I think he's supposed to be a zhukov or napoleon, and pop culture when this was written was "surrendering baguette eaters" for the french, despite the french having one of the most practical militaries on earth, so russian it was.

​@@moistjohn, no, thats the guy who got shot in the 1936!

​@@moistjohnhe's named after an actual Russian general who fought during the Russian civil war btw

@@Tom_Cruise_Missile Alexander Kerensky was a member of the Provisional Government right after the Russian Revolution.

You clearly don't know your history from your memes and clearly just huff copium propaganda about current events. Separating memes from history there is a good reason Zhukov is considered by far the best general of WW2 and the person who really held the soviet union together during that period. There is a good reason Russia stands with the likes of Afganistan and Vietnam as countries who are willing to bleed and always end up victorious over invaders in the end. Its a different mentality and people would benefit far more from understanding it rather then reducing it to "ha ha le memes", after all "those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it".

Alexander Sergeyevich Kerensky: SLDF general, talented battlemech designer, hardbass enthusiast.

@@Prich319 With Reflex of Artyom.

Go away

@@MrJack556 Thats what Amaris said (sadly, and through a mouthful of Golden Corall ribs) before De Chevalie kicked his door down with his Atlas.

@@KillerOrca I bet he had his stupid little bib on too.

I see you too did Professor Tex’s correspondence course ;)

@@phelan511 Of course!

An acceptable substitute would be the Blackwatch march, considering they are a real regiment of the British armed forces.

@@Archris17 Hmm.. a fair argument.

Why not the March of the Blackwatch?

And his dream bastardized by the amaris 2.0 that claimed to be his son

If I remember my lore correctly, I think he also managed to gain the support of a couple of Rim Worlds military units who hated Amaris and all of his backstabbing shenanigans.

@@cobalt968 If this series did anything, it was *underselling* how much of a fucking badass Kerensky was. Anyone can blitz worlds by jumping in, nuking all resistance, and planting a flag. Kerensky did it while holding half his strategic ability behind his back and winning so cleanly *people joined his side*.

Maybe, but from what I have gathered of the lore, Amaris didn't get to power through Kerensky's negligence. He tried to advise Richard not to trust him and to behave differently, but Richard surrounded himself with yes-men, and since Kerensky wasn't a yes-man, he got shipped off to the periphery to fight, while Amaris was retained close to Richard because he flattered him. Richard basically dug his own grave, and Kerensky tried to stop him but was prevented from helping by Richard at every turn. You can tell a child the stove is hot, but often they simply will not listen until they get burned, and Richard was a prime example. As for his second "mistake"... well, he didn't exactly place his son in power, the son took over after his death. Hard to call that a mistake, either. You can't influence events after you are dead. His son (Nicholas) basically capitalized on his father's fame to become a tyrant. So did he really "make" these "mistakes"? Can you even CALL them mistakes?

Kerensky didn’t get a choice in heir. Neither for the Camerons nor did he actually have an ‘heir’ when he died. His own son just fame leeched. As for Amaris, Kerensky did try as much as legally possible to keep Cameron from liking Amaris but Kerensky is loyal to the Star League, not Cameron, and this sliiiiight optic difference was what made Cameron view him as a nuisance and not his most vital support.

@@aickavon it also didn't help that he was hated by several of the players involved and overworked by three different jobs that are at odds with each other.

Dont forget the house lords were bribing star league regular units to get their loyalty.

​@@thunberbolttwo3953 dont forget who left "all" warship and comstar wont be a thing..... Sooo yeaaa, for sure will be war but my money K

Alex tries to hold the crumbling fort until Nicholas takes over, reverses the manpower drain to the successor states, reforms the Star League, skips the intermezzo and ends up putting the boot on the Inner Sphere's throat, we get a century of peace until the Successor States have rebuilt their armies and invade the Hegemony only to bump into the Clans who were hiding behind the SLDF and maul the Successor States with the various Clans carving out holdings from the IS around the Hegemony. It's the Clans except they have about 100 times the resources and manpower they have in the original timeline. All followed by 200 years of everyone trying to exterminate each other, some states break up, Clans are annihilated or absorbed into another Clan/House etc.

@@bogdanv1353 Yet the only way to stop the secession wars was for him to set up himself and his family as dictators of the star league. in doing that betray everything he holds sacred. Something he never would do.

