Kerensky said, "strip all subtlety from the Atlas. Make it the most lethal, braindead W+M1 brick possible." And it was good.

@venerablebrothergoriate5844

Жыл бұрын

He said, as if there were any subtlety on the Atlas to begin with XD

@Piemasta9000

Жыл бұрын

​@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 Steiner surprised Pikachu face

@Gorf2003

Жыл бұрын

That's like giving something negative subtlety... o_o

@Tomyironmane

Жыл бұрын

@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 Running an AS7-D is easy. Running it to the maximum of its potential feels like playing a set of bagpipes. You have long range, medium range, and short range weapons that all have different firing profiles, effects on target, lead requirements, and so on, different engagement strategies... there's multiple overlapping fields of fire and she's a walking fortress, as long as you remember all the parts. The king crab is pretty much "get in close and feed it AC/20 till it dies. Beat with claws." It is not a well rounded solution. It's a fucking hammer. And in situations where you need a hammer, it can't be beat. In situations where you can't use a hammer, it's a hundred tons of stupid. Honestly, if you employ it like you would a hundred ton Urbie, you'll be hard to beat, bar leveling the entire city.

@wilemelliott

Жыл бұрын

@@Tomyironmane When your favorite tool in the tool box is a Hammer, everything looks like a nail...

You wanna see me core this assault? You wanna see me do it again? -King Crab

@justsoicanfingcomment5814

19 күн бұрын

Urban mech + AC20 = Fun😅

@creatorsfreedom6734

6 күн бұрын

@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 watched a Urbe land ontop of my buddy's king crab

There's only one thing better than a King Crab, two King Crabs.

@EricDKaufman

Жыл бұрын

gimme 3

@franksmedley7372

Жыл бұрын

I see your pair of King Crabs, and raise you a dozen Locusts. You lose.

@Kiribandit

Жыл бұрын

​@Frank Smedley I raise you 70 urbies

@Gabriel-kamov-52

Жыл бұрын

i've bringed down 2 king crabs with my atlas in one time 😂😂

@DuraLexSedLex

Жыл бұрын

@@Kiribandit Only needs the stupid WoB nuclear Urbie to win tbf.

I do quite adore the King Crab. It's an absolute meme-cannon of a mech. Its whole existence is basically just "That's a nice assault lance you got there. It'd be a shame if someone were to... BROADSIDE IT."

@Spore9996

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Love it.

@nravenz7538

7 ай бұрын

its a fantastic mech but its so easy to stay behind it since it turns like a cruise liner

The King Crab is like the shotgun of mechs. It isn't very long ranged, it isn't particularly versatile, it may not be the most practical option, but when the stars align for just the right moment, by all the gods it will make someone have a very, very bad day.

@_Pickle-

11 ай бұрын

The annihilator…

@skyvipers

9 ай бұрын

@@_Pickle- Ani too slow! 💔😔

@_Pickle-

8 ай бұрын

@@skyvipers depends on the map, it can be worth it

@Spore9996

7 ай бұрын

The one 1k damage game I had in MWO was in an almost-stock King Crab KGC-0000. I earned almost 8 kills solo with it.

@jonathanswift7582

5 ай бұрын

MW5 Kaiju hero mech: Have the mods for clan tech. Have 6 clan PPCs Have SSRMs or ATms Have 2 Med Lasers A single click deletes most things.

The gun shields on the weapons where put there so the mech could PUNCH without risk of damaging the guns.

@scienceinsanity6927

Жыл бұрын

*PINCH Fixed your comment

100 tons of pure fun, can't go wrong with this!

@xendakakorva3267

Жыл бұрын

My fav has to be the one I dub "Traitor's Demise" I got it from a Steiner mission where I had to take out a crazed commander who was having a hissy fit over his Steiner people working With the Davions and I clobbered his BUTT. HIS KING CRAB HAD 4 UAC5s!!! XD

@nravenz7538

7 ай бұрын

its all fun and games until you get cockpitted, its almost hard to *not* headshot a king crab

@valor1omega

18 күн бұрын

​@@nravenz7538 In the video game sure, but in the tt game it's much harder. I tend to ignore the later games, anything past mw 3 is an insult to the franchise with how it's weapons modification system is handled.

