One of my favorites as well. I just can't get the image of a dude with dad bod coming around the corner to remind you just how low on the food chain you can be.
That jet powered tank that has 20 tube missle rack, scatter laser cannon, twin gattling grenade launchers, and a urbie welded on the front. Look up ac6
Yeah there are examples of very compatible parts that work well together. Though that Rifleman and Shadow hawk mash up was worse then the mechs it was made from, it was a SAFE combination of parts that was well understood and wouldn't blow up.
Slamming bits of salvage together to make something less than the sum of its parts is a venerable military tradition, nice to see it acknowledged in sci-fi.
the real Tacticals are the INDUSTRIAL and Farming mechs fit with auto cannons and non energy weapons that use a Diesel or gas turbine engine. Like imagine putting guns on a forklift
Lol I used to drive em overnight in Tampa. That wouldn't have been a bad idea. A dude I worked with had a crackhead hit him up for his wallet while on a lift. Dude drew a knife. Coworker threw it in reverse, lifted the forks to chest height and basically said "bring it, bitch"😂
14:18 Holy crap! That Urbanmech commando Frankenmech is mine! It's an early design for what I call the Urban Commando! This particular one I used the arms and upper legs of a commando with the Urbanmech torso and lower legs. I even put urbie small lasers over the shoulders. But I didn't put any Raven parts tho. Just Urbanmech and commando parts. I've since finalized the design to use two lasers on the arms and srm launchers over the shoulders. You two may not like it but im jazzed you used it in your video! Thanks!
Actually the reason was that the NYX model uses too much fuel walking and jumping so for low resources reasons they ripped their legs off and stuck them on trucks, the driver of a NYX truck mentions this, then gets killed like 2 missions later They still employ the spider mechs tho, their more economical due to hydralic movement rather than jet movement
@@molassesman4066 Thanks, I didn't catch that part. I thought the fuel shortage comment was just about how many NYX they'd send in at once. A bit weird to say that while spewing a giant stream of flamethrower fun, but that's EDF for you ;)
The Corsair in MW5 with the gauss rifle absolutely murders everything it sees. Tough as nails, reasonably mobile, and it pops cockpits with extreme prejudice. Gotta remember, it ain't stupid if it works.
But just... Why? Why even? The Corsair would be so nice if it actually had some worthwhile quirks or configurations, but you don't get any. No sweet high-level quirks, no JJs, no ECM, no MASC... Its only appeal is the ugliness. Which is sweet, I mean... But I'm fine with being HBK-H ugly.
@@Sakhmeov Rugged and easy to maintain are really good, also I have an ECM in my Corsair COR-PVT and a RAC5, brrrrrbrrrrr. Slap on some heavy ferro and reinforced structure and.... it's insane. Love it because it's so ugly it makes an atlas cry.
People forget though. There’s a reason pirates exist. If there wasn’t, there wouldn’t be any ever at all anywhere. Much like how they have nothing going for them in real life. If you manage to fit something like 50+ LRMs and ac20/lbx20 on the same frame, it doesn’t matter how shitty it is, as long as it doesn’t blow up suddenly that rookie you gave it too for the memes and hazing is MVP of your lance, coring mechs faster than you can even turn your own torso and arms to track the next target. If he gets 2/3rds of the kills, he gets 2/3rds of the attention from the mechanics at base. It becomes a feedback loop based entirely on vested interests. The scrap heap becomes the company project car then becomes a hot rod then becomes the ace custom. If you fuck around enough eventually you can get something right or even just luck into it. It’s the same way all new mechs are developed, just cutting out the nice clean parts.
I'll be honest, when they showed the Wolverine/Rifleman cross, I thought it was a Jeagermech at first. It would be cool if that was the inspiration for it, but I don't know if it is in the lore.
Whoa whoa whoa, one thing real quick since it popped up: Gun Jesus isn't Brandon Herrara, he's Mr. AK-50. Nah, Ian McCallum of Forgotten Weapons is Gun Jesus. *I do apologize if this came across as angry, that is not my intended tone.*
You see, he's a proud Canadian. His pride in his nation makes him physically incapable of recognizing anything firearm related, as PM Blackface would not approve. (I'm just poking fun at the canuck government here.)
The Corsair's cockpit in MWO is a spectacle in itself: all sorts of loose wires going in and out of god knows where, one of the throttle handles is replaced by a wrench, there's a car battery jumper cabled onto the console and what I assume is the on board computer is just an exposed mother board including everything from the GPU, CPU and 4 sticks of ram.
