So Battle Tech content is popular for the reasons of: * I Dig Giant Robots * You Dig Giant Robots * Chicks Dig Giant Robots * We Dig Giant Robots Most things that are able to go over stuff about giant robots in any depth will get some decent views
@@BeardedGuy_Tawhid it's a reference to Megas cartoon opening song. The lyrics literally say that and it clearly has a parodical intention, cos as you said, chicks normally don't dig giant robots.
@@Uuuu-y8s I took it as more him just being upset with me using the word "chicks". Which does have flavours of being a bit on the pejorative side of ways to refer to women
I wonder how much of Alexander's decision to not rule the Star League had something to do with the character of his sons. Or I should say, his one psychopath son.
I've been playing battletech for decades and love the in depth lore other channels get into. But I also absolutely love your bar room style of "A'ight, check this crazy shit out..."
Having just gotten into the universe because of MW5 clans, I went searching for lore videos for beginners and you popped up. That intro sold me. If you can’t be silly with your fandom, that’s just not my bag. Looking forward to the entire playlist.
I kinda wish comstar added an exception to Tukkayid deal that went "ok you can't invade past this point, but if you want to burn Capellans to the ground you go on a trip down there, have fun"
My dude, do not compare yourself to BPL or Mr. Tex. You are not Mr. Tex. And that's a good thing. Why would we need a second one, first one is great. You do YOUR stuff the way you want to do it. If I'd wanted to watch more BPL, I'd go there, not here.
My understanding is that most of their abbreviations stem back to Nickolia's brother. They were verbal ticks/slang specific to him that was carried on by the Clans after his death in Operation Klondike.
Contractions are a crime, but we already have our own that are acceptable. Neg (negative), Aff (affirmative), batchall (Battle Challenge) desgra (disgraceful). It's kinda hypocritical.
Where did we come from? Simple; BT nerds are constantly searching for more content (as opposed to Star Wars nerds who get it shoved down their throat every year more or less and have a billion commentators) so whenever someone covers BT, we crawl from our holes and basements to listen
We all look for more content, and as someone just getting into Battletech the lore has been so juicy and full of characters and your content has really, really been helpful, fun, enjoyable and informative about this universe. I'm really glad I found the giant stompy robots and the welcoming community it has. Not going to lie I kinda wish I had more time to play and learn the table top game outside of video games. I hope your friend gets better soon! You two are so nerdy and fun to listen to I look forward to all the content you guys have in store for us!
I feel like you can, battletech is one of the most easily accesable table top games out there. Hell, you can find the rules online for free or you could pay for a starter box set for like, 40 bucks. You get everything you need to start off with 2v2 games. It's simple, easy and super accesable. hell, just get the rules and substitute in litteraly anything that has a discernable front, side and back. I feel like battletech is the perfect introduction to tabletop gaming.
I picked up "Blood Legacy" at at a used book shop in 1995. I was thirteen years old, and had no idea that it was the second book in a trilogy and had never heard of BattleTech and was not a RPG or tabletop enthusiast, so I just got dumped into the middle of this massive universe. Michael Stackpole is such a good author that I was immediately invested in the story and was able to glean a lot of key details of the lore through natural sounding dialog and observations of characters, rather than block exposition. To this day the Battle Tech universe is one of my favorite sci-fi destinations. Really enjoy your style. Hope you keep it going!
Great video, this series is gonna be great. Sorry your buddy missed it, but it's also fantastic having a 50 minute explanation of the Clans instead of the exhaustive start-to-finish Tex has created on The Clans. They're sensational videos start to finish, but they're an entire series you need to kinda watch in order to understand whats happening which means you have to Start with the Amaris Civil War videos, then the Clans videos, which is like, 7 hours of content which isn't really digestible to send to a beginner if they wanna learn. They're what you send to your newly introduced friend when they want to know what REALLY happened.
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 I'm not saying it's incomprehensible at all, but if you're going to get a friend into Battletech who only knows vaguely of what Battletech is (i.e they only know it's big stompy robots) then you don't send them Tex's videos, they'll bounce right off them without ever getting to all the cool shit that makes the universe so complex and considered. Just because something is excellently put together, it doesn't mean it's accessible to the masses.
Referring to the Great House Lord's as 5 toddlers made me laugh! I hope any comments I previously left were not too harsh. I do love Tex and the Black Pants Legion, but if that was the only take on BattleTech I was interested in, I wouldn't be here. I am enjoying your sense of humor, and that of your friend. I was introduced to BattleTech in 1990, and it has been one of my favorite fictions ever since, and my favorite game. I hope your sense of humor helps bring more new fans to the table!
Thats basically what they were, rarely you had actual competent ones who see the bigger picture like the Kuritan one during the Amaris civil war. I highly recommend Sven van Der Plank's battletech deep lore project, its about to start the second succession war and its by far the deepest in order coverage of al available lore from politics, events , batttles big and small. Its also a project that pretty much all of the other lore tubers are giving support and for good reason , i especially love Tex's guest apparences in it.
I really, like really like the format of these episodes, and the fun comes first vision that you have exercised so far, not to mention the topic, battletech in itself (along with the 40k, Alien and other references) is as cool as it can get. You have cheered me up with the mood of these videos after having a hard time during the holiday and about to face the annual performance review at work which is going to be brutal. Thanks man!
I'm sure someone else has probably said it already but I'll do it for the youtube engagement. Only the battle armor pilots were genetically engineered to be giants. The mechwarriors were typically standard human sized because their cockpits were often no better than the IS ones. Other genetically altered pilots (aerospace I think) were bred to be smaller but smarter, I'll have to double check.
24:35 Clan Diamond Shark allow everyone to be represented in Clan Council, with the Scientist and Merchant castes having roughly equal standing with the Warriors and voting power, while the Technicians and Labourers have a more limited say. Clan Ghost Bear also allows everyone to participate in Clan Council regardless of Caste or Bloodnamed status, but only Bloodnamed Warriors can actually make proposals before the Council. I'm not sure how this changed exactly following their merger with Rasalhague. 31:50 Bloodnames are tracked matrilinearly, so I'm not entirely sure how some of the bloodnames got going, though given Clan genetic science I'm pretty sure they could splice some of Nicky's DNA onto some donated or cloned ovums. Its also worth noting that while Clans do practice eugenics, other than ensuring that the genestock of Warriors is free of any genetic or inherited defects, they don't do any selection or tweaking beyond that. 36:59
I think Clan Nova Cat also didn't have as much of Warrior supremacy, simply because visions and visionaries (like Shamans, or something like that) were so important that everyone else pretty much equal before the power that vision masters had, but I'm not sure.
