I love Battletech, but now that I'm older and have a little bit of experience in how machines work, I have to recognize that so many of the original designs are ludicrously under-engineered. The new versions of these machines aren't as iconic, but they look like they'd actually work.

@barrybend7189

4 жыл бұрын

Japanese Battletech : are we a joke to you.

@lidlett9883

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like they would actually work. The problem is your applying a hydraulic type system to the imagined world of molymar fiber Steel which contracts upto 50% its length when electricity is applied. So the original mechs were humanoid in appearance because the molymar fibers were bundled together and applied like like muscle to a skeleton. With that in mind the only area that would probably not work would be the knee and elbow joints. Which are often drawn as pin and hinge system. But hey its 1980s sci-fi. At least they got FTL travel a little closer to reality than Star wars Startrek

@Ironhold_Watch

3 жыл бұрын

Freebirth excuses only deserve snapped necks, EYES UP FRONT SURATS!

@niko-vs3jm

Жыл бұрын

@@lidlett9883 "At least they got FTL travel a little closer to reality than Star wars Startrek" You have a working FTL engine? i hereby declare a trail of Trial of Possession for your FTL engine

Expecting a 7 minutes vids; got 47 minutes instead. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

We'll probably develop viable power armor before any viable production battle mechs we'd currently consider large.

@dalesheen1816

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta start small then build outwards until it stops being battle armour XD

@BigMikeMcBastard

3 жыл бұрын

@@dalesheen1816 Mechs don't really have much practical use. Profile way too large, bipedal movement has essentially no advantages for a machine (humans are only bipedal because it's efficient over long distances). We'll never develop mechs for warfare like you see in anime or battletech. Powered armor does make sense and will be more widely used once the battery situation is solved, although they'd be mainly for purposes other than warfare (construction, emergency response, so cops can choke people to death more efficiently, etc.).

@Dinidan

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigMikeMcBastard Right? Developement more in line with Starship Troopers is what I foresee.

@Wesley-1776

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigMikeMcBastard nice use of an unfounded myth about police. Almost like big city police are over worked, stressed out all the time, and under funded leading to poor training and a lack of an ability to replace older experienced officers when something like that happens leading to stations protecting those officers not wanting to lose their experience. Yep clearly the answer to all of these issues is to defund the police and further make their jobs harder leading to more screw ups. You do realize their people to. ((And in the case that was a sarcastic joke and you weren’t serious…. Uh… I’d like to apologize before the comment war starts))

This is AMAZINGLY well put together with an overwhemingly good amount of information typically only found with Blackpantslegion. I hope to see you keep up these long format battletech lore videos. (I'm still amazed you managed to properly make a 47minute video on JUST Battle Armor)

fuck yes thank you for making a battletech lore vid that doesn't start with a pounding symphony to wake me up if i fall asleep with it on repeat

I think this may be your best video so far Logan. The pacing was spot on, great variety of artwork and your narration and timing have come a long way buddy. Well done.

@tannerrennat7786

3 жыл бұрын

Worth the rewatch. Miss your content.

@tannerdowney2802

Жыл бұрын

Still holds up.

I don’t think kage is pronounced as cage, I think it’s pronounced Ka-Gay, japanese for shadow I think.

@evanhoransky5649

4 жыл бұрын

your thinking of daikatana and the terrible production of it. Story goes, john romero fired all the dialoge and recording guys and hired a new team. During a meeting the writers were talking about dialoge with the voice actors and John and they kept on saying Kage "cage" and John kept on laughing and they looked at him and asked why, 3 months into voice recording with the new team NO ONE told them it was KaGay which was John's own personal sounding of the word he never told any of the new sound and voice team.

Great work- this is really amazing content you are putting out mate.

It was a rough year. Lawl. Excellent work, good sir.

@TheMiteyPirate

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! It was fun to work on, I am excited for the next project.

Thank you. For me it is very useful for understanding the units I face in the RogueTech

Amazing video on a subject as narrow as science fiction battle armor. Love it.

My favorite is still a Nighthawk. Good material, thanks.

Many thanks for this one X) Keep going

I have loved BattleTech for over 30 years, and still do. I realize that power armor is far more likely to be effective and functional than a 'Mech, but the cool factor... Though I think Living Steel got the concept of 'Mechs right. Not only is there a ground pressure issue, but in the words of one of the Moritori pilots: "Do you get a good view of the battlefield from 30 feet up? Oh, certainly... You also give the other guy an even better view." In the Living Steel universe, the Moritori was an experiment that is, essentially, a humanoid BattleMech. Also, Sylph (sill-f), not Slyph (sl-if).

Wow they really test their suits so hard theyll tell someone to walk into a field and then blast them with a ppc...

@robertagren9360

2 жыл бұрын

The suit survived, the pilot was not found.

