Hello Grim. Yet another fine video, my friend. The Magistracy has always been one of my favorite factions of the Battletech universe, even though I chose Davion to play mostly when I started, because everyone else was taking up Inner Sphere factions and not Periphery forces. Most only see the Magistracy as a sort of 'Las Vegas' in space. While that does play a fairly large part of the Magistracy's income potential, their medical knowledge and skills, as well as their medical technologies are more important, and of equal influence, although not in the minds of the vast majority of the populations of the various factions of the Inner Sphere and others. Since most of the roles are reversed... Magistracy armed forces would tend to be more logical in their approach to warfare, since there would be very limited 'testosterone' fueled decision-making. This would show up as a penchant for the MAF to be more deliberate in their fielding of their armed forces and units. Not taking suicidal, or otherwise risky actions, just to gain some advantage in battle. Instead, their plans would be more logically thought out and mostly run like clockwork, with some variations due to combat conditions. MAF leaders would have well established means to hold back any combat enraged males. Probably by making them see the calmness and fortitude of the surrounding females, and provoking the male 'protective' response to females they are so close to. The almost 'cold-hearted' manner of risking troops and vehicles before sending in Mech forces can seem to be a 'fault' in the MAF, but that is not considering the early MAF history of having few Mechs to field in any case. When part of your army is relatively that rare and expensive to field, you tend to rely upon units and forces that are 'cheaper' to field in numbers. I can tell you that most Mech pilots do not like to face massed tank formations, and tank units backed with good Infantry. And that does not even include 'specialized' Infantry units, or specialized tank forces. Add in Battle Armor, and you've got a Pilot's worst nightmare. BTW GDN, would you be interested in a totally fan made faction? One that is fairly well outside the usual bounds of the game? I played for decades and left the game during the whole 'dark age' and the WoB kerfuffle. I returned to playing shortly before the IL-Khan era and began rewriting the notes I had lost during the whole 'retirement' process in RL. I have several (more like over a dozen) text articles that I have written about my old Mercenary group, and what they did when they left the Inner Sphere, as well as what they built, and where. My stuff is not as logically laid out as most TROs though, so you might have to sift through the various texts to get at any particular item of data, but the whole should give a good 'view' of the government that was founded, its history, and the units that were created from that. Meanwhile, I still have to get around to writing a rather long article on the Mech forces for said organization... since they tend to alter and modify just about any Mech that they get their hands upon, and then produce that variation for their armed forces. And I have not even got around to writing up the Infantry, Vehicle, or Aerospace forces at all, at this time. And please remember, if you do accept this offer, that all my writings are based upon tabletop results, and my own logical decisions post-battle. As well as the fact that all of this is from memory, and not based upon the rather extensive notes I had accumulated over decades, due to an apartment fire.
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Frank!
@louiswilkins9624
7 ай бұрын
Please do, sounds interesting.
@thrackerzodd3607
Жыл бұрын
My grandmother passed away last night, so seeing a video from you definitely brings levity, I appreciate your work on the channel my friend.
@donright4492
Жыл бұрын
My condolences to your loss of your grandmother I know how it feels to Watching some one you love pass away I hope it's get's better for you my best wishes for you thracker
@Diarmuhnd
Жыл бұрын
Condolences.
@julienseitz1350
Жыл бұрын
MY CONDOLENSES FOR YOUR LOSS
@thrackerzodd3607
Жыл бұрын
Thank you all, it means a lot that you took the time to comment.
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
Condolences.
@DapperRaccoon
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for covering my favorite non-clan/comstar faction. While you hit on the catgirl meme a bit I appreciate in the large part you did a serious look at the MAF. While the periphery in general has less writtenabout it than the major IS states, there is still more to the MoC then catgirls (based on one b&w art piece) and sex work, which is work and doesn't need to be denigrated in general.
@Anlushac11
3 ай бұрын
You had me at Catgirl Army in space.
@louiswilkins9624
Жыл бұрын
Pretty good information , great job 👍
@KageRyuu6
Жыл бұрын
Get it right, it's Cat Boys, because despite them being Matriarchal, young males are still the primary military recruit.
@christianholzschuh6853
Жыл бұрын
It's quite obvious. Boys don't have a timeout for pregnancy and you don't need many of them for population growth.
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
I saw mostly artworks of female mechwarriors though.