The hillbilly solutions talk got me thinking of how amusing it would be for mechwarrior, or any sci fi setting for that matter, to have its own take on the RedGreen show
Thank you! That's actually an early design of mine. I call it the Urban Commando! It uses the Urbanmech torso and lower legs and the Commando arms and upper legs. That's why the legs are longer and it's faster. Longer strides. I've since finalized the design to have 2 lasers on the arms and 2 arm launchers over the shoulders.
I believe calling them chimeras would be more appropriate. This reminds me of Ugly’s from Star Wars: basically kitbashing whatever starfighter parts you have lying around/available to create a functioning starfighter. Are there any franken-mechs that are actually purposely designed/built that are effective and work? Only reason why I ask is because there are at least two Ugly’s in Star Wars that are: the Chir’daki and the Deathraven
Literally the same idea, just with a mech instead of a starfighter. For the most part though, there IS the Snords Irregular's frankemech, which combined an Archer and a Rifleman I think. It was effective enough to keep fighting for a while after being built. But then again Snord's was a clanner unit and they have clantech, so.
@@Omega_1111 to sum up the cataphract, they had tons of specific maruader parts and other incomplete production lines and engineered a solution to plug them into a new line to produce a usable mech.
I have the Frankenmech from the Snords Irregulars pack that I use with my new vehicles in a Deep Periphery Planetary Milita company it's worked quite well for me
Legitimately these are some of my favorite kinds of mechs, the idea of pulling what looks like junk together and getting it to function at all for the field of war is pretty fun and cool
A friend of mine when he creates a "frankrnmech" he has it where his techs modify the internal structure to fit a different engine regardless if its a 300 rating. Some times he even limits space/tonnage. If he adds an arm of a heavier mech he reduces the amount of tonnage he has access to due to the weight of the heaver component from heavier mechs.
Franken Mechs. The "have parts, make do" of any setting. Normally worse than anything else, except not have one when the enemy does. Some settings are more forgiving to Franken Mechs than BattleTech. Armored Core comes to mind. That might be the most friendly setting to the concept, with the modular designs.
Modular... franken-omnimechs anyone? Who doesn't want a mostly Mad Dog with a Fire Moth arm that makes it look like it is always hanging for a high five? The weapon pods mean they can be anything! Plus making clanners cry when they see your abomination is worth the risk of explosion.
Ok the reality here is... a lot of time franken mechs existed and just worked. But not because of everything here. Mech's were scarce. they were hard to get. They were often handed down for generations in some cases.. (pre-3040 that is) there were people, who would scower battlefields for parts, for salvage... who would spend their lives collecting scrap with the point and purpose of building battlemechs. And some of them were very good. And smart. while you saw stuff like the Cataphrate which was part 45 ton, part 55 ton, part 75 ton mech all thrown together... There were people that... type matched. ok, so we have wolverine, griffin, shadow hawk... all at 55 tons. all with the same speed... so we can take the legs of any of those 3.. and the engine from any of those 3.... and the power outputs are generally going to match... so you get shadowhawk legs, wolverine torso, and griffin arms. PPC and SRM6. all the internals match to a 55 tonner, gyro has no problems and engine has no problems. They would spend months, sometimes even years tweaking and re-balancing this. testing armor and jumpsets out then... sell the darn thing for millions and start a new project.
9:44 So, not to bash on any of this, but interestingly enough there are I.C.E's used in some Frankenmechs because either they really did just scoop it out of a dead tank or it was built out of a Agri-mech/Construction mech which typically also had Internal Combustion Engines. And I could be wrong on this but it really looks like the cockpit of the Corsair is actually the front half of a ground vehicle which would not surprise me in the least. People have done crazier things.
Reminds me of the game metal fatigue , you could capture enemy parts and add them directly or even research them to make a unique styled faction version ^^
My 1st Franken Mech was called ' Frankenstien' piloted by Major. W. Hardcort . Base mech was a Battle Master . Legs , CT , and Head of the Battle Master . The Lt & Rt arms & torsos were from an Archer . It was 80 tons .
God, I know the internet's ruined me when I took one look at the yellow frankenmech showing up at 16:30 or so, and immediately my brain went "yo that looks like a Minion mech!"
I’ve recently gotten into the battle tech universe via mechwarrior 5. Love the videos they are an easy way to understand the lore of this insane franchise. Just wondering if you have a video planed on the Black Knight or the Crab as they are my favorite mechs in game at the moment. Keep up the great videos
9:37 that is a Supercharger, its a masc but for engines, and its pretty much only ever used by pirates, probably as people don't like making engines have a heated meltdown.
