THE ANNIHILATOR | 4 Urbanmechs in a trench coat. FT [
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@@barrybend7189 Do it one better. Drach, Venom and ScIns talking about the Battleship Yamato
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The King Crab is what you get when a bunch of Star League engineers respond to your demand for a sledgehammer of a mech to sweep hordes off boards reliably and efficiently while being tough enough to make it home.
The Annihilator is what you get when you round up a bunch of Star League goobers that I can only loosely describe as "engineers," into a single foundry, coke them up to the gills on Canopus battle powder, drop a shitload of salvage at their feet, and ask them this question: "How much GUN can you put on a single chassis?"
And when they were done the engineers answered:
"All of them."
Damn Right!
Accurate.
And the Marauder II is the hot, sexy embodiment of "If I can see it, I can hit it, and if I can hit it, I can kill it"
They got the Urby when they asked for a "heavy scout" in middle of the engineer's Friday night poker game after everyone was at least kind of drunk and demanded they have the design by tomorrow morning.
Drunk rambling: "Uh, det's slab de HEAVY gun on, uh a pair of legs. Legs are fast. Yeah."
The Urbanmech is a turret. The Annihilator is a geograpfically flexible Point Defense Bunker.
I called my Annihilator Legion because it's head screams Geth to me.
I always thought of Mecha Godzilla when I saw the Annihilator.
Holy crap it does, when I first saw it I thought Gojira, but when you point it out, it does look like a Geth.
@@abaddonblack1294 I remember in MW3 seeing it in the target view over in the lower right corner and thinking it looked a lot like Godzilla.
I named my Annihilator the Fat Labrador.
I think the Annihilator is one of those mechs that can rally both sides of the community behind it by its form alone.
Old school vets will see Godzilla, whereas newcomers will see Geth. Both are equally famous from their respective franchises.
The Annihilator definitely caused some raised eyebrows when they showed up with the dragoons but the everyone was basically “hold it, hold it, what the hell is that thing” when they saw zalman and his stone rhino.
I'm addicted to this channel.
Also the urby is FAR better than the annihilator because a dozen ac/20 urbys cost LESS than an annihilator
You get 6 Urbies to the Annihilator, unless you're talking about GaussZilla with it's 5 Clan Gauss Rifles.
That's the argument everyone uses, EVERYONE always says "well, that mech is great, but can it fight [insert number of urbanmechs here] all at once?"
On the one hand, i agree, cost effectiveness is great for the urbie. On the other hand, I get it, the urbanmech is the definition of "how many kindergarteners can you fight"
@@scienceinsanity6927 I hear you...but, kindergartners don't have AC/20s
@@scienceinsanity6927 I always make the argument to people, being former military, that the difference between the urbanmech on the table vs how it would be used in a real life context is significant. On the table, any number will end up getting picked apart.
But in the real world, like anti-tank guns, you use 5, 6 or more to ambush single mechs and hit them until they die and hopefully only lose one or two for something much bigger. Honestly, it would probably be used as effectively a really big infantryman, as opposed to an MBT or AFV the way you would a mech like a Marauder.
That's probably why so many veterans love the urbie. It's the grunt's mech.
@@fix0the0spadeI'm a sea fox, i can get 12 for the price.
Through bargaining.
By which i mean "i'm in a hammerhead and i declare a trial of possession".
Jokes aside i threw an arbitrary number of urbys, because realistically almost any mech would die to 3 AC/20s
OMG the jaffa comment had me dying 😂😂😂
"A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose drips."
Jaffa joke from Teal'c
British Engineering-"we thought the sa80 was a good idea!" also: 2 British dudes in a shed in maybe Devon "we've designed the world's best sniper rifle, now we just need to con the government into thinking we can actually make it at scale"
While Royal Armories left the new engineers to work on it, the design is not that bad. The problem is what they did during the production like telling workers "this is ur last job"
Geoffrey DeHavalind: What would happen if I took a plane made of balsa wood and stuck two of the biggest, most powerful engines I could find into it?
Is this an accuracy international reference?
@@highlorddarkstarWhy yes, I believe it is.
