Fun fact in Japan KFC is actually the most popular thing to eat on Christmas. There's even a statue of the colonel at a KFC in Tokyo that gets dressed up as Santa Claus.
I just have this mental image of a bunch of aesthetically and culturally crosswired Kuritan culinary artists putting on their best "genteel southerner" vibes they picked up from their senseis who picked up from theirs, etc..... and nobody actually knows where it came from.
Professor Checkers was made canon as a part of the Clan Invasion Kickstarter backer rewards and the stuff he created as a part of the fluff for the character was mentioned in one of the two novels he appeared in. Anyone who pledged 300 or more USD got to canonize a character of theirs.
House Kurita: When we say put a planet to the sword we are not speaking figuratively. House Davion: Liberating the Inner Sphere one political marriage and smoldering crater at a time. House Liao: You do not have to be crazy to rule here, but it helps. House Marik: Do not bother attacking us, we have that covered. House Steiner: If it weighs under 80-tons we are not interested.
I don't really get why people keep calling Battletech a TTRPG. The franchise _has_ multiple TTRPGs including MechWarrior and Battletech: Destiny, but Battletech itself is basically just a board game
@@colbyboucher6391 battletech itself is definitely more of a tabletop wargame but it does have more rpg elements than most wargames, especially if you run a campaign and have to keep up with pilot stats and quirks
Nothing like doing a MW5 infiltration mission in Steiner style. Not only do I reach every objective, but I also scout out what mechs the enemy used to have. All of them, including reinforcements. And after all that scouting is over, we turn the entire place into a big parking lot. Stealth is optional.
Look, if there's no-one left alive to report your position, or anyone left alive to report that position _to_ then you are perfectly undetected and therefore stealthy :D
@@Archris17 It's the time between the moment when you turn around the corner and begin scouting and that final result that counts. The moment when the Capellans stand there with an open mouth and don't believe their eyes. But since stealth is optional, we could play something from Beethoven to help them over that: th-cam.com/video/TZix2QJgWUQ/w-d-xo.html
Battletech, Armor Core, and Gundam would make for a fitting cool crossover. The very image of Gundams and Armor Cores engaging each other at hypersonic speeds is just a awesome engagement and conflict with legions of Battlemechs firing at them.
I am pretty sure Gundams and Armor Cores would stomp Battlemechs hard as a result of Battlemechs being more realistic. Thought I would love to see Battletech with 40K. I have seen some crossovers but they mostly seemed to focus on Space Marines which really seems like missing the point/wasted opportunity. A Battlemech Regiment of the Imperial Guard (maybe with some Warhammer-ification, like Lascannons instead of Large Lasers etc) would be amazing to see, as would Imperial Knights in the Inner Sphere.
@@nemamiah7832 True, I can definitely see an Elemental beat a Space Marine. Inner Sphere Tanks definitely compare well with 40K as well (like at least equilavent if not better). Not sure where I would place Aerospace Fighters in relation to 40K fliers... I can easily see a Heavy Mech be a match for an Imperial Knight, perhaps even a Medium Mech.
@@gokbay3057actually based off the timescale and "accurate size scale" (which is pure bullshit) Battletech move about as fast as the MTs from Armored Core 6, and when they have jump jets jump similarly to the ACs. Though classic UC Gundam Mobile Suits and Armored Core would of course out perform them by simple virtue of high impact versatile weaponry (Gundam) and easy customization and mobility (AC) Aside: my friend and I actually worked on figuring out an AC TT crossover of the AC mechs, rule of thumb here, but basically their run and jump distances get a +2 move distance over mechs, and they have far more components that would be considered "Omni" than even a clan mech... Though ironically the MTs for the most part would be considered dog shit compared to a medium mech or even a light mech. Also the limited allowed weapons is would give a Battletech mech an edge. As for Gundam well as I said, versatile weaponry, but really worse than even AC in that regard especially since a Beam Cannon at the most powerful from the UC is only as strong as the PPC of a dropship and that's got like 15 shots max and is being carried by a hero mech or is a weapon that weighs nearly as much as the Assault mech weighted Mobile Suit, and most Beam weapons on mechs are instead compatable to a Heavy PPC/ER PPC hybrid. Which yay for power... Booo for when your dice roll misses and that's literally the only weapon your mech is carrying.
Old Man you have to watch his two parter on the Amaris Civil War the Horus Heresy of the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe it's awesome and along with this video primes you for a lot of Tex's later content as a lot of the Mech's he talks about have their history's and even origins tied into the events in and around the Amaris Civil War.
