Why Do We Love The Stone Rhino?

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  • @BigRed40TECH
    @BigRed40TECH 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    I love the Stone Rhino because like Clan Smoke Jaguar, I choose violence.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Settle down, meow.

  • @h0shidont35
    @h0shidont35 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    There's something beautiful about how the Stone Rhino's base variant is bereft of clantech in all but weaponry, yet is still devastating. Shows that less really can be more in 'mech design.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      "It just works."

    • @ambientlight3876
      @ambientlight3876 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It truly is a very efficient assault mech that is at home among the likes of the Dashi for a greatly reduced cost.

    • @scytheseven9173
      @scytheseven9173 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      that's not *quite* true-it benefits from Clan double heat sinks, though would be just as good with Inner Sphere ones because they're all internal, but more importantly it benefits from free Clan CASE protecting the Gauss Rifles.

    • @h0shidont35
      @h0shidont35 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @scytheseven9173 yeah, I forgot.

    • @mathewkelly9968
      @mathewkelly9968 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Kind of says how broken Clan Tech is ESPECIALLY the Large Pulse Laser ......... The gauss rifles are almost an afterthought on this mech

  • @DairXV
    @DairXV 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    The story I have is of a new player to Battletech running in a RPG campaign with her character in a Stone Rhino. The number of headshots she was getting made us check her dice to ensure they weren't loaded. Still she was running the base variant through the entire campaign, never upgrading despite everyone else doing so multiple times. Especially once they started getting reliable access to Clan and Blakist salvage. There is just something about the Stone Rhino that just works, if ignore the quirks.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      "It just works." A sales pitch that will last.

  • @thunderK5
    @thunderK5 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    This mech caught my eye from the first time I saw it around 30 years ago. Its crushing firepower and heavy armor have kept it a firm favorite of mine.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad to hear it. It's a fun one.

    • @PRC533
      @PRC533 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Exactly the same for me. Before I even knew what weapons it had I knew I loved it.

  • @randomnetsurfer
    @randomnetsurfer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I died at "succulent internal bits". And again at "emotional support small laser"😂
    "No, not plasma weapons, though I'm glad your head went there first" -- Get OUT of my head, it's dark and scary in here! :D

  • @andrewfsheffield
    @andrewfsheffield 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I didnt love the Stone Rhino until i painted one. Now I cant wait to get it on the tabletop.

  • @Jaeger_Bishop
    @Jaeger_Bishop 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Honestly, I think the Stone Rhino MF is one that...I'm surprised is not an official variant.
    It plays to the strengths of the mech without demanding it keep up with the heavies.
    You could even move this thing to different spots in the back lines where the front is getting bogged down, then just secure kills on a few troublesome mechs, and reposition afterwards to ensure other fronts had the guaranteed punch to break through.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It would be a great finisher.

  • @scytheseven9173
    @scytheseven9173 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    The base Stone Rhino would be greatly benefitted by an extra two double heat sinks, to allow it to fire its main weapons and move-it can't fire both large pulse lasers without overheating if it does anything else, though running and firing both large pulse lasers and gauss rifles for one turn at least won't give any penalties. The 8 has the same problem.

  • @bthsr7113
    @bthsr7113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Because outside of that one major problem of the "poor performance" quirk, it's an affordable clan assault with solid performance. Also another reseen mech, with a configuration (5) perfect for thumbing the nose at Harmony Gold.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It'll definitely leave an impression.

  • @havoc3742
    @havoc3742 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I like the Stone Rhino/Behemoth, and the MF variant is actually something I like, though I am wary about mounting the Gauss weaponry in the arms. The only real change I could argue for is stripping out the Jumpjets in it so you could upgrade the HAGS to HAG-30 models, but that's just because I suffer from both Vertigo and a fear of heights and suffer a +4 modifier to all pilot difficulty rolls as a result before anything else when Jumping.

  • @TAVAAR7
    @TAVAAR7 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Even if it leaves something to be desired aesthetically, it does basically embody "big stompy robot" as its a beefy boy. 😆

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It definitely has that, impact tremor in the glass of water look to it.

  • @KeiNova
    @KeiNova 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    My love of the Stone Rhino came from MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy. It really introduced me to things about Battletech I barely knew existed.... Like the Kodiak. God, I love Clan stuff.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      MW2: The Clan gateway drug.