@scienceinsanity6927 @7:20... "Brandon Herrera" is the gun-guy with the videos. He's definitely entertaining. Also: The Corsair If properly modded is one of the finest assaults in mw5 mercs. I've got a x2 Gauss/ x2 Large Laser/ Srm4 (or more) build that'll devastate entire crowds. I'd choose It over plenty of standards.
No discussion on frankenmechs is complete without mention of the Schwerer Gustav. It's parts from a Annihilator, Verfolger and Berserker with a thumper cannon, clan RAC 5, and so much hurt it's insane. One of my favorite mechs. Also named after the largest artillery piece in ww2
Me, playing MechWarrior 5 and can't even install 20 missiles on my Centurion, despite CLEARLY HAVING THE FKN SPACE FOR IT. Then finding out there's a unique version with 20 missiles so APPARENTLY SOMEONE CAN DO IT, BUT NOT ME. Then I modded the game, and it actually became fun.
The the Gorkanaut/Morkanauts, Stompas, and Gargants (as well as Deff Dreads and Killa Kans) created by the Orks from Warhammer 40k are great examples of "Frankenmechs"
Most Frankemechs may well be barely functioning heaps, but there's a couple fo great exceptions. One being the Sneed Special, an unholy kludging of Rifleman, Phoenix Hawk, Warhammer and Archer that Shorty Sneed piloted with great distinction for at least a decade. Then there's Legend Killer, which was a totally stock, unmodified Rifleman that contained no Warhammer components or armour, honest.
At one point in a modded MW5 run, I had a Javelin with Jenner arms and Locust legs, but I personally despise having to use Javelins due to their crippling lack of actual armament so I considered it an improvement.
0:40 That's a Hellspawn. Not a frankenmech at all. I'm fact, it's a quite expensive medium fire support 'mech. 17:56 That's just half of a Yeoman. As if it didn't have enough troubles already.
All of this and no mention of MercTech Lite, which allows you to create proper frankenmechs in MW5: Mercs, combining whichever limbs you want on any torso (within the same weight class), or even swap side torsos from other variants of the same mech.
My favorite one has to be the Cataphract. Started life as a bunch of spare parts. Did so well that once they brought them back to the rear lines it was made into a proper mech.
A legendary Mech Tech that has Done his work in multiple jobs doing mech assembly for Numerous Companies/Brands being a valuable part of the war effort because he knows the compatible models of every piece that could be used in a mech/ can make a damn good adapter for it. "functioning frankenmech"
This video reminded me of Apollo 13 (And maybe the Boeing Starliner in the future, though I hope no one hurt) in the whole "we are boned. We need to make our carbon scrubbers work in a slot they don't have, we need to make the batteries from one move to another etc.
Watching this video is giving me tons of ideas. I've gotten into BattleTech classic TT, and learned how flexible the setting is on what army you want to play as, and/or even encourages making your own mercenary company. I've been wanting to make up a company that's a group of neutral/well meaning individuals from all walks of life, who are almost always salvaging and rebuilding destroyed mechs from battlefields, rescuing/aiding any injured troops or pilots, and getting the heck outta dodge before reinforcements arrive to clean up. (Basically, think of them as kinda a cross between the Atom Cats from Fallout 4, and Team Star Fox.) I was actually considering trying to build lore-friendly Franken-Mechs, but within a reasonable safety area.
The highlander with four legs, chances are that is a Hell Horses assault mech known as a Thunder Stallion. It was a best of a mech, no torso but sported a heavy gauss rifle. The whole mech needed to turn in order to aim it's main weapon, more suited to an artillery role still it was able to one shot up to medium mechs unlucky enough to get within it's crosshairs.
Some of my fave frankenmechs are the roguetech pirate mechs, special shout out to the pirate atlas, whose ECM and Probe Suite is just the upper body of a Raven welded onto its shoulder
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The Cataphract is an example of a Frankenmech that was so good that it acquired its own factory production lines.
One of my favorites as well. I just can't get the image of a dude with dad bod coming around the corner to remind you just how low on the food chain you can be.
So I wasn't wrong, it WAS a regular Cataphract in that lineup of "guess if they're real" mechs!
That jet powered tank that has 20 tube missle rack, scatter laser cannon, twin gattling grenade launchers, and a urbie welded on the front.