It's such a hard pick between Atlas, Daishi and King Crab. Dashi has the heroic look. Atlas has the badass look. King Crab has the mean/eldritch look.

@DuraLexSedLex

Жыл бұрын

All 3 of them like to explode on the first TAC

@yt-user03561

9 ай бұрын

Maybe Ragnarok? (Even though that was a MechAssault exclusive) Or Blood Asp which is actually in the other BattleTech games.

@gmradio2436

9 ай бұрын

TAC? Please explain acronym. I like the Ragnarok. To bad it got retconned in its own series. Flipside, we have most the rules to make it now. Only the Lava gun is unstatted. Shields are in the California Nebula book.

@Batlord_Carcas

7 ай бұрын

Especially the Kaiju and Carnage Hero King Crabs in MW5:Mercs

@bthsr7113

6 ай бұрын

@@gmradio2436 Through Amor Critical.

I love the King Crab. It finally got its due as a hero (or in this case, villain) 'Mech in the Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries campaign mode. It also shows up as a final boss of sorts in the HBS Battletech tactical game. To be fair to the scientists and engineers of the Federated Suns, rotary ACs aren't recovered lostech, they're entirely new. They're also much bigger than you might think. If a Shadow Hawk has an 80 mm rapid-fire auto-loading cannon, the RAC equivalent is three to six barrels each in 80mm and able to pump out as much as six times the firepower over a 10 second period.

Tended to replace the AC-20s with Gauss. Or the RAC-5. Nice weight savings there, and more room for medium lasers. LOTS of medium lasers.

@jfangm

9 ай бұрын

I designed an SPL build that turned it into a laserbrrt. Literally every slot was SPLs, except for the slots that were heat sinks.

@ezariogerion3138

8 ай бұрын

Sometimes I dream about an impossibility where you can cram Heavy Gausses into its pincers.

@roguedexx938

8 ай бұрын

RAC-5 are so much fun with this

@danielvandersall6756

8 ай бұрын

@@roguedexx938 Was always a little nervous with them; the jam rate, and the scattershot nature of the weapon. In real play, it's terrifying. Just tears mechs apart.

@nravenz7538

7 ай бұрын

1. just use a nightstar 2. in the lore almost all mechs would shut down if they tried to fire 2 gauss rifles, they are super energy intensive, even if they don't make much heat, the nightstar and stone rhino being special in being able to run multiple gauss rifles

Everything that can evolve comes down to crab in the end

King Crab is great but I can't get over my love for "boxes strapped to a cockpit on legs" that is the Catapult. Fill said boxes with SRMs and go for a walk deleting light mechs with volleys of missiles that resemble the fists of an angry god, it's a lot of fun.

@Archris17

Жыл бұрын

Virgin catapult, chad archer. Ironically for a missile boat, the only thing the catapult does better is strapping other things to it in place of those LRM launchers. Autocannons, gauss rifles for scaring the ever-living crap out of clanners, PPCs for when you just want to laugh at the very _concept_ of a god...

@avsbes98

Жыл бұрын

I still love the C5 the most, because nothing is better than a big fucking missile and the C5 actually has a useable amount of ammo for the Arrow

@JazzKazoo0930

9 ай бұрын

I rock a c4 splatapult in mw5 with a supercharger. It can easily get behind Assault mechs and knock them out in 1 or 2 hits. A single volley to the rear CT will reliably kill a charger outright

@Ekdrink

3 ай бұрын

An archer with lrm20s is heavenly

My favorite version is the Dark ages one with the XXL engine. Imagine a King Crab that can run 8. Double LBXs mean that those bigs guns got some reach. More ammunition, a plasma rifle for fun and a sneaky missile launcher 15 to exploit armor breaches

@boomer19450

Жыл бұрын

Stealth armor and dual UAC/20s because SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!

