So…. I’m in the UK equivalent of Walmart, listening to videos on my headphones. The music and the static crackle came on and I knew what the video was before hearing the voice or even looking. Good work on branding Red! 😂
Battletech the Rememberance. I had just listened to your video about Mechwarrior saving the Battletech, and hearing this part of the review felt like a bittersweet gutterpunch. In a industry where invidual's work is non-credited due to fear of lawsuits, and at a time where many IPs are sold to big companies to only end up feeling soulless afterwards, this part really felt like something we needed to hear more than we realised. I know it's minor thing in middle of all the stuff with the book, but hearing that a company did not only credit random PR-person of a month, but going through so many, was eye watering. Thank you for the review, and for that part especially.
Third rewatch and I still don't feel like I fully appreciate the depths that this man has gone to for what could have been a simple 20ish minute video WE LET THIS MAN COOK AND COOK HE DID 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
I have to say your editing style is impressive. It isn’t overtly ostentatious or needlessly fancy or sophisticated. But it matches your style of video perfectly. It’s timely and impactful. You use the perfect imagery at the perfect moments and compliment it with the just the right scores from the Battletech universe. I couldn’t help but feel a smile creep across my face as you spoke the quote from Hanse Davion from 3062, in reference to the FedCom Civil War. I smiled because I noted the perfectly timed MW4 intro score queueing up behind your voice: the very game that dove into the bloody struggle that was the FedCom Civil War. Kudos sir. Your videos, editing and attention to detail are impeccable.
Learned a lot over the years of doing this now. There is some creativity of course, but it's also about sharpening the skillset to improve quality with time. Videos and style has changed gradually with time too as I have things that more fit the direction I wanna take things. I'm really happy with the style behind this video. :)
Great Work Red! Details, Observations all on point… as a fellow veteran of the setting, I am happy to see a focus on bringing the lore and love of the game to a new generation
People should understand the true purpose of this time: it is meant not only as a common intro point for ALL Battletech fans in the IP, tabletop or even computer-gaming (don’t acts as a Bible for the Universe for common reference), it is meant to reset assumptions. I am sure, moving forward, the IP holders can point to the point to licensees a point of reference, but it would be used if needed to the fan base as Catalyst retcons any prior assumptions. It will be interesting to see what issue will first bring this point up. Time will attest to these assertions of course. Thanks for the insightful review!
I really believe a book like this was needed. One of the struggles I had as a newbie was determining where to start with sourcebooks since there are so many and all of them are specific to an era or a faction. Needed something to show where all of the puzzle pieces fit.
This is the book I've been waiting for for years. Sure - sourcebooks on the Star League, the Clans, more recently the 1st and 2nd Succession Wars cover the events, but what was really needed was such an overview that would bring everything together without doing a deep dive - leave that for the particular sourcebooks. The universe primer that came with the Battletech Boxed set, then the 25th anniversary set did a good job, but only went to 3067.
Thank you very much for such a great review, I urgently wait for Universe (hard copy, PDF will not do) to hit the shelves. Its importance to me goes with my deep love of Battletech, but being cut off from play after it first published when I was 25 and the high school group I played with had one person who on trips to Seattle, WA (we lived in Spokane across state) would get new BT stuff on each trip but after graduation for them that all dried up since there was no local game store. When one started BT was not to be seen or when it should have 40k was all the rage. It would not be until last year when I discovered on TH-cam here that BT lived. I scored a humble bundle type deal of 7GB of PDF sourcebooks and connected with like minded people like here on your channel, Red. I'm like a time traveler that has missed much of history after nearly 40 years and need a primer with the mountain of source material I do have, along plus my ever expanding of various BIG STOMPIE MECHS.
I got in thanks to mighty jingles and his playthrough of the 2018 battletech game. My wife and i got deeper in last year when we were looking for a tabletop game to play that wasnt dnd. Did my own playthrough for her that i still need to finish.
