I love the history and universe of Battletech, I first discovered it in 1991 I was at a game shop in my hometown and I asked about it and after that I started to love it.
I think I can understand why Kerensky felt exodus was the only option,seeing the damage done with what he left behind. If only he had stayed alive longer to manage the SLDF in exile..
@@Rellana1 Keresnyk had no concept on how to manage the Exiles. Of course with his son Nicolas manipulating people behind the scenes it is no wonder it broke down eventually. In that regard Blake was almost right when he wrote in his diary "Who does he think he is the saviour of mankind? He ands his ilk are too stupid to realize what their role is. They will simply die out there without our help"
@@Rellana1 the star league in Exile was a doomed project from the get go, unfortunately. No matter how far away you fly, human nature will follow. Humans are beasts of wanting,unable to find satisfaction in merely material accomplishment and yet driven to search for them more and more in the hope that the next accomplishment will be the one to finally make them truly happy, the essence of idolatry. This held true in the bronze age like it holds true now and it surely still will in 10000 aD, when we'll be all cyborgs or information uploads. And so it did in Star League in exile. The one smart thought Kerensky's son had was to harness this nature into competitiveness through the veneer of meritocracy. HOW he decided to do it was very arguable.
That was the LAST great fleet battle? That's huge, especially considering the amount of huge fleet battles were such a huge part of the SLDF's war against amaris
It's was the last battle involving 100+ WarShips. Very soon the largest engagements are barely a squadron from each side, and by wars end it's rare to have more than 1-2 WarShips in a single system.
Plus shipyards are CRAZY vulnerable, most of the big ones were top priority for the first strikes, so at this point pretty much all the damage that ships take is permanent. Eventually stuff just caught up with what was left.
I keep saying this, but watching as the casualty ticker just keeps scrolling up and adds more and more pillars to the scrolling... God, evocative as hell. Bravo Sven.
@@SvenVanDerPlank With this and the Black Watch Bagpipes version, you have shown without a doubt a flair for the dramatics, the impactful, and the evocative. Bravo man, bra-fucking-vo!
Thanks for sharing the unfortunate story of "Bob." It's little details like this that really help to flesh out the setting. Few people would have a hard time believing A) that a public competition would pick a name like "Bob" or B) that a bureaucratic mix-up like described could absolutely happen. We see headlines all the time of governments losing track of relatively minor things. It's very easy to believe that a Successor House could "misplace" an entire planet in the middle of a massive war.
It wasn't part of the original script but somebody mentioned it in the comments to one of the last couple videos (maybe it was you) and I realised that I could slide it in seamlessly after the bit on JumpShip scarcity. Good opportunity to give an example of another planet where more people would die than the entirety of the Star League Civil War.
HOLY SHIT. A HUNDRED warships lost on each side in a single battle???! You know, if you ever wondered why nobody was operating warships by 3025, Sven will show you why!
This episode was originally titled "An End to Fleets" because Cholame was really the death knell for the large scale naval engagements. By the end of the war it was rare for more than 1-2 WarShips to be present in a single system.
The fact that these fleets were jumping between worlds so fast just to get a hit on the Kuritans is ballsy as hell. The mobile HPG had a huge impact on the outcome. After playing so many Mechwarrior games and reading novels I am enamored but the detail here.
Sven, I apaud your work! You are own of the premiere BT historians. While your style & what you are after is much different then the legendary Tex & those other amazing freaks w/ the BPL, or Bid Red 40tech your stuff is awesome & is where I come when I'm wanting to learn more or refresh my memory on the Unification War & now the Succesion War!
Tex is a hot mess. He drinks a bit too much. He has some big ex-wife and possibly baby mama drama. Possible in-law problems is that why Lincoln Osis wants to reave him. I can't judge I haven't always made the best decisions eaither.
Hasseldorf showing the biggest galaxy brain of his era with the genius plan "don't blow up or kill everything, if you do that you don't get anything out of fighting."