I've always loved the KC and the Stalker on the assault mech side. Though I think the Marauder is still my favorite mech design overall.

@GhostOfBuscemi

Жыл бұрын

Marauder 2s are my weakness 🤤

@flaircraft

Жыл бұрын

My desktop background on almost every computer I've owned for like 25 years has been various images of Marauders. Fell in love with them when I read Decision at Thunder Rift back when it first came out. The baddest-ass mech in the book, and great looks too. It's too bad Harmony Gold had to come in and rain on the parade :( The re-seen mechs are decent looking but nothing can really rival the original Anime-based designs.

@Tomyironmane

Жыл бұрын

@@GhostOfBuscemi you and me both... But I can't help but want to put a flamer in the head of an Annihilator and paint it green... that would make an excellent kaiju movie.

@jfangm

9 ай бұрын

The Timby will always be my favorite. But the Marauder family is a close second, if not tied. I would argue the Timby is the ultimate evolution of the Marauder concept, as the Marauder was, effectively, a sort of proto-OmniMech. Had the Star League not fallen, it is highly likely that the SLDF would have something like the Timby within a century.

There is a legendary King Crab variant in Mech Warrior 5 that I really loved. I put 2 LB 10-C ACs in each arm so I had 4 total, and a SRM6 in one shoulder. The other shoulder was left empty to save weight for more ammo and armor. I set up the fire controls so the autocannons could be fired either one at a time, or all 4 at once. This thing was amazing anti-air at ridiculous distances, and the shotguns had surprisingly long harassment range. Up close however, this thing would shred almost any other mech instantly, especially if I line of sight to the legs first. Due to the scattershot nature of the shotguns, this was also one of the only assault mechs that could reliably hit locusts and fleas at any range.

There's just something especially charming about the way it saunters across the field, in what I call the "royal strut." It doesn't even need to be speedy, it'll blow things up on its own time, and look damn good doing it. Definitely my favorite Assault mech (Highlander is a *very* close second though.)

The Marauder and Marauder II are my favorites due to the versatility and protection. The King Crab is a very close second for me though. When fire power is the question and yes is the answer accept no substitute but CRAB!

@Crescent-gh9sg

Жыл бұрын

Duel longtoms on a K. Crab is derpy fun though.

@demonicpain10

Жыл бұрын

@@Crescent-gh9sg How the F do you fit two longtoms an a K.Crab?!

@Crescent-gh9sg

Жыл бұрын

@@demonicpain10 In theory you can fit them im the arms with ammunition stored in the torsos. In MW5 you can do so with the YAML mod set. However, realistically firing a volley would require anchors to secure the mech to a firing position and would wreck the arms monomer fibers.

One of the mods of MW5 give access to the KGC-010. It is my forever guilty pleasure. 2x LBX10, 2xSRM6, 2xPPC by default. Sure there are versions that give you better options, but I love this the most.

When you showed that image of the king crab in the bushes I was like, "why are the trees speaking A/C 20?!"

For some reason, in the game, bye, harebrained schemes, every time I send out a bunch of mix with a king crab the king crab becomes the focus of all the fire.

I’m surprised you didn’t talk more about the KGC-001 clan buster that turned the King Crab into a massive ranged threat.

@averywhitaker3513

9 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the inner spheres stone rhino

@gmradio2436

6 ай бұрын

Not a Stone Rhino, King Crabo can walk up hills.

@balls9052

6 ай бұрын

@@gmradio2436 Stone Rhino has jump jets.

@gmradio2436

6 ай бұрын

@@balls9052 But can it walk?