Ok the matrilineally is somewhat misleading. It is from the "female donor" in a sense yes but it has nothing to do with actually them being female. Essentially which ever gene sequence they use to create the ovum is the "female" and the sequence that is inserted is the male. Yes you can have 2 guys or 2 chicks or technically speaking yourself with yourself being the parents genetically. Clan medical science its amazing how advanced it is yet how barbaric they are.
First of all, I can't believe I didn't put two and two together that you're RC. That explains why you sounded so familiar; it'd been driving me nuts. lol Elementals are about the only instance I can think of where somebody has made a mass produced super soldier and not have some horrible side effects or some other crazy negative like stealing children, or having most of the "Recruits" die. Once a creche has been birthed you just need to wait for them to mature to adulthood and add ancient spartan style training them in the meantime. Heck, if they have kids naturally, the kids would inherit everything from the elemental parent just like a normal human. Honestly I'd argue the Aerospace and Elemental phenotypes are flat out subspecies of homo sapiens, and not just different body types/variance
The part about Clans culture that is the most strange to me is that they have no public entertainment like TV shows or radio stations. Like, how the hell did they defeated procrastination? Do they spend their free time really just socializing and beating each others faces over random stuff? This makes WH40k universe look like a documentary!
Of those new subscribers, one's me. Hi. You're entertaining and informative without getting lost in details, so that makes it fun to listen to your "storytime" videos. So I'm kinda... just waiting for the other two parts, noticing your other videos on Star Wars starfighters and adding them to the list to poke at later. Some form of successfully being noticed and supported is what people who can be entertaining deserve... with some exceptions. :)
I like celebration dances, etc. for NFL touchdowns. I also like the class of the player who just tosses the zebra the ball after scoring. I dig Tex but there's room for a more fun approach to the BattleTech universe. Keep up the good work!
Just so you know, i'm currently binging through all of the lore on this channel and my early impression is that you absolutely deserve the growth and attention of us viewers. The videos have great coherency, are enjoyable to watch and you drag us in with pointed mentionings of interesting facts only to expand on them to show us a different facet of the BT universe that ties up with whatever you're currently showing us. great stuff.
When it comes to the "breeding programs" you missed out the fact that the eugenics is strictly for the warriors. For the other castes it went back to the old style of selective marriages. Children are raised together and tested. When they fail, they get kicked out and assigned to lesser castes. And, since they were bred to be big and strong, Elemental dropouts tend to be assigned as Laborers.
I think you're cool and a good person, youtube man. I like it when you and your friend talk to each other. I also like when you talk to yourself. Your content is great to listen to when I am sleepy and I want to hear about robots
Imagine how it must've felt to be the first Inner Sphere sap to discover elementals aren't mere tiny mechs, but rather: hueg dommy mommies in exoskeletons out to crush that inner-sphussy.
Aleksandr Kerensky was a man that had watched everything he had lived for die. He was faced with a dilemma that had no good solutions and chose the option he thought best under the circumstances. His son Nicholas would twist his dream into something unrecognizable as fanatical eugenicists mongol horde free lovers. That said I'm surprised more SLDF Royal units didn't stay, then again their attrition rates during the civil war were horrendous dispite them having the best the SLDF could give them. The Royal Regiments loyalty oaths were not to the Star League, they were to House Cameron and the Terran Hegemony. This is why way back in the 80s and 90s when the Exodus was first mentioned I had issues with Kerensky's decision. Now I'm a genX that grew up in a US military family on both sides of the tree that went back to the revolution. I then served in the US armed forces myself. I take my service oath to the Constitution and People of the United States very seriously. I also have studied history for fun and understand that in a feudal society the oaths are often to a Royal individual or lineage and the Cameron's were dead. However the worlds of the Terran Hegemony remained, the Hegemony citizens remained, those worlds had all been ravaged by not just conventional war but nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. It is not easy but survivors can be moved to safer places, minefields and contamination can be cleaned up, infrastructure can be rebuilt... and instead Kerensky took most of the SLDF including all its engineer and medical units, logistical assets, and families and fled. This is why for the table top I created a mercenary force that claims to be descendants of SLDF Royal Regimental Combat Team that despise Kerensky, Comstar, and the MRB. A unit that stayed behind because it's support elements could be used to repair the damage done and help the Hegemony survivors while providing security and safety to them. Like everything in Battletech their story is ultimately a tragedy but it made sense that more than the Eridani and Highlanders would stay behind. Then I named them the Discordant Lead as personal way to poke fun at Harmony Gold.
@@haardo Yup and the I isn't invisible for pronunciation ether it's straight up spoken leer-un(close as I can get in my sleep fogged state this morning).
I remember in one of the novels when Martha Pryde and Vlad Wolf have intimacy it was described as "a fight where no one wins versus the other." or some such.
After I got a bit tired of 40k after countless books I recently heard my first battletech adiobook and I am very interested in this universe now... Your style is very good, in 40k soany are "keepers of the flame" which is very nerv wrecking... A cool approach like yours is very enjoyable.. Keep it up
Thank the youtube algorithm, I got here because I was watching vids about Battletech Alpha Strike, and Roguetech and because I already watched BPL vids before.
I definitely have to say, things are better when Steve is there for you to bounce things off of! 😛 Also, your channel many not have the production quality of Black Pants Legion. But it is good to have things presented from multiple perspectives. Just need to more clearly define what your perspective is.
fun facts about the clan eugenics: the huge ones are pretty much only for battle armor usage; they have 2 other phenotypes: one is the mech pilot, who are still beefy dudes and ladies and larger than average but not to the ridiculous extant of an elemental (thoguh it can depans.. some look just as massive), and more importantly are selected for brains that interface more easily with mech neuro-helmets, and they have another phenotype for aerospace fighter pilots, who have small, skinny bodies that take little space as well as huge heads for increased brainpower, making them look like your stereotype grey alien in shape. think they also made another later on for protomechs, selecting for small size again as space in a protomech for the pilot is at a premium; its to the point the sphere would need to resort to child soldiers to get their own protomech pilots, explaining why even in the more advanced eras, only the clans use protomechs at all. (you can use machinery to make up for your guy being too small after all like in battle armor, but cant when the operator is too big) Point being that they dont try to create a single ubermensch, but instead seek a constant improvement of task-oriented phenotypes. Also its implied despite all the selecting, the mech and aerospace pilots are no better at their jobs than an average eprson would be if they went through the same (very through and effective) clan training. Elementals are the exception because, well... muscle mass matters for shock troops, there is NO getting around that :p also a big difference between the yatzees and the clanners is that while they look down on those NOT part of the breeding program, they will NEVER build death camps for them even for the most ruthless ones; sure they will be kept lower on the totem pole, but they are still a part of society (and in some clans there is no hangup about them becoming leaders as long as they pass trials like everyone else)
Tell that last part to the "Not Named Clan" non warrior castes. Either out right killed during battle, or they were sterilized en mass. Sibkos were annihilated en mass including those in the incubation pods that were found. iLKhan Nicholas Kerensky was ruthless and didn't want to live under the shadow of his father nor have his brother Andery remembered who died suspiciously in combat during the Pentagon Wars.
