The Battle for Battletech - A Rant 

And these same people crying about gatekeeping are fine with it when it’s marxist politically motivated.

Depends on the context but yes.

@@chalkdeamon6070 Not really. A vast majority of most gaming communities don't care who you are, what you are, your personal beliefs, as long as you come to participate in the community in good faith. I don't care what your ideology is of you're trying to change the game.

How was anyone supposed to gatekeep this? Which of us fans are in charge of hiring/firing at Catalyst or any other of these other captured companies? How do you gatekeep after the damage has already been done?

@@thegreenwig5026 we do exactly what we're doing now. Stop giving them money. Refuse to play with anyone who brings outside politics to the table (emphasis on OUTSIDE, damn Capellans...) and expouse the virtues of the hobby being for everyone, except people who want to change it.

Democracy.

Catalyst...not the Battletech community.

Helldivers. It's politics , but satire. Now get back into pods and drop down, for Democracy!

What are you talking about? Helldivers blatantly has politics. you just didn't notice because you're a consoomer.

what are you talking about? It literally does have that.

Like the case of how the US military went from being a right wing institution to a leftist one overnight. Right wing politics are "politics" and the military is supposed to be apolitical, but leftist politics are "human rights" and you wouldn't dare question human rights like trans rights would you?

Exactly. Their religious dogma shall not be blasphemed. Sup RGE, hope you’re doing well

@@thedoctormayhemfuntimeshow3213 It all starts with brown nosers, blue falcons, and yes men getting the promotions over the competent ones. Saw it happen in real time, turned me from a lifer to 214er real fast.

Derivative of the old "Your speech is violence, their violence is speech" mantra.

Conquest’s Second Law: Any organization not explicitly right-wing will eventually become explicitly left-wing

Q: Why do mechs painted in pride colours have a 41+ % attrition rate? A: They keep having meltdowns.

​@@OmegaReaverBut why are the Generators Intact? Oh...

There's not enough double heat sinks in the inner sphere to chill them the fuck out.

kek@@OmegaReaver

​@@OmegaReaver Lmao, it's easily 60% plus at this point.

Dont be stupid. Its not about commies

@@MD-yd8lh Uh... it _absolutely_ is. They're following Antonio Gramsci's playbook to the letter.

or any left wing ideolog from socialists on down the left's ranks and liberals are just the trogin horse to get to those things in due time.

@@MD-yd8lh it is about the commies. it also includes the national socialists. as well both are one and the same.

​@MD-yd8lh It really is, that's why Liao is the point and laugh faction.

😂 I've thought similarly myself....

The QA said when asked "How long have you been a fan of the Battletech setting", they said "Never heard of it till I started here". Yes nobdy is best to moderate a setting forum, than someobody who has never heard of the setting. Following the path of Disney, can't wait for Transgender Battle Mechs.

If Bandai could make 1/72 scale Battletech mech kits I would buy one of everything they produced.

@@crazymcgee3604 Hell yes! The sheer pose-ability at that scale would be killer.

🤘😎🤘

Stay ungovernable, and keep kit-bashing! Customized mechs are the best part of the hobby.

or the classic in this day and age: 3D PRINTER GOES BRRRRRR

Perfect.

They'll face the Fan Invasion...and this time, we won't let the megacorp win this!

I am *NOT* wearing hot pants...

@@digitalis2977 I challenge you to a Trial of obsession You shall be made to wear the Shortest of Shorts

has this worked for DND? for 40k ? for comics? for star wars? name ONE IP where an exodus has actually helped anything

That's like hiring a kindergarten teacher as your SWAT medic.

Am I weird for my favorite mech being for aesthetics, and it being the Catapult?

​@@chrism.1421 yes, but it's an acceptable reason 😂

@@chrism.1421 weird? Nah. Tasteless? Yes. But not weird.

@@chrism.1421 Not really, I love the Thanatos, which is good, and also the Assassin, which is horrible. Both look cool as hell.

The solution with narcissists is zero contact. This is what therapists recommend. If we leave the Internet they will have to sell the old school way, like in 1984.

That is exactly what I have done: Ignore the new stuff... and, to me, everything from "Jihad" forward is "new stuff".

