Marauder: "What'cha gonna do with that small laser, Urbs?" Urbanmech: "Shoot wildly into the air!" Marauder: "That's not-- yeah you're definitely from Van Zandt."

Possibility of HEAVILY desired Mech salvage: "Many of you may die but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

@XH1927

8 ай бұрын

Rides before brides, homie (and grooms, too, but that was the only rhyme I could think of)

@TooLateForIeago

7 ай бұрын

Poor Whisper. She didn’t choose to be the Assassin jockey. :(

Tex's happiness upon completing construction of his swayback is palpable, and I'm all for it. HUNCHBACKS FOR LIFE

Low skull missions will have enemy mechs in state of disrepair. And sometimes their legs start without actuators, meaning that they will trip and fall every time they move. Hence the constant falling over in the start of the mssion.

@patrickkenyon2326

8 ай бұрын

I like when they break their own stuff and punch out before I even see them. It is amusing.

@lenorevanalstine1219

8 ай бұрын

@@patrickkenyon2326 i mean salvage is salvage

@ConorDowley

8 ай бұрын

My first mission with this mod saw a Wasp run up to one of my mechs, fall over, and have the pilot punch out before I really realized what was happening. Comedy is alive.

@David_Fellner

8 ай бұрын

Legs without actuators. They field mechs that don't have fucking _actuators._ Periphery, fuck yeah.

@patrickkenyon2326

8 ай бұрын

@@David_Fellner Picturing a Mech crawling towards the enemy, firing arm mounted weapons.

Spoilers: That marauder pilot is going to have some very uncomfortable explaining to do as to why and how he decided to eject when faced with an already softened up gaggle of urban mechs

@SteelPhoenix78

8 ай бұрын

All they’d have to do is tell their C.O. “It was the Van Zandt Free State Militia!” The C.O. would immediately forgive/excuse them without question.

@BalthusHomewood

8 ай бұрын

@@SteelPhoenix78 "They were very lost, and VERY angry!"

@walt_man

8 ай бұрын

Remind to never run with Tex's Van Zandt.... danger close isn't even considered lol

@karrackhalcyon8826

8 ай бұрын

5 months later the news scrawl shows the same merc company leveling a city block with direct artillery fire on their own mechs to drop a hunchback. *Marauder pilot* I rest my case sir

@louiscypher4186

8 ай бұрын

Well his mech was destroyed so he can just lie and say there was 20 of them.

A Nova Cat that kills itself by falling constantly is peak Battletech tabletop action.

"Why would [you] call the hospital a store?" Well, it's the medicine store. Also the blood store and the organ store if you're unlucky enough to need that.

"Please dont destroy the buildings in our city!" *Shrugs and goes back to loading the massive artillery guns*

1:04:44 when an Assassin does what its name implies. Tex: Go ahead attack the Assassin. I don't value it that much. *Assassin then kills Jenner* Then proceeded to do it again 3 minutes later. Then team kills the Assassin with point blank artillery. Lol

@duongquan4986

8 ай бұрын

I know the disco Hunchie are good and all but sacrificing a fully built Assassin and its pilot for just some part are not a good trade at all.

@griffingamer8624

8 ай бұрын

@duongquan4986 Maybe. But it's quite entertaining. Lol

The Myst Lynx falling down for the third time to die at 20:00 was golden.

i love how Tex keeps talking about how terrible the Assassin is yet it is so far the most successful unit he gotten with how it performed in 1 battle, and in the end he killed his assassin with artillery blast xD

@eddapultstab2078

8 ай бұрын

Tex really roleplays hard as a steiner social general. The tactical and strategic acumen can give sane commanders ulcers.

@Takamiki

8 ай бұрын

@@eddapultstab2078 i can just imagine the scenario playing out the commander is always talking about how terrible the assassin is for a mech he suddenly had to use an assassin and kept complaining about how it is a piece of shit and will be the death of them all the assassin is performing very well and is killing most of the enemies on it's own commander makes excuses after people start questioning his wisdom assassin comes near the last enemy commander orders artillery on the last enemy despite the friendly assassin nearby causing them both to die thus keeping the record of assassins always ending up destroyed after every deployment he claims valid

@eddapultstab2078

8 ай бұрын

@@Takamiki in fairness, that assassin build was actually pretty decent firepowerwise but steiner generals don't think forward, they just blame their Davion allies and then wonder why can't they have all the atlases.

@bobskywalker2707

6 ай бұрын

@@eddapultstab2078less Steiner commander and more periphery commander desperate to capture parts of

4:13 Those pods are based off the real life BattleTech cockpit simulator pods and used BattleTech: Firestorm. Which I believe is modded MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries. They are pretty fun if you can find them, I believe the only place that is open to the public is MechCorps who take their pods to Texas area conventions (and have a location in Houston).