They did that story in an official what-if. He got assassinated on his first day, and the SLDF dissolved as the entire Inner Sphear descended into a worst civil war led by his two moronic sons before the Great Houses took over. So, it would be worst if he stayed in the immediate future. However, after the war, it oddly got better. For it forced everyone to acknowledge the flawed mess the Star League was, Comstar never came to be, technology did not regress, and it stopped all talk of Succession. In fact, it was more akin to the age of war of mostly border wars, but it did not experience wars to the level that would come after the First Succession War. Also, the Clans never came to be.

.... ..... ...... ....... Excuse me while I go get the false vacuum device. That universe will not be existing for long.

The Blackwatch: where nukes are merely an inconvenience

"Crow" - non canon snow raven heavy omnifighter designed by Sharlin, illustrated by Mattplog. fantastic piece of art too.

In that moment and context, yes. I haven't read the books myself and am just drawing from the excellent sarna website but many factions have at least a moment where they are the good guys only to later be bad guys. Even my favorite Clan Snow Raven did a little planet glassing after some dishonourable tactics inflicted some painful losses on them.

Kerensky was a good guy. The SLDF is a bit more complicated - Battletech draws a lot of it's cues from real history, being a bit more realistic and grounded of a setting than 40k, so there isn't really fixed "good guy" and "bad guy" factions - some trend more commonly to one end of the spectrum than the other, but like real world nations, how "good" they are varies with time, leadership and from where you are looking. Part of the reason Amaris was able to create the setup for his coup was that the periphery did not view the SLDF as good guys at all - they were the superior military force that had marched into their nations, nuked their planets and shot their soldiers, said "you belong to us now" and imposed new taxes. From the viewpoint of people living in the successor states and clans, having been through the trials of the succession wars and exodus, the SLDF were mythologized in much the same way as Rome was viewed during the renaissance.

So someone else explained it pretty well I will throw my answer in. Kerensky was a good guy through and through. He was a man who truly believed in the ideals of the Star League as flawed as they were. He despite everything hated pretty much only Amaris and not those who followed him. He didn't hate the Periphery despite being at war with them for years. He truly sought to protect the worlds of humanity to the point he let go of the sphere at the one time he had to despite how much he wanted to try and save it all because he knew if he stayed with the forces of the SLDF things WOULD be worse. The SLDF though is a organization and is like all other organizations a collection of shades of grey. They had members who gunned down non violent protesters, they had members who did the best they could during rescue work, they had members who made dissidents vanish and they had members who truly sought to protect the innocent. It was a force for "mostly" good while Kerensky led it but still answered to those in the highest halls of power who were not always so good. In the end Alexander Kerensky was a good man though his eldest son wasn't. The SLDF was a organization led by a good man who used it to the best of his abilities as a force for good but they were by no means universally good.

Kerensky wasn't really a good guy because he was still fighting for an oppressive imperialist monarchy. The ideals of the SLDF were always a lie, and if you watch the video about Reunification war you'll see how greedy and murderous they were.

It's not dereliction of duty when you've been relieved of duty. Kerensky's loyalty was to Star League. Not to the great houses, not to 'humanity', not to the Terran Hegemony, but Star League. Which no longer existed, as per the people who stripped him of his rank. So why stick around so you can get sucked into someone else's petty squabbles? He knew things were going to boil over into the great houses fighting each other and he thought the best thing he could do was to take as many of the battle-hardened veterans and as much of Star League's military equipment and just leave. How much worse would the Succession Wars have been if lostech had never been los?

@@wun1gee He had been relieved of duty, sure, but none of those who deserted on his word can say the same.

@@matthewneuendorf5763 Those who left with him technically didn't desert. The government they served no longer existed. You can't desert from a state that no longer exists. Their oath was to Star League, and Star League was gone. Kerensky was all that was left of Star League. So their loyalty was to what remained if Star League.

Absolutely. Betweend the first succession war, the jihad, and the delights of clan society, Kerensky is responsible for everything really atrocious that happenend to humanity after the civil war. The quasi-worship for this character is pretty strange. Besides, he was largely a failure as protector and regent of the Star League, and while he eventually won the civil war, the SLDF hardly fared as it should have against what was initially a hodgepodge of sub-par periphery troops and equipment.

Kerensky took a chance in the hope humanity might find peace and to lessen the destruction that could be brought upon by the SLDF but no all they chose was destroying themselves and nuking each other to oblivion and halting technology back by decades. Kerensky didn't fail humanity , humanity failed Kerensky and everyday the conflict continues they fail him more.

The actions of the Greenhaven Gestapo prove your statement to be false.

False propaganda and lies spread by the evil war monger kerensky.

I suspect the CEO of Golden Corral during these years felt the same way. :P