"Thank God it was a cockpit hit! We'll slap a new one in and she'll be right and tight in a few hours. Whew, we really lucked out on that one..." - Every tech ever, probably

@TheBloodedCat

Жыл бұрын

"If that mech jock had been more polite I would have installed that cockpit armor correctly. Shame."

@venerablebrothergoriate5844

Жыл бұрын

“Just need a few cheapo control interfaces. New joystick, new throttle, I think I got a few in my junkdrawer.”

At least until the Clans show up, they tend to take cockpit shots personal. Like declare you Dezgra, personal. Which is why I’m not allowed to near any planet with Jade Falcons on it.

@andrewamann2821

Жыл бұрын

Your first mistake was tangling with clanners. Your second mistake was allowing survivors to make it to the HPG....

@KillerOrca

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewamann2821 Third mistake was trying to do something dishonorable in front of the sons and daughters of Elizabeth Hazen

@andrewamann2821

Жыл бұрын

@@KillerOrca nah... The solution to those problems are still provided by a couple of gauss rounds through the cockpit.

@thomascraiker6449

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewamann2821 suffer not the Clanner to live.

@nicolasgodines1129

Жыл бұрын

@@KillerOrca Hey, I know you!

13:38 Small correction, here's the weight class distributions 10-15 tons - Ultralight Mech 20-35 tons - Light Mech 40-55 tons - Medium Mech 60-75 tons - Heavy Mech 80-100 tons - Assault mechs 105+ tons - Superheavy mechs

@thepiratemongoose8965

Жыл бұрын

Also, the Rifleman is a heavy Mech (as it weighs in at 60 tons)

@KillerOrca

Жыл бұрын

Spartan's cant feel their MJLONIR either; they move it as it was part of them, but there's no sensory connection to it. In reverse, the Spartan can also move the armor without moving themselves. Which is a good thing because being burned by plasma kinda hurts like a bitch.

@huntersavok9811

Жыл бұрын

@@KillerOrca superheavy mechs go up to 200 tons if i remember right

@Tzilandi

Жыл бұрын

@@huntersavok9811 The heaviest canonical Super-Heavy that got produced is the Omega, which clocks in at 150 tons. There was an April's Fools, now canonized, prototype called the Orca that clocked 200 tons, but it got mothballed in an undisclosed location.

@venerablebrothergoriate5844

Жыл бұрын

@@Tzilandithe Orca looks like a Russian KV-2 just said “Nyet, am Bipedal now.”

Hey there! I'm the guy who painted up the "naked" Marauder thumbnail image for that Tex Talk! Super neat to stumble across it in the wild!

@harbingerx7793

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, recognizing that thumbnail was the first reason I clicked on the vid to watch. Wasn't disappointed with the content.

@scienceinsanity6927

Жыл бұрын

Oh, cool. Would you like me to add atribution to the videos desctription or in a pinned comment? I don't know if your youtube handle is the same as your artist name but if you give me some details i would be more than happy to atribute the art to you.

As an aside, the Royal variants of battlemechs have a "b" at the end of its designation. An example is the king Crab royal was actually the KGC-000b where as the bog standard contemporary was the KGC-000.

@america8706

15 күн бұрын

Ohhhhh I'm playing MW5 right now with the YAML mods that expand the library of mechs in game. Last night I was doing arena stuff to get better at damage distribution and accuracy and salvaged two Locusts with the "b" designation. They had XL engines and some other sensors and armor that I dkn't have access too in my markets yet. So that explains that, thanks a bunch, now I know.

21:31 a Steiner player in waiting.