Already on it. I don't buy new GW stuff, not wanting to offend them with my money. Besides which, I kind of want more than 1 model of Ork Trukk on my table.

@@1krani wasn't the original idea of the Ork Trukk that gamers would grab another (non-GW) kit and mod the shit out of it? I thought Orkie gear was supposed to be virtually random and ramshackle

90% of tabletop IP was already surviving purely because of piracy to begin with. It's just like WotC thinking they have any authority over the game of D&D.

The problem is that these SJWs (Yeah, going back in time for that term, but it still fits) have already done this to every other major franchise and hobby. I was a HUGE Star Wars fan before I ever even knew what Battletech was. They ruined Star Wars and about a dozen other various hobbies I've had. This is it. Battletech is the last remaining hobby and even though I am far from an old grognard I am here for the mechs and I WILL NOT GIVE UP THIS HOBBY!

and that would be easy. Make the wolves actually LOSE the territories they removes their troops from in order to take terra. Have the homeworld clans hear about what happened somehow, and launch a second invasion for the express purpose of purging the sphere, ESPECIALLY the spheroid clans. Make clan wolf's new position of power place them as the bad guys, and see how long they last from here before being taken down a peg, allowing a new status quo to take place...

Dude, I've been stocking up on as many of the Mongoose Gunslingers as I can from IWM for my mercenary unit.

@@SargonarhesI've got a pair of those myself. It's my favorite Mongoose!

I live 15 minutes from their physical location. They are not really set up for retail, but you can walk in, and they will hand you a bag and set you loose in what is essentially their store room. They have aisle upon aisle of bins just filled with every Battletech miniature you could imagine. It's been a while since I have been there, but I seem to remember them simply charging by weight. They were very nice, and I left there feeling like I ripped them off. I highly recommend doing business with them.

As a clanner you can take it all the way back where you came and leave that Omnimech tech where you stand

As an Steiner, I'll take that as a threat and respond accordingly! *Launches Scout Lance!*

@@sixmillionisimpossible I can't hear you out here in the Periphery. When you gonna try what the last Star League did? Maybe there'll be enough moons to bury your fallen. Mess with the bull, get the horns and the flared PPC

@@sixmillionisimpossible Hahaha I actually love what I've become! It's even better

I'm not withdrawing... I'm redeploying

A flag is a symbol of conquest and supremacy. if you are "planting your flag" you are the definition of a colonizer.

Their religious dogma isn’t political! Submit to every demand they make or be labeled an infidel!

I have to fight back a laugh whenever someone tries to tell me that a fucking FLAG of all things isn't political.

I kinda laugh since the Houses and Clans are all about politics. Even the merc units sail the political spaceways. (minor trolling here) Ditch the real life politics, keep the Battletech game politics. 😃

"You have been banned for making a mod that removes those flags, because we're so non-political"

>Using Reddit I think I found one of your mistakes here.

Really proved your point didn't they?

You cannot do something for everyone because nothing will be liked by everyone. So everyone is nobody. Let them discover that the hard way.

Everyone = Nobody

No need to leak anything. MWO models are fair game since they don't make minis. Catalyst would have to literally turn into Harmony Gold and hound Piranha to get them to file DMCAs. It would be the ultimate irony that they literally will turn into the very thing that nuked BT the last time around.

What specifically happened? What city? How bad is it getting in your area?

@@kamerionsmith4551 No,even if your question is sincere, that's a fast way to get somebody doxed. He tells you the city and then some Pinko finds the biggest gaming group and talks somebody up. Next thing you know, friend up here is going to have a SWAT team in his house.

Best of luck.

​@@diggman88It's sad that you're right

​@@diggman88 I'd argue that their original comment already says too much; but that merely further highlights precisely your point. It's astonishing to me the way these people think and act; more so when you consider that these same "individuals" are the very same who are more than prepared to do horrible acts. Yet us "old guard" types are made to look like the toxic ones because we are unyielding. Stay strong my brothers.

"Rules for Radicals". Funny how the rules for radicals means basing your entire strategy not on truth, but on lies and slander.

​@@1kranibecause it's about demoralizing the public till they go numb. Then the public gives up. The kicker this time is this recession will encourage the inclusive crowd to 'exit stage left' because they won't like the struggle on the lower end of Maslow's Pyramid

@@1krani And they never stop to consider that if they're having to lie about what they're doing, maybe what they're doing isn't the right thing to do afterall.

@@rishnix the ends justifies the means is how they operate.

​@@1krani I mean it's literally dedicated to the "prince of lies" so not a surprise

That's the combination of a marauder and a catapult, right? We call those Cat Mads in the inner sphere.

@@ChrisFoxWrites You wish free birth!!🤣

@@jal1656You clanners and your batch-all of test tube babies can go back the way you came! Free in the Periphery! [Loads AC20]

@@InquisitorJack keep your fringe territories. Who sits on Terra now? That's right, the clans do. AT&T could only save your asses for so long😋 PS. I'm a Ghost Bear so I don't agree with anything Jade Falcon does

Because we're superior

Yep no retreat from me either. This is a Trial of Annihilation against us old fans, and as a fellow 40K fan I think this quote fits our situation well: "No remorse, no mercy, no forgiveness. Not a single step back, not a single moment of hesitation. You will not succumb to fear or doubt, and you will relent only after you have given your last moment for the Emperor. Nothing less than this will be tolerated."

The ancient forums are under attack too. Got a ban from one recently for off-topic posting, after I posted a batrep.

@@rishnix the benefit is that new forums may also be made.

A good friend of mine was a member of the Green Ronin forum for their Mutants & Masterminds (superhero rpg) forum for over 16 years. Well liked by the community, always actively engaged with new players teaching them the rules, et cetera. One day a discussion broke out between her and one of the few other women who were on the board about sexy costumes on female characters (specifically Spider-Woman and Catwoman). My friend had the temerity to claim that sexy costumes on fictional women didn’t necessarily bother her. For this she was permanently banned. Sixteen+ years as a member of a SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK based forum and they banned her for not being offended by Catwoman. The moderator deleted all of her posts and re-wrote one of them to read “Banned permanently. Reason: Fucking GamerGater.” I’ll remind you this was a discussion about comic books. My friend hadn’t owned a video game console since the original NES in the mid eighties. Forums are not safe for freedom of thought if the forum is run by a corporation.

Abandon Internet. Without internet it will be expensive for them to enforce anything. In 1984 there was no Internet.

lets go back to BBSes

The new BT "fans" sure do love the Capellans and the Magistracy of Canopus oddly enough.

@@rishnix Of course they do.

Davion. Now, and forever.

Hm. Funny how that works.

@@sixmillionisimpossible that was before this went public

The woke brigade came from nowhere and struck like lightning. But they made one mistake, when they attacked MY HOME PLANET! I don't care if the line doesn't fit at the end, I'm not changing it.

Everything changed when the Woke Brigade attacked… (Different IP, I know)

Yeah, just don't buy whatever you don't want to buy. That's the only thing companies care for anyway. With the state of the world as it is, of course they have to bow down to radical pronoun creatures. It's just politics, don't waste your energy on anger, you deserve better.

@@TheR00k There's a difference between "It's trendy" and "You must."

@@boobah5643the difference is called “five years.” Two years under Brandon.

100% fact!

That's right!!

Not according to today's activist corporations. "You vill buy our product unt be happy!"

@@arthurpendragon3000 well, they can try....

The best part, is like when I dropped 40k, the money I would have spent mostly goes into my firearm enjoyment.

The clanner folk are going to make the next star league by the time he makes his character

@@sixmillionisimpossibleYou mean the Clanner version of SL or did TG actually make a character sheet?

This!

A masterpiece of an outro clip

IT'S MA'AM

Psst psst. I sell make up for combat helicopters just in case 😂

Years ago Arpanet the military network became a civilian open network. What you see is politicians reclaiming it back as a military network. Humanity never needed Internet. In 1984 we did not need it either. So the solution is that if they want their network back, let us give it to them. We can always do things the old fashion way we had when we were kids. I can guarantee you that without Internet you will not have drama. Try it for a week and you will see. Only you and your friends and anyone joining will have to show respect.

