BATTLETECH: The Axman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2022
- A battlemech often affiliated withe #HouseSteiner, the reality is, the #Axman was built as a symbol of unity inside of the #FederatedCommonwealth, and was built in both member states. In the #Ilclan era, the #FederatedSuns, #HouseDavion, in fact, is the country that would create the latest variant of this brutish design, while the #Lyancommonwealth has seemingly left it to languish.
Still, a fascinating veteran #Battlemech that has done battle for over a century in the #Innersphere, the Axman, this joint mech, would do battle against the #Clans, more specifically #ClanJadeFalcon and to a lesser extent #ClanSteelViper. It would barely survive the division of its creator-state in the collapse of the Federated Commonwealth, and now has reemerged, diminished in numbers but not in design, in the #DarkAge and Ilclan era.
Let's look over this fantastic Battlemech, for all its flaws, that has been in the setting since the early 90's.
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Have you ever been so mad at someone you flew a giant walking battle machine across lightyears of space, just to hit someone with an oversized axe? That's how the Inner Sphere do.
Optimal inner sphere engagement range
Adam Steiner did
LOL the Clans didn't think the whole invasion thing through. "Hey, i know, let's invade a human sphere full of battle-hardened well motivated soldiers that have been continuously waging interstellar war for centuries. After all, they not be very good at it, right?" LOL
Hatchet's don't need reloading and with one good swing, down goes the clanner, lmao.
That is not an inner sphere thing. That is a Steiner thing and only a Steiner thing. That is why they are the best.
Man that AXM-5N is a powerhouse huh?!?! Clan HAG20, Clan ER PPC, 3 ER M lasers and triple strength Myomer for the Hatchet?!?! That is pretty badass for a 65 tonner.
Ballistic weapons run dry, energy weapons overheat, but an ax will never fail
at least until you hear your computer says:
*right arm destroyed*
@@IonoTheFanatics just pick up the axe with the left arm then
Caesar would approve!
No but it will fall ............. Down apon the cockpits of it's foes.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus good point, though given the AC on the right torso... and the ammo
well, you might have a bigger problem if the right arm is gone.
The survival of the FC is my favorite what if in battletech. Katherine single handedly killed the best chance for peace in centuries.
Step 1 if it survived, eliminate Comstar interference. I'd do this with appealing to their wish to restore Star League.
Step 2: finish grinding down the Cappellans.
Step 3: reinforce borders and convince people this is the new normal.
Step 4: take bites out of the dragon at a controlled pace until it's time to kick the weak snake's teeth in all the way.
Step 5: take the samurai jerks off the board as a player.
Step 6: reinforce, repair, consolidate, and breathe.
Step 7: appeal to the other nations of of the Sphere to voluntarily buy into the greatest stability and prosperity since the Star League.
Step 8: wait for them to come, and only eat up their territory if they start fights.
Step 9: try to govern as best you can to hold this together for as long as is tenable in the best conditions viable.
Katherine did more damage to the Inner Sphere than any Clan ever did.
@@bthsr7113 Problem is while that might work with good leaders, it is a multiple lifetime goal, and the Battletech Universe is largely feudal. Which is a problem, because the best schemer may not be the best ruler, and you rarely get more than two or three capable rulers in succession.
Our own history shows that all to well. Where a couple of excellent monarchs are then succeeded by increasingly incompetent rulers until they are either deposed, or their nation or Empire fails.
It's ironic that Comstar was actively trying to hinder the best chance at the reformation of the Star League.
If the FC had won the war of 3039 the Star League might have de facto reformed within a decade. Comstar shot themselves in the foot and basically guaranteed another 3 centuries of warfare at a minimum.
Plus, Victor and Omi Kurita had fallen in love by the time of Operation: BULLDOG. Even if Katherine still takes the Lyran half independent, the Federated Combine could rise from their wedding, with a perfect causus belli against the Lyran Alliance, and Victor riding a huge wave of popular support for being the man who ended the Clan invasion. Either the FWL and Capellan Confederation side with Katherine -- highly unlikely for Tommy Marik, coin toss for Sun-Tzu -- or decide to back what is about to be a de facto new Star League under House Steiner-Davion-Kurita.
Because the manufacturer had an ax to grind with people that said the Hatchetman was weak.