The original SA80 made was pretty good then the arsewipe govt wanted it to be made from cheaper inferior materials. And voila a pile of buggy constantly jamming underpowered pos.
16:27 Ironically, that's why the Clans needed the intelligence they were supposed to be gathering
I can imagine a fire lit clearing in a forest , with a group of Urbies slowly circling the Annihilator with deep chanting coming from their speakers.
Aren't the Annihilator and Urbie in MW5 the only mechs where the walk animation matches the movement seen in the cockpit - because they are that slow?
What's worse is that I've used Urbies and out ran Annihilators in that game.
@@RvnKnight In a co-op game with friends we built up a four Annihilator lance that we nicknamed "Global Warming" because we were a slow, impending doom. Maps with a lot of valleys or hills were incredibly painful to march across, but the defense missions were hilarious - enemy dropships would open up and the mechs inside were half-way dismantled before even touching the ground. Good times.
I don't think this can be considered silly as the Urbanmech. There is now a LAM Urbanmech. The TrashCAN can now fly.
TRASHCAN CAN INTO SPACE!
@@VallornDeathblade Super TrashCAN.
Step 1: Buy a LAM Urbanmech. Step 2: Replace AC20 with all AC2s you can cram in. Step 3: Make your best A-10 Warthog impression, as the "Freebird" rings in your cockpit.
@@andreykuzmin4317Honestly I want to make it an AV-4 platform. Cult of the Bomb and all that.
@@gmradio2436 "I must ascent beyond a super trashcan, I must become a Super Duper Trashcan!" ~ Vegeta, Urbie pilot
To be fair to British designs, the plywood plane, the Mosquito, was an amazing aircraft that worked weirdly well, carrying a unusually large paload for the time at higher speed and altitude than most opponents. Their tanks, through the Centruion, redefined tank design by creating the Universal Tank concept, which became the MBT concept. Naval wise, the famous Dreadnought which not only was better armed than all previous counterparts, it was also better armoured and, importantly despite not mentioned often, was signifigantly faster, it's steam turbines giving it a top speed of 21 knots consistantly compared to the less consistant 18 knots of triple expansion engines on all other battleships. Throw in the PIAT, a spring loaded anti-tank mortar that outranged most contamparay man-prtable anti-tank weapons, and a naval limpet mine that used sweets as a fuse and a condom as a safety. The Brits designed weird stuff, but it worked far more often than not.
Hell, the Swordfish was - IIRC - the most effective torpedo bomber of WWII - it was a British Biplane. Brits have had some good designs, but admittedly, they have had some seriously messed up ideas, designs, implementations in its history
@@catboxvideo Yeah, the Swordfish was great, between the Battle of Taranto, damage to Bismarck high kill count against submarines and Italian merchant vessels and long service life, it outlasted its replacement in service and almost outlasted the replacement to its replacement. I also love the RATO Anti-Submarine version, in order to launch off the escort carriers and modified merchant ships, they mounted rockets to a canvas biplane to get it into the air faster and armed it with rockets to engage the submarines.
Our engineering is similar to our cooking - not the prettiest but it does the job and usually isn't stupidly expensive. Also Hurricanes were primarily wood construction, just updated to metal wings from 1939 onward. The Mossie wasn't a new idea, just a new implementation of an older one.
Would also like to point out that the Chieftain tank was the only one that actually met the original NATO brief in that it had a multifuel engine. If you squinted at it enough and hit it a few times with a really big hammer.
@@MrGrimsmith Squinting at it and hiting it with a hammer? You mean careful analysis and percussive maintenance? Those along with being made by 3 guys in a shed are the staple of British military engineering genius.
@@bismarkeugen6881 It's in one of our laws somewhere - "Thou shalt not diss the men of the sheds or those wearing flat caps". We also have the oft maligned but ever true "If in doubt give it a clout" and "If at first you don't succeed, try a bigger hammer" :D
Strips all weapons, fits 4 ac-20, added ALL the armor, puts 10 rounds per gun in it, then fills whateve rest tonnage it has with heatsinks.
Leaves.
Sounds like a Solaris 7 job.