Playing MW5 Clans while listening to this. I'm really impressed by the detail and care given to the game. Your video is one more example showing why Battletech games and the community as a whole strike me as so faithful and sincere. Thanks for the video even five months later.
Okay. Request time. Video (or videos) on the history of "Battletech" as a Franchise. The actual table top game. When did it come out? Who wrote the rules. Who wrote the supplementary materials? What was the game setting like when it came out? How much of the setting was already established when the game came out? When did the various expansions come out and what did those expansions bring to the setting? I have only a vague understanding of the history as it happened in real life. My friends dad played it in the 90s but it wasn't until recently I got into it myself.
The Historical series covered the Frist and Second Succession War in great detail. I'm still hoping to see one for the Third war and an updated version of the two volume Atlas of the Forth Succession War. Aside from that the Era Reports cover things fairly well.
I like the new neurohelment. The original one felt claustrophobic as hell. Can't imagine having to wear something like that for however many hours a Mechwarrior has to be deployed.
Really looking forward to this coming out. I hope they put some of the artwork out as images because I'd love to have them as a background for my desktop, especially that Atlas with the inner workings showing.
With regards to the opening statement about those content creators who have helped battletech fly again, in my opinion, you belong there, too. Your content is fantastic and has helped plenty of people fall in love with Battletech, including me. Thank you for this video, Red.
But I've not been here nearly as long. That historical reference was putting things into an age prior to the Clan Invasion kickstarter and HBS Battletech.
Stoopid TH-cam sent me notification after it happened.... *sigh* Anyway, thanks for a great review. It was very informative, and fulfilled my hopes for the book. BT has forty (count 'em, forty) years of lore, but it's spread over dozens of novels, supplements, and SARNA entries. The Universe book puts all the major lore between covers of a single volume so casual gamers and lore junkies alike can quickly get a feel on how the BT universe works in its various eras without having to take a study break. When the book becomes available I will purchase it and keep it close by the PC desk so I can follow along with the Big Red-40TECH streams!
Great job on the review Red, definitely makes me feel ready to get my copy. Enjoyed the guest appearances of Mechanical Frog and Critical Rocket and their voicing of the answers to your questions.
Finished the video and want to say thank you for the review. I wasn't sure if I was wanted to buy this book or not but your opinion at the end made me think I will pass on it unless I can get my hands on the backer version someday.
Writting a small novel on the battletech setting. Sarna and some 3rd gen manuals have been my bibles. Once I saw this was open on preorders, got it inmediately.
It's interesting the fedcom civil war has such a short section in this book. The novel series pre-dark age is really just a family drama of several political families that ultimately build to the face-off between Victor and Katrina. A beautiful saga.
@@BigRed40TECH Definitely agree with you there. Too many "the writers didn't read older material" moments, plus the actual war just... isn't that interesting? Katherine just sits by passively and waits for Victor to fight his way to New Avalon. This is supposed to be a war, not Super Mario Brothers!
The more I see about this book the more it makes me sad that I didn't got it with the Kickstarter. I thought that I had enough source material and don't need it. Now I think it looks so good and compressed to what you need to know.
You should do a Faction Breakdown Vids for the Succesor States! I would love to see you explained the factions even if its a short video, also i still love that Toilet neuro helmet kekekekek
The reason I've not done that for any major factions (I've covered Comstar and Clan Wolverine independent from a Mech video), is because they are often too complex to give a real, full picture of in under 3 hours. However, I have done some hybrid videos. The Stone Rhino, Warhammer IIC, and Executioner videos, all kind of double as faction videos.
Shipping charges be damned, I want this book! Traveller was the first rpg I played back in the late 70's, and Battletech is the third oldest & longest game played (Traveller & D&D (both of various iterations released) being first & second). FASA, FanPro, Wizards, and CGL have a special place in my gamer brain.
I really hope extras of the Special Edition come up for sale. Or failing that The Remembrance gets a stand alone release. I missed the Kickstarter but I want that book so very badly, not to mention that Timby/Whammy poster.
