The WarriorPope of New Avalon - Original Song 

Well the Knights of the Order of New Avalon are said to be equivalent to a Star League Battalion if i remember correctly.

@@npswm1314 The Knights Defensor have four chapterhouses, each with 1-2 battalions.

@@poke548 Ok thats a lot.

@@npswm1314 not really, they're organized like fairly straightforward Davion combined arms Battalions.

Back when the Papal States were a thing, quite a lot of them. Although, I don't think they called their units divisions.

POPE

@@bthsr7113 cristianity is confusing

@@quartiermeisterf9875 Not that confusing. Pope is the top of the organization. You can find a priest in a podunk town.

Me a 40kk refugee: This reminds me of two things

Not to be confused with the M7 Priest artillery from WW2

That’s what the art here depicts

@@KillerOrca The popemobile

@@heiroftheredeemer2828 In Battletech, the Pope assasinates you

Someone shoots the pope Our Universe: why would you shoot the pope? Battletech universe: why would you shoot at the pope?!

@@aconcernedcommissar6261 "Because he was shooting at us first!" (Nearby building takes an AC-20 round and collapses)

"Keep your Rifleman by Your Side"

"Praise the Lord and pass the heatsink!"

praise the lord, pass the ammo, from a gun barrel at the kurytans

@@temp3608 Sounds like a Blackjack ad campaign. God Bless GM's Okayest Product.

@@ColonelEviscerator general motors, from cars, to tanks, to garbage that wasnt actually garbage and made for a pretty decent firing line, take that you godless kurytans

Heretic repent themselves when the church is in geostationary orbit above them

AMEN

Just like the imperator titan

wait this isn't the Titanicus comments section...

@@maxiwarhammer either that or is as tall as a sky scrapper and has more weaponry than an emperor class battleship strapped to it

They respect there fans unlike a certain company cough cough fuck GW

@@depressedgwyndolin that is a recent development, they have had their own instances of backlash against fan content but not nearly as much as Games Workshop. The biggest incident that comes to mind is some controversy regarding the fate of the Eridani Light Horse.

game workshop should learn with battletech looking at kitten

@@GhostBear3067 yes but FUCK GW

@@midrovar5811 they could also learn how to do a proper retcon. *looks at Battletech Animated Series*

We aren't completely Godless, Bless the Coordinator

Rasalhague waves surreptitiously from behind Kurita

@@EverythingBattletech Shut up Snake, Remember Avalon and Kentares.

@@tanith117 and Helm

@@tanith117 just paste a list of everywhere Kurita has been. It'll be faster that way and we'll future proof it against future kuritan atrocities.

"Sarna good: Support Sarna," some guy I heard assblasting Capellans.

@@KillerOrca how do I get into it? Lol

@@Deridus While being heavy on whisky, named Tex? I think I know the guy.

Sarna editors are gods among men

@@knighttemplaroftentacult7123 DO YOU HELP SUPPORT HIS PRODUCTION? It’s not required, but damn… it’s almost worth i for the Patreon-only audio reports. Tex is wholesome. All praise The Black Pants Legion.

It's a great concept. If a model for the Regent ever comes out, I'll absolutely paint it up as Pope Leo XXI's.

Damned Dracs are no better than Amaris! Never forgive! Never forget! Viva Christos Rex!

Sometimes the fandom smiles upon thee, friend.

And as the guy who created the Knights Defensors, I'm a bit giddy over this...😁

I love how Battletech's lore is semi-open source for the minor details. It really makes the Inner Sphere feel like a real place.

I feels like home doesn’t it ?

It does

Well, Comstar isn't quite as special as the Mechanicus...until the Blakists splinter off.

I agree, however. I find the threat of religious stompy mechs to be rather frightening. For the greater good.

@@theomnissiah-9120 My warhammer is right where I parked it. From one warhammer to another.

Battle pope makes anything better

Fun fact. Said warrior pope was a fan made character who was made canon. Basically the exact reverse of GW's stance towards their fandom

@@travisbrewer1641 amazing

Just a heads up, he's an outlier from what I've learned, so don't expect a lot of religious warring.

@@bthsr7113 if I recall correctly it takes place in the ilkhan era, 3151. The DCMS has taken New Avalon.

I’m mixed on this, on one hand I play Draconis combine. On the other hand, this song and lore are really cool.

