I actually see a lot pf parallels between my beloved Taurians and the Wolverines. Free thinking? Check. Socially mobile? Check. Use of proper combined-arms tactics and "Powell Doctrine" total war strategy to end battles quickly on their terms? Check. Total and absolute unwillingness to back down from even vastly superior opponents? Super-ultra-mega double check.
Yeah they are very much the underdog and they know it but that doesn't slow them down one bit. A periphery house that fights the SLDF and puts up the best fight, damn right I am backing that faction.
"The Taurians are masters of defense in depth tactics, otherwise known as an elastic defense, or a resiliant defence, or a "hippety hoppity get the FUCK off my property"."
Always been my fav nation faction, underrated and underappreciated. Villianified due to opposing Davion, the 'maim protagonists' of the books. But basically independent space rebels looking to be left alone and fighting tooth and nail for that. I bet Harleys are a hot item in Taurian space.
I always found it funny that the Taurian Concordat is so paranoid about Davion invasions or modeling when everything I have read concerning House Davion seems to depict their attitude towards the Concordat more along the lines of "Taurian who now?"
Davion would probably take territory if the easy opportunity presented itself but yeah largely davion don't care so long as the concordat don't attack them. Meanwhile it keeps stability for the concordat to regularly tell their people that davion may attack any moment and thus they need to be vigilant.
The Concordet by any stretch should be the most prosperous due to the maximum amount of freedom, it’s connection to the free worlds league and its extremely high literacy rate. It’s bullshit knee capping by the writers that the laze faire capitalist nation is so easily beaten. Not organic if we look at history which shows the opposite. This is also why I hate the bullshit Aurigan reach which is a socialist nation that is portrayed as heroic and yet the Concordet is portrayed as evil just because they are patriotic?! This Bernie Bro bullshit “democratic socialism” doesn’t work and history shows it and the only reason it works in this universe is because Harebrained Schemes wanted to appeal to the Give me give me give me demographic. Death to the Capellons, Aurigans and the Davions, and Long Live The Concordet
@@orionhan2431 On the contrary, during and after the Jihad, the Taurians actually ate quite a bit into Davion space, even re-taking the Pleadies star cluster (which had become Star League territory during the reunification war and annexed by Davion during the Amaris Civil War - and one of the major bones of contention between the Fed Suns and the Concordat). Other than that the border between the Fed Suns and the Concordat has remained pretty constant. The Taurians lost most of their territory not to Davion, but when Gray Monday cut off all the huge area colonized in the 3000s, though, the Taurians maintained control over the Pleadies. By that time Davion had bigger concerns, namely the Kuritans bulldozing a path all the way to New Avalon. The only periphery state Davion ever made any real effort to dominate was the Outworld Alliance. The irony of the whole situation is that the Taurians and the Davions are about as ideologically close to one another as you can get, yet their constant paranoia of the Davions drove the Taurians to seek alliance with the one successor state who HAD screwed the Taurians over, and the one state most opposite the Taurian's ideals: the Cappellan Confederation.
Frankly if i was to make a nation to add to battletech, and i wanted them to be able to fight and survive, I'd nuke jump points too! Why would I not!? The great houses can, conventionally, kick my ass, so why exactly should I go along with the rules that they made, that only works if you're like them?
This makes me regret how the HBS PC Battletech game makes th Taurians defacto badguys by having them revive old feuds with the starting region right as the Restoration kicks off. It makes them seem like vultures picking on the rebel faction when they coulda gone against the Directorate and been heroic.
Well ultimately they realise they have been conned by both Ostergaard and the directorate, and Kamea is counted as a insurgent leader trying to destabilise the region. So the Concordat could be viewed as a faction looking to secure their borders in the west to better prepare for any attacks from Davion in the north. When they learn of course, they immediately withdraw aid so I would say they were too quick to believe the Directorate rather than look into the events further and they were used.
@@CriticalRocket Ah, the little blurbs in the mini missions (Probably using default text with name variables swapped) made it seem like they were just picking a really opportunistic time to settle old scores from some past war.
@@CriticalRocket I hate how the story mode ends with you almost certainly hostile with the Taurians and too well rated with the MRB to be offered the two skull missions needed to build your rep back up. Is there some sort of ini I could fiddle with to fix that?
