LANCER Lore: IPS-N | Blue Collar Mechs 

ah, the Vlad. i recall someone saying: "It was either designed by someone who didnt know mechs cant feel pain, or took that statement as a challenge"

Warlocks: "Eldritch BLAST!" H0rus: "Eldritch MATH!"

The Lancaster is honestly a dream home

The Blackbeard: "yar har fiddle de dee, if I win the grapple YOURE COMING WITH ME!"

This was unbelievably good, I can't wait to see how wild the Horus video is gonna be.

I’m surprised how much this setting gives me Borderlands vibes with the big corporations having their own flavor and specialty. It’s really cool

"Some.....PeopleCallMeTheSpaceCowboy." im not gonna lie....that was very smooth and very well done and i loved that

7:30 (a paraphrased clip from LazyPurple's How it Feels to Play Engineer video) "DRAKE PILOT, WHAT KIND OF DEFENSE IS THIS?!" "I AM THE DEFENSE"

So I've actually run this game and one of my players ran a Blackbeard. Calling this mech scary is an understatement and a half! Damn thing tore through just about every combat encounter I set up. It grappled my final boss of the ENTIRE encounter. This boss was two sizes larger than it was! It just wouldn't let go! All the same it was super fun, great times and great stories all around.

Be me, a Caliban player in my current game; "Wonder if he'll mention Caliban." Does so. YES GOOD.

It’s mah Bois! Move Freight, Kill Pirates, Make Manna!

Rayleigh is the mech equivalent of a Harley Davidson, convince me otherwise

my favorite Defender/Controller build in Lancer is the modest Vladbeard, and it's literally as simple as it sounds: Vlad with Blackbeard upgrades. You have 3 Armor at Size 1, you're *always* the bigger robot when you grapple, and any source of immobilize (Grapple, Nail Gun, etc) shreds your victim (None of their defensive properties work anymore), and if they're stupid enough to try to fight back while you're grappling them, they take an unavoidable AP kinetic damage. With Core Power, that damage becomes 3 AP Kinetic *and* you take half-damage.

Fun Fact, the Vlad chassis was originally known as the Yi Sun-Shin, named after the famous admiral of the same name who essentially saved the Kingdom of Korea during the Imjin War (the Japanese invasion of Korea in the 1590s). Still, since no one knows about Yi Sun-Shin, it was renamed to the Vlad. Which sucks, because Admiral Yi is probably one of the very few in history who could give Horatio Nelson a run for his money.

So John Deere, Cat, maybe Oshkosh Trucks, and 30% of all space shipping from commissioning to breaking. I dig it.

I sure do love my interstellar shipping company that DEFINITELY doesn’t have a side thing with under the table piracy going on. (Edit) also can’t wait for the episode on Albatross, one of my most favorite factions in lancer

7:12 Technically, all anti-mech weapons are anti-materiel (as opposed to anti-personnel, look up "anti-materiel rifle", for example), meaning "to be used against material resources", like mechs, vehicles, ammo depots, unexploded ordnance, reinforced bunker doors, etc. Which begs the question, is the non-upgraded chaingun for Drake meant to be used against people in hardsuits and other kinds of personal combat protection, not against mechs?

Thank you for making this Lancer content ❤ You managed to hook me into it and buy the Core Rule book, now reading through the GM section and the way you bring your vibe to the information is great Cant wait for the next video 😁

Can attest, the Raleigh is beautiful. Had a blast with mine. Also gave it just a *touch* of Pegasus for some extra paracausality weirdness. Just a fun rootin tootin sentient yet concerningly quiet cowboy mech with 4 giant revolvers. Named it Texas Red.

There is a Raleigh build my friend showed me he calls Johnny Seven Guns "on account of him having seven guns." Apparently you can just have 7 handcannons on that thing and it's not only viable, but pretty effective.

I love how all the other mechs from this faction are designed about being no frills and practical - cowboy aesthetics aside - and then there's just The Vlad. For people who want to impale. There's a Freudian joke in there somewhere. The machine for medieval Romanian warlord cosplayers. At least we have Trucker Mech. My beloved.