@@bc9402 The Combine who seems hell bent to convince the rest of the inner sphere they need to be nuked for being barbaric in war, including but not limited to enslaving prisoners of war, massacring said prisoners of war, keeping of comfort girls, the release of NBC devices against civilian populations, and of course, massacring of civilian populations?

@@haroldcarfrey4206 You say this like the other factions dont also do bad things lol

True. But there are things that Kuritans do exclusively that even Capellans would find abhorrent. No one is without sin, but some have EARNED their place in the ninth circle of Hell.

Not only elite, but fanatical. The Second Sword of Light Regiment bears the flag of Kentares IV on their mechs as a symbol of pride that they followed their orders to commit atrocities against the populace when many others only complied under duress or committed suicide to avoid having to go through with it. They're pretty hardcore.

Literally in some cases

(don't forget the blessed heavy artillery - Omnissiah Protects)

We'll show them where the real sword of light is as we drive it into the Kuritans' wicked hearts!

Where have you guys been all my life?! 😭😭😭 Come here you! (Hugs you all)

Every time I think of the TC I get strong "Blues Saraceno" vibes.

I am new to battle tech but the taurians are my favorite Edit. I have switched to rasalhague

Based Taurian Enjoyer.

I’d say an Uprising based song on Free Rasalhague and their fight against the Ronin to finally declare true and full freedom.

All good options truly

The Armed Soldiery was why the world's world's the Clans took were still be fighting. Often just infantry and armor they still strained the Clans ability to make war. Having religious fanatics probably didn't help

The black templars want to know your location for reasons

@@rocket20067 oh gods the Black Templars and Sisters Soritas would so love being in the battle tech universe. A space marine vs an elemental would be amazing

Nundams and Knights. Space Marines with Jump Packs and Grav Chutes are already Elementals.

Against Space Japan, at that.

@@Darqshadow Well technically, just New Avalon. The rest of the universe is pretty varried.

Unlike both the Commonwealth and the League. Which is strange because the NACC Pope consecrated the union of the FedSuns and the Commonwealth to make the Fed-Com. Not like the League care because its just space HRE.

@@npswm1314 I'd call 4 of the 5 Great Houses secular (Kurita is the only really sectarian one). Marik is all over the place but region matters more than faith, Liao is strictly state focused, and Steiner is similar to Davion in that its got a clear plurality faith but doesn't really factor that into governance.

@@npswm1314 both the New Avalon Catholic Pope and the Roman Catholic Pope were present at Hanse Davion's and Melissa Steiner's wedding.

@@GhostBear3067 Cardinals actually. Cardinal of New Avalon Archdiocese and Cardinal of Tharkad Archdiocese.

@@VhenRaTheRaptor I could have sworn when I read the wedding scenes in Warrior: Riposte it said the marriage was officiated by the New Avalon Catholic Pope for Hanse Davion and the Roman Catholic Pope for Melissa Steiner, I mean they were both sufficiently important to warrant a pope of their respective faiths to officiate their wedding, but it has been a few years since I read that novel.

I mean he IS the Pope. Would his mech not have a miter?

Yes, though I see it as a Warforged Cleric of an Automation/Machine pantheon, that has the Artificer with a reduced multclass penalty. Then again it could be a Homebrew to offset the multiclass penalties. Anyway, a One-shot from Dungeon In a Box I got is more Japanese style Mecha feel, I am cooking up a party for.

If you could would you mind writing the entirety of battle tech lore or point me in the right way. I am going to get started with battle tech soon

GIVE ME THE LORE

@@k9vendettathewolfofmordor529 yes, how?

@@sirflapfla97 Sarna is your friend my friend. It's THE Battletech wiki

@@k9vendettathewolfofmordor529 during the Amaris coup contact with Terra was basically impossible. It was assumed that Rome was razed and the old Pope killed. The cardinal of New Avalon basically declared New Avalon the last remaining seat of Catholicism and made himself Pope as he thought he was basically the last cardinal

Sometimes, you need to break some heads in the Lords name.

Why not a pair of sanctified Clan ER PPC called Lux Sanctus < Holy Light> as a secondary weapons?

@@joshuasturnfield7549 The Kuritans already built the "Lord's Light" PPC :/

@@Spore9996 There is no reason to not coopt the name. Even better it might add insult to injury if the "Lord's Light" became the chosen weapon of an anti-kurita religious faction.

