with Tex poetry recitation. Watched it twice and sent it to my friends. 10/10
Spread the word peeps!
HA! I have watched it 6 times and counting!
"I thank whatever gods there may be, for my unconquerable soul"
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Invictus
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This is the poem my mother chose to define my father at his funeral, nearly a year ago. I have struggled with not having shared Battletech with him before he passed, abd he only got one year of retirement (to the day). I have been trying to pick a mech to paint and declare as 'his' since then.
Thank you Tex, the tone in which you read that was phenomenal. I look forward to the vid, like all of them that have come before.
You could do much, MUCH worse, than to paint a hunchbot as your daddy's mech, though that choice is obviously yours. I am so sorry for your loss, I do damn near everything hobby wise with my father, i don't want to imagine what that would be like 😞
A mech to declare as his? How about an Atlas? If i can go by what you're saying, the dude is very fitting of an Atlas.
I suggest an orion, it's Kerensky's chosen chariot and to me at least, the ultimate dad mech
As a father, all of my children got a Hunchback painted and given as a Christmas gift when they were old enough to learn how to play. When my youngest son joined the USMC, I painted a Hunchie in Dress Blues and gave it to him when he graduated Boot Camp. When my brother died this year I bought and painted a MAD4A in a junkyard heme that matched his Mechwarrior character's ride. I agree that an Orion would be a good choice, but it's up to you. For my father, I'd have to go with a Highlander 432.
Tex making the Hunchback appear to be a work of art without so much as speaking a word about it is truly a moment worth remembering.
This one is going to blow the marauder out the water, with 20 points of damage!
The Hunchie looks at the Marauder and say “Nice mech there, shame if something happened to it.” BLAMMM!
Well, canonically, the hunchback's Kali-Yama AC20 doesn't shoot one massive shell. That''s the atlases (federated ac?) ac20.
The hunchies ac20 lets rip massive fat long bursts. It's the king of BRRRRRRRRRT.
Just like the Victor but 30 tons lighter!
If it gets the drop on the Marauder? Possibly so. But across open ground from longer distance? I think not.
@@RobertWilke Hunchie looks at the marauder and wonders where its RT went
Hearing Tex recite Invictus is something I never knew I needed until now. Poetry Corner with Tex is something I would absolutely listen to.
That poem is pretty awesome. It got a bad rap for a few years because a child-killing asshole used it as his last words before execution, but that's luckily faded.
Tex the poet is definitely a thing we need more of.
Anyone else out there keeps coming back to this video, because it is one of the most powerful readings of Invictus they have ever heard, and they simply cannot get enough of it?
It is not just me, right?
Over a year later, I'm back. My brother loved Battletech and Invictus, so it was only fitting I read it at his service. I was deeply saddened as he was looking forward to the Hunchback video and died before it was dropped. Never take this life for granted: make NOW the most important moment of your life. Never give an inch and never surrender. I'll see you in the clearing at the end of the path, mi amigo. Wait for me.
I can't wait for this. TTB is by far one of the best series on TH-cam.
This is the only reason to youtube.
The *other* TTB isn't bad, either.
@@VulpisFoxfire the other?
@@PeachDragon_ TTB of MWO fame.
The Hunchback is my go-to Medium.
I love the Centurion. Hatchetman. Phoenix Hawk. Hell, I even love some of the Clan offerings in the weight-class.
But nothing feels as tough as the Hunchback. I brawled down an Atlas in one.
I was barely standing afterwards. Both arms were gone. AC20 got blown off but after it ran dry so that wasn't too big of a problem.
I had to do it to gain entry into a clan/guild, and I'm proud of the Hunchback for allowing me to do that. The other guild members had a problem because I used the urban setting as cover, ducking in and out. They said it was sneaky shit, but the Hunchback was built for urban warfare. I was just utilizing what I knew about the mech and I didn't want the Atlas to engage me on an open field.
But the pilot of the Atlas stuck up for me. We became good friends. He took on the bigger mechs, I kept tiny ones off his back. He passed away in his sleep, and not a day goes by when I don't think of him.
I'm sorry, I think I got off-topic.
Point is, the Hunchback has sentimental value to me, and I won't accept anything less than the -4G when it comes to that model.
You didn't know this when you made this Tex, but I've been going through a lot of tough times lately. I'm the type to put my head down and do the work I need to even if it's too much to chew, but this poem...this poem, and your reading of it just hit my soul like a freight train and sent shivers down my spine. This is what I needed to hear to keep pressing on.
