@@pavarottiaardvark3431 ... curtain lifts... stage right > Nikolai Malfeus "You dare insult me!?" > Audience: Wtf is going on? > Nic: "Conquer!" XD... not a second wasted.
@@marcusott5054 What's the joke from twitter: "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale"
I find it hilarious how it’s implied that the Clan Invaders (or at least Nicolai) were never told that the Inner Sphere has zero idea what a Batchall is, so as far as the Invaders know these Surats are just being total assholes by never accepting or issuing a Batchall. Love it.
@@sanguiniusonvacation1803 In this case (and this is canon to the actual Battletech lore), Nikolai Malfeus's use of Enhanced Imaging implants were not only driving him completely insane due to data overload on his brain (Comparable to snorting a Suitcase full of Coke), but it was established after the defeat of the Clans _by his Peers in Jade Falcon_ that his Portrayal in the Battletech Cartoon was "More or less accurate". Aff, The Battletech Cartoon exists in The Battletech Universe as a Propaganda Cartoon... And even Better? Inner Spherite or Clanner, People LOVED It... Clanners most especially. Funnier part is that the Protagonist of the Cartoon, Adam Steiner, only ever said "Information is Ammunition"... Four times in his life, much of them when he was an Instructor in the Academy. He HATED the Battletech Cartoon because it gave the impression that he said it _often..._ Meaning that one scene where Nikolai Malfeus said "Information is Not an Ammunition that You possess" in their fight, likely Resulted in everyone part of the Sommerset Strikers snickering at the controls, while Adam Steiner was headdesking the console of his mech.
More lore accurate intro: "Mysterious invaders know as the Clans. Ruthless and powerful they struck like lighting attacking ever sector at once. But they made one big mistake, they didn't pay their ComStar bill" 😎😎
"That's it, we're throttling your bandwith!" - Comstar "What? The DISHONOR!!!! Engage enhanced imaging!" - Clanner *rendering symbol appears and never goes away, mechs start teleporting everywhere from lag*
I'm only recently really digging into Battletech's lore, and the idea that a cartoon was retconned to be propaganda seems so hilarious, but so believable
@@davidbirding420 the battle tech wiki. It explains that the cartoon was a House Steiner propaganda tool. Nikolai even was embarrassed by how it portrayed him to the point he tried to Trial of Grievance the broadcast company and Archon Steiner. Since their law didn't recognize Clan Laws, it was dismissed in court, only for Malthus to try and Batchal the judge and get jailed for jt
@@monty6851 LOL, plz tell me you have a link to that stuff cuz i have to read it XD, its way to funny to think of a character within the lore having an internal temper tantrum due to being seen as a joke in an old cartoon
No. You and the rest of those barbaric surats shall not succeed. We are the Clans, and Terra is rightfully our planet. Soon, all you insolent freebirths will be subject to the true sons and daughters of the Star League. Long live Clan Jade Falcon!
@@gcHK47 Oh little Clanner... Yer just so cute... You lost to the Inner Sphere's Phone Company... May 1st, 3052... How's Clan Smoke Jaguar doing? LMAO... Free Worlds League forever...
"Seatbelt check" was just a gamer nickname for the PSR roll (pilot skill roll) to avoid taking a pilot injury on a fall or knockdown (basically like making a saving throw). Lore wise it wasn't actually a thing.
Watched this as a kid. I remember thinking how great it would be to have a video game that looked as advanced and high tech as those "Enhanced Imaging" scenes. lol!
Which is funny you say that since Virtual Worlds Entertainment, the VR company behind the Battletech Battlepods and Red World Racing, were the modeling and animation team for the 3D mech models. The small amount of mechs shown in the series was due to there only being so many models ready at the time of production (the models were intended for MechWarrior 2 and the second generation Battlepods).
As much flack as this TV show gets, it does explore some pretty interesting themes of cultural conflict and exchange. With a little bit of polish, this could have been a fantastic franchise.