“But then it would just be a Stalker with arms.”
Yes. Yes it would. And I would love to pilot a Stalker with arms!
If it has arms, would it still be a Stalker?
Isnt that just the northstar?
Or would it be a Madcat without the ears?
I hate piloting this in MW5. However when I have two with me for defense missions it turns into I CAST LIGHTING STORM or DAKKDAKKADAKKKADAKKA
Fun to shoot. Not to walk down the block
Its along with urbies are supposed to be defensive mechs. They are not supposed to go anywhere but hold the ground they are put on.
I love the quad XB-10 loadout on annihilator
aka "fuck everyone in that direction" the mech
XB-10s are lowkey busted in MW5
To be fair the annihilater is actually a really good solaris mech in the new dlc :-) it's damage output is so good it kills most of the opposition whilst they're busy fighting each other....don't use it in the missions where they focus on you though as it dies far to easily and if your against one the head is so easy to hit its only a threat for a very short time.
I think my favorite version of the Annihilator is the refit the Dragoons did after the "debacle" on Misery. They stripped out the auto-cannons and ammo, and replaced them with four PPCs and enough heat sinks to fire them all nonstop.
Based.
Mine I didn’t use the PPC’s but instead used four Clan ER Large Laser and four Clan Medium Pulse Lasers
I made something similar in MW5 but with 6 PPCs, and when I fired them all at once my heat guage went from empty to overheat shutdown instantly. After adding a few more heat sinks and splitting the PPCs into 2 groups of 3 things cooled down significantly.
No Gauss Annhilator?
@@nickthenuker7916you made the fuck you mech
It's worth noting that in tabletop, LBX autocannons can fire either solid rounds like a normal AC or the cluster shells. What makes the LB-10X such a great weapon is that it's 1 ton lighter than the AC/10, so the upgrade basically pays for itself in letting you immediately add an additional ton of ammo of your cboice. Pulse lasers trade some of their range for higher accuracy, giving a -2 modifier to shots made with them at all range brackets.
The wide gap between tabletop which the lore is written around, and MWO which has to balance for first person pvp essentially. Necessary for the games to function, but it's created some interesting perceptions about what certain weapons preform like, or what changes one can casually make to a `mech.
@@flyinggoomba5127 From what I understand lore-wise, arms and attachment things (like the ears on a catapult) are pretty easy to replace if you have something to replace them with but anything torso mounted is much more difficult. Taking the subject for example, taking the arms off the Annihilator and replacing them with, say, the LRM racks of a longbow would be relatively simple (just got to get the connections right) but replacing the AC/10s in the torso (or the engine or something nuts like that) would involve cutting the whole mech apart and piecing it back together maybe-kinda.
You should do a piece on the weapon systems of Battletech, starting with the lowly flamer (lol) all the way up to naval autocannons. Some of them are absolutely terrifying
PPCs have always been my favorite, and as I learned more actual science over the years I realized just how nasty those things would really be. They're radiological weapons as much as anything else. The blue color of the beam is from air ionization and that's... Not something you want to ever see. Were any of this real crew survivability in the case of a direct hit by a PPC would be very, very low. The vehicle/mech/ship might be alright, but the humans inside would probably not, and it wouldn't be pleasant
I've reached the point of Critical Mass in my current MW5 playthrough long ago, now it's just mech collecting. Dropping with 4 Annis and unleashing "16 barrels of hell" is such a satisfying thing to do. By far not the best lance but imagining the "Oh crap!" feeling my enemies must feel gives me endless pleasure
I feel like this is the only mech that allowed me to win the MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries campaign.
In every mission before this mech- "how does the enemy have this many mechs to send against my one lance!"
In every mission _after_ this mech- "WOOYOO! More headshot/cores for the taking!!!"
My first encounter with it was in Mech 3.
In a tight corridor.
In an Orion.
Yeah, that was not a fun mission...
@@kazekamiha wait, it can fight? It never moved for me... also having to crouch and walk super slow to avoid headcapping yourself on the ceiling, yeah... I hated that mission.