    • @KeiNova
      @KeiNova 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MechanicalFrog I agree totally

  • @meining-mech4378
    @meining-mech4378 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’ve had good fun with the standard variant of this mech. A buddy of mine and I had a head-to-head match with his Blood Asp vs. my Stone Rhino. It was a glorious fight, though I believe it ended in a draw. Good times. - Also, the new artwork for this beautiful monster is 10/10 in my opinion. It’s one of the absolute best art-redesigns to come from Catalyst.

  • @discipleofsound4565
    @discipleofsound4565 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Used one of these guys during a game set during the Battle of Huntress; it positively demolished anything in its wake, sitting back and sniping the advancing lance of heavy/assault mechs.
    I like to think that after watching the last enemy, a Battlemaster, collapse after the Stone Rhino blew its legs off, the Rhino pilot let out an animalistic roar of dominance...before being carpet bombed, along with the Huntress Manufacturing facility behind it.

  • @NTJ1984
    @NTJ1984 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In the first tactical campaign for Battle Tech I ever played, I got my hands on a Stone Rhino. I equipped two ppc one in each arm and two gaus rifles in the left and right torsos. It was backed up with an Atlas AS7D and two Warhammers. I kept getting lucky and getting city maps that made it extremely easy for me to pick off everything that got sent at me. The only person who worried me because of how much they could soak was the guy in the Awesome, but that's where my Atlas was able to really earn its own. Any thing lighter than the Warhammers was picked off at long range from the Warhammers and Stone Rhino in one or two shots. Anything that was a threat to the Warhammers was focused down by everything that could hit it.
    This was also the same campaign where I designed my own atmospheric fighters. They had two engines, which did make them heavy, but their thrudt to weight/weapons to thrust ratios were insane. I made three different A10 models. Each one had a different main gun, but they all had mrm 6 or 8. But the Stone Rhino is one of my favorite mechs. Whenever I can I field one.
    EDIT For spelling.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good times had by all, from the sound of it.

  • @TheFearsomeRat
    @TheFearsomeRat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The variant I run is a custom one.
    A UAC/5 in each arm with two tons of ammo each, as well as a Gauss Rifle (also with two tons of ammo each) and ERLL in each torso, it also mounts a C3S at the cost of Jump Jets,
    the intent is to run it with a second Rhino of the same variant an Omega variant with a C3M 3 HAG/20s and four UAC/5s and a Raven with a C3s as well as two Hollanders that while not equipped with a C3S,
    does mount Clan-Tech to save on weight for an Improved Gauss Rifle and effectively complete the direct-fire Level II.

  • @theintern2960
    @theintern2960 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The Stone Rhino felt like it could have been a great testbed for high tech artillery or at least giant artillery cannons, ala a 'Mech variant of the railguns of WWII. Something designed to park itself behind mountains and rain death on scout-pinged targets.

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So like a cousin to the other battlefield test bed, the Bane?

    • @theintern2960
      @theintern2960 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bthsr7113 Definitely.

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@theintern2960 Sounds like a blast in a lot of the right ways.

  • @Yacovo
    @Yacovo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Stone Rhino: An Amaris Vanity project turned into a Smoke Jaguar Vanity project. Both less effective than just building another Atlas. Also the Marians made a battle armor that looks like a Stone Rhino Mini-me. Thanks for the video.

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The frog knows, he covered it.

  • @briank2633
    @briank2633 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I once cored a fresh highlander with the stone rhino 6. It really is a terrifyingly cheesey ambusher.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A true friendship-tester.

  • @BCWasbrough
    @BCWasbrough 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Visually, it's one of my favorite mechs. I've loved it ever since I saw it on the cover of the 3055 book.

  • @Dracobyte
    @Dracobyte 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Ah yes, it's Big Red 40 Tech favorite battletech!

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      He lays awake at night dreaming of ways to incorporate it into his games.

  • @KillerOrca
    @KillerOrca 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The armor spread diagram is really nice.
    Also when this thing moves the "Furret walk" meme from Pokémon plays I swear

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I hear the elephant walk.

  • @XanderDraft
    @XanderDraft 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    MF version for sure is getting added to my megamek games.
    One of my favorite Clan assaults that not an old IS model with upgraded clan tech like highlander.
    Surprised the hags are not an official variant tbh.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It seemed the logical choice for a variant.