Ironically the Lyrans still build it, they didn’t build the Axe man the heavy mech but still build this medium mech. Maybe they need a spot to fill in ?
@@Alex-pj8nz wasn't it cuse they needed fed suns parts for the axeman so they couldn't build it alone
The Hatchetman wasn't weak, it just had paper thin armour.
@@spazz-qk5gz Fed Sun can build theirs fine, unless the Lyrans are that incompetent.
I remember one source referenced that one of the reasons that the axeman was due to Adam Stiener loving the hatchetman. His subordinates could not convince him to pilot a heavier mech that would provide more protection. Thier solution was just get a bigger hatchetman.
Sounds about right. If I remember correctly he was given a modified 2n to encourage him to stay at long range... That didn't work 🤣🤣.
@@spooniestcomb9152 have axe will mellee.
@@spooniestcomb9152 the 2n is a rather nice bodyguard for a missile boat, being somewhat agile, durable, and when called upon, able to act as a durable distraction, all while able to act as a assistant to a missile boat.
One of my all time favorite mechs! In my very first game of BT I got to jump behind an assault and cleave open it's rear armor; Smashing it's engine to pieces in the process. A classic Axman move that won't easily be forgotten.
I love seeing these Battletech channels grow and get so good at their craft! You and Sven van der Plank especially have gotten really good in a very short time! Awesome video!
Thank you! Sven's a cool dude too. He might be better at editing videos than me too. How dare he? lol
Between these two and black pants legion we really have amazing battletech sources now. Keep up the great work guys.
It was really weird when I hit my teens in the early 00's. Battletech roared to life in electronic media in the 90s, but after Mech 3 in 2000, and the bullshit lawsuits, it got really quiet, until about 5 to 6 years ago.
@@sonofeyeabovealleffoff5462 I really think the HBS game helped with the surge of popularity. While it wasn't the only reason, it definitely acted as a gateway into the universe that left people wanting more in a good way.
@@BoisegangGaming That's what I believed as well.
"In the days of darkness, man did not fear the sword and the lance, nor did he fear the beast of fire...he feared. THE AXEMAN!!!!!" -Intro to the song of the same name.
Best metal song of my teenage years
@@arcangellord5372 Huh, showing your age there. For me it was albums rather than individual songs, has to be Kill em all and Ride the Lightning, at least for the early 80's. Dark side of the Moon is also one of my go to albums, though that was more because my father was a BIG fan of Pink Floyd, I was born in 69 so obviously was not buying albums in 1973!!
So may others... My music taste has changed over the years, but only in the extent that it has broadened, so I still regularly listen to the music I headbanged to as a lonely Army Brat who moved so often he could not make many childhood friends. All I had was my books and my music.....
Sounds like a bad childhood, it was not, was a qualified technical diver by the age of 17 because of my childhood... but I went to six primary and seven secondary schools (yeah, dad was moved around that often). So was never really in one place long enough to make actual proper friends, they came later in life.
When a hatchet isn't enough, add more hatchet and you end up with an ax.
More to that, and you get a bigger ax.
And a bigger one!
AND A BIGGER ONE!
Will Ax's one day evolve into Crab?
@@BigRed40TECH If we get something bigger, it better be called the War Ax, or the Viking. Maybe Axicutioner.
@@BigRed40TECH i do have a question though. What do you think of the Huron Warrior medium BattleMech?
@@AWholeLegionary It's a Gauss Rifle.
@@BigRed40TECH that runs at like 86 kmh. A very fast Gauss rifle full of anger.
I had the toy from the cartoon as a kid.
It was my favorite in that series and I always wished it would be put into a game.
I pretty sure u could, build liked that one in cartoon one.i think it has to be a clan tech
I'd love to see the look on a Clanner's face as an axeman runs straight for them while it's pilot screams their head off.
It'd be not cash-money for said clanners, I suspect. lol
A clanner here, and the look on my face is sheer joy as I reduce that barbarian into scrap with my Warhawk.
i rather save it for its big brother the berserker
A combination of glee, contempt, and concentration, as they reduce the hapless mech to slag at range.
They are generally faster, better armed and armoured.
Granted only a Falcon would be arrogant enough to swagger into short range deliberately.
The only time this thing gets anything resembling an advantage is in ambush. It is just an oversized Urbanmech with a axe.
@@theapostatejack8648 I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of elementals popping under my feet. What's that? Your range bonus doesn't help you when you still cant see through forests? Oops, guess you'll have to come close anyway. Have fun!
Watched one in an Alpha strike game cut a Kit Fox in half in one attack.
Damn, that's llving the dream!
I do love the axeman, I got a soft spot for any mech that comes with a melee weapon. the fact clans don’t like melee is also very funny.
Next Mech will be the "Chainsaw-Man". They decided to put a working and very powerful chainsaw in the head of the mech. When you really want to give a good proper 'eadbutt.
There’s an industrial mech called the Lumberjack that has a chainsaw. Just gotta get a custom chain for it and you’re ready for the annual Van Zandt demolition derby
Solaris 7 special
@@wavepool4501 love the loadout on that thing with 2 chainsaw hands, also how it was targeted during the first 2 sucession wars to take its fusion engines by all of the great houses. Sadly I can't manage to find a place where I can buy a model
When you fire up the chainsaw it's mandatory to scream "Groovy!" over loudspeakers.
This and the PPC equipped Catapult are my two favorite mechs. Shame the Axeman never really appears in the MechWarrior games.
I've never really understood the appeal of the K2, I'd love to hear your thoughts on why it rocks. So much competition in the realm of PPC-bearing mechs, never understood where the K2 fell, I'd rather have a Thug by instinct.
@@Skadooch probably lower battle value and chassis availability. Thug is rather hard to find until later eras. Well unless you would be painting your thug stark white. Also I think sense the replacment of the missle arms with the PPCs arms radically changes the appearance of the mech. Thus, creating a semi-unique looking mech.
@@Skadooch Just fun to play and I like the Catapult a lot.
@@rueceless7580I've only ever really played the HBS battletech and Mechwarrior 5, but i landed the Jester hero catapult with the AMS and that thing stayed in my lance until it was forced out by 400 tonnage allowance and my other mechs also getting AMS eventually. I noticed a stark increase in my squads survivability when the jester was on the board because it removed so much long range chip damage. I regularly had that thing burn through all of the 2-3 tons of AMS ammo loaded into it.
I swapped it around to have ER large, Pulse mediums, and ER lights and it was able to hold it's own against most things that showed up during the mid to later difficulty missions and allowed the rest of the AI squad to wade forward without fear of long range fire.
I don't for life of me understand why Pirahna didn't add this with call to arms DLC alongside Hatchetman.
One of my favorite designs because of how different it is. The Animated series certainly plays a role as well.
Information is ammunition.
Adam Steiner (watching a new propaganda cartoon from Tharkad Broadcasting Company): "Damn it I say that ONE TIME during a military intelligence lecture at the Naglering! ONE TIME!!! And what z-list voice actor did they dig up to play me?! I sound nothing like that!"
@@GhostBear3067 So I know Adam Steiner is a real character (in universe), but how about the other characters? Specifically looking for Clanner reactions
I appreciate the addition of context in regards to why the axeman was created. Context is everything. Nice job on the video.
Much appreciated!
Like any lumberjack it should always be near the forest, even if the trees are made of steel. Any mech that gave the clans pause is a worthy design. The Axman let's you set the terms of combat. As a smart enemy will seek to negate its advantages.
The evolution of the mech leads it into a lethal, devastating design. A mech that deserves far more attention than it's been given.
A few basic rules for the Axman (or any melee mech for that matter). 1) You are not invincible, even with an axe and an AC/20 odds are that an opponent will still be standing after initial contact and will hit back with all they got. 2) You're a fire magnet, most players have a phobia of melee mechs, so they start to pour a lot of firepower into them to prevent contact. 3) Charging headlong at the enemy from the first round, means rule 2) kicks into action towards your proverbial butt. 4) Timing is everything, better to pick off those that are no longer worth wasting ammo on than try to bring down Bob's brand new Atlas as soon as possible, or move tactically so the enemy has worse things to worry about, like engaging your Axman, while they have a Warhammer in their rear arc.
Same applies to mechs like the Hunchback or even the King Crab, most players will nuke anything that has an AC/20 or a melee weapon, unless they are really experienced and sacrifice a pawn to remove a potent, but not invincible weapon from the field. Rather than act like a mad berserker a good melee mech is an opportunist who will prey on the weak and finish them off, use cover to get close and remembers it carries ranged weapons rather than believe everything will be settled at range 1.
It we'll be nasty in deep forest and in a city
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You're making excellent and consistent content, with a lot of depth. Whereas podcasts like On The Origin of Battlemechs feature a lot of conversation about mechs, you are making excellent deep dives on mechs. I really enjoy listening to your channel when I make minis, it's easier to follow than a conversation between folks. Thanks for the videos, look forward to more.
The biggest mistake Katherine Steiner made was splitting the Federated Commonwealth into its two separate components. The biggest mistake Khan Phelan Kell made was letting go of Katherine's throat while she was still polluting clean air.
"Ax is good, Ax is reliable. If autocannon doesn't work, you can always hit them with it." -Boris the Blazer-Dodger
The ax man is among one of my favorites in the 3050 tro you did an awesome job presenting it thank you
It felt like a great opportunity to talk about the Federated Commonwealth, which just opened a lot of doors to talk more about the Axman.
My most favorite Mech. Weaponry that can take on most mechs, mean cannon, lasers to back up and a Axe to take care of anything up close. What more could you ask for. This will always be my favorite Mech. Awesome job!
Thank you!
it chops, it slices, it dices, it makes jullian Fries!
I might argue that the purest symbol of the alliance between the two states is Yvonne Steiner-Davion :) *flings venomous snakes at Katherine, and does hug Victor, but knows that Victor is also kinda Davion-biased*
For when you need to cut your competition down to size.
My favorite melee mech!
Let me axe the questions here...
It's rather unfortunate that it's been almost forgotten, because this machine - the 5N variant especially - is a nightmare, especially for the tonnage. The 5N variant in particular punches well above its weight, and I've straight up lost a Victor 9B to it more than once, when making the mistake of letting it get up close and personal. In one spectacular case, it straight up beheaded my Victor that was barely touched... Can't even be mad at that.
VTR-9B would definitely struggle against a 5N tbh. You'd want a newer Victor to handle that scale of a problem.
I have run a lance of 4 of these terrors, 2 2Ns and 2 1Ns.....it was completely unfair, especially upgrading the missile loadout to twin SRM6. And that (and a certain black and yellow cartoon version) is why this is my all-time favorite Mech. The Warhammer is glorious, the Thug is an absolute brute, but this...the Axman is life
Since I am not someone who does not play Battletech on a daily basis (being more a video game enjoyer), I have to remind myself that the Hatchetman and the Axman are not the same thing.
The Axman is definitely an excellent urban fighting machine in my experience, those jumpjets are life savers and nothing says "Here's Johnny!" Then axing someone in the back and coring the sucker
Now we're talking! My favourite Mech. Hopefully there's a Bushwacker vid down the line somewhere soon. Or maybe a Vulture?
Bushwacker's 3058. That's like, late next year by the current rate.
But there is more stuff coming. I might get to the Vulture this year.
Ah, the AXman. The first time playing the Axman, and learning how to play Btech, my Axman chased a heavy mech into a level 1 water and beheaded the pristine mech.
Did you get to salvage the heavy mech?
@@warblerblue It was just a one off game. I was also a newby and didn't even know about campaigns and salvage at the time.
Love this mech. It's since been lost to time, but my first 2 minis I had of my own was an ax man and a longbow. I still remember watching the show with my brother on Saturday morning. I didn't realize how bad it was then. Anyway, love this mech and it will have a special place in my mech stable.
You know, I didn't really know about the 5N until today My personal variant was to give it endo steel instead of ferro fibrous armor and stack it with 12 tons to standard plate. The main weapon was replaced with an LRM 20 plus Artemis FCS . The large pulse was replaced with a standard PPC and an additional medium laser was added with all of them being moved. to the left torso for 4 total AMS and case installed in the left torso help keep it safe a all ammo is kept in that location. Lastly added a TAG in the head because...well why not and I had an extra ton to lay with.
This is a favorite mech of mine ever since the LBX20 version won a game for me. Though a combination of bad luck and bad positioning I lost a Nightstar, Cataphract and Bushwhacker. They did damage but went down with only one enemy mech immobilized but largely intact. The Axman cleared the board. Ironically without using its axe, though it kicked the head off one enemy. The great loadout and high mobility meant I could isolate enemies with positioning and take them one on one. The last kill was an LBX pellet to the head of an enemy one of my other mechs had stripped the armor from before going down.