imagine the turmoil if aleksandr took the throne and his son later inherited it, that would end battletech as a setting good job aleksandr, you saved battletech
I don't think Kerensky refused a new Star League throne just out of a sense of loyalties to ideals I think there were some very pragmatic reasons behind it all as well. While many in the SLDF would have followed him not everyone would, the SLDF was composed of people from across the Inner Sphere with loyalties to the various great houses, not absolute loyalties certainly but loyalties that would be seriously strained and for some broken if they were forced to fight the great houses. After the exodus but before the creation of the clans there was a civil war amongst the SLDF that broke down along IS great house lines. I think Kerensky feared that the same would happen to the SLDF if it stayed and fought there. Alongside this is the fact that having already seen the carnage that a fight to displace Amaris and impose order extracted on the Inner Sphere he could see that at best the future for the IS was going to be exceedingly bloody as the greater forces and weapons of the SLDF resulted in an even more destructive Succession War then they already had. Beyond not wanting to participate in that clusterfuck I do think there was a loyalty to the soldiers of the SLDF and not wanting to put them through that horrific conflict as well and wanting to honor their efforts against Amaris by keeping them out of the mess to come. Realistically even with the power of the SLDF I don't think Kerensky could have held together the Star League by force, probably not for his lifetime and certainly not for the lifetime of his son.
Contractions are indeed used as a common part of clan speech QuiAff? (they just are not what we are used to.) IMO much of what a clanner would use as a contraction likely stems from military shorthand. In the end I think it is more portmanteau than "contraction" I have only been a clanner since maybe 89, so I am still learning this stuff. :) Use of Qui Aff and Qui Neg are simply I am asking a question... I expect this answer. (I have always heard it pronounced like QWee including in the battletech cartoon (Which BTW is cannon, but is generally treated as a FedCom propaganda show thus explaining the inconsistencies with established cannon lore)
Except for my beloved Nova Cats not a fan of the Clans , the egalitarian Australian in me despises their world view . And that's saying something as my inner sphere factions are mainly Capellans and Dracs with some other forces on the side
17:00 It just hit me the grand exodus of the SLDF reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica *Humming BSG main soundtrack* "Fleeing Successorstate folly the members of the SLDF tries desperately to find a new home to begin the Star League anew." “ Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was the foundation Upon which our true society was to be built. Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks: They shall have our undying gratitude, For they are the muscle behind us all. Merchants to buy and sell with fairness: They shall have our commerce and respect, For they are the bones upon which we are built. Technicians to build and fix the machines: They shall have our admiration, For they are the fingers with which we grasp life. Scientists to create and discover: They shall have our awe and our attention, For they are the mind of our society. And above all, the Warriors who protect: They shall have our cooperation and worship, For they are the blood and soul of us all. ” - The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 67, Verse 26, Lines 21-37[1]
Decent video but I've got to contradict on one point in the final section: there's definitely Cloud Cobra clanners who can teach you all about yoga, flexibility and managing your qi. They just, well, never invaded in the Inner Sphere, so you'll never meet one.
Im gonna be real with you. The reveal of Armored Core 6 just made me interested in mechs again and I started looking back into MechWarriror. So now... Here I am. I tend to like the "muscle car" approach to mechs that happens in the west.
Grayson Death Carlyle, founder, my first playable scout lance in the 80s. Pewter minis, painted. Enjoyed those days, spent a ton on all the sourcebooks, novels, worked my way up to a company under the Grey Death Legion. Had cases custom cutouts foam for my company minis. Had wins and losses during my BT days. Even struck out mechs downed and rolled for recovery. Had made battle damaged mechs for the terrain map replacements. It looked cool vs tipping over a mech killed. Lost everything in storage🤷♂️with my battlefield dioramas and hex maps.
Kerenski, the big hero. That knew billions of people were about to die in horrible unchecked war. And decided to do nothing about it. As a matter a fact. Took the only entity that could have prevented it. He could have easily set military law for a decade and create a constitutional democracy easily, then give up power to the voting public. Something that had many examples throughout history. The man was no hero. He oversaw literally the devolvement of humanity in which it would never recover from.
And how, precisely, do you think he could have done something about the Houses? They already showed by unanimous decision they weren't going to follow his lead when they striped him of his titles so that means the ENTIRE Inner Sphere ganging up on him after he just got done fighting 16 years of one of the most brutal wars humanity has ever seen. The Amaris Coup could be pulled off because SLDF couldn't be everywhere at once and the bulk of their forces got pulled to the Periphery. If he just took over the Hegemony, he'd be facing a 5-front war which means the Succession Wars. At best, humanity would be at WH40k's Age of Strife by the time it all fell out.
Not all omni-mech technology belonged to the Clans by the end of 3059, as the one Inner Sphere lance that survived landfall during Operation Bulldog, the decapitation strike to take down the leadership of Clan Smoke Jaguar had a Sunder, a 90-ton, Inner Sphere built and designed omni-mech when they hit the planet at Tranquil.