All of the "Tex Talks Battletech" series is good, and he occasionally streams and posts let's plays for the HBS Battletech. And, yes, Van Zandt, Mr. Tex, and the Black Pants Legion are all canon as of circa 2019. Heck, they even wrote about his Elemental ex-wife.
Your whole reaction to the segment on the Capellans had me rolling 😂. Now you will get why they are the punching bag of much joking in the community.😁👍
Another interesting thing about the Free Rasalhague Republic is that they are, near as I can tell, the only Inner Sphere faction with a made up language: Swedenese. Unfortunately there has never been any sort of actual depictions of it written or spoken.
I am guessing by the name and description of the people it is a combination of Swedish and Finnish. Is there any place in the lore where this was confirmed or denied?
@@GhostBear3067 Yeah, another comment also stated this but I didn't read it before replying. The "nese" in name made me unsure what other language was combined with the Swedish so I went with Finnish cause it is also a Nordic language and ends in "n"s. When I though of any language that ends in "nese" only one I could think of was "Vietnamese" which didn't fit.
You should see these guys Steiner scout lance skits. It's a scouting lance made up of Atlas's. They won't be noticed if there is no one left to notice. Also voice acted by authentic German's. The skits are spread out over a few video's and I don't think they have an official compilation yet.
The battletech content that comes out of the BPL is fantastic. They've produced several feature length documentaries about the setting and are still going strong. Hell, they've even done a feature length documentary about real world military history.
On the FedSuns drifting towards behaving like the Dracs, that is actually the central point of tension in their rivalry. The FedSuns do the same awful stuff the Dracs do, fully willing to send a mech company into a riot for negotiation by heavy machinegun. The only real difference between the two is the FedSuns seem to genuinely believe that one day (and it has been 300 years since the fall of the Star League) it can all be undone and we go back to limited local democracy and freedom. The Dracs OTOH say "nope machinegun civilians forever, why change something that works?". The Dracs are annoyed that a very successful neighbouring state is successful by behaving like them while holding their nose, why can't they see this is just the right way? OTOH the FedSuns look at the Dracs insistence that horrific totalitarian state forever is the solution with horror.
Nha, the Feddies do genuinely try, and lapse at times. It's not a "some day" thing, it's a back and forth. Good and bad times. With Kurita it's jackboot-o-clock forever, all the time.
"Bro, you remember that one crazy viking motherfucker who flew his fighter into the ilKhan's bridge?" "Aff! Absolute legend, some of these freebiths are fucking crazy!" "Right?! How'd he even fly with his nuts giving off their own gravitational field like that?!"
Another thing, a good way to describe Solaris 7 is that it’s like Las Vegas but instead of gambling, it’s famous for televised gladiatorial matches between mechwarriors. Also Duncan Fisher is voiced by George Ledoux in this video, reprising his role from the Mechwarrior games
Funny enough, the 'Steiner Scout Lance' is a modern military tactic called 'fighting for information'... which is basically sending a unit with MBTs and IFVs to poke the enemy's positions (usually the flank). Sometimes the units encountered collapse under such firepower. Other times it means that they discover that they found the main force...
There's about a half dozen or so "Steiner Scout Squad" videos you may like to watch. One is animated. Yes, that one. It premiered with the Warhammer video. It's about half history lore and the rest is mech lore. I think you will like it...
If you want a good survey of the backdrop for most of battletech, I highly recommend the two-parter Tex mentioned. It is Tex Talks Battletech: The Amaris Coup/Star League Civil War. Also, the entirety of Tex Talks Battletech is excellent fun.
And you need to do the battle of tukkayid next, by the BPL and Tex, you will learn more about space AT&T and some of what happened to rasulhauge. Plus it’s just amazing, yes you could watch everything leading up to that first. But would take you awhile, haha. Well. Either way, just watch more BPL. In whatever order suits you. It’s good for you. And you will learn much battle tech.
House Steiner is my house. Each world has a seat in the assembly and has a say in policy, debates, etc. When a world is inducted into the Commenwealth, that seat is permanent even if it has been conquered by someone else! i think that's really cool. It's a mostly stable government too, though there are some issues with secessionists, but they'll be fine.