Thank you, sincerely. And I can't wait for this episode, and maybe more Tex reads poetry to classical music.
"Buckle up, class, this one's gonna be special."
They're all special, Tex. You make them so.
I just apreciate that the response to hearing Tex read poetry was positive enough that we distracted you from working on the thing you were trying to get us excited for. That's lovely.
Oh my god the way you said that final quote is awesome. I don’t know if you have been told this Tex but you have the BEST voice for things like this. Keep up the good work
Invictus. The poem that saved my life.
I'm hype for the Hunchie. Iconic.
I feel like I just listened to some inspirationally angry ASMR. Didn't know I needed this in my life - and now I do
My excitement is higher than the Clan losses on Tukayyid.
The Hunchback was my first medium mech, after the Thunderbolt was my first model. The -4G carried me through several campaigns and duels with friends. It doesn’t like to give up, even when it’s losing. The armor isn’t the heaviest and the speed isn’t the fastest, but it’s enough. The AC20 is the heart of the Hunchback, and what sets it apart from other succession wars mediums and gives it a purpose. I’ve won with it, I’ve lost with it, but I never stopped loving it. What a wonderful machine. I can’t wait to hear you talk about it.
I remember thinking the Hunchback was nothing special, but after I played Mechwarrior Online I learned the HBK-4P was my soulmate. We were good together for a time. Can't wait for the video!
The Hunchback. With the Advent of the Ilclan Era, I now have 3 of them. One for the Clan that is a Refit. One for my Inner Sphere and potentially one for my Word of Blake force.
Hunchbacks have always been good in the game. Once you understand it, it gets even better.
HBK-4P my beloved
THE hunchback was the only mech I could afford to buy when I played MWO looooong ago. One of my funnest moments that I remember fairly vividly was me winning a match in a hunchback after killing a nearly full HP atlas in the car garage area. I had just killed a heavy mech in a desperate knife range fight when the atlas just straight up hello thered me. I managed to "disarm him" and work behind him via pillars. Took a bit of time as at least half my weapons were destroyed prior to the fight. Those were the last two on the enemy team so that felt good.
All three variants provided me with a lot of fun and silly moments such as sniping with the ac20..
The Trailer is better than 90% of Netflix
That's a pretty low bar. If Tex Talks Battletech is a perfectly cooked steak dinner with loaded mashed potatoes and a complimentary hand job from the waitress, Netflix by comparison is being bitten in the face by a rabid raccoon while scavenging for beef scraps in the dumpster behind an inner city Taco Bell.
The medium mech who took all the creatine and pre work out, and is now able to punch waaaay above his weight class. My favorite medium mech of all.
Alternatively: The guy who always seems to leave his RT at home.
This series just keeps getting better. Has anybody cried while watching a documentary? I have. Tex and his team did me in on the Charger. I also can't hear bagpipes without getting misty.
Much love to you guys. You're all awesome.
you're not alone
This should be in the Tex Talks playlist
I knew I needed to hear Tex read poetry... *I DID NOT KNOW HOW FUCKING MUCH I NEEDED THIS*
Been struggling with health issues since childhood, and only got into Battletech recently.
Never in my life have I needed something this much and never know until I had received it.
This poem and your voice describe the fight I have every day, the darkness, the pain, the refusal of self deletion and the stubbornness to push on each day.
Thank you for this!
In return, I will refrain from calling this mech the "High school dropout that needs to overcompensate" cause his sweetheart ran off with a more... cultured individual, that had a Centurion.
cant wait :) Excited to see our contribution play a small part!
I literally have never been so excited for any TH-cam presentation ever. And I’m super old.
The Hunchback truly is an "all or nothing" Battlemech, which is why men like Tex who understand real
military history understand it represents a warrior spirit of pure aggression like the Berserkers or Spartans
of old. Makes me as excited to be a Mechwarrior as I was when I was fourteen. Best wishes to you.
Hell yeah! I would pay good money for an audio book of Tex reading poetry. That was Good Shit.
Hell, reading anything really :)).
I have been eagerly awaiting your next mech history lesson Thank you for continuing this series.
As someone who has the Hunchback as my first “favorite mech” in the series, I’m so very excited for this installment. I still to this day in every new game of mech commanders, mech warrior, or Battletech for pc I always pick up a hunchback.
We stand ready, Fiesta Pails in hand, and await further communications!