16:00 - and with the Mercenary Review Board in place Comstar not only got valuable intelligence into Mercenary operations throughout the Inner Sphere but could also deliberately alter, manipulate, and even subsidize mercenary contracts when it suited there means. They would also invent Mercenary units to act as cover for Com Guard units allowing them to operate throughout the Inner Sphere in the guise of Mercenaries serving Comstars goals and giving the unit valuable real world experience. As well as using trustworthy Mercenary commanders to lead Comguard units when required. 17:00 - probably the Comguard...
@@SvenVanDerPlank You know, I never really thought about it, but I wonder how many of the SLDF SAS/Blackheart special forces units stayed behind to join Comstar? It may explain their adroitness at this & other covert actions.
@@MM22966 It wouldn't be the ComGuard just yet. But they are the founding members of what would eventually be the ComGuards. For some reason most Primus' would disregard the use of ComGuard in favor of using ROM and manipulation.
@@theatagamer90 If your business on the outside is to provide a neutral messaging service then using overt forces isn't the best idea. Manipulating via ROM is way more efficent. Even when they deployed their Comguards (the Vandenburg White Wings or the attack on the NAIS) they did so under cover. Comstar was basically the supposed frail robed man but in reality their words hid a veil of steel.
The Blackhearts themselves stuck around and would become mercenaries out in the periphery for a while before coming back into the Inner Sphere at some point during the 3rdSW if I remember correctly.
Well this is the first chapter in a while that's looking at more than one: 2789-2790. After that the pace picks up and I believe the rest of the series covers 5+ years per chapter.
other universes describe space wars as "such and such fought such and such, many warships were destroyed, many planets bombed, milions dead. All in all an awful time to be alive in." Battletech goes "During the fifty fifth battle for POMME DE TERRE 3, Sergeant major Andrei Sokolov Von Strassen de la Manzana y Fonseca who was commanding a detachment of two battalions of the twenty fourth Neo Napoli 3 Dragoons against a whole division of the renowned Hygbrazil Cossacks, had been feeling exceedingly constipated for the first few weeks of the campaign which ,historians say, contributed exceedingly to his decision to employ tactical nukes and nerve gas both against the Cossacks and several civilian targets, thus (again) damaging Pomme de Terre's otherwise thriving potato fields and forcing the planet of Pistoia Ultima to buy CAPPELLAN grown botatoes instead. That the grand Duke of Pistoia Ultima, his excellency Francois Albretch Urizen della Rovere, was allergic to botatos and that this fact had until now escaped his staff (but possibly not the Maskirovka...), causing his untimely death while in peace talks with the Davions, is one of those coincidences that prolonged the succession wars by several decades and costed the lives of billions." a lot better.
It speaks to the massively self-destructive nature of the First Succession War that the results of the pyrrhic conflagration over the world of Cholame would be technically considered a "victory" for the unfortunate Kenneth Jones.
@@SvenVanDerPlank Well, it wouldn't stop here. Didn't ol'Hanse get to be Prince because his brother was killed by the Sword of Light? And there was the memorable death of the "The Giant", meeting Lyran mechs for the first (& last) time. Loved that episode!
Please do not worry about that. Just watching and (hopefully) enjoying the videos is all I hope for from folks. I hope the strike action resolves itself quickly.
It's been a great weekend so far, a mod game I've been following was fully released Thursday, a fan series got its 2nd episode released yesterday, I finally have enough for a PS4, this dropped tonight. A lot of good things happening, and as always, excellent work! Hope everyone is doing well tonight!
I'm hyped! The best start to two weeks of vacation and the best way to forget all the shit work threw at me lately. Seriously, this is my weeks highlight. Let's see what warcrimes the great houses come up with this time.
I always wondered about Planet Bob. Thought the name change was funny. Figured there was an amusing story behind it... ...should have known nothing good ever comes from name changes in the Inner Sphere. Ouch.
Say what you will about the Capellans, but that Devlin did his duty well. Sacrificed himself to save his House Lord. I salute you sir. Also Sven, great video! I can't wait for the next few.
Seeing Marik kick some ass is nice to see as a Free Worlds League fan second and Comstar first I wonder how they are going to get effed later on. Also here we have Comstar doing Comstar things, I hate how they got deleted later on. This is the biggest reason why I don't care about Jihad and anything later on. There is no of my beloved, scheming Comstar.
They go fairly quiet for the next few years. Always operating in the background but not drawing attention to themselves is key to their survival at this point. It's only in the Second Succession War that they really kick off.
I think it's a station but I don't know specifically which one. It isn't very large as you can see JumpShips and DropShips alongside it. I only spotted this during the premiere but those purple 'Mechs I thought were Marik actually belong to Wilson's Hussars. If you follow that units history you might find the specific battle this is an art piece from.
Their time as the pinnacle of military assets is coming to an end. The next chapter I'm due to release will feature the very last WarShip battle in the Inner Sphere.
There it is, the CALLOWAY incident. Gods Capellans are idiots sometimes(?). Why did they ALLOW their leader to hold an offensive? Then NOT defend their own jumpships?
Not exactly their greatest moment. They may have left a small escort with the JumpShips, we don't know, but moving most of the WarShips into orbit wasn't necessarily a bad call. It only became an issue because SAFE had already alerted the fleet to an imminent attack in the region.
@@SvenVanDerPlank It was a stupid move regardless, one, JUST ONE warship with the Jumpships, heck, give them a cruiser with a directline with the main force. But nope, they just had to do what they did. Mind you, you'd think I'd be a major hater of the Capellans at this point, but I kinda like their mechs, and I WANT them to win at some point, but here? Here I see why the Highlander(fave Assault mech) and the Catapult(favorite mech overall) are few and far between.
@@macrux152__8 In all fairness, there are not the only House to either lose ships OR House leaders in a pyrhrric offensive. I mean, we are going to have example of that in the next episode, unless I am mistaken.
@@SvenVanDerPlank 😉Krester's Ship Construction is famous for designing the Behemoth and Mammoth DropShips and the surrounding scandal I was referring. In simple words: the Hegemony promised Krester, that the Ships could be sold to the Great Houses, but after finalizing the prototype construction they "altered the deal". Both DropShip came on the "No-Export" list. However, a short time after that, both prototypes were stolen by "unknown parties". Since the prototypes could be copied and sold anyway (giving Krester "plausible deniability") the Hegemony allowed the sales to other states. Essential Krester's Ship Construction is presented in several flavor texts as a rather corrupt, yet also clever company.
You'd have to be very, very confident in your underlings to even leave the homeworld under any circumstances, for fear of being deposed as soon as you were sufficiently out of touch with the center of power. But BTech is fundamentally absurd and requires a ton of suspension of disbelief to start with, so sure, let's just ignore that problem too.
@@richmcgee434during that time the house lords were relatively unquestioned, and extremely arrogant. After all, they all beleived themselves the rightful ruler of the entire inner sphere.
@@moistjohn True in the fiction, but it's still not really realistic, which was my point. IRL autocrats need to be wary or they get replaced by their own underlings, if not the people they're oppressing - and that's even more true in times of national stress. Look at how much more purging Putin's been doing of late.
you don't understand feudalism, OF COURSE you have to be on the frontline, else you're a dishonorable coward and coward's get assassinated by their own feudataries.
Because the nature of their wars was very different. There were all sorts of reasons why the destruction of WarShips was less of a priority than in the Inner Sphere. Once they were gone from the Successor State navies, there was a mutual understanding that rebuilding them was a ruinous venture that would only result in their opponents doing the same, leading them straight back to the same situation.
@@SvenVanDerPlank Similar reasoning to the Washington and London naval treaties of the pre-WW2 period, where the major powers most capable of building large fleets agreed (mostly) to limit their construction programs to retain the existing balance of power rather that get involved in another ruinous naval construction race - albeit more extreme, with only light military units (fighters and dropships) and jumpships allowed. The House Lords' battered economies couldn't afford to rebuild their major warship fleets *and* their ground forces, hence the tacit agreement not to even try. A House that opted to concentrate on warships would be able to kill a lot of planets and whatever lesser naval forces they could catch, but they couldn't be everywhere, they couldn't hold worlds, only ruin them, and they couldn't effectively defend their owners against invasion. It was an easy choice to make given the situation - unlike the historical treaties, where basically everyone planned to cheat as much as they could get away with from word one.
I'd also add that the Clans were very big on preserving their SLDF heritage, and generally preferred ground/mech engagements, or limited the scale of the conflicts (Batchalls). I can't recall off-hand of reading of many warship engagements between Clans, and none during their "golden era" while the Succession wars were going on.
They didn't engage in warship centric warfare outside of maybe the Pentagon Wars. The Clans almost certainly did not use them in the same way as the Inner Sphere after Nicholas instituted the Batchall system. Plus the documentation and continued maintenance needed for warships would be a lot easier to keep up when you don't have a malicious Telcom company sabotaging efforts. Along with not having to worry about the shipyards being constantly destroyed.
I love that a universe I fell in love with back in 89 is back and stronger than ever. Something to say about fans.
I love the history and universe of Battletech, I first discovered it in 1991 I was at a game shop in my hometown and I asked about it and after that I started to love it.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢.
We will always come back no matter the odds!
As an early reader of the lore, I had forgotten how unbelievably brutal this era is. As always, fantastic presentation and writing!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
I think I can understand why Kerensky felt exodus was the only option,seeing the damage done with what he left behind. If only he had stayed alive longer to manage the SLDF in exile..
@@Rellana1 Keresnyk had no concept on how to manage the Exiles. Of course with his son Nicolas manipulating people behind the scenes it is no wonder it broke down eventually. In that regard Blake was almost right when he wrote in his diary "Who does he think he is the saviour of mankind? He ands his ilk are too stupid to realize what their role is. They will simply die out there without our help"
@@Rellana1 the star league in Exile was a doomed project from the get go, unfortunately. No matter how far away you fly, human nature will follow. Humans are beasts of wanting,unable to find satisfaction in merely material accomplishment and yet driven to search for them more and more in the hope that the next accomplishment will be the one to finally make them truly happy, the essence of idolatry.
This held true in the bronze age like it holds true now and it surely still will in 10000 aD, when we'll be all cyborgs or information uploads.
And so it did in Star League in exile.
The one smart thought Kerensky's son had was to harness this nature into competitiveness through the veneer of meritocracy. HOW he decided to do it was very arguable.
That was the LAST great fleet battle? That's huge, especially considering the amount of huge fleet battles were such a huge part of the SLDF's war against amaris
It's was the last battle involving 100+ WarShips. Very soon the largest engagements are barely a squadron from each side, and by wars end it's rare to have more than 1-2 WarShips in a single system.
Plus shipyards are CRAZY vulnerable, most of the big ones were top priority for the first strikes, so at this point pretty much all the damage that ships take is permanent. Eventually stuff just caught up with what was left.
Wow!
I keep saying this, but watching as the casualty ticker just keeps scrolling up and adds more and more pillars to the scrolling...
God, evocative as hell.
Bravo Sven.
Thank you, I'm really pleased with the way that came out too, especially since it was a last minute addition.
@@SvenVanDerPlank With this and the Black Watch Bagpipes version, you have shown without a doubt a flair for the dramatics, the impactful, and the evocative.
Bravo man, bra-fucking-vo!
@@SvenVanDerPlanknice detail!
Thanks for sharing the unfortunate story of "Bob." It's little details like this that really help to flesh out the setting. Few people would have a hard time believing A) that a public competition would pick a name like "Bob" or B) that a bureaucratic mix-up like described could absolutely happen. We see headlines all the time of governments losing track of relatively minor things. It's very easy to believe that a Successor House could "misplace" an entire planet in the middle of a massive war.
It wasn't part of the original script but somebody mentioned it in the comments to one of the last couple videos (maybe it was you) and I realised that I could slide it in seamlessly after the bit on JumpShip scarcity. Good opportunity to give an example of another planet where more people would die than the entirety of the Star League Civil War.
@@SvenVanDerPlank It wasn't me but I'm glad you did. :)
HOLY SHIT. A HUNDRED warships lost on each side in a single battle???! You know, if you ever wondered why nobody was operating warships by 3025, Sven will show you why!
This episode was originally titled "An End to Fleets" because Cholame was really the death knell for the large scale naval engagements. By the end of the war it was rare for more than 1-2 WarShips to be present in a single system.
@@SvenVanDerPlank That is a good title. If you have more ideas like that, include hem as adjunct/subtitles to the episodes.
The fact that these fleets were jumping between worlds so fast just to get a hit on the Kuritans is ballsy as hell. The mobile HPG had a huge impact on the outcome. After playing so many Mechwarrior games and reading novels I am enamored but the detail here.
Me too!
Sven, I apaud your work! You are own of the premiere BT historians. While your style & what you are after is much different then the legendary Tex & those other amazing freaks w/ the BPL, or Bid Red 40tech your stuff is awesome & is where I come when I'm wanting to learn more or refresh my memory on the Unification War & now the Succesion War!
Thank you, I'm really pleased you think so.
Tex is a hot mess. He drinks a bit too much. He has some big ex-wife and possibly baby mama drama. Possible in-law problems is that why Lincoln Osis wants to reave him. I can't judge I haven't always made the best decisions eaither.
@@daviddevault8700where do you get all these things?
@@Dracobyte watch his videos
You do forget how brutal the First Succession War is. Thanks for these videos btw!
You're welcome.
Hasseldorf showing the biggest galaxy brain of his era with the genius plan "don't blow up or kill everything, if you do that you don't get anything out of fighting."
Another insightful and well produced/created video Sven. As always your work and effort are highly appreciated.
As always, I'm glad you're enjoying them.
16:00 - and with the Mercenary Review Board in place Comstar not only got valuable intelligence into Mercenary operations throughout the Inner Sphere but could also deliberately alter, manipulate, and even subsidize mercenary contracts when it suited there means.
They would also invent Mercenary units to act as cover for Com Guard units allowing them to operate throughout the Inner Sphere in the guise of Mercenaries serving Comstars goals and giving the unit valuable real world experience. As well as using trustworthy Mercenary commanders to lead Comguard units when required.
17:00 - probably the Comguard...
I knew ComStar was manipulating things through the MRB, but I hadn't thought about all those activities.
@@SvenVanDerPlank You know, I never really thought about it, but I wonder how many of the SLDF SAS/Blackheart special forces units stayed behind to join Comstar? It may explain their adroitness at this & other covert actions.
@@MM22966 It wouldn't be the ComGuard just yet. But they are the founding members of what would eventually be the ComGuards. For some reason most Primus' would disregard the use of ComGuard in favor of using ROM and manipulation.
@@theatagamer90 If your business on the outside is to provide a neutral messaging service then using overt forces isn't the best idea. Manipulating via ROM is way more efficent. Even when they deployed their Comguards (the Vandenburg White Wings or the attack on the NAIS) they did so under cover. Comstar was basically the supposed frail robed man but in reality their words hid a veil of steel.
The Blackhearts themselves stuck around and would become mercenaries out in the periphery for a while before coming back into the Inner Sphere at some point during the 3rdSW if I remember correctly.
It amazes me how much can happen in the Battle tech universe in just a single year. 🤯
Well this is the first chapter in a while that's looking at more than one: 2789-2790. After that the pace picks up and I believe the rest of the series covers 5+ years per chapter.
With thousands of inhabited planets lead by some self proclaimed Noble person . It is endless conflict .
other universes describe space wars as "such and such fought such and such, many warships were destroyed, many planets bombed, milions dead. All in all an awful time to be alive in."
Battletech goes
"During the fifty fifth battle for POMME DE TERRE 3, Sergeant major Andrei Sokolov Von Strassen de la Manzana y Fonseca who was commanding a detachment of two battalions of the twenty fourth Neo Napoli 3 Dragoons against a whole division of the renowned Hygbrazil Cossacks, had been feeling exceedingly constipated for the first few weeks of the campaign which ,historians say, contributed exceedingly to his decision to employ tactical nukes and nerve gas both against the Cossacks and several civilian targets, thus (again) damaging Pomme de Terre's otherwise thriving potato fields and forcing the planet of Pistoia Ultima to buy CAPPELLAN grown botatoes instead.
That the grand Duke of Pistoia Ultima, his excellency Francois Albretch Urizen della Rovere, was allergic to botatos and that this fact had until now escaped his staff (but possibly not the Maskirovka...), causing his untimely death while in peace talks with the Davions, is one of those coincidences that prolonged the succession wars by several decades and costed the lives of billions."
a lot better.
Only until they blew up all the warships (cough)
I have zero constructive criticism to offer this content creator
Always worth waiting for. Not an episode goes by without the hairs on the back of my neck rising at your retelling of these terrible times.
Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying the series.
It speaks to the massively self-destructive nature of the First Succession War that the results of the pyrrhic conflagration over the world of Cholame would be technically considered a "victory" for the unfortunate Kenneth Jones.
His victory wouldn't last long. They'd be back on the offensive again within a few years. Dozens more systems will soon fall to the Kuritan tsunami.
The compilation of the First Succession War is going to be amazing aas always!
So I count...3 heirs and 1 Archon KIA so far. One thing you can say about the Successor States House leadership: They are no chateau generals.
Those numbers get a nice boost in the next episode. You'd think the Successor Lords would learn to stay away from the frontlines.
@@SvenVanDerPlank Well, it wouldn't stop here. Didn't ol'Hanse get to be Prince because his brother was killed by the Sword of Light? And there was the memorable death of the "The Giant", meeting Lyran mechs for the first (& last) time. Loved that episode!
I am super hyped for the next episode. Sorry I can’t contribute, I’m unemployed due to a factory strike at the moment. Keep up the good work brother!
Please do not worry about that. Just watching and (hopefully) enjoying the videos is all I hope for from folks. I hope the strike action resolves itself quickly.
It's been a great weekend so far, a mod game I've been following was fully released Thursday, a fan series got its 2nd episode released yesterday, I finally have enough for a PS4, this dropped tonight. A lot of good things happening, and as always, excellent work! Hope everyone is doing well tonight!
Definitely enjoying this "detailed overview" of this pivotal war.
Thanks Focht. I've no idea where I'm supposed to be getting all this information circa 3025. Maybe these are ComStar briefings.
House Lords: HEHE, casualty graph go up.
causalities graph goes BRRRR
I'm running out of space for more columns. Don't know what I'm going do!
@@SvenVanDerPlank Turn them into speed lines?
@@SvenVanDerPlank Or take a page out of Invincible and just have it eventually reach the entire screen be white.
Nuclear warfare goes boom boom!
I'm hyped! The best start to two weeks of vacation and the best way to forget all the shit work threw at me lately. Seriously, this is my weeks highlight. Let's see what warcrimes the great houses come up with this time.
Enjoy your time off. Will be back next Saturday for the next instalment.
@@SvenVanDerPlank Thanks man. I'm looking forward to it.
I always wondered about Planet Bob. Thought the name change was funny. Figured there was an amusing story behind it...
...should have known nothing good ever comes from name changes in the Inner Sphere.
Ouch.
You should know by now that every seemingly amusing detail in this story has some horrible disaster attached to it.
Oof!
Awesome, I am really loving this series on the Succession Wars, and hey, I don’t mind going year by year. 👍
Thank you. It would be very very short videos if I kept that going from this point.
Love the videos, great mix of tone and info. Also great production value across the board
The 1st Succession War was unspeakable in its atrocities.
Enjoying this. Very thorough and well done. Also it's "Leh-strahd" not "Le-strayed" for Lestrade.
Thank you for the correction, I always appreciate it. Too late to fix for this series, but from the 2ndSW onwards, I'll make sure I have it correct.
@@SvenVanDerPlankwe all don't mind your awesome tho
Say what you will about the Capellans, but that Devlin did his duty well. Sacrificed himself to save his House Lord. I salute you sir.