I'm glad you touched on the layout of the recent CGL books vs. previous ones. I personally prefer the somewhat cluttered, text heavy presentation of the older Historicals and Era Reports. But the lite-text styles of Tamar Rising and Empire Alone probably work better for a book like Universe.
the problem with the Dark Age is it encompasses both the Republic Era and the Dark Age itself, which encompasses the Fortress Republic, the mostly-fall of the Republic of the Sphere, the creation of the Wolf Empire, the reformation of the Free Worlds League, the Capellan Crusade, and the triumph of the Draconis Combine over the Federated Suns in the Dragon's Tongue
My biggest issue is that seeming mandate that overall the political status quo must be maintained. At this point the setting needs a Fifth Succession War with a definitive winner who unifies the Inner Sphere, Periphery nations and Clanner Space followed by a 500 year time skip to the fall of the new Star League with recognisable but different factions and with the Inner Sphere having new nations in the now developed Outter Sphere and now further away Periphery.
@@ZontarDow i mostly dislike the status quo in the Dragon's Tongue being reclaimed and the Smoke Jaguars coming back-other changes i either don't mind (the League's reformation) or aren't really a return to the status quo (killing off ComStar and the Nova Cats)
Battletech universe? Like, a group of military and civilian explorers inadvertently lands on an alien jumpship that travels from system to system on an inexplicable mission?
That BattleMaster usin a arm to smash something was a awesome picture. Didnt get the Universe book it was too rich for my blood, hell the $42 shipping doesnt bother me just as long as I can hit the 'Pay now' button (Come on take my money!), though I do expect the package to arrive with-in a week of paying. Im at the Company level and added the Clan expansion box so I dont have a huge amount coming, but I wont hold my breath cause more likely it'll take 14-21 days. Hope for the best, expect the worst. That way when it falls somewhere in-between I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Realistically, the old style is probably more comfortable and safer to wear for long periods of time, the weight sitting on your shoulders instead of your neck makes a huge difference in long hours the cockpit. Hours of wearing a helmet properly almost always causes a headache. In a crash or fall the weight of the helmet can in fact cause a broken neck.
3151 there is a battle to capture a superheavy mech by a mercenary unit under the employ of the Clan Sea Fox. Did the mercenary unit successful in capturing the SuperHeavy mech? If they succeed in capturing the Superheavy mech will we see a Clan Superheavy mech?
Kept alive by a lot of things to be fair. Disjointed license holders turns out to have been a benefit at least in terms of its surviving, but seems to have put a ceiling because of it too. But yes, the fans played a major role in it as well of course. But it's not entirely that simple.
Looks good. However im discapointed that the second half seemes to be based on the current point of the time line. So it's not for me but they have product to sell and a business to run so I get it.
I mean, Battletech Universe is meant to cover the Universe of Battletech, and that does go up to 3152 to be fair. While there are people who have stopping points at various eras, that's just not where the IP is as a whole.
"By the right of a heritage which spans three hundred centuries." ... Not sure if that's a misquote or the source got it wrong, but ya boi's family, The Dragon hasn't been around for 30,000 years.
I wonder if shadowrun and Battletech are in the same universe, I mean they did do that with Earthdawn and Shadowrun. And if they are the same universe I wonder when vehicle control rigs became lost tech, I don't see riggers get madness for rigging cars, trucks, drones. And what happened to Ares Macrotechologies and Renaku. A nice what if I guess. I miss the old FASA company.
I'm just a fat fool on the internet. I appreciate the sentiment. Though I'll say I was specifically making reference to the era before the Clan Invasion Kickstarter, when things were quiet, still, almost dead. Mechfrog and myself are the new kids on the block by comparison. :)
@@BigRed40TECH It was in the "Lost Clans" section. Randall and Loren dropped by neck of the woods during their grand tour and had a copy on hand for perusal. Good times.
