Eh. The clans still idolized Alexander. Nicholas built his "legend" by trading off his father's reputation. The Khan of clan Wolverine even pointed out how he was resting on his father's laurels during that confrontation Tex found a tape of.
4:10 "There's beans in chili? I thought it was just meat, ketchup and regret." I am extremely impressed. You managed to set off the entire chili-eating world in just two sentences.
@@patricksharpe1148 that’s not necessarily true. The current heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne Danai Liao-Centrella is a decent person. Despite her holy crap, terrible parents.
@@michaelkimberling7307 Probably the Centrella bit helping because by god House Liao is probably the most consistently off their rocker house despite all the Marik civil war memes and Kurita being almost as bad (Combine and Confederation are certainly both terrible and very much comparable, but looking at just the dynasty and not the state Kurita comes off a little better than Liao to me).
I mean, the Star League's policy of conquest caused a lot of problems for sure but Amaris wasn't one of them. That family's reason for hating the Star League was so much dumber.
Don't worry about the music too much, Airier. That opening is "And the Skies shall Unfold," a royalty free piece from Epidemic Sound. Are Clanners jerks. Oh, yes. However, had someone patiently stated, "I am unfamiliar with the term Batchal. Can you clarify what you are asking of me?" They would be honor bound to explain. This could have prevented some issues... but not all. And who thinks to ask that in the heat of the moment?
The clans' biggest mistake is assuming that after centuries of the Inner Sphere essentially bombing themselves with genocide-grade weaponry, they were a bunch of weak barbarians who couldn't put up an effective fight. They found out that those in the Sphere were a bunch of crazy barbarians who had grown accustomed to genocide-grade weaponry and would happily use multi-ton war machines to close quarters and throw hands with one another. There's a reason why one of the tag lines of Battletech is, "Kill the meat, spare the metal."
The Dodge is from the clanner trophy ceremony Tex did at the start of Catapult video. Also, all of the weird stuff in around the "lecture hall" is a reference to something from a previous video. Pretty much always.
@@pirateswiggity5278 That's acceptable if ketchup was used in the homemade baked beans that you home-canned for use in said chili, but that's it. (I prefer molasses myself)
@@skoshman1 Yeah but still. Ketchup? Not homemade tomato sauce or something? I just don’t understand why someone would think to use ketchup as a first option in any form.
Look, I know the Midwest denomination of skyline is considered heretical, but NOBODY here uses ketchup in chili! At least nobody I have had the misfortune of sharing a meal with.
Arier: "Considering there are mechs where throwing rocks might actually be stronger than their actual armament... I'm looking at you, Charger." Charger 1A5 variant with AC/20: "Hey, I have a pretty big rock."
In the Elemental vs Space marine debate it's pretty straight forward imho. Outside of armor it goes to the space marine. They have too many superhuman abilities like spitting acid. inside their respective armor, it easily goes to the elemental. An elemental suit is less Power armor in the 40k sense and closer to a miniture Dreadnaught. With a jump pack, and a battletech small laser (what an elemental wields) is the equivalent to a 40k Lascannon. So really Elementals are fast smaller more dangerous dreadnaughts than Battle brothers.
Just for the record, all of those images on all of those screens in the opening are from TTB episodes. Some of the ones you didn't recognize are from later in this episode, though.
Elementals have fairly powerful lasers and srms as standard kit, on top of the jet pack and armor tearing claw. They can also take a hit from a large laser. In other words. Eat your heart out, 40k. They're more or less perfectly equipped to counter space marines. They'd tank bolter fire, be able to blow their suits open with srm's or eventually get through with the lasers (didn't some have ppc's of some variety or flamers). In melee combat it's a little closer to even. But the elementals can just hop away to avoid it and keep using ranged combat
12:13 the short answer is that it’s expensive and logistically difficult. Though some people did. The Major periphery realms all started out that way. You’ve also got groups like The Jarnfolk off on those little blobs on the map. For the most part people that do are social or political exiles or criminals That feel like they have no other choice. 14:48 the only person who wasn’t was Natasha Kerensky. She wasn’t very politically astute at the time and so her career was stalling. She also preferred freeborn friends many of which were sent with the dragoons. 33:37 oh the clans knew that the House militaries wouldn’t understand their bidding process. They did it anyway to have an excuse to attack with full force when the opposing commander didn’t understand what they were talking about.
It also took time to build back up the production infrastructure for the advanced tech. So outer region units didn't get to show the clans late Star League level tech. But the cores of house armies? Oh those mech regiments were narrowing the gap.