Look up ac6
@@banansa4778 And to no surprise , the Urbie is its only weakpoint
Yeah there are examples of very compatible parts that work well together. Though that Rifleman and Shadow hawk mash up was worse then the mechs it was made from, it was a SAFE combination of parts that was well understood and wouldn't blow up.
'Welcome to Discount Dans Mech shaped objects. If it's mech shaped, and it's an object, we got it. Cash up front. No warranty, no refunds."
*free delivery to a location of your choise no closer than 150km. This condition can not be negotiated.
Discount Dan sells the Urbie in 12 packs. You have to paint them yourself. Or unpaint them it never quite adds up.
And, for legal reason, no 'Mechs'.
Slamming bits of salvage together to make something less than the sum of its parts is a venerable military tradition, nice to see it acknowledged in sci-fi.
Star wars did it a lot in legends. Some were pretty solid. Others were...
@@bthsr7113The TIE-Wing.
@@gwynmarigold9141 Bingo
Ah, the anti-gestalt
@@gwynmarigold9141you mean the Die-wing?
"frankenmechs are death traps" all mechs are death traps it's just a matter of what you tolerate
"Do you want to die moving quickly, or firing off massive amounts of weaponry, or somewhere in between?"
I am a conoisseur of death traps. Which is why my favourite mech is the Locust.
its just a mattter of how clean and precise you work.
if you want to get *extra spicy* piloting a Gundam gives you a risk of it eating your fucking soul!
And if you want your deathtrap to be made by you not by a dedicated factory
the real Tacticals are the INDUSTRIAL and Farming mechs fit with auto cannons and non energy weapons that use a Diesel or gas turbine engine. Like imagine putting guns on a forklift
Lol I used to drive em overnight in Tampa. That wouldn't have been a bad idea.
A dude I worked with had a crackhead hit him up for his wallet while on a lift. Dude drew a knife. Coworker threw it in reverse, lifted the forks to chest height and basically said "bring it, bitch"😂
@@blackc1479XD lol.
The singel leg mechnis just half of the Real mech if i am not wrong it was the yeoman
Sorta kinda like if they had a machine gun on the power loader from Aliens.
@@thespacemarine247 hell yeah, lol
Improvised Nightvision is always most effective when it ensures that nobody else has nightvision either.
"Ah don't care if it paints a giant target on mah fayce. If ah point it at them, they cain't see shit neither!"
Or any vision for that matter
If it looks stupid but cores a assault mech, your going in the right direction
14:18 Holy crap! That Urbanmech commando Frankenmech is mine! It's an early design for what I call the Urban Commando! This particular one I used the arms and upper legs of a commando with the Urbanmech torso and lower legs. I even put urbie small lasers over the shoulders. But I didn't put any Raven parts tho. Just Urbanmech and commando parts. I've since finalized the design to use two lasers on the arms and srm launchers over the shoulders. You two may not like it but im jazzed you used it in your video! Thanks!
That thing looks dope ngl
What the other guy said, it looks great actually
It looks great. It seems like something a pirate kingdom could mass produce if they got their hands on a factory. Like the Marians!
I came to the comments to defend the design. Looks freaking awesome.
@@Liethen thx! The final design is better in my opinion.
In EDF 6, there's an actual mechnical in the first missions. They couldn't repair the legs anymore, so they put it on a pickup truck.
Actually the reason was that the NYX model uses too much fuel walking and jumping so for low resources reasons they ripped their legs off and stuck them on trucks, the driver of a NYX truck mentions this, then gets killed like 2 missions later
They still employ the spider mechs tho, their more economical due to hydralic movement rather than jet movement
@@molassesman4066 Thanks, I didn't catch that part. I thought the fuel shortage comment was just about how many NYX they'd send in at once. A bit weird to say that while spewing a giant stream of flamethrower fun, but that's EDF for you ;)
@yureinobbie68 well NYX use rocket fuel for their movement instead of normal fule i highly doubt EDF has rocket fuel after the calamity
The Corsair in MW5 with the gauss rifle absolutely murders everything it sees. Tough as nails, reasonably mobile, and it pops cockpits with extreme prejudice. Gotta remember, it ain't stupid if it works.
Hey, my Corsair is a beautiful dancer on the battlefield... Just, a very very slow dancer.
But just... Why? Why even?
The Corsair would be so nice if it actually had some worthwhile quirks or configurations, but you don't get any. No sweet high-level quirks, no JJs, no ECM, no MASC...
Its only appeal is the ugliness. Which is sweet, I mean... But I'm fine with being HBK-H ugly.
