The Trade Wars are one of my favorite bits of the LANCER lore. It's genuinely great worldbuilding to remember there is never only one thing happening at a time. When a civil war breaks out inside an empire/hegemony, you better believe client states, neighbors and every dickhead with a coronet will be looking to capitalize on it.
It's one of the things I love in my settings. Factions moving following their own goals and working around/with others. Not in a vacuum, but not stuck at the hip.
Harrison having its foot in every door is just good business, war is won with logistics, and by doing a bit of everything their logistics are fully under their control.
You know, HA’s chassis designs make so much sense to me now. They used to confuse me, because while every other manufacturer’s designs tended to fall in line with their general image, GA’s designs always felt less like the products of a leading arms manufacturer, and more like the results of a company-wide cocaine bender. Their designs being created by a collective of cascading NHPs makes so much sense.
One of them: WHA. WHAT IFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. *IFFFFFFFFFF.* LASERS. YEAH! LAAAAAAAAAAAAAASERS! AND BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURNING. HAHAHAHAHA CASTIGA- no, no don't tell them that BUUUUUUUUUURN!" and that's how they made the Sherman
I love the fact that Iskander's core power is a system that deploys miniature devices in an area that is like half a kilometer in diameter. This system was originally a mine clearer, seeking out those hidden explosives and firing a flechette into them to disable them. The emphasis here is on "was". Someone at the armory realized that this same system can also be loaded with miniature mines, suddenly turning the greatest mine field disabler into the greatest mine field creator. Effectively the entire map becomes explosive on use, though the trigger thankfully isn't proximity, it's any movement beyond your standard walk speed, so you better tread carefully.
Worldkiller and enkidu are 2 of my favorite mechs in the game, because there are few things mkre satisfying that watching the enemy's eye whites melting
I do hope for a dedicated book for the big four(IPS-N,SSC,HORUS,HA) either individually or a single book because there’s a lot the core book doesn’t go into and getting a detailed look into the inner workings of these factions would be really nice and the book(s) could also introduce a few mechs related to those factions.
Ghengis is my favorite frame, my first time trying it I didn't realize that I had turned into Pyro from TF2. What's even better is if you start putting points into movement, and start sliding around the battlefield like a mad man burning literally everything. Such a fun mech, totally not busted.
Tidal locked planets spin, they just spin in perfect time with their orbit such that the day side is always facing their star or parent object. If the planet didn't spin it would have a normal day and night cycle that would be a year long as it orbits the star ;)
Great vid! Looks like you're having a lot of fun experimenting with video editing on this one and it feels a little less scattershot than previous vids trying to cover a lot all at once
I look to improve. Improving sometimes takes experimenting, which doesn't always work out. I'm happy with how this one turned out and am happy you liked it.
Caliban that can beat you to the pulp with it's bare hands because that tiny wrecking ball didn't have enough things that can push you away or blow you through the walls.
Harrison the Yes: "For the Sta..., I mean for the Clone Netwo... I mean for the corporation! Got it right the third time so it counts." Thanks for the video.
HA has a lot of my favorite mechs, and honestly some of the best statlines around even if you are ignorign the intended use. Tokugawa is probably the only core frame I legit would probably ban if I was running a game. Nothing like shooting someone for 4Kinetic + 12+2d6 burn (!!!!).
Are there any stories about Harrison the first purging the local 3rd comm elements on Ross'shamra? Or is all that just four paragraphs in the core rules PDF?
Sadly only mentioned in the Draft and alluded to in the core book. Not much on it except that it was very "red scare" esc in the following decades after the founding. Lists, disappearances, suspicion, etc.
Harrison Armory: All we're saying is: Give War A Chance! -'This message brought to you by people who are definitely not SecComm war criminals who also did nothing bad ever, honest.
Hmm, Ghengis reminds me of Battletech's firestarter. Love of fire: check, viewed as a walking war crime in universe: check, continues to be used as people disagree that war even has rules: check.
Okay, I would expect a "crack" as air rushed into the void creating a sonic boom for people near the effect to hear from that one displacement weapon, but, sure, it can possibly displace matter back to prevent that given paracausal capabilities that allow for science that is effectively magic
Yeah when it comes to the "effectively magic" part., rule of cool, etc. Though that actually brings up a point as to how it works when it fails to displace. There is no save for it in the game, it simply does a large amount of flat damage, the things that would be brought to zero by that damage are just gone (including parts of structures), but if something survives it's left with pieces of itself missing almost as if taken atom by atom from the total construct. So it's not exactly just teleporting away, it does "something"...
@t Sorta sounds like a tech similar to Star Trek transporters, just without the fancy sound effects. As though they disassemble at an atomic level, catalogue, and transmit the matter as energy to a new location to be reconstituted, but without the safeguards, revelling in the idea of "If it can't get warped out in X amount of time, they can deal with partial deconstruction as we forcibly halt the teleportation process.
Question. In battletech both as a wargame and TTRPG, it is very possible to get toys you like from people you don't by looting, salvage, and yoinking. How viable is it to acquire a certain manufacturer's gear if you don't like supporting them, or you're actively in their bad graces for covert operations to upset their longer term for annexation and conquest of a world in the purview?
@@LexYeen But I'm not talking about Horus randomly(?) sending me paracausal nightmare things without my asking, I'm talking about acquiring Monarch License ranks after disrupting omninet traffic to an SSC gene vault or getting Barbarossa license ranks after doing raiding of a supply hub and distributing classified communiques from Harrison Armories internal communication.
Harrison Armory, AKA "Second Committee? No, we're legally distinct and totally not anthrochauvunists. Please stop investigating us. Here's a cool mech that was definitely not developed during the only war humanity has ever fought with an alien civilization where we pretty much genocided them and forgot about it."