I had hoped you'd touch on the ..incident aboard the Prinz Eugen and Elizabeth Hazen, but alas... Perhaps an invitation for your audience to also take a look at Tex' video ;-)
*Generic sitcom music* Clan Women: "Husband, you are on toilet duty" Innersphere man: "yes honey, your the bo-..." Clan Women: "...Excuse me?' Innersphere man: "...shit... NO I MENT YOU ARE THE BO-" *grabbed by neck and dragged to the bedroom kicking and pleading* *Audience laughs*
*Cuts to Bedroom* *Husband's barely alive with his pelvic crushed* Clan Women: "Now repeat that?" Innersphere man: *coughing blood* "BRING ME A AMBULANCE!" *Audience laughs as it fades to black*
I like the light hearted and meme takes on MechWarriors. I'm new to the IP so I appreciate surface level lore. I would probably fall asleep if it were serious and I f I want in depth or more info I can Google it Alex Karenski is essentially the George Washington of mech warrior. LoL
everyone calles Kerensky this great general but in my option he is not in fact he is a deserter who took the force that was built for one reason: to keep the peace and prevent the great houses from having the succession wars, but he fled and allowed nearly 400 years of brutality and bloodshed. he should have played the role of peacekeeper and could have even fostered a neutral faction to take on the role of the camrons. or in short much like in the plot of gladiator sometimes humble men must assume the roles of power so as to keep more ambitious and evil men from inflicting woes unto the innocent citizens of the empire
Good point :-) but he was still a great general on the battlefield and won pretty much every fight he was part of...Alexander the Great wasn't a great guy but won every fight and designed a logistics for warfare that is still employed today hence the name....I'm not a clanner by the way I'm inner sphere forever but credit where's credit is due I suppose :-)
Succession wars would have still happened and arguably would have been far worse if the SLDF decided to stick around and put their foot down. They were already dealing with defections and poaching of their forces by the great houses and the remains of the Star League just did not have the infrastructure to take over the inner sphere let alone keeping the great houses civil with one another (They couldn't even do it when they were in their prime before Amaris's coupe). Plus he knew a no win situation when he saw one. He saw enough over his long career to know that his forces would have done more harm trying to "keep the peace" and be reduced to meat in a grinder since all the great houses were willing to use a total war approach. This meant every single type of weapon ever made being unleashed and every man, woman, child, building, ship, space station, moon, and planet being a target. He was by no means a deserter (can't really call it desertion when the entire army and navy comes with you of their own volition).
K, didn't see it in the first several comments though it might have been pointed out later, but l feel like you missed an important part of Clan culture. The Clans are almost pathologically frugal. My memory is a little hazy on the exact order and which side gets to declare the time and place once a Batchall has been issue, but the defender declares the number and type of forces they will be defending with and then the challenger has to declare the number and type of forces they will attack with...however, if the number of forces the challenger declares isn't significantly smaller than the defenders, the challenger will lose face and their courage and honor will be questioned. They might even find themselves challenged for wasting resources. This was the primary reason Comstar was able to fight the Clans to a draw on Tukayyid resulting in a 15yr truce. If the clans had come with their full force, they would have steamrolled the Com Guard. Thanks to the Clan pride in their frugality, they underestimated the Com Guard and failed to commit sufficient forces (aside from Clan Wolf's victory which coupled with the losses inflicted by Clan Jade Falcon as they retreated rendered the Com Guard combat ineffective enough to sue for a draw).
I'm kinda surprised you didn't mention the Battletech cartoon which is canonically watched by Jade Falcon children, and is basically laughed at because of how weird it is.
I think yoga is very popular with the clans. Here is the reason. No blind spot. There is no where within fist range you can hide. That fist will find you. Even behind and the middle of there back. You know the spot right behind the shoulders. Clanners can punch that sopt.
As of this year they now have a furry cartoon before the clan invasion, where the inner sprea are evil monkeys and the clans are other animals trying to take it back
Forgetting the novel name, but you can see the initial terms (and the changes taking place even then...) Quiaff = Query Affirmative, Quineg = Query Negative. Which... yeah, I'd create a contraction there too. >.>
It would be the novel of the "Not Named Clan." When I read it, it opened my eyes to the treachery, obfuscation used by both the iLKhan and Clan Widowmaker in separate ways. You can take the human out of the IS, but you can't take the IS out of the human, even to current events on terra with Clan Wolf.
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So Battle Tech content is popular for the reasons of:
* I Dig Giant Robots
* You Dig Giant Robots
* Chicks Dig Giant Robots
* We Dig Giant Robots
Most things that are able to go over stuff about giant robots in any depth will get some decent views
Dat megas reference :')
And tanks. Don’t forget the tanks.
There’s no “chicks”
On the internet your just chatting about robots with other nerds
Which is fine.. it’s a nerd thing
@@BeardedGuy_Tawhid it's a reference to Megas cartoon opening song. The lyrics literally say that and it clearly has a parodical intention, cos as you said, chicks normally don't dig giant robots.
@@Uuuu-y8s I took it as more him just being upset with me using the word "chicks". Which does have flavours of being a bit on the pejorative side of ways to refer to women
I wonder how much of Alexander's decision to not rule the Star League had something to do with the character of his sons. Or I should say, his one psychopath son.
Getting picked up in a bar by a Clanner really gives a new meaning to "Smash or Pass."
A whiskey soaked history teacher once said, "Think of it as a trial of position".
When he said "Say yes, say goodbye to your pelvis," I immediately went death by snu snu!
Do you dare ignore my puachall?
@@shadowcaptaincain aff 🫡
@@heboric6136RAC5 go brbrbr
I've been playing battletech for decades and love the in depth lore other channels get into. But I also absolutely love your bar room style of "A'ight, check this crazy shit out..."
Oh boy the Clans what a thing they are. Sorry your buddy missed it cause these guys are a riot and hopefully he is doing well.
Having just gotten into the universe because of MW5 clans, I went searching for lore videos for beginners and you popped up. That intro sold me. If you can’t be silly with your fandom, that’s just not my bag. Looking forward to the entire playlist.
I kinda wish comstar added an exception to Tukkayid deal that went "ok you can't invade past this point, but if you want to burn Capellans to the ground you go on a trip down there, have fun"
Only problem is that to get to the Capellans from the direction they were coming from, they would have to pass through Terra
@@connormclernon26 Charge a toll to the jumpships that are 'just passing through to crush Capellans'.
set up a direct jump lane for that specific purpose, basically a highway to capellans past terra
My dude, do not compare yourself to BPL or Mr. Tex. You are not Mr. Tex. And that's a good thing. Why would we need a second one, first one is great. You do YOUR stuff the way you want to do it. If I'd wanted to watch more BPL, I'd go there, not here.
too damn right, just have your own style of presenting this universe and go with the flow
I love me some Tex and the BPL, however I also feel I need a different approach and take on things as well. Well done gents, keep up the good work.
My understanding is that most of their abbreviations stem back to Nickolia's brother. They were verbal ticks/slang specific to him that was carried on by the Clans after his death in Operation Klondike.
Contractions are a crime, but we already have our own that are acceptable. Neg (negative), Aff (affirmative), batchall (Battle Challenge) desgra (disgraceful). It's kinda hypocritical.
@MrDmitriRavenoff Those aren't contractions though.
Where did we come from? Simple; BT nerds are constantly searching for more content (as opposed to Star Wars nerds who get it shoved down their throat every year more or less and have a billion commentators) so whenever someone covers BT, we crawl from our holes and basements to listen
The dire dolphin got it in one.
