Hello everyone! We are Green and Red, two Germans with a love for everything board game related and occasional fans of Let's play series. So much so, in fact, that we eventually wondered why those two didn't cross over more often... and the answer seems obvious: board games need recording equipment, post-production and music, whereas screens can be screen captured and all the special effects and sound are already present. So, eventually we decided, if we want more of it, we may as well step up ourselves!
On our channel, you can currently expect roughly one video per month, edited and cut, focussing on stories, atmosphere and full playthroughs with rules explained where necessary to help follow the action. We are not focussed on reviewing, you can make up your minds about the games yourselves after watching us play and banter. If that is up your alley, please enjoy!
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Of all the battle reports I watched on WH40k, Conquest or BattleTech. This one. This one is the best one, I hope I'll be able to see some more videos like this! (oh, and please don't hit the table while filming on the next video, if there is one)
There will be one! And we'll try to keep furniture related violence to a minimum. Might need to invest into a shock absorbant camera stand at some point...
Great to hear that! Or maybe move it off the table?
I'm new: can someone help me understand turn 2 movement sequence? Red won initiative, so Green moved first. 2 Green and 2 Red remained, so why did Green move again?
Teeeechnically we messed up. It should have been: green has three and needs to move first, red has two. 3 is not twice as many as two, so each moves one model. Then, green has two, red has one, 2 IS twice as many as one, so green needs to move two models. Green lost initiative, so he has to move both models before reds last move, allowing red to react despite having fewer units on the ground. So, you check units left to move before every 'pair' of moves, and if one player has whole multiples of the other or more (7vs3), he needs to move appropriately more models. (15vs3 would move 5 models for every 1 of his opponent). Hope that clairified things!
Where is the Steiner scout lance??
Thank you! I really like your style. Subscribed. 26:27 You miss the extra +1 TMM for jumping I guess. An eight hexes jump by a spider should be a TMM +4. The Shadow Hawk in the same scene should had +2 (instead of +1, shown by the red die). I guess he jumped three hexes. I'm sorry but my inner monk has hard times dealing with this. btw When a mech stands up you can freely choose the direction (AGOAC). The Wolverine didn't have to pivot. You only roll the direction if the mech falls. This is important if the 'Mech has to fire from a prone position (e.g. because the Mech has lost a leg) to determine in which direction the Mech can fire. best
As for changing direction on standing up - yep, we missed rhar completely, but learned for later games. And I can calm your inner monk - we did not miss the TMM from jumping, we just dont show the +1from jumping with the pips, and just keep in mind that its an additional point for red dice!
What a damn nice battle!
This is such a great format
The tech quality of this channel is refreshing!
Great presentation of the game and exciting play.
Incredible production quality
43:47 Is there a rule where if a friendly mech is in the adjacent space to the mech you're shooting at and you miss you have to roll for a possible hit on the friendly because they're so close together? Because it feels like there should be.
As a matter of fact, there is! Its one of the many, many optional rules we opted not to use so far. If you use them all at once, things seriously bog down, and this video would be 8 hous long. And consist mostly of tutorials. Perhaps, when we covered all the base rules, we will include more optional rules.
Some ping for YT finding you better. And keep up that nice entertaining style!
Ihr zwei seid nach meinem Geschmack. Da würd ich gern mal ein Spiel mitspielen, falls ihr mal in S.Dtl. seid. :D
Sind wir quasi immer! Schweizer grenze. Komm ins discord, da ist bequemer quatschen... Oder schreib uns einfach so an, falls du ein uns bekannter johndoe bist!
Lao would not have 2 heavies and two mediums. they have very limited supplies, so, It be like 1 Heavy, two mediums, and a light.
Yeah, that was my first instinct as well. Thing is ... Limited supply of IS mediums. Catapult and marauder also are more common heavies, so... I agree, but, uh, well. Did my best with what I had. Usually I'd also refrain from giving them two clan lights!
Loved this fun battle great story voices really add to to,
loved this best mech movie ive seen in years
Good detailed video here especially since you are going for the "i want to play" detail that i'm going for lol.
What book(s) did you use to create the custom infantry, also, do you know if there's any easy way to get the templates for them online?
Megamek lab has the templates, but not all information. The books we used were the tech manual for the base rules and tactical operations for a few advanced rules like the field guns.
@@4handsondeck thanks!
I'm barely by the 15 minute mark but so far i'm hooked. Great introduction and nice video!!!
