Sup Tex?

Praise from Caesar!

Yo Tex

The precursors to Jade Falcon if I'm not mistaken🤔

@@robertwhite7845 and that's why they are the only clan I respect. Even though they have entirely perverted what Kerensky stood for.

Hotel? Trivago.

(bagpipe music at full volume filling every comms frequency) Enemy CO: "WHAT THE FUCK IS ALL THAT NOISE?!!!"

"The First Lord is dead. Either we will join him, or the enemy will. "Black Watch, to me."

@@GhostBear3067 The finest form of electronic warfare

@@BuilderB08 *louder bagpipe music* Enemy CO: "WHAT THE HELL I CANNOT EVEN HEAR MY OWN THOUGHTS!!!"

That is such a good moto for a defence force. You can try and kill them, but you aren't coming out unbroken

Montressor?

I prefer the Scots "Wha duar meddle wi me"

@@rainetheserotoninslurper4839 It's also the motto of the House of Stuart, which is very appropriate as the Black Watch are descended from the actual real-life Highlander unit of the same name.

Probably because "No one attacks me without getting a satchel charge chucked at his face." would have been a bit on the nose.

Eh... It's more like "No one harrases me with impunity." But then again they have the same meaning, and I am just being pedantic

"Hippity hoppity, the Palace was left to us in Cameron's will so get the *FUCK* off of our property!"

but i'm still here

>Richard Cameron's lifesigns flatline >Amaris grunt triggers security system >The SLDF intercom whines to life "Oopsie doopsie. You have made a fucky wucky. "Get into the forever box."

*bagpipes intensify* *weapons prime with reckless abandon*

​@@dannylamb456"Start praying to your God for safe entry into the afterlife, because that is the only way you're leaving this place."

And the Black Watch lived up it, after all it is their moto

That is the motto for all of Scotland. Specifically there are two clans that added the motto to their coat of arms. Montressor which was the royal family had simply that motto attached to it. My own family clan, MacDaniel, added on to it and even the royal family was known to tread VERY CAREFULY around my family clan. "No one provokes me with impunity, for I am always ready." The first part is the Scottish motto and means no one injures, harms, or slanders without retaliation coming. When you add the second line my ancestors did? It means retaliation will be quick, immediate, and FINAL. This was shortened later on (when an ancestor immediately killed a royal for insulting him, and the royal family was too damned scared to do a thing as the whole MacDaniel clan was ready to attack and kill if they dared say one more disrespectful word) to "Always Ready." There were always MacDaniels near the royals acting as bodyguards through the years later on...and they always wore BLACK when acting as such. I like to think that is where the idea of the Black Watch came from.

The Greek/Roman way of saying: "Fuck around and find out"

@@Nostroman_PraetorLatin.

​@Nempo13 My clans motto is Cave Adsum. Which in english is Beware! I am here. Now that I say that out loud I think of a very angry All Might

sounds about right for Scots

@@alexh3974 fitting that they had so much plot armor they almost derailed the plot _with_ the authors trying everything they could to railroad them. edit: and I mean this in the best way possible.

​@@bohba13Basically, even the writers suffered in the fight against the black watch.

Uh I’m cameron, I just left to get snacks, sooooo this is my fault ain’t it

If you believe the events of the Tirpitz affair... they succeeded. Long live House Cameron - long live the fucking Black Watch.

@@117Jorn I mean, they didn't stop the destruction of the Hegemony, couldn't install a Cameron as First Lord, and then the Inner Sphere went up in flames. Even if some Cameron descendant lives, the Star League certainly doesn't.

Honestly the most it would likely do is buy time The league was sick by the time of the coup.

@@cameroneager6350 yeah, dude, you really dropped the ball on that one. lol😜

The Black Watch's Mechwarrior contingent was full of Natasha Kerensky and Kai Allard-Liao caliber pilots.

@@GhostBear3067 The Gunslinger Program makes no softies. You come out the best...or you end up a mess.

@@KillerOrca you come out the best or you are washed out of your battlemech's cockpit with a pressure hose.

@@GhostBear3067 and kai and natasha could take dozens of enemy mechs by them selves. the 9 blackwatch mechs held against hundreds. either kai and nat are holding back or the blackwatch are way better. that was worded horribly but i am to lazy to fix it

@@sirflapfla97 sorry, l missed some of what I meant to write. I meant that the LOWER LEVEL Mechwarriors in the Black Watch were on Natasha Kerensky's and Kai Allard-Liao's skill level.

