The Biggest Mech | Barbarossa LANCER 

The Armory deems "mascot-attachment" unadvisable in response to the naming of "Roller" Directed Payload Charges. Hi hello, so a correction that someone pointed out in the comments. To equip a super heavy weapon it takes a heavy weapon mount and a second mount.

Ah yes the Apocalypse Rail, it does [[NARRATIVE]] amount of damage.

You're not piloting the Barbarossa mech; you're piloting the Apocalypse Rail with Barbarossa frame attachment.

Do you like the A-10 because it's a plane built around a gun? Well, this is a size-3 chassis built around a gun _made for spacecraft._

Barbarossa: Turning your mech battle into a point and click adventure game.

Field Commander: "Barbarossa, do you see that building over there?" Barbarossa: "Yes, commander." FC: "I don't want to anymore." Barb: "Copy, Commander. Charging main gun."

Caliban: YOUR FRAME IS HUGE THAT MEANS YOU GOT HUGE GUTS *loads shotgun with malicious intent*

Ahem- Headcanon shitpost time "Harrison III here, you guys are gonna LOVE our new product. You remember the Apocalypse Rail? Well, me and the Think Tank boys sat down, asking ourselves 'how do we load it up faster?' The answer; we don't, we *unload* it faster. Utter brilliance. Of course, there was some debate if it's worth carrying a Size 3 radiator system with you to prevent the 40 Heat impulse from causing your mech to instantly undergo nuclear fission... but as I said, there *was* debate; now we have some first-hand trial data from our involuntary test subjects. Early results are promising! Not one of them went thermonuclear! They all burned alive, but no collateral!"

this thing hits so hard it Rivals the mech equipped with a literal black hole

Truly a mech worthy of the Steiner Scout Lance

Ngl, the claymore on a hoverboard got a good chuckle out of me. Some personal notes on the Barbarossa: 1) Range 48 Siege Cannon, my beloved 2) Charging the Apocalypse Rail is the ultimate bait, because the DM will either have to deal with you, sitting on the other side of the battlefield, or you declare this encounter as over. And if the DM takes, the bait, great, your squishy allies got away and you just got your Core Power back, because you didn't fire it 3) In lore, people kept strapping melee weapons to the Barbarossa, and HR was breaking their heads over it, why, and so the Frundsberg was developed (homebrew, but the lore is just great) 4) Don't ask how John Creighton Harrison II got killed

GunDAMN that is truly a big robot

Quick correction, because the Siege Cannon is a Superheavy weapon, it takes a Heavy mount *and* a second weapon mount. You said it only takes a Heavy mount and I felt the need to correct you because it's the first Superheavy weapon you've covered.

A big part of the Apocalypse Rail at 1 is the word "Stun". That word is scary at all times, but when you are in a space that does 4 burn at the start of your turn for the rest of the scene, it terrifying. Take 4 damage ignoring armor, do absolutely nothing on your turn except take an engineering check to not be on fire. Next turn 4 more damage that ignores armor, plus the 4 from last turn if you failed, and can now attempt to get out of the firestorm and put out the fire... again.

I just figured I’d mention it here, but the madman behind a lot of the art for lancer has a really good webcomic called Kill Six Billion Demons, and uh, his propensity for drawing really big things that vaporize everything around them when they attack is on fully display.

Oh, fun bit, the Apocalypse Rail doesn't have the Ushabti Omni-guns line about mods or talents not applying. So, if you happen to find a talent or modifier for Ship-class size or Spool type weapons, those will work.

"Thank you, Mister Harrison!" Yeah, no, that covers it. Just... Thank you, Mister Harrison.

Barbarossa, for when 1 massive cannon just isn't enough.

THAT’S A BIG ASS BOI RIGHT THERE!!!

Something to note is that the Barbarossa art, for some reason, does not feature the apocalypse rail. That's the siege cannon.

a build for anyone wanting to play a barbarossa btw! get technophile III and black thumb II -> you heal 2 heat every turn -> keep siege cannon everything. when possible, get Prospector III. being slow? didnt ask i made a tunnel

Time for the big guns

I'm running a Lancer oneshot soon-ish and one of my friends asked me what the BIGGEST WEAPON was. So I directed them to the Barbarossa. Cut to me 2 days later receiving a call from him asking to start at LL3 instead of LL1 like I was planning, just to pilot the Big Fuck as he calls it. He says he can deal with the whole shebang of Talents and SPs and also he has a massive confidence and a big amount of hype for the damn gun, so I'm currently working on a build for him so he can basically delete the boss of the oneshot on sight with the gun. DAMN I love this mech.

Shift to VECTOR CANNON Mode. All energy lines connected. Landing gear and climbing irons locked. Inner chamber pressure rising normally. Life-ring has started revolving. Ready to fire.