For me it is between House Steiner and House Marik. Because they are the least likely to stab you in the back, they probably will but it will never be bad as how House Kurita will, amd House Liao would just stab you in back regardless of what you do because its Liao, its kinda their thing. And House Davion is just the Ultra Marines of Battle tech
@@gokbay3057 Yeah, the Wolves, especially the modern Wolves, have gotten out of hand. At least during the invasion, some of their best plot armor was being more rational and observant than their fellow clans. Their current success sounds much less rooted in logic if I've understood correctly.
Aw yeah. I've been looking forward to this one. Mainly because I feel confident you're going to enjoy yourself. I like to describe the Combine as Imperial Japan times Feudal Japan in space. Generally not a faction I'd want to associate long term with even if the most common role of player characters wasn't in the state's crosshairs as a general rule for some of the popular eras. Still, they have some nice toys in some of the eras, and salvage/non-normal acquisition is there for getting the toys of people you don't like. They also have the strongest aesthetic/cultural theming in their arsenal of the great houses. My not infrequent leanings toward Davion may or may not have something to do with ideas I have for helping autocannons catch up with the power escalation over the eras. Unsurprisingly, the Confederation really came into their own with the rediscovery/reinvention of electronic warfare and stealth tech, even making prototype efforts into that kind of R&D BEFORE the Helm Memory Core was found. Sometimes there is court infighting and backstabbing, though at least one high ranker had the good sense to cede her power over perpetuating a cycle of vengeance, albeit warning the recipient that she would fight back if they wanted her life on top of her power. Marik is pretty solid HRE in space. Good middle or second of the bracket faction in a lot of ways. Rarely the main focus, but still an important player. And they're pretty interesting under the hood. Though they notably lack in PPC production for quite a while. Not to say that the other houses didn't have materiel production shortcomings of their own during and after the Succession Wars, but it is funny when one of the iconic Assaults associated with the FWL is PPC boat in its original stock loadout. The Lyrans are the German Engineering meme but with scale usually over complexity, fat stacks, and the eve of WWI incompetence. Ah yes, the Atlas Scout Lance short. Tex has hired many lovely artists, including an animator/storyboarder known as DC Bruins. They've got a couple other shorts, but the one with the costumed Atlas lance making a mockery of some world is the most complete. Also not representative since this is a lot goofier than their other stuff. 2 of the short animatics by Bruins are set in the Rasselhague Republic. Good stuff. Would love to see them fully animated as part of a larger project. And fun fact, after so long under Kuritan rule, the official language is a mixture of Swedish and Japanese. For now, we're still waiting on the professor's summary on the Periphery states, so in the meantime Mechanicalfrog's night class videos have been how I've filled in the gaps. Good guy if you want to know about different designs of battle armor.
Funnily enough, the whole thing with Marik was that when they started having shortfalls with PPC production, they prioritized almost all of their limited production into their Awesome line, which is why they replaced PPCs with large lasers in almost everything else during the Succession Wars.
4:00 You REALLY should react to this two-parter someday. It contains parts only a veteran can properly react to, and you are just the veteran I would love to see make those reactions.
Kurita: Tempt the Dragon and suffer its wrath. Marik: If you don't like what the current Marik is doing, there's a different Marik in the wings willing to try and overthrow him. Liao: This knife needs a sheath. Oh hey, you have a back. Steiner: We are rich, and we _will_ make it your problem if you so choose. Davion: No memes, not quite jokes: When Hanse Davion married Melissa Steiner, he literally gifted her the Cappellan Confederation as her wedding present. He did this by having the various worlds of the CC painted on the wedding china and announcing the opening shots of the Fourth Succession War in his wedding speech. This was both amusing and astounding to most of his wedding guests.These gifts are the assorted heads of state of the other houses, as well as influential mercenary commanders, like Jaime Wolf. This was utterly horrifying to Maximilian Liao, who started scrambling around and snatching up plates in a frenzy, ordering his daughters to do the same. As gifts go, it was quite ambitious, and all the more justification for Hanse's nickname: The Fox. 33:26 As context, Tex married a Clan Ghost Bear Elemental, and they subsequently divorced and she has been making his life a merry hell ever since. She's even in possession of his previous arm. Whether she removed his actual arm during their fallout, or if she has a former prosthetic of his, I'm not entirely sure. Being an Elemental, the former would not surprise me one bit.
@@enoughothis bro, I think that's more treats and toys than all of Canopus could use... Especially if you also count the cost of (partially) rebuilding all the crap that got turned into radioactive dust and then stomped two-dimensional by every mech ever built...