The Mosquito was genius, it could just take shots that did no damage because the rounds would go right through instead of turning to shrapnel and tearing eveything apart. Its literally the most successful plane of the war.
Describing British WWI/WWII tank design as "some real Wallace & Gromit shit" had me hollering.
This all happened when 4 urbanmechs wanted to sneak in to the "assualts only" club. After being turned away several times they hit on a plan.......4 urbies in a trench coat!!
Getting off topic with your co-hosts is the best part of your videos. I loved this one. Really funny stuff.
It honestly surprises me when I read the novels, the rules books and law that when Wolf's Dragoons showed up for the first time with a sizable amount of SLDF quality configured and well maintained mechs such as Marauders, Hunchbacks, Orions, a couple of Atlases and dozens of other mechs out of no where including three never before seen varients including the Annihilator; You'd think it would raise eyebrows, but nooooo, people only started to get suspicious when the Stone Rhino showed up.
People are morons and all it takes is "yeah we found a Royal grade SLDF cache with some prototypes" which is likely something that has happened in the past. Now something like Amaris Folly showing up later on out of the blue is less believable.
Finding SLDF caches happened (rarely but it happened) or getting hold of a ComStar mech could also happen. So it was plausible, until - as you noted - a novel design showed up. It was "known" that ComStar suppressed SLDF technology so it was present but rarely seen. Caches are also plausible due to the sheer scale of the Inner Sphere, the Amaris Civil War and the somewhat hurried SLDF Exodus.
The thing about the Annihilator, and a lot of other 'Mech like it, is that it was designed to fight in a singular/specific environment/style. Some 'Mechs, such as the Hunchback, can survive outside of that environment...most cannot. (Also, some 'Mechs are better in realtime fights versus tabletop, others are much better in the lore than their actual performance anywhere.)
For that last point, the delight of unit history written separate from or before the stats of the machine are produced to fit it, you're certainly right on the money.
Hi: I used to own the entire regiments of Wolf's Dragons. Yes all 890 mecks. Including 10 of these monsters when I was in the Army when we played in the 1990's. I always liked them.
If you think that the Germans thought that wooden airplanes were a bad idea, try looking at the Horton 229. A WW2 wooden stealth jet bomber...
Anyways, the Annihilator is the Pokemon evolution of an Urbanmech. Forced evolution, maybe, but we work with what we have.
The Annihilator,
The turret that is effective as 4 Urban mechs as it is slow as 4 Urban mechs, without turning said mechs into the an afront to the Urban Lord spawn, the Urban Train
Poor thing can't even levitate for the life of itself
44:00 Did I just hear Venomgeekmedia do a LIndybeige impression on Science Insanity?
If you see the Annihilator and don't immediately think "Geth" I just don't understand your mind.
It’s easy! I simply haven’t played Mass Effect.
The Urbie to the Annihilator is what Charmander is to the Charizard.
this is exactly the kind of channel I needed in order to prepare writing my campaign
I've done the stand in one place and shoot each other thing. I was in a Timberwolf Howl, armed with 3 ATM-9, specced for missile range (195% of standard ATM range) and sensor range (1360m); he was in an Annihilator armed with 2 RAC-5; specced for jam avoidance, armor and ammo capacity. I jumped up on a building to deliberately make myself obvious, and we spent a couple of minutes shooting each other. I had an easy time locking onto him as we were well inside my sensor's enhanced range... he fired roughly 400 rounds into me, but clearly wasn't paying any attention to his rangefinder, as we were beyond the RAC-5 maximum range, as well as his sensor range of 800m, so not only was he not even scratching my paint job, he was unaware of the fact.
It was a glorious victory of knowledge of one's weapons over ignorance of the same.
The Annihilator out here just doing its best impression of MechaGodzilla
As a pilot of King Crab with two rotary ac/5. Who faced the lance of urbies and pair of annihilators in urban environment.
You can run and shake off damage from annihilators. But urbies will devour you alive.
As a veteran Highlander pilot they're terrifying. My highlander had it's gauss ripped out for a ER PPC and lots of armor and double heatsinks shoved in. Even went through the process of getting MP lazer's. But those damn urbies. Against a Atlas? Not a big deal. AGAINST A F*CKING TRASHCAN ON LEGS THO!?