@@JPG.01 Fair enough.

@@fakexanax3218 Tex says otherwise lol

Pope of a splinter of the Catholic church called the new Avalon catholic church. So pope and some Cardinals where killed by some people working for the draconis combine. New pope was a former mech pilot and started up the knights defensor which is basically knights in mech suits. So yeah we got a pope and knights going around in mech suits killing heretics

@@sirflapfla97 what paintscheme do they use? Are the knights defensor also white mechs with the red Px and some red parts, or are they painted differently? Sorry if this question is dumb, I am quite new to Battletech lore and just about understood the Exodus, the clans and the clan invasion. But about the rest I am still not really well versed.

@@sirflapfla97 Alexander Anderson approves this pope.

@@feliorserapheel6539 they are blue and gold

Forgive me, my former countryman but have you heard the good Word of Blake?

@@Deridus *racks autocannon* Considering what you lot did to New Avalon, you best keep moving.

@@Haloister (laughs in ROM) I didn't do anything.

@@Deridus That's a good thing too, because I don't think I can actually heft this thing to aim it outside of a 'Mech

@@Deridus *heavy gas mask breathing followed woth the sound of a pulse laser being booted up* Where we going, shovels won't be enough

Thank you.

"Vade retre satana" is better translated as "Back off Satan" since is an order from the Lord

I'm not religious... BUTT!

That's a translation, a really rough one, with mistakes, but a translation. A chunk of this is common place Catholicism for most part, heard most of these phrases most of my life, outside of parts of the longer, second part, which are rather old, but standard Latin Ecclesia. Many of the words from the second chunk are still rather common words to encounter in Latin Ecclesia. ----- "Sanctus Dominus" "Holy Lord" Sanctus means holy, Dominus means Lord/Master, as in a title, so that's Lord, as in The Lord Our God. "Sanctus Oremus" "Holy" "Let us pray" We covered Sanctus above, so we'll skip that. Oremus, is the invitation to pray, said before short prayers in the Catholic Mass. I'd take this more in the sense of "Let us say this holy prayer:", as these things don't always translate well in a direct manner, and the meanings tend to be more "established" than "literal". Honestly, you could argue a few interpretations here, either as stating it, as said, before the short prayer that follows, or as an invitation to the listener to, as history so elequently put it "Take up the Cross" in defence of the Faith. ----- CRUX SACRA SIT MIHI LUX / NON DRACO SIT MIHI DUX VADE RETRO SATANA / NUNQUAM SUADE MIHI VANA SUNT MALA QUAE LIBAS / IPSE VENENA BIBAS Would be "May the Holy Cross be my light / May the dragon never be my guide Begone Satan / Never tempt me with your vanities What you offer me is evil / drink the poison yourself." This originally comes from a 1400's Western Christian text on Exorcism, but is more commonly found in modern use engraved around crucifixes or Western St. Benedict medals.

@@MrEvanmcneilage i'd personally translate non draco sit mihi dux as may the dragon never be my ruler (dux is often used as commander, and while it usually means a military commander, it can also be used as a leader of a nation, like it was used by fascist Italy)

And among the lyrics should be the phrase "nuclear weapons are just an inconvenience"

@@z3r0_35 I test listened, “nuclear fire, merely inconvenient” is one of the last lines

:)

That’s probably coming if I had to guess

"Nukes are frankly (explosion) boring." would be acceptable.

I find it a rather entertaining coincidence that I had just listened to The Last Stand before hearing this.

thank you i was wondering what in the high heavens he was saying

You could also translate part of that as "the dragon is not my lord," as "Dux" was a Roman military title that was later used for the basis of the feudal title of "Duke."

May the Holy Cross be my light. May the dragon never be my guide. Begone Satan. Don't tempt me with thine vanities What you offer me is evil. Drink the poison yourself. That's a prayer. The initials of each word in the prayer are engraved on medals of saint benedict. I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can take those medals (or a crucifix or similar religious item) to a catholic priest and he will bless it by reciting that prayer; the item is then believed to be able to protect you from evil influences.

It is a Medieval Exorcism Rite

the part of this song that always stuck with me was just loudly yelling BIBAS Bibas meaning satan is just... glorious.

Sounds like powerwolf for this one. Power metal would be the genre, a good mix of sound and actually being able to hear what they’re saying.