You forgot an important thing about Tortuga: it's a really good hacker too; so if an enemy thinks they're safe just because they're far away, no they're not. Oh, it also has an on-board AI made by the accumulated memories of dead marines, which Union considers very suspicious

I've been wanting to learn Lancer forever, but I've never seen any youtube content about it before! You really make the lore and system feel very approachable, and I hope I can try the game with one of my groups soon! If you make more Lancer content, a video about Horus would be awesome. They have some absolutely devious mechs and I'd love to learn more of the lore about them!

Great video about IPS-N. I wish there are more people like you making videos about the lore and settings of Lancer. Also, I just realized you change your mug every few scenes. Pretty funny.

Super excited for when you get to HORUS. I got a friend i'm tryna rope in and i KNOW for a FACT thats the hook line and sinker for them. Until then, stellar video as ALWAYS! I love these full digestable dives into the Lancer story!

Okay, not the main focus of the video, but polar wells are incredibly cool as a concept. I love that 💖

LET’S GOOOOO NEW LANCER

Fantastic Video!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 💖❤️💖❤️

Excellent content, literally can't get enough Lancer content from a creator familiar with 40K That said, your pronunciation of Raleigh did give me the kind of psychic damage that a Medusa chassis could but envy

Love the nebulous fleet command game reference. Was literally playing when I saw the clip in the background!

Long story short: Unionize NOW!

i have been getting SOOOO into Lancer recently, these have been the best videos I've seen so far. if i can get my friends interested in the game, ill be sending these videos to them

Love the vids, it killed me when you called it the “Ray-Lay” 😂 it’s pronounced “Ra-Lee” (Ra like the Egyptian god) just like the capital of NC in the US

Love that you dressed up for the part. In the group i GM for we renamed all the corps because we hated the names that came with the setting. We call IPSN Ford. SS is Yamaha HA is Darpa GMS is just General Motors. And Horus is Horus....

Glad he’s here to talk about the most based of the big four companies, other than gms of course

Oooohhh nebulous fleet command trailer footage! Neat!

Great video lancer is very swag

love how the coffee mug is going bigger and bigger and bigger

Can't wait for him to do the caliban. Oh it's gonna be great.

The Drake is definitely my speed. Heavy armor, big, rapid fire belt-feeder. Just a brick-shithouse machine gunner. The Tortuga is pretty cool too.

Man, I love the energy of this vid my dude, so glad yt shorts got me to your channel. Can't wait to see Harrison armory breakdown :3

Great gag with the mugs, hahaha.

This series is criminally underrated. Great job

I see those old Falling Frontier Clips in the intro, you can't fool me. Should check out some of the more recent videos from StutterFox too. Nebulous Fleet Command B-roll is also a good addition.

Day 317 of waiting for him to cover zone of tru- Wait...

Pretty good comprihensive video covering the lore in a fun way, also 1:48

LANCER MENTIONED

Love the stuff, interested to hear more of it all!

Just found you today and was shocked by the size of your channel! I saw that you hit the 4k milestone recently, so here's hoping the number keeps going up! I'm loving your stuff!

Seeing niche rts games in the background fills me with joy

The addition of Wow wow solidifies to me that you are a really cool person :)

Yay Lancer, Looking forward to the blades vid too.

Man these videos are truly incredible. Please make the horus line soon.

Love the videos, Love the faction. Keep up the great job!!

Cool video! Love this corpostate (only because it' s a Titanfall reference)

I love these videos. I'm currently writing a homebrew campaign

so you got to tell me where you got all thoese mugs

Took me watching this a second time to see the coffee cup gags lol

This video is so great omg!!!! Was really hyped to see more lancer content from you, love your videos Have you seen the new supplement that just came out, Siren’s Song? It added a new Blackbeard Variant called the Empakaai, curious of your thoughts on it when you get to supplements

Me see Lancer, me like video.

ohhh yeah babyyyy

Blue-collar worker union... yeah, their inventive along with driven

After all of these faction I think I like ips-n the best. There is something about hardworking reliable mech that is personalized by people in their garage with all the trucker or factory workers aesthetic is just more appealing than the Weirdness of Horus, the wartime look of Harrison, or the pompous looking of SSC

I only wish there was a way to create custom frames. Tbh I’d have a field day with that and probably spend weeks building up a fleet of trade barony specific frames

I love this

A nice summary for the corp, and the mechs that they have, but im pretty sure you forgot about the Caliban

loving learning about lancer through your videos. Zaktact run game when?