Thank uou for all of uour hard work
The Axman Cometh!
I greatly prefer the -2N to the -1N, especially if a way can be found to drop the XL to a Light (or Std) engine - lower the LRM rack size perhaps. INFORMATION IS AMMUNITION!!
Ok, here we go. AXM-2NB-BFD Axman
Swap out the LRM15s to LRM10s, switch the XL engine to Light engine. Move a JJ from each leg to the appropriate torso and put 1 ton of ammunition in each leg. CASE in each torso. I also swap the three medium lasers from the RA to the L/C/R Torsos, that way they can be used along with the hatchet. Sadly I was not able to add more armor.
HOWEVER.
If I replace each LRM10 with 2 LRM5s, I can add 2 tons of armor
Ah. Love me some chop-chop boys. Great work as usual!
"Indomitam's Sword" hehehe. Great video! Thank you!
But... how would this bad boy fare against Clan Snek Cobra? ^_^
Wanted to axe a question. All things considered, this was a very fun mech to use if one knows how to exploit it’s variants. Especially so if it’s hunting Mediums.
I actually wonder if the Lyrans still build it in the ilClan era.
I do too. I wonder what their own variant would look like.
With how strained they became in the lead up to the ilClan era I wouldn't be surprised if the new Steiner-Davion in charge ordered the production of the last model while a new modern version was developed. Maybe even a further upscaled version at to give them a true axe murderer mech.
@@adventwolfbane Isnt there the 100 tonne berserker which is the most lethal melee mech that the Lyrans made?
@@aethelon4144 yes but it doesn't have ax in the name. And a 100 ton mech is a lot harder, more expensive, and takes longer to build than a 65 ton mech. Also throw in some TSM and that thing is hitting harder than almost anything else out there.
Yes they do. Currently they produce the 6M, which adds in a 325 XL engine, drops the axe and other weapons for two T-bolt 15s with two tons of ammo each, 4 ER Medium Lasers in the legs, and a bunch of hand held weapons of various kinds. The other two are the 3S and the 3Sr, which switch to a light engine and keep the ferro. The 3S carries an LB-20X, Guardian ECM and 3 ER Medium Lasers, while the 3r uses a Rotary Autocannon 5, 3 ER Mediums, a Medium Pulse Laser, a C3 Slave and the Guardian ECM of the 3S. Probably the most radical spread of the Axman in the ilClan era is the 3S'move to general Periphery space, pirates, and the Free Worlds Leauge in the case of the Regulans, so almost everyone has one. After its sucess, everbody built melee mechs.
great work ! love your channel .
Thank you very much!
Always had a soft spot for the Axeman. First time i seen it was in the “BattleTech: The Animated Series” and that's what got me into battletech. 😀
Great overview :-) gotta love a hand to hand mech that can take some damage before it gets close enough to use its best weapon :-)
This was my favorite mech from 1992-2021, then the way I thought about the game changed and Im all about assault mechs now. I used to do DFA with this mech all the time probably landed it ten times out of the 200 ive tried. Good times good times! I also got 3 Ax head shot kills during all those years...yikes...I guess I wasnt that good lol
In the first battletech league I played in my axeman beheaded a marauder on the first turn against someone running a cringe list with two marauders and an atlas (250 ton lists). He was mad as he expected to win every fight by munchkinnery
Fantastic video Red.
Can't help but think of the Beatles, 'cause I'm the Axeman, yeah I'm the Axeman'.
"When I woke up, the zombies had left me! Defenceless! Pantsless! Axless! Ax Man!" - Ax Man, Fallout New Vegas (mod)
I went thru a phase where I would see if I could add an ax to a grasshopper, archer, warhammer, ect. I even have an archer and warhammer minis with axes. I believe the warhammer works especially well, game states wise, by swapping out the warhammer arm for an axman arm.
I had an idea about affixing hatchet and mace bayonets to the PPC barrels. Wouldn't be easy, but it would look cool, and the point is less about using it as a game piece and more as a statement. Painted gold.
I'm glad I have two of these for the Classic BT/Alpha Strike game.
Axman goes CHOP CHOP
They made one mistake. They attacked MY HOME PLANET!
Couldn't have ax'd for a better way to start my evening.