@@Sakhmeov 4 AMS on one mech.
@@Sakhmeov Rugged and easy to maintain are really good, also I have an ECM in my Corsair COR-PVT and a RAC5, brrrrrbrrrrr.
Slap on some heavy ferro and reinforced structure and.... it's insane.
Love it because it's so ugly it makes an atlas cry.
@@phixter
COR-8R:
2× RAC5
1× RAC2
TSM
Supercharger
C3 slave
325 XL engine
Mech name: BRRRRRRRRRRT
In the lore GM built the first commercial fusion reactor in 2020. So as usual real life isn't living up to fiction.
to be fair the soviet union was still arround to the 2050's
Maybe they have ... It's just not commercially available yet...
Well battletech was created in the 70s I think. They were optimistic back then.
@@ADobbin1 It was published in 1984.
After listening to this video I’ve invested my entire life savings into GM
Your descendants will TOTALLY appreciate that a thousand or so years from now.
🤣😂😆
Invest in Nissan as well. They helped power the legendary Centurion CN9-A.
The real take away here is the reality that you can LS swap everything.
People forget though. There’s a reason pirates exist. If there wasn’t, there wouldn’t be any ever at all anywhere. Much like how they have nothing going for them in real life.
If you manage to fit something like 50+ LRMs and ac20/lbx20 on the same frame, it doesn’t matter how shitty it is, as long as it doesn’t blow up suddenly that rookie you gave it too for the memes and hazing is MVP of your lance, coring mechs faster than you can even turn your own torso and arms to track the next target.
If he gets 2/3rds of the kills, he gets 2/3rds of the attention from the mechanics at base. It becomes a feedback loop based entirely on vested interests. The scrap heap becomes the company project car then becomes a hot rod then becomes the ace custom. If you fuck around enough eventually you can get something right or even just luck into it. It’s the same way all new mechs are developed, just cutting out the nice clean parts.
You forgot the JagerMech - An Urbie wearing a Rifleman suit.
I'll be honest, when they showed the Wolverine/Rifleman cross, I thought it was a Jeagermech at first. It would be cool if that was the inspiration for it, but I don't know if it is in the lore.
Corsair: *Exists.*
Discount Dan: *It's free merchandise.*
Discount Dan is all about selling Frankenmechs. One of his spots has him basically welding Marauder arms on Catapults to resell them as Mad Cats.
mechandise
@@Simonhenkelmyn ...almost every mech is in this setting. Corsair does not explode by itself, this video is loaded troll enemy propaganda.
Whoa whoa whoa, one thing real quick since it popped up: Gun Jesus isn't Brandon Herrara, he's Mr. AK-50. Nah, Ian McCallum of Forgotten Weapons is Gun Jesus.
*I do apologize if this came across as angry, that is not my intended tone.*
You are absolutely correct.
No, no. You're right.
You see, he's a proud Canadian. His pride in his nation makes him physically incapable of recognizing anything firearm related, as PM Blackface would not approve. (I'm just poking fun at the canuck government here.)
17:37 you said the word! WE WANT OUR BAGPIPES!
The Corsair's cockpit in MWO is a spectacle in itself: all sorts of loose wires going in and out of god knows where, one of the throttle handles is replaced by a wrench, there's a car battery jumper cabled onto the console and what I assume is the on board computer is just an exposed mother board including everything from the GPU, CPU and 4 sticks of ram.
I remain convinced the car battery is plugged into a bitcoin miner for some reason, that cockpit is a health hazard and I love it
The hillbilly solutions talk got me thinking of how amusing it would be for mechwarrior, or any sci fi setting for that matter, to have its own take on the RedGreen show
Guarantee some Periphery chucklehead managed to successfully pitch such to the Tharkad Broadcast Company
I LIKE the Urbie Commando!
Thank you! That's actually an early design of mine. I call it the Urban Commando! It uses the Urbanmech torso and lower legs and the Commando arms and upper legs. That's why the legs are longer and it's faster. Longer strides. I've since finalized the design to have 2 lasers on the arms and 2 arm launchers over the shoulders.
I appreciate the reference to an ancient Hulk Hogan movie, and will therefore be forever referring to it as Trash Hulk
@@maevethefox5912 it's a Trash Can Brother! Not a Trash Can't! Lol
The problems you list for frankenmechs exist for standard mechs also.
The Corsair is amazing it's so good I got 2.