The only things I’m looking forward to about the current offerings from CGL are the updated maps and years-late mini releases. Other than that, I don’t think they offer anything that is crunchy enough for more veteran lore hounds and players. I don’t know why you would consider any of those questions “tough,” btw.
But, I don't want to wait 9 more hours... I want to watch it now.
You can't! I'll extend the release date by several hours for this unreasonable request!
Noooooo!
Say you can help BigRed40 to organize and make the video while secretly watching the unfinished footage win/win 🎉
Should have started a trial of possession.
Nice to hear from you MF. I'm disappointed you didn't add any Plasma Rifles. ;)
The Blakist Era, bringing new meaning to the Light of Blake shine upon you. Great work Red.
May the light of Blake shine through you.
So…. I’m in the UK equivalent of Walmart, listening to videos on my headphones. The music and the static crackle came on and I knew what the video was before hearing the voice or even looking. Good work on branding Red! 😂
Thank you! :D
Battletech the Rememberance. I had just listened to your video about Mechwarrior saving the Battletech, and hearing this part of the review felt like a bittersweet gutterpunch. In a industry where invidual's work is non-credited due to fear of lawsuits, and at a time where many IPs are sold to big companies to only end up feeling soulless afterwards, this part really felt like something we needed to hear more than we realised. I know it's minor thing in middle of all the stuff with the book, but hearing that a company did not only credit random PR-person of a month, but going through so many, was eye watering. Thank you for the review, and for that part especially.
FOR THE REPUBLIC!! DARK AGE FOREVER!! I AM BUYING THIS BOOK FOR EXACTLY TEN PAGES!!!
40k refugee here. Battletech fans are like our older brother who went to jail, we just got busted with weed and need to go to him for advice lol
Third rewatch and I still don't feel like I fully appreciate the depths that this man has gone to for what could have been a simple 20ish minute video
WE LET THIS MAN COOK
AND COOK HE DID
🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
As a player from the late 80s, listening to your exposition of the Remembrance has ban emotional ride.
Thank you
I have to say your editing style is impressive.
It isn’t overtly ostentatious or needlessly fancy or sophisticated. But it matches your style of video perfectly.
It’s timely and impactful. You use the perfect imagery at the perfect moments and compliment it with the just the right scores from the Battletech universe.
I couldn’t help but feel a smile creep across my face as you spoke the quote from Hanse Davion from 3062, in reference to the FedCom Civil War. I smiled because I noted the perfectly timed MW4 intro score queueing up behind your voice: the very game that dove into the bloody struggle that was the FedCom Civil War.
Kudos sir. Your videos, editing and attention to detail are impeccable.
Learned a lot over the years of doing this now. There is some creativity of course, but it's also about sharpening the skillset to improve quality with time. Videos and style has changed gradually with time too as I have things that more fit the direction I wanna take things. I'm really happy with the style behind this video. :)
Great Work Red! Details, Observations all on point… as a fellow veteran of the setting, I am happy to see a focus on bringing the lore and love of the game to a new generation
People should understand the true purpose of this time: it is meant not only as a common intro point for ALL Battletech fans in the IP, tabletop or even computer-gaming (don’t acts as a Bible for the Universe for common reference), it is meant to reset assumptions. I am sure, moving forward, the IP holders can point to the point to licensees a point of reference, but it would be used if needed to the fan base as Catalyst retcons any prior assumptions. It will be interesting to see what issue will first bring this point up.
Time will attest to these assertions of course. Thanks for the insightful review!
I really believe a book like this was needed. One of the struggles I had as a newbie was determining where to start with sourcebooks since there are so many and all of them are specific to an era or a faction. Needed something to show where all of the puzzle pieces fit.
Thanks for the book review. I've been desperately looking for some sort of book to explain the universe.
I got into Battletech when I heard the Clans invaded and attacked that one guys home planet...
This is the book I've been waiting for for years. Sure - sourcebooks on the Star League, the Clans, more recently the 1st and 2nd Succession Wars cover the events, but what was really needed was such an overview that would bring everything together without doing a deep dive - leave that for the particular sourcebooks. The universe primer that came with the Battletech Boxed set, then the 25th anniversary set did a good job, but only went to 3067.
Thank you for this review. I'll definitely be picking up a copy when it hits retail.
Thank you very much for such a great review, I urgently wait for Universe (hard copy, PDF will not do) to hit the shelves. Its importance to me goes with my deep love of Battletech, but being cut off from play after it first published when I was 25 and the high school group I played with had one person who on trips to Seattle, WA (we lived in Spokane across state) would get new BT stuff on each trip but after graduation for them that all dried up since there was no local game store. When one started BT was not to be seen or when it should have 40k was all the rage. It would not be until last year when I discovered on TH-cam here that BT lived. I scored a humble bundle type deal of 7GB of PDF sourcebooks and connected with like minded people like here on your channel, Red. I'm like a time traveler that has missed much of history after nearly 40 years and need a primer with the mountain of source material I do have, along plus my ever expanding of various BIG STOMPIE MECHS.
I got in thanks to mighty jingles and his playthrough of the 2018 battletech game. My wife and i got deeper in last year when we were looking for a tabletop game to play that wasnt dnd. Did my own playthrough for her that i still need to finish.
Congratulations. You’ve successfully made me wish I had splurged more (even with shipping) during the Kickstarter last year.
Great review that encapsulates the book's purpose and presentation! Well done.
Thank you for this, Red. You are the man!
Playing MW5 Clans while listening to this. I'm really impressed by the detail and care given to the game. Your video is one more example showing why Battletech games and the community as a whole strike me as so faithful and sincere. Thanks for the video even five months later.
Okay. Request time. Video (or videos) on the history of "Battletech" as a Franchise. The actual table top game. When did it come out? Who wrote the rules. Who wrote the supplementary materials? What was the game setting like when it came out? How much of the setting was already established when the game came out? When did the various expansions come out and what did those expansions bring to the setting?
I have only a vague understanding of the history as it happened in real life. My friends dad played it in the 90s but it wasn't until recently I got into it myself.
Awesome Job, Red, and congrats to the CGL team for producing a great book. I look forward to seeing the book myself soon.
Fantastic work on this video as always, Red. You nailed it. I can't wait until I get my copy from the Kickstarter.
Nice job on the video. Looking forward to getting my hands on the book.
The Historical series covered the Frist and Second Succession War in great detail. I'm still hoping to see one for the Third war and an updated version of the two volume Atlas of the Forth Succession War. Aside from that the Era Reports cover things fairly well.
I missed the premiere. Dang. I guessss my content was filtered by the state.
Thanks!, Live long and Prosper and may all the faces you see be speachless at your videos
Thank you Willis! That's crazy! Sincerely, thank you!
I like the new neurohelment. The original one felt claustrophobic as hell. Can't imagine having to wear something like that for however many hours a Mechwarrior has to be deployed.
Really looking forward to this coming out. I hope they put some of the artwork out as images because I'd love to have them as a background for my desktop, especially that Atlas with the inner workings showing.
Great video Red. I can't wait until I have my own copy.
With regards to the opening statement about those content creators who have helped battletech fly again, in my opinion, you belong there, too.
Your content is fantastic and has helped plenty of people fall in love with Battletech, including me.
Thank you for this video, Red.
But I've not been here nearly as long. That historical reference was putting things into an age prior to the Clan Invasion kickstarter and HBS Battletech.
Stoopid TH-cam sent me notification after it happened.... *sigh* Anyway, thanks for a great review. It was very informative, and fulfilled my hopes for the book. BT has forty (count 'em, forty) years of lore, but it's spread over dozens of novels, supplements, and SARNA entries. The Universe book puts all the major lore between covers of a single volume so casual gamers and lore junkies alike can quickly get a feel on how the BT universe works in its various eras without having to take a study break. When the book becomes available I will purchase it and keep it close by the PC desk so I can follow along with the Big Red-40TECH streams!
