Just so you know, the use of “March” by the Federated Suns goes back to the use of the term “March” for the border areas of England.
@wyrmshadow4374
Жыл бұрын
And Germany
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
Most European countries used some variation of "march" for the borderlands of their territory (differentiated from the heartland) or a border zone between two powers' heartlands, which might be contested or shared. The word stems from the proto-Indo-European root word mereg- ("edge, boundary"), which also gave us the word margin. Liguistic variations include mark, mork, margo, marko, and mearc, among others, but they all share the same broad meaning.
@thechazz3230
Жыл бұрын
Hell Charlemagne established The Spanish March in 795 to halt Islam.
@theodorebricker7492
Жыл бұрын
In the case of England, the Marcher Lords as they were known effectively ran their own mini kingdoms. The Marches were exempt from most royal oversight, and in return their job was to defend against and conquer the Welsh. Among other things, Marcher Lords could legally build castles wherever they wanted. This was otherwise a jealousy guarded right of the crown, since being able to build a fort made you really hard to unseat if you misbehaved (aka rebelled).
@pablom-f8762
11 ай бұрын
@@richmcgee434in Spanish is marca, and ruled by a Marquis. As it usually meant being in charge of a conflictig border, a Marquis had considerable trust and status.
@ralphsexton8531
Жыл бұрын
The JumpShips actually take roughly 15 seconds for a jump, regardless of the distance... up to 30 light years, as that is the maximum distance, barring a few super rare items. Recharge times are usually 7 days, but ranges 5-14 days depending on the star you are in orbit of. Also, the Steiner Scout Lance XD In truth, that was largely based on one situation where they realized the enemy had hacked their comms... and then decided to send 4 Atlas mechs through a canyon, claiming on comms that only a Scout Lance was covering that approach. Well, the trap worked. :)
@dreammirrorbrony1240
Жыл бұрын
Also, Battletech Jumpships fold space, they don't move physically except rarely, but their normal jump is up to 30 light years, with a recharge time of about 5-7 days. Some expensive model carry a backup battery that can let them make two jumps back to back but it is rare, and effectively doubles the price of the ship. The closest equivalent I can think of is the SDF-1 in the original Robotech also folded space to move light-years in but a near instantaneous action. The recharge times though are agonizingly slow.
@christianholzschuh6853
Жыл бұрын
@@dreammirrorbrony1240 You can always supercharge your batteries by loading directly from the engine. About 30 percent of the time it works everytime. There are also some huge space stations that collect energy and transfer it to Jump-ships. and then, there is nothing tat stops your dropship from docking to another already loaded jumpship in the system. Except maybe a lack of funds and or ready jumpships. But hey, if they are present they can be highjacked. Most engines are just huge sized particle accelerator cannons anyway...
@vanguard9067
Жыл бұрын
If you connect two Tesla Power Walls in parallel, you can recharge in six-eight hours. assuming of course you paid for the high-capacity DC charging/discharging option.
@davidzadro2939
Жыл бұрын
the jump on average does take roughly 15 seconds realtime, however there have been cases where jumpships with underpowered or overloaded KF drives have taken 350 years in transit IIRC, this is not including misjumps
@eddapultstab2078
Жыл бұрын
@@dreammirrorbrony1240 some rare, Terran hegemony and sldf ships had lithium fusion drives that can hold enough charge for two jumps, I believe the technology is rediscovered by house marik in the 3050s, and that's my geuss because that house had the most intact aerospace industry and can still build the monolith class, which can hold up to 9 dropships.
@johnwoodworth9127
Жыл бұрын
So I was listening but not really watching... I heard "Would you like to be richer than a god but dumber than a brick" and I just knew that it was about Steiner. I look and see the blue fist, but best is the 'prepare to be scouted.' tag on top. Wonderful.
@soccerandtrack10
Ай бұрын
Fredrick striener in black ops?...
@nibblitman
Жыл бұрын
Now there is no chapter for Free Rasalhague Republic but I will forgive you for this. The space Vikings may not so be careful.
@TheGlamourNazi
Жыл бұрын
I'm still at the start but if he's only talking about up to 3029, FRR didn't exist and was still technically part of Kurita space. He may go past that part though.
@thomascraiker6449
Жыл бұрын
It’s not hordes of Capellan light mechs, it’s hordes of Capellan orphanages.
@odinulveson9101
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, reminds me of the dictatorial lordsteads in Sunbro star systems. Massive farmworlds under thumbrule. Equal bad. Rather be a lousy social general for Stoner than be in vomit inducing Fedsun territory😂
@michael81vandusky64
Жыл бұрын
Comstar is a little more than you let on. Effectively, before being renamed as Comstar, they were the last vestige of the Star League, which were joined by several SLDF regiments who did not follow the exodus. As to what thier actual mission was, that's debatable as Jerome Blake had other plans.