There was a time when salvage was everything, or nearly everything. Then, the Helm Memory core is found; Davion's prince of pirates creates the NAIS; and if that wasn't enough, these hopped up, cannister born terror troopers claiming to be descendants of the famous Kerensky and the remnants of the SLDF army who had fled the Inner Sphere centuries ago. And, of course, Comstar, the last fragment of that ancient and glorious time in human history, the Star League sits and watches while the five Great Houses (and a couple of minor ones), get their arses handed to them in less then a year. The Clan leader has an accident, blown out of a Warship by a horked off Aerospace jock you know, so all of the blooded Clanner's truck back to the hole they spawned from to elect a new leader while leaving the bulk of their warriors sitting idle across the hundred or so worlds they'd taken. More planets changed leaders in 50' then in the entire century making up the Third Succession War. So, new leader in place, the Clanner's return and find that the Inner Sphere hadn't been cowering behind Comstar's robes. They'd been busy. Busy learning to work together for the first time in centuries. Learning to improve existing Mech designs and to build new ones. More importantly, the Comstar learned of the Clan's ultimate goal. The capture and 'liberation' of Terra. Terra - you know, Old Earth - the home and office for Comstar itself. Well, this didn't go over well with the pseudo religious techno geeks running the Inner Sphere's telecom corporation. So, as if by magic, the bulk of the Com Guards show up on some little, out of the way world where they challenge the entirety of the Clan's strutting around the Inner Sphere like they owned it to a sort of ritual duel. Just the sort of thing Clanner's get wet dreams about. The Clanner's howled in all their totem stoked glory and got the arse whoopin' of the century for their trouble. After nearly two weeks of battle, tens of thousands of Mechs, as many Tanks, Armored vehicles, air and spaceraft, plus an insane amount of PBI's (you know, Poor Bloody Infantry?), engaging each other across almost a score of proxy targets, the Clan's loose. And for their trouble, are sent to mop and scowl from a corner for fifteen years. Peace in the Inner Sphere at last... nah, sorry friends, but that isn't the Inner Sphere way. A couple of civil wars break out, a whole bunch of internal derision and familial in fighting amongst the senior nobility, and not to be outdone by a bunch of self-centered Inner Sphere so-and-so's, the Clanner's decide to do some fighting amongst themselves. Mostly to prove whose bigger and bader, by for some small consideration, trying to figure out what their goals were if good ole' Terra was nongrata. And then...what with Mech production nearly equal to the good ole' Star League days, and plenty of grudges and hate and discontent to share, the Great Houses have a go at each other, with mixed degrees of success Then comes the 2nd Star League, the destruction of one whole Clan merely to prove a point, mainly, f' with the Inner Sphere and get the business end of a PPC for your troubles. Yep, it's a great world to muck about in...

@Antoine_Colette

Жыл бұрын

Only one thing: in that times when salvage were all (around the 3rd Succesion War) it was a cultural custom let alive the mechwarriors. You take their battlemechs but you let the pilots free.

@yourseatatthetable

Жыл бұрын

@@Antoine_Colette Or, some would trade them for captured pilots or exchange for something, depending on one's house or faction.

@kereminde

Жыл бұрын

@@yourseatatthetable Unless you were unfortunate to be a mercenary in Kurita territory. Then you might as well go down trying to take someone with you.

"Knock knock." "Who's there?" "King Crab." "King Crab wh-" *BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM* *stomps away*

About the neural interface, it does more than just allow the pilot to feel the situation of the mech. the AI of mechs is actually rather advance and will try to do things like avoid collisions with obstacles or losing balance on its own, however the pilot can use the link through the neurohelmet to transmit his intent to override such safeties (as after all in a combar situatuin sometimes you want to smash through that obstacle). In fact, its part of why piloting a mech is so hard: the process of learning to work alongside such an AI. AI in battletech is actually rather advanced, and went up to fully automated battleships at some point. in fact aiming is just the pilot alignign a crosshair with his target, its the AI that then takes care of calculating how to move the arms in order to hit the target.

@DieselsVideos

Жыл бұрын

Depends on time and faction. Around 3025 in the inner Sphere the helmets mainly exchangeed balance input and output from and to the pilot. Starleague and clan helmets were more advanced.

@MonteKowalsky

Жыл бұрын

The fluff around the neurohelmet makes some sense in regards to the game’s piloting skill stat. But I’ve never been able to reconcile the gunnery skill stat with either the fiction or hypothetical technology. Modern tanks have systems to keep the gun stable and on target while doing the calculations for range, movement, etc. and it makes sense that a more advanced machine built 700+ years in the future could at least match that. So I guess a pilot’s “gunnery skill” is how good they are at using the mechs targeting designator? But then mechs are described as having significantly more advanced sensors and target acquisition than conventional forces. So it’s weird that when even the oldest and most basic mech can tell you the make and model of the thing shooting at you through radar, thermal imaging, and magnetic sensors that it can’t also figure out range and trajectory and compensate automatically. Besides deciding what guns to shoot where and pulling the trigger how involved, really, is the pilot in whether or not they hit anything? It makes sense as a game mechanic but I can’t make the fiction make sense

@justhecuke

Ай бұрын

​@@MonteKowalsky just think about playing MechWarrior. When piloting your mech, footwork+movement is a skill. But it's different from keeping the target in your reticle, adjusting for the various different weapons you are using, and knowing when to wait for a better shot. The AI may be able to handle the mechanical details of aiming, but the human adds a more tactical and strategic layer to things.