Great job on the review Red, definitely makes me feel ready to get my copy. Enjoyed the guest appearances of Mechanical Frog and Critical Rocket and their voicing of the answers to your questions.
Thanks for the review
Any time!
Finished the video and want to say thank you for the review. I wasn't sure if I was wanted to buy this book or not but your opinion at the end made me think I will pass on it unless I can get my hands on the backer version someday.
As a new player I eagerly await this book. Great video thanks for taking the time to put it together.
Hope you enjoy it!
Writting a small novel on the battletech setting. Sarna and some 3rd gen manuals have been my bibles. Once I saw this was open on preorders, got it inmediately.
It's interesting the fedcom civil war has such a short section in this book. The novel series pre-dark age is really just a family drama of several political families that ultimately build to the face-off between Victor and Katrina. A beautiful saga.
I think the Fedcom Civil War was where the drama fumbled imo, as its where the realities of some of these things just stopped adding up.
@@BigRed40TECH Definitely agree with you there. Too many "the writers didn't read older material" moments, plus the actual war just... isn't that interesting? Katherine just sits by passively and waits for Victor to fight his way to New Avalon. This is supposed to be a war, not Super Mario Brothers!
I know what im listening to on my ride home.
The HBS Battletech music fit this just perfectly.
Let's go!! Thank you red!
I'm so bummed I missed the premiere! Helluva Good video Red, hope you feel better!
I appreciate it!
Sounds like this will a wonderful addition to my library, consider me appropriately hyped.
Great video, man. I really enjoyed that.
I appreciate it!
Ahhhh I should have got the collectors edition. Excited for this and everything else I ordered. Thank you for the review.
You'll enjoy it. :)
Great video review. I hope they bring the Presentor Marshall edition back again. Id love to get a copy. I just couldnt swing it at the time.
I think I know enough about Battletech that I wouldn't get much out of this book. I'll buy a physical copy for a local library.
The more I see about this book the more it makes me sad that I didn't got it with the Kickstarter. I thought that I had enough source material and don't need it.
Now I think it looks so good and compressed to what you need to know.
Absolutely excited to get this book in my hands.
Shoutout to Warlockracy for making me aware of Battletech with his Mechwarrior 2 vid :)
This was so AWESOME!! thank you.
Great lore compilation video!
You should do a Faction Breakdown Vids for the Succesor States! I would love to see you explained the factions even if its a short video, also i still love that Toilet neuro helmet kekekekek
The reason I've not done that for any major factions (I've covered Comstar and Clan Wolverine independent from a Mech video), is because they are often too complex to give a real, full picture of in under 3 hours.
However, I have done some hybrid videos. The Stone Rhino, Warhammer IIC, and Executioner videos, all kind of double as faction videos.
Excellent video!!
Thanks; this is a great review!
Shipping charges be damned, I want this book!
Traveller was the first rpg I played back in the late 70's, and Battletech is the third oldest & longest game played (Traveller & D&D (both of various iterations released) being first & second). FASA, FanPro, Wizards, and CGL have a special place in my gamer brain.
excited for BT universe
great video, unusually high amount of effort for a review
I wanna have this kinda energy for reviews in general going forwards. I want reviews to mean something more.
Great job Red
I really hope extras of the Special Edition come up for sale. Or failing that The Remembrance gets a stand alone release. I missed the Kickstarter but I want that book so very badly, not to mention that Timby/Whammy poster.
I hope you manage to get your hands on it.
@@BigRed40TECH I'll figure it out, even if it means flying to Portland and batchalling Scroggins for his.
I'm glad you touched on the layout of the recent CGL books vs. previous ones. I personally prefer the somewhat cluttered, text heavy presentation of the older Historicals and Era Reports. But the lite-text styles of Tamar Rising and Empire Alone probably work better for a book like Universe.