@kereminde
Жыл бұрын
And later people had plans different than those, and so on, and so on, and oh no it's a schism... with 'Mechs, and weapons of mass destruction...
@phildicks4721
Жыл бұрын
Space AT&T...Pay your HPG bills, F**ko!
@eddapultstab2078
Жыл бұрын
The word of Blake thing only began because one of the successive high precentor wanted to keep the houses from getting ideas about earth created their techno religion, and then several generations believed it so hard that they forgot that it was meant to shield them from the houses, not dominate them.
@magni5648
Ай бұрын
@@eddapultstab2078 Turning ComStar into a religion was Blake's idea, on his deathbed. Where it went off-kilter was his friend and successor Konrad Toyama deciding that the Successor States hadn't learned their lesson and then manipulating things to start the 2nd Succession War so they would fucking learn it. And then Toyamas successor, Karpov, is where the upper strata of ComStar went full lunatic and decided that working behind the scenes to try and crash human civilization, and then rebuilding it in their image, was the way to go.
@Kingofdragons117
Жыл бұрын
The Plausible Deniability Comguard Customer Service Commando team will be seeing you shortly.
@grimlock1985
Жыл бұрын
I have been playing Battletech since '87 and you broken down everything to its simple common denominator. I loved it!! It also helps new players to understand the Battletech universe. Love to see more episodes i.e. Houses, Mercenary groups and the Clans. Keep up the good work!
@addisonwelsh
11 ай бұрын
Good to know, because I'm just getting into the franchise, and it's nice to hear that this is mostly accurate.
@joeykonyha2414
Жыл бұрын
Jumpships max out at about 30 light years per jump. While essentially instantaneous, the farther the jump, the longer the time between point A and point B. This is how Clan Wolf was able to breach the Wall and invade Terra. They jumped in from about a light year out, and the Wall couldn’t be activated in time as the jump signature was too short. Also why the original Terran Alliance was only 30 LY radius. The distance that the military could respond in a timely fashion.
@MonteKowalsky
Жыл бұрын
That reminds me that I’ve noticed some of the newer fiction glosses over the time dropships need to go from a jump point to a planet. Like, yes, the jump is effectively instantaneous. The time to get planet-side? I hope you brought a deck of cards and a book or two.
@MonteKowalsky
Жыл бұрын
I was happy Harebrained’s 2018 Battletech basically used the faster than light FX from the Battlestar Galactica reboot. It was a very cool visual and also very unique in a field of warp drives and hyperspace blur. Also Battletech is hilarious in that nuclear rain on population centers was totally normal for a while. But attacking a jumpship? THAT is a crime against humanity.
@WolfHreda
5 ай бұрын
You can make more people, you can build more houses. You know what's a lot harder to rebuild? A Kearny-Fuchida drive.
@cygryl
Жыл бұрын
If Steve likes the idea of being an infantry grunt and going toe to toe with battlemechs in the square circle tell him about the Grey Death Legion
@SpielkindFR
Жыл бұрын
Funfacts: The Lyran Commonwealth actually developed and produced one of the best light mechs in the Inner Sphere with the Wolfhound. - The Free Worlds Leage basically becomes the industrial powerhouse of the Inner Sphere after the Clan invasion. - The Capellan Confederation turns into the technologically most advanced Great House by far. - Davion turns into a fucking joke. - House Kurita fucking bitchslaps the Federated Commonwealth in the war of 2049.
@magni5648
Жыл бұрын
"Bitchslaps" is a bit optimistic for "barely manages a stalemate against all odds".
@SpielkindFR
Жыл бұрын
@@magni5648 If you had been really smart you would have called me out on misdating the whole war by a decade. 🤫
@magni5648
Жыл бұрын
@@SpielkindFR I'm not petty enough to go after an obvious typo unless provoked first. 😜
@SpielkindFR
Жыл бұрын
@@magni5648 I'm still gonna maintain that Kurita gave the fed coms a nice hearty "oh no you don't" with the back of their hand.
@eddapultstab2078
Жыл бұрын
@@SpielkindFRand a millennia
@yourseatatthetable
Жыл бұрын
I'll give you an: A+ for enthusiasm; A for creativity; B for general knowledge of Battletech Lore; and a C- for Accuracy of BattleTech Lore. That said, I'm enjoying your channel, even if, on occasion, I wince or want to reach for the keyboard, 'course, I figure plenty of other's are doing it faster then me. Calling the 3025 era the 'Golden Age', heh. Yeah, sure. Maybe the Golden Age of playing the game as it was originally presented to us older sorts, but, as far as the lore (armchair or professional sorts included), every one - well, I'm sure most Capellen's and some Clanner's probably don't know - the only true Golden Age was during height of the Star League, if one ignores the Periphery's viewpoint on that period of history. Foolish ingrates, those Periphery sorts, if they'd only drank the Star League brand koolaid... Well, as you say, that is a story for another video. Heh.
@lunarziggurat672
Жыл бұрын
god i can smell the sweat on your letters. i hope that you do take care of yourself
@notaclass-d1822
Жыл бұрын
@@lunarziggurat672lmao, what vicious comment for no reason, I hope you find something fun to do today that isn’t insulting others
@bruced648
Жыл бұрын
jumpship and warship clarification. the first successful jump occurs 2108. the recharge time was approx 2 weeks. by 2225, most jumpships deploy a sail to recharge. this reduces the recharge time to 6-8 days. with the addition of the lithium-fusion battery, a jumpship could make a new jump every 3-4 days. the real time consumption is transit between jumpship and planet, which is typically 7-10 days each way. as far as the SLDF space fleet is concerned. prior to the Amaris coup, the SLDF had nearly 3000 warships. by the end of the war, Kerenski exodus included 402 warships and 1349 transport jumpships. the SLDF fleet that remains in the innersphere primarily joins Comstar, approx 80 warships and 300 jumpships. Comstar kept this fleet hidden from the houses until the clan invasion.
@Dragonspirit223
Жыл бұрын
My favorite Draconis Combine story is after the Clans, the scientists were told 'I like theor armor. Make some.' So they did, and the Director said it was garbage, and almost executed the head of research because of it, but he managed to convince them to let them try again. The Director said yes, but tge researcher would be the test pilot. This guy was like 60-70. But they did it, and so the researchers climbed into the suit he made and was submitted to hellfire from mech scale weaponry. The suit was *heavily* damaged, but the researcher survived (barely), saluted the Director, and then passed out. His reward for this was a massive promotion and basically becoming the Directors personal researcher to work on whatever crap he said he wanted built.
@PopeMetallicus
Жыл бұрын
as a long time Battletech nerd, I love this
@catloverjerrygarcia5086
Жыл бұрын
Same I got into Battletech around 1998 and the depth of lore for the setting is my favorite aspect.
@bbsamik1999
Жыл бұрын
Great first episode i immediatly love it What i love about battletechs ftl is the backstory of it invented by kearny and fushida they were both laughed out of everywhere for their proposed theorem and died poor and reviled by the science community years later it is discovered their work is actually the literal holy grail real working ftl and they died never knowing their part in launching humanity to the farthest frontier
@Ghorum
Жыл бұрын
Oh sweet another really fantastic Battletech playlist. This is some truly amazing work, thank you for building the KZitem Battletech presence in such a tremendous way.
@vanguard9067
Жыл бұрын
Aliens smell bad; throw rocks at them. Except Number Six, she can come over to the house any time,
@kaspi001
Жыл бұрын
The only thing Davions and Taurians can agree on is that Capellans need an ass-whooping.
@britishbeef9168
Жыл бұрын
hearing podcasts while i game or just procrastinate is lovely
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm usually painting minis myself. Good motivation.
@YesNoMaybeOkSure
Жыл бұрын
One thing to note about the FedSuns. They have great industry, economy and science behind their State as a whole, but it's not quite as evenly distributed as, say, the Lyrans or FWL. It's not unusual to arrive in a system on a FTL starship, shuttle to a planet on a dropship, land in a spaceport, and then hitch a ride to your destination from there on a carriage pulled by an animal. Some planets (or population centers) are every bit as high-tech as you would expect a thousand years in the future, while other planets (or rural areas) are much less advanced - 18th to 20th century in some respects even. While this would not be unheard of in other Successor States and especially the Periphery nations, it's a bit more common than one would think in a state so advanced otherwise.
@jaykilbourne1110
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like the Imperium of Man.
@KillerOrca
Жыл бұрын
The ships very much do basically teleport yeah. Between the top and bottom of a systems Star, the most stable places in the system
@brothersgt.grauwolff6716
Жыл бұрын
your speaking of the Zenith & Nideir points of a solar system basically the North & South poles of a star
@KillerOrca
Жыл бұрын
@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 Yeah, thats it.
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
Of course, you can jump to and from other places, albeit at much higher risk of something going wrong. If suitable points even exist in a system the coordinates involved are hard to "solve for" mathematically and the ones that have been solved aren't widely shared. They're called "pirate points" for a reason.
@magni5648
Жыл бұрын
It's not about "stability", it's that if you jump into an area affected by gravity - even rather weak levels of it - *BAD THINGS* happen. You can theoretically jump anywhere, as long as it's far enough away from things that have a gravity well. That's how "pirate" jump points within a system work: They're places where different gravity wells cancel out each other. The zenith/nadir jump points are mostly a thing due to standing convention. Basically, everyone uses them because it's convenient for travel times and traffic organisation/control standards.
@Mauther
Жыл бұрын
A couple quick notes on the House militaries. Steiner is THE house for mercenaries. While all houses hire Mercs, Steiner's pro business attitude means Mercs are viewed as just another vendor providing a service. Steiner is the most even handed in its treatment, also paying the best in general. Also, while it's senior officers are the laughing stocks of the Inner Sphere, there enlisted and NCO are considered among the best. Also, a good part of the Commonwealth's strength comes from ownership of Hesperus II, which has the single largest Mech production facility in existence. In the 3025 setting, Hesperus II makes more mechs per year than the entire Capellan Confederation. Free Worlds League - Their military is a paradox. Trying to get a large scale offensive going is a waste of time, because of the autonomy of their regional militaries. On defense however, they are one of the best. Because they don't tend to launch a lot of attacks, their defending forces tend to be better maintained, especially with their industrial might behind them. The FWL has the largest intact shipyards in 3025. The FWL is also the only manufacturer of the Awesome. Their biggest weakness is they have never been the hero faction. Capellan Confederation- You oversold the CCAF a bit. In 3025 they are not the OP mega boys they become in Dark Ages. Their elite units, especially the Warrior Houses and the Death Commandos are the equal to any other Houses elite unit, but their line units and garrisons tend to be poorly trained and poorly equipped. Also, centralized command is so bad, that the Chancellor abolished the rank of General. Colonels report directly to the Chancellor (or the Command Council). Federated Suns - One of if not the reason for FedSun military success is their military organization: the RCT or Regimental Combat Team. Basically, instead of operating their mechs in ad hoc arrangements with armor and infantry, the FedSuns permanently tie their mech regiments to combined arms formations. An RCT is 1 Mech regiment, 3 regiments of armor, 5 regiments of infantry, 1 regiment of aerospace and a battalion of artillery. This RCT might be split up to cover multiple assignments, but for invasions, usually the whole RCT is committed. This means when the FedSuns do roll, they roll heavy. Also, the Fed Suns have a serios tech fetish and are the leading force behind technical advancement, centered on the New Avalon Institute of Science. They have also been the longest Hero faction.
@antimarmite
20 күн бұрын
Steiner is the house for mercs, yes, but Marik is up there too, because you can be sure there will *never* be a shortage of job opportunities in the FWL.
@TheHayfork
9 ай бұрын
As someone who kinda knows the lore (read a lot of books in my teens, and am reading more now) but isn't super familiar, a lot of the phrases used in this video describing certain factions are absolutely hilarious and completely true.
@Kramerthetroll
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this Canadian and I hope you'll continue making them. Cheers buddy and have a good one!
@jlokison
Жыл бұрын
Interested in your take on the periphery states that survived everything the Innersphere throws at them.
@shagakhan9442
Жыл бұрын
Free Worlders where you at!? Down with the Steiner's!
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
Eh, I'm more of an anti-Capellan sort of purple eagle, but you do you.
@EndChineseGenocide
8 ай бұрын
My man hoots sent me. I was struggling to find a good battletech lote channel and you were the top recommendation
@shadowhunter0176
18 күн бұрын
Ah, battletech, Game of Thrones in space with no magic, and few dragons. Probably the most fun game IP I've come across.
@steelbaron6343
Жыл бұрын
Very good, I came in with just about no Knowledge about Battle Tech, and now I feel I have a good foundation for future exploration. Thanks!
@shadowcaptaincain
2 ай бұрын
First Succession War summed up: "Who can deplete their nuclear stockpiles first?"
@bulbafett5001
11 ай бұрын
House Marik: The only threat to a Marik, is a Marik. Glory to Marik.
@braddl9442
Жыл бұрын
I think each house actually does build a few jumpships every year. You do need to replace things after a time cause no ship can last 500 years of use. The Warships though, at Starleauge level. Yeah they dont bother with them cause they just figure they are way to expensive and everyone follows the rules of not messing with jump ships so why make warships you dont need that cost to much.
@richardkenan2891
Жыл бұрын
My understanding of Battletech comes entirely from playing the TCG back in the day. Surprisingly, I actually knew a lot of this stuff.
@Chilled_Mackers
8 ай бұрын
This is no Black Pants Legion, but it is pretty good.
@JeanLucCaptain
Жыл бұрын
"hello, I am steve" "hello, I AM GROOT". has a similar ring ya?
@randyfant2588
Жыл бұрын
Well, a few things; First, that is not how Jumpships work. They leave the standard 3 dimensions of space, travel through a higher dimension then drop back into the standard 3 dimensions. Basically, imagine you are a spot on a piece of paper, in a stack of paper. You want to go to another location on that paper. Rather than draw a line across that sheet, you instead punch a hole in the sheet above you. Then you travel across that sheet, punch another whole in it and drop back down onto your original sheet. You then went from one spot on that sheet to another without traveling between them. Put another way, your locked in a room in an office building, rather than going through the door, you squeeze through the ventilation shaft to the floor above, then walk through that floor to another location and craw through another duct to a different room on the original floor you were on. Thus you traveled between 2 rooms on that floor without traveling between them. That’s how a Jump system works. Second, the Succession wars have lasted 300 years not 500 (at the start time of 3025). Third, The Steiner Scout Lance is a joke. No, that is not how LCAF units normally perform recon. They have Scout Mechs, Scout Vehicles and Scout Units like everyone else. In-fact the Commando is a Steiner produced mech, with other Houses having surplus of captured units. Steiner developed the Wolfhound (with the aid of Team Banzai). They also produce most of the standard Scout mechs, such as the Locust, Stinger, Wasp and Firestarter. As for the supposed “incompetence” of their military officers, that is also false, Yes they do have a system of allowing nobles who do not receive their families hereditary title to take the title of “General” and yes that has caused some issues with incompetent fake “Generals” ending up in command of front line units they shouldn’t have, but overall the LCAF has some of the most competent officers in the Inner Sphere. The Nagelring is arguably the best military academy in human occupied space. It’s graduates are some of the best officers anywhere. Most noble “Generals” are given command of local militia units on their home world or one a planet well away from the borders while major units such as the Lyran Regulars or Guards are normally commanded by graduates of the Nagelring. Fourth; The reason the Houses aren’t building Warships is not because their too expensive. In-fact they restarted production of warships during the Clan Wars. These Great Houses (even the tinny Confederation) encompass the economies of literally hundreds of worlds, hundreds of billions of taxpaying citizens. Certainly they can afford them. They don’t have any orbiting as museums. If they had then they would have long ago refurbished them and placed them back in service. The Warship requires a special compact KF drive that is much more expensive and more complicated to produce than the civilian Jumpship system, which was produced in separate facilities. During the first 2 Succession Wars, these facilities were the primary target of enemy attacks, including raids sent for the purpose of destroying the enemies ability to produce warships. As a result most of these facilities, including ALL of the facilities capable of producing the more advanced Warship drive were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. The Grey Death computer core allowed some of these to be repaired and brought back on line during the Clan Wars. Aside from this, the only warships remaining in existence since the disappearance of LCS Invincible in 2853 were those hidden by Comstar and those operated by the Clans. If the Great Houses had been able to produce them they most certainly would have, and did. Cost was not a factor.
@gmradio2436
5 ай бұрын
Your FTL examples are throwing me off. What you described is a classical hyperdrive in your first example and a portal network in your second. What I understood from common knowledge is that the jump is instantaneous with no travel time or needed thrust from the engines. If I am wrong, could you please point me to a source to read. From what I understand a Stiener Scout Lance is actually an in universe incident. Apparently Stiener was battling against the Cappellens and the Cappellens had cracked the Steiner comms and were picking units off as they maneuvered. The leader of the Stiener forces decided to turn this to their advantage by assembling a "scout" lance that the Cappellens got ready to ambush only for the 4 light mechs they expected to be 4 Atlas. If true, it appears that the lesson of the story has been lost in the details both in and out of universe. Thank you for your time.
@soccerandtrack10
Ай бұрын
7:01 yes,this is the happy adventure universe with toys is the 1 im thinking of...
@phalanx3803
Жыл бұрын
Somebody : "Capellan's" Science Insanity : "Deploy all the BattleMechs!" "throw the damn SUN at them!"
@billwebb1320
Жыл бұрын
A jumpship can only jump 30 lightyears at a time. They then have to recharge their batteries.
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
True, barring a very few ships with cutting edge Star League era tech that involves battery systems capable of holding enough charge for a second jump. Those were mostly mounted on proper warships and not even all of them, but they gave you an enormous strategic advantage. Aside from covering distance faster, you could jump in, find yourself in a bad situation, and jump right back out again if you had to. Of course, fully recharging from two jumps takes twice as long, so eventually you have to pay the piper.
@soccerandtrack10
Ай бұрын
1:12 "steeeeeeeve!!! Gummy bears...".
@kelleymcmahan6457
8 ай бұрын
So jumping is a bit like Dune with folding space.
@Rat-King27
4 ай бұрын
It's crazy how I like all these major factions but for different reasons, the suns might be my favourite because I love knights and nobles, Steiner have that cyberpunk 2077 militech feel, which is great, Draconis is just space Japan, and I love Japanese history, the free worlds seem like they'd be fun to worldbuild a faction of, and the capellan are just evil but in a fun to watch kind of way.