There was an old movie trilogy in the 80's that I loved. 'Robot Jox' The third one, 'Robot Holocust' went pretty detailed in how the mech he found worked. Even explained how the laser charged and needed time to build before firing.

@Idontevenwanachannel

Жыл бұрын

Wait, there were sequels to robot jox? Oh boy, I think I know what I'm dragging my friends into next movie night

@null6634

6 ай бұрын

​@@Idontevenwanachannel Robot Wars is generally thought of as a sequel, but they're not related, except by the same producer. Never heard of Robot Holocaust before but I don't think it's related.

King Crab KCG-000 is the SLDF version. The KCG-0000 is the Clan-Buster variant from the 3050s. And as to the neurohelm, the pilot is, at the most basic level, the 'Mech's inner ear, with their own sense of balance controlling the 'Mech's gyro speed and angle. More skilled pilots can pilot the 'Mech almost entirely hands-free, and can pull much more natural movements and martial arts.

@donnerrob6615

Жыл бұрын

Nah Bro, 0000 is the succession war downgrade, 001 is the clanbuster!

@ralphsexton8531

Жыл бұрын

@Donnerrob You're right. I don't know why, but I had long held that mix-up in my head. A friend of mine pointed my error in this, too. I find the slight reduction in damage an easy price to pay in exchange for a significant range bump and extra ammo. In tabletop RPG set in 3021, I have a combined arms merc commander that flies a MechBuster fighter with a recovered gauss rifle. Pretty solid air support, without having to get too close. :)

@RageDuck0

Жыл бұрын

So the nero link is basically like titanfall two or 40k tau crisis suits and knights where it's not that you control it like a plane or car with a stick it's more you hold the stick to use muscle memory if you're training well thinking to move but if you're good at it it's more like Evangelion or ronin pilots in tf2 were you literally see through the mech or at least see through the screen but you think and it fills in the blanks and does the move with you using your sense of balance for it's basic gyros??? (Sorry for spelling)

@ralphsexton8531

Жыл бұрын

@@RageDuck0 It is something like that, yes. The unconscious reactions, such as balance, are picked up by the neurohelm easily. Being able to use the neurohelm to move the mech in a more natural way, and the ability to see through the mech's sensors are more complex skills, but can be learned. The connection isn't surgical, but it does interact strongly with the brain - so much so that if the mech has an ammunition explosion or serious reactor problems, the feedback through the neurohelm will injur the pilot.

The Muscular structure I find most insteresting. In my headcanon that's why they take a lot of time to fix a mech, not just changing the armor plates and welding it back, but it might take an entire month the knot those fibers back in. Great vídeo!

Gatlingguns load & unload even when the round doesn't fire, that is how a RAC should function. They only jam for "balance"

@Spartaner251

Жыл бұрын

RAC can fix a jam, Ultra Autocannons can't fix a jam in a fight.

18:00 That is a Mad Cat MK4 *(EDIT: On closer inspection prompted from comments, this looks closer to a MK4 and not a MK2)* in the front and an Atlas 2 that it's fighting. 21:35 The reason you do not use them for all situations is because they are slow, they CAN be killed by massed lighter mechs and/or vehicles and/or artillery and they are as expensive as entire armies! 26:48 Autocannons are not like Bolt action, they are Burst Fire weapons. Each Battletech 'shot' is 10-20 rounds of ammo fired in a burst at the enemy. Ultra ACs are just faster and longer bursts. 44:25 Bit harsh on the light mechs when things like the Panther, Hollander and Urbanmech exist... many Medium and Heavy mechs fear those little guys.

@horndogfred5246

Жыл бұрын

The autocannon comment is not correct though. Autocannons fire differently depending on the manufacturer. Some are single shot with large bore rounds and some are burst fire with smaller rounds.

@Ishlacorrin

Жыл бұрын

@@horndogfred5246 That is incorrect, Autocannons have always been burst fire weapons. They will NEVER fire a single shot except in some games that misrepresent them. The LORE is VERY CLEAR on this point, every time they are mentioned they are shooting multiple shots and have since the game was created way back in the 80s.

@avanstrash6149

Жыл бұрын

I think that's a Mad Cat Mk4 or Savage wolf

@Ishlacorrin

Жыл бұрын

@@avanstrash6149 I think you might be right, the arms look closer to the MK4 on Sarna now that I take a closer look.

@Wraith-Knight

Жыл бұрын

i got madcat 4 as i own one from the wizkid dayz

Ok," Taste the Rainbow " got to me. Well played.

29:40 As funny as that MWO-build may be, I ran mine with six RAC-2s - three per side. Allowed me to poke one arm out of cover and let loose the hail of shells. That thing was ....effective.

"They like to use assault mechs....... a LOT" House Steiner?? 😜

HOW DO YOU ONLY HAVE 290 SUBSCRIBERS THIS IS SO GOOD?!?! This has some good production quality, and you do a good job at describing this in an understandable way. It almost feels like a podcast to be honest and I'd totally listen to that (I don't even listen to them and it would make me start to). I will be looking forward to watching more of these, keep up the good work!

One time I was piloting a Dragon while rushing for something in Mech5, a Marauder showed up outta nowhere and I just reflex hook punched it, turns out I hit the cockpit and KO it, melee is a blessing

Rifleman IS a HEAVY MECH

Great video, your descriptions are very entertaining, and pretty accurate. Subbed!

Great episode you have earned a subscriber i love your descriptions of the tech

The mystery mech that was facing the camera back-first while dueling the atlas, at 18:12, is what I suspect is a savage wolf. This is the unofficial nickname by even the Clanners themselves for the timber wolf MKIV. At the very least, the arms have a similar profile as the models used in the Savage Wolf mod that Baradul used in one of his MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries playthroughs. Those arms and the flatter missile pods accommodate ATMs (advanced tactical missiles) instead of the LRMs that the MKI and MKII have. The arm weapons feature an ER (extended range) large laser on the right, and a HAG (hyperassault gauss rifle) 40, which will spit out a forty-round burst of probably metallic splinters at nearly the speed of light, in the left arm and no torso-mounted weapons other than the missiles in those pods.

"I don't see the government walking around with battlemechs two hundred years from now" I beg to differ, don't forget that two hundred years ago we relied on wind sails and wagon trains for everything. In two hundred years we went from wooden sail ships to the F-22 raptor and computers in our pockets. Don't discount what can happen in that time.

@MrEddieLomax

Ай бұрын

Yep, today (2024) NASA has plans to build a space station that orbits the moon (purpose is likely to refuel rockets since a lot of water was found). Add to that 'Breakthrough starshot' project aims to send a spaceship to the nearest star, okay the spaceshps are the size of microchips and planned to be propelled by lasers to achieve a significant fraction of light speed, but its impressive we are seriously considering it. So mini fusion reactor robots in 200 years, very likely...

I love this series. It's hilarious. Your snarky breakdowns are fantastic. However, hate to burst your bubble on your beloved RACs, but they DO jam. Also, they can EXPLODE! Battlemech manual Rapid Fire weapons pg, 97. RAC pg 98.

Using Assault Mechs are gross overkill? Have you heard the gospel of House Steiner's Scout Lance?

Best content I've found thus far on the topic

Its just funny how 3025 mechs were scare at first and then later on mechs are still produced in large numbers which makes sense but I love 3025 though..

I'm really loving this little podcast

as a flea 20 pilot....ima get that king crab booty for your heresy against light mechs. Speed is life!

I loved 4 answer its my favorite of the series. I remember spending hours customizing and testing only to go back and do more refining and then 5 minutes on a single mission. I loved every minute of it

"You still have combined arms. You have tanks and infantry, the poor ground-pounding sods..." That's a long-winded way to say "You have 'Mechs, and you have targets."

Your doing a good job so far a few things just need a bit of adjustment. Keep it up I’ve been into BattleTech/Mechwarrior since 90’s your really doing well explaining to new people.

Great one again Canadian!

I'm enjoying the FTL soundtrack in the background ❤ takes me to a special time in life

I thoroughly enjoyed this dude, ggwp 07

Tex will be proud with this podcast i think

Everyone gangsta until the 15 trashcans start shooting

Great background noise for MW5, great video.