Fiesta Pails and anti-diarrhea meds in hand you mean! Lol 😅
Anytime Tex and/or the BPL posts something new I get shivers. The good kind.
Invictus (by William Earnest Henley)!!! Probably my favourite poem ever!
It goes without saying it's gonna be special, Tex. The stuff you guys make always, always is, even for battletech noobs like myself.
I want 2 1/2 hours of Tex reading poetry
I've never been more excited or anticipated a video release more than this. Take all the time needed to get it done, this mech is my absolute favorite and deserves a proper story.
Thanks for being exactly who you are, Tex. Our lives are all incrementally improved by your proximity to them.
There are no words Tex. You have the ability to stir the soul with your delivery. I hope you know how much we all appreciate you (and the rest of the BPL crew). Your love of the setting and the ability to spin that with the very real complexities of human existence is incredible. Hope you are well.
Stay tuned for August 26th! It's coming!
Holy. Shit. That was powerful. I'm not even going to argue about how Faith never dies, credit where credit is due, that delivery was pure art.
one of, if not the best poems ever written, read by someone who I think knows what it means.. all I can offer is applause.
What a trailer. How far this series has come. Thanks to Tex and the crew for doing what you do.
Ok, so little tidbits I saw in this image:
1: Hunchback is a Van Zandt Free State Militia Mech
2: Tallies on side of cockpit likely kill markers, or number of pilots killed by the Mech, not sure which.
3: Driver is likely a younger Professor Tex (as shown by his helmet and lack of an eyepatch)
4: Tex’s techs are mad at him (likely due to the missing arm on the hunchback).
I will stay respectful as all possible,
I can't wait, Tex is the absolute best Lecture Professor of all thing Battletech. He singlehandedly got my old Battletech buddies going mad looking for our record sheets and notebooks with all of our homemade Mechs and playing again. We even got our kids involved, man, we have a senerio centered around the remains of the Clan Wolverine survivors, the Black Lion that possible carried the last members of the Cameron family away to safety and them coming together with the last of Comstar to retake the Inner Sphere. We started our adventure last year on Thanksgiving night and its not over. Thanks to Tex and all hail the BPL!!!!!
Good. This is what I feel the legion should stand for. Giving people the nudge to do good stuff. You did the work, my guy. We just lit the fuse. :)
I hope your campaign gets meme'd into canon. It's befitting to BattleTech to have centuries go by, and then suddenly the descendant(s) of the overthrown, suddenly "kick ass and take (blood)names".
I legit got a shiver down my spine on the last line. Tex reading poetry is just amazing.
Oh god I'm so ready. I feel blessed that my absolute favorite mech is getting all this attention. A special episode, for my beloved slug delivery system
When its done. The best time to drop anything.
SHIVERS at the poetry...I have been excited for each of your films so far (LOVE the Christmas to Remember film!), but I am soooooooo excited for this one! I beg you sir, more poetry shorts as you have time, they are phenomenal!
Tex this was brilliant. My first mech (oh so long ago) and you never forget your first so this will be special for me. thanks to you and the team.
Oh the poetry and the stomp come together. Outstanding.
Tex's voice reading poetry like this is something I never thought I needed until I hear it, especially after the rather crap week I've had so far.
The Hunchback-4G has been my main mech since MechCommander Gold and was even the first mech I bought in MechWarrior Online, I cannot express how well that poem fits both the mech and myself as a mechwarrior. Thank you Tex.
Wow, I'm both excited and terrified as to what's to come
Scare-cited?
As I fall into my 42nd birthday, this has now become my birthday poem. You did this!
Tex, I could listen to you quote Shakespeare or poetry any time. Mostly because you link it to something relevant and interesting to me that makes it all come together into something I want to hear.
The Hunchback is, I think, the very definition of "Death or Glory" in BattleTech, it's the only mech as crazy as the Charger, but able to back up that crazy, at gun point no less.
So long as you don't flank it on the right, that is
I can’t tell you how much I love watching Tex Talks Battletech, have watched episodes over and over and they have only gotten better with each one. With the new Mercenary kickstarter having finished I’m going to have a whole bunch more minis to paint while watching.
Wow, one of my favorites piece of poetry, thanks Tex that reading is wonderful.
His voice hits those lines like an AC20 on a cockpit.
I have had an unhealthy love for the Hunchback, since about 5 minutes into my first Battletech game many moons ago...
I have been looking forward to this video, ever since you wonderful misanthropes of the BPL first teased that it was coming.