@chrismillin5805
Ай бұрын
Capellan confederation- wild card every good group has a wild calrd
@Animalover205
8 ай бұрын
"I think I stepped in some Steiner"
@WolfHreda
5 ай бұрын
I'm not a fan of the Capellans, but you gotta admit, when they get it right, they get it right. The Vindicator? Solid general purpose trooper. The Cataphract? An effective heavy battlemech cobbled together from different parts that shouldn't have worked together. And then there's the Raven, the single most revolutionary battlemech created since the fall of Star League. The Hatchetman? It's basically a fat Whitworth that traded missiles for a big stick. The Raven is an electronics warfare platform created at a time when such things were barely considered possible by the majority of mankind. That's not even getting into their technological advances in the post-Clan Invasion era, one of the most significant of which was _given_ to them by the FedSuns in a near-unusable state that they then corrected.
@connormclernon26
4 ай бұрын
49:50 Mariks: That's my secret. I'm always in a Civil War
@chrismarshall8855
5 ай бұрын
Nothing like a 2D map explaining 3D space.
@Ishlacorrin
5 ай бұрын
Funny enough, the map IS actually 3d when done showing each world and jump path. Looks kinda cool actually, though it is still a disc about 90-100 lightyears thick for the most part. Remember that while space is 3d, the distribution of planets tend to be less so.
@soccerandtrack10
Ай бұрын
4:35 it sounds like the universe i think of but only made a little.
@jessematthews6861
2 ай бұрын
As Tex says, always shit on capellans
@soccerandtrack10
Ай бұрын
1:41 its only 1000 years in the future?... "To start a story 1 must become the fool.".
@RayVision3D
Жыл бұрын
Great overview of Battletech.
@jamesblackfordjr8553
Жыл бұрын
Most accurate title ever 😂
@Ishlacorrin
Жыл бұрын
8:15 On the point about jump travel according to lore, Jumpships make instant jumps up to 30 lightyears at a time. The best description I have seen is that they create a hole deep into and out of hyperspace that they go into and pass to the next system like passing through a doorway. The ships themselves DO have thrusters and can move but not very far or fast. They charge their batteries with Solar Sails mostly, that's what the arms on the rear are for, holding the sails. 27:35 The Lyrans also have a lot of Colonial British influence with the way their 'social generals' work as well. You can buy you way into an officers commission in the Lyran army. Sucks to be a rank and file in Lyran space because you never know if your getting a good leader or a 'bought' leader. You know like most middle managers.
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
"They charge their batteries with Solar Sails mostly, that's what the arms on the rear are for, holding the sails." Well, they hold the cables that anchor the sails. The sails themselves are enormous, much bigger than the ships themselves, kilometers in diameter and thinner than your average sheet of paper. Furling or deploying the sail is a lengthy process, which contributes to the delay period between jumps. In a dire emergency a fully charged jumpship could jettison its sail and jump, but it wouldn't be able to recharge at the destination without a replacement.
@Ishlacorrin
Жыл бұрын
@@richmcgee434 I mean they 'can' charge the jump engine with the fusion reactors, but it can cause damage if it's not done *extremely slowly*, so year the sails are the best bet. I have some of the original art that shows just how large the sails are, it's honestly impressive and a shame none of the games showing jump ships ever show the sails.
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
@@Ishlacorrin Yeah, I remember that art too. They're very much inspired by various light-sail ships from other scifi stories ("lightjammers" were a bit of a fad in the 70s IIRC), although here they're being used solely as power collectors rather than using light pressure as a means of (very, very slow) acceleration for STL travel. Problem with illustrating them is the ships themselves would be so tiny you couldn't see detail, but of course you do a full scale shot to emphasize the sail size and then a zoomed-in insert to show the ship proper. Charging off the fusion generators would take quite a while for most ships, the jumpships aren't the kind of powerhouses a warship is. I suppose a desperate crew with embarked dropships might be able to rig power transfers from the DS reactors, and maybe even get some useful amount of current out of the teeny little plants on cargo vehicles and mechs as well. But most crews probably wouldn't have the tech know-how or supplies to manage such a feat.
@Ishlacorrin
Жыл бұрын
@@richmcgee434 I'm not saying it happened often, but it was mentioned in some of the TRO's and some of the novels that fusion reactors can be used to charge the jump engines. There was even a 'quick charge' option that was dangerous, but I think that was reserved for Warships and not just basic Jump ships from memory. It was one of the reasons that those special Jump Ship/Warship batteries that the clans invented allowed for 2 quick jumps, were such a breakthrough.
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
@@Ishlacorrin The Clans didn't invent the lithium-fusion battery system, that was the Terran Hegemony way back in the 2500s. No doubt they improved on the tech (or at least eased production costs, which were exornitant even at the peak of the Star League) to the point where most or all their warships and maybe even jumpships had them installed, but double-jump capable ships have been around a very long time indeed.