It really worked for most of the book, definitely.
Thank you all
Thank you :)
the problem with the Dark Age is it encompasses both the Republic Era and the Dark Age itself, which encompasses the Fortress Republic, the mostly-fall of the Republic of the Sphere, the creation of the Wolf Empire, the reformation of the Free Worlds League, the Capellan Crusade, and the triumph of the Draconis Combine over the Federated Suns in the Dragon's Tongue
My biggest issue is that seeming mandate that overall the political status quo must be maintained. At this point the setting needs a Fifth Succession War with a definitive winner who unifies the Inner Sphere, Periphery nations and Clanner Space followed by a 500 year time skip to the fall of the new Star League with recognisable but different factions and with the Inner Sphere having new nations in the now developed Outter Sphere and now further away Periphery.
@@ZontarDow i mostly dislike the status quo in the Dragon's Tongue being reclaimed and the Smoke Jaguars coming back-other changes i either don't mind (the League's reformation) or aren't really a return to the status quo (killing off ComStar and the Nova Cats)
@@scytheseven9173 my main point is that apart from Comstar factions just aren't allowed to die by the looks of it.
Battletech universe? Like, a group of military and civilian explorers inadvertently lands on an alien jumpship that travels from system to system on an inexplicable mission?
Battletech Universe: This time. It's universal!
COOK THIS MAN WE LET DO
COOK THIS MAN DID
Thank you Beskar!
@@BigRed40TECH 🫡🙂↕️🤙🙇♂️
*All praise Lord Bucket Heads!*
Canada will have a mech named Big Red one day
i cannot wait for this book
Awesome review Red, thank you for the obvious effort and care that went into this. Definitely picking this up when I can!
Thank you Kalei! :)
That BattleMaster usin a arm to smash something was a awesome picture.
Didnt get the Universe book it was too rich for my blood, hell the $42 shipping doesnt bother me just as long as I can hit the 'Pay now' button (Come on take my money!), though I do expect the package to arrive with-in a week of paying. Im at the Company level and added the Clan expansion box so I dont have a huge amount coming, but I wont hold my breath cause more likely it'll take 14-21 days. Hope for the best, expect the worst. That way when it falls somewhere in-between I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Need an SEO-friendly placeholder for the Blakist Jitterbug sooner or later. We need to be able to talk about it comfortably, at some point.
Where can I acquire both editions of the book
OUTSTANDING SIR!
Thank you kindly!
Here we go folks
Peter Rice got us into BEL
Hey! We Nova Cats are only mostly dead. There's still some of us acting as cats' paws for Clan Sea Fox
So, do the Wars of Reaving actually get some pages or did this just get memory holed? 🤔
Gets a one page breakdown, and some info in the factions section.
Realistically, the old style is probably more comfortable and safer to wear for long periods of time, the weight sitting on your shoulders instead of your neck makes a huge difference in long hours the cockpit. Hours of wearing a helmet properly almost always causes a headache. In a crash or fall the weight of the helmet can in fact cause a broken neck.
So, the Blakists will take over which Clan?
AlL oF tHeM!
Blood Spirit
Kerensky who? Jerome Blake is where it's at!
If I had to guess, they'd find a way to worm themselves into Goliath Scorpion's spiritual practices.
How do i get the image in the intro?
The big question I have is will it actually be available in the UK? Its really hard to get stuff for Battletech over here.
It should be going to retail. When it'll hit Europe though, I can't be sure, but its supposed to be available through the normal chain, so yes.
@@BigRed40TECHWill there be a digital release as well on day 1?
@@MatteoB-gx1bo Digital should launch when the physical does afaik
3151 there is a battle to capture a superheavy mech by a mercenary unit under the employ of the Clan Sea Fox.
Did the mercenary unit successful in capturing the SuperHeavy mech?
If they succeed in capturing the Superheavy mech will we see a Clan Superheavy mech?