If not for the intended combat zones, I'd say add some thermal discharge around the head of the Blackbeard to mimic the namesake putting lit cannon fuses in his beard. Besides, it could really ramp up the CQC brutality for those who like their fighting primal. Drake is a good defense design, and all the flash it needs comes from the muzzleS. I love Clifford, the big mech dog. And just like Boston's, it's dynamic support. A Leeroy Jenkins LARP mech is a bit unexpected, but why just support the people who quest for pirate blood when you can supply them too? Aside from not being related to sailing in any way, it makes sense for IPS-N to build it, given that the real life cowboy was a blue collar job, and that hammer could charitably be considered an homage to working on the railroad. "It has a shotgun called the deck sweeper." Color me interested. Especially if there are dynamic insertion options for size 2's. And wouldn't it just be great for theming and tactics to have a Blackbeard team hiding behind a Tortuga when the latter needs to pull back or hold position, but the offensive needs to be pressed forward? Edgelord detected.

Definitely my favourite corpo.

Love the coffee cup.

If you ever stream a game of Lancer you have a, at least one, guarantied watcher.

With the mechs I heard world eaters, imperial fist, ultramarine, white scars then spacewolves and lastly nightlords

I know the Vlad is basically a meme at this point but it does serve a practical purpose. If your ship is boarded by pirates, you probably want to take a couple in for "motivated" questioning. Well, the Vlad can immobilize a mech while minimizing the pilot's exposure to shrapnel and bullets. And once the Vlad rips open the disabled mech's hatch, the first thing the pirate inside sees is this spiked horror staring down at them with one hateful eye. I'd bet my big toe that pirate will find the motivation to cooperate pretty damn quick!

Mech violence is always fun. 7 coffee cups?

Nebulous Fleet Command at 2:42

Man I gotta play Hardspace Shipbreaker again

Love this video, love me the grungy hard working mecha, plus who doesn't love a good pile bunker? Also im wondering what game/show is being shown at 0:30.

Other mechs, quick summary for some folks. Zheng: big metal Mike Tyson. Caliban: doomguy (you are the same size as a normal hardsuit) Kidd: engineer TF2, also has orbital strikes The mechs combined with other licenses: The new one that comes with Blackbeard: eldritch math in an arm Störtebeker: edgy Raleigh

Love the Lancer vids, keep it up. Burn that hat though, yucky.

it's like RaD and BAWS had a mech child

Tortuga, my beloved

Any got that song that was near the end of the Raleigh segment?

Wait in a hallway on a ship. Can you put a Blackbeard behind Tortuga? And be able to grapple things towards the tortuga's shotgun

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YEAHHH LETSFUCKING GOOOOOO

I really want a list of background music that was used in this video.

Anybody know what song is being played during his description on Lancaster?

Someone should make a horus version of Lancaster that applies temporary werid upgrades.

1:46 how are you sopose to stop some bug mean mother Huber from tearing you a structurally superfluous new behind?

Crusades where for land and power, Albatross are here to help those in need. Big Damn Heroes

Great video! Very fun! However…hearing you pronounce the Raleigh as “Ray-lay” instead of “Rah-lee” pained me so much as a North Carolinian. It’s named after Sir Walter Raleigh

do you have any plans for a discord server?

Day 1 of asking for an Albatross video (or minor factions including them)

Tortuga is just conga line of death

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So this Aries from shadowrun in space?

We love future violence

coffie swap lmao

So Vlad sticks them to the ground and the Nelson LEROY JENKINS it to rip its legs off.

Where is the Caliban? I miss my doom mech!