@nbmoleminer5051
Жыл бұрын
Says who? cause if not the lore and just crazy cis men are superior ideology then piss off out of here with that if it is the lore like some cultural reason like women are seen as to valuable to be anything less than an officer then fair enough and I'll delete my comment.
@MrHellknightimp
Жыл бұрын
I have to comment this every time I see a video about the Magistracy. They can't read, they have a canon literacy rate less than 20 percent.
@philips.5563
Жыл бұрын
If those kids could read they would be very upset.
@boneshaman8912
Жыл бұрын
Makes absolutely no sense that the have some of the , "Best medicine in the innersphere" shamans from modern day tribe's should have better medicine than them.😅😅
@Seriona1
Жыл бұрын
How does their armed forces operate on 20%? Unless only the military reads?
@xxxlonewolf49
Жыл бұрын
Depends....the middles ages couldn't read...LATIN, but they did have a written language & math. So the MoC should be able to read & write just fine, even if it's not what the IS uses. You HAVE to have Witten language to function.
@TimothyGomer-or5vl
Жыл бұрын
Thats what happens when you only care about like 5 out of the forty-something worlds in your polity. Everybody on those 5 worlds is golden. The others? Better hope your parents can teach you lmao.
@qwertyman4
Жыл бұрын
do the space pirate Romans next!
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
They are coming too, but a few weeks from now.
@memecat57
2 ай бұрын
Playing Canopus purely so I can call my catgirl maid outfit battletech cosplay
@LutherMahoney
Жыл бұрын
They are really pissed at me. Right now I am farming as much Kurita repuation as I can for the new DLC coming in MW5.
@noanswer1864
Жыл бұрын
I wish the mod that splits the independents up into their separate tiny factions didn't conflict with the rest of my preferred mods. I've always wondered why Canopus cares how hard I screw up the Marion Hegemony, or why the Duchy of Andurien cares how ruthlessly I put down some tiny world 15 jumps away from them, in another Great House's territory entirely.
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
@@noanswer1864 The are very compassionate people, the anduriens.
@LutherMahoney
Жыл бұрын
@noanswer1864 you and me both!😂😂
@donright4492
Жыл бұрын
Oh boy Mike you really savagely Got in to this one yeah I couldn't really take this faction seriously either although you have to be very careful not to underestimate Anybody who looks bizarre let's just say but trying to look like Victoria's secret ain't going to help you win any wars of course In my native American heritage face paint that looked very intimidating and add in some Shouts and screams it will do Wonders into showing who Not to mess with
@okensoni7466
Жыл бұрын
Awesome work good sir..... do you plan to do the periphery armed forces as well?
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
If you mean other factions of the periphery like the taurians, marians and outworlds alliance, then yes. At least those.
@andrewphillips8341
Жыл бұрын
"Born in the Magistracy to Die for Liao"!
@azuaraikrezeul1677
4 ай бұрын
daoshien laughs.
@mikefanofGDNgenuinedarksyde703
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, though I've watched your faction overview video on the Canopans, GDN, I struggle to take this bunch seriously from a military consideration at the level of BattleTech. A nation bereft of a military establishment within the warmaking/boardgaming basis of this very universe? That sounds like an experimental idea by the FASA creators that they should have discarded for any serious, non-background group. I think their stylized stars, as Magistracy symbols not the formation, look goofy. That a separate image of Lady Centrella's hand had to be included on her character sheet after 3:00 so as to show off her finger rings, is indicative of Canopan priorities in a constantly (necessarily) warring galaxy. Actually, since this faction's governmental organization seems only suitable straining towards competent at medical care, Centrella's uniform looks like that of a space nurse, too. Way to go. The Support Corps at least sounds highly-encompassing in practicality, rather than simply bloated bureaucracy. I'm certain these catgirls could only benefit from instruction by some Adeptus Sororitas-like soldiers to truly face the militant threats within BattleTech. Though, as another commenter (Latter Day Gamers) noted, the Magistracy's literacy rate is embarassingly, humiliatingly very low. Would military members of any rank even be able to read the initials of the M.I.M.? So...their “high school level” much less anything higher ranked would be 'accomplished' only through perpetual KZitem viewing? Much like this cryptically “progressive” century of our real world, actually! “Volunteer” as an official lowest rank to this organization is amusing. The Lyrans' military may be known for stubborn incompetence in general but the Canopans have to be very close competitors when they're on their own without any alliance for anything to do with militancy. Well, this installment was as fun and thorough as your other entries to this subseries, Narrator. Highly enetertaining...not merely with tongue-in-cheek humour at the MAF. With much thanks to you, until your next sign on to BattleTech, have an awesome and healthy week, GDN.