5:40 hey I know that guy! He goes to professor Tex's classes with me. XD

Inner sphere capable design teams? By the end of 4th secession War that would be 7 year olds with crayons. I.S. technicians often praised their tools for fixing things more than understanding that the person using the tools had fixed the issue

17:20 *brotherhood of steel vibes*

@DeepInsideZettaiRyouiki

3 жыл бұрын

Especially from Fallout Tactics where more tribalism to their religion dogma was introduced.

4:38 good times Good times

@DeepInsideZettaiRyouiki

3 жыл бұрын

...but isn't that un-honorable? To get mixed like that into duels uninvited?

Fashi 法师 means wizard in Chinese

from Sarna.net - The Capellan Confederation "Many Capellans take pride in their citizenship..." - where do you get 'Capellayan' from?

neat

I really want to see a special mech cockpit where when you eject you lanch out wearing power armor

@Qardo

2 жыл бұрын

That would cost too much, and no one would have the sense to think a pilot is worth enough to keep them combat effective. Even after a Mech is shot down to military "planners," pilots are a dime a dozen and literal cannonfodder. They say nice things to keep the pilots happy but to do anything that would make them more deadly. HAH! Riiiight. Maybe some Clan may try it, but due to their rather asinine honor system. Some Clan would complain, and some shit would happen. The whole project would be scrapped. Plus, the way Clanners wage war. It is unlikely they would even use the tech in battle or even in their honor duels. So still be a waste. As much as it would be a cool concept. Just have to have the mindset of the universe. And come to realize, building tanks would be cheaper and more cost-effective. Than, building a single mech that could attempt to carry the same firepower. All because I am still trying to figure out how mechs can have better armor over a TACKED vehicle. To which a tracked vehicle could have better armor and even better weapons, but no...it's because plot and the title of the universe setting.

@omidm.935

4 ай бұрын

​@@Qardo Mechs are more mobile over rougher terrain, can more easily be moved on/off world than conventional vehicles of similar tonnage, and are more durable (at least in game)

Aww nothing on the demon battlesuits

3061 Yes, it was a rough year. LOL

Man, we need games set in the mechwarrior universe where we actually get to use these.

@npswm1314

3 жыл бұрын

Mechwarrior: Living Legends. Go play it.

@mrdoormat6809

3 жыл бұрын

I wish we can buy other type of BA in MWLL thought, instead of just stuck with Longinus/Elemental.

@grandsome1

2 жыл бұрын

Mech Warrior 4 MekTek has all the power armors too.

Wonder how battlemech / mech warriors power armor matches to other franchises ? Especially 40k Wonder how a battle between astrates and clan elementials , bet it would be a real head buster

Love the video. Very thorough overview of the units. Thank you for making this. However, your pronunciation leaves much to be desired.

SALAMANDER!

thx that was a very interessting vid, didnt think the Battle armor lore would be this indepth, tho should have figured since its BT afterall lol. at 24:22 i guess u had a sort of brainfart there, the text is somewhat missing a part (or u tryded to say something that went under, idk.) the last line in the first Paragraph doesnt make sense the way it is there: "Due to its recon role in DEST, the experimental Battle Armor C3 System" the system what? some form of addendum would be nice, maybe as a pinned comment or something.

Thank you so much for putting this together.... unfortunately I feel that you’re really struggling with some of the larger words both in pronunciation and comfort of use

Freebirth

Astartes in battletech. Whats next?

@tannerrennat7786

5 жыл бұрын

All this takes place during the Dark Age of Science.

@beezzarro

4 жыл бұрын

Woah, hey now. There are battlemechs in 40k, so let's not throw any dirt around here

@MrGregggleziii

3 жыл бұрын

Imperial Knight: am i a joke to you?

are you sure you weren't mixing a medium mech in with the battle armors, komodo had a medium mech's loadout.

@cericat

2 жыл бұрын

He is, the KIM-2 is the Komodo medium mech, itself an anti battle armour design. The Kanazuchi much less aggressively loaded, though the 3070 refit did have two S-PPCs

Check youtube channels Invicta, and Kings and generals, they present story is a very interesting way. I would love to see Battletech universe story told that way. May I ask for a link of a video with Battletech timeline?

Good, informative video. Keep it up. Learn to pronounce words. For instance, Sylph is /silf/, not /slif/.

KO-MO-DO, not "KOM-ODO."

Great video but every time you call the Kage the "Cage" I have a bit of a wince. Since it's a Japanese word it should be pronounced cah-gay.

@WastelandSeven

4 жыл бұрын

And he didn't get Komodo right either. Its coe-moe-doh.

@ThatSlowTypingGuy

9 ай бұрын

He was making me wonder if the DCMS armor were named after Mortal Kombat characters.

Please, for the love of God, if you are going to do Battletech Lore, learn how to pronounce words correctly...

27:13 That's a fucken dreadnought form 40k.

I dont understand how the fucking guns on the hands work? They seem too short to acomodate the hand and the mechanics of the gun. Please give me a non-real stientific explanation at least, the science of fantasy please.