  • @lexington476
    @lexington476 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    18:45 oh you lost your Big Plasma sponsorship 😀😄😁.

  • @scytheseven9173
    @scytheseven9173 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I quite like the MF variant of the Stone Rhino, it's a good take to make something different but keeping the heart of the 'Mech
    Thanks for the video!

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks! Have a great day!

  • @joekane5746
    @joekane5746 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Buddy of mine was facing down a stone rhino and tried to beat it jn a knife fight by moving behind it....he was shocked when it jumped for a DFA

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "I've made a terrible mistake..."

    • @shanenice5380
      @shanenice5380 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yeah 100 tons mech jumping on u.u dead.

  • @Mr._Anderpson
    @Mr._Anderpson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It was a Froggian slip, calling it the Stone Rifle @7:58. It's ok. I can't imagine how many times a person has to go over a script.
    If anyone played Ghost Bear's Legacy, these mechs were terrible. Your best bet was to only put heat sinks in the arms, since they might last through the first engagement but not beyond due to the hitbox. Something along the lines of the 6, an energy weapons platform.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good thing I only make mistakes on days that end in Y.

    • @Arnuld15Governator
      @Arnuld15Governator 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I just spammed Arrow IV missiles on my Rifleman IIC's and my Naga's, lol. It was such a cheap broken weapon system. But yes I remember the Stone Rhino bug where the arms would just randomly fall off after getting shot only a few times.

    • @Mr._Anderpson
      @Mr._Anderpson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MechanicalFrog No hate or shame intended. Welcome to the human race. We stumble forward.

    • @Mr._Anderpson
      @Mr._Anderpson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Arnuld15Governator Yes, the Arrow IV, especially in that one mission where you're traveling along the bottom of a canyon to a cave behind the waterfall, was absolutely ridiculous.
      You would lock on from over a kilometer & then moments later march past the wreckage of where the enemy mechs were.

  • @StefanAmarisDidNothingWrong
    @StefanAmarisDidNothingWrong 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My grandson! I'm so proud of the boy!

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It done good.

    • @WolfHreda
      @WolfHreda 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "Hey, Clanners! He's right over here, get him!"

    • @lukewind13
      @lukewind13 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The emperor himself blesses us with his presence

  • @zoewhyumadbro3090
    @zoewhyumadbro3090 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As someone who got into the game 4 months ago, this is probably my favorite mech design and gameplay wise.
    The best part about it is that nobody minds if you bring one. If I bring a clan Omni (Turkina, dire wolf, even executioner...) everyone sighs. But if I bring the stone rhino, everyone is hyped and every headshot is a community event XD

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a solid machine. Welcome to the fray, mechwarrior.

    • @zoewhyumadbro3090
      @zoewhyumadbro3090 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MechanicalFrog thanks, glad to be a part of this 👍

  • @Arnuld15Governator
    @Arnuld15Governator 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Stone Rhino is a cool 100 ton death machine. Lore wise I find it fascinating that how it became a failed project from Amaris's mental breakdown to finally be adopted by the very same opposing Kerensky clan forces centuries later. Wish the clans could have adopted a 100 ton clan variation of the Rifleman 3 as well but I am happy with the Rifleman IIC. However I love the story of the firing line of Stone Rhinos that Clan Nova Cat formed to defeat an advancing line of mechs (forget which faction it was) but I can only imagine how scary that would be.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Imagine having to trudge toward a star of Stone Rhinos holding a defensive position... Rings of Crece or Agincourt...

    • @spectre111
      @spectre111 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MechanicalFrog Personally, I always thought that is what the Stone Rhino was best at; defending high-priority targets like a Galaxy Commander or his command ship.

  • @strcmdrbookwyrm
    @strcmdrbookwyrm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love the little "paper doll" showing the armor distribution. I don't know if it was in any videos before this because I usually am just listening to them while I drive to work. Which is why this comment is also a bit late. ^^'
    Stellar video as always. I wonder what's next?

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Patton video on Saturday morning. The new UI layout is a few videos old at this point but people seem to like it.

  • @Nomammosway
    @Nomammosway 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I fell in love with the MAC3, the original design I saw in that old anime Robotech, Went with BattleTech ever sense, Oh crap!! the rifleman and Loki as well!!