@sinjin8576
Жыл бұрын
Lyrian commonwealth military is literally pay to win lol
@yellowsegundo
14 күн бұрын
1:05:19 Steve:nah id win
@GeminiBull
Жыл бұрын
you should do the periphery nations as well. it'll make people like me who side with the periphery VERY happy. 😁😁😁
@scrooge-mcduck
5 ай бұрын
Comstar reminds me of what America OnLine (AOL) would have become if it succeeded.
@rankovich09
Жыл бұрын
Purple Bird Strong!*
@rankovich09
Жыл бұрын
*Andurien strongest...
@brothersgt.grauwolff6716
Жыл бұрын
"For New Avalon!, For House Davion!, For The Duke!"
@kereminde
Жыл бұрын
And one of the mercenary motto: "Cash the check, and run like hell!"
@jonreese7066
10 ай бұрын
New to the series, given what u told us about Comstar isnt it likely they were doing stuff to destabilize the Star League
@camsterdam3896
4 ай бұрын
The DC has the kintaro and the hunchback. What do you mean they dont do mediums? I guess when you do it right the first two times... lol great channel
@TheHamno
Жыл бұрын
Quality explanation, thanks!
@sebastiang.5032
Жыл бұрын
Super fun video!
@fredlandry6170
9 ай бұрын
The Star League Defense Force was the greatest military ever created by humanity. They suffered devastating losses at the end of the Amaris Civil War in 2779 the remaining SLDF forces left known space in 2784 and returned in 3050 as the Clans. House Davion is my favorite faction. The Battletech book that had one alien species was called The Far Country it was set in the 2500’s I believe and a lot of people hated it. Aliens and Battletech don’t mix.
@Malcalore
Жыл бұрын
This video has low resolution explainations based on a lot of memes which kinda skims over a lot of the more interesting details.
@Carcosainyellow
2 ай бұрын
Cool😊
@ranekeisenkralle8265
Жыл бұрын
A little sad that you completely omitted the most kickass General in Battletech History. Aleksandr Kerensky..
@geoff-lukebihler6157
Жыл бұрын
Funny how comstar turns into the word of Blake and starts nuking everyone when they don't get their way/their prophecy doesn't become true
@danak8863
Жыл бұрын
Give me a rifle and a LAW, and I'll put that Atlas in the forever box.
@1337w0n
Жыл бұрын
Can you go over the periphery as well?
@kross1424
Жыл бұрын
"He died, he had no heirs" I mean yeah, he got shot point blank by his best friend who then ordered his soldiers to murder his entire family and entomb their bodies in the royal palace lol.
@Pestolents
Жыл бұрын
1:01:52 your committing Sudoku? Not committing Seppuku? Also Anti-'Mech Jump Infantry are a thing. Every house uses them and normally have the Dispossessed in their ranks. If you can sit in the seat of a mech.... its yours... I will hose to get the former owner our latter.
@ericc8705
Жыл бұрын
I came here to say something similar ... Did he just say "commit SODOKU" ?? ...that weird number-puzzle game??
@CharliMorganMusic
Жыл бұрын
I love Steve.
@frags6940
Жыл бұрын
very cool
@kjvail
Ай бұрын
So jumpships FTL in BT function exactly like FTL in BSG, but it’s “very unique “?
@b.s.864
Жыл бұрын
Additional tidbit about the jump travel. It is so sensitive to gravitational disturbances that the only (stable) jump points are well away from the elliptic of the solar system. Generally most transports civilian and military use standard jump zones above and below the system's sun. adding additional time to interstellar travel as the dropships then need to transit to their destinations. I have not seen anything to suggest your 'velcro' theory that jumpships do not retain their kinetic energy. And most systems within the limited jump radius are unlikely to have a high relative energy. if there is a significant relative motion then part of the time they spend recharging might be correcting this.
@eddapultstab2078
Жыл бұрын
Comstar did not exist until 2800 when kerensky left and the succession wars. Before that it was known as the hpg first circuit.
@chaoscommentary2179
Жыл бұрын
I’m new currently playing throw MW5 only battle tech game I’ve played and I ended up siding with house Devion
@Balevolt
2 ай бұрын
The FWL continues to exist because they actually have competent commanders. Up until a protagonist shows up then they become braindead.
@Kramerthetroll
Жыл бұрын
If this was a game like Total War or HoI4 it would be my favourite game ever!
@colbyboucher6391
Жыл бұрын
Would be interesting, we've never really had a wide-scale strategy game. At least with HBS BattleTech + MercTech you can roll out your mech squad, mobile command center and airborne gauss rifle fire support. You know what would be sort of perfect? A Crusader Kings III mod.
@kereminde
Жыл бұрын
@@colbyboucher6391 ... Paradox IS the one who picked up HBS, but the licensing for the games (just the games, never mind the whole property!) is a *f--king mess*. I've heard there's a board game in development at Catalyst, but how close it is to being done is another story.