For various people of note, did they provide stats and skills for them?
This book is pure lore.
@@BigRed40TECH Damn. I wonder if Catalyst is going to update the other books
@@chenlee9835 Which books???
@@BigRed40TECH The various sourcebooks from decades past.
@@chenlee9835 That describes an enormous number of books. I doubt they'll be doing that.
...BattleTech survived the company that created it---kept alive by its fans--that's when you know you've done something right!
Kept alive by a lot of things to be fair. Disjointed license holders turns out to have been a benefit at least in terms of its surviving, but seems to have put a ceiling because of it too.
But yes, the fans played a major role in it as well of course. But it's not entirely that simple.
Does anyone know when this can finally be bought?
July, August, or September I believe.
@@BigRed40TECH Thats a wide range, but thanks for the info :)
Is this available for pre-order anywhere?
Not yet. But it should be available in a couple months.
@@BigRed40TECH 3000 plus years in the making, I can wait a month or two more hahaha, thank you!
I had my volume down wondering why he chose to make a silent video… not my proudest moment 😂
Oh no! XD
Looks good. However im discapointed that the second half seemes to be based on the current point of the time line. So it's not for me but they have product to sell and a business to run so I get it.
I mean, Battletech Universe is meant to cover the Universe of Battletech, and that does go up to 3152 to be fair. While there are people who have stopping points at various eras, that's just not where the IP is as a whole.
Yeah and I get that. I wasn't trying to crap on the book. Still looks like a quality product
There is also a War currently going on in the Kickstarter Comments. It's wild.
Not really. It's mostly the same people arguing.
There was talk of Lizard People this morning 😊
I’m not a fan of catalyst but I love battletech
Catalyst really has gone out of their way to be antagonistic towards Battletech fans this past year.
@@ZontarDow true
"By the right of a heritage which spans three hundred centuries." ... Not sure if that's a misquote or the source got it wrong, but ya boi's family, The Dragon hasn't been around for 30,000 years.
Exact quote from the book. Look, its a claim by the Coordinator, not me, lol
Look up Yamato, the Imperial House of Japan.
I wonder if shadowrun and Battletech are in the same universe, I mean they did do that with Earthdawn and Shadowrun. And if they are the same universe I wonder when vehicle control rigs became lost tech, I don't see riggers get madness for rigging cars, trucks, drones. And what happened to Ares Macrotechologies and Renaku.
A nice what if I guess. I miss the old FASA company.
They are not the same universe :)
Is Pardoe in the Remembrance?
No, he opted not be apart of it.
@@BigRed40TECH I understand, but it would… Anyway, appreciate your work across the board. Thank you.
*Unknown Dropship Captain = Sean Kelly to Grady Keifer. Team Venom
You, mechanical frog, Critical Rocket, Tex have all done so much, on this end to help the resurrection and resurgence of BT/MW.
I'm just a fat fool on the internet. I appreciate the sentiment. Though I'll say I was specifically making reference to the era before the Clan Invasion Kickstarter, when things were quiet, still, almost dead.
Mechfrog and myself are the new kids on the block by comparison. :)
Hmmm have Big red tried Any Mech commander games?
Yes, I played both.
@@BigRed40TECH Fond memories for me. sadly there is no new Mech commander games but I hope mech commander mod for MW5 will get more complete in time.
There is a picture of a Stormcrow B in the book.
Is there? I don't recall.
@@BigRed40TECH It was in the "Lost Clans" section. Randall and Loren dropped by neck of the woods during their grand tour and had a copy on hand for perusal. Good times.
@@Kasperl88 It's the Scorpion Empire one. Just checked it out.
The only things I’m looking forward to about the current offerings from CGL are the updated maps and years-late mini releases. Other than that, I don’t think they offer anything that is crunchy enough for more veteran lore hounds and players. I don’t know why you would consider any of those questions “tough,” btw.
As I said, my recommendation is softer for people who already have a ton of the other sourcebooks.