Nukes not used that often... Laughs in Word of Blake

"Light mechs all suck." Bold words for a man thats flammable. :V Don't hate on the Firestarter, or else you might get surprised by what I like to call the "pocket Hunchback" variant, with 3 small and 6 medium lasers.

oh damm, hello canadian i did not realise this was you. was listening and thinking that i recognised that voice and it just clicked

"All Light Mechs Are Shit" - Geneva Convention Lover Light's are where the bad fun starts

Like the battletech version of "Adeptus Ridiculous", love it

At 17:57 the mech in the forground is a Timber Wolf MK2, assault class Timber Wolf, also you listed a Rifleman in the medium category, its a Heavy mech.

At 40:32 The comment about the Marauder looking like a queen alien... I'm sure someone in the comments probably know this, but in RogueTech (BattleTech mod), there's an optional install for a flashpoint called LV-426 (I think) that features, probably "bug" mechs, and a self-repairing/stealth Marauder that has a tail and claws.

@DieselsVideos

Жыл бұрын

Im not into the actual games. But the original (unseen) Marauder design is litteraly stolen from an alien race from Macross.

Iirc, the King Crab is a bad example of lostech. The main difference between the 000 and the 0000 is Case for the ammo. It was built as a hammer and didn't change near as much as it's contemporaries did as a result.

@horndogfred5246

Жыл бұрын

That's because the clans thought it was heresy to fuck with a design that Kerinsky thought was good.

@135forte

Жыл бұрын

@@horndogfred5246 The 0000 should be the downgraded version the IS had, while the 000 was the original. Then you had the 001, which I believe was the Hegemony variant that became the Clan Buster (twin Gauss).

100 years ago we were barely in the air taking flight, now we’re sending research vehicles out of the solar system and to other planets 🪐 (and YEARS ago now) Don’t underestimate where we could be in 200 years. Am gonna laugh if the battletech creators somehow got it right 😂

Chad light mech enjoyers know your satisfaction doesn't come from defeating your opponents, its stealth killing everything they were supposed to protect and dipping before they can catch up.

One comment to make on the total weights, today a heavy mbt weighs in at 70-75 tons, I think the assault mechs would likely have gone heavier although there is a weight limit I guess for ground pressure. The second comment was that the guys who wrote the battlemech history had a weird idea of technology. Take microchips today, these are extremely high technology, the fabs are literally 10+ $billion dollar facilities, so if in a war these got nuked would we lose microchips? Yes, but the tech to manufacture them is produced by various companies all over the world, but in turn the tech to produce those is stored in many locations with main points being research labs and uni's. The Battletech universe seems to be one where everything has been destroyed, not very likely when you can spread your backups around multiple star systems. Its a great fun universe though.

Ultra Autocannons double the fire rate of an ordinary Autocanon, meaning they fire two rounds per shot. I would not compare it with a semiautomatic gun. Also, you did not mention the LBX version of Autocannon, which can use normal shells as well as cluster ammo, making them in that case a giant shotgun that peels away armor from the target and finding weak armor points to deal critical damage to the interiors.

As a mercenary in MW5, my Bushido code has 2 rules. 1. Take the contract and complete all the objectives to the best of ability. 2. Never double cross your employer in the middle of a contract, campaign or multiple missions. Sometimes you have to abort a mission to fight another day. But even the enemy of your employer will hire you if you have a reputation of completing the job and having the loyalty to said employer. Even if it is the loyalty to C-bills. I'm fine with headdhots though. How you think i ended up taking down mechs that weigh more. If you're out armed and out armored you have a few options. Fight quick Fight smart Fight dirty as hell Fight like you're the 3rd chimpanzee approaching Noah's Ark, and brother its starting to rain. I utilize all of those, whether I'm in a Locust or Atlas. Ai gets no quarter amd Im taking all their salvage. I'd probably actively avoid headshots in MWO if I were to play. At least at first. Depends on who was playing and rules, gentlemens agreements etc. .

You ever been hip deep in water with your triple ppc nova cat? Ever used that nova cat to one shot an atlas rookie? Lets me give you my lance commanders motto, Kill the meat, save the metal.

Steiner scout lance incoming?

I am a simple man. I see battletech, I like and subscribe.

As a fellow King Crab lover, I gotta ask, have you ever seen the Omega? It’s like a bigger, angrier king crab, with PPC’s on its arms and 3 heavy Gauss rifles sticking up off the top. The thing looks like some sort of walking anti-orbital gun 😂

One of the glaring weaknesses that should make mechs laughably inferior to tanks - aircraft like cockpits that effectively don’t protect the pilot. Realistically, it would be easy to develop a missile that targets the cockpit and always hits it, oneshotting the pilot. Anyway, all the things you talked about still don’t allow mechs to compete with tanks. You have to explain how you can armor the much larger surface area of a mech anything like competitively with a tank.

@derekhinger1343

2 ай бұрын

Their advantage would be mobility on very difficult terrain/ and the battletech cockpits ARE armored, we just don’t quite have the materials to copy them just yet (the way we dont have most the rest of it just yet) Most assault mechs have enough cockpit armor to sustain a half dozen strikes and many have angles that make them difficult to hit or pinpoint

@MrEddieLomax

Ай бұрын

The vulnerability to the cockpit is the biggest problem I have too with the battletech concept. I wonder if adding a extreme magnetic field that acted to deflect shots should have been added to the universe, if this protected the cockpit alone it could explain how survivable without being a whole forcefield. Think of earths magnetic field and sun radiation, if you could scale that up, blink it on when needed and deflect head shots it makes the battlemechs quite survivable, you would likely need insane levels of power, capacitors to store it and a fusion reactor to power it....

The mech runs up to you and says "Taste the Rainbow Motherfucker"... I have to do a lot of repair and replacement of my mini's collection... 3+ decades of use takes its toll on a mini... I am ABSOLUTELY making a "special mech" that is a laser boat with that painted on the torso. "Mech Varient - SKT

The Atlas, face of the franchise, AKA THE WALKING WALL

No Gauss rifle? The only ballistic weapon that had unlimited ammo as you could load cars from a city or medium to large-sized rocks into it and shoot them at your opponent. And you got sidetracked and skipped the MRM missiles.

@insanehippiehippieinsane3828

Жыл бұрын

Clanner Elementals work as improvised Gauss ammo to. Even if they complain about it being dishonorable.

@DieselsVideos

Жыл бұрын

No rocks except they are full metal rocks. And if you don't talk about Naval Gauss cannons No car loading into the rifle. But you can load a double t-beam (not sure if it's the right word. just translatet from german.) And with every such shot you risk to destroy the weapon.

The rac actually makes sense.. Miniguns seldom jam because of the feed mechanism, whereas bolt operated machine guns jam malfunction all the time. Look up videos of our guys slapping the 50 cal in Afghanistan over and over as it gets hot to make it work, and those are considered really reliable, all things considered. Granted, I think MWO does a crap job of depicting all of the uacs as rotary weapons... But I don't think that's how they're intended to be shown. Fantastic podcast. Been a Mechwarrior fan since my babysitter installed Crescent Hawks Revenge on my 'outer when I was 7, and I still learned a bunch here. I've never thought about the muscles being why torso twist is limited, for example. Very cool.

21:29 to elaborate a bit further; you take your assault mech into battle, it survives but its precious star league armor was shredded and now needs to be supplemented, you on all accounts did well but a dual gauss strike criticalled your LRM launcher and the resulting cook-off destroyed the torso dropping your arm and its AC to the ground. with your objective of hit and run complete you make your leave as you cant stay around to eat artillery and aerospace strikes... that AC now belongs to them, your LRM is destroyed along with its C.A.S.E. and any heat sinks, the internals of the torso are totaled and a new actuator connection would be needed just to attach a replacement claw... which you can't find. in the repair process you have to drop a sink or some ammo to fit the heavier or more bulky armor. in addition for the duration of the fight you are a slow target, and the king crab specifically has a kill me profile from above... if they NARC and LRM you, you are dead, and there is only so much that escort units can do to help you. post mission status: i don't wanna use it again.

My own personal headcannon for how ammo moves through a mech is myomer peristalsis (the muscle movement that lets you swallow for those who dont know)

I've subscribed for the Battletech.

The Classic Atlas is my favorite mech.

Can somebody explain to me how a modern M1A1 tank is 55 tons and it’s the size that it is and yet a heavy Mech starts at 55 tons and is drastically larger(5 stories tall)? I’m over thinking it, I know. But still.

@tylergoodman5394

Жыл бұрын

They have super light but strong materials. And the majority of mechs are made up of synthetic muscle fiber bundles that work just human muscles. So it makes things considerably lighter.