In my own head canon a coalition of First Taurian Lancers, Banockbuns bandits and several volunteers took back Laconis from the Aurigans, and devastated the forces that attempted to retake it and kept up raids to acquire Union drop ships. From there they would raid Davion Militia marches( though not major and ultimately little more than pin pricks against the far larger Federated Suns.) which provides my group with more access to better mechs.
Was pleasantly surprised to see this video and very much enjoyed it. In MWO my merc unit hails from the Taurian Concordat and was largely funded during start up by the Far Lookers. We have a small roleplay section on our community forum and at least two of our officers studied at the Ecole Militaire. I also personally enjoyed the Colonial Marshal story at the start of this video, not least because my character did a chunk of his national service in the marshals and has stories of his own much like that one :) Thanks for the vid and the fine content in general. Have a good one o7
I don’t know why but the Taurian Concordet reminds me of Space Philippines/space West Virginia. The pro people anti imperialism stance combined with the pro gun/ pro militia mindset really fits them to a T
Also the nuking of jump points as a deterrent makes them very hardline. That said the Concordat has some of the highest literarcy rates in the human sphere of civilisation.
Critical Rocket although one thing I gotta ask is how the taurians can afford to have quasi socialist perks like public healthcare, retirement, and minimum wage and yet have such a powerful military. I’m not saying it’s impossible and yes they do rely primarily on militia forces for the outer regions while focusing the TDF on the Davion and Capellan borders but you’d figure they’d be almost anarcho capitalist all things considered or at the very least minarchists but they operate more like.....well West Virginia and Philippines. TLDR how do they pay for public services and military?
@@concordetconstabulary219 nobility within the Concordat is a position of responsibility, not privilege like it would be in any of the Great Houses. Thus, Taurian nobles tend to contribute far more to state programs and security than their average Inner Sphere counterpart.
Yeah sorry for the delay in this one. Periphery ones may tend to be longer on average. Next up is either the Aurigan faction (from the HBS Battletech game) or Magistracy of canopus.
I overslept the night guys. XD I was like, "Okay, now I'm gonna have fun with Critical and some other fans, but it's still just 8 pm, so I lay down a bit." Then at some point I opened my eyes and saw the sky getting somewhat blue and I knew that I overslept it. :D Shieeeet. Well maybe next time. This university stuff sucks your energy cell dry man. :)
+Critical Rocket True enough. :D Well my mother was angry because I didn't close the doors for the night, but shhhhh, that's not important in this story. :D But next time, I'll be ready with a big cup of coffee.
I actually see a lot pf parallels between my beloved Taurians and the Wolverines. Free thinking? Check. Socially mobile? Check. Use of proper combined-arms tactics and "Powell Doctrine" total war strategy to end battles quickly on their terms? Check. Total and absolute unwillingness to back down from even vastly superior opponents? Super-ultra-mega double check.
Yeah they are very much the underdog and they know it but that doesn't slow them down one bit. A periphery house that fights the SLDF and puts up the best fight, damn right I am backing that faction.
"The Taurians are masters of defense in depth tactics, otherwise known as an elastic defense, or a resiliant defence, or a "hippety hoppity get the FUCK off my property"."
Guess we know where the Wolverines originate from.
Always been my fav nation faction, underrated and underappreciated. Villianified due to opposing Davion, the 'maim protagonists' of the books. But basically independent space rebels looking to be left alone and fighting tooth and nail for that. I bet Harleys are a hot item in Taurian space.
Officially my fav non-clan faction. I always struggled picking a faction I really liked since they all seem so douchey.
Always liked them because they are the underdogs, but also because they never give up when attacked, extremely cool faction.
I always found it funny that the Taurian Concordat is so paranoid about Davion invasions or modeling when everything I have read concerning House Davion seems to depict their attitude towards the Concordat more along the lines of "Taurian who now?"
Davion would probably take territory if the easy opportunity presented itself but yeah largely davion don't care so long as the concordat don't attack them. Meanwhile it keeps stability for the concordat to regularly tell their people that davion may attack any moment and thus they need to be vigilant.
If you look at the Map in the future timeline most of Taurian systems are now under control of Davion.