I swear some of the things the Imperium does make the Great Houses seem reasonable. Even House Liao to some extent but not much because the Capellans are already morally bankrupt. Btw if there’s any other Black Pants Legion videos you should/need to watch, here they are in order: The Amaris Civil War parts 1 & 2 A Primer on The Clanners parts 1 & 2 And finally the Mackie: the First Battlemech (A bound one being the Urbanmech aka the greatest weapon ever built by human hands)
Tbh ,always preferred the periphery myself.l'm actually in a campaign where I play a old lost tech prospector who actually found a lost mech warehouse. The proof is his Black Knight mech. There are more mechs there...but he can't remember where it is. Different from the usual characters people play.
I recommend you official video game BATTLETECH made by Harebrained Schemes. MegaMek is an unofficial but the most accurate video game adaptation of the miniature war game. Look up BattleTech Discord servers and ask around for more info. Welcome aboard, MechWarrior :)
Yes 40k might have an advantage but I really think it would make for a really good story, I think neither side would have an easy time of it, I think whoever wins is going to have a really black eye.
@@Azorees-oj5zr Also true, on the lower level Battletech is very much competitive. However 40K doesn't just mean the Imperium and on the higher end there are some utterly broken OP stuff that Battletech can't do much at (I mean, I am sure enough long toms, nukes etc will kill stuff just like Imperium manages but y'know) in 40K. Like an IG force vs an Inner Sphere force of equal size without mechs (maybe some bug mechs as an equilavent to Sentinels) I would give that fight even odds, maybe even somewhat leaning towards Battletech winning. And I can see Heavy Mechs (perhaps even some Medium Mechs) beat Knights (probably not in all cases but definitely very competitive odds). An Elemental might well be superior to a random average Space Marine. But 40K has much crazier things in setting than Battletech.
I love that Tex and the Black Pants Legion are gaining traction.
Indeed, is a great thing.
Statement: HAIL CARGONIA!!!!
Fun fact in Japan KFC is actually the most popular thing to eat on Christmas. There's even a statue of the colonel at a KFC in Tokyo that gets dressed up as Santa Claus.
I just have this mental image of a bunch of aesthetically and culturally crosswired Kuritan culinary artists putting on their best "genteel southerner" vibes they picked up from their senseis who picked up from theirs, etc..... and nobody actually knows where it came from.
By the way i think his character of Tex is also cannon to Battle tech, as in writers for battletech liked his take that they made him cannon.
Response: he is canon.
Professor Checkers is a Canon Character. Tex Talks Battletech is just like the Battletech Cartoon inverse canon.
Not only did they make his character Canon but they also made the planet and the black pants legion mercenary unit cannon as well
Professor Checkers was made canon as a part of the Clan Invasion Kickstarter backer rewards and the stuff he created as a part of the fluff for the character was mentioned in one of the two novels he appeared in. Anyone who pledged 300 or more USD got to canonize a character of theirs.
That's one Professor Randolph P. Checkers to you.
House Kurita: When we say put a planet to the sword we are not speaking figuratively.
House Davion: Liberating the Inner Sphere one political marriage and smoldering crater at a time.
House Liao: You do not have to be crazy to rule here, but it helps.
House Marik: Do not bother attacking us, we have that covered.
House Steiner: If it weighs under 80-tons we are not interested.
House steiner: unless its a wolfhound.
Or has a single really big gun.@@alanedwards3302
House Kurita: Remember Kentares 😢
@@alanedwards3302 Don't forget the Commando.
@@alanedwards3302or a commando. They love commandos
Battletech: The most human tt-rpg in my opinion. And Tex is one the few people i actively support on patreon.
And even had it's own Saturday morning cartoon back in the day, which was actually how I first encountered the Batteltech universe
@@weldonwin fun fact: they rek-conned the show as in-universe anti-clan propaganda.
@@graetestfanever1 Specifically, it's Steiner propaganda and is produced by the Tharkad Broadcasting Company
I don't really get why people keep calling Battletech a TTRPG. The franchise _has_ multiple TTRPGs including MechWarrior and Battletech: Destiny, but Battletech itself is basically just a board game
@@colbyboucher6391 battletech itself is definitely more of a tabletop wargame but it does have more rpg elements than most wargames, especially if you run a campaign and have to keep up with pilot stats and quirks
Honestly the 2 part series on the fall of Star League that he did is great.
Nothing like doing a MW5 infiltration mission in Steiner style. Not only do I reach every objective, but I also scout out what mechs the enemy used to have. All of them, including reinforcements. And after all that scouting is over, we turn the entire place into a big parking lot. Stealth is optional.