It’s actually pretty big; it’s still being developed, and expanding its stories, for almost 40 years now. I hypothesize that the problem is that it originally was a tabletop board game that came about during an era when video games began emerging after the Crash of ‘82, as well as a time where popular culture was saturated with science fiction.
@@gcHK47 Also the big lawsuits with Harmony Gold forbade the franchise from using many of its most popular mech desings. On account of them being copies of stuff from Anime's. It hit the franchise right in the brand recognition which is part of how the Timber Wolf/Madcat became the franchise's poster-child instead of the Warhammer or the Marauder.
The game's popularity comes and goes. However, Catalyst Game Labs has successfully revived the tabletop game and is heavily invested in it. the Mechwarrior Online and Mechwarrior 5 computer games are doing well too.
Combo 1. Mechs/mecha being niche as hell 2. Lawsuits involving Harmony Gold 3. TableTop war-gaming also being niche as hell 4. In terms of design, the mechs of battletech can look a bit too goofy for people to take seriously. Its why we have the new modern-redesigns.
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Not all of us 80s children liked this stuff. A little too slow and nerdy. Overheating!!! oohhh noooo!
There are three ways to do a Battletech show right: 1. Game of Thrones with Mechs 2. Firefly-esque exploits of a Mercenary Company 3. This, with the modern designs
I love Battletech and built my first PC to play MechWarrior 2. I never knew this existed, and I wonder if there’s enough vodka in the world to forget what I just saw.
Damn, now I need that. While their at it, they could explore the Battletech universe and we get to see the weird stuff like in the Clone Wars show. Imagine an episode from a miners perspective dealing with a space worm with a jailbreak mech. Just a cool thought.
Aerospace pilots earing their rations properly. Wolfhounds can punch higher than their weight class and range, which made them one of the few IS Lights that could take on clan lights, which often had an IS Medium's loadout.
Wow that episode moved at a break neck pace. Razorfist mentioned this show briefly in an old video and man im glad i looked it up. Thanks for posting it
It's been 5 years I've seen this show. I used to watch this on TH-cam back in 2019 every Wednesday afternoon. It'll end up becoming one of my favorite animated series after watching all 13 episodes.
Thank you for your hard work. Clan Jade Falcon thanks you. The Clans may ignore history, but they never delete it. This Lyran propaganda piece must be preserved in its entirety. Your warriors had spirit, but were cursed with inferior equipment and genetics. We were proud to take Lyran bondsman.
Battletech in 1994: "So the invaders have indestructible super mechs that just stand there talking smack and blow up waves of squabbling nobodies keeping their useful machines from the front lines." Gundam W in 1996: "Hear me out, I think the weebs are onto something."
This cartoon series is what has led me to spend almost $1,000 USD on a HOTAS and Rudder pedals. Also I got 1176 hous in MechWarrior Online. Today I just play MechWarrior: Mercenaries and create mods. When I wanna go play for fun armor up an Annie drop a coupla PPC and tank out Edit: MadCat Mk IV 4lyfe
I almost died watching the ditzy girl in the simulator fail. >I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING >Presses big button with long fingernails >Deer in headlights as limbs are removed
Malthus bidding an entire Trinary against a training world was most dishonorable, this could have been done with three points or one Star if you wanted to be safe.
I loved this show. I loved the characters, the battlemechs, and the creative differences. That being said, I have to say, even though i'm a fan of Andrew Steiner; just look at his outfit BEFORE the clans conquered his home world and enslaved him. I mean, the dude has a 5 o'clock shadow, torn up jeans and he looks more like he's been out drinking on the bad end of a long bottle than he should be commanding anything! With an officer like that in charge, it's no wonder their planet got taken over within seconds. XD
Same with Clan Spaniel... Seriously, it is the Clanner version of the Inner Sphere Battletech Cartoon, and it feels like a Plot you'd find in the Star Fox series!
It was a trip! I had several of the toys, and watched it as much as I could. Even got a game on the SNES, but it was so hard, I was never good at it, lol.
I remember watching this as a kid not realizing they were wearing magnetic boots and wondering how things were floating and they weren't. As an adult I love how The show doesn't do much expository as if these things are normal for people in universe
... I knew it was old cheese before I started watching, but I was NOT prepared. Did this show even have writers, or did they just tell the animators to go ham and then have the voice actors improv off of that?