In the books, the Northwind Highlanders would blare bagpipes into the open net at a very intense level so that the enemy would have trouble communicating with each other. Blackwatch could very easily do the same or it is also possible the Northwind lads got it from the Blackwatch

Shouldn't mechs have speakers? Why not just blast Bagpipes at the enemy with that? It would be dumb to not have speakers installed on a battlemech, given that 'Mechs tend to be used in urban environments a lot. A pilot can't expect everybody to have a way to communicate via radio and having to get out of the cockpit just to shout at people sounds like a dangerous idea.

@@JPG.01 Pretty sure Northwinders also do that.

@@JPG.01 mechs due have PA systems, and who is saying they did not do that ALSO?😜

i feel you man. would do wonders for the evening commute tho

Unity City, by this point in time, was a megatropolis that (as far as I can tell) stretched from near Everett in the north and as far south as Olympia, and to the east and west as far as it probably could go. It was one of, if not THE, largest city on Terra wholesale. Gorst Flats are obviously where Gorst is today, so it went at least THAT far west, and it probably ate everything on the east side of Lake Washington too. We dont know where the Court itself was, or where Fort Cameron stood (if I had to guess its probably JBLM, based on the footprint required to support battlemechs and the fact JBLM existed before FASA formed so they'd know of its existence). So, probably not Seattle specifically. But the city we know today was long since eaten alive by Unity City anyway.

@@KillerOrca aww but I wanted mass destruction of that specific area. It's what it deserves for being an abomination to city planning.

Cosmic Karma, but at what cost?

@@Lunarice98 If it makes you feel better, much of it would've been demolished and rebuilt.

Does that mean some of the Black Watch are still running around out there? As in, I could play them in game?

@@TheSlamburger they became the smoke jaguar

@@TheSlamburger there is the north wind highlanders who keep the spirt of the black watch alive

One of the leaders of the black watch became a founder of jade falcon others that stayed helped start the Northwind highlanders

From what I understand the 5 who lived were in fort Cameron and survived it's nuking, the nine who fought the 4th dragoons were anhilated by the nukes.

Given this is the era when mech where more common the 4th Dragoons could have had up to 200 mechs

@@spencerjones841 Well, I'm going off of the numbers of a Battalion, which is 3 companies, and each company is 12 mechs. But yes, the 4th Amaris Dragoons, being assigned to Terra, likely was overstrength.

Lemme tell you of Sagyan Mazar in Path to Heaven. TL;DR - 100-ish Traitorous White Scars legionaries (out of ignorance) treated like shit for most of the book made last stand laughing on ship with reactor set to overload on the off chance they might take primarch with them. Why? "Atonement at last"

If those were guardsmen, maybe, but those are space marines, they are literally written to always do that stuff. The Black Watch were normal human beings, that trained to be the best, and despite at least 3 nuclear strikes, kept on fighting and almost stopped the fall of a vast space empire. They didn't have genetic modifications, superpowers, and the "will of god" on their side, merely training tactics, and willpower.

@@metalmadness5851 you mistake 40k era SM for 30k era ones

@@bentim7732 REPENT! FOR TOMORROW WE DIEEEEE!

You should try it. It is really great

@@auugh43546 Asmodai, make him repent!!!!!!

@@sirflapfla97 tried it myself and couldn't get into it. Too focused on the mechs for me lol

@@cc-bk3tx To be fair, the BattleMech is the entire reason the universe exists. They made giant 'mechs and built the lore around those. Check out the Atlas and the Highlander. Those two 'Mechs are my personal favorites.

Bagpipes with Malicious Intent

And until his dying days, the echoes of bagpipes would haunt his nightmares. 😂

Well, inconvenient was misspelled, but hey, it was kickass all the same.

Tex, get in here.

“The Blackwatch had seen enough nukes to find them frankly fucking boring”

No one was supposed to be this hard to kill

If nukes can’t kill ya just level evrything also strong storm danger room goes amazing with this specifically after black watch

@@snaplordmeep6748 who’s this strong storm I wanna meet them

Welcome to the Inner Sphere! May I ask what you plan on getting into first? Classic, Alpha Strike, MechWarrior (RPG), HBS BattleTech, MechWarrior (video game)? And also, if you're an active 40k player, what faction you like playing the most?