@liljenborg2517
Жыл бұрын
Well, there's the actively anti-military folks up in the Outworlds Alliance. Some of those worlds don't even allow garrison mechs on the surface or in orbit (or, at least, they didn't until the Ravens moved in).
@donright4492
Жыл бұрын
Oh boy Mike you really Savage really got into this yeah I really couldn't take it serious either on this video when you got a faction trying to line their selves up with Victoria secret ain't going when you any wars although you should never underestimate your but in my native American heritage feathers and face paint always did wonders oh boy Just ask colonel Custer men oh man They got to see the feathers and paint Really up close 😵💫👍
@mikefanofGDNgenuinedarksyde703
Жыл бұрын
@@donright4492 HAAhahaha...ah, don...the MAF in Victoria's Secret. Great line, man, that as usual gives me instant, vivid mental imagery. And yeah, in reference to your heritage - Custer learned that most serious and final of lessons; don't mock the warpaint and headdresses!
@oneproudbrowncoat
Жыл бұрын
You forgot the Canopan "Recreational Corps", whose job is... well, we all know what their job is.
@azuaraikrezeul1677
4 ай бұрын
does that include children?
@donright4492
Жыл бұрын
It's funny seeing them in BattleTech even in Warhammer 40K there's cat girls Oh boy I think some one had a cat girl thing going on BattleTech of course I had thing for Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman once meow 💥🔥
@melikwalker296
Жыл бұрын
Did I miss a video here because I did not see a video on the taurian concordat defense video when did that came out because I haven't seen it and I unhide notifications for your videos
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
This was supposed to be the Taurian video but I swapped the upload time by accident. Taurians come next week.
@hajrakoros
Жыл бұрын
Is it just me, or Taurian video is not avsilable yet?
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
Its not you. I swapped the upload times for these by accident. Taurians come next week.
@hajrakoros
Жыл бұрын
@@GrimDarkNarrator Thanks for the clarification! Anyway I want to thank for the series! That's fantastic how you collect those infos, my drive to work on monday is done with them :)
@andrewrose3748
Жыл бұрын
Did i miss the Taurian video?
@melikwalker296
Жыл бұрын
That's why I'm saying because I haven't seen that video or the free worlds League one
@oriffel
Жыл бұрын
maybe he recorded it first but uploaded this one instead.
@GrimDarkNarrator
Жыл бұрын
This was supposed to be the Taurian video but I swapped the upload time by accident. Taurians come next week.
@andrewrose3748
Жыл бұрын
Excellent!@@GrimDarkNarrator
@sigmar4564
Жыл бұрын
🙂👍
@shawnarmitage7955
Жыл бұрын
God, guns, and Battletech. Jesus is watching you, so behave when you take a trip to........just don't go on second thought.
@Diarmuhnd
Жыл бұрын
GDN lore is fun. ...../> フ .... | _ _ l 💕 ../` ミ _xノ Meow !
@boneshaman8912
Жыл бұрын
The Magistracy of Canopus sounds like one of those factions that are too stupid to survive. Any over-zealous general, pirate, or washed-up merc force should be able to overthrow the government and institute a new one within little to no opposition. This is one of the few BT factions that I can't stand.
@Seriona1
Жыл бұрын
That's Battletech in a nutshell. No one is living proof of your statement greater than House Liao.
@TimothyGomer-or5vl
Жыл бұрын
The problem with that is that Canopus effectively set itself up as neutral ground among everybody, because not even the hardest, most swashbuckling pirate or grittiest merc wants to lose the opportunity to spend their money at space vegas. Its like Mr. house in New Vegas, Any serious power *could* come through and take over, but to do that they'd have to take enough forces to overcome the hundreds of merc bands *and pirates* that one hundred percent would get hired to fight for their favorite brothel, drug dealer, and gambling house, and if any great house were to move those military forces away from other fronts, the others would pounce on them almost immediately.
@noanswer1864
Жыл бұрын
You dare question The Celestial Wisdom's commands! Those dinner plates were Wartime Intelligence, and needed to be collected!
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