@colbyboucher6391
Жыл бұрын
@@kereminde From what people saw it's kind of a smaller-scale BattleForce to go with the redone version in the new Strategic Operations.
@andrewamann2821
Жыл бұрын
You could always just campaign on tabletop. With a bit of modification and reskinning to the Axis and Allies system to handle logistics, strategic phase, and economy, you could probably make a solid go of it...
@colbyboucher6391
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewamann2821 Or you could just use the Inner Sphere at War rules that are pretty much designed for this
@Icewolfcommand
29 күн бұрын
Okay, probably really stupid question. How do I get on your discord? Or do I have to be a patron subsciber?
@andrewszigeti2174
Жыл бұрын
I don't know, death fighting a battlemech might be preferable to life in the Draconis Combine...
@ngcastronerd4791
Жыл бұрын
Steve. Have you considered joining the death corps of Krieg?
@etheridgeerik
Жыл бұрын
Do you have this as a podcast? I'd like to listen on the road
@johnathanblackwell759
Ай бұрын
He keeps saying Lyrian instead of Lyran, and no how much I try to ignore it, I cant
@grakthuul8811
8 ай бұрын
I really liked the silly bird people. The book they're in kinda sucks, but i liked the bird people.
@lordedward68
Жыл бұрын
49:31 does this planet happen to share a name with the isonzo river?
@SuperRandomNinja1
Жыл бұрын
The draconas people literally just sound like Imperial Japan in World War 2. Like Japan had their own manifest destiny type shit and it was even more toxic
@99zxk
5 ай бұрын
Jump drives are not unique or original to Battletech. They had similar stuff in Traveller, but it might even predate that.
@nerofoxkrell
10 ай бұрын
What about Rasuaslhuge
@BSoDexe
Жыл бұрын
the FWL hate is completelt unjustified here imo
@timelessninja
7 ай бұрын
Classic Steiner pleb crying about Chad FWL
@Fenris77
Жыл бұрын
12:46 Actually BT FTL or Jump Drive is a lot like the Dune "Travel without moving" concept. A Jumpship while "jumping" is not moving at all as it simply "flashes" out of existance here and then flashes INTO existanmce over there... 15:23 TO quote Tex of the Blackpants legion channel "COMSTAR" is little more than a jumped upp telecommunication company... Basically a telephone company with its own military... LOL Indeed the Capellan Confederation's sole purpose for existing in BT verse seems to be pummeled by.... Someone...Anyone..Everyone...
@NemFX
Жыл бұрын
Hate to ask, what's the song? I know that I know it, but I cant think of it.
@PhantomSturm
Жыл бұрын
Steiner Scout Lance memes converted me from Davion. Or do I still like Taurians?
@1337w0n
Жыл бұрын
Going up against a mech as infantry is tantamount to suicide.
@phildicks4721
Жыл бұрын
"Kicking the Can!" is the slang infantry forces use for taking out a Mech.😁
@MrJack556
11 ай бұрын
Dude democracy sucks.
@karkkosvolfe
4 ай бұрын
Constitutional Republic is better. Democracy is rule by the mob (aka Democrats "wet dream"). Republics are rule by Law. Aka the minority is protected from abuse by the majority.
@mattlewandowski73
4 ай бұрын
Clockwise hater??? No... Just saving the best for last :) (If it pleases the Coordinator, I shall be here all week.) The Draconis Combine is medieval Japan... pure and simple... At least the romanticized version of medieval Japan... If your (life or) death serves the combine, it is an honorable (life or) death. They are also very tradition bound. When a unit was receiving the latest and greatest mechs, one pilot is said to have spoke up saying (I do not recall the exact wording, but) If it does not displease the coordinator, I would prefer to die in battle in my grandfathers battlemaster (a mech that was at the time several hundred years old and quite outdated, but had been handed down for generations within that pilot's family) It should be noted this attitude was mirrored from the real world where in WW2 japanese officers who where by coincidence of birth descended from samurai would take ancestral swords into battle (after having them modified to reflect regulation sword size and style) and use those swords in combat instead of the rifle they where issued because it was permitting the weapon to see battle again. To prove them worthy of their samurai linage.
@js1817
3 ай бұрын
Lyran, not Lyrian.
@antimarmite
24 күн бұрын
your characterization of the FWL is very inaccurate, the FWL has only had (I checked the wiki to be sure) 3 civil wars in its 800 year history, The Scourge of Death, Anton's Revolt, and the Jihad. England, by contrast had 13 civil wars in a 600 year period, and the romans had 31 civil wars between 600BC and 100 BC, a 500 year period. Honestly, most of the reputation comes from the same kind of politicking that happens in the other successor states, what the FWL does suffer from is that the politicking isn't just at the top level of the league, but includes planetary governors as well.
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