Yeah almost nobody covers the best sci-fi game universe, so when someone does cover it we come running the moment we're made aware. Keep it up!
@@mrfawkes9110 Yeah I can only think of three other people who regularly cover battletech. Black pants legion/Tex,Mechanical Frog and Big Red 40k
Khan Phelan Ward😐is that you😑where is your codex🤔
As a Warhammer refugee who has taken up the flag of Battle Tech, I must concur
You are now a Battletech channel. This is your destiny. That's what we're here for. Glory to Kerensky!
We all look for more content, and as someone just getting into Battletech the lore has been so juicy and full of characters and your content has really, really been helpful, fun, enjoyable and informative about this universe. I'm really glad I found the giant stompy robots and the welcoming community it has. Not going to lie I kinda wish I had more time to play and learn the table top game outside of video games.
I hope your friend gets better soon! You two are so nerdy and fun to listen to I look forward to all the content you guys have in store for us!
I feel like you can, battletech is one of the most easily accesable table top games out there. Hell, you can find the rules online for free or you could pay for a starter box set for like, 40 bucks. You get everything you need to start off with 2v2 games. It's simple, easy and super accesable. hell, just get the rules and substitute in litteraly anything that has a discernable front, side and back.
I feel like battletech is the perfect introduction to tabletop gaming.
I picked up "Blood Legacy" at at a used book shop in 1995. I was thirteen years old, and had no idea that it was the second book in a trilogy and had never heard of BattleTech and was not a RPG or tabletop enthusiast, so I just got dumped into the middle of this massive universe. Michael Stackpole is such a good author that I was immediately invested in the story and was able to glean a lot of key details of the lore through natural sounding dialog and observations of characters, rather than block exposition. To this day the Battle Tech universe is one of my favorite sci-fi destinations.
Really enjoy your style. Hope you keep it going!
I absolutely love the level of love you have for Tex and BPL. Those guys are epic.
Don't worry buddy. Having a fun, flippant, bar table discussion of battletech is just as great as the deep dives.
Great video, this series is gonna be great. Sorry your buddy missed it, but it's also fantastic having a 50 minute explanation of the Clans instead of the exhaustive start-to-finish Tex has created on The Clans. They're sensational videos start to finish, but they're an entire series you need to kinda watch in order to understand whats happening which means you have to Start with the Amaris Civil War videos, then the Clans videos, which is like, 7 hours of content which isn't really digestible to send to a beginner if they wanna learn. They're what you send to your newly introduced friend when they want to know what REALLY happened.
Tex and not digestible?I don't know about that. Or mental capacity for comprehension is worse than I tend to anticipate.
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 I'm not saying it's incomprehensible at all, but if you're going to get a friend into Battletech who only knows vaguely of what Battletech is (i.e they only know it's big stompy robots) then you don't send them Tex's videos, they'll bounce right off them without ever getting to all the cool shit that makes the universe so complex and considered. Just because something is excellently put together, it doesn't mean it's accessible to the masses.
@@xGamermonkeyx Hmm... A fair point.
Thank god BattleTech finally getting the love it deserves
You pretty much said it, you put your heart and soul into this something some game developers have turned into the equivalent of lostech.
Referring to the Great House Lord's as 5 toddlers made me laugh!
I hope any comments I previously left were not too harsh. I do love Tex and the Black Pants Legion, but if that was the only take on BattleTech I was interested in, I wouldn't be here. I am enjoying your sense of humor, and that of your friend. I was introduced to BattleTech in 1990, and it has been one of my favorite fictions ever since, and my favorite game. I hope your sense of humor helps bring more new fans to the table!
Thats basically what they were, rarely you had actual competent ones who see the bigger picture like the Kuritan one during the Amaris civil war. I highly recommend Sven van Der Plank's battletech deep lore project, its about to start the second succession war and its by far the deepest in order coverage of al available lore from politics, events , batttles big and small. Its also a project that pretty much all of the other lore tubers are giving support and for good reason , i especially love Tex's guest apparences in it.
@@cropathfinder Sven does awesome work. And I love that he has so many other creators as guests... it's really awesome!
I really, like really like the format of these episodes, and the fun comes first vision that you have exercised so far, not to mention the topic, battletech in itself (along with the 40k, Alien and other references) is as cool as it can get. You have cheered me up with the mood of these videos after having a hard time during the holiday and about to face the annual performance review at work which is going to be brutal. Thanks man!
Nice.
When discussing the planet that the Clans take over after winning a football match.... .with appropriate Space Jam pics in the background.
Thank you
That was hilarious.
A fun listen!
I'm sure someone else has probably said it already but I'll do it for the youtube engagement.
Only the battle armor pilots were genetically engineered to be giants. The mechwarriors were typically standard human sized because their cockpits were often no better than the IS ones. Other genetically altered pilots (aerospace I think) were bred to be smaller but smarter, I'll have to double check.
24:35 Clan Diamond Shark allow everyone to be represented in Clan Council, with the Scientist and Merchant castes having roughly equal standing with the Warriors and voting power, while the Technicians and Labourers have a more limited say.
Clan Ghost Bear also allows everyone to participate in Clan Council regardless of Caste or Bloodnamed status, but only Bloodnamed Warriors can actually make proposals before the Council. I'm not sure how this changed exactly following their merger with Rasalhague.
31:50 Bloodnames are tracked matrilinearly, so I'm not entirely sure how some of the bloodnames got going, though given Clan genetic science I'm pretty sure they could splice some of Nicky's DNA onto some donated or cloned ovums.
Its also worth noting that while Clans do practice eugenics, other than ensuring that the genestock of Warriors is free of any genetic or inherited defects, they don't do any selection or tweaking beyond that.
36:59
🤔Diamond Sharks do the EXACT same thing the "Not Named Clan" did, when iLKhan Nicholas Kerensky was alive🤦♂️
I think Clan Nova Cat also didn't have as much of Warrior supremacy, simply because visions and visionaries (like Shamans, or something like that) were so important that everyone else pretty much equal before the power that vision masters had, but I'm not sure.
Ok the matrilineally is somewhat misleading. It is from the "female donor" in a sense yes but it has nothing to do with actually them being female. Essentially which ever gene sequence they use to create the ovum is the "female" and the sequence that is inserted is the male. Yes you can have 2 guys or 2 chicks or technically speaking yourself with yourself being the parents genetically.
Clan medical science its amazing how advanced it is yet how barbaric they are.
A year later. I think MW5 is what got me into looking at lore and thus finding this channel. Love everything about it. Happy you are doing well!
First of all, I can't believe I didn't put two and two together that you're RC. That explains why you sounded so familiar; it'd been driving me nuts. lol
Elementals are about the only instance I can think of where somebody has made a mass produced super soldier and not have some horrible side effects or some other crazy negative like stealing children, or having most of the "Recruits" die. Once a creche has been birthed you just need to wait for them to mature to adulthood and add ancient spartan style training them in the meantime. Heck, if they have kids naturally, the kids would inherit everything from the elemental parent just like a normal human.
Honestly I'd argue the Aerospace and Elemental phenotypes are flat out subspecies of homo sapiens, and not just different body types/variance
You make Battletech videos, and you do it well. That's all I need to subscribe.
Anyone else here because they are getting into Battletech for the first time because of MW 5 Clans?
Yep, the game does a shite job filling in the blanks about the big picture but I loved the game
The part about Clans culture that is the most strange to me is that they have no public entertainment like TV shows or radio stations. Like, how the hell did they defeated procrastination? Do they spend their free time really just socializing and beating each others faces over random stuff? This makes WH40k universe look like a documentary!
Of those new subscribers, one's me. Hi. You're entertaining and informative without getting lost in details, so that makes it fun to listen to your "storytime" videos. So I'm kinda... just waiting for the other two parts, noticing your other videos on Star Wars starfighters and adding them to the list to poke at later.
Some form of successfully being noticed and supported is what people who can be entertaining deserve... with some exceptions. :)
I like celebration dances, etc. for NFL touchdowns. I also like the class of the player who just tosses the zebra the ball after scoring. I dig Tex but there's room for a more fun approach to the BattleTech universe. Keep up the good work!
Incredible narration. This is my favorite lore channel.
Just so you know, i'm currently binging through all of the lore on this channel and my early impression is that you absolutely deserve the growth and attention of us viewers.
The videos have great coherency, are enjoyable to watch and you drag us in with pointed mentionings of interesting facts only to expand on them to show us a different facet of the BT universe that ties up with whatever you're currently showing us.
great stuff.
"10 ft tall amazon gf" ah yes, Tex's Ex Wife. When "reproduction" is synonymous with "An extended Trial Of Position".
One advantage to having a Clanner wife: if she's Trueborn, you don't have in-laws to worry about.
Great one RC and I can't wait for the next episode.
Cheers bud and happy holidays!
When it comes to the "breeding programs" you missed out the fact that the eugenics is strictly for the warriors. For the other castes it went back to the old style of selective marriages.
Children are raised together and tested. When they fail, they get kicked out and assigned to lesser castes. And, since they were bred to be big and strong, Elemental dropouts tend to be assigned as Laborers.
You know, I wasn't really a fan of eugenics until you mentioned 10-foot tall muscle mommy and now I'm questioning all my principles
An absolute boss move, spawning a new order of life "up north". Nice.
So battle challenge between clans can also be an afternoon of me and my friends playing battle tech.
We get a bit of the language spoken aloud in MechWarrior 3 from time to time
I thought Battle Tech sport would be a couple of the really big mechs kicking an Urbie back and forth.
Honestly the Clanners are how i run orks in my d&d settings the strict cast system and war worship make it a perfect model.
I think you're cool and a good person, youtube man. I like it when you and your friend talk to each other. I also like when you talk to yourself. Your content is great to listen to when I am sleepy and I want to hear about robots
Imagine how it must've felt to be the first Inner Sphere sap to discover elementals aren't mere tiny mechs, but rather: hueg dommy mommies in exoskeletons out to crush that inner-sphussy.
Aleksandr Kerensky was a man that had watched everything he had lived for die. He was faced with a dilemma that had no good solutions and chose the option he thought best under the circumstances. His son Nicholas would twist his dream into something unrecognizable as fanatical eugenicists mongol horde free lovers.
That said I'm surprised more SLDF Royal units didn't stay, then again their attrition rates during the civil war were horrendous dispite them having the best the SLDF could give them. The Royal Regiments loyalty oaths were not to the Star League, they were to House Cameron and the Terran Hegemony.
This is why way back in the 80s and 90s when the Exodus was first mentioned I had issues with Kerensky's decision. Now I'm a genX that grew up in a US military family on both sides of the tree that went back to the revolution. I then served in the US armed forces myself. I take my service oath to the Constitution and People of the United States very seriously. I also have studied history for fun and understand that in a feudal society the oaths are often to a Royal individual or lineage and the Cameron's were dead. However the worlds of the Terran Hegemony remained, the Hegemony citizens remained, those worlds had all been ravaged by not just conventional war but nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. It is not easy but survivors can be moved to safer places, minefields and contamination can be cleaned up, infrastructure can be rebuilt... and instead Kerensky took most of the SLDF including all its engineer and medical units, logistical assets, and families and fled.
This is why for the table top I created a mercenary force that claims to be descendants of SLDF Royal Regimental Combat Team that despise Kerensky, Comstar, and the MRB. A unit that stayed behind because it's support elements could be used to repair the damage done and help the Hegemony survivors while providing security and safety to them. Like everything in Battletech their story is ultimately a tragedy but it made sense that more than the Eridani and Highlanders would stay behind. Then I named them the Discordant Lead as personal way to poke fun at Harmony Gold.
My only commentary is a tiny nitpick, it's Lyran Commonwealth not Lyrian Commonwealth.
Was about to comment the same thing, glad I checked someone already said it. :)
@@haardo Yup and the I isn't invisible for pronunciation ether it's straight up spoken leer-un(close as I can get in my sleep fogged state this morning).
@@catloverjerrygarcia5086 or Lee-run with short "lee", kinda like jet li but not with two pronounced i's, just one. Hard to explain. :D
I found out the hard way on a Battletech subreddit that people take this lore VERY seriously. It's refreshing to see a more lighthearted take on it
6 million seems a paltry figure though given how many world's are occupied at this point
14:11 my favorite bit, since the House Leaders realize they screwed up
I remember in one of the novels when Martha Pryde and Vlad Wolf have intimacy it was described as "a fight where no one wins versus the other." or some such.
This channel should pop off. Genuine high podcast value
Man you dont need hold yourself to Tex’s standards of content quality, I actually prefer this adeptus ridiculous style of content
After I got a bit tired of 40k after countless books I recently heard my first battletech adiobook and I am very interested in this universe now... Your style is very good, in 40k soany are "keepers of the flame" which is very nerv wrecking... A cool approach like yours is very enjoyable.. Keep it up
One note you missed....its that the 5 house lords came together and mutually agreed to remove Kerensky as commander of the SLDF.