@balls9052

6 ай бұрын

@@gmradio2436 Oh boi can it

can't argue, King Crab is easily my favorite assault mech with it's only competition coming from the Marauder II

@jackrogers5712

2 ай бұрын

It's Marauder II, King Crab or Nightstar for me.

Dire Wolf: I got guns King Crab : *Crits with two AC20s* oh you were talking?

The king crab is just 2 haunchbacks in a trench coat, change my mind.

This is a mech that benefits from recovered tech a lot. My refit had duel LB20X and a bunch of LRM5s for support and AA duty. Hide it behind a hill with the LRM support units and the enemy will get a NASTY surprise when they send a medium lance or two to knock out the support units.

Challenge: use King Crab and 3 Crabs throughout entire MW5 gameplay. The mighty CRAB LANCE!

The original miniature looked like the hood of a early '70s Camaro or Firebird, super sized and given arms, legs, & firepower. My personal favorite Inner Sphere King Crab build: * 300XL * 16 Dbl Ht Sinks * 19 tons Standard Armor * 2x Gauss Rifles (RA/LA) + 3 tons Ammo EACH (2 RA/1 RT/2 RA/1 LA) * 2x ER Lg Lasers (RT/LT) * 1x Md Pulse Laser (Hd) * 1x ECM Suite (CT) FYI, I took the time to figure out what the BattleTech artillery pieces actually mic out to. Thumper: 155mm Sniper: 211mm Long Tom: 283mm

I tried this last night on Mechwarrior 5: Mercineries, and I love this Mech. I tended to replace one AC 20 with the Burst Fire version.

@JazzKazoo0930

9 ай бұрын

I rock twin burst fires, if I pull both triggers I can't see anything for about 2 seconds

King crab, for when you need to face tank 5 heavies as you get into ac20 range, or plan to fight in cities /valleys.

I too have the same reverence for this monster of an assault mech. It has won me uncountable victories simply because it was too angry to die. especially since i solved it's staying power and gave it RAC 5's as a funny joke. An indomitable beast i affectionately named the Karkinos.

I remember when I first heard about the King Crab some 2 years ago I fell in love with it for its name alone, but I was glad that I had after learning about the mech in detail, plus it looks neat and unique.

The first time I got a King Krab in Mechwarrior 5 and opened up those Ultra AC 20s I knew it would be a great mech.

The Highlander had something to say about it being best; "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!"

@andrewszigeti2174

Жыл бұрын

"Hey, Mr. King Crab!" PANG! "How do you like my Gauss Rifle?" PANG! "Boy, isn't it a pity you only have half my range!" PANG! "Oh, you're starting to get close to being in range, let me jump back a bit...." PANG!

@ThatSlowTypingGuy

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewszigeti2174 Man, I wish we could jump backwards in MW5.

@goawayihavecommentstomake1488

Жыл бұрын

@@ThatSlowTypingGuy Pretty sure you can walk backwards and then jump??

@SmittyRB1

Жыл бұрын

@@goawayihavecommentstomake1488 in MW5 jumping imparts forward momentum so not really

@gmradio2436

9 ай бұрын

It is a very different story in different terrain. Or if up against a variant.

King Crab was the greatest Star League-era Assault 'Mech... until FASA retroactively added powercreep monstrosities like the Devastator, Nightstar and Pillager into the era when they could have just put their loadouts onto King Crab variants or made them a post-Invasion response by the IS to Clan designs. Hell, the bloody Pillager was built _a century and a half_ in the lore before the King Crab and Atlas.

@Spore9996

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's a bit stupid that they added those retroactively...

“In the city with AC20’s.” Perfect title for a King Crab song.

My dm unleashed this on us during one BattleTech session. Fighting it was terrifyingly hard

I liked the red paint scheme better than the green, yellow, or little orange highlights. The grabbers kind of make it look like Maximilian from the Black Hole.