It's honestly pitiful how many C-bills I've burned through repairing damage from urbies compared to literally everything else combined
This mech tends to bang the cockpit on the leopard drop ship's door frame. So so many dents for both.
I really appreciate how this channel sets itself apart by being the host and a friend who both enjoy a hobby taking somewhere under an hour to talk about a concept in decent detail and amazing analogies. The jokes and comparisons keep things light-hearted, it's not overly long, and you've managed to capture the spirit of enthusiastically talking about a hobby in a casual setting. It's so good.
I remember fielding a lance of two Annihilators and two Atlas II in the HBS BattleTech game, a bit not lore friendly for a mercenary unit operating in the periphery; however, it was fun having 6 gauss rifles to play with.
I’m pretty much only here for Battletech videos, but I enjoy your channel so much thank you for giving the community a fun experience!
ANNIHILATOR with all clan weapons (Clan vehicle after all) and a Clan XL suddenly becomes much more viable. Heck, it even has armor. Ran one with 4x Uac/10 and clan erML. I just deleted anything that got near me.
Cons
-High head, low guns, makes for bad peaking.
-Slow
-Bad armor
-EASILY cockpited.
Pros
-Looks like godzilla.
-Massive firepower
-Range
--Looks like godzilla..... wait.. already said that.
I've been seeing your videos pop up here and there and have considered watching several. But the title of this one caught my attention instantly. Time to begin another journey with yet another creator who apparently likes the same stompy robots I do.
Also, fun story I always tell when the Annihilator is mentioned: In MechWarrior 3, I built an Annihilator with 7 Clan ER PPCs. I deployed it in an instant action against a few Clan 'mechs. The first one came into view, I hit the alpha strike button...
And lit up the landscape in glorious gamma radiation as my reactor went so critical that my torso turned into a new star. MechWarrior 3 didn't play around when it came to the heat mechanics. It was great.
My introduction to battletech was mechwarrior 3 and the first time you encounter an annihilator it’s in a tunnel with only one approach to it and an ally you’ve been searching for already engaged with it, announcing she’s tangoing with an annihilator with panic in her voice. It’s definitely a hard filter because when encountering it you are equipped with medium mechs only and every pull of its trigger will either kill or knock you over, where you will die on your back when it fires again. Left quite an impression.
Yep…i remember that mission. It was also dark as fuck too so you know you’re gonna run into it, but around which corner
@@voidofhope6259 yep! My strategy was always “sorry Epona, you’re dancing solo.” I’ll wait until you’re the focus of the annihilator because lance mates couldn’t die and mecha could be repaired or replaced pretty easily in that game.
In MWO, my dual RAC5/LB10XAC Annie was terrifying. That was the mech I got my "Ace of Spades" and "Liquid Metal" achievements with. It'll always be near and dear to my cold, dead, black, heart.
I remember my very first experience with an Annihilator, it was in Mechwarrior 3 where it was the first 100 ton Mech I faced off against in the game.
With a twist of luck, I managed to salvage it the first time around. I knew nothing about Battletech at the time and the sheer size and amount of guns it could hold made younger me jump with joy.
Even after I blew it up with a single alpha strike due to all my on board guns being Large Lasers.
Good Evening, My name is Neko and I am an addict.
[all together] "Hello Neko"
Neko: I have been addicted for almost 40 years. Yes, I still have all of my hard copy books. I ... umm ... I am going to get some coffee.
I loved swapping out the Lbx for sld slugthrowers, and a ppc boat for a lance, took me forever to cross a large map, but everything exploded en-route
The thing about the annihilator head is that I don't think its actually a proper head unit. It's shape and viewport doesn't give ample room for a cockpit and have sufficient protection for its weight, it serves another purpose.
The placement is ideal for a targeting array or searchlight which would make sense as its a long range duelist and night fights and on board gear is a thing.
The other is, and this trick has been used in real life, a false cockpit. Sometimes it gets extravagant but it's purpose is clear, keep the enemy distracted by giving an obvious target to protect the pilot so it can continue fighting.