@@poke548 I have been looking at classic or alpha strike mostly but I have downloaded MechWarrior online to play. My favorite faction was def the mechanicus by far with custodes being a close second

@@erwinthedodo9205 I see. I'd recommend looking into the Word of Blake faction, then, particularly their Manei Domini Shadow Divisions. Sadly, you can only really play them in the Jihad era, which isn't the most popular, but they're very much a low model-count elite army with lots of really weird tech.

I'd propose taking a look at the Black Pants Legion channel He makes good introductions to the setting's deeplore

Nukes are merely an inconvenience

Actually since it's rumored a Cameron got away in the Tripitz affair maybe we'll see them return during the ilClan Era to challenge the ilKhan's leadership of the new Star League

its worth mentioning it was more than 9 of the blackwatch, marines were in the palace within minutes and nearly caught and killed amaris there

@@xhesarve7109 but those are BlackWatch marines not Mechwarriors

@@dickc.normous6369 wasn't there a Clan Bloodname that's secretly half Cameron - half Amaris? Stefan's brother and Richard's cousin?

@@striderpup1169 The 4th dragoons would only be buying themselves a one way trip to the forever box.

You would be in some DEEP shit, then a one way trip to the forever box

Do you just walk outside and picture hulking battlemechs duking it out for the fate of the Star League?

@@lordtoademort8124 yeah to be honest. usually some areospace fighters somewhere too

@@xhesarve7109 nice! Going to be honest, I don't know whsre the Piget Sound Valley is! I also don't know much battletech lore so I'm glad I got the senario right

@@lordtoademort8124 look it up! its a beautiful place. unity city is also a good read

@@lordtoademort8124 Puget Sound is the Seattle region, Washington state

After listening to this being nuked will be merely an inconvenience.

Angry? My guy, that usurper was probably too busy being scared shitless to be angry. lol The Black Watch, on the other hand…

Not to worry - Tex is already in canon of Battletech.

@@retrosquadchannel2.050 yea he's an old merc who saw the succession wars firsthand and was there when the clanners came... now he spends his time in academia, teaching the past in hopes the fools of the sphere dont repeat it...

@@brayachdragonbane7529 and Inner Sphere (except for GDL, Wolf's Dragoons, Kell Hounds, Northwind Highlanders and some very good people like Kurita Omiko) does everything in the book to repeat the story.

@@retrosquadchannel2.050 the sad truth of the matter... i blame the capellens... failing that, i blame kurita

@@brayachdragonbane7529 I'd blame the Capellens but...since I'm backing Canopus these days, I guess I have to call them allies. So Kurita's fault it is! Damn no good snakes.

There are a lot of books in the battletech universe which i enjoyed!

Well, there's not many true retcons, but we get nuances and reveals other ways. Archaeological expeditions learn the stories of history's losers, and documents get declassified or leaked, perhaps revealing new details to an old story.

Right, not like 40k

Yeah, time in the Battletech setting keeps moving forward. We just started a new era (ilClan) which has just got some sourcebooks and events keep unfolding. Fairly major stuff too.

Thankfully, in Battletech humanity has only themselves to worry about(right?). If it would indeed happen in 40k, well... Let's say that amount of surviving (both in body and spirit) members of humankind would be exceedingly and depressingly low. Cause if Battletech is constant free for all civil war between descendants of the very same birthplace, Warhammer is constant free for all war of extermination between species some of whom cannot even properly communicate with each other. And then there is the Warp that makes things somehow even worse by a great margin. So yeah, Age of Apostasy civil war getting out of hand = end of the line for mankind, more of less.

Enemy Mechwarrior: "Is that...Boss Music? On Bagpipes?"

Fun fact: in MechCommander 1 when your mechs are locked on target and shoot, bagpipes play in the background.

On Huntress the Northwind Highlanders did precisely that. Flooded the communication channels with bagpipe "music"

@@Fenris86 I was very much referencing "McLeod's ECM", one of my favorite tactics from the Twilight of the Clans series.

@@Fenris86 and on Glengarry they did the same, helping Gray Death Legion to sweep the floor.

Then we fight to reform it

There is a Canadian Black Watch that upholds the traditions of the Scottish Black Watch.

Wouldn't the battalion keep the traditions alive since they are still the same unit just under a different organization?

@@ImperialFister True the Blsck Watch of Canada are still around but are still different Regiments they just carry the name a similar uniform. Strange that Canda has more Highland regiments then Scotland has Highland or Lowland regiments.