Here's hoping the later parts didn't disappoint either. Always great to hear, thanks!
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Dear brother, the video looks very interesting, and I would certainly have watched it with pleasure were it not for your horrible pronunciation of the language. I can't get past the 10-minute video. Despite being Italian and having lived abroad for many years, I don't understand a damn thing you say.
Well, thats a pity, though I'm afraid as germans, theres nothing we can do about our accents. We try our best, but if that doesn't work for you... Hopefully you find a native english or italian channel to scratch that battletech-itch. Cheers!
The animations and battle communications really make a difference for the narrative. I generally don't really watch battle reports, but yours are quite entertaining
ah a fellow concordat lover, very few tutorials for them on youtube!
Subscribed really enjoy this. Getting into battle tech been a wargamer for 20 years but went the GW route back in the day. Say what was that template you showed in the beginning?
just watched over the beginning again, still couldn't quite figure out which template you mean... do you have a timestamp for me?
A friend of mine once through armor crit a Comguard Atlas with a Scorpion light tank. It hit the AC-20 ammo,boom went an Atlas with a 1,1 pilot and their field commander. Due to a house rule if the field commander on a side (this was a 2v2 with one player on each team only allowed to bring conventional forces and the conventional forces on Comstar side were mercs duped into this mission against other mercs.) was KIA any unit from that player that is forced into forced withdrawal must make a check to see if they route or withdrawal orderly. If routing the unit can not make any attacks and moves as fast as it can away from any enemies. If enemies cut off its escape routing mechs are forced to either power down and surrender or eject while conventional ground units surrender if caught. While Comguard would technically hold the field by the end Merc forces escaped with the primary objective onboard that lucky Scorpion. Comstar only had one functional mech (A half-dead crab), a tank that was missing a track and one nearly dead infantry platoon left at the end. If counting successfully withdrawn units in the final tally of survivors that only gave Comstar two additional vehicles and a nearly dead Thunderbolt. Opposing mercs left the field with the objective, three tanks, a beat up dragon, two APCs that picked up inf on the way out and a Wolfhound.
This is why I don't want to play with tanks, mechs only for me. They're too effective which makes the entire concept of mechs kind of pointless.
The main advantage of mechs over vehicles is twofold: 1: propaganda. 1 mech, 1 pilot. Easy to glorify into a hero, where vehicles have crews. 2: mobility. Vehicles are dangerous, but they're not as hardy when taking a beating, and they have issues with rough terrain, mountains, gulches, rivers, low gravity... Things that aren't always modeled on the table, but I wouldn't field vehicles in every mission profile... But for static defense? They shine, and rightfully so!
i love the story focused battle report, hearing everyone react to stuff like the ammo explosions, the cheeky light mechs, and tristans inability to hit anything actually helped me understand the battle *more* than a pure numbers hyperdetailed report it also made me care a lot more! pendragon is so lucky to have gotten out in a drivable state i know fully naming and voicing the taurians too woulda been just too much if you wanted this video to come out ever, but still loved the moment where the taurian commander pieced together approximately what was going on really looking forward to whatever stories you have to tell next (maybe we'll even be lucky enough to see this comguard lance more than once ;) )
So a lower gunnery stat on pilots is preferable? That's counter intuitive but makes sense on the rolls.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for: - Keeping the camera static on the map view to keep the viewer's sense of orientation - Explaining the rules for those who aren't as privy on the game as others - Doing closeups and animating combat for the entertainment factor Every other battle report for games like 40K and others always have their cameras zooming around and they move way too fast for me to keep up, even if I have played 40K before
Bro brought the most expensive paint tray ever. 😂 Thank you!! I was looking for tips on painting my black DC lance.
That was an awsome battle report. Can't wait for you to use some infantry and troop transports.
Love your guys stuff, fun editing and effective at conveying information. I'm a pretty prolific 3d printer guy, I see a lot of stands and proxies from other games in your vids, I'd be happy to send over some tanks, infantry, vtols, extra mechs, whatever helps. I feel bad with my mountains of extras
I mean.... I certainly won't say no to a couple of cool proxies for infantry and other models that don't have official products out yet... though, depending on where you are in the inner sphere, shipping might be expensive? if you're serious, do join our discord for details? (yes, I realize the link set to 'never expire' once more expired. its fixed. again. hopefully for good this time.)