The Supernova was one of my all time favorite mechs as I found it in MW3, the style of it, name and power, just loved it. But when I played MWO it wasnt there yet, so I got more into the older sorta brother, the King Crab, after finding it, I ditched all my other mechs early on to pick up the KGC faster and never looked back. I still love the SNV more, but its like, right tiny bit above the KGC, and in fact I have a King Crab the size of two soda cans tall sitting on my desk, while I don't have the SNV. Love this sexy beast. Also played the SNV (and only time I ordered a mech pack from MWO) after it came out later on.

King Crab was the first mech I ever got for TT. This mech also git me into BT

The ridiculous height differences between mechs are something that came about in the video games. Back in the 80s, the P&P game's designers apparently paid more attention to basic materials science. All the Mechs were all much closer in height. The squat, stocky build of the King Crab originally would have put its height at less than nearly all mediums and around the same as the humanoid lights.

As a desicated hunchback pilot, i would be the guy in the presented scenario of a Hunchie coming around a corner to see one of these. At which point I would then try to open up my dinner delivery of canned shellfish.

I want to talk briefly about a special mech in my heart for the UrbanmechAce does not always tread ground in a trash can. My King Crab in MWO is armed with 4 LBX/5 Autocannons set to chain fire for blinding my opponents in a hail of cluster fire fury, 3 ER medium lasers to cleave their armor and expose their structure for the LBX, and for anything that gets too confident 3 Rocket Launcher 15s. It is painted bright orange to match its temperament. I call it the Alaskan and it is my favorite assault mech. I have ridden into battle many times within its impervious carapace. The King Crab is proof that carcinization goes beyond biology.

In novels I am surprised enemy infantry hasn't tried to get on its back to set powerful charges in the shoulder joints. The k-crab would be extremely vulnerable to such tactics due to how wide it's back is. In fact it's one of my favorites as our Game master allows it. I love the cursing that follows after depriving the K-crab of its primary weapons, lol.

@magni5648

5 күн бұрын

A King Crab being sent up against infantry is in itself a one-in-a-million thing. The damn Mech is built to hunt other assault Mechs or - with adequate support - roll up on heavy fortifications and blast a hole right through. Using that thing to stomp on PBI would be a criminal waste of a specialised asset like that.

I like how the king crab looks like a bridge of a ship, a pillbox. Irlt feels like a building given arms and legs. And all I can think of is. That’s where I wanna be in! Just you, you commander and maybe a third seat for a repairman or something. Manning this deathdealer. Setting up an ambush alongside an army of smaller mechs. All while keeping in contact with other king crabs.

All arguments about longevity on the battlefield, armour, technology, etc etc fall flat when faced with the counterpoint of "I have two ac20's"

the newer king crab definitely wins points for style even if its armament is a case of "terrifying on paper, quite awful in reality". Because its extremely ammo-dependant, and is quite harmless for its size out of the (short) range of its AC20s.... and it doesnt help that its speed is low, meaning its unlikely to ever catch up to anything that refuses to get close.

@SmittyRB1

Жыл бұрын

I see your argument but raise you the KGC-001 clanbuster. It replaced the AC20s with twin gauss rifles. God bless those shifty assholes at comstar.

@thorveim1174

Жыл бұрын

@@SmittyRB1 oh yeah. Only gripe then is that its far from the only mech with 2 gauss and thus has a lot of competition (though its durability is a good argument for the crab in that case)

@Spore9996

6 ай бұрын

@@thorveim1174 Now if only they'd put the KGC-010 into proper production pre-Jihad again...

@magni5648

5 күн бұрын

Those two weaknesses aren't even that much of an issue for the King Crab when it does what it's meant to do: Run up to an enemy assault Mech or bunker and blast a couple feet-wide holes through it.