Probably after the Sabaton or Prince Music Mythos. 😢

I'm still hoping for DS9 content. Razor has a very patient fan base, it seems.

Still waiting on a new Shadowcast and Film Noirchives too...

They forgot that entertainment is NOT an essential business. Let them play the game of FA&FO (f around and find out)

And the Commie Capellans!

We didn't get beat like the wokes! We respected our foes with honor and ER weaponry.

I refuse their batchal

Under that logic, wasn't GamerGate Tukayyid?

Clans are the good guys though

I've been screaming it at 40k for years, talking to a fucking brick wall...

They won't listen. The game gets more progressive, they excuse the race washing of Aragorn, and they just came out with a Fallout set of all kinds of IPs to do. Game is down dirty, but still I play, at least hoping people hear my pleas. Eventually, they'll see how corporate it is getting.

Some people love to play the game of FA&FO (f around and find out). Lorraine Williams CEO of TSR said "players will like what I tell them to like" and TSR went bankrupt. It seems the cautionary tale did not reach them. If they want to play FA&FO be my guest...😂

Best comment.

You said what _you_ said

Or not buying into their game of pretend because they can't cut it as who they were born as...

Why accept them when they can’t even accept themselves?

Or just saying anything that isn't positive about them.

transphobia is asking what rights they dont have and are fighting for

Based

If I ever get into painting, I'll keep a special squad of Celestians with little red arm bands just for rainy days.

I almost past out laughing when I heard about an Urbie LAM! ! Then almost died when it is an actual product! What next, Optimus Prime joins the Federated Suns?

@@arthurpendragon3000 I have seen the STLs.

They get it all wrong. We are the ones defining who participates in our budget. They want to own a website? If we leave the Internet, good luck for them trying to sell us something.

Yes, we paid; not to use the forums, but to have an informed opinion about the game. There's literally a 9-year-long thread that was originally about the speculative fate of Clan Wolverine, but got mutated by disingenuous commenting to be about Blaine Lee Pardoe allegedly being a bad writer, and somehow _Betrayal of Ideals_ is a Mary Sue story. That means someone thinks that Pardoe 'identifies' with either Sarah McEvedy (which defies the notion of a Mary Sue story), OR... Nicholas Kerensky. So the implication is that Pardoe, who has otherwise kept politics and personal views out of his work on Battletech for over two decades, has 'evil villan hero domination' fantasies. As the line from Get Smart goes, "I find that hard to believe."

Not to mention he is finally talking about a videogame again for once now. It's like today is really a new day.

There is a reason why all galaxies move away from us humans.😂

The hole is called Internet. Try leaving it for a week, use only to pay bills. You will notice a change.

Nope. That's just for Disney+ inside Japan. And that's for all of solely Macross, not Mospeada. All of the original Robotech is still offered on Microsoft's store and Fandango at Home as a transaction.

I'm almost certain it's only the japanese Macross franchise.

Yeah it's Macross not Robotech, and it's just streaming rights.

They're getting just about everything BUT Robotech. They've got rights for streaming Macross II, Flashback 2012, Plus, 7, Zero, Frontier and Delta (other licensers, such as Anime Ltd and AnimEigo, had recently acquired the home video rights). The part of Macross cut up for Robotech, the original SDF Macross, as well as the movie, Do You Remember Love? are the only titles they don't have, likely due to Harmony Gold holding tight to that zombie of a franchise. Genesis Climber Mospeada and Superdimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, the other two titles caught up in the mess, as well as Megazone 23 Part 1, which was used for Robotech: The Movie, are also not on Disney. I doubt Disney is interested in the Robotech IP, it has limited boomer appeal while most anime fans shun it for the bastardization of the original shows it was; the many failed projects at continuing the franchise speak volumes to its commercial appeal. Plus, working with Harmony Gold must be a nightmare. It took even the Japanese rights holders 20 years to reach an agreement in 2021 over being able to license the unrelated Macross shows to other companies.

Mech designs belong to the Japanese company Studio Nue. Harmony Gold bought rights from Tatsunoko productions who ONLY had distribution rights for the audiovisual product Macross owned by Big West, another Japanese company So if Harmony Gold sold rights they just sold rights of distribution of Big West product but they do not own the rights of mechs by Studio Nue.