Yep, pretty bad. Although, I kinda feel like there were a lot of other animated series from this era that we forgot because they were also so bad. To be fair, maybe not this bad. Still, I kinda love it as a BT nerd.
Such a painful show to watch. Oh the dialogue... But I do love that they tried to stay true to the lore of the Inner Sphere. Starting off with tension between the Commonwealthers and the Kurtists was a smart move. I also love the traditional BattleTech trope of a young officer forming a misfit unit from scratch ala Grey Death Legion and the Kathil Ulhans.
Really? Thought the dialog and voice acting was one of this series' strong suits. Robotech by comparison is just an english redubbing and comes off as strangely stilted. But that's just me.
Like the effort put into the re-mastering... but I object to Clan 'mechs being able to shrug off that much laser fire at effectively-point blank range. Their big advantage was always the sheer range advantage combined with less tonnage and crit space being consumed by Clan-tech. *If and when* it got up-close-and-personal, regardless of how much -Trashborn- Trueborn complain about non-stop? _All bets were off_ .
@@Johnydtv well my man, you dont know battle tech fandom. A group that complains that there are no lore friendly mech loadouts in one game, then proceeds to make extremly lore unfirendly mech loadout in other game
I don't remember those tiny Mechs - the ones barely larger than a human - being in the show from the very beginning, but I guess they were. So the question becomes: Why hasn't anybody modded them into Mechwarrior 5 yet?
@@Razgriz_01 Actually, since posting that I did manage to find out that they are in the game. And they do have their own custom models. They all use the paperdoll for a Javelin, but the models for Mechs are their own. Before the 6th DLC made the game unplayable for Me with the mods I had, I had 3 of them & was looking to get a 4th. They actually do fairly well on Infiltration missions.
so how many got introduced to the franchise because of the cartoon? established fans like to point out lore inaccuracies but is it really that big of a dealbreaker to first time viewers?
@@kanaric maybe. at the time, the internet wasn't that big (infancy stage) so whoever has anything to say about the show being inaccurate or even praise it would have to settle for their local game shops and general pop culture/gaming meets/conventions to find a ear. Nowadays you get whoever is popular as a youtuber saying how this sucks and it was a genius for the company to call the show in-universe propaganda...even if that scenario is even more nonsensical lorewise.
...Most of the time. Some still operated on corporate worlds masquerading as Draconis forces, and the Clan Invasion made them change their tune a bit. (And once Teddy became the Coordinator they stopped caring.)
It was like that when Takashi Kurita was Coordinator. When Theodore Kurita replaced him as coordinator, the Dracs revised their stance and hiring practices. And with the Clans rampaging through their northern provinces, house Kurita couldn't afford to be snobs anymore.
I love how the Clanner has literally no chill. We're 17 seconds into the the entire saga and he's already threatening entire planets.
You dare insult the Star Colonel's demeanor? Prepare to feel the wrath of the falcon's CLAWS.
@@fjLKA Do you CHALLENGE me to a BATCHALL?
@@pavarottiaardvark3431 ... curtain lifts... stage right > Nikolai Malfeus "You dare insult me!?" > Audience: Wtf is going on? > Nic: "Conquer!" XD... not a second wasted.
@@marcusott5054 What's the joke from twitter:
"back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale"
You dare refuse my batchall?!! Prepare to feel the wrath of the falcon's claws!!
I find it hilarious how it’s implied that the Clan Invaders (or at least Nicolai) were never told that the Inner Sphere has zero idea what a Batchall is, so as far as the Invaders know these Surats are just being total assholes by never accepting or issuing a Batchall. Love it.
A really good demonstration of culture clash.
Clanners aren't payed to think....or payed at all.......or think.
The best part is that's... not too far off.