Good lord, I got home about in tears from my damn near broken back and see a trailer for Tex talks battletech.
Jumping on a bandwagon here! Tex! Your skills as a narrator/storyteller have been more then adequately proven over the last few years. While I need only to point to your subs/views for evidence, I'll also mention your the excellent pacing, enthusiasm and dare I say the "buckle up we ain't got time for BS". Everyone here calling for you to read poetry to us is right. For example Rudyard Kipling's If....that is a wonderful poem that has been performed by likes of William Hurt. You sir, would (I believe) provide the world with an amazing rendition of it!
I listen to this at work everyday with my morning coffee before I get moving.
✊🏻🔥☕️.
Appreciate you Tex!
Ran a Hunchback in a Solaris grinder last weekend. He killed 3 mechs. Mostly by shooting damaged mechs with the big gat.
This has become an actual biblical passage to me, whenever i am struggling to cope, i recite this, and my worry fades like the shade at dawn.
The voice of a man who's been around the Inner Sphere and has witnessed all the horror man can wreak. I can't wait for the Hunchback.
Truly Tex you are one of a kind.
I'll be waiting for the full episode until it comes.
I am tingling in anticipation. That trailer was...magical.
Fracking finally! I’ve been waiting on live for the hunchy since the beginning of Tex Talks. Thank you!!!
Launched Battletech, threw YT on and saw this on my landing page. Was hyped. Am now staring at the loading screen not sure I want to continue my Campaign because...that delivery was epic.
This is the greatest battletech art I have ever seen
The excite! The suspense! The anticipation!
Oh man the second guy in the background giving us the finger is hilarious. Great job guys, can't wait to see it when it's done!
I can't wait for this one as the Hunchback is one of my favorite mechs.
Either Laser Boat or AC20 Freedom shells the size of Volkswagens the Hunchy can and will ruin your day.
Thanks Tex and the BPL for all the amazing content that never disappoints...
"Buckle up, class. 'cuz this one's gonna be special."
and it goddamn was. Hats off to y'all.
Everybody at the BPL welcomed me here when I started playing MW5, I don't regret coming here despite the outcome of vanilla MW5. I am now a life long member.
Man, that's just as good on repeat as it was the first time.
Looking forward to it! The Hunchback is such a cool design
Well that was much needed. Who knew it would take you reading such theatre, attached to such nostalgia, for me to research on my own Henley.
Invictus my all time favorite poem being read by Tex.......Epic!
Can you please re-release this but as just Tex reading that poem? Because that was the best rendition that I have ever heard, and I fear that this gem would be lost forever if it was in just a trailer.
I think in the BPL "Shorts' there's one of him reading Invictus (the poem featured here)
Yep. It’s in the Shorts
if you download and save it on your machine, and hide on some drive - it will never be lost
Thank you for the many thousands of miles you have talked me through Tex. This community that the BPL has built feels like a real family and the content you produce shames those whose job should be to be your betters. Incredible stuff.
Easy there, Professor Tex, you nearly gave me a heart attack seeing this before realizing this was a trailer.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
As one of the most rock solid mech chassis of all time I can not wait for you to sermonize, platitudinize, and expound on the venerable Hunchback's history!
I remember reading that line "the captain of my soul" while I was in Georgia in a hospital waiting room. Great shit.
Name a machine that always out numbered, out gunned, out classed, short of spare parts, replacement pilots, and fighting on world that are more ruins than city. A mech that has seen more galactic empires rise and fall, and still has their heads of trophies. And I will call it the hunchback two.
HELL. FUCKING. YEAH. My body is ALWAYS ready for more Tex Talks Battletech.
The raw power of the ending got me like
🫡✊🏻💪🏻🔥📝
This has me excited, because while I'm luke-warm on the Hunchback as a mech, it's the background history around it that I'm excited about, because this was a mech created during the Reunification Wars and specifically the Taurian Campaigns. This is going to be good!
Epic, and only the trailer. Definitely can not wait until we the gem made by these guys.
Gonna be a real rockin lecture, cant wait for the release date Prof. Checkers!
Damn Tex. That delivery. Got an Optimus Prime's salty sibling vibe, there.
Yes! Tex Back when he had all his bits. I am happy to see more custom art work again sir.
I need a tex audio book narration series soo bad. Damn this is gonna be a gooder!
I have been waiting for so long. The hunchback. My beloved. My body is so ready, tex.
Get hype! The King has returned!