"All Steiner forces, show these Godless Kuritans what *REAL* Warcrimes look like! *SCOUT THEM INTO A NEW GRAVE!!!"*
@@weldonwin Unsere leichteste Übung.
Look, if there's no-one left alive to report your position, or anyone left alive to report that position _to_ then you are perfectly undetected and therefore stealthy :D
@@Archris17 It's the time between the moment when you turn around the corner and begin scouting and that final result that counts. The moment when the Capellans stand there with an open mouth and don't believe their eyes. But since stealth is optional, we could play something from Beethoven to help them over that: th-cam.com/video/TZix2QJgWUQ/w-d-xo.html
@@CDP1861 😂🤣👍🏻 I love it!
I love anything that Tex does. He brings a cynicism that just fits so well in the BT universe.
Tex and the black pants legion are some of the greatest things that ever happened to TH-cam
Battletech, Armor Core, and Gundam would make for a fitting cool crossover. The very image of Gundams and Armor Cores engaging each other at hypersonic speeds is just a awesome engagement and conflict with legions of Battlemechs firing at them.
Lancer too
I am pretty sure Gundams and Armor Cores would stomp Battlemechs hard as a result of Battlemechs being more realistic.
Thought I would love to see Battletech with 40K. I have seen some crossovers but they mostly seemed to focus on Space Marines which really seems like missing the point/wasted opportunity. A Battlemech Regiment of the Imperial Guard (maybe with some Warhammer-ification, like Lascannons instead of Large Lasers etc) would be amazing to see, as would Imperial Knights in the Inner Sphere.
@@gokbay3057Elementals could probably give SMs a run for their money, all things considered
@@nemamiah7832 True, I can definitely see an Elemental beat a Space Marine.
Inner Sphere Tanks definitely compare well with 40K as well (like at least equilavent if not better).
Not sure where I would place Aerospace Fighters in relation to 40K fliers...
I can easily see a Heavy Mech be a match for an Imperial Knight, perhaps even a Medium Mech.
@@gokbay3057actually based off the timescale and "accurate size scale" (which is pure bullshit) Battletech move about as fast as the MTs from Armored Core 6, and when they have jump jets jump similarly to the ACs. Though classic UC Gundam Mobile Suits and Armored Core would of course out perform them by simple virtue of high impact versatile weaponry (Gundam) and easy customization and mobility (AC)
Aside: my friend and I actually worked on figuring out an AC TT crossover of the AC mechs, rule of thumb here, but basically their run and jump distances get a +2 move distance over mechs, and they have far more components that would be considered "Omni" than even a clan mech... Though ironically the MTs for the most part would be considered dog shit compared to a medium mech or even a light mech. Also the limited allowed weapons is would give a Battletech mech an edge.
As for Gundam well as I said, versatile weaponry, but really worse than even AC in that regard especially since a Beam Cannon at the most powerful from the UC is only as strong as the PPC of a dropship and that's got like 15 shots max and is being carried by a hero mech or is a weapon that weighs nearly as much as the Assault mech weighted Mobile Suit, and most Beam weapons on mechs are instead compatable to a Heavy PPC/ER PPC hybrid. Which yay for power... Booo for when your dice roll misses and that's literally the only weapon your mech is carrying.
A capellan's favorite sheath for his knife is your back.
Glory to marik.
Old Man you have to watch his two parter on the Amaris Civil War the Horus Heresy of the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe it's awesome and along with this video primes you for a lot of Tex's later content as a lot of the Mech's he talks about have their history's and even origins tied into the events in and around the Amaris Civil War.
you definitely get a history lesson watching the Mackie video
@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 Oh yeah that's early Star League and even pre Star League if I remember right.
All of the "Tex Talks Battletech" series is good, and he occasionally streams and posts let's plays for the HBS Battletech. And, yes, Van Zandt, Mr. Tex, and the Black Pants Legion are all canon as of circa 2019. Heck, they even wrote about his Elemental ex-wife.
Your whole reaction to the segment on the Capellans had me rolling 😂. Now you will get why they are the punching bag of much joking in the community.😁👍
And oh, anything that’s done by Mr Tex and the team at BPL is well worth your while to check out, always entertaining and flat out amazing.
Technically my favorite house is not a house but a company and that is the phone company, Space AT&T (Comstar). Redde Creditori Tuo Fucko.
Battletech is underrated but has a lore that is 2nd to none.