@@sanguiniusonvacation1803 In this case (and this is canon to the actual Battletech lore), Nikolai Malfeus's use of Enhanced Imaging implants were not only driving him completely insane due to data overload on his brain (Comparable to snorting a Suitcase full of Coke), but it was established after the defeat of the Clans _by his Peers in Jade Falcon_ that his Portrayal in the Battletech Cartoon was "More or less accurate".
Aff, The Battletech Cartoon exists in The Battletech Universe as a Propaganda Cartoon... And even Better? Inner Spherite or Clanner, People LOVED It... Clanners most especially.
Funnier part is that the Protagonist of the Cartoon, Adam Steiner, only ever said "Information is Ammunition"... Four times in his life, much of them when he was an Instructor in the Academy. He HATED the Battletech Cartoon because it gave the impression that he said it _often..._ Meaning that one scene where Nikolai Malfeus said "Information is Not an Ammunition that You possess" in their fight, likely Resulted in everyone part of the Sommerset Strikers snickering at the controls, while Adam Steiner was headdesking the console of his mech.
"YOUR DARE REFUSE MY BATCHALL?!"
Pardon me your Bata-what now?
More lore accurate intro: "Mysterious invaders know as the Clans. Ruthless and powerful they struck like lighting attacking ever sector at once. But they made one big mistake, they didn't pay their ComStar bill" 😎😎
The intro is narrated by a ComStar guy instead of Adam Steiner. "But they made one big mistake, they ATTACKED COMSTAR PROPERTY!"
At the time that I got into battletech, at&t was the only big phone company where I lived. Ever since, I've always associated at&t and comstar.
@@sammehlberg6664that is a common joke among the fans
"That's it, we're throttling your bandwith!" - Comstar
"What? The DISHONOR!!!! Engage enhanced imaging!" - Clanner
*rendering symbol appears and never goes away, mechs start teleporting everywhere from lag*
Tukkayid is still a few years off.
Battletech deserves a Modern animated or live action series. It has so much potential for story telling, as the world is rich in lore.
It really does, there's only so many Mechwarrior cutscenes.
They could rather easily do something akin to Starship Troopers: Roughnecks
For now we have to make do with the creativity of fans. "Hired Steel" is a very good series of videos on TH-cam.
@@SpecteR3145Link?
@@gcHK47 th-cam.com/video/fBDrGklxqsk/w-d-xo.html
Ahhh yes, the infamous cartoon that got retconned as Lyran propaganda... LOL. This is so cheesy that it's gold! :)
I'm only recently really digging into Battletech's lore, and the idea that a cartoon was retconned to be propaganda seems so hilarious, but so believable
@@monty6851hat!? We're does it say this stuff
@@davidbirding420 the battle tech wiki. It explains that the cartoon was a House Steiner propaganda tool. Nikolai even was embarrassed by how it portrayed him to the point he tried to Trial of Grievance the broadcast company and Archon Steiner. Since their law didn't recognize Clan Laws, it was dismissed in court, only for Malthus to try and Batchal the judge and get jailed for jt
@@monty6851 LOL, plz tell me you have a link to that stuff cuz i have to read it XD, its way to funny to think of a character within the lore having an internal temper tantrum due to being seen as a joke in an old cartoon
@@davidbirding420 That sounds pretty accurate for everything I've read about Nikolai.
Edit: Whoops. Wrong Nikolai
Ah the beautiful Lyran Propaganda Cartoon... Such memories... Long live the Inner Sphere!
Is this one of those fiction within fiction shows?
@@spencersholden In BattleTech Lore, it's considered a Lyran Commonwealth Propaganda cartoon during the Clan Invasion...
May it the inner sphere barbarians burn under the might of the clans!
No. You and the rest of those barbaric surats shall not succeed. We are the Clans, and Terra is rightfully our planet. Soon, all you insolent freebirths will be subject to the true sons and daughters of the Star League.
Long live Clan Jade Falcon!
@@gcHK47 Oh little Clanner... Yer just so cute... You lost to the Inner Sphere's Phone Company... May 1st, 3052... How's Clan Smoke Jaguar doing? LMAO... Free Worlds League forever...
I love how no one wears a seatbelt in the cockpit in an adaptation of a game that has seatbelt checks as a mechanic.