Figures Khorne worshippers would like this Mech :P
And let's not forget that Prince Victor Davion used one against the clans. That axe came in handy when dealing with clan elementals. (Blood of Kerensky trilogy)
During which battle? He used a Victor for the first half of the invasion before getting his Dire Wolf.
The Axman became one of my all time favorites because of the animated show. I especially digged the black and yellow camo paintjob of Adam Steiner's Axman. What a shame the AXM-5N is a much later era variant because imagine what it'd be like if Adam had that badboy of an Axman. The clanners would be watching in abject horror as it tears apart their mechs. I don't even think Malthus' Summoner would be walking away in one piece if it's not already reduced to slag. Adam can take down Malthus' Summoner in many ways with the 5N. He could use the clan er ppc to headshot the cockpit, turn it into swisscheese with the HAG, or just rip it apart with a TSM enhanced hatchet strike. Yeah I can imagine Malthus and the other clanner's would be calling the 5N a "barbaric" machine.
The Axman cometh!
On your knees, clanners...
Hello Red.
Yet another fine video. And one featuring one of my favorite designs. The AXM-5N is an almost 'perfect' design. And it can only be beaten by seriously degrading its electronic countermeasures to upgrade to all Clan Tech weaponry and equipment. Including Clan XL Engine, FFA, Endo, and heat sinks.
I see the 'all clan' version is polishing a fine apple, though. Although good to look at, and eat, it is only slightly better than the normal, unpolished apple.
The 5N, is well worth the C-Bills to gain access to one. And, if used wisely, can tip the balance of a battle with a few strokes of its signature weapon.
As others have said, you have grown quickly to become one of the 'go to' personages regarding our shared passion. You, Sven, and Tex still lead the pack by a wide margin. One that grows wider with each and every video you three create and share with us.
Keep doing your thing... I'll be here to watch, appreciate, and comment.
When I remember correct, the Axeman from the old Battletech Animated Series had 2 SRM 4 on it's shoulders and the Axe at the right arm. I cannot remember if it had more than that, but I think it hadn't.
Also I think it was a emergency refit because of critical Parts shortage at that time, but am not sure.
Should have been an honored mention at the end I think. ^^
It had LRMs in the shoulders
Still have my first-series Axman action figure (with Adam Steiner) from when I was a kid. Tyco put out some quality toys...shame more weren't released (like the Hatamoto-Chi and Mad Dog/Vulture).
I love the 2N version but with clan LRMs. Don't mind a sword too but the Ax will do well. Absolute fav mech in the franchise.
1: Give it an AC 20
2: ok
1: and a large pulse laser
2: o...k... Wow
1: and a huge axe
2: ... Dude is everything ok at home?
This needs a few hundred likes. You got mine. :)
Positively criminal that this hasn't been in any Mechwarrior title :(
Hopefully the next dlc pack for MechWarrior 5 is one based on the 1st Somerset Strikers that shows the beginning of the Clan Invasion...and also gives us access to the Axman during its campaign.
I'd like to think of one of these at Solaris known for Reactor Crits called the Super Critical Axeman
Ax not whom the Axman axe for. He ax for YOU!
and then there is the biggest brother, the Berzerker
The Axeman is the same as our G3 rifle developed by NATO: An instrument born out of cooperation, but having their fame become eclipsed by forces outside their creators' control.
Added triple-strength-myomere and traded out the large pulse laser for a Johnson High Speed ER PPC on my 1N. When an Axeman moves 6/9/4 and hits like a 130-ton mech with its axe (26 damage) the mech becomes a true nightmare. 😈
I presumed the Clans to be big fans of melee combat, being a warrior culture and hence Klingons. Once again, BT pleasantly surprises me with a non-generic approach :)
Clans by the Dark Age are in it to win it with melee, but mostly when fighting spheroids. :)
Great video as always, Red! I like how you wove together the story of the FedCom with the Axman. I think you also hit on all the good variants and gave them fair treatment. My only question, why no Adam Steiner? It's almost like you don't like the cartoon or something, Red.. ;)
lol
Ah, the 2N. A real Somerset Striker.
Love using the axm-2n (and yes it's painted up as Adam Steiner's from the cartoon) skirt the field and and get into a good striking position and bam make the enemy pay for it
I'M THE AXEMAN! Scoo dabat dat! Scoo dabat dat!