@MrDmitriRavenoff

8 ай бұрын

Those pods still exist. In Kalamazoo, Michigan as well.

@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus

8 ай бұрын

I thought I was having a fever dream when I saw those pods in real life and then saw them referenced here. Those pods Legit look like a sci-fi props irl

I find it funny that Battletech, A game where mechs are so central to its identity that its alternative name is "Mech Warrior" , is also one of the few mech franchises where tanks and other vehicles not only still exists but are tacitly on par with mechs.

@DonaldWWitt

8 ай бұрын

I've always liked the "Dropship Space is a premium" explanation; A Battalion of Tanks would be more Cost Effective than an Single Mech of equivalent value, but transporting that one Mech is WAY easier than an entire Tank Battalion.

I honestly laughed out loud when I saw that Marauder come over the hill. Hell, I am still laughing. That is the epitome of insult to injury.

The thumbnail art with the Awesome saying "We're cheap!" On the side made me imagine an exchange like the Little Caesars meme. "These mercs, are they any good?" "They're CHEAP and they're READY."

Those artillery pieces rolling forward and nuking both the enemy hunchback _and_ your own assassin+pilot had me laughing way too loudly and joyfully.

Tex: "Advance on the Enemy at Flank speed and give them our guns point blank!" Artillery: "Sir that puts all Friendly 'mechs in the splash zone!" Tex: "They knew the risks. Why aren't you in the splash zone, too?" he said as he refits the Sentinel for long range combat and proceeds to enter melee range with a Hunchback.

30:28 “Theses guys are nuking themselves to get to me, I’m fucking out of here” lmfao

The random OPFOR generation leading to a Clan Nova Cat battalion fighting in the Third goddamn Succession War is hilarious. It's essentially saying "Ah yes I remember when the United States fought in the War of the Roses."

@Musabre

8 ай бұрын

I mean, it's the correct timeline is it not? Clans are gonna be showing up around the place. At least I think so.

@BeesechurgerProductions

6 ай бұрын

​@@Musabrethe Third Succession War ran from 2866 to 3025(or 3028 depending on opinion), the Clans wouldn't invade the Inner Sphere until 3049, over 20 years later.

@Musabre

6 ай бұрын

@@BeesechurgerProductions Aren't we in 3062 here?

Tex would never sell urbanmechs unless it calls for desperate times call for desperate measures to get bigger stompy mechs to make the most important thing money.

@lenorevanalstine1219

8 ай бұрын

with wich you can buy back the urbies later

"Watch that collateral damage" Levels city block Oopsie the most battletech thing to do

@Ozymandias2x

8 ай бұрын

Play Battletech like it's Brigador, play Bridagor like it's EDF 5.

@LaMirah

8 ай бұрын

What's a Merc to do? _NOT_ bring artillery? Madness, I say!

lol I loved the artillery shots about an hour in. It was almost like the gunners were AIMING at the buildings.

Such a pleasure to have this drop to close out the week. Thank you Tex.

Mr. Tex, this was just thing I needed to finish off the work week strong! Thanks to everyone who's working on this! PS. Keep Goat making music! I love hearing his covers! I'd commission him myself if life could fuck off enough I could afford to. Cheers boys

What we learned from this is to never let Tex command your artillery. And if you do find yourself in that situation, realize that friendly fire is at least as dangerous as enemy fire.

@patrickkenyon2326

8 ай бұрын

Friendly fire is not your friend. It isn't the round with your name on it you have to worry about, it is the one labelled " To whom it may concern"

I imagine most enemies eject simply because they are terrified of your wanton use of artillery, regardless of collateral damage and friendly fire. When faced with such maniacs, I too would consider a different line of employment.

I love how the more of the city gets trampled, the more he's slappin' into a Slim Jim.

@ragnarrocksoft9096

6 ай бұрын

The pilot probably bid away his leg actuators to make sure it was an "honourable" fight or something.

Keep up the longform letsplay tex, this makes my day

24:56 sure they do. If every mech that gets close enough for a positive ID explodes you just mark the mech as "Powerful"

Tex channeling his Team America. “Don’t worry citizens! We stopped those Rasahague terrorists!” City: *Burns and bubbles in radioactive fire in the background.*

1:06:15 was fucking epic - miss one mech but hit two other mechs with original target ejecting on top of that, effectively hitting 3 targets with the imaginary hit being lethal...

I can see that The Urbanmech swarm is doing better than ever

@BobMcBobJr

8 ай бұрын

I really want a drop tonnage system based on carry capacity for various dropships. I want to drop 60 MRM urbies on a steiner scout lance and see the carnage.