I don't think it's officially called a seatbelt check. I think thats just the fan term for it
won't first timers to the franchise have no idea anyway?
"Seatbelt check" was just a gamer nickname for the PSR roll (pilot skill roll) to avoid taking a pilot injury on a fall or knockdown (basically like making a saving throw). Lore wise it wasn't actually a thing.
@@1killer911 "Sometimes referred to as a seatbelt check" is in the Battlemech manual. Its official *enough* I think
17:35 Seatbelt
Watched this as a kid. I remember thinking how great it would be to have a video game that looked as advanced and high tech as those "Enhanced Imaging" scenes. lol!
Hey, back in the day this was cutting edge CGI!! 😆 It's good to see this show again, been a while.
You got your wish back then in the form of Mechwarrior 2! :)
@@jonathanj.3695Exactly what I thought.
@@jonathanj.3695 I started with MW3. Ahhh good old days. I favored all lasers and focused on the legs.
Which is funny you say that since Virtual Worlds Entertainment, the VR company behind the Battletech Battlepods and Red World Racing, were the modeling and animation team for the 3D mech models. The small amount of mechs shown in the series was due to there only being so many models ready at the time of production (the models were intended for MechWarrior 2 and the second generation Battlepods).
As much flack as this TV show gets, it does explore some pretty interesting themes of cultural conflict and exchange. With a little bit of polish, this could have been a fantastic franchise.
Battletech is so badass, i never understood why the franchise never got bigger
It’s actually pretty big; it’s still being developed, and expanding its stories, for almost 40 years now. I hypothesize that the problem is that it originally was a tabletop board game that came about during an era when video games began emerging after the Crash of ‘82, as well as a time where popular culture was saturated with science fiction.
@@gcHK47 Also the big lawsuits with Harmony Gold forbade the franchise from using many of its most popular mech desings. On account of them being copies of stuff from Anime's. It hit the franchise right in the brand recognition which is part of how the Timber Wolf/Madcat became the franchise's poster-child instead of the Warhammer or the Marauder.
The game's popularity comes and goes. However, Catalyst Game Labs has successfully revived the tabletop game and is heavily invested in it. the Mechwarrior Online and Mechwarrior 5 computer games are doing well too.
Combo
1. Mechs/mecha being niche as hell
2. Lawsuits involving Harmony Gold
3. TableTop war-gaming also being niche as hell
4. In terms of design, the mechs of battletech can look a bit too goofy for people to take seriously.
Its why we have the new modern-redesigns.
Not all of us 80s children liked this stuff. A little too slow and nerdy. Overheating!!! oohhh noooo!
There are three ways to do a Battletech show right:
1. Game of Thrones with Mechs
2. Firefly-esque exploits of a Mercenary Company
3. This, with the modern designs
I love Battletech and built my first PC to play MechWarrior 2. I never knew this existed, and I wonder if there’s enough vodka in the world to forget what I just saw.
What I would GIVE to see a reboot of this show Clone Wars style animation. 😁
Damn, now I need that.
While their at it, they could explore the Battletech universe and we get to see the weird stuff like in the Clone Wars show.
Imagine an episode from a miners perspective dealing with a space worm with a jailbreak mech.
Just a cool thought.
@@TheNapster153 I love it. I love it, love it, love it!
"Violation of the Aires convention!"
She forgot that warcrimes been tradition the moment the succession wars started
Actually one of the first acts of the Star League was to rescind the Ares Conventions
Yes, however it is still seen as a guide on how to wage civilized warfare. But yeah, not binding.
I remember as a kid, the enhanced imaging blew my mind.
You dare to refuse my pajama ! The subtitles add a new depth to the lore.
its very rude to refuse pajamas. theyre hard to make after all!
Lifelong fan of mechwarrior/battletech and i learned today of this cartoon.
Brave Jade Falcon Aerospace pilots, blowing up pilotless light mechs before they can do whatever a wolfhound can do.