This was an awesome video, thank you for making my day a little better
With this I like to up the armor WAY up, swap the quad AC/10s for a pair of AC/20s and AC/2s. In Mech 5 I got an all energy one I loaded up with quad PPCs and Large Lasers.
MWO made me appreciate the annihilator ... sarna, the tabletop and you guys destroyed that );
"4 Urbanmechs in a trench coat" - you got me there...
I had one of these in MW5, I put 4 PPC Xs on the damn thing and replaced the medium lasers with ER ones. The dopamine of turning locusts and javelins into clouds of ash in one volley more than made up for the fact that 98% of each mission was just trying to walk to the enemy
The main issue I see with the cockpit like that is you can shoot it from every direction, not just the front.
For the record, the 1E Annihilator is posterior kicking design. Still slow, still a glass cannon but 4 PPC's, 4 Medium Lasers, and 41 Heat Sinks to COMFORTABLY deal with heat. Keep it at a distance and support it with a mech that the opposition cant ignore like an AC 20 armed Hunchback and let it do ots long range thing.
I'd love to see a Superheavy Annihilator II that really pushes the four Urbies in a trench coat to tye max. 120 tons, 4 AC/10s, 4 lasers, 8 JJs.
The comment I have on the LBX is that they are regularly the only way I can get headshots in mw5. I tend to accidentally core the mechs but with LBX headshots are not only possible but funny.
I've noticed in mechwarrior 5 that only hitting the glass counts as a headshot. Makes sense at first, until you hit a centurion on it head fin and it's counted as a center mass shot.
Here because of the other side of this colab on Venom's channel, been emjoying your content. In MW5 the Annihilator can be a situationally hillarious mech with the right build, never thought of it as the uber-urbie but it fits...
Yay, Venom Greek Media, one of my favorite Star Trek people on TH-cam.
"Four urbies in a trenchcoat" that's a good one.
Now I can't help but imaging four Urbies ontop of each other in a trenchcoat and hat, lol.
thats awesome having him in here with us mechwarrior fans. I've been enjoying his romulan content and a lot of his animated battles
The Annihilator is an awesome assault mech, as long as it doesn't get shot.
This giggling review of the Annihilator and the Urbies just reminded me that some crazy banana of a person slapped an Arrow-IV Tactical Nuclear Missile Launcher onto an Urbanmech *more than once* in the lore.
"Paterson, fire a warning shot."
"Sir, this is an Arrow-IV Tactical Nuclear Missile system."
"Eh, potato potato, fire."
It was a Blakist, from that era they call "stupid", and the original canon incident has it dropping a nuke on Kell Hounds. Kell Hounds use Annihilators, don't be like Kell Hounds.
LBX are better in every way then a standard AC because they can use solid or cluster shot, they aren't just using shotgun ammo by default. MWO just made them cluster only for variety. In tabletop cluster also gets an accuracy bonus and tortures your opponent with the amount of time it takes to roll all those hit locations...
I was lucky enough to find this bad girl on the mech market in MW5 in Pristine Condition. I replaced the LBXs with two AC-10s and two UAC-5s and HO BOY I've been having fun dakka'ing all the opposition.
Well this was the most amusing episode of anything I've listened to in a while.
Several of my interests just slamming together hilarously, I'm delighted.
Small point of order about the Black Prince and Sherman Firefly: The BP isn't a Churchill chassis but the last dregs of pre-War tank doctrine decided to rear it's head and convinced some bright spark it would make a grand starting point for Britain's next tank. In fairness to the Chruchill it was decent enough and pretty reliable but it's flat-12 engine was a bit underpowered already and the BP was saddled with it despite being a far bit heavier which made it even slower than it's predecessor. It wasn't terrible, unlike some other exhibits at Bovington, but the Centurion was better in every way.
As for the Firefly, mostly right but I'm not sure about the 5 car engines strapped together thing. I know the Aussies crammed 3 Cadillac V-8's connected to one gearbox into the back of the AC (Australian Cruiser) series of tanks because they had access to nothing remotely powerful enough to power a tank indigenously.