I ran a slighty modified KC with endo steel to add some extra armor as well as a couple of medium lasers, a couple of small lasers, and an upgrade to double heatsinks, to drop a couple of the standard heatsinks to add a couple of extra tonssl of AC20 ammo. Every square inch of space in that frame was used, but the extra endurance and close range firepower made it a tough nut to crack. Ran it in a lance with 2 Archers and a Trebuchet. General attack plan was the missile boats pick a spot to hide and bomard everything in sight and the KC acted as their bodyguard, killing everything that came close. Devastatingly strong battle plan. The few times I lost with was due to beam boats like Awesomes making it to water to help them cool and then beam spam the whole board, or someone using jumpers like Grasshoppers and Victors to get around the KC. The King Crab was almost always my last mech standing too, tho my Trenchbucket had a surprisingly good survival rating too lol. The Archers almosy always died. People always took LRM spam so personally.

When this guy gets a sensor lock and the presence is revealed on the battlefield... you can only go... OH... CRAB... before the static fills the radio channel...

The biggest of the big, the stompiest of stompy bois, and the most utterly terrifying thing to come out of the Star League

Just found your channel. Love the content!

I want my Urbie to ride a King Crab into battle.

The perfect lance: King Crab (Lance commander; assault close brawler configuration) King Crab (assault long range support configuration) Crab (medium range fire support) Hermit Crab (light scout and target designator)

The 007 had only a single RAC5 in each arm. My personal Favorite is the KGC-008. It has C3I for getting short range bonuses at long rang, 2 LAC2s, 2 ER Medium Lasers, and 2 HEAVY PPCS. And that isn't even the scariest part. No XL engine so it is pretty durable and top it all off, it has JUMP JETS for when the Crabbo wants to CRUSH stuff with it's mass.

@robkitchen5344

9 ай бұрын

ECM cancels out C3 equipment.... easy 1 ton/ 1 critical space ...basic removal of the MG/ammo that 75% of all mechs carry...and at 5 hex distance of 360° of coverage...not every mech need have EaCM protection....but at only a ton weight per mech.. why wouldn't you considering the alternatives of not having it on board of not be inside the bubble.....

@magni5648

5 күн бұрын

@@robkitchen5344 Guardian is 1.5 tons and 2 crit spaces, Angel is 2/2. Clan ECM is 1ton/1 crit, and if you actually mount ECM as a Clanner I want you to hand in your warrior caste license.

There’s a fun hero variant King Crab in MW5. Instead of a large ballistic mount in each arm it has two medium ballistic mounts in each arm. I salvaged four tier 5 UAC/5 guns, loaded them onto that bad boy, and piled on enough ammunition for a fun filled campaign of mayhem. It stomps a lot of mechs well outside of the range most assume they would have to worry about a King Crab. I also replaced the LRMs with two SRM 6s to shotgun blast enemies point blank with missiles. It’s a fun mech to play.

Digitigrade legs, on other points, I agree. I generally don't use assault mechs, but if I do, its ALWAYS a CrabDaddy!

Let me give you nightmare fuel. Image the usurper amaris hearing bagpipes and its a battalion of kingcrabs charging to get his ass

I tend to look at the king crab when ever it shows up in my lv100 missions in mw5 and just hit the happy button on my ana-1x and dump 4 heavy rifles right into its face. Cant fight back when the core stackpoles.

Many years ago i designed a Clan mech called the King Crab 2C that had 4 x LB-20Xs on it that was possibly the scariest thing ever made.

when i was new to mwo i almost recreated that jungle pic you showed, but instead of a dire wolf i was in a jenner, i legged it back to my lance formation real quick after that

Anything less than twin AC/10's or Heavy PPCs is quintessential Heresy. I will never switch from dual AC/20's.

"Step 1: Shoot a leg with gauss cannon as the low armor can't withstand the force and will leave it immobile. Step 2: back up out of the AC20's range and fire gauss rifle until dead." --- Highlander Pilot Kaz. Ranking pilot with the most "Highlander Burial" kills

3:48 Oi! Hey! Don't be hatin' on OG King Crab and his looks! You and I both know he'd deck you harder than anything else that moved for that!