Any possibility to do a video on the Neanderthal one day? Love these no F's given melee mechs.
If people vote for it. Dark Age mechs are done out of order, but between sourcebooks.
I've played the 2N far more than the 1N or any of the other variants and kind of hope they do a premium 2N version of this mech. Plays like one of my favorites in the crusader, but a far more mobile. Plays extremely well against clanners and have felled more than a few of them with the ax. Going to have to try the 5N. It just looks nasty.
You ever do a video on the Caesar? The front mech used to cover up the Hatchetman Project?
Yep, I covered the Caesar :)
Sadly for Katrina Steiner the inner sphere always wants more war. After all it does sell plastic miniatures lol
Oh 100%, but it creates a tragic narrative.
It is very Lyran to try to sell us miniatures.
Axman is one of my favorite mechs. I love its design and something about running around in a 65 ton mech with a huge fuck off axe is sorta primal.
Also remember, information is the true ammunition.
An Axeman, Mauler, Centurion and Wolfhound wander into the Clan invasion corridor. High-jinx ensue.
So... 2 super powers realise working together would benefit them both. They then ally up and see for themselves the benefits were far greater than they imagined. Everything goes well --> enemies drop like flies --> industry begins to recover --> SUDDEN CIVIL WAR --> all progress and prosperity turns to ash in the wind. 😑 wow... Just wow... It's like they just didn't like being rich and powerful. 😕
When personal aspirations override imperial aspirations.
i feel like my favorite solution to problems works here too. Slap in an LBX-10 to free up weight, use free weight for a normal engine.
Honestly I'd go with an LFE instead, weight savings are a big deal. You won't be fighting in this after losing a side torso anyways, you wouldn't have enough firepower to make a difference at that point
Axman pilots are very inquisitive people who are often misunderstood. They just want to ax people a question.
The Axeman would love Mechwarrior Online. XL engines don't have those side crits and work like regular fusion engines. Too bad physical attacks only exist in the single player games. Well outside of ramming.
I always wondered why the Axman 1N had the long range large pulse laser in the left arm that was *less* useful in melee and the shorter ranged medium lasers in the right. Personally I'd have swapped them over, possibly even gone for small pulse lasers instead to make them even more brawl focused. The 2N is a better option but the 5N? Oh boy, that thing's a *MONSTER*! :O I'd actually forgotten about that one, thanks for the reminder :)
I do think they missed a trick by not creating a melee Crab variant though - call it a Fiddler Crab, stick a battle claw on one side and a point blank laser array on the other with maybe an ER large laser in the torso for some fire while closing. Perhaps a heavy variant to round out the family (although I consider the Marauder an honorary Crab).
Nice work as ever though sir and a good intro to/reminder of the FedCom FUBAR as I like to think of it :)
LPL is basically the same range as those mediums, if its Inner Sphere.
@@BigRed40TECH Good point, I forget that tabletop has a *far* more generous range for medium lasers than anything computer based. Too long since I was last able to get a TT game in is my excuse and I'm sticking with it!
Good.
Very good
God i wish they had this in MechWarrior 5.
1:01 *Cues 90s X-men theme*
My only complaint is the fact the AXM-6X wasn't brought up, aka Axman, but with gun (and yeah it's just an experimental variant, but it's still a rapid departure from the original design that's neat.)
I would love to see a clantech charger with melee weapons like the axeman. Imagine endosteel, triple strength myomer, and replace all the small lasers with mediums.
Couple that with 2 srm 6s
The Axman is a design that i don´t like most images drawn of it, while the newest just reaches 2nd best.
My favorite is the Evans/Lewis Axman 6X with the handheld weapons.
Overall, the design is quite unique, i especially like it´s use of a full-head ejection system.
Plus it features jump jets, giving it a significant boost in mobility.
This mech also prevents the MechWarrior from accepting any form of batchall.
I've just destroyed an Axman with my Fire Moth H by slagging its backside armor last weekend. That was fun. 😊😁😅
"slagging its backside armor" I get your meaning but that could be interpreted wrong. just saying....
Downsizing the weapons a little for more armor seems like a no-brainer for the 1N Axman. AC20 could be a 10 to free up 2 tons. Large Pulse Laser could be a plain Large Laser to save weight. A medium laser or two could go. You don’t have to do all of these things.