The corsair you showed looks like something, the orcs would put together from 40 K
The osk in 40k would absolutly love the Corsair...because they are creatures of culture and that Mech fucking slaps
FIRST RULE OF BATTLETECH: You do *not* think about or mention ammo feeds!
Frakenmechs *_exist_*
Van Zandt Militia: "Looks good to us!"
The FSVZ Militia will use anything not made by the clans, Kurita or Liao, so yeah.
A Crab mech with one King Crab arm, call it the Fiddler Crab.
Ha! Nice!
And replace the other arm with one from the hermit crab to complete the look.
I believe calling them chimeras would be more appropriate. This reminds me of Ugly’s from Star Wars: basically kitbashing whatever starfighter parts you have lying around/available to create a functioning starfighter. Are there any franken-mechs that are actually purposely designed/built that are effective and work? Only reason why I ask is because there are at least two Ugly’s in Star Wars that are: the Chir’daki and the Deathraven
There's already a mech called Chimera (naturally it looks the part) which is probably why they didn't.
Cataphract in lore was kind of a frankenmech. Designed and put into production by a very desperate house liao/Capellan confederation
@@Omega_1111 And then stolen, by the FedSuns XD
It DOES fit the requirement though, the Cataphract is an entirely serviceable, even very good, mech.
Literally the same idea, just with a mech instead of a starfighter.
For the most part though, there IS the Snords Irregular's frankemech, which combined an Archer and a Rifleman I think. It was effective enough to keep fighting for a while after being built.
But then again Snord's was a clanner unit and they have clantech, so.
@@Omega_1111 to sum up the cataphract, they had tons of specific maruader parts and other incomplete production lines and engineered a solution to plug them into a new line to produce a usable mech.
I have the Frankenmech from the Snords Irregulars pack that I use with my new vehicles in a Deep Periphery Planetary Milita company it's worked quite well for me
They have a classic super charged mountain motor. Dragster engine. For airconditioning. Because pirates know what real luxury is.
Like when people mocked his tank, Bob Semple replied "At least I got a tank!"
Legitimately these are some of my favorite kinds of mechs, the idea of pulling what looks like junk together and getting it to function at all for the field of war is pretty fun and cool
Capellan engineer patting a Cataphract "It's not stupid...it'd advanced!"
...please someone get my reference
I remember it from somewhere but I forgot which comedian said it.
"Allmighty Tall-Ones, Invader-blood is running trough my veins! DONT IGNORE MY VEINS!!!!" - a small Irken
Damn it GIR!!! No tacos for you!
0:38 This looks better than quite a few mechs I've seen post clan invasion.
I just bought some GM stock for the meme.
U cant stop me
It may sound stupid, but using whatever you available to fight a war is a very common situation!
This is a troll video i think. Half of problems relate to normal mech too.
A friend of mine when he creates a "frankrnmech" he has it where his techs modify the internal structure to fit a different engine regardless if its a 300 rating.
Some times he even limits space/tonnage.
If he adds an arm of a heavier mech he reduces the amount of tonnage he has access to due to the weight of the heaver component from heavier mechs.
You can get a canon frankenmech in the snords irregulars box.
Franken Mechs. The "have parts, make do" of any setting.
Normally worse than anything else, except not have one when the enemy does.
Some settings are more forgiving to Franken Mechs than BattleTech. Armored Core comes to mind. That might be the most friendly setting to the concept, with the modular designs.
Modular... franken-omnimechs anyone? Who doesn't want a mostly Mad Dog with a Fire Moth arm that makes it look like it is always hanging for a high five? The weapon pods mean they can be anything! Plus making clanners cry when they see your abomination is worth the risk of explosion.
"i stole my neighbors chrysler so i could power AC in my mech"- floridaman from the future
Ok the reality here is... a lot of time franken mechs existed and just worked. But not because of everything here.
Mech's were scarce. they were hard to get. They were often handed down for generations in some cases.. (pre-3040 that is)
there were people, who would scower battlefields for parts, for salvage... who would spend their lives collecting scrap with the point and purpose of building battlemechs. And some of them were very good. And smart. while you saw stuff like the Cataphrate which was part 45 ton, part 55 ton, part 75 ton mech all thrown together... There were people that... type matched.
ok, so we have wolverine, griffin, shadow hawk... all at 55 tons. all with the same speed... so we can take the legs of any of those 3.. and the engine from any of those 3.... and the power outputs are generally going to match... so you get shadowhawk legs, wolverine torso, and griffin arms. PPC and SRM6. all the internals match to a 55 tonner, gyro has no problems and engine has no problems.