What the heck CAN a wolfhound do? I always go straight for the atlas/daishi/annihilator/whatever else scary I can find
apparently in universe the wolfhound was developed specifically for the purpose of trolling draconis combine Jenner/panther duos
To be fair, that large laser and array of mediums definitely pack a punch against other light mechs.
Aerospace pilots earing their rations properly. Wolfhounds can punch higher than their weight class and range, which made them one of the few IS Lights that could take on clan lights, which often had an IS Medium's loadout.
@@sammehlberg6664Annihilator? I use the King Crab.
I remember waking up at 0600 on Saturday mornings to watch this as a kid. I used to get so mad if I slept through my alarm 😂
Wow, this first episode would be an entire season on a modern show. Hot dawg that moved fast.
Sad shame that Peter Spellos, voice of Miles Hawkins here, as well as others is dead as of November 2023...
I liked this voice.
Rest in peace all of them. I like their work in this series. Hawk was my favourite character in the series.
Wow that episode moved at a break neck pace. Razorfist mentioned this show briefly in an old video and man im glad i looked it up. Thanks for posting it
As a kid you take in information much faster so its pacing fits for that audience.
It's been 5 years I've seen this show. I used to watch this on TH-cam back in 2019 every Wednesday afternoon. It'll end up becoming one of my favorite animated series after watching all 13 episodes.
I can't believe I just remembered this series existed after so many years because of a TH-cam short about the table top game
This entire series is a core memory.
Thank you for your hard work. Clan Jade Falcon thanks you. The Clans may ignore history, but they never delete it. This Lyran propaganda piece must be preserved in its entirety. Your warriors had spirit, but were cursed with inferior equipment and genetics. We were proud to take Lyran bondsman.
Baka boy is a insult that time travel back to the 90s lol
Battletech in 1994: "So the invaders have indestructible super mechs that just stand there talking smack and blow up waves of squabbling nobodies keeping their useful machines from the front lines."
Gundam W in 1996: "Hear me out, I think the weebs are onto something."
The animation quality is like it was made in the 80's beside the CGI part. Mind you this came out the same year of Gundam G
This cartoon series is what has led me to spend almost $1,000 USD on a HOTAS and Rudder pedals.
Also I got 1176 hous in MechWarrior Online.
Today I just play MechWarrior: Mercenaries and create mods. When I wanna go play for fun armor up an Annie drop a coupla PPC and tank out
Edit: MadCat Mk IV 4lyfe
This year
MechWarrior 5 Clans
Cant wait for it
damn you wasted your money, mouse+keyboard 5 kills every game
@@kanaric HOTAS is way more fun, though.
I had to stop when "Commander Steiner" told everyone to get ready. What am utter bastardization of the lore, lol. I love it.
I almost died watching the ditzy girl in the simulator fail.
>I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING
>Presses big button with long fingernails
>Deer in headlights as limbs are removed
Malthus bidding an entire Trinary against a training world was most dishonorable, this could have been done with three points or one Star if you wanted to be safe.
Thank you so much for remastering these!
Transformers + G.I.Joe + WarHammer = BattleTech
I loved this show. I loved the characters, the battlemechs, and the creative differences. That being said, I have to say, even though i'm a fan of Andrew Steiner; just look at his outfit BEFORE the clans conquered his home world and enslaved him. I mean, the dude has a 5 o'clock shadow, torn up jeans and he looks more like he's been out drinking on the bad end of a long bottle than he should be commanding anything! With an officer like that in charge, it's no wonder their planet got taken over within seconds. XD
That’s definitely how i imagined jade falcon would act lol
5:12 I like how the pilot seat is the burgundy 90s velour lazboy. Zapp would be proud
This show was way underrated, great story overall with a great final battle too on episode 13 💥🤖
I like that they actually showcased limb damage, in the first few minutes. Hell, we even got to see a ‘Mech get Cored
Im gonna miss reading through those old comments
This series is a classic.
The action figures were so awesome, best missiles ever but they put dents into the wall.
The very fact this is in universe Lyran cartoon makes this slaps so extra hard, omg.
Man, I joke often about being 36,000 years old but boy oh boy is this dated.