You, sir, are a man of style and knowledge. It's great to finally see someone love the KC as much as I do. 👑🦀❤

Must admit my favorite custom mod is to pull the AC-20s and slap a pair of MRM-30s or 40s into those arms. They actually 'fit' unlike the AC-20s which extend into the torso and if you have freezers it can handle the extra heat. But stepping into someone's view and then throwing between sixty and eighty rockets at someone for several turns while laughing never gets old.

My top 3 favourite mechs: 3. Atlas 2. King crab 1. Marauder/marauder 2

@scienceinsanity6927

Жыл бұрын

Ohhh, you had me in the first half not gonna lie when i saw the atlas at the topof the list. then i saw the marauder in number 1 and, yea. thats acceptable. your comment gets to live

@kaydenkuah3844

Жыл бұрын

@@scienceinsanity6927 Boys, I did it. I survived! For real though, your video on battlemechs in general got me interested in the king crab. I watched a lore video on it and read it up on sarna and found it hilarious.

King crab smash! Nice to see this beast getting a bit of love at last.

I love the King Crab, I have a King Crab minni from the Comstar command box that I have panted up really nicely.

i was paying Meckworrior 5 mercenary and got me a King Crab with duel AC 10 auto canon in each arm absolutely loved that thing wish I could have took it to my next profile. Miss it so much.

I love the king Crab. I have like 6 in MW5 including the hero variants. And my best friend almost exclusively plays it when we run missions together. Although a bit of an ugly duckling in the beginning its really shaped up with its new makeover. Overall its a fantastic mech that deserves more love. Though it doesn't compare to my true love, the Marauder II.

@_Pickle-

11 ай бұрын

Do you have the the annihilator

@jameswright2623

11 ай бұрын

@@_Pickle- I have every variant. It's so damn so I refuse to use it lol

"It had a growth spert" -Steve

So, a note good lore master. Sloped armor does indeed help with missiles and lasers. When a laser hits flat metal ot can focus more, when it hits a slop it loses some focus over area. The grester the slope, the greater the reduction. As for missiles, most use a shaped charge warhead to penetrate armor, over a slope that effect is reduced or near nullified.

Lore: Best thingy ever. Actual Game Rules: *Begins Sweating.* *A weapon that is powerful but never hits is useless.*

@magni5648

5 күн бұрын

It's a specialist to the Atlas' more generalist assault Mech. The Atlas is meant to break through an enemy position and take all comers, hence the varied loadout and it being able to damn well outgun and outlast the frekainÄ Locust that went behind it. The King Crab is meant to specifically *murder other assault Mechs* and blast open heavy fortifications. And it excels at that niche.

I love it as well I believe wholeheartedly that it is one of the three kings the three most powerful Mechs in the game those three consist of the king crab, the atlas, and finally the annihilator.

Imagine my joy then when I started up Dragons Gambit in MW5 only to find it as one of the default mechs you get in your new career. I was.... Pleased.

King Crab: Reach out and Crush Someone.

Best IS assault by far, and one of the best looking mechs ever. Only topped by the Dire Wolf on my list of favorites.

Also one of my personal favorites!

Fear itself is my ally. Always atlas! Crab is food.

A point about lasers pun intended, sloped armor would have an impact on laser energy transfer because the surface area that the laser strikes will be greater. Have I done the math to figure out if it’d be statistically significant? NOPE but I’m posting anyway. Also the Marauder 2 is the only mech I enjoy looking at more than the KC for all the reasons I love the KC. Sloped armor. Reverse joint legs. High torso mount for long range weaponry. I'm just a sucker for that gigantic shoulder cannon.

This thing is my top mech in MW5. I have a full lance of nothing but King Crabs with CQB loadouts. Can absolutely wipe entire Atlas assault lances. Willing to wager a King Crab Lance could give a Timberwolf some major trouble. I own two King crabs for personal use. One with AC20s, and another with Gauss guns, never know when those clanners might show up, the Crab will be ready. They should use that excess space on the roof to mount the AC20s/Gauss guns up there and instead turn the Pincers into Giant flamehtrowers with serrated teeth. Why? Because fuck anything unfortunate enough to get into melee distance.

