After falling for a diversion and failing to re-capture Prince Hohiro Kurita II, Galaxy Commander Cordera Perez orders the destruction of Turtle Bay via orbital bombardment
Idk how many people will see this, but it seems a few people are confused. The player made paintjob is John Deere, not Jade Falcon Delta Galaxy. It's a joke from MWO where getting lots of damage is usually referred to as farming.
And so Galaxy Commander Cordera Perez nuked Turtle Bay... his career... and his entire Clan's future. (If the _Sabre Cat_ as a destroyer could do that, just imagine what the Jag's flagship _Veiled Huntress_ as a battleship could have done)
Yup, because years later when they reformed the 2nd Star League, the Houses of the Inner Sphere decided to single Smoke Jaguar out for Annihilation largely in part due to Turtle Bay All of the Houses had suffered at the hands of the Clans, but Turtle Bay was the one that stood out due to the sheer brutality of it. It was why they all said "Smoke Jaguar needs to die"
It was a plot fix. Apparently only the Kitties had to deal with heavy terrorism. Clan Jade Falcon had some very limited exposure. Clan Wolf did not of course and planets that they captured just stayed surrendered so they remained pure and good and glorious throughout. Make me vomit. But Smoke Jaguar are evil, so they get the ethical dilemmas, and fail them badly.
To be precise in the books, the clans do not use nuclear weapons due to the possibility of genetic damage.Turtle Bay was destroyed with orbital navel weapons. In fact an entire clan was annihilated due to their use of nuclear weapons from a brain cache.
OK so far in all of these cutscenes, the thing that bugs me the most is how lethargic the mechs are. A Panther just...casually walking, fires one of his weapons at a much larger mech. The pilot of the Mad Dog then takes his time casually turning toward the direction of fire. The Panther then STOPS to fire a single srm 4. Its the same with the other scenes. An Arctic Cheetah walking up to and STOPPING in front of a Warhawk. Where is the speed and quick movements? Mechs are powered by artificial muscles that let them move fairly fluidly. These mechs all like chunkybois.
Little did "Galaxy Commander" know, his action that day damned his entire clan to destruction. Couldn't have happened to a friendlier group of elitist asshats, but still.
Even worse, it may have doomed the entire clan war effort. Due to the dishonorable brutality of Smoke Jaguar, Clan Wolf bid away all future use of warships in strategic planning, forcing the other clans to do the same or lose face. Perez basically just cost the clans their greatest strategic asset, as the Inner Sphere basically had no counter to warships other than Comstars fleet assets.
@umngyr To be fair, lore wise, the clan invasion was doomed from day 1. All the clans, save wolf, royally underestimated how much resources it would take to invade the sphere, and wolf was activally sabotaging the invasion from the get go. This just gave wolf the excuse to screw the clans out of thier naval assets and gave the sphere a rallying cry unite and kick clan ass.
Ahh the stupidity of the clans. Hopefully they don't learn from this and take over Terra in a daring attack led by plot armored clan Wolf and Alaric Wolf.
@@DoomStarRequiem the only thing more consistent than the Plot Armour of the Puppers is the ability of the Lords of the Great Houses to be complete and utter morons. As annoying as the ascension of Alaric Ward to the big chair is, I am amused by just what an utterly empty throne it's turning out to be so far. "What if you declared a Star League and nobody came?"
@@EmperorPylades that description fits Lyran, Liao, and Marik pretty well, while Kurita just reaps what it sows and Davion also continues to reap whatever Kurita sows because they're in the splash zone
And this ultimately led to the entire destruction of clan Smoke Jaguar. And that makes the hole game a bit sad for me. I like my player characters. And while I know that there is no happily ever after for any Clan warrior - they inevitably all die in combat - I don‘t really like liking my characters, knowing that they will all die before turning 30 (except maybe Naomi, who is a bit older), because let‘s be clear, no Jaguar truborn MechWarrior Star like ours will not fight and die during operation Bulldog.