Honestly you had me laughing a few times on this one 🎉
You way of doing these kinds of videos are the best
Clan language also incorporates quite a few Russian words in their lexicon.
I was literally just going on about that: no contractions, yet they make words that are a more fancy version of them.
Thank the youtube algorithm, I got here because I was watching vids about Battletech Alpha Strike, and Roguetech and because I already watched BPL vids before.
I definitely have to say, things are better when Steve is there for you to bounce things off of! 😛
Also, your channel many not have the production quality of Black Pants Legion. But it is good to have things presented from multiple perspectives. Just need to more clearly define what your perspective is.
fun facts about the clan eugenics: the huge ones are pretty much only for battle armor usage; they have 2 other phenotypes: one is the mech pilot, who are still beefy dudes and ladies and larger than average but not to the ridiculous extant of an elemental (thoguh it can depans.. some look just as massive), and more importantly are selected for brains that interface more easily with mech neuro-helmets, and they have another phenotype for aerospace fighter pilots, who have small, skinny bodies that take little space as well as huge heads for increased brainpower, making them look like your stereotype grey alien in shape. think they also made another later on for protomechs, selecting for small size again as space in a protomech for the pilot is at a premium; its to the point the sphere would need to resort to child soldiers to get their own protomech pilots, explaining why even in the more advanced eras, only the clans use protomechs at all. (you can use machinery to make up for your guy being too small after all like in battle armor, but cant when the operator is too big)
Point being that they dont try to create a single ubermensch, but instead seek a constant improvement of task-oriented phenotypes.
Also its implied despite all the selecting, the mech and aerospace pilots are no better at their jobs than an average eprson would be if they went through the same (very through and effective) clan training. Elementals are the exception because, well... muscle mass matters for shock troops, there is NO getting around that :p
also a big difference between the yatzees and the clanners is that while they look down on those NOT part of the breeding program, they will NEVER build death camps for them even for the most ruthless ones; sure they will be kept lower on the totem pole, but they are still a part of society (and in some clans there is no hangup about them becoming leaders as long as they pass trials like everyone else)
Tell that last part to the "Not Named Clan" non warrior castes. Either out right killed during battle, or they were sterilized en mass. Sibkos were annihilated en mass including those in the incubation pods that were found. iLKhan Nicholas Kerensky was ruthless and didn't want to live under the shadow of his father nor have his brother Andery remembered who died suspiciously in combat during the Pentagon Wars.
Love all your battletech videos they are all great!
imagine the turmoil if aleksandr took the throne and his son later inherited it, that would end battletech as a setting
good job aleksandr, you saved battletech
Great stuff, hope you take off and make more content
Clan Jade Falcon is my favorite Clan.
I don't think Kerensky refused a new Star League throne just out of a sense of loyalties to ideals I think there were some very pragmatic reasons behind it all as well.
While many in the SLDF would have followed him not everyone would, the SLDF was composed of people from across the Inner Sphere with loyalties to the various great houses, not absolute loyalties certainly but loyalties that would be seriously strained and for some broken if they were forced to fight the great houses. After the exodus but before the creation of the clans there was a civil war amongst the SLDF that broke down along IS great house lines. I think Kerensky feared that the same would happen to the SLDF if it stayed and fought there.
Alongside this is the fact that having already seen the carnage that a fight to displace Amaris and impose order extracted on the Inner Sphere he could see that at best the future for the IS was going to be exceedingly bloody as the greater forces and weapons of the SLDF resulted in an even more destructive Succession War then they already had.
Beyond not wanting to participate in that clusterfuck I do think there was a loyalty to the soldiers of the SLDF and not wanting to put them through that horrific conflict as well and wanting to honor their efforts against Amaris by keeping them out of the mess to come.
Realistically even with the power of the SLDF I don't think Kerensky could have held together the Star League by force, probably not for his lifetime and certainly not for the lifetime of his son.
Hence why iLKhan Nicholas Kerensky ordered a Trial of Annihilation for the "Not Named Clan" to have a vise grip on the remaining 19 clans.
Oh man I know ftl music when I hear it, fuck yeah!
I like how battletech is basically the space pro wrestling universe
Contractions are indeed used as a common part of clan speech QuiAff? (they just are not what we are used to.) IMO much of what a clanner would use as a contraction likely stems from military shorthand. In the end I think it is more portmanteau than "contraction"
I have only been a clanner since maybe 89, so I am still learning this stuff. :)
Use of Qui Aff and Qui Neg are simply I am asking a question... I expect this answer. (I have always heard it pronounced like QWee including in the battletech cartoon (Which BTW is cannon, but is generally treated as a FedCom propaganda show thus explaining the inconsistencies with established cannon lore)
Love battletech and even more so when you talk the good good funny man haha but for real appreciate the effort
Man, you do awesome
Except for my beloved Nova Cats not a fan of the Clans , the egalitarian Australian in me despises their world view . And that's saying something as my inner sphere factions are mainly Capellans and Dracs with some other forces on the side
I'm just here for the FTL music.
"Kerindki's genetic leniage" is far less weird to say
I need this to run from warhammer
17:00 It just hit me the grand exodus of the SLDF reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica *Humming BSG main soundtrack* "Fleeing Successorstate folly the members of the SLDF tries desperately to find a new home to begin the Star League anew."
“ Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was the foundation
Upon which our true society was to be built.
Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks:
They shall have our undying gratitude,
For they are the muscle behind us all.
Merchants to buy and sell with fairness:
They shall have our commerce and respect,
For they are the bones upon which we are built.
Technicians to build and fix the machines:
They shall have our admiration,
For they are the fingers with which we grasp life.
Scientists to create and discover:
They shall have our awe and our attention,
For they are the mind of our society.
And above all, the Warriors who protect:
They shall have our cooperation and worship,
For they are the blood and soul of us all.
”
- The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 67, Verse 26, Lines 21-37[1]
Decent video but I've got to contradict on one point in the final section: there's definitely Cloud Cobra clanners who can teach you all about yoga, flexibility and managing your qi. They just, well, never invaded in the Inner Sphere, so you'll never meet one.
Im gonna be real with you. The reveal of Armored Core 6 just made me interested in mechs again and I started looking back into MechWarriror. So now... Here I am. I tend to like the "muscle car" approach to mechs that happens in the west.
Can someone explain the soup stock joke/reference to me? I still don’t get it.
I use 2 metrics when determining how decent a human a person is.
1. How do animals react around them and viscera.
2. Are they cappellan sympathizers.
My next planner profile will now have blonde eyes and blue hair, thanks for that.
Can you talk about history of the Gray Death Legion?!?!
Grayson Death Carlyle, founder, my first playable scout lance in the 80s. Pewter minis, painted. Enjoyed those days, spent a ton on all the sourcebooks, novels, worked my way up to a company under the Grey Death Legion. Had cases custom cutouts foam for my company minis. Had wins and losses during my BT days. Even struck out mechs downed and rolled for recovery. Had made battle damaged mechs for the terrain map replacements. It looked cool vs tipping over a mech killed. Lost everything in storage🤷♂️with my battlefield dioramas and hex maps.
Kerenski, the big hero. That knew billions of people were about to die in horrible unchecked war. And decided to do nothing about it. As a matter a fact. Took the only entity that could have prevented it. He could have easily set military law for a decade and create a constitutional democracy easily, then give up power to the voting public. Something that had many examples throughout history. The man was no hero. He oversaw literally the devolvement of humanity in which it would never recover from.
And how, precisely, do you think he could have done something about the Houses? They already showed by unanimous decision they weren't going to follow his lead when they striped him of his titles so that means the ENTIRE Inner Sphere ganging up on him after he just got done fighting 16 years of one of the most brutal wars humanity has ever seen. The Amaris Coup could be pulled off because SLDF couldn't be everywhere at once and the bulk of their forces got pulled to the Periphery. If he just took over the Hegemony, he'd be facing a 5-front war which means the Succession Wars. At best, humanity would be at WH40k's Age of Strife by the time it all fell out.
Not all omni-mech technology belonged to the Clans by the end of 3059, as the one Inner Sphere lance that survived landfall during Operation Bulldog, the decapitation strike to take down the leadership of Clan Smoke Jaguar had a Sunder, a 90-ton, Inner Sphere built and designed omni-mech when they hit the planet at Tranquil.
I had hoped you'd touch on the ..incident aboard the Prinz Eugen and Elizabeth Hazen, but alas... Perhaps an invitation for your audience to also take a look at Tex' video ;-)
*Generic sitcom music*
Clan Women: "Husband, you are on toilet duty"
Innersphere man: "yes honey, your the bo-..."
Clan Women: "...Excuse me?'
Innersphere man: "...shit... NO I MENT YOU ARE THE BO-" *grabbed by neck and dragged to the bedroom kicking and pleading*
*Audience laughs*
*Cuts to Bedroom*
*Husband's barely alive with his pelvic crushed*
Clan Women: "Now repeat that?"
Innersphere man: *coughing blood* "BRING ME A AMBULANCE!"
*Audience laughs as it fades to black*
That Kerensky geneseed
Lol! You can gargle gravel and down whiskey! Try it! Hehehe
I like the light hearted and meme takes on MechWarriors. I'm new to the IP so I appreciate surface level lore. I would probably fall asleep if it were serious and I f I want in depth or more info I can Google it Alex Karenski is essentially the George Washington of mech warrior. LoL
everyone calles Kerensky this great general but in my option he is not in fact he is a deserter who took the force that was built for one reason: to keep the peace and prevent the great houses from having the succession wars, but he fled and allowed nearly 400 years of brutality and bloodshed. he should have played the role of peacekeeper and could have even fostered a neutral faction to take on the role of the camrons.
or in short much like in the plot of gladiator sometimes humble men must assume the roles of power so as to keep more ambitious and evil men from inflicting woes unto the innocent citizens of the empire
Good point :-) but he was still a great general on the battlefield and won pretty much every fight he was part of...Alexander the Great wasn't a great guy but won every fight and designed a logistics for warfare that is still employed today hence the name....I'm not a clanner by the way I'm inner sphere forever but credit where's credit is due I suppose :-)
Succession wars would have still happened and arguably would have been far worse if the SLDF decided to stick around and put their foot down. They were already dealing with defections and poaching of their forces by the great houses and the remains of the Star League just did not have the infrastructure to take over the inner sphere let alone keeping the great houses civil with one another (They couldn't even do it when they were in their prime before Amaris's coupe). Plus he knew a no win situation when he saw one. He saw enough over his long career to know that his forces would have done more harm trying to "keep the peace" and be reduced to meat in a grinder since all the great houses were willing to use a total war approach. This meant every single type of weapon ever made being unleashed and every man, woman, child, building, ship, space station, moon, and planet being a target. He was by no means a deserter (can't really call it desertion when the entire army and navy comes with you of their own volition).
K, didn't see it in the first several comments though it might have been pointed out later, but l feel like you missed an important part of Clan culture.
The Clans are almost pathologically frugal. My memory is a little hazy on the exact order and which side gets to declare the time and place once a Batchall has been issue, but the defender declares the number and type of forces they will be defending with and then the challenger has to declare the number and type of forces they will attack with...however, if the number of forces the challenger declares isn't significantly smaller than the defenders, the challenger will lose face and their courage and honor will be questioned. They might even find themselves challenged for wasting resources.
This was the primary reason Comstar was able to fight the Clans to a draw on Tukayyid resulting in a 15yr truce. If the clans had come with their full force, they would have steamrolled the Com Guard. Thanks to the Clan pride in their frugality, they underestimated the Com Guard and failed to commit sufficient forces (aside from Clan Wolf's victory which coupled with the losses inflicted by Clan Jade Falcon as they retreated rendered the Com Guard combat ineffective enough to sue for a draw).
I'm kinda surprised you didn't mention the Battletech cartoon which is canonically watched by Jade Falcon children, and is basically laughed at because of how weird it is.
Neural implants anyone?😏🤯
10FT Clanner Woman: Death by Snu Snu?
Me: AFF!
I think yoga is very popular with the clans.
Here is the reason. No blind spot. There is no where within fist range you can hide. That fist will find you. Even behind and the middle of there back. You know the spot right behind the shoulders. Clanners can punch that sopt.
As of this year they now have a furry cartoon before the clan invasion, where the inner sprea are evil monkeys and the clans are other animals trying to take it back
Fuck yeah Battletech lore!
perhaps Kerensky should have taken control of the star leage, maybe then he could have controlled the warring families.
Lol could you picture a commerical for some Kerenskys's Good Ol Fashioned Soup Stock lololol
Forgetting the novel name, but you can see the initial terms (and the changes taking place even then...) Quiaff = Query Affirmative, Quineg = Query Negative. Which... yeah, I'd create a contraction there too. >.>
It would be the novel of the "Not Named Clan." When I read it, it opened my eyes to the treachery, obfuscation used by both the iLKhan and Clan Widowmaker in separate ways. You can take the human out of the IS, but you can't take the IS out of the human, even to current events on terra with Clan Wolf.
He do be calling them Lyrians tho