@@bthsr7113 That and the fact that the HELM Core only showed tech that either existed or was in development when the SL dissolved. The Clans had 3 centuries to improve on that stuff. Even ComStar SL era mechs came close but coudn't match Clan tech one-to-one. After the Inner Sphere started getting their hands on Clan-Tech things changed and by Operations Bulldog/Serpent things had really changed. Of course it let to things like the Rakshasa. But the new SL power armor was tops.
@@lessonslearned2569 Like I said, narrowing the gap. And with vastly superior numbers, even a slight narrowing of the gap when comparing individual assets has a pronounced effect.
12:30 technically, the Taurians had a semi-expansionist movement for a time. Far Lookers, Onlookers, I forget the name. But they kept making new colonies further and further out… …until they didn’t.
@@stephenknizek2651 I'd guess a combination of running out of budget, plus the practical realities and limitations of trying to expand your domain without FTL communications. Because honestly that's 90% of the reason no one does, you can't run an interstellar government while waiting on couriers to arrive for every little bit of news off system Which is precisely the way Comstar wanted things
@@RipOffProductionsLLC Been meaning to watch that one, but it's hard to make time for such a large singular block when there are other older videos I still want to get to.
17:34. This is a massive understatement. The Smoke Jaguars saw this as a provocation, so they attacked and destroyed the unarmed exploration vessel, captured the surviving crew, and tortured them mercilessly until they told them exactly what they wanted to hear.
Tex got a bit mixed up. Most of Wolf's Dragoons were freeborn, but they had some Trueborn among them like Natasha Kerensky. Or rather, his persona assumes they were all freeborn. Jamie and Joshua Wolf were freeborn and the two leaders of the merc outfit. A member of House Marik decided to double-cross them and kill a bunch of their civilians and Natasha... didn't take it well. As in she took her Black Widow company and brought down that Marik's palace down around him, killing him with falling debris.
3:52 It wasn't demolition derby, it was trying to ride a giant loop de loop, as seen in the background. As for the bird, some alien wildlife can even menace mechs supposedly, so stay strapped and aware.
There were a lot of incompetent barbarians in the Inner Sphere. The problem was, there were A LOT of incompetent barbarians in the Inner Sphere. As Stalin said: "Quantity has a quality all its own."
The sad thing for me is how much of this I missed. I graduated in 87 and went off to a tiny college in a small town in the middle of Kansas for a couple of years and then another small college in rural Illinois. The 3028 TRO hadn’t come out before I left. The farthest in the lore I knew about was Gray Death’s recovery of the helm memory core and Hanse and Melissa’s wedding. There were no bookstores or game stores. It wasn’t until I was in grad school in 92 that the comic shop my buddy bought his weekly books at had some promo stuff about “Kerensky’s Return!” And by then I was a broke grad school student with a wife and kid on the way and the last thing on my priority list was buying all the Battletech novels coming out.
Been a while good to see ya back on battletech my man! So much good stuff in this one. I'm a filthy clanner at heart but this episode shows why I would support the FRR and have based a merc unit there post invasion. Don't want to spoil it, its coming up later..... Next week mechwarrior 5 clans is dropping! Hope to see you out there. My pc is non functional so I'll be playing on my xbox.
12:20 A lots of technology for expansion and terraforming got lost in Succession Wars, and because those thing are expensive and considered "less important", most states didn't bother to re-develop them. One state do still have the ability to expansd: Taurian Concordat, and they do keep expanding outward by puting down new colonys.... That's until they got a civil war and break out. 26:00 You are right. In Clan invasion era novels, it's clear Clan's genetic manipulation don't really had that much advantages as themselfs believes. Clan warriors do got out performed by spheroid when piloting the same tech level of mechine. Phelan keep defeating his trueborn opponent once he joined Clan wolf, the entire story of Aidan Pryde is about how trueborn superiority is a lie, and Kai (the hero of this video, and often consider the best Mechwarrior in Clan invasion era) is a spheroid free birth. Clan's genetic manipulation may have some effect, but it's really not that of a big deal.
Yeah best Spheroid mechwarrior compares pretty well to the best Clanner mechwarrior. Though one could probably give the advantage to the average Clanner over average Spheroid even in equal mechs. On the other hand even during the Invasion with Clanner technical superiority Spheroid aerospace pilots were doing really damn well against the Clanners so even if Clans might have achieved something with their Mechwarrior trueborn it certainly doesn't seem to have worked for aerospace pilots.