Neither has the man himself.

He does videos on YT

No guts, no personal pronouns!

You do realize that Picard walked back on that statement in the very next scene after a lecture from some chick? 😁😋

@@milankostic2571 Extremely accurate to the real world, then. So many modern-day problems were caused by women whining and lecturing, and men deciding to give them the benefit of the doubt and try their solution.

The scene in "Independence Day" when POTUS mind-links with the alien.

Outro is magnificent!

@@milankostic2571 And yet his actions stopped the borg and even saved the Enterprise. So you do realize that Picard stuck to the conviction of his words despite being lectured by the diverse independent woman?

is this stupidity that killed even Heavy Gear

all of those franchises are relatively small financially speaking yet have a large population of fans so its easy for ESG plants and money to turn them to their side.

Shadowrun is owned or leased by Catalyst Game Labs too. That Rem Alternis is a huge Shadowrun fan, and is most likely working on that as well.

Nice to see you here, Blaine. Thank you for your hard work on what you did in my childhood.

@@zgrillo2004 You are more than welcome

I'm in.

Honestly, most warhammer fans coming over to Battletech has been a disaster for BT. They need to go back to the game they still love and take it back because I'm sick of hearing about how they're only now playing BT because it's their backup female-dog.

@@rishnix with all due respect, we ain't all like that. We both like big Stampy robots.

@@rishnix lol

@@rishnix I'm a 40k fanatic and flatly refuse to be pushed out. I'm glad BT players are fighting back but my war is over here.

Wdym? There's a new edition. Its still a thing

As I recall the story was kind of lame.

@@PitPwny The new edition or over all? If you're talking over all, I mean it's not on par with Battletech (though Battletech is less a story and more probably what IRL politics are gonna be 600+ years from now) but it's not horrible. It's ok. Though I do think it's biggest issue is it tried to "balance" things to much buy making both sides almost identical sans one likes angular mecha and the other likes roundy mecha.

@@TheRyujinLP I’ve only seen the original computer game from the early 2000s. Played it like crazy, really enjoyed the gameplay, but I remember the story being somewhat dumb, even by my adolescent standards.

@@PitPwny Ah, too poor for a PC when I was kid so I never played that or MechWarrior back in the day.

They wont go bankrupt, because they are propped up by Blackrock.

Wokies? Is that really the best you can come up with?

@@Kyzrath Ah, I see you crusading all over the comments. Found the wokie lol

A-10 mode

I'm staying put with 9th edition 40k. 10th sucks a dick. As for lore, I'm kind of screwed because my faction was more or less a meme up until 2016ish. I've hoovered up most all of the existing lore so I'm pretty much dependent on new shit.

@@cousinzeke4888make up your own lore my dude. I did for Battletech, got some medieval level court drama backstory for my character, the merc units lore and the homeworld.

I do but I'm under no illusions about my skill as a writer.

So true. At the end of the day we can make our own stuff. Hell I still remember some really old fanfic that manged to introduce aliens and keep it in line with BT. Another was a simple story that used the Terminator premise of a Skynet style AI being found and automated mechs, fighters and such. Another was a down to earth more drama based one following one woman's journey from simple farmers daughter to mechwarrior up to leading her own unit (and thank god it was well written and not modern mary sue trash, Julia went through some real shit, had to overcome it and came out stronger for it.)

What's the name of the last one?

You ever read "Centurion?" That one's a classic, even if it was sadly never finished.

If you don't, they will.

Not before we have our war with Amaris, we fight first, try to rebuild second and then if we cannot we leave it behind. Man I just thought of Kerensky's message to the IS, hits differently when tied to all this crap going on.

There will be a clan invasion one day 😂

For me, Ilclan does not exust

At this point I'm convinced the game could go entirely out of print and it still wouldn't die.

@@Iamtehman83D printing aside, didn't that happen briefly in the early '00s?

@@saeyabor Totally mistyped all this. Kinda/sorta. In 01 FASA more or less went kaput, and FASA game studios carried on until 07 if memory serves right. During that time I'm pretty sure Ral Partha/Iron Wind Metals kept producing minis.