32:48 that cat knows what its doing by making noise and being so cute
Another interesting thing about the Free Rasalhague Republic is that they are, near as I can tell, the only Inner Sphere faction with a made up language: Swedenese. Unfortunately there has never been any sort of actual depictions of it written or spoken.
I am guessing by the name and description of the people it is a combination of Swedish and Finnish. Is there any place in the lore where this was confirmed or denied?
@kacperkonieczny7333 not at all, it developed after Draconis Combine take over. It is a combination of Swedish and Japanese.
@@GhostBear3067 Yeah, another comment also stated this but I didn't read it before replying. The "nese" in name made me unsure what other language was combined with the Swedish so I went with Finnish cause it is also a Nordic language and ends in "n"s. When I though of any language that ends in "nese" only one I could think of was "Vietnamese" which didn't fit.
I was wondering if this was ever getting viewed.
You should see these guys Steiner scout lance skits.
It's a scouting lance made up of Atlas's. They won't be noticed if there is no one left to notice.
Also voice acted by authentic German's. The skits are spread out over a few video's and I don't think they have an official compilation yet.
The battletech content that comes out of the BPL is fantastic. They've produced several feature length documentaries about the setting and are still going strong. Hell, they've even done a feature length documentary about real world military history.
On the FedSuns drifting towards behaving like the Dracs, that is actually the central point of tension in their rivalry. The FedSuns do the same awful stuff the Dracs do, fully willing to send a mech company into a riot for negotiation by heavy machinegun. The only real difference between the two is the FedSuns seem to genuinely believe that one day (and it has been 300 years since the fall of the Star League) it can all be undone and we go back to limited local democracy and freedom. The Dracs OTOH say "nope machinegun civilians forever, why change something that works?".
The Dracs are annoyed that a very successful neighbouring state is successful by behaving like them while holding their nose, why can't they see this is just the right way? OTOH the FedSuns look at the Dracs insistence that horrific totalitarian state forever is the solution with horror.
Nha, the Feddies do genuinely try, and lapse at times. It's not a "some day" thing, it's a back and forth. Good and bad times.
With Kurita it's jackboot-o-clock forever, all the time.
33:43 that pilot actually got a verse or two in the clan remberence witch basic is clan history of great deeds
"Bro, you remember that one crazy viking motherfucker who flew his fighter into the ilKhan's bridge?"
"Aff! Absolute legend, some of these freebiths are fucking crazy!"
"Right?! How'd he even fly with his nuts giving off their own gravitational field like that?!"
Imperium Fans should feel right at home with the Draconis Combine
Another thing, a good way to describe Solaris 7 is that it’s like Las Vegas but instead of gambling, it’s famous for televised gladiatorial matches between mechwarriors. Also Duncan Fisher is voiced by George Ledoux in this video, reprising his role from the Mechwarrior games
Funny enough, the 'Steiner Scout Lance' is a modern military tactic called 'fighting for information'... which is basically sending a unit with MBTs and IFVs to poke the enemy's positions (usually the flank). Sometimes the units encountered collapse under such firepower. Other times it means that they discover that they found the main force...
There's about a half dozen or so "Steiner Scout Squad" videos you may like to watch.
One is animated.
Yes, that one. It premiered with the Warhammer video. It's about half history lore and the rest is mech lore. I think you will like it...
If you want a good survey of the backdrop for most of battletech, I highly recommend the two-parter Tex mentioned. It is Tex Talks Battletech: The Amaris Coup/Star League Civil War. Also, the entirety of Tex Talks Battletech is excellent fun.
I can’t wait till people recommend hired steel.
YESSSSS finaly old man is checking out black pants legion!
Now that you've watched the Primer and Tukayiid videos, you really should watch the rest of Tex Talks Battletech in order.
Never name your child Sun Tzu, he will hate you for ruining his life.
Fat electrician- old 666 “Lucy” and Jake Mcnasty
Fun fact house Liao started out as scarlors and librarians
And you need to do the battle of tukkayid next, by the BPL and Tex, you will learn more about space AT&T and some of what happened to rasulhauge. Plus it’s just amazing, yes you could watch everything leading up to that first. But would take you awhile, haha. Well. Either way, just watch more BPL. In whatever order suits you. It’s good for you. And you will learn much battle tech.
Response: I believe that the Boss has already watched the Tukkayid video.
House Steiner is my house. Each world has a seat in the assembly and has a say in policy, debates, etc. When a world is inducted into the Commenwealth, that seat is permanent even if it has been conquered by someone else! i think that's really cool.
It's a mostly stable government too, though there are some issues with secessionists, but they'll be fine.
@14:00, I hadn't realized it before when watching but that's the Paper's Please theme in the background.
Boss...
Kept us waiting, huh?
For me it is between House Steiner and House Marik. Because they are the least likely to stab you in the back, they probably will but it will never be bad as how House Kurita will, amd House Liao would just stab you in back regardless of what you do because its Liao, its kinda their thing. And House Davion is just the Ultra Marines of Battle tech
Honestly Clan Wolf is probably more Ultrasmurf than FedSuns, even if FedSuns were the classic "good guy/hero/protagonist" faction.
House Marik will not stab you in the back because they are busy stabbing each other in the back.
@@gokbay3057 Yeah, the Wolves, especially the modern Wolves, have gotten out of hand. At least during the invasion, some of their best plot armor was being more rational and observant than their fellow clans. Their current success sounds much less rooted in logic if I've understood correctly.
Don’t forget the Lyran Commonwealth created the idea of light mechs if I remember correctly
Yup. The Commando is *literally* the first ever mass-produced light mech in-universe.
Aw yeah. I've been looking forward to this one. Mainly because I feel confident you're going to enjoy yourself.
I like to describe the Combine as Imperial Japan times Feudal Japan in space. Generally not a faction I'd want to associate long term with even if the most common role of player characters wasn't in the state's crosshairs as a general rule for some of the popular eras. Still, they have some nice toys in some of the eras, and salvage/non-normal acquisition is there for getting the toys of people you don't like. They also have the strongest aesthetic/cultural theming in their arsenal of the great houses.
My not infrequent leanings toward Davion may or may not have something to do with ideas I have for helping autocannons catch up with the power escalation over the eras.
Unsurprisingly, the Confederation really came into their own with the rediscovery/reinvention of electronic warfare and stealth tech, even making prototype efforts into that kind of R&D BEFORE the Helm Memory Core was found.
Sometimes there is court infighting and backstabbing, though at least one high ranker had the good sense to cede her power over perpetuating a cycle of vengeance, albeit warning the recipient that she would fight back if they wanted her life on top of her power.
Marik is pretty solid HRE in space. Good middle or second of the bracket faction in a lot of ways. Rarely the main focus, but still an important player. And they're pretty interesting under the hood. Though they notably lack in PPC production for quite a while. Not to say that the other houses didn't have materiel production shortcomings of their own during and after the Succession Wars, but it is funny when one of the iconic Assaults associated with the FWL is PPC boat in its original stock loadout.
The Lyrans are the German Engineering meme but with scale usually over complexity, fat stacks, and the eve of WWI incompetence.
Ah yes, the Atlas Scout Lance short. Tex has hired many lovely artists, including an animator/storyboarder known as DC Bruins. They've got a couple other shorts, but the one with the costumed Atlas lance making a mockery of some world is the most complete. Also not representative since this is a lot goofier than their other stuff.
2 of the short animatics by Bruins are set in the Rasselhague Republic. Good stuff. Would love to see them fully animated as part of a larger project. And fun fact, after so long under Kuritan rule, the official language is a mixture of Swedish and Japanese.
For now, we're still waiting on the professor's summary on the Periphery states, so in the meantime Mechanicalfrog's night class videos have been how I've filled in the gaps. Good guy if you want to know about different designs of battle armor.
Funnily enough, the whole thing with Marik was that when they started having shortfalls with PPC production, they prioritized almost all of their limited production into their Awesome line, which is why they replaced PPCs with large lasers in almost everything else during the Succession Wars.
@@magni5648 Yeah, that would certainly have an impact on how many mechs can have PPC's. Very few other base tech designs sported 3.
4:00 You REALLY should react to this two-parter someday. It contains parts only a veteran can properly react to, and you are just the veteran I would love to see make those reactions.
he still needs his centurion for emotional support
Take as much time as you need for the lore videos
Bro thanks for saying sub someone else that's cool to me u got me.
the cat is not interrupting you, youre interrupting the cat :D
If you're getting into battletech, there ain't no one better than Tex and his crew.
Kurita: Tempt the Dragon and suffer its wrath.
Marik: If you don't like what the current Marik is doing, there's a different Marik in the wings willing to try and overthrow him.
Liao: This knife needs a sheath. Oh hey, you have a back.
Steiner: We are rich, and we _will_ make it your problem if you so choose.