Woo! More Tex and battletech makes the world just a little bit better IMHO

I'm not even two minutes in and my favorite part of the video is Tex going off on those two mechwarriors. My head cannon now is that Generalissimo dressed them down on the 26th of January and kept ranting about it for almost ten days until they reached the Jump Ship. XD

I need to play more of this game… and always love to listen to you ramble on about battletech while your playing battletech tex

I was thinking of doing a BTA 3062 playthrough with urbies but this has definitely pushed me away from that idea. Thanks!

'One hand to slap them all' - Tex, probably

And that's how you create an Arch Nemesis or Bad Reputation quirk.

I didn't really give HBS battletech a chance but this series is making me seriously reconsider. I thought the urban mechs were too cursed to live but here we are, risen from the ashes with a Swayback.

Tex, your play through got me to download the mod. And guess who was one of my starting pilots? Tex himself,hah! Currently you're the only one who can drive the trucks and tanks on the roster, so good job on that.

I almost spilled my coffee! That sudden apperance of the Marauder was like taken out of a horror book/ film👻

“Hi! Discount Dan here…Just got in these only-used-once, mostly (not) intact Assassin parts, amd once we’re done hosing what’s left of some poor woman out of the cockpit, I’m gonna pass these savings on to you!”

@razorburn645

5 ай бұрын

"So gimme money, all your money".

The training pods were modeled like the ones from the 90s. So MWdos to mw2 would be my guess.

I feel like if you, SurrealBeliefs and GreenBeef where all in a video together I wouldn’t be able to tell who was talking. You guys all have a very gravely smooth voice that’s relaxing to listen to. Awesome content btw

The screen tip after you beat that Marauder is so amazingly on topic.

The intro videos to this kill me so hard. 10/10

YES! More Tex shenanigans

Thank you for playing and keeping us aurally company.

Rip Assassin, you did what was needed, also I think that the assassin pilot was one of the last of the original batch of pilots

First time I've ever really listened to the outro song. "I don't care what happens to me, so long as my Van Zandt is finally free, so long as my homeland remembers me." It hits a little close. I shouldn't be crying this hard over a filk. But I am.

“Not a fan of missiles in my mouth” Tex😂

Me: tex why do you call the hospital a store? Tex: because I don't have insurance.

I love my trackstar hbk-4P, Announcer usually drives it and he gets to say KAPOW a lot. Fast hunchback with actual rear armor are great.

Serving in this Merc Company must be a helluva ride. Total chaos lol.

I am fairly new to the channel, and my interest in Battletech has increased a lot lately, and even tough there's only two episodes out this is one of the funniest LPs I've seen in quite some time. "Moving at the speed of smell." Good shit.

7:00 Not all go out with a bang. Grayson Carlyle died of cancer. The guy was a legend in the Battletech universe.

Tex if a Novacat falls down, they've been doing drugs!

I find It funny that the Assassin killed the most mechs and then was killed and thrown into the garbage .

@pointmanfrosty7206

8 ай бұрын

Truck go squish little cubes

Tiffanyae spells her name the way Forrest Gump would pronounce it

I'm sure you know this but in 3062 light mechs stack insane evasive points. You need a pilot roster with a lot of them trained in sensor lock to offset it. Otherwise you need to melee them (if you can) to shed some of their evasive. Even then with a pilot skill 10 gunnery and all weapons at 95% I've still missed. The beautiful part is, it was an entire alpha strke that overheated my heavy, a Warhammer. Which blew up the next round from overheating. I just stared at my monitor speechless and dead eyed for several days.

Do not morn the Urbie, for it died as it lived, a trash can to the end

1:13:46 Been loving this so far; I adore a nice long format lets play.

LOL "He's all missles, and he's happy to see me."

1:10:35 I feel like that final danger close was a bit unneeded. I feel like that hunchie was dead before his next initiative anyway. Note to self never work for tex.

You make me really want to pick that game up.

That poor Assassin killed two jenners with rear attacks, and you shot at it with artillery. I think from now on I’m going to associate assassins with unwanted pets

Lieutenant Jaculus on account of your hiring in a crisis you'll be joining our Emergency Team. Your codename designation will be 'E-Jaculus.'

If Tex wasn't so damned funny and such a great story teller, I wouldn't be able to watch this. Some of his "tactical" decisions trigger me hard, but the lols are always worth it. RIP poor Assassin. You lived up to your name and were killed by not so friendly fire for your trouble.

Absolute blast Tex. Love the Artillery you keep bringing. Makes me giggle every time you fire. Take care of yourself Tex.

The Inner Sphere Trail: You have died of bankruptcy.

Oh tex i can never get tired of watching you play stompy robots and talk over it

"You lost the Marauder? To a band of beaten up Urbanmechs?"

Macho Man would be a Hunchback pilot. He would have a 4G with the lasers removed to make room for jump jets so he can do flying elbow drops.

The roundabout mentioning of vtubers made me think about one called Mariya Miran who is also a long time battletech fan and has been playing bta too. I’d like to see a match between Tex and her but that’s unlikely. She’s actually also from Texas too.

@gusty9053

8 ай бұрын

She actually called Tex her oshi :)). Maybe it's not that unlikely since she is a fan of Tex already.

i went holy shit good luck Tex when the 3R showed up.

Tex! You have to learn to use sensor lock to reduce evasion which increases you chances to hit. BTW: Ive got an Urbie IIc with a 250XL engine, that can run like the devil. It has a UAC 5, FCS ADV TC, and BA Handholds. They carry Gnome Batrle Armor into battle. The BA and Mech pilot both have sensor lock. They can together reduce evasion by 4. Or if they have ro fight, they can take down an assault mech in one round by shooting them jn the back. I call them Master Blaster.

"I have no doubt its going to shotgun 12 or 20 ads over this video even though I tell them not too..." *plays ad* Ha, good one! Cheers.

Hunchbot Punchbot, lord and savior. Glory be, and may he leave them a crater.

I have an Assassin in MWO with 2 x Med Lasers and 2 x MRM 10... Works great, over 200+ Kills to his name...

33:26 Yeah, gonna agree with the game when it says "not salvagable"

Thanks for yet another amusing hour-or-so!

Entertaining as always TEX, thank you for the content and dry humor

Tex wanted a Hunchie a bunchy.

Battle Armor is really potent. Get Grenadier when available - the percussion of twin light recoilless when paired with the Advanced SRMs puts opposing Mechs on their backsides (better than sensor lock). Also 4 Armor with sensor locks allows you to take down an early EVA 8 assault.

the way he screams 'NOOO!!' made me laugh

Ah, Assassin, we hardly knew ye.

Welcome to Professor Tex's Urban Renewal Program, where you too can learn how to demolish several city blocks to make way for parking lots in only a few simple steps.

BattleTech needs more people to share lore, especially from different perspective, not less.

@patrickkenyon2326

8 ай бұрын

There are not many people writing novels these days. The old series told a coherent story, it was great seeing the big, historic moments. Kurita vs Wolf, Kurita vs Hounds. The first introduction of the Clans. You don't see long term stories like that much anymore.

As someone that truly enjoys The Clans, I can appreciate your biases, as long as you would work with a Clanner before a Cappellan, quiaff

If this vid is about a month old, then BTA is still a working mod, even if it's not on Nexus. Thanks for providing the link. I've been playing BEX but would like to move to some post-clan-invasion stuf. Always like your content. This series kinda feels like you're gonna be for Battletech what Mr Stanley Streamer is for Rimworld. Great stuf and nice showcase of the mod.

Whisper didn’t deserve that. She didn’t choose the assassin and she worked her ass making it work

I’m gonna watch your videos and theres isn’t a thing you can do to stop me, also I’m loving the battletech series keep it up.

Don't know if you know this. But BTA has changed melee. You can now shoot ANY weapon in melee, not just support weapons. Minus a few weapons like Sniper cannons and other weapons with AOE and such. If you punch the enemy, your arms are busy, so no arm guns but the torso weapons will light them up. Conversely, if you have any leg weapons, those won't fire during a kick melee. Usually better to leg kick them. Cause it removes all evasion and now they can't dodge your close up shots.

35:05 Well, you guessed the tonnage right!

When you have a chance, go to the doctors Maguire screen, and look at his background.

worst death in BT - Grayson Carlisle, dying slowly in bed from cancer/radiation sickness. or better yet, Lori Calmar getting naded by a random nobody when she was hiding in a storage room. that book still makes me rage.

Dude, your humor is so awesome. You have such a natural flow of random BS that just works and makes sense. LOL

Curse you Tex. Curse you for making my eyeballs try and escape my head from the cough the laughing fit caused about the plaintive mechwarriors. It took me five minutes to recover enough to continue the vid.

The reason that mech fell down at the start was because they had battledamage. A Debuff for the enemy mechs which means random components are damaged or even destroyed. Including leg actuators and gyros. Which means a sprint action now has to roll for fall chance. Also All clan mechs have TERRIBLE melee capabilities now. (Not their BA, that's still good of course) So mixing it up with some Melee leg sweeps to make the enemy lose evasion is fantastic. Kicks have a very solid chance of removing evasion even for tanks. ALL of the evasion. Also...Clan missions are ALWAYS tougher than it looks. Not just because Clan mechs are better...but because they so very often swarm ya. They come in pods of 5 instead of 4...and reinforcements seems to happen more often. So pretend it's about 1-2 skulls more difficult.

powerful mech: Translation: we are seeing the power signature of a 360 or larger fusion plant, and we assume its a mech and not just a reactor and a pile of scrap on a flatbed.