15:25 sloped armored helps against esplosives too, proper slopes can redirect some of the force of an explosion around the hull, especially if it's not a direct hit.

I love the skeleton paint of it to just see the derpy crab eyes on a mech that will obliterate you if you scratch it

As soon as I saw the mêlée-ac20 covers I immediately and irreversibly thought - HILLARIOUSLY - that SOMEONE scotch taped a pair of giant, dull bladed small rounded little kid scissors

Everything eventually evolves into crabs. Everything.

Remove the large laser and replace AC 20's with ultra 20's more dakka more fun

My fave Lance back in the day was a King Crab a Marauder and a Crab and a Locust the "Chicken leg Brigade"

King Crab is literally the best looking mech in the entire franchise, probably one of the more sensibly designed ones too. Low profile, flat, not a big fckin target like the rest of the mechs. Only issue are those goddamn arms, not only are they an useless dead weight, they also lower the height of the guns. Bc it seems no one heard about fighting hulldown in the inner sphere.

If I were building a Hero King Crab, I'd keep it simple - swap the AC20s for UAC10s (6 tons ammo), upgrade the Large Laser to ER Large Laser, and downgrade the LRM15 to LRM10 (1 ton ammo) to fit it all. Damage more spread out, but double the range on the UAC10s plus the ER on the LL means you can alpha strike out to 18 hexes. (Oh, and 15 Double Heat Sinks so that alpha strike only builds 4 heat.) All that and still costs less than 10 million C-Bills, with minimal advanced tech. One of the big tragedies of Battletech is we don't have a Heavy Mech Crab. The Crab is solid, the King Crab is feared, and I LOVE the Hermit Crab, but we need a good Heavy. (Yeah, yeah, I can already hear people pointing out the Marauder is a thing, but it isn't quite the same.) Though I suppose a lance with a Hermit Crab, a pair of Crabs, and a King Crab would still be a lot of fun.

2:45- I immediately remembered my King Crab Battletech card and..... Yes, you are correct 😑🤘

I don’t have ammo problems with my Kingcrabs. I just strip out unnecessary junk, like the LRMs, the LRM ammo, the large laser, and then I have another ten tons of AC20 ammunition and more heatsinks.

Mess with the KING CRABBO you get the KING STABBO!!!!

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I painted mine like a hamburger and named it the Krabby Patty 🤷🏻‍♂️

The nastiest one I've ever played (and recreated in MW5 and BTA 3062) had light FF, a LT engine, UAC-10s in each arm and case II to protect the rediculous amount of ammo. Armor tonnage stayed the same, so more armor, longer range DAKKA, and I think I had added an extra LG laser. When I eventually got it switched over to DHS, it was just never-ending firepower. The guy running the tabletop game finally called it quits because the only way to challenge us was basically to bone us by fiat. Better to end the campaign on a high note.

The MW5 Kaiju is great. It has "Ebirah" painted on the right hip. Nice little shoutout to Godzilla.

I love the Behemoth because it's the Rottweiler to the Marauders Doberman. But the King Crab is up there.

You mess with Crabbo and you get the stabbo.

I really am a fan of the progression of Battletech art. I haven't really seen much of it since I played MW2-4 way back when, and some Inception game in MS DOS. But wow they have absolutely stepped up their art game. Like more than any other TT IP, I think.

Battletech: Here are the Atlas, King Crab and Mad-Cat. Me: Wow (puts all three in a recycling plant just to watch them burn) ill have a Maruader, please.

I love my build of 2 thunderbolts 5 2lbx 10s and a ppc just and watching everyone targets me and I disappeared

ide take 3 demolishers over this any day

Ah yes, the greatest headshot magnet in the entire franchise.