  • @NewGuy2534
    @NewGuy2534 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love is a strong word. I love that it gives my artillery tons of practice.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad it has some sort of value then...

  • @jamesbeard5513
    @jamesbeard5513 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Stone Rhino 5, the Clan's version of the Malice.
    The 8 probably works as the anvil for the Hell's Horses Mongol Tactics, so maneuverability is not as important as accuracy with weapons.
    Your version is nice, and it does ask the question, why hasn't there been a HAG version for the Stone Rhino.

  • @jonrgreen1
    @jonrgreen1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is one of my favorite clan mechs and have fielded it many times against massive armies out numbering me and most the times winning

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's a solid one. Glad to hear it did well.

  • @sharlin648
    @sharlin648 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Stone Rhino is one of the best looking Clan 'Mechs and the redesign with the huge dorsal cannons kicks ass. The variants are a mixbag for sure, the MPL one is terrifying, its a mobile Jean Michelle Jarre concert! As always, superb video and great stuff!

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That SR6 is a friendship killer. A pretty lightshow as well.
      Thanks for the support. Have a great week!

  • @laggybum3218
    @laggybum3218 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Even though i rarely pilot assault mechs in MWO, this is one of my favorites. I was shocked when i was in a match right after their release when one of them poptarted over the top of a hill and shot the mech next to me with a couple of HAG30s. You dont expect a mech that big to jump!!

  • @radwolf76
    @radwolf76 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of my first forays into digital kitbashing was to slap a pair of Stone Rhino arms onto a Timberwolf. I had also swapped out the torso missile launchers for some more (shorter) barreled weapons, CPLT-K2 style. While on my main record sheet for this frankenmech, I count those as Light PPCs, I do have a different record sheet where those are meant to be Plasma Cannons, which I'm sure Froggy would approve of. Surprisingly, it looks pretty cohesive visually, but I couldn't help but assign it the Hard to Pilot and Unbalanced Quirks for having so much laser barrel at the ends of its arms.

  • @lukedudley5030
    @lukedudley5030 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I brought the original ral patha version of this mech :-) it looked awesome but kept falling apart so i turned it into battle damage scenery thats still around today almost 3 decades later lol :-) a deadly mech and one of the only clan mechs ive enjoyed playing :-) yep its OP but its fun watching enemy mechs melt within just a couple of shots :-) great vid of a beautiful death machine :-)

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is one of those mechs that fought the super glue because it was so dang heavy. The arms also snap off for no reason.

    • @lukedudley5030
      @lukedudley5030 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @MechanicalFrog yeah it was lol...I think it was actually the 2nd mech I brought that wasn't in one of the game boxes if I remember right...young me loved the shape :-) the first was an awesome lol

  • @matthewpena3932
    @matthewpena3932 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That was fun, I tried to come up with a King Crab IIC based off the 010 design that went with them into exoduses. I basically came up with something very similar to your MF version.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      King Crab IIC would be... epic.

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And slightly redundant. Supernova and Bane 4. Still would be a fun mech.

  • @Geeko170
    @Geeko170 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In our group there is an inside joke. We where playing some scenario games, and I was squaring off with a Stone Rhino with a Thud and a Valkyrie. I was dancing around it, keeping from getting a good shot on either mech, and then I thought I was clever and got my thud in its back arc. And then it jumped. I was shocked. “It has jump jets!” Was my response to seeing that 100 ton monster now jump behind my thunderbolt. And thus, our group got a new inside joke.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      People do tend to forget that little aspect... much to their horror.

  • @ambientlight3876
    @ambientlight3876 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When I first saw the art for the Stone Rhino, I thought it was the Marauder 2.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hmm... I suppose there is a bit of a look there.

  • @thomasgilbert2266
    @thomasgilbert2266 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ahh there’s my baby behemoth was my go to for the Ttrpg though there were some liberties taken in that regard sported gauss in left and right arms and the center torso packed ER pulse large lasers, didn’t go fast but it was good for fire support. Had a rotary ac in the nose , practical no but the whole thing was a what if Frankenstein design.

  • @ShasOFish
    @ShasOFish 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Stone Rhino 7 is basically a Marrauder II IIC (that is, Marauder 2, IIC version). Wonderfully over the top, but it pays off.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Could be worth a try.