Also, Fun Fact: during the interwar period and WWII several navies, and the IJN in particular, integrated packs of coloured dyes into the shells for their main battery cannons so they could more easily track shell splashes with optical rangefinders. I believe that each of the Kongo-class battlecruisers had a different colour but I can't recall exactly what off the top of my head.
The “5 car engines strapped together” was a real U.S. invention. The Americans needed as many manufacturers as they could to start producing tank engines as quickly as they could, so Chrysler took an off-the-shelf straight-six and arranged five of them around a common output gear to produce a 30-cylinder monstrosity.
When the U.S. Army had a choice, they preferred to keep the Shermans with more sensible engines for themselves and leave the 30-cylinder models to be lend-leased to allies. Firefly conversions were drawn from whatever models of Sherman were in the British inventory, which led to a lot of Firefly tanks having the multi-bank engine.
I call this 100 ton mech a tea party mech, because you can have one before it arrives.
Personal favorite load out for a ballistic assault mech: 4x Heavy Rifles and a ERPPC. Long reloads? Sure. But you don't get much more heavy hitting than that.
VGM is the man, man!! I’ve legit listened to all his content on TH-cam.
The Med Lasers are for when you've used up your 100 seconds of fire and all 4 guns go click. I was in a competition in Dallas a long time ago. The rules were that you had to bring a custom design 100 ton mech. It was a free-for-all (what these days are called a grand melee) The reward was that the last mech standing would be published in a book. My mech had 2/3/2 movement, 3xPPC (2xRA 1xLA) and 7xML (all torso mounted) with 32HS unfortunately I got gang-fired by a croup of friends. (couldn't take on 3 to 1 of = tonnage each) but I do remember one of the guys firing 4 AC-10s at me. That was before the WD book was published. I am certain that it was the real first Annihilator that fired those AC-10s at me. Too bad it wasn't double elimination, I would have cleaned their clocks if not for gang-fire.
The Annihilator is made to be attacked. It's supposed to be so scary opposing commanders prioritize and charge it. Then while it wipes out a lance or two of charging smaller mechs it's buddies flank and roll your assaults.
I loved doing the last mission of the Crucis Lancers campaign from MW5M in one of these. Downed 13 capellan machines before they forced me to eject.
The MW5 modpack I use has Schwerer Gustav. I love to fill it with Long Toms.
HBS Battletech Annihillator Build:
4x UAC10
TTS balistic
Just enough Double Heatsink to be barely heat neutral.
As much ammo as you can carry without sacrificing too much defense.
Reasoning for this build: if 4 Ac10s are good, 8 is obviously better.
I call this Annihilator the 'Fuck you in particular'
I'm British and love the Annihilator. I think you might have a point about it being an unhinged British abomination with a tea kitchen.
The analator (i know what i said) is the ultimate turret. Its terrible in a cqb fight but put it in the back and its a whole ass Artillery division by itself.
Its like someone said "but what if... we gave this gun... more GUN?"
Annihilator is insanely rare mech in MW5. Solaris DLC makes it more common but still, you need to be really lucky to get this beast on market. Same with Marauder 2. Normally you can get only one from storymode missions
I'm pretty sure the MechWarrior Annihilator's head and neck is that far back in order to offset the massive chest dome and give the mech a stable center of mass.
I remember the genesis of Gausszilla. It was well before MWO was a thing, or even conceived. A fan took this custom 'Mech to challenge the creators of BattleTech to a trial of grievance... over the cartoon series. He was so offended by the cartoon, its stories, and the overly prejudice representation of both Clanners and Combine members. Sadly, he didn't actually end up using the Gausszilla for the fight, but instead a Dire Wolf/Daishi in the fight - because while they accepted the challenge, they required he use a canonical design. Yes, the fight was real. And hilarious.