@@joshuasitzema9920 They do to some capacity. But the battalion is an operational unit, the regiment is a cultural body. So culturally the RRS is this unorganised mix of different cultures with each battalion really scraping at the traditions of their former regiment.

Also needed a Highlander Burial in one of the art pieces

Don’t forget how they kicked the crap out of an entire crew of a black lion warship and how she ran around with a katana murdering everything

@@commanderstorm8874 that was major Hazen after a headshot, seeing as capellans killed one of the Kerensky's best officers.

Clans are scum that spit on Kerensky's memory by claiming they are upholding it. Pay your bills or Space AT&T will get you!

@@castor3020 it's not their fault, that braindamaged Nikolai Kerensky has twisted their human nature. Andrei Kerensky could stop him with help of Sarah McEvedy, as he became too dangerous puppet, but he became KIA. And by the way, haven't Comstar themselves twisted words of Jerome Blake? Well, you know, from "preserve technology until IS will be ready for it" to "We will rule IS! And pay bills!" Let's better praise female warrior of the Goliath Scorpions during Operation Klondike, who managed singlehandedly make whole underground fortress, full of former SLDF officers, to surrender in a MONTH!

@@retrosquadchannel2.050 Her lover, DeChevallie.

(Angry bagpipe noises)

SLDF?

@@echo_ironside8006 Star League Defence Force, the military arm of the Star League. The Black Watch are some of it's most elite troops, assigned as the personal guards of the First Lord.

@@ghost5780 ah cheers

@@nullakjg767 In Battletech lore, the Blackwatch lasted into the 2700s. Serving the various governments that controlled Terra.

@@nullakjg767 and these absolute mad lads and lasses are that real world regiment's descendants.

@@nullakjg767 if you’re looking at it in the eyes of the Periphery states, then yes

@@nullakjg767 why? Are from the Rimward Periphery?

@@GhostBear3067 Amaris family is full of assholes don’t get me wrong, but It’s pretty understandable that everyone from the periphery hate the inner Sphere and the star league for their actions during and after the reunification war, the Taurian have to abandon almost half of their colonized world because of war crimes and other matters, not to mention that they lost around 100 million population thanks to the war. I’m a FedRat through and through but the inner sphere is definitely not the good guys during that time period.

Tex of the Black Pants Legion has an excellent two-part series on the Amaris Civil War. It's a great listen.

What are you talking about, the Blackwatch were Star League loyalists

@@TheAchilles26 think he means Amaris' reign, though it had just begun

@@valsioncustom, which was not even remotely close to the size of Star League, even at its peak, let alone at this moment when he didn't really have control of Terra yet

@@TheAchilles26 biggest *empire* in the history of mankind, but I can see how his words are easily misinterpreted. Amaris had commenced a coup of massive proportions while SLDF forces were busy. His empire *has* claimed the Hegemony, even if Terra is the first to fall. This is simply the transitory period to end an Emperor's reign as it's being born.

@@valsioncustom, Amaris didn't claim the Hegemony until AFTER nuking the Blackwatch. He was still a rebel in the middle of an attempted coup at this point

That’s the Black Watch. They know no fear but a job unfinished.

Some say it was a hallucination. Others say it was Elizabeth Hazen, sneaking into the Palace with bagpipes in hand, murdering guards as she went to mess with him before slipping away to the darkness once more.

"I understood that reference!"

Clan Wolverine. Just about them and ending with "And yet we survive under Minnesota's Banner"

Forgive me, I'm still new, but... Clan Mary Sue? Why do I get the feeling that's a Jade Falcons dig?

@@ladywaffle2210 Clan Wolf dig unfortunately.

@@ladywaffle2210 Absolutely a dig at Clan Wolf, lol.

@@Spore9996 Ah, I see, I see. As I said, I'm new.

Presumably Elizabeth Hazen or Halley Schmit, who did in fact survive and lead the Ghosts of the Blackwatch for a decade until Kerensky returned to kick Amaris off world.

Battletech song about the last stand of the Blackwatch, a royal battlemech regiment in service to House Cameron of the Star League

Ok

They're the royal guard to the ruler of Star League (A.K.A. Space Rome).

Descendants of the current era black watch (Scottish Elite Forces) that took on an entire battalion of light/medium mechs and ate them from breakfast. Took several nukes to kill them and that didnt do much

@@joshuasitzema9920 Though I appreciate the explanation on what they did here, it still doesn’t explain much about who they are.