@juddsontrue8092

Жыл бұрын

@@tylergoodman5394 I suppose. But that brings to my other questions about mech dynamics. How can you store ammo in the legs for a torso or arm mounted weapon. SRMs and LRMs are not small. The feed system alone would be cool to know about. Again. Over thinking things.

@pablom-f8762

Жыл бұрын

I tend to multiply x100, so an Atlas would be ten thousand metric tonnes, or one hundred HekaTons. It's still probably on the conservative side.

@piethegreat17

Жыл бұрын

Low balling the weight on things like ships and vehicles is something a lot of sci-fi settings do. To me it seems like even with highly advanced and lightweight armors and components you could still add a 0 to all the mechs tonnage and still seem to light.

@scienceinsanity6927

Жыл бұрын

I have seen this question thread. There are in universe explanations for these things but in the spirit of honesty. It's a science fiction universe. The very first goal of the setting was "I want to have big stompy mechs blowing each other up" Everything else came afterwords. Most of it's just sci-fi bullshittery. Same as starwars or startrek, just pretend it all makes sense and it all makes perfect sense ;)

Battlecruiser Emperor's Hammer, transits from the warp. Inquisitor Apollyon.... Scan that planet commander.... Sir, its on screen... By the Emperor! Tau xenos have upgraded... Walks to exterminatus button...May the emperor guide my forehead... EXTERMINATUS!!!! (multiple forehead hits to the big red button)🤯 Commander, set course to Elysium IX😒 Apollyon walks away😏

Battlemechs Light: 20-35 tons Medium: 40-55 tons Heavy: 60-75 tons Assault: 80-100 tons Supremely Expensive Wunderwaffe That Can Be Horrendously Crippled By An Artillery Vehicle That Costs Literally 1% Of Their Own Value: 110-200 tons

25:16 Black Knight/Swayback players be like.

I was playing mwo one with a cplt-k2 i set up with some light ppcs in the arms and a rac2 in each side torso. Some poor bastard decides to close in to melee range thinking he would get inside the minimum range of the ppcs. Ive never seen a torso disapear so fast. Not just one side or the other but the whole torso. Those damn things took forever to spool up but i pitty anything dumb enough to still be standing there when they get going.

So the nero interface is basically the pilot control system of titan fall two where you still push the stick forward to move but your not really driving it like a plane where you sit in it it's more you push the stick forward and the computer makes the mech move and you still feel your body and know your you looking through the cockpit????. Or is it more like pacific rim and 40k knights where you see through the cockpit screen but its total thought where you basically know you're moving or you literally move you're arm as you sit there and see the mech move with the computer filling in the blanks and you don't move the sticks there more just so yoi can hold on and keep the link strong

I have the king crab 000 I’m MW5 and it’s my baby used it probably 100 times and haven’t lost an arm once

erm madcat has an iconic profile how could you not recognise one of BattleTech posterboyz ( probably madcat 4 )

Neurohelmets can be more accurately described as using the pilots own sense of balance to adjust the gyro and myomers to keep the mech upright. At least according to cannon.

@DieselsVideos

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Depends on Time and Faction. That is the thing for the first Neurohelmets (like in the Mackie) and inner sphere before clan invasion. Starleague had advanced helmets and Clans too. The ultra light clan mechs were close to fullneural interface with implants instead of a Helmet. Edit: I meant ProtoMechs. Not Ultra Light!

1 small correction, Medium mechanical are up to 55 tons.

Timberwolf/MadCat is the MECH you didn't I know from the back

@Wraith-Knight

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its actually a madcat 4

That Atlas is a 3. That's when they get the gatling gun

The Ares Conventions? Ares Suggestions, more like. Ask the Taurians.

How does the RAC not jam when a UAC does? Well it has a lot to do with the feed mechanisms. If you actually look at how a modern gatling style gun operates, it drags the ammo chain through the gun with it. The bolt runs in tracks instead of relying on the cartridge itself to produce the gas or recoil needed to cycle the next round. Basically it takes catastrophic damage to the gun it the feed chain in order to jam a rotary gun. the UAS, like you say uses a semi auto style of operation. A round is loaded into the chamber through the loading mechanism it then fires the round and either uses the force of recoil to push the bolt back, or diverts a portion of the combustion gas of the shell to push a mechanical rod that in turn opens the bolt. The next round is then dropped into place essentially by a cog, and the closing bolt pushes the round into the chamber to be fired.

While I do enjoy Battletech, there is a lot of handwavium for the weapons and armour.

Atlas vs unidentified was most likely be a timberwolf variant. It appears to most closely resemble the Mad Cat Mk IV (Savage Wolf) by Clan Sea Fox from 3136. When you where discussing the origin of the name Mad Cat, a Timberwolf varient from the front. It should be acknowledged however this is NOT the traditional artwork for a Timberwolf, nor have I been able to find an actual official variant that it matches. I only have TRO through 3067 but I have been unable to find anything published onliine elsewhere that indicates a change of art to the more integrated missile racks. I have however seen 3d printer files of similar style leading me to believe it MAY be a render of one of the MWO computer game's variants as 3d printer files are commonly lifted from game asset files and I have seen a couple such files attributed to MWO using the more integrated missile racks seen during that later discussion. Though I was a "Legendary Founder" member on MWO, I did not play long enough to play with clan mechs to any extent.

Hi, I've grown to love this universe through the videogames. So I have little knowledge about the lore. What books should I read to have the base lore? Thank you

@scienceinsanity6927

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So, I cant recomend anything i think would be the "best" or "correct" books to start with because most of battletech is highly self contained. Most of the books are a pinhole focus on the universe. Some follow individual bands of rebels or mercenaries as they grow, succed and fail. Some are all about individual battles or the situations around them like the clan invasion. Personaly, I would recomend "the saga of the grey death legion" which has like, 9 books, 10 books? Something like that. The series follows the very first mercenary company in battletech. Its filled with action, drama and works as a great intro to the lore because its mostly self contained. Also, if you enjoy it, the saga spans lots of books so you have a long running source of enjoyment like the game of thrones series. The other book i would recomend is "The Killing fields" This story is a lot darker in my oppinion, I wont spoil it, because you follow the udnerdog side of the conflict and have to watch as the hopefull young characters and idealogues suffer through the horrors of Battletechs grinding atrritional warfare. By the end your left wondering who was the goodguy and what the idea of the "goodguy" even is. Its great if you want to feel emotionaly drained by the end.

@youmasenchi

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@@scienceinsanity6927 ❤ Thank you

@infinityryvus

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Check out Black Pants Legion and Razorfist. BPL does really great lore dives. Amazing in-universe flavor sprinkled in as well as original artwork that the community he works with has done specifically for his lore dives. Razorfist is political, but you can easily ignore that bit and locate the videos he's done on Battletech; he's a really big fan of the lore and his intro covers a great deal, while his reading of the first novel isn't bad either. I believe he might have a list of books too, but my memory on that is foggy.

I do not consider ultralights to be actual mechs. there proto's

@colbyboucher6391

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Do all ultralights include advanced imaging, though? Because that's kind of the defining feature of protomechs.

@DieselsVideos

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Ultra Light and Protos are different things. As far as I know no official ultra light mechs exist in the game you can Just use the rules to built them.

I'm listenting to this as I'm playing MWO currently at 32:53 , THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME but it was two light mechs and I was in a heavy...... I only lived cause my team b-lined to my position damn lil bastards

Rig the algorithm!

the marauder is a marauder 2 100 ton mek by the picture you posted

Damn you now i am in to Battletech and it was on a 70% sale on steam so i dropped the money.

Japan does have people working on Mechs. Will they be for battle? Who knows!

Yeah okay that picture that you were showing with the atlas the other one is a Marauder 2C. That's a clan assault Meck and that's a bad day for anybody..

Realistically we could pull an urbanmech and just cut the engine down on the kit bash marauder.

I'll just stick with my Bolo mkXXIII Long live the Dinochrom Brigade

18:10 timberwolves vs atlas

The actually tag line for Battletech was "Life is cheap. Battlemechs aren't:

Marauder Kit Bash is just advanced Clan Tech

24:22 I have to stop you right there. The KGC-0000 is NOT the Royal variant. Quite the opposite. The KGC-0000 is what the Inner Sphere cobbled together to get some semblance of the BASELINE model operational once more. The Royal variant you are thinking of is the KGC-000b to get Double heat sinks and an Artemis IV in there. Plus extra ammo for the AC20s

I mean... RAC's jam. Pretty frequently.

So Steiner then 😂

Why do so many mechs remind me of Mjolnir from halo?

There are plenty of good light mechs. Even a Wasp or Locust is useful if used properly.

I believe mech tonnage is divided from the real deal.. In real life they weight way more than 100 ton top