Another great Battletech vid, and shout out to VGM for comming abord. 👍
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@@venomgeekmedia9886 nice to see you branching out my guy. Keep up the great work 👍
Mine has 610ish armor in MW5 come break my glass cannon 😂 but that's MW5, tho I don't think anybody has ever called them lightly armored? That's the entire point they aren't a "Mech" they are a mobile defense platform for whatever needs moveable but static defenses, wouldnt work for shit if it had no armor and walked 12mph 😂 but I could somehow be wrong
In MW5 armor values are about twice that of tabletop (But guns shoot faster)
The annihilator is by no means lightly armored and it would not lose a face to face against ANYONE, it's only issue is the speed, unfortunately for the annihilator speed is beyond important.
At 12mph it's doomed in anything other than a city
My favorite play I ever made in MWO was taking my jumpjet raven, jumpinng on top of an atlas, and balancing on top of it while shooting down. He actually was able to hit me with the stupid small laser in the eye so I guess that's what that is for. Still won because I had two medium lasers and was shooting him in the head.
I'm brand new to all this and I came to the conclusion the Urban is the coolest little shit ever XD
Another good video also if you really want a nuke heavy sci-fi that I can recommend to you I would recommend the last Angel over at Space Battles because everything but the like very short ranged weapons are nuclear or antimatterin well that's essentially all that they are The Only Exception is Humanities big Uber super weapon but that thing is essentially Thanos snapping whatever it hits out of reality so yeah you really can't say that things less powerful than a nuke when it can literally turn a star go boom and I'm just making a video request that you follow the nemesis class deep spacingagement vessels from humanity in that setting because those girls definitely deserve it and I think this sci-fi is massively underrated though I am a big fan of your videos and this is why I'm making the request
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"what's he say" everyone else
" oh bri'ish thing's" British people
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The Annihilator is excellent for static point defense but nothing else.
For a fun bit of British tank shenanigans history. Check out the A-38 valiant. British were built different. That thing is a horror show.
I still remember my first encounter with an annihilator. Some jaguar solahma had one back on tranquil and i was coming up on their HQ what steps out? 4 fucking LB10X and 4 fucking pulse lasers.
I dig the commentary style. An instant subscribe. Lots of fun. Keep it up!
On that old game, the last before V.. you kbow, that nice 3d one before anyone dreamed of mwo.. where loosing both legs is a defeat.. at one moment now branded violently in my memory, I was field testing a mech.. the level had a piramid like building and I was spooked by a direwolf and ran to that hill / piramid for a semblance of cover.. but just as I was tp reach summit, there was, heading my way from the other side, an annihilator with 4 LBXs 15 (10s?)... with nowhere to go, I panicked as a freeborn and jumped.. and to noones surprise, I was promptly erased from existance..
The terror of suddenly facing that thing, along with remembering the last test on tjat map was with a kodiak (-like) against a full lance of all direwolves and annihilators there was in that game.. and I was fielding a bushwacker.. all that combined, that abject terror remains in my mind.. and likely mirrors any pilot who happened to "stumble" uppon that thing..
Granted, as a Koga, I latter retryed and avenged my past self with missiles.. my specialty.... still, suddenly facing an annihilator was quite the scare.. at least it lacks ecm or still evades davions to get one...
huge glass cannon? oh no no no the Annihilator is a barely mobile wall of armor with guns on it
The warship CQB turret that gave up armor to walk.
Oh venomgeek thought he sounded familiar. Now I wonder how a Star Trek force would do in battle tech, hmm liking the idea of combining these two one has space ships one has the ground stuff.
I can relate to Omni Mech builders. I build omni vehicles and they vastly out perform their original designs and even make newer ones look silly performance and especially endurance wise. Gotta love mix and matching parts from different generations and even different manufacturers. 😸
In battletech (the computer version) the 5 LB2Xs are ridiculous. They do 48 damage apiece (compared to the 25 of the standard AC2) and do so much stagger you will either outright kill or knock down any mech you hit
Total damage of like 192-240 and everything you hit is dropping to the ground. Called shots *will* remove whatever part of the mech you are aiming at
mad max a larger engine, have one that goes 64 kph, cut weight with double heat sinks and LBXs with slugs ferror fiberous and dropping two medium lasers. Increase the armor, cackle in fast machine gun that is moderately well armed
You change that huge beer belly it has, it kinda looks like a Geth.