Davion: No memes, not quite jokes:
When Hanse Davion married Melissa Steiner, he literally gifted her the Cappellan Confederation as her wedding present. He did this by having the various worlds of the CC painted on the wedding china and announcing the opening shots of the Fourth Succession War in his wedding speech. This was both amusing and astounding to most of his wedding guests.These gifts are the assorted heads of state of the other houses, as well as influential mercenary commanders, like Jaime Wolf.
This was utterly horrifying to Maximilian Liao, who started scrambling around and snatching up plates in a frenzy, ordering his daughters to do the same. As gifts go, it was quite ambitious, and all the more justification for Hanse's nickname: The Fox.
33:26 As context, Tex married a Clan Ghost Bear Elemental, and they subsequently divorced and she has been making his life a merry hell ever since. She's even in possession of his previous arm. Whether she removed his actual arm during their fallout, or if she has a former prosthetic of his, I'm not entirely sure. Being an Elemental, the former would not surprise me one bit.
if you want, please watch his video that talks about the ambush he referenced. It's called the Battle of Tukayyid
Basically all the houses have their pros and cons...
Except the Capellans, they are just bad
House Centrella and the Magistracy of Canopus. Blackjack and Hookers for the win.
You forgot genemod catgirls, don't forget the genemodded catgirls!
@@Archris17, every C-Bill spent in the Succession Wars is a C-Bill not being spent to buy gene-mod Catgirls treats and toys, EVERY C-BILL!
@@enoughothis bro, I think that's more treats and toys than all of Canopus could use... Especially if you also count the cost of (partially) rebuilding all the crap that got turned into radioactive dust and then stomped two-dimensional by every mech ever built...
Tex is the best.
You should listen to that whole song!!!
I swear some of the things the Imperium does make the Great Houses seem reasonable. Even House Liao to some extent but not much because the Capellans are already morally bankrupt.
Btw if there’s any other Black Pants Legion videos you should/need to watch, here they are in order:
The Amaris Civil War parts 1 & 2
A Primer on The Clanners parts 1 & 2
And finally the Mackie: the First Battlemech
(A bound one being the Urbanmech aka the greatest weapon ever built by human hands)
YES!!!
I have been hoping and praying that you would eventually react to this
Not dead set on them yet, but Taurian Concordat has a kind of appeal to them.
Glory to the Confederation!
Glory to the Celestial Throne!
Xin Sheng!
MOAR TEX!
I’m a Davion kinda guy
Hey, Battletech is just as good as Warhammer and it's community is too, I very much support Tex and his vids. Way to be Boss.
Tbh ,always preferred the periphery myself.l'm actually in a campaign where I play a old lost tech prospector who actually found a lost mech warehouse. The proof is his Black Knight mech.
There are more mechs there...but he can't remember where it is.
Different from the usual characters people play.
I recommend you official video game BATTLETECH made by Harebrained Schemes. MegaMek is an unofficial but the most accurate video game adaptation of the miniature war game. Look up BattleTech Discord servers and ask around for more info. Welcome aboard, MechWarrior :)
I think he's already been recommended the HBS one, but hasn't had time to play.
Finally!~
Glory to Marik
House Steiner for the win
Yes! Finally!
House MARIK if I have to chose, otherwise the Periphery.
My favorite house are the Turians.
*YEEEESSSSSSS*
BattleTech vs 40k
Response: that’s an easy win for 40k.
Yes 40k might have an advantage but I really think it would make for a really good story, I think neither side would have an easy time of it, I think whoever wins is going to have a really black eye.
Yeah, Battletech is very cool but 40K is definitly a higher powered setting.
@@gokbay3057 response: it’s just the sheer numbers difference, if Battletech was the same size then they’d do pretty well.
@@Azorees-oj5zr Also true, on the lower level Battletech is very much competitive.
However 40K doesn't just mean the Imperium and on the higher end there are some utterly broken OP stuff that Battletech can't do much at (I mean, I am sure enough long toms, nukes etc will kill stuff just like Imperium manages but y'know) in 40K.
Like an IG force vs an Inner Sphere force of equal size without mechs (maybe some bug mechs as an equilavent to Sentinels) I would give that fight even odds, maybe even somewhat leaning towards Battletech winning.
And I can see Heavy Mechs (perhaps even some Medium Mechs) beat Knights (probably not in all cases but definitely very competitive odds).
An Elemental might well be superior to a random average Space Marine.
But 40K has much crazier things in setting than Battletech.
Liao is North Korea.