@@alexs1954 absolutely sounds like power metal, I’ve been enjoying the slow turn into heavier songs, gray death legion gave me melodic vibes

@@alexs1954 oh good its not just me that heard the powerwolf feeling in this

@@Dzann88 I do believe StringStorm mentioned in a post that this would be based on Powerwolf.

Me too mate!

quick Q: have you listened to Powerwolf?

@@reload2893 pretty sure we all have at some point.

@@reload2893 One of my favorite bands

@@reload2893 they make a great christian music and ones that doesn't sound boring or cheesy but badass and exciting to listen to

"Their's a new pope in town, the Warrior Pope. And he really fucking hates Kuritans."

I was expecting a tau empire song when I seen the mecha

Funny thing is that the warhammer exodus resembles so much the SLDF exudus. Hopefully these new fans don't pull a Nicholas Keresnky on us and go full retard.

@@frking100 People from 40k threatened Tex for speaking with Arch, its already happened sadly

How does one measure fandom superiority?

@@antonin_suk I mean, Battletech is basically pretty chill, no one really cares what views anyone has, there's not much pull to go one way or another, there isn't really any strife with the company, and as I mentioned to someone else, there aren't death threats made against basically the voice of the community for going on a podcast

@@littleshep5502 Good points. However, with that said, I believe that the WH community is more numerous (if I am not mistaken). So there is a statistically greater potential for people to be dipshits. The "measurement" is absolute, not relative.

Praise the lord, he ain't a politician.

while true. the same could be argued for liao.

Kuritans are mostly scum but at least they're not Cappies. There have at least been a few honorable people to come out of the Combine but the only good thing House Liao ever did was the Raven.

@@ikillstupidcomments well...and the vindicare....i'm STILL so PISSED that my favorite light/medium mech....came from the cappellans..... every night i gotta wash it just in case any taint shows up

Wai, wai, wait... "Loyal" to the Confederation? WHAT!? Also, Mercs don't work for Kurita, so... HATE!

Kurita deserved Clan Smoke Jaguar.

Funny that. Actually most of the actually practicing Shinto sects are either on New Kyoto (temporarily occupied by furries) or the Magistracy of Canopus. The Draconis Combine replaces Shinto with this weird Cult of the Coordinator thing. The only religion that has an exception is Islam because they kicked the DC's ass, and joined peacefully in exchange for that exception.

I can see the Combine battle music like something from Ghost in the Shell.

The song speaks of His Holiness Pope Leo XXI. He was once the grand master of the Knights Defensor, the church's battlemech force.He rose to his position when New Avalon was occupied by House Kurita's military (DCMS, "dragon") During this occupation, DCMS murdered Pope Beneficent XVII and slaughtered the entire college of cardinals. The surviving archbishop from elsewhere elected Pope Leo in recognition of his battle prowess. He then personally led the Knights Defensor in a holy war against the DCMS, often saving/protecting Christian settlements from Kuritan cruelty.

@@d5hadow858 lol a Christian church survived that long.

In the current era of the Battletech timeline, the IlClan Era, the Draconis Combine successfully invaded New Avalon, capitol of the Federated Suns. The DCMS, the bloodthirsty, amoral fucks they are, decided to murder the Pope and College of Cardinals of the New Avalon Catholic Church as part of the occupation. In response, the surviving archbishops elected Pope Leo XXI, a former officer of the First Avalon Hussars and Grand Master of the Knights Defensor order militant. He often leads assaults against the Combine personally in a solid gold battlemech at the head of his Knights on his mission to liberate the faithful.

"Sanctus dominus. Sanctus, oremus crux sacra sit mihi lux. Non draco sit mihi dux. Vade retro satana ninquam suade mihi vana. Sunt mala quae libas ipse venena bibas." Which roughly translates into "Holy Lord. Holy cross, let us pray for the sacred light. The dragon will not be my guide. Go behind me, you vain Satan. There are evils that offer me the same poisons as you drink."

Thank you. Now I’m gonna go turn my unmade Battletech force I was going to ply as Militia in some Knights Defensor

Last i checked the head of the Adeptus Ministorium didnt have his own Titan.

What do you call that giant combat censor?

@@KillerOrca A cure for Kurita. Apply to head with ample rage. If subject is still a godless Kuritan, repeat the process until they cease being so.

@@stbaird7977 excellent

The guy who paid the kickstarter to have this character created is on here too somewhere.