The Concordet by any stretch should be the most prosperous due to the maximum amount of freedom, it’s connection to the free worlds league and its extremely high literacy rate. It’s bullshit knee capping by the writers that the laze faire capitalist nation is so easily beaten. Not organic if we look at history which shows the opposite. This is also why I hate the bullshit Aurigan reach which is a socialist nation that is portrayed as heroic and yet the Concordet is portrayed as evil just because they are patriotic?! This Bernie Bro bullshit “democratic socialism” doesn’t work and history shows it and the only reason it works in this universe is because Harebrained Schemes wanted to appeal to the Give me give me give me demographic. Death to the Capellons, Aurigans and the Davions, and Long Live The Concordet
@@orionhan2431 On the contrary, during and after the Jihad, the Taurians actually ate quite a bit into Davion space, even re-taking the Pleadies star cluster (which had become Star League territory during the reunification war and annexed by Davion during the Amaris Civil War - and one of the major bones of contention between the Fed Suns and the Concordat). Other than that the border between the Fed Suns and the Concordat has remained pretty constant. The Taurians lost most of their territory not to Davion, but when Gray Monday cut off all the huge area colonized in the 3000s, though, the Taurians maintained control over the Pleadies. By that time Davion had bigger concerns, namely the Kuritans bulldozing a path all the way to New Avalon. The only periphery state Davion ever made any real effort to dominate was the Outworld Alliance.
The irony of the whole situation is that the Taurians and the Davions are about as ideologically close to one another as you can get, yet their constant paranoia of the Davions drove the Taurians to seek alliance with the one successor state who HAD screwed the Taurians over, and the one state most opposite the Taurian's ideals: the Cappellan Confederation.
@Concordet Constabulary
I agree but not the laize faire part. The US tried that and almost ended up the same as France’s guilds. A hellhole.
Ahhh the Taurian Concordat, one of many places where ECMs broadcast Lynyrd Skynyrd's Greatest Hits on loop; Play FREEBIRD!
Man, life in established Concordat worlds sounds like it doesn’t suck total ass.
Unlike certain successor states.
@@Duchess_Van_Hoofaka all the successor states
The little radio drama at the start was cool!
Frankly if i was to make a nation to add to battletech, and i wanted them to be able to fight and survive, I'd nuke jump points too! Why would I not!? The great houses can, conventionally, kick my ass, so why exactly should I go along with the rules that they made, that only works if you're like them?
A nation you would actually enjoy living in? In Battletech? What sorcery is this?
Yeah, Taurian Concordat for life :D
Seriously, apart from my mercenary micronation I am writing, I think the other main project will be a Taurian force.
HIPPITY HOPPITY GET OFF MY PROPERTY
A MAN OF CULTURE
They remind me of the Browncoats from Firefly
This makes me regret how the HBS PC Battletech game makes th Taurians defacto badguys by having them revive old feuds with the starting region right as the Restoration kicks off. It makes them seem like vultures picking on the rebel faction when they coulda gone against the Directorate and been heroic.
Well ultimately they realise they have been conned by both Ostergaard and the directorate, and Kamea is counted as a insurgent leader trying to destabilise the region. So the Concordat could be viewed as a faction looking to secure their borders in the west to better prepare for any attacks from Davion in the north. When they learn of course, they immediately withdraw aid so I would say they were too quick to believe the Directorate rather than look into the events further and they were used.
@@CriticalRocket Ah, the little blurbs in the mini missions (Probably using default text with name variables swapped) made it seem like they were just picking a really opportunistic time to settle old scores from some past war.
@@CriticalRocket I hate how the story mode ends with you almost certainly hostile with the Taurians and too well rated with the MRB to be offered the two skull missions needed to build your rep back up. Is there some sort of ini I could fiddle with to fix that?
In my own head canon a coalition of First Taurian Lancers, Banockbuns bandits and several volunteers took back Laconis from the Aurigans, and devastated the forces that attempted to retake it and kept up raids to acquire Union drop ships. From there they would raid Davion Militia marches( though not major and ultimately little more than pin pricks against the far larger Federated Suns.) which provides my group with more access to better mechs.
@@DIEGhostfish just do what I just started doing. Get RogueTech and play as a Taurian freelancer harassing the Federated Suns
If hippity hoppity get off my property was a society
Very well done Rocket! Very well done! The bit at the start was a nice touch.
Thanks :)
The Colony on Spencer could need an HPG, and we ALL know a certain precentor of the year that could be sent there :)
Permament station I hope.
Well, its called "Periphery" for a reason, am i right? ;)
Just tell him its an order form Blake himself or something equally obscure!
I can always give it a shot.
Was pleasantly surprised to see this video and very much enjoyed it.
In MWO my merc unit hails from the Taurian Concordat and was largely funded during start up by the Far Lookers. We have a small roleplay section on our community forum and at least two of our officers studied at the Ecole Militaire.
I also personally enjoyed the Colonial Marshal story at the start of this video, not least because my character did a chunk of his national service in the marshals and has stories of his own much like that one :)
Thanks for the vid and the fine content in general.
Have a good one o7
Thanks for watching (listening?) and glad you enjoyed it :)
nice short story from the periphery source book. you cant tell things have gone tits up in the colony regions.
the guy I played against in the table-top....Trevor ...was Taurian ...I was Lyran ...he kicked the shit outta me
Taurian Concordat for life! They rule.
as the defeated ....the apparently do.
Ah you know how tabletop goes. Sometimes the dice are with you, other times they are your best friend.
Did you not field enough scout lances? If you didn't have at least 3/1 superiority in Assault 'Mechs, then you were doing it wrong.
God bless Space Texas
If fuck around and find out was a nation
Great video mate.
Thanks 👍
I don’t know why but the Taurian Concordet reminds me of Space Philippines/space West Virginia. The pro people anti imperialism stance combined with the pro gun/ pro militia mindset really fits them to a T
Also the nuking of jump points as a deterrent makes them very hardline. That said the Concordat has some of the highest literarcy rates in the human sphere of civilisation.
Critical Rocket although one thing I gotta ask is how the taurians can afford to have quasi socialist perks like public healthcare, retirement, and minimum wage and yet have such a powerful military. I’m not saying it’s impossible and yes they do rely primarily on militia forces for the outer regions while focusing the TDF on the Davion and Capellan borders but you’d figure they’d be almost anarcho capitalist all things considered or at the very least minarchists but they operate more like.....well West Virginia and Philippines.
TLDR how do they pay for public services and military?
@@concordetconstabulary219 nobility within the Concordat is a position of responsibility, not privilege like it would be in any of the Great Houses. Thus, Taurian nobles tend to contribute far more to state programs and security than their average Inner Sphere counterpart.
Hilariously, I'm born and raise in WV and the Taurians are my main. They fit us to a T for certain.
more more i love the lore and you know how to deliver it
like allways thx for the upload love the lore
Yeah sorry for the delay in this one. Periphery ones may tend to be longer on average. Next up is either the Aurigan faction (from the HBS Battletech game) or Magistracy of canopus.
My money is with the Taurians.
Always bet on the bull :)
Hell yeah. Long live House Calderon.
'Ate Clanners
'Ate Feds
'Ate Suns
'Ate Capellans
'Ate Star League
Luv me Mum
Luv House Calderon
Luv me Concordat
Luv me Regiment
Simple as.
those fuckin hover tanks ...I swear to god ....sorry this brings back alot of bad memories
J.Edgar hover tanks are my fav haha
+Critical Rocket I knew there was I reason I liked you! ;)
J Edgar's rule!!!
I overslept the night guys. XD
I was like, "Okay, now I'm gonna have fun with Critical and some other fans, but it's still just 8 pm, so I lay down a bit."
Then at some point I opened my eyes and saw the sky getting somewhat blue and I knew that I overslept it. :D
Shieeeet. Well maybe next time. This university stuff sucks your energy cell dry man. :)
haha, well at least you got a good nights sleep :)
+Critical Rocket
True enough. :D
Well my mother was angry because I didn't close the doors for the night, but shhhhh, that's not important in this story. :D
But next time, I'll be ready with a big cup of coffee.
Cool video, I really like the impersonation at the start.
It was just something I stumbled upon in the book and my brother said I should do that at the beginning. I liked the little story.
hipity hopity get off my property!
Hippity hoppity get the **** off my property
3:40 to get to the lore
I thought the short story about the Taurian marshal was good to highlight the periphery life compared to the Inner Sphere. Oh well :D
@@CriticalRocket It was and I liked it! Great video. Im new to BattleTech and am really liking the Taurians.
fist
Vastly over rated fanboy faction.
Fanboy yes. Over rated? Yeah probably :D
Let me tell you a story about a little clan named wolf lmao