21:23 cool video but I don’t think you should have been able to use the Bardic Inspiration as you weren’t adjacent any monsters. I know you were only using it to give the others an advantage but that power wasn’t a playable option, sorry.
Fantastic production value and informational value with these videos. As a 40k player; it's really interesting to actually get to see the inner workings and guts of the games mechanics being played out. That said I am blown away by the sheer number of tables and counters to reference & keep track of; even for a relatively small model count game like this.
We played quite a bit of 40k - battletech goes with single mechs as models, where 40k uses 30-model-groups of mosha boyz, gaunts, or a tac squad of marines. every 40k group ends up having a bunch of special weapons and such, while being in the same place - which just ends up being roughly equivalent to a single mech with a bunch of weapons strapped on it, in terms of game feel. as for the number of tables? yeah, its a lot. however, on the other hand, its rather light on special rules, so you don't have to keep looking up stuff across 5 different books! and the tables are neatly pre-arranged in cheat sheets for ease of use and making copies for everyone involved!
Excellent video gentlemen!
Excellent video! Clear, consice and very informative. A very good introduction to playing Battletech on the tabletop.
Hey, thanks for this great video. I often use it as reminder when creating a new unit. Is it possible to reactivate the discord invitation ? I really would like to join there :).
big sadface. yes. it should, once more, be operational now. for some reason I can't get the discord invite right, ever. hopefully I fixed it for good on this... uhh... 4th attempt or so. also, my apologies for the horribly long delay in response time. RL forced a short hiatus on PR while red was continuing to tinker away at the next upload!
I really hope you guys get to make another one of these. This is such a fun Movie to watch.
its in the works! and will be released eventually (tm)!
This game is rough! At least to me it looked like for most of the game the party was struggling just to hold their ground, let alone actually get more powerful. I appreciate the discussion about the mage in the afterword, because as it was that character did not look fun to play in the least. Consistently failing to do anything on your turn would be frustrating to me. More bonuses to intelligence seem almost required, because the mage doesn't have spare focus to manipulate dice like the other characters do.
I love how much effort went into the Rep Give us more peopel ^^ I allready am sold to Battletech!
I am surprised that transports are rolled into the squad design and kind of abstracted away, but I suppose this game really doesn't need any more bookkeeping at the table. I'm not entirely convinced the actual play on the tabletop will be significantly improved based on how much customization is available, considering how simplified all the stats end up being. It almost feels like there was supposed to be a "squad scale" Battletech game that would have come out to make all these choices more relevant.
The amount of customization doesn't improve the gameplay on the table, thats true. but its still nice to see that you can create 'civilians throwing bottles' as well as 'professional assassines on bikes with sniper rifles and SRM launchers'. its more for the fluff side of things really. And as for the Transports - yes. mechanized infantry is rather simplified. that does, however, not stop you from creating foot infantry and sticking them in something like a goblin infantry support vehicle, to make proper 'squishies in a box'. also gives you the option for going with maxim hover transports, for example, and having infantry approach over water, have to disembark, get an objective from within a building, and having to retreat again. that in itself is already a nice mission-objective-based game.
Your narrative battles are just _sooo_ good! The only negative, is that we have to wait so long for them :)
we're so sorry v.v seriously though, this time is all on us though. we made the next video based on a way too complex and long game. lesson learned. we'll just tough through it this time, the videos afterwards will be quicker to come out once more (.....one time, we vowed we'd keep to an 'one upload per month!' schedule at least. yeah, that didn't really work out sadly. we can still dream of being professional, responsible youtubers...)
Very good video! Vehicles are no joke in Battletech. You can bring a lot of weapons for the points value if you go heavy on tanks.
Fantastic battle report. Amazing production value. I loved the pilot banter and the effects. So happy I chanced across this video!
Looking forwards to the game vid 🙂
This was a excellent and engaging showing of battletech with the voices and the story. As someone who is just getting into the hobby it was fun to watch.I know this probably took a long time, but I would love to see more of this as a ongoing thing.
Ahhh yes the catapult... a real good mech i love to use again and again ^^ Lovely Battlerep and showcase of rules and lore
Vehicles do not pay a movement penalty for elevation changes as long as movement remains on the road.
...that is very true! thanks for catching that.
The Taurians did extremely well, considering what they had available and i like that they did't lose any mech warriors...just the tank grunts. RIP.
oh-hohohoho i love those little mentions of the WOBies... foreshadowing.