Battletech's Crab, the Star League's Medium Trooper of Choice!

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Another customer request, the Crab is a great trooper, raider, guerilla fighter, infiltrator, commander and flanker. It's built simply, cheaply enough and is amazingly easy to repair (at least in its base configuration and setup).
Then people made it weird by making the Crab into something it wasn't, and keep going from there into making it something terrible with the 54-series.
Oh, and Clan Coyote used the Crab to make one of the first "secondary" omnimech with the Night Chanter too!
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@Based_Lord_Humongous Ай бұрын

Mechwarriors will see a Crab and say "Hell yeah".

@Buffalen Ай бұрын

Hell yeah

@cobalt968 Ай бұрын

Hell yeah

@thehereticdude170 Ай бұрын

Hell yeah

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

Shell yeah.

@RhoIotaKappa Ай бұрын

Hell yeah!

@ogrehaslayers605 Ай бұрын

ALMOST every time I play, a Crab is in my force. It's that good

@marsar1775 Ай бұрын

the Crab is just, really good as a medium

@thorshammer8033 Ай бұрын

The angry Zoidberg noises increase

@WolfHreda Ай бұрын

Absolutely solid combat machine. Two large lasers, no ammo. Good stuff. I'd definitely try to replace the lasers with a pair of Snub-Nose PPCs for a proper energy brawler/striker.

@STzim Ай бұрын

IF you can replace that Snub-Nose PPC without effort. It will be destroyed. Quite easy and cheap to find a Large laser or two, not so much with PPC, let alone special versions of it. If you have it and can afford to lose it sure, go for it. I'll give you that it's a pretty nice modification and makes the crab a better brawler.

@STzim Ай бұрын

Thing with the crab is it just goes on. It just doesn't care about damage. Think I've replaced every part save the reactor... to me the idea is it'll go into battle like it's expendable. Just throw it in, it'll survive. Or at least can be repaired if you win. For me the Crab is the quintessential trooper. No fancy internals like an XL-Engine, no Ammo that can explode, no Weapons you can't afford to loose. These days just give me some extra armor rather than the light laser, double heat sinks and swap those large Lasers for some other energy weapons. Kinda have to, or find a way to disarm that stuck AC5 shell... nevermind though now I really need a replacement for at least one large Laser.

@kausalkraken5951 Ай бұрын

I am happy my request made it through. Thank you.

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

I try to get things people want done.

@AccessAccess Ай бұрын

Great for long term campaigns, it can operate for an extended period without a supply line, and it can do a pretty good job in a couple of key roles.

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

It is armored enough, fast enough, has enough punch... Very few issues with the Crab in the long run.

@marsar1775 Ай бұрын

in MW5, Crabs are on my list of go to mechs for any problem, and very high on it. in tabletop and mw5 i have used the crab to quickly kill assaults. it can tank a fair bit as it runs into position, especially if the rest of your lance is dealing with the assaults bodyguards. those large lasers can bore through the rear armor of most anything pretty quick. or, as i did in mw5... run up to an awesome using this strategy, and now inside effective range, melt the cockpit off with 2 alpha strikes

@GoastLincoln Ай бұрын

crab is love. crab is life.

@jamesbeard5513 Ай бұрын

Instead of the newest Crab, I'd go with something closer to the latest Starslayer upgrade. Improved Heavy Large Lasers in the arms, an ER Medium and Small Pulse in place of the original (Clan versions if you can), Ferro-Fibrous replaced with Endosteel (changes the amount of armor to 10.5 from 9 tons, but gives it a few more points to the torso), and 18 IS Double Heatsinks. Even had the space to toss in a Light Active Probe. It can fire its two main weapons and run for two turns without heat issues, and can swap out one of the Heavies for one or both of the secondary weapons and become heat neutral again. It uses only the standard 250 for durability.

@tehpw7574 Ай бұрын

Your associating of Crabs (and Sentinels) = DCMS is because of Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries... :D

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

That very well might be why.

@topcatcoast2coast579 Ай бұрын

My Favorite mech 🦀🦀🦀. Now do the Chimera next.

@ChaosTicket Ай бұрын

This is at least the 4th video I've seen reporting on the Crab medium battlemech. Its very popular. Its variants are almost all energy boats but it's variants experIment with nearly every idea related to that. Some are close range, others long. You have jumping Crabs. You have blitz Crabs.

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

This one I took as a request, so I fully expected it.

@harvestblades Ай бұрын

Really looking forward to this one! I've never played any of the Crabs but started running one a couple months ago I a 1st Succ War campaign. It's not hard hitting or flashy, but it works & is easy to keep running. I'm upgrading mine to double heat sinks which in & of itself will be a huge help.

@ChaosTicket Ай бұрын

Ive liked the Crab ever since I used one in Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries. There the Heat Gauge never works right, but still the idea of a medium mech in 3025 with 2 relatively large medium range weapons is ideal. That its also fast for a medium mech of the era also helps. Upgrading it is so simple too, just use better versions of the same thing. Don't fix what is not broken. It's rarity is one of those odd things. Apparently the factories were just destroyed, so the Comguards had most of them.

@SpiritWolf1966 Ай бұрын

I enjoy all of Professor HeyTeeEn videos

@Eulemunin Ай бұрын

I have always wanted a hardened armor Crab.

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

It would probably be workable, just require some development cycles to make it work.

@dashsocur Ай бұрын

Definitely one of my favorite mediums of all time. It's unfortunate that I have trouble finding a mini that I like. (I greatly prefer the MWO design to the CGL one but every MWO STL I've seen for it has a very unfortunate pose for magnetizing it for a torso twist. I know, first world problems. lol

@teehasheestower Ай бұрын

One of the few times the ERLL is acceptable. 2 ERLL and JJs. Thats all you need. Stay cool, stay away from the enemy. You have one of the only low-profile snipers in existence.

@Cytl-bu3nq Ай бұрын

It's odd that the Coyotl is listed as the "first" omnimech, but yet when you look at it closer you will see that it very closely resembles the Mercury II (made by Clan Wolverine), which was incidentally taken by Clan Coyote in the wake of the supposed annihilation, it passed a moratorium period and then Clan Coyote basically renamed it.

@TheManyVoicesVA Ай бұрын

I hate the later variants of the crab. The Starslayer is what the crab should have striven for.

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

Really, anything that makes a mech like this more fragile is a TERRIBLE idea.

@thunderK5 Ай бұрын

The Crab reached its zenith with the 27b Royal version.

@TheManyVoicesVA Ай бұрын

@@thunderK5 ya just giving it more range and making it not give a single damn about enemy flamers is great.

@TheManyVoicesVA Ай бұрын

@@ProfessorHeyTeeEn agreed. The crab is meant to have a hard shell, after all.

@cobalt968 Ай бұрын

In defense of the CRB-54, It’s clearly not trying to be the traditional trooper-type Crab. It moves really fast for a mech its size and can easily catch up to lighter targets, or harass energy boats with delicate heat curves… all while being speedy enough to reliably dodge incoming fire. My only complaint is that it is a mech clearly built for TSM; its flaws might have been much more palatable if it could deliver 20 point kicks after sprinting 16 hexes.

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

So it's like one of those electric ford mustang?

@cobalt968 Ай бұрын

@@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Probably. Sometimes breaking the mold can yield some good results, especially if there’s clients willing to pay for it. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was a one-off build for a wealthy noble or elite mechwarrior that impressed some mech designer enough to try a limited production run.

@andrewrose3748 Ай бұрын

A really good mech. No big weaknesses

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

Until you get to some of the later models.

@johnb.2107 Ай бұрын

Man I love this mech.

@ambientlight3876 Ай бұрын

Hmm... I'm a fan of producing cheaper and more durable designs compared to what is being built today. After your review, I've started considering the potential of a Crab using a standard 300 Fusion Engine, an Endo Steel skeleton, and double Heatsinks.

@8moebius8 Ай бұрын

Can't t really go wrong, here.

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

Well, you can go CRB-54...

@Idlemind842 Ай бұрын

Not touching the cockpit positioning dispute.? 🙂

@spartana1116 Ай бұрын

With how often your factory refit mechs of all types and weigh brackets I wonder if someone in the board has brought up a idea that you should try to design and sell your own mech

@ProfessorHeyTeeEn Ай бұрын

The Aurigan Trade Alliance has a few mechs designed in full or in part by Flanagan's, the latest being the Eagle Owl Omni "Horned Owl*.