  • @VFNova
    @VFNova 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have to say, I understand why it was skipped, but the Stone Rhino 5 is a favorite of mine soley because of it's source. That's the loadout for the Keonig Monster, which is where I think the original miniature was derived from.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It wasn't skipped?

    • @VFNova
      @VFNova 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MechanicalFrog I'm sorry, I meant skipping the callout to it being the Macross Monster. That bit was skipped.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh.

  • @whitefoxplays
    @whitefoxplays 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video as always friend!!! LOVE the Stone Rhino since it's release! 3055 TRO cover art is still a favorite of mine!

  • @stormcrow28
    @stormcrow28 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Stone Rhino is a beast in most forms. I think it's one of the more underrated 100 tonners in the Clan inventory, and works well in assault roles.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It can definitely make its mark.

  • @jasonfarley9025
    @jasonfarley9025 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I DID immediately assume you were going to put Plasma Rifles in there
    But the HAG is a great call

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Almost as if there's a pattern developing... but can't let you get complacent.

  • @scytheseven9173
    @scytheseven9173 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Stone Rhino 5 makes me sad, it's like a Clan Malice before the Malice existed
    the Stone Rhino 2 makes me quite sad too, with its terrible heat curve

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've never been a fan of the LB-5X... just feels like a waste.

    • @scytheseven9173
      @scytheseven9173 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MechanicalFrog grade 2 and grade 5 autocannons, barring light versions with specialty munitions and rotary ones, are mainly good for anti-VTOL duty, and you can stick them on an AA tank for that
      they may be cheap for heat, but they very much lack the punch to be used against 'Mechs

  • @morrigancollins2092
    @morrigancollins2092 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Tes explained the ER small Laser in the head perfectly: Birds aren't allowed to shit on clan assault mechs, it's dishonorable.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is an excellent point.

  • @brothersgt.grauwolff6716
    @brothersgt.grauwolff6716 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I currently have 2 CGL Stone Rhinos 1 painted in Smoke Jaguar colors and 1 in Ghost Bears colors 😊

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice! they do look good as Ghost Bears.

  • @Tatsu_of_Liao
    @Tatsu_of_Liao 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    THE Beast arrives! Hell on two legs! Thank you, Frog!

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It arrives... very...very... slowly...

  • @roguedexx938
    @roguedexx938 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Stone Rhino is quickly becoming my fav on MWO

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm going to have to check it out some day.

  • @anselmoffrisia2930
    @anselmoffrisia2930 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just aesthetically speaking, I typically have a thing for mechs with helicopter- / jet-like cockpits, so I think Stone Rhino looks pretty snazzy!

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We're on the same wavelength.

  • @th3b33f
    @th3b33f 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    THERE IT IS

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Whenever it arrives is the proper time. Neither early nor late.

  • @lancemathew6749
    @lancemathew6749 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Find it odd that the Behemoth from Wolf's Dragoons, Alpha Regiment, The Gurkhas, goes unmentioned...
    The conspiracy continues
    ;)

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're not paranoid if we really are out to get you.

  • @Romuls753
    @Romuls753 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Whats not to love about the Stone Rhino? The SR-7 is the perfect ERPPC or ERLL boat

  • @sebastiang.5032
    @sebastiang.5032 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This Mechs' design is just brutal. Nearly as brutal as it's cost in BV. Still, an enemy can't deny the battlefield presence of the Stone Rhino!

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Makes it easy to build a list... Bam, 3,000. Done.

  • @darklinkinfinite
    @darklinkinfinite 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those sneaky Wolf’s Dragoons fielded one in the Battle of Misery in 3028

  • @malusignatius
    @malusignatius 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Because the Stone Rhino's very close to the ultimate 'goalkeeper' 'mech. It's 100 tons of indomitable defiance, able to reach out and inflict grievous harm at long range and weather an obscene amount of punishment. Sit it on a forested ridgeline overlooking the battlefield and let it lay waste to whatever comes into view.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It definitely isn't going to be letting much get past it.

  • @healthyfire
    @healthyfire 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This thing is badass no matter how you slice it.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It definitely leaves an impression. One way or another.

  • @WolfHreda
    @WolfHreda 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nobody told me there was a Disco Rhino out there. Somewhere out there is a Smoke Jaguar who put way more emphasis on the former than the latter.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Large Pulse Lasers and House music. Let's go. Wub wub...

    • @WolfHreda
      @WolfHreda 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MechanicalFrog no offense to the Smoke Jaguars, I'm sure they're very cultured individuals where music is concerned (😬), but I hope the music came from the Inner Sphere. Maybe the Magistracy of Canopus. Hell, even the Concordat has to put out better House than the Clans could.
      Shit, now I'm imagining what a 31st century remix of Cotton Eye Joe sounds like.

  • @covahredro8370
    @covahredro8370 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I like how in MW5 with Mods like YAML you can have a serious rapid firing Gauss Rifles(basically Gauss with the fire rate close to AC5s)on the Stone Rhino

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sounds like a tooth filling shaker.

    • @covahredro8370
      @covahredro8370 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MechanicalFrog Oh it'll remove kidney stones

    • @phforNZ
      @phforNZ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I mean, you could slap some HAG20s onto it as well...

  • @nukenuked5749
    @nukenuked5749 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thanks forg
    a nice video to watch before i have to go to work mate
    thank you

  • @wraith7989
    @wraith7989 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The jump jets were there for close range combat. 100 tons of death from above!

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's also why it uses pulse over ER and has barrel fists.

  • @fedupN
    @fedupN 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We love it because the Smoke Jaguars have the right idea and we love the giant stompy mechs.
    Who doesn't love swatting coward mechs at all ranges!

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Fun at all ranges... The Stone Rhino Experience.

    • @fedupN
      @fedupN 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MechanicalFrogAff! Oh and excellent video and thank you so much for the variant and its sheet. It's rad as all get out.

  • @jordanrea9564
    @jordanrea9564 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Whenever I see one of these lumbering mistakes I wait to see that giant shiny cockpit window I am really surprised anyone plays it but I guess people just like the front seat view of a cockpit kill

  • @dubuyajay9964
    @dubuyajay9964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So far, the original and II seem the best to me on paper with Gauss and large ER Lasers. Not a fan of the VIII removing jump as these are direct fire platforms that suffer if they can't get a direct bead on a target.

  • @MrMyu
    @MrMyu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My wife and I split a bunch of blind boxes a month or so ago. We fought a trial of possession for the Stone Rhino. I won the 'mech... but also a night on the couch.
    Worth it. :p

  • @poodlescone9700
    @poodlescone9700 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amaris found a core containing the Macross series and discovered the Mac II Monster.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Apparently.

    • @Drenmar
      @Drenmar 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You know, that hadn't occurred to me, and it should have, given I fell in love with the Stone Rhino after seeing it (probably on Red's channel?), and have loved the MAC II since seeing Robotech back in the day. But I always did like my (REALLY) Big Stompy Robots. Great to see it covered here as well.

  • @haileysaint5443
    @haileysaint5443 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really do like the standard Stone Rhino, as well as the Stone Rhino MF. I also have a custom version myself; not really a surprise there. The Stone Rhino ISM is virtually similar to the standard one, but I dropped the Large Pulse Lasers for a pair of Improved Heavy Large Lasers and a Targeting Computer; everything else is like the Stone Rhino.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Removing LPLs in favor of Heavy Large Lasers? I think I might have to put you into time out for that one. :P

    • @haileysaint5443
      @haileysaint5443 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MechanicalFrog I could've put Re-Engineered Lasers or Plasma Rifles on it, you know.

  • @atmosdwagon4656
    @atmosdwagon4656 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've gone on record as saying how little I enjoy piloting assault mechs before, so when I say the Stone Rhino fully gets my approval, it's something special. Having sat in the cockpit of one since MechWarrior 4, I can attest to its effectiveness. It's slow and tall like so many other assault mechs, but it puts its firepower where it needs to, and can snipe as hard as a fully-kitted Marauder-2. It's ammo-dependent, but that's fine since it's designed to support and direct 4 other mechs.
    In my opinion, the Stone Rhino is effectively as close to a perfect union of Inner Sphere pragmatism and Clan tech superiority as you're likely to find from its era, at least on paper. In the lore, it's held back by the Clan's backwards economy (effectively a massive Guild based technocratic industry) greatly limiting its production to the point where the design was deemed too valuable by virtue of its rarity to deploy into combat.
    (Sarna covered this in their ongoing 'Bad Mechs' articles series. Definitely a case where the lore and the design's performance don't see eye-to-eye.)
    Good mech. Heavy mech.
    Shoutout to my old flame, the apocryphal and very non-canon fan version from MW4 MekTek that spinal-mounts a Naval-Grade Railgun on top of the thing. (that is, a space-navy sized armament, which is roughly an order of magnitude more powerful than its terrestrial mechs/vehicles in firepower.)

  • @tenchraven
    @tenchraven 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Stone Rhino 5 is what happens when a Rifleman and Charger are very special friends, and have a very fat baby. Little known fact is that the 6 has the best PA system ever deployed by the Clans, as it is THE disco ball and disco isn't silent. Agreed, not as much fun as the "hero" heavies- this guy is the oversized sidekick, the brute of the star, a regular Fezzik.

  • @downix
    @downix 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I contend that the Matar produced two descendants designs, the Stone Rhino, and the Bull Shark found in HBS' Battletech computer game. Overall, a great example of how bad designs can have good ideas for those clever enough to look for them.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That Bullshark is a wild ride.

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was not aware that the Bull Shark possessed lineage from the Matar, but I still dig it.

    • @downix
      @downix 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bthsr7113 It's nothing official, but the design inspiration looks right to me.

  • @natakuu13
    @natakuu13 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gotta respect the variants laid out by the official Canon/stories/games. But, I love in real time version games like mechwarrior playing around in the mech bays with my own takes. That stone rhino with some tweaks could be sooooo juicy and fun to play with. My idea would be to drop the small laser entirely and add it's weight to armor. Drop 2 mpl and down grade 2 mpl to ml. With your spare 6t give another 1t to armor and 5t to dhs. Bringing your dhs up to 23 and your alpha strike heat to 46. Using the slightly more range of the MLS to hit weaker units like fliers and weak armor before the mpls can and then still be able to hammer down on opponents with the 10 remaining mpls for 70 damage per shot. Can also throw in the 2 MLS and still be heat neutral

  • @tehpw7574
    @tehpw7574 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Amaris 110 Mech. Would it function better on a lower gravity world?

  • @thexsoar
    @thexsoar 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I admit, I assumed the frog variant would have 4 plasma rifles. Not ashamed.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I can't be too predictable.

  • @Aceman52
    @Aceman52 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This beast is a picture of excess, and I am here for it. The Stone Rhino, despite its abysmal speed, is one of the deadliest mechs in the BT universe.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When it gets to the battle, it'll leave a mark.
      You may just have to wait a little bit.

  • @gammaknight2215
    @gammaknight2215 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It has a very close profile to the MAC II Monster

  • @Cadiangrunt99
    @Cadiangrunt99 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    watching this vid I have learned that I painted part of my Stone Rhino mini wrong I should redo the cockpit wooops

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      MechFrog Painting Rule #482: The cockpit is wherever I paint it.

  • @HornetADP
    @HornetADP 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ah yes, stone rhino! I really love this mech, but ... first time I used it (standard variant) got hit from the side on the first turn, location roll was 2, so crit on gauss rifle, which explodes, I loose half of my weapons, damage from the explosion throws the pilot unconscious ... I like it when stuff like this happens, even to me, so no biggie, I still love the mech

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ouch. The dice gods were unforgiving.

  • @Sinnersaix
    @Sinnersaix 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Godamn, my head did head for plasma first XD

  • @ChaosTicket
    @ChaosTicket 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Stone Rhino is a decent mech. Its lore is whats most interesting.
    I remember in the Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries Fan Paks that a lot of mechs got uploaded and the "Behemoth" and "Behemoth II" were brought in with a brand new "Railgun", not to be confused with Gauss Rifles.
    Superheavy mechs are still very limited and seeing that the Matar superheavy mech finally got rules was certainly interesting.

  • @tomwright2582
    @tomwright2582 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the stone rhino 5 is a MAC from Robotech, at least in theory.

  • @christianholzschuh6853
    @christianholzschuh6853 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hrm... given Rose piloted a Masakari and the Black Thorns had several salvaged clan-omni-mechs the question arises: Why wern't their battlecomputers able to correctly identify the 2nd-line clan mechs?

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think this was before all that.

    • @christianholzschuh6853
      @christianholzschuh6853 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MechanicalFrog Nope, this was their third/second contract. Technically they were the garrison on Wolcott in that book, but the way the system worked the garrison contract was the official one, and the sencond one was unofficial, directly with Kurita to destroy something in the Novacat occupation zone... If I remember correctly a factory for elemental-armour-parts. Their... first load of clan omnimches did the Black thorns salvage from Borghese, their first assignment as a garrison. But on... uhm... I don't remember the Planets name and I'm too lazy to google for it, (the direct assignment from Wolcott) Rose did fight a Test aghainst Lenard Deveroux for a IS-Union to get off planet. (filled with... uhm... two binarys of even more omnimechs.)

    • @christianholzschuh6853
      @christianholzschuh6853 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mean, yeah, at that piont... three contracts in as a new mercenary unit the Black Throns were loaded with salvaged - conquered Clan Omnimechs... But People say Victor Steiner-Davion has too much plotarmour...

  • @canis2020
    @canis2020 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone who is in love with the Catapult, I can't figure out why there isn't a 2c version?

    • @phforNZ
      @phforNZ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Timber Wolf

  • @hatework4282
    @hatework4282 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why do we love it? The small pulse laser, obviously.
    I remember when I first got the ral partha mini many moons ago, that thing felt like a brick in my hand. If your opponent is winning you can definitely use it to give them a TBI and call it a victory.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Never underestimate the Small Pulse Laser...

  • @camerancole8433
    @camerancole8433 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I do indeed love the stone rhino

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then today is your day!

  • @robrib2682
    @robrib2682 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I feel this thing's predecessor was built because Amaris didn't quite understand what "the SLDF juggernaut" was referring to.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mistakes were made...

  • @kmech3rd
    @kmech3rd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Blazing Death that Plods :)

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It'll get there, eventually.

  • @chrisb3585
    @chrisb3585 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    To me the Stone Rhino will always be an oversized Marauder, however I do not say that disparagingly.

  • @nuclearrylaw7616
    @nuclearrylaw7616 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gotta love a stone rhino and all its firepower once it can get into optimal combat 😂😅 if you haven’t done one yet will you eventually do one of Grandpa Mackie😂?

  • @hermes7587
    @hermes7587 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Stone Rhino is a beast of a Mech. It very tough, reasonably mobile for it´s class and packs the best weapons in the game.
    It only lacks a crit-seeking weapon.
    From a gaming perspective this Mech requires very little skill to play: Move into position, select the biggest target, tape down the triggers, wait until the dust settles...

  • @MrHeadphones64
    @MrHeadphones64 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I got one of these from a salvage box

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lucky pull. All I seem to get are Vipers.

  • @mathewkelly9968
    @mathewkelly9968 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    While I'm a fan of the Stone Rhino I feel that taking them and similar mechs too often is kind of like being fun police to your opponent

  • @theangryMD
    @theangryMD 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    why do we love the stone rhino? because slow is smooth, smooth is fast. what i tell my students anyway.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The aerodynamic frame allows it to move .01 kph faster.

  • @jasonfarley9025
    @jasonfarley9025 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Because it is a glorious monument to the vanity of man

  • @135forte
    @135forte 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Stone Rhino gets really confusing once you look at the Nightstar. Surely that would have been a more worthy mech to bring to Clan spec.

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *shrug*

    • @jellico1238
      @jellico1238 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Stone Rhino was first published in 1992. Nightstar was first published in 1995. Matar was published in 2013. We don't ask questions about the Star League 'Mechs in TRO3058.

    • @135forte
      @135forte 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jellico1238 No, I suppose you don't ask many questions of the mech bringing you 2 gauss rifles.

  • @ThelemicPotter
    @ThelemicPotter 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How are you pulling up the fiction bits? Is there a database with which mechs appear in each book?

    • @MechanicalFrog
      @MechanicalFrog  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's very crude unfortunately. Sometimes I remember books that have a mech in them. Other times people in discord have some input. Most of the time, I open up each of the novels I have in PDF form and word-search individually. Open > Search > Close x 50

  • @Ironclockwork
    @Ironclockwork 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Stone Rhino is basically the Clans' way of telling Amaris how much he sucks by making one of the greatest technological failures of his regime actually work.