This is the kind of content that got me into the game, and the kind of content I want to keep seeing for as long as there is content to be made about it.

My friend is setting up a lancer game and my goal is to get this as my main machine with a flavoring of ot looking like Alexander from Final Fantasy.

It's funny how the Apocalypse Rail pretty much uses a miniature black hole generator - not as a weapon itself but rather just as a means of launching the railgun's payload like a slingshot.

I absolutely adore the Harrison pilot's input. Can the other factions get one too? Some degenerate 4chan'er a la the HORUS lines from Compcon for Horus mechs, some hyper-hoity toity weeb for SSC and some average, blue collar, "worker, so really I'm not a pirate plz stop" guy for IPS-N?

Apocalypse rail gun truly one of the ship mounted weapons of all time now with portable use for all your mech based needs

Thank you for bringing to my attention that Harrison Armory is actually 38 truckers in a corporation-sized trenchcoat :P

The Barbarossa is a very simple mech. It has mostly passives and the actives focus on One Big Gun and helping you fire your One Big Gun. There are also some other guns, but whatever guns there are will always be support weapons compared to the Rail. Thanks for the video.

The barbarossa is not a mech. The barbarossa is a very, very complicated bipod for a black hole powered rail cannon. You know a gun fucks when one of the attachment is run by a cold fusion reactor and towers over a mechanized chassis

The first mech license I ever got. My baby Barbie

I love me the Apocalypse Rail, but one thing to keep in mind is that most scenes in Lancer are 8 turns or less, and you lose your charge if you move or get moved/stunned. If you want to fire the thing at full power more than once, you’re committed being a turret for the entire scene and relying on your teammates to keep enemies from stunning/knockbacking you.

To quote Aleksandr Kerensky when making the design brief for the Atlas battlemech "A 'mech as powerful as possible, as impenetrable as possible and as ugly and foreboding as concievable, so that fear itself will be our ally"

Ah yes, the gun with legs BARBAROSSA. Love this mech, sadly i didnt get to play with it much. I do remember having a convo woth my DM about the Rail Gun: Me: "Is the Rail Gun mainly for cover removal or something? I can't see myself using it much besides that" DM: "Oh it's much more than that. It is a Warning, a Threat that you must be dealt with soon. You will be the target because no one wants that thing aimed at them."

I love your lancer videos, I can't wait for white witch

Barbarossa: "If God intended mechs to fly, they wouldn't have put me on the battlefield."

Hercynia: "The Barbarossa is propaganda. What human is dumb enough to build such a thing." Somewhere in Hercynia, Morning: JCH II: "Commander. See that mountain." HA Commander: "Yes, sir." JCH II: "I don't want to look at it." HA Commander: "Understood, sir."

I can't believe you did a collab with 11dragonkid! My two favourite Lancer RU-vidrs in one vid! ...shit joke aside, thanks for the video on the G U N and the Barbarossa attached to it.

It just needs to be said that we appreciate content for games other than D&D.

Babarossa: For when you need **THAT THING OVER THERE!** to be atomized.

Pilot: "Barbarossa?" Barb: // Aye, Sir? Pilot: "that mountain is blocking my view. Remove it." Barb: // Aye Aye, Sir.

Holy hell I love this mech. Definitely gonna have to deal with it when I run Lancer. I am terrified 😨

YES YES YESSSS BEEG MECH BEEG MECH BEEEEEG MEEEEEECH

love these videos, I'm gonna love seeing the horus Minotaur whenever you do that one!

Harrison R&d "How much fire power to want on the mech?" Harrison II: "No I think you mean how much mech do I want on my firepower."

The big lad

Loving the character inserts

An anti material artillery piece with enough weapon support to make Lockheed Martin blush. What a beautiful game Lancer is.

my guy you're just whipping out outfit bangers, how do you avoid missing my love

I used barbossa mech bits to make my Lancaster into the party’s bus. Loads of fun.

nice touch using Maximilien Zelevas from endless space 2 as the image for Harrison I

Another good video. Reminds me of the Long Tom atlas from Battletech.

Do I have any characters that would use this mech? No. Do I want to make a character that would just so I can make an Ultrakill reference? Yes.

With the flak and the auto loading, it really is a walking fortress.

Important note: Keep the Barbarossa and its Apocalypse Rail out of the hands of Tchaikovsky. He'll just use it for a crazy musical number...

The Barbarossa is an absolute unit, one of those you will know when you try to learn the game OH IT'S THE BIGGEST MECH! OH THE GUN! He brings a power to the table difficult to match, 'cause saddly we don't get other size 3 friends A player of mine is a failed revolutionary (there is this whole world who put up a fight with HA until they started playing more serious and were able to bought some of the countries of the planet as allies) that is aiming to achieve (illegaly, of course) a Barbarossa frame. And there was this whole moment of a flashback where they were evacuating a school and some mechs started to show up and then a behemot fell of the skies. The whole tension of imagining trying to escape and then that thing appearing and starting to charging the Apocalypse Rail... Damn

Nice to see Lancer's take on the A10 Warthog.