Imma still watch the while ass thing tho.
Tex in his rental charger will deal with the Clanners lol
1 yr after i was born..crazy whats come and gone since then. including my hearing lmao
I love how this show is canoncially just a holovid series in the Battletech universe.
Same with Clan Spaniel... Seriously, it is the Clanner version of the Inner Sphere Battletech Cartoon, and it feels like a Plot you'd find in the Star Fox series!
Takes me back! Thanks!
I fell out of my seat the moment i heard "BAKABOY"
You know the major is cool because he cosplays as Ryu in his leisure time.
watching this first episode as a kid with no prior knowledge of BattleTech must've been an experience lmao
It was a trip! I had several of the toys, and watched it as much as I could. Even got a game on the SNES, but it was so hard, I was never good at it, lol.
YOU DARE TO REFUSE MY BATCHALL?!
I adore how one of the biggest Battletech memes is in the first 30 seconds of this
Omg i remember watching this series in WBkids channel on Saturday morning with 🥣 of cereal. What a time of nostalgia childhood.
I remember watching this as a kid not realizing they were wearing magnetic boots and wondering how things were floating and they weren't. As an adult I love how The show doesn't do much expository as if these things are normal for people in universe
It's hard to believe I saw this 30 years ago :)
Thank you!
I like how that Adam dude cosplays as Ryu when he exercises.
One of the only Cartoons I set my clock to 5 am on Saturday morning
Loved this show as a kid. Sad we only got 13 episodes. Still holds up.
Thank you for this!
So it is real I remember seeing this once on TV but I wasn't sure if I was just misremembering an old Mech warrior game or something.
... I knew it was old cheese before I started watching, but I was NOT prepared.
Did this show even have writers, or did they just tell the animators to go ham and then have the voice actors improv off of that?
Yep, pretty bad.
Although, I kinda feel like there were a lot of other animated series from this era that we forgot because they were also so bad.
To be fair, maybe not this bad.
Still, I kinda love it as a BT nerd.
MechWarrior 5 brought me here. Lol
wait did she see the axe and decide to jump into melee range with a HACHET MAN?!?
This was the peak of awesome for six year old me.
Knowing what i know about the clan wars...yeah clan tech is just too op.
If only they had a Mauler, that would have turned things around!
How about an Atlas?
They did have a Mauler, several times, but its armor was paper in this show and it went down faster than the light mechs.
I know I should desire this, but I want a battletech TV show... I know film people make a lot of bad stuff nowadays but I'd still like to see it :(
I hear that.
There's a YT series called HIRED STEEL that does a LOT of justice for the brand.
lol I remember when that 3d animation was revolutionary
This was actually pretty good it was just too smart for the room
Exosquad was actually well written and lasted a lot longer. If this show was as good as that it would have lasted longer than a season.
We really hit the ground uhhh, walking with this show don't we? Gotta love it.
Such a painful show to watch. Oh the dialogue...
But I do love that they tried to stay true to the lore of the Inner Sphere. Starting off with tension between the Commonwealthers and the Kurtists was a smart move. I also love the traditional BattleTech trope of a young officer forming a misfit unit from scratch ala Grey Death Legion and the Kathil Ulhans.
Really? Thought the dialog and voice acting was one of this series' strong suits. Robotech by comparison is just an english redubbing and comes off as strangely stilted. But that's just me.
thank you for sharing these.
Light mech pilots thinking they steer heavy mechs, use your speed!😂 Red, Yellow, Blue: Draconic Federated Commonwealth gang come for your🫵
Well, they are Steiner. And we know that a proper Steiner scout lance is 4 Atlas 😂
You refuse my Batchall? Inner Sphere - Nani?
nice remaster, looks good.
This is so much better/worse now that I know what a Kerensky is
Lol that Thor,has weak armor.killed those mechs by itself
I didn't recognize it at first. No cylindrical missile pod on the shoulder.
thank you . i found the playlist on your other channel .
Oh god the animation, the dialogue lol
Not renegade hpg for this anymore? But it's in his Playlist soo second channel?
Yeah, I created Helm Memory Core to separate my original content from the restoration projects and archiving of old BattleTech/MechWarrior media.
@@RenegadeHPG that's a good idea, ngl I was about to comment on one of your videos like this guy ripped your content lol glad that's not the case
Like the effort put into the re-mastering... but I object to Clan 'mechs being able to shrug off that much laser fire at effectively-point blank range.
Their big advantage was always the sheer range advantage combined with less tonnage and crit space being consumed by Clan-tech.
*If and when* it got up-close-and-personal, regardless of how much -Trashborn- Trueborn complain about non-stop? _All bets were off_ .
Wait is "batchall" actually pronounced like that?
I figured it was Bat…Chall….Short for battle challenge.
was a great show back in the day anyone know why they stopped making it? as it seemed to look like it was going to continue by last episode
well, maybe good if you have no knowledge about battletech. Not good enough on its own, too bad for battletech fans
Its a good meme tho
@@Drakuba it doesn't need to be accurate to be a good show, nearly every series or movie based on something isn't accurate even today
@@Johnydtv well my man, you dont know battle tech fandom. A group that complains that there are no lore friendly mech loadouts in one game, then proceeds to make extremly lore unfirendly mech loadout in other game
@@Drakuba but this isn't the game it's the animated series
@@Johnydtv i have spoken
I missed out on this one
I love the battletech video games
That hunchback 2c and timberwolf could have trashed the two centurions and that wolfhound.
I don't remember those tiny Mechs - the ones barely larger than a human - being in the show from the very beginning, but I guess they were. So the question becomes: Why hasn't anybody modded them into Mechwarrior 5 yet?
The Elemental Battle Armors?
There is a mod, but it's janky as hell and it's just one of the mechs shrunken down to human-size, no custom model.
@@Razgriz_01 Actually, since posting that I did manage to find out that they are in the game. And they do have their own custom models. They all use the paperdoll for a Javelin, but the models for Mechs are their own.
Before the 6th DLC made the game unplayable for Me with the mods I had, I had 3 of them & was looking to get a 4th. They actually do fairly well on Infiltration missions.
If you want proper Elementals, try mechwarrior 2 mercenaries. They are little pesos, but dangerous anyway in numbers.
Advanced Imaging, more like we don't feel like animating anything.
It was advanced for that time
@@natahx2787 not really, i already played games then with better graphics.
wish netflix would pick this up and make a new updated anime...
There... was.. a ... cartoon ?
so how many got introduced to the franchise because of the cartoon? established fans like to point out lore inaccuracies but is it really that big of a dealbreaker to first time viewers?
people caring about consistency and lore is almost like a 2010s thing. In the 90s nobody cared.
@@kanaric maybe. at the time, the internet wasn't that big (infancy stage) so whoever has anything to say about the show being inaccurate or even praise it would have to settle for their local game shops and general pop culture/gaming meets/conventions to find a ear.
Nowadays you get whoever is popular as a youtuber saying how this sucks and it was a genius for the company to call the show in-universe propaganda...even if that scenario is even more nonsensical lorewise.
lol I’ll take your whole world with 15 omnimechs 😅
I love how 'enhanced imaging mode' is suuuuuper shitty compared to the normal animation.
laughs in comguard
Comstar😂 a bunch of 2 face backstabbing telephone wizards😅😅😅
The entire Inner Sphere at Clanners: "Was that even English? What the fuck are you saying?"
I love this cartoon
Hang on, isn’t the official Kuritan stance on mercs literally “death to all mercs?”
...Most of the time. Some still operated on corporate worlds masquerading as Draconis forces, and the Clan Invasion made them change their tune a bit. (And once Teddy became the Coordinator they stopped caring.)
It was like that when Takashi Kurita was Coordinator. When Theodore Kurita replaced him as coordinator, the Dracs revised their stance and hiring practices. And with the Clans rampaging through their northern provinces, house Kurita couldn't afford to be snobs anymore.
@@observationsfromthebunker9639 Well mostly when Takashi was Coordinator. Wolf's Dragoons.