Also Sven, great video! I can't wait for the next few.
I'm loving this content! Keep up the amazing work! You're my go-to when people ask for lore videos!
I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. Thank you for sharing them.
Such great work here!
I love these breakdowns. Battletech lore is so interesting
Amazing job as always
EXCELLENT pronunciation on planet bob.
Thank you. As far as one syllable words go, it's a pretty tricky one.
Amazing work!
Excellent lore as always 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊
Very well done! Looking forward to the next episode!
Because you're looking forward to the slaughter on Kentares? You monster!
@@SvenVanDerPlank Lmao !!🤣🤣🤣
16:28 is that an OCP logo (robocop)?
Wonderful again. Cost sunk -fallacy as a war-doctrine
Just got the notification, I'm pumped!
Seeing Marik kick some ass is nice to see as a Free Worlds League fan second and Comstar first I wonder how they are going to get effed later on. Also here we have Comstar doing Comstar things, I hate how they got deleted later on. This is the biggest reason why I don't care about Jihad and anything later on. There is no of my beloved, scheming Comstar.
I don't have any particular comment,
But here's to helping the algorithm nonetheless
Love your work
First Succession War? Niiice.
14:50 when the name of the planet is the whole technical readout of the battlemechs they produce xD
Great job saying it tho it seemed... lyran/10
awesome video...please keep up the good work :D
Thanks, will do.
Great vid.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
They need to hire you for the field manuals and t. r. Os and stuff
You and madcat same day? It is like it is frieza day
MageLeader also dropped a great piece on the 3rd generation leadership of the Combine too
every time a kuritan is born, fate tosses a coin.
I'm new to battletech but i cant help but watch every video you make! I can't wait to see comstar get up to more softpower plays!
They go fairly quiet for the next few years. Always operating in the background but not drawing attention to themselves is key to their survival at this point. It's only in the Second Succession War that they really kick off.
Welcome to the community!
9:32 Is that a station or a warship at the top?
I think it's a station but I don't know specifically which one. It isn't very large as you can see JumpShips and DropShips alongside it. I only spotted this during the premiere but those purple 'Mechs I thought were Marik actually belong to Wilson's Hussars. If you follow that units history you might find the specific battle this is an art piece from.
The great extinction of Warships (for now) has reached its climax in this part of the Battletech timeline.
Their time as the pinnacle of military assets is coming to an end. The next chapter I'm due to release will feature the very last WarShip battle in the Inner Sphere.
@@SvenVanDerPlankgood to know that! I will look forward to ypur content.
my precious warships 😥
There it is, the CALLOWAY incident. Gods Capellans are idiots sometimes(?). Why did they ALLOW their leader to hold an offensive? Then NOT defend their own jumpships?
Not exactly their greatest moment. They may have left a small escort with the JumpShips, we don't know, but moving most of the WarShips into orbit wasn't necessarily a bad call. It only became an issue because SAFE had already alerted the fleet to an imminent attack in the region.
@@SvenVanDerPlank It was a stupid move regardless, one, JUST ONE warship with the Jumpships, heck, give them a cruiser with a directline with the main force. But nope, they just had to do what they did. Mind you, you'd think I'd be a major hater of the Capellans at this point, but I kinda like their mechs, and I WANT them to win at some point, but here? Here I see why the Highlander(fave Assault mech) and the Catapult(favorite mech overall) are few and far between.
@@macrux152__8 In all fairness, there are not the only House to either lose ships OR House leaders in a pyrhrric offensive. I mean, we are going to have example of that in the next episode, unless I am mistaken.
The Succession Wars: where nukes are ok and everyone loses!
10:53 NO! Not Krester's....!
They were the most cunning of all shipbuilding companies....
There's a definite reference I'm not getting here.
@@SvenVanDerPlank 😉Krester's Ship Construction is famous for designing the Behemoth and Mammoth DropShips and the surrounding scandal I was referring. In simple words: the Hegemony promised Krester, that the Ships could be sold to the Great Houses, but after finalizing the prototype construction they "altered the deal". Both DropShip came on the "No-Export" list. However, a short time after that, both prototypes were stolen by "unknown parties".
Since the prototypes could be copied and sold anyway (giving Krester "plausible deniability") the Hegemony allowed the sales to other states.
Essential Krester's Ship Construction is presented in several flavor texts as a rather corrupt, yet also clever company.
@@AGS363 Good memory!
Did the Church Expedition reach Van Zandt and see the napkin? 🤣
I don't get it the joke. Explain?
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I'm not sure but I think he's referencing the TexTalks lore series. A good portion of it takes place there. I'd throughly recommend it.
I know its a feudal universe but the idea of an interstellar lord getting themselves killed on the frontlines is soooo stupid
lol, the 2790s are a fun decade for exactly that.
You'd have to be very, very confident in your underlings to even leave the homeworld under any circumstances, for fear of being deposed as soon as you were sufficiently out of touch with the center of power. But BTech is fundamentally absurd and requires a ton of suspension of disbelief to start with, so sure, let's just ignore that problem too.
@@richmcgee434during that time the house lords were relatively unquestioned, and extremely arrogant. After all, they all beleived themselves the rightful ruler of the entire inner sphere.
@@moistjohn True in the fiction, but it's still not really realistic, which was my point. IRL autocrats need to be wary or they get replaced by their own underlings, if not the people they're oppressing - and that's even more true in times of national stress. Look at how much more purging Putin's been doing of late.
you don't understand feudalism, OF COURSE you have to be on the frontline, else you're a dishonorable coward and coward's get assassinated by their own feudataries.
You said Davion did a expedition to look for general Kerensky,it wasn't Davion it was comstar
Not for many years yet. Davion and Kurita were making expeditions into the periphery searching for Kerensky long before ComStar was.
14:37 Ist schon gut, Sie haben sich zumindest Mühe gegeben.
I probably shouldn't have😆
So how do the Clans have operating warships after 100 years ? Besides plot armour/lazy writing ?
Because the nature of their wars was very different. There were all sorts of reasons why the destruction of WarShips was less of a priority than in the Inner Sphere. Once they were gone from the Successor State navies, there was a mutual understanding that rebuilding them was a ruinous venture that would only result in their opponents doing the same, leading them straight back to the same situation.
@@SvenVanDerPlank Similar reasoning to the Washington and London naval treaties of the pre-WW2 period, where the major powers most capable of building large fleets agreed (mostly) to limit their construction programs to retain the existing balance of power rather that get involved in another ruinous naval construction race - albeit more extreme, with only light military units (fighters and dropships) and jumpships allowed. The House Lords' battered economies couldn't afford to rebuild their major warship fleets *and* their ground forces, hence the tacit agreement not to even try. A House that opted to concentrate on warships would be able to kill a lot of planets and whatever lesser naval forces they could catch, but they couldn't be everywhere, they couldn't hold worlds, only ruin them, and they couldn't effectively defend their owners against invasion. It was an easy choice to make given the situation - unlike the historical treaties, where basically everyone planned to cheat as much as they could get away with from word one.
I'd also add that the Clans were very big on preserving their SLDF heritage, and generally preferred ground/mech engagements, or limited the scale of the conflicts (Batchalls). I can't recall off-hand of reading of many warship engagements between Clans, and none during their "golden era" while the Succession wars were going on.
They didn't engage in warship centric warfare outside of maybe the Pentagon Wars. The Clans almost certainly did not use them in the same way as the Inner Sphere after Nicholas instituted the Batchall system. Plus the documentation and continued maintenance needed for warships would be a lot easier to keep up when you don't have a malicious Telcom company sabotaging efforts. Along with not having to worry about the shipyards being constantly destroyed.
@@theatagamer90 What about Snow Raven? I vaguely recall them using some in Trials, but I can't remember when.
ComStar wouldn’t do that, would they? 😆
I’m actually sad now.
Jinjiro did nothing wrong
Give him a few more years...
@@SvenVanDerPlankI know
...yet lmao