The difference in pilot performance could also attributed to a vastly different standard of training and experience. The low priority garrison troops the Clans shredded would naturally be lacking.
@@bthsr7113 Ahh, I see. The 2A the Dragoon brought back had the m-pulse. The original Star League 1X model had not only regular m-las, but also 2splas and 1slas.
It's actually a neat story. Mechanical Frog has a night class on it. Not as long as Professor Tex' lectures, but interesting none the less. he's also a good source if you're curious about battle armor, vehicles, or even post 3067 materiel.
I really think think you should watch Science Insanity on the highlander. one is the nerd who tells us all he knows and the other is steve who lives in the basement and acts as the standing for the audience. with memes. they also got many other videos, like Snords irregulars, ghost stories in battletech, gray death legion and many others
Pushing out far to set up new colonies takes a LOT of work and resources. Even with all the tech and knowledge available to the Clans after the Pentagon Civil War, look how little territory the Clans have. Sure, there probably ARE people who burned hard toward unknown space to find a home, but a lot of them would not survive, and those who did would struggle. There's not going to be another empire to rival the sphere out there, We're talking micro nations compared to 3067 Cappellan Confederation. The Minnesota Tribe might have something more approaching a Periphery nation, but they're been unaccounted for a LONG time with substantial resources an man power. We're not talking one Jumpship, let alone Dropship starting an empire. Edit: When the Clans and Comstar first properly met (as opposed to the snafu over Huntress), both saw the other the same. As a useful ally with shared lineage who would be manipulated or told to fall in line as the subordinate party in the alliance. Both underestimated each other. Both wanted to restart the Star League, but under THEIR vision and THEIR leadership. And in the end, both would suffer for it. From Tukayyid to Terra. The Comguard bled themselves to stop the clans, and the Clans would hit wobbies hard at high cost.
15:05 *Most* of the Wolf's Dragoons were freeborn - a handful (such as Natasha Kerensky) who joined the mission were trueborn, but they were a rarity - I think as of right now we've only officially gotten like six or seven total trueborn names who joined the Wolfs Dragoons mission, compared to the hundreds of members overall.
2:11 you didn't react to Perun's name, so I assume you are not familiar with the Australian god of PowerPoint presentations... he's awesome, you'll enjoy his bit towards the end in... 4 or 5 weeks, however long it takes you to get there...
In terms of "out there" settlers, its very non canon by design but go grab the Nebula California April fools books. One is free. They are hilarious attempts to shoe horn other settings into battletech and worth a read. The Star Wars o e in particular is hilarious.
Kurita is the deuteragonist of the setting. They are the most broest of bros as long as all of that militant energy has a place to go. If it doesn't? It's gonna take a lot of work to avoid speaking japanese in the very near future.
good on you for not being the pro clan lies remember even if the genetic engineering helps (I'd argue it's the cybernetics and better training equipment) it only gives them an extra 1 in six chance over the inner sphere stat wise
@@gokbay3057 You're discounting the massive forward assaults by diseases. Also at times groups like the Inca were weakened by internal factors such as civil war.
@@bthsr7113 Steppe Nomads of Eurasia (mostly Northern and Central Asia) or people of Africa were not subject to diseases when Russia/China and European Colonial Empires conquered them. Also, Incas would not qualify as "barbarians" anyway. If anything Conquistadors (specifically Conquistadors, not Spanish in general) are closer to the barbarian warbands while Inca and Aztec are the organised societies.
Also, Elementals are inferior to Astartes biologically. THEIR TECH, HOWEVER! Clan elemental armor is the equivalent of giving terminators a lascannon, missile launche, bolter, lightning claw and JUMP PACK!
Hey Airier if you are interested in more battletech you should check out grimdark narrator he has some lore videos called civilian life of the inner sphere like civilian life in the capellen confederation
What up again Airier,yep still putting watch hauntlich d&d cartoon review,joyride chainsaw man musical ,noochy boi and just to get more aware so maybe in next hifl there a nod, the puddin rap by team four star
we have a landwar in europe we have a war in the middle east. despite being arguably on the most enlightened age ever in human history. do not claim battletech is not realistic in that regard . .
Don't forget climate change denial even as seasonal disasters get worse and temperatures rise. Hope we get a grand future generation to look back on us as idiots who somehow managed to save things
bro pls watch handplates again. if you think it gets worse, i can tell ya, it doesnt get much worse (if at all) than it already got. at least get to season 3.