They would spend months, sometimes even years tweaking and re-balancing this. testing armor and jumpsets out then... sell the darn thing for millions and start a new project.
9:44 So, not to bash on any of this, but interestingly enough there are I.C.E's used in some Frankenmechs because either they really did just scoop it out of a dead tank or it was built out of a Agri-mech/Construction mech which typically also had Internal Combustion Engines. And I could be wrong on this but it really looks like the cockpit of the Corsair is actually the front half of a ground vehicle which would not surprise me in the least. People have done crazier things.
that AC20 on the atlas/madcat...... well.... snake eyes 100%, feed steve ? is he pooor ? he might sell those MG stonks
Reminds me of the game metal fatigue , you could capture enemy parts and add them directly or even research them to make a unique styled faction version ^^
Great job guys you only missed one thing... the bagpipes. With 4 legs frankenlander can bury 2 at a time.
Never knew I needed a Statlas until today.
My 1st Franken Mech was called ' Frankenstien' piloted by Major. W. Hardcort . Base mech was a Battle Master . Legs , CT , and Head of the Battle Master . The Lt & Rt arms & torsos were from an Archer . It was 80 tons .
Technicals are actually highly effective due to having incredibly high maneuverability and a lot of firepower for the kinds of groups that use them.
God, I know the internet's ruined me when I took one look at the yellow frankenmech showing up at 16:30 or so, and immediately my brain went "yo that looks like a Minion mech!"
i FUCKING LOVE CORSAIRS, they are tuff af and punch stupidly heavy. imagine stalker on drugs.
I’ve recently gotten into the battle tech universe via mechwarrior 5. Love the videos they are an easy way to understand the lore of this insane franchise. Just wondering if you have a video planed on the Black Knight or the Crab as they are my favorite mechs in game at the moment. Keep up the great videos
Corsair looks dakka, man!
Wait, no love for Shorty Sneed's Rifleman? The best frankenmech of all.
Quite possibly the first canon frankenmech
When I ran a campaign in the rpg for this setting, I had U-Haul as a space fairing transport company.
Quagmire was my first thought when I saw the Hunchee.
Well played, sir.... as I wipe the coffee off my monitor.
2 six sided dice that you roll every five minutes? That's just a round of battletech in general.
9:37 that is a Supercharger, its a masc but for engines, and its pretty much only ever used by pirates, probably as people don't like making engines have a heated meltdown.
Distraction Carnifex in the middle of a Battletech discussion gave me a chuckle.
@scienceinsanity6927 @7:20... "Brandon Herrera" is the gun-guy with the videos. He's definitely entertaining.
Also: The Corsair If properly modded is one of the finest assaults in mw5 mercs. I've got a x2 Gauss/ x2 Large Laser/ Srm4 (or more) build that'll devastate entire crowds. I'd choose It over plenty of standards.
No discussion on frankenmechs is complete without mention of the Schwerer Gustav. It's parts from a Annihilator, Verfolger and Berserker with a thumper cannon, clan RAC 5, and so much hurt it's insane. One of my favorite mechs. Also named after the largest artillery piece in ww2
Sci you know you could put some Gundam Late UC mixed MS designs in there and noone would tell the difference. Look up the Gorgeous Gundam to see why.
Me, playing MechWarrior 5 and can't even install 20 missiles on my Centurion, despite CLEARLY HAVING THE FKN SPACE FOR IT. Then finding out there's a unique version with 20 missiles so APPARENTLY SOMEONE CAN DO IT, BUT NOT ME.
Then I modded the game, and it actually became fun.
What I love about the Corsair is tht there's like 2 or 3 different tonnages. Both called Corsair.
There's a 55t and a 95t . Might also be some 75t variants, but I can't find them ATM.
You ever see an anhilator with catapult arms? Supprisingly terrifying
Im trying to get bits together to put rifleman/jagermech arms(yay magnets) on a marauder chasis
The the Gorkanaut/Morkanauts, Stompas, and Gargants (as well as Deff Dreads and Killa Kans) created by the Orks from Warhammer 40k are great examples of "Frankenmechs"
Ahhh there’s so much WarHammer Ork energy in this video
The 95 ton corsair is a beast with 2 lbx10 slg and 2 large lasers. Its a good sniper.
Most Frankemechs may well be barely functioning heaps, but there's a couple fo great exceptions. One being the Sneed Special, an unholy kludging of Rifleman, Phoenix Hawk, Warhammer and Archer that Shorty Sneed piloted with great distinction for at least a decade.
Then there's Legend Killer, which was a totally stock, unmodified Rifleman that contained no Warhammer components or armour, honest.
Urbanmechs: the Inner Sphere pop-up target.
At one point in a modded MW5 run, I had a Javelin with Jenner arms and Locust legs, but I personally despise having to use Javelins due to their crippling lack of actual armament so I considered it an improvement.
Awe... No Smitty Mech from Snord's Irregulars...
[pout]
Crosair looks like a mech from 'The Forever Winter" game.
was thinking the same.
Johnny Cash song "One piece at a time".
Love that song!
“I got it one piece at a time, and it didn’t cost me a dime…”
😂 great song for this logic lel
Those things are literally walking ork Killa Kans
Even pontiac, from the car, makes weapons in battletech.
0:40 That's a Hellspawn. Not a frankenmech at all. I'm fact, it's a quite expensive medium fire support 'mech.
17:56 That's just half of a Yeoman. As if it didn't have enough troubles already.
All of this and no mention of MercTech Lite, which allows you to create proper frankenmechs in MW5: Mercs, combining whichever limbs you want on any torso (within the same weight class), or even swap side torsos from other variants of the same mech.
16:40 it gives me heavy "fuck it, macrowave" meme
This got such an unreasonable laugh out of me. I know what a microwave is and the idea of a MACROwave is just to funny for some reason.
I enjoy all of SCIENCE INSANITY videos 🎉😂
The Warhammer/archer combos searchlight could be extremely useful in combat because you could just blind your enemies
When a Highlander and a Goliath love each other very much...
17:38
WHERE'S MY BAG PIPES!?
My favorite one has to be the Cataphract. Started life as a bunch of spare parts. Did so well that once they brought them back to the rear lines it was made into a proper mech.
The Corsair in YAML, for MW5 is pretty good. NGL, but only because it is a Hero Mech with extra quirks and armour.
Industrial size kitbashing!😂
Good timing.
I've just frankenmeched a command lance for my merc unit.
A legendary Mech Tech that has Done his work in multiple jobs doing mech assembly for Numerous Companies/Brands being a valuable part of the war effort because he knows the compatible models of every piece that could be used in a mech/ can make a damn good adapter for it. "functioning frankenmech"
I bought GM stock for the meme.
Totally worth it.
This video reminded me of Apollo 13 (And maybe the Boeing Starliner in the future, though I hope no one hurt) in the whole "we are boned. We need to make our carbon scrubbers work in a slot they don't have, we need to make the batteries from one move to another etc.
Now im picturing 3 urbies in a trench coat masquerading as an Atlas.
That hunchee maybe should put the big arm on the other side, to balence the ac20
I had a group whose scout leader drove a WolvInHawk - a wolverine griffin shadowhawk - it was unique and definitely had.. .. issues
Watching this video is giving me tons of ideas.
I've gotten into BattleTech classic TT, and learned how flexible the setting is on what army you want to play as, and/or even encourages making your own mercenary company.
I've been wanting to make up a company that's a group of neutral/well meaning individuals from all walks of life, who are almost always salvaging and rebuilding destroyed mechs from battlefields, rescuing/aiding any injured troops or pilots, and getting the heck outta dodge before reinforcements arrive to clean up. (Basically, think of them as kinda a cross between the Atom Cats from Fallout 4, and Team Star Fox.)
I was actually considering trying to build lore-friendly Franken-Mechs, but within a reasonable safety area.
I've seen enough Deadliest Journey to know that when people want to make something work, they will find a way to make it work.
It would be cool if MechWarrior 6 let us slap spare limbs and stuff on damaged mechs, lol
17:38 Steve forgot to play the bagpipes when you said "Highlander!!!"
15:45 Oh hey, Randowis! I like his comics. They're quite funny.
The highlander with four legs, chances are that is a Hell Horses assault mech known as a Thunder Stallion. It was a best of a mech, no torso but sported a heavy gauss rifle. The whole mech needed to turn in order to aim it's main weapon, more suited to an artillery role still it was able to one shot up to medium mechs unlucky enough to get within it's crosshairs.
wait, Sci said Highlander but there wasn't bagpipes.
Glad it wasn't just me!
Some of my fave frankenmechs are the roguetech pirate mechs, special shout out to the pirate atlas, whose ECM and Probe Suite is just the upper body of a Raven welded onto its shoulder
Corsair from MechWarrior Online? Best mech. Period.