Can confirm Barbarossa pilots are all lunatics who want to nuke a small convoy

Meanwhile: Caliban sitting in the corner loading a shotgun giggling

Well. I commend your effort of trying to hype up this particular frame.

The only problem with Barbrosa is wether it’s no push rule trumps the “this unit is size three for the sake of shoves”

i think you undersell the gun on the barb, its capable of shooting down a ship, in orbit... of the moon, from earth, in the Marianas trench

Okay this might be too obscure but the second I heard about the roller grenades, like a year ago, all I could picture was those monowheel drone things from the battleship movie that just ram into shit

This is not a mech with an integrated weapon, its a weapon with an integrated mech. Probably going to run a Barbarossa or Sherman (even if I have my gripes with Harrison and some of their very questionable decisions in uhm everything), Just because I like the idea of having a devastating weapon and playing around it, bonus points if its really cool/an absurdly overpowered weapon for its job for no reason.

Homeworld in the background and Splatoon music , nice. (I might be wrong on the music since its hard to hear)

Big toys for big boys!

A 'Mech as powerful as possible, as impenetrable as possible, and as ugly and foreboding as conceivable, so that fear itself will be our ally. Aleksandr Kerensky

"largest frame" Me a Fomorian frame user: yea I bet buddy

I like to think that every Barbarossa pilot sounds like the Apocalypse Tank From Command and Conquer Red Alert 3

Ah yes, the Apocalypse Rail, can't wait for the Doomsday Train.

Okay, so I haven't actually played yet, but since I'm currently preparing a character for my first Lancer group, I can't help but imagine: BARBAROSSA: Hahaha! Fly you fools! Everything will BURN! Me: Well, only if you don't move or get knocked back until your next turn. BARBAROSSA: And who's supposed to move the WALKING MOUNTAIN? You puny thing?! Haha! Me: No, you're absolutely right, I can't move you. But what if you yourself move before you shoot? BARBAROSSA: W-... what... why would I- ... ? Me, smiling in Goblin: Remind me, what's your E-Defense again? :) [initiates Invade: Puppet System]

If not for the (very) situational integral tactical superweapon, I would consider this mech exceptionally disappointing since you're not getting near as much as you'd expect from the only size 3. The limited system points still hurt though. But if you need a Lancer team to have heavy bombardment capability, Barbarossa is a must. Just be judicious with which systems you load in before each mission.

Someone heard of nero fighting posaidon and was like. hell yeah

*proceeds to blast Bosanska Artiljerija into the comms*

Please do the Manticore next, please!

While not required, it is recommended that you scream like Goku achieving Super Saiyan 3 while charging the Apocalypse Rail.

Sylvester gives me Discount Dan vibes.

This is a gun with legs. The “mech” title is just for convenience

Oh yeah baby

Could you demonstrate a couple rounds of combat in this system? I want to try DMing this game but would be like a walk through on combat.

beeg boi make things go boom

Really love that Sponge Bob reference 😂!!!

heyyy buddy do you think you could do an in depth vid on either the aunic or the valadores ty !!!!

Barbarossa: When you need a BIGGER gun

a cool thing about LANCER. there is no object that has 100 hp. it gets around 50. you do enough damage to destroy everything in the viscinity twice over in practice, the railgun aint that great cause its a pain to charge it and you wont have enough turns to charge more than 1 shot, but by GOD its the best CP in the game based on style points

I NEED A MINIATURE WARGAME IN THIS SETTING

DAYUM BOI HE THICK

Big Gun, Big Boy, Me Like It

Isn't there a way to like daisy chain the difference Mex to be able to shoot further with this chassis like you have your scalp which is the first one away and then it can link up with another one which is a certain amount of way and thanks to those two linking up and then linking up with you you can shoot all that distance away which is way further than you usually can

Do you have any plans on making another video on Magnagothica

Look, I’ve gotta ask, what is the music at the start of the video, I think I need it…

Any ideas on how to balance an encounter as a GM against Barb?

Laughs in LinAc Coherent Beam Cannon.

evil GMs can totally use this against the players. set up a emplaced position with a barbarossa sitting in the back, other mechs sally out to slow down the players. can they punch through and destroy the big boy before he finishes charging?

My one complaint is that I don't like the design, I think it would look a lot better if it was a 4 legged spider looking mech that lumbered above the treetops carrying a fucking ground to orbit cannon

So are the karakin trade baronies getting their own video or we doing the mechs first ?

ok now do the smallest mech

So who's your twin with the jacket