Just so you know, this guy is an outlier and most mechs are affiliated with mercs and/or professional militaries. In this specific case, House Kurita poked the New Avalon Catholics, yet another offshoot of the Roman Catholic Church. Specifically by delivering quite possibly the worst Catholic persecution in the centuries since the instance that lead to the New Avalon church being formed as a potential lifeboat for the very survival of the institution. Because Battletech has some loony villains. If you want more info as to why the Catholic church might be at all worried about survival, go look up the Tex Talks Battletech series, specifically the Amaris Civil War videos. Things got bad then.

Im pretty sure any Imperial Knight models that arent from the Adeptus Titanicus boardgame would be too big to fit on a normal Battletech table, you would need to Proxy it. Battletech being Model Agnostic is always helpful tho. Translating weapons honestly wouldnt be that hard. Most Warhound Variants and most Imperial Knight Variants could fit in Battletech. They would be rather oddly designed compared to other mechs but not that far out there. LAMs are objectively more unusual.

@@npswm1314 Ah yes LAMs which are objectively not a Macross Crossover 😂

@@JeanLucCaptain Yeah totally absolutely not...Dont say it too loudly Harmony Gold's Lawyers might hear us.

@@npswm1314 Only thing that might be an issue is the chainblades but you can run those as hatchets without much issue. If the damn Kuritans can have mech sized katanas...

@@KillerOrca Mech mounted chainsaws arent exactly...uncommon.

I look forward to the bagpipes.

Hilariously, knowing how poorly Catholicism spread in Japan historically this is very funny. Watching Blue Exorcist gives me headaches because just...no. I mean at least Vatican Miracle Examiners was correct in most cases.

@@npswm1314 True

Catholics: OK, that's awesome.

New lore so there isn't much about it. But you can read what there is here: www.sarna.net/wiki/New_Avalon_Catholic_Church

Its like pope but with mech

The Draconis Combine rules over New Avalon so the pope of the New Avalon Catholic Church is waging a Crusader against the DCMS.

@@npswm1314 yeah but with mech also fuck draconis

In 3146 the Draconis Combine invaded the Homeworld of the House Davion/Federated Sun's. The Combine slaughtered the Clergy and Murdered the Pope of the New Avalon Catholic Church. The Church, with its warriors, the Knights Defensors, have made it their mission to fight the might of the Combine.

Well said.

The lord’s voice echoed from the mountain with a thunderous boom, and the lord said, “fuck house Kurita”, amen.

Wonder why :smirk:

;o

Welcome, just don't take the religious overtones as indicative of the setting. It does play a part, but by and large, it's about nations and the noble houses who lead them. Oh, and the multitude of mercs who serve as pawns in the great game.

@@bthsr7113 Sounds like heretic talk to me...

Its an official mech too. Called the Regent. Came out in a recent Recognition Guide.

I mean it basically looks like someone took an Awesome and said "Yeah 3 PPCs is cool, and all, but I would like some extra variety in my murder tools" so it already gets points there

@@Insanemage2001 Knowing Battletech that is probably true.

after a bit of digging to make the mech without sacrificing armor you are probably going to need to do the following, drop the right shoulder LB-X 20 for an LB-X 10 so the ammunition matches the prime variant and clears up 1 ton, take out the arm heatsink and med laser for another 3 and take off the hand for that last ton and slap in the flail which is 4 crits and 5 tons.

If it is based off of Leo 16th, he pilots a standard regent called Justicar, painted bright gold

@@littleshep5502 i know but if you want it to function like the image used for the song that's what i came up with to do so. also flails are fun.

@@sluggaboyzWC3 any melee weapon is better than those stupid titanian nails that Liao prince was using.

you must hate Warhammer then, even if high gothic is clearly fake

@@nestorgamer9746 Oh no , Warhammer is so bad that i find it funny; like Iron Hands, primarch of the Iron Hands who has iron hands.

Fun fact, in Battletech the Word of Blake use Latin for internal naming conventions, but it's canon that it's really shitty, broken Latin, with the shining example being the Manei Domini

Nobody gives a shit about this dead language anyway, it just sounds cool, imagine doing hours and days of research to please the ears of 0,0000001% of people who will actually have an idea of how pronounce stuff. But i got your point

BT is also perpetually the 80s in space, so the Latin being fucked is right on target even without considering linguistic drift.