To put it in 40k terms, they were essentially the Custodes to House Cameron's Emperor. When the usurper Stefan Amaris' (think Horus if he was a sneaky sleazebag) grand scheme to assassinate Richard Cameron as the first act of his coup paid off, a silent alarm led to the Black Watch Marines' first-response jump troops crashing through the skylights and windows of the Royal Palace within seconds, firing lasguns until they overheated and chucking satchels of C4 larger than a man's head like grenades. Amaris barely got out of there alive, and the sheer impact is widely credited for the paranoia and night terrors that would haunt him for the rest of his life. While the Black Watch Marines attempted to rescue any remaining members and heirs of House Cameron, Amaris had arranged for a nuclear warhead to be detonated in Fort Cameron, the base of the Black Watch's main BattleMech force. Unfortunately for Amaris, there's a reason the Black Watch have been given the slogan "nukes are merely inconvenient" by fans. Nine MechWarriors and their BattleMechs from the 1st Royal Black Watch would survive and, in a bid to buy time for the Black Watch Marines in the palace, would hold off a full regiment of Amaris Dragoons (Amaris' elite BattleMech division) with less than a company of their own. They held the line for hours, killing scores of Dragoon BattleMechs by skill, determination, and sheer willingness to fight as dirty as possible. Eventually, the Amaris Dragoons were forced to withdraw as they were left only with Plan Z: nuke them again and hope it works this time. While this did kill Black Watch commander Hanni Schmitt and the rest of the elite regiment's BattleMech forces (eliminating one of the largest obstacles to Amaris' uncontested rule over Terra), remnants of the Black Watch would continue to arm, train, and direct underground Cameron-loyalist resistance movements for over a decade, with many of the Black Watch, their children, and their closest resistance allies resurfacing during General Aleksandr Kerensky's final push to reclaim Terra for the Star League.

@@poke548 I see, it reminds me vaguely of Hive Helsreach and the third war of Armageddon. I thank you for taking your time to explain this to me.

It was..... considerably more; the 4th Amaris Dragoons was likely at that point a full brigade, consisting of at least three regiments; that means the nine surviving mad lads that were the Black Watch were going up against AT LEAST 50:1 odds, since a regiment has at minimum 108 Battlemechs, and as many as 180. Ergo, that means they were probably fighting at least 324 battlemechs, and whatever infantry, aerospace and armoured assets the Dragoons had.

@@TallboyDave Extensive amounts of all three. The fighters that nuked them were attached to the 4ths air wing, if I remember right.

@@KillerOrca Yes, Battlemech Regiments in Battletech in this part of the history of the lore were basically like Marine MEU MAGTF's in many respects.

The Northwind Highlanders Scenario Pack lists the Amaris forces engaging the Blackwatch as two full companies, so it was about a 2.6:1 fight

SURPRISE PIKACHU! Doesn't even begin to cover it . . . .

THAT S SCOTCH DARN IT!

(bagpipe music at full volume filling every comms frequency) Enemy CO: "WHAT THE FUCK IS ALL THAT NOISE?!!!"

The (very) dumbed down summary? In the future, the Scottish Black Watch become the royal guards of the First Lord of the Star League because the man who created the Star League was a Scotsman named Ian Cameron, and his family took the place of First Lord because of it. Stefan Amaris was a wanker who usurped his descendant Richard II Cameron, and the Black Watch attempted to stop him, and nearly succeeded despite Amaris planning for decades on how to get rid of them in a single masterstroke. He ended up using up most of his elite forces attempting to kill them, and I do mean attempt; what the song doesn't mention is that the Dragoons were still fighting the Black Watch when the Nukes fell; he effectively took out his own elites to make sure the Black Watch stayed dead. Even then, he failed; the Black Watch regrouped and organized a resistance movement on Terra with them as the centre, and rejoined Kerensky in the re-taking of the planet when he and the SLDF arrived.

Allegedly middle of the month

No, it sounds way better with a manly man vocalist. We're talking about giant killer robots and Scottsmen, after all.

Still waiting for that my friend

@@midgetydeath under the command of a Scottswoman. Neither gender nor sex is a barrier to being a good mech jock.

@@midgetydeath well, I mean, the commander of those remaining mechs was woman. So I'd think it'd be pretty fitting if a woