i would not minded a sample of it going when the spin up was first mentioned. or even just a quick burst of a A10 firing. but as you liked legion in titan fall i enjoyed the monarch. we are both feared once we get thing spinning.
I’d say less mean and more a different protection philosophy. Sal is the one who will keep you out of the line of fire, Drake makes sure there’s nothing left to kill you. Oh, and Gorgon… If Lancaster is the healer mech, then Gorgon is the other half of the “team mom” aesthetic. “No touchies my babies!”
I think of the drake being that one loud drunk uncle that's always prepared for the Apocalypse while I think of the Sal like a big teddy bear uncle always there for the emotional support
Fun Drake fact: most enemies that attack with a profile [stuff like blast and line] have a maximum damage of 8. Combining the blast plating trait and 3 armor the Drake starts with, the Drake will only take at most 1 damage from a majority of profile-based attacks, and only at said attack's highest possible level.
Not quite. Armor is specifically applied before Resistance, and Exposed is always applied first. So if you were hit for 8 from an AOE, you reduce by 3 first, then half rounded up to have a result of 3 damage. And if you’re exposed that turns into 7 damage.
Everest: Draaaake! What are you doing?! Drake: I am fortifying this position. Everest: WHY?!? Drake:The best offence is a good defence. Everest: Aw, for Cradle's sake...
"Drake this is a bloody control zone sytrep, you are bloody 20 spaces away from the closest capture point!" "i said i. am. fortifying. this. position."
The thing about the Leviathan Cannon is that even the License fear him, even IPS-N recognizes the beast they created. They have "recommended burst timing specifications to prevent percussive trauma to joints and pilots". To PILOTS You, in the cockpit, might get hurt if you fire this thing without paying attention
Drake Meme: Someone at IPS-N wanted to return to the jungles of Vietnam Actual Drake: Welcome to Verdun. They Shall Not Pass. It's also fun to see compared to the Everest that the Drake has less HP, WAY less Evasion and E-Defense, but makes up for that with nearly maxing out its Armour. It's like Wall: You're going to hit it, but good luck damaging it.
One of the reasons i like lancer shows here. They made the everest be flat good and customizable Then made literally every option be pretty equal in appeal to it without overshadowing the ol GMS granted i tend to like a HORUS Kobold but Drakes and Everests do(to my players grief) appear often among Allies and enemy mercs
okay that's it my next build is using this as inspiration. their greywash won't be grey, it'll be a ravenous cloud of iridescent rainbow glitter. (look I like the balor's equipment as much as the chassis.)
its something like this. Barbarossa is "what if i made this rail gun have legs?", but the Drake is "what if i took everything out of the ship's hull and shoved a gun inside?"
I really enjoyed how contextualized the Drake as a chassis built by engineers that normally built long-haul industrial starships. It's Fortress, Aegis Shields, and Portable Bunker License abilities feel like multilayered redundant damage control systems that'd exist for a ship in vacuum: they made a bulkhead door that plugs holes in defenses and hits back HARD.
But can it outsmart bullet? ETA: Foundry's having an anniversary sale this Wednesday. Gonna buy myself a license to play with it with the fanmade Lancer game system and eventually setting up a game with my family to run Operation Solstice Rain.
Honestly, the in-universe "ads" are the best part. Can't wait to see your interpretation of a HORUS lancer trying to hype people up on the latest community-sourced version of Goblin floating around the omninet :D
I got to put the Drake to use in a one-shot. It was my first non-GMS frame. The second scene of the mission was a holdout sitrep. I set up and popped fortress to wall off the east edge of the cz. After shredding everything that got close for three turns, the enemy just gave up entirely on that approach angle. Drake will always hold a (fortified) place in my heart.
@@toryumau6798(until three simultaneous coups end up screwing them over as somehow a New Gundam and a Kid Newtype dropkicks the thing) Welp...back to the drawing board
welp I found my mech, thanks Zak this one is mine. infantry play a big role in a lot of the battles my GM is setting up, both friendly and enemy. It is now my new goal to turn these encounters into a reenactment of Verdun
If you're starting at LL3, consider a LL2 Drake with LL1 Balor so your defense line can benefit from the soft cover of a hive drone. Surely you won't regret incorporating viral self-replicating nanotechnology sourced from anonymous omninet hackers into your chassis. Nothing could ever go wrong with this plan.
I really love the skit at the end with the lancer hiping up the vairus chasities! Especially this one, the call sign "Overtime" was amazing, perfect bit of characterization XD
One of the funniest things you can do with a Drake is have a LHAC and Siege Specialist as a talent. One of these lets you move 1 space in any direction before or after firing a Cannon weapon 1/round. **IMPACT (Siege Specialist II)** "1/round, before rolling an attack with a Cannon, all characters adjacent to you must succeed on a Hull save or be knocked back by 1 space and knocked Prone. You are then pushed 1 space in any direction." You can use the LHAC as a propulsion method to get *closer* to an enemy. As in, you somehow manage to shoot so many bullets that the recoil warps reality and newtonian physics itself and pushes you forwards.
I've just started running a Lancer game as the DM. I'm running a premade and an important NPC pilots a drake named "Now Where Did I leave That." Its a bit overwhelming trying to wrap my head around everything and this has helped me solidify a bit about how to run that character.
Am I the only one that "heard" the sound of an A-10 gun firing when he started talking about the spin up on the "Leviathan"? Seriously though thanks for the video, it's always a treat to see you have uploaded something.
I finally figured out why I liked your content so much out of the gate. You radiate the same energy as BrickyOrchid8. Not a diss or a negative comparisson tho, I mean it as a compliment. You're creative and funny while not being even slightly boring to watch/hear on the BG. Keep up the great work my guy!
Same. Stopped watching for a while and then he went viral with the Warhammer video during covid. Never looked back since lol. My oversharing apart, it's nice that you're open about it since there's people that get offended when you point that stuff out.
I love the in character selling points of the mechs. You are a Hero, and a Legend for introducing myself and so many others to this and others systems. KUTGW. keep up the good work.
“If that isn’t enough, deploy a portable bunker around your aegis shield generator around your argonaut shield around your HEAVY ASS so your allies can also play Fortnite.”
Lancer is a great system. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but it sure is fun. Just be ready to set aside around 4-6 hours per combat session, because it can take a while.
@@BoisegangGaming yeah sech 0 will be a little bit of character creation and then combat so I can get a feel for it and see what I can change to make it work with my group
I also want to point out how much I am liking the in-universe, in-character sales pitches at the end of this video and the Barbarossa video. Really adds some nice flavor to the whole thing and nicely sums up both what makes that mech work and what it feels like tonally
I have gotten to play Lancer once, and I played a Drake, and it was so much fun. Got to the middle of the map, deployed the walls, and just mowed everything down. The bunker power fantasy.
After having put the Argonaut Shield on my White Witch, I have become a cerified Burst 2 "no damage allowed"-zone, I don't do much anything else except making sure enemy Strikers are running out of ammo before my squad runs out of HP. I hope you do those in-character bits at the end on all of your Lancer vids now, it really suits you ^^
A friend of mine uses this building of a Mech, and uses it as intended, who needs to hit when you got reliable 5 and the hp and armor to go against 3 different mechs at once while we handle the objective. I’ve seen him break all his weapon mounts and just decide to throw hands on anything to keep it focused on him. God bless “Meatshield”
The superheavy weapons are utterly ridiculous in concept, because you are just mounting something to your frame that physically does not fit in any one spot and plenty of mechs that can equip one can not store it because it takes up all their slots. Like the gun depicted on the official Drake artwork is just the Assault Cannon, a main mount weapon. The Leviathan Heavy Assault Cannon is a full two sizes bigger than that. For reference, it's in the same category as Barbarossa's big shoulder cannon that is over half the height of that walking apartment complex or Empakaai's left hand which is completely monstrously oversized for the size 1 mech it's integrated into. They're essentially Armored Core 5's ultimate weapons... and if you have a heavy mount + any other, you can somehow fit these insane pieces of over the top machinery onto a size 1/2 mech, basically an exosuit just a bit bigger than a human. I love Lancer.
As a Kidd enthusiast, I cannot wait for the vid on that - please do not mind me just slapping the dustgrave core bonus for a superheavy mount with the leviathan assault cannon, the murderkidd cannot hurt you
I am starting to play in a Lancer campaign soon and I wanted a simple mech to aim for as a first License. The moment I saw the Drake I fell in love! Can't wait to just sit on the battlefield like a smug turtle and spray enemies with bullets! I've decided that I should solve the Heat problem with Nuclear Cavalier rank 3 so I can even mix in some red hot cooling rods every now and then, yaaaay!
The Drake was already slotted to be in this position of the roster by his coverage pattern. Each of the main 4 manufacturing groups take their turns for a mech, going alphabetically through the catalogue. It just so happened that the second IPS-N turn came around the time as a hasbeen rapper with terrible personality traits getting musically wailed on.
Fun fact about the Leviathan: IPS-N is working with Harrison Armory to circumvent its ammo inefficiency by developing a mechanism that _teleports more bullets into the gun._
Dude you have won me over from Horus with this sheer awesome mech. I love it's style and abilities so much. I want to make a model of this thing. It's awesome 🤩 Thanks for making a vid on it 🙏😄
Fun fact! Art in the No Room For a Wallflower campaign suggests that the Drake was in fact a Seccom era design, giving it the dubious honor of sharing a history with the Genghis Mk1.
I like Drake. It's a pratical mech, a fun one. It's simple and lovely One of those mechs I can FEEL as a mech Wish there were more mechas in Lancer with Shields (not just a energy shield you plant on the ground)
Robust, reliable, and a stalwart defender. I think a decent percentage of urbanmech pilots would feel right at home in the Lancer with its intended role. Not the meme pilots, but those who are garrison deployed as a career lifestyle choice. This isn't meant to seek glory taking ground, but to keep those types honest or cold.
Of all the chassis, I think this one takes to Balor hybridization the best. Just think of the look on your opponents' faces when your Perfectly Normal Drake with its cannon and shield digs in to receive a charge, _greywash_ pours from between its armor plates dense enough to obscure vision, and tendrils of the stuff _whip_ out to drag the chassis doing the charging down and into the cloud.
Both are slow when not outright immobile by choice, and why not add regeneration to one of the frames best able to eat shells like noodles at a Chinese buffet?
I will mention that the Drake is the only frame that can reach permenant 4 Armour at LL3, if you take the IPS-N core bonus Also it is one of the three mechs in official material with that 3 Armour base (Drake, Genghis and Genghis mk1), but the only one from IPS-N
My favorite mech next to Barbosa. I dump 2 points into hull and another 2 into armor during a friend's game once. He was not happy he couldn't damage me
But what if, Come with me on this journey, Drake 2/Blackbeard 1/Balor 3. Swarm/Hive, nanocomp AC, Nanobot Whip. Argonaut Shield, SMN, Swarm Body, personalizations. Take the +1 armor IPS-N bonus and Lesson of Disbelief. optionally, drop swarm body for hive drone if you want to spread the love. and by love I mean greywash. sure you need max systems, but with 4 armor you can probably get away with taking a hit or two.
Damn that sponsored segment with Thompson really put it well as an IPS-N walking wall of Dakka. I'm sold. Btw what was the music in that segment? Cuz it's good
Now, this is homebrew. But the field guide to Suldan has the Drakes (slightly) older cousin. Before they perfected taking ship armour and making an unkillable mech, someone decided to ditch that idea and make the engine BIG with HUGE ammo stacks. Giving you more BRRT for your buck (the Core system let's you barrage with all three mounts or Superheavy +1) Still slow, but WAY more shooty. (Also the Leviathans lubering predecessor having the nickname "Chassis-Shredding Shit Wrecker just sold me on it.)
Do you want to fight in a castle? How about a castle that can pick up its walls like a skirt on a dress and advance towards the enemy? Do you not have much cover in your campaign or some pesky rebels and ner'do'wells keep using the terrain against you? Then the Drake might be for you. Thanks for the video.
There's a chance that the Drake wasn't even made during Thirdcomm, as one machine on the cover of Wallflower, implied to be a Seccom-era one, looks very close to a Drake. Which would make it IPS-N's equivalent to the Metalmark, that was originated from the Warrior Next program SSC had at the time.
The Drake, it’s not fancy, nor crafty, nor fast, nor beautiful, nor unique, and certainly not complex. But it’s got a big gun that shoots a lot of lead really fast and oh boy it can take some hits.