The Cinematic doesn't capture the scale of destruction as written in the novels imo. The novel literally explained that the naval lasers literally "melted/vaporize" sky scrapers, that is how powerful even Naval lasers are and they are the weakest weapons on the Sabre Cat (Essex class destroyer). Also Turtle bay was a city and the bombardment wiped out over a million lives (they kinda stopped counting after 1 million) and the Sabre Cat use energy weapons and naval autocannons. Now although those look like missiles, we can let it slide because Sabre Cat is firing from orbit, even hypersonic shells designed to hit moving targets at high speeds (multiple Gs) will look slow considering typical warships are at Geosynchronous orbit (aka 35000 km away).
Man. That mission later down the road? Mmmmm damn it felt good dropping a specific mech within 10 seconds of getting off the dropship thanks to a daishi with 2 uac20 solids. If you know, you know. No spoilers!
Dear little sister, I don't think you'll hear from me ever ag'in I hope you and mom and doing alright back home on Luthien I see shooting stars up here in the sky, even though it's still day Please don't tell our mom I'm on Turtle Bay
I think lore-wise they were, or something close to it. This is the first moment that really messed up the invasion for the clans since basically all the other Clans were like "whoa, there's no honor in nuking a city from orbit" and the Wolves made a motion to remove all orbital assets from combat use against ground targets. On the Inner Sphere side, it just pissed everyone off "remember Reach" style and made every militia, partisan, merc, civilian dissident, and professional soldier fight that much harder against the Clans.
A Naval Autocannon 20 (which the Saber Cat had 12 of) does 20 damage in the Battlespace rules for tabletop. The thing is though, that these are Capital scale weapons, and every 1 point of capital scale weaponry translates to 10 points at Mech scale. Those lasers? 35 capital damage. For perspective for those who don't know the tabletop, a Clan PPC, one of the most feared weapons for how hard it hits and it's ability to cripple limbs with a single shot, is 15 Mech scale damage. They're bombarding with weapons designed to blast at other warships, and the Saber Cat is on the small side, being an Essex class destroyer, so she's 'only' 615 meters long. The entire Clan way of warfare was developed specifically to *avoid* incidents like this, to prevent civilian death and the destruction of infrastructure. The warriors who founded the Clans had seen entire planets killed in the Amaris and Pentagon wars, and were living on barely habitable, resource poor worlds; wastefulness is one of the biggest social taboos in their culture. The viciousness and unchecked aggression of the Smoke Jaguars had already earned the enmity of every other Clan, this action made them all but pariahs.
No. If we're being lore accurate, the Essex class would have conducted an orbital bombardment with its autocannon & energy batteries. It only has a couple of small missiles meant for anti-fighter or anti-dropship defense.
In his raged, he did a move What she thought was going to fix he did something horrible at the at the end we’re supposed to be liberating not destroying
When I played this mission I was shaking my head. How the hell did they get the dude off planet when the whole planet was under a no fly order with the Smoke Jag fleet around it... how the heck did a transport just magic it's way through? makes no damn sense. After they were like "He got away." I was thinking, man they should just nuke the whole planet and be done with this crap.
Honesty after this game I'm working my way back through the Blood of Kerensky trilogy, partly because of this. I don't remember exactly how Hohiro got out and want to see if the book has that detail
If I remeber right he was still on planet. It was a fake so that Smoke Jaguar lifts the blockade so that he then could leave the planet.And sorry English is not my native tongue
Dropships sneak on and off planets all the time, sensor range is limited. Story convenience. He was either already off planet in a different dropship or he was waiting until after they thought he was, or thought he was dead, while waiting at a hidden dropship somewhere on the planet.
What snek said, basically during the clan invasion the Clans agreed to leave comstar mostly alone if comstar didn't let any HPG messages off world from clan planets. So they were working together a bit.
It's a custom paintjob being used by the player. And it's a john deere paintjob, not jade falcon delta galaxy. It's based of a joke from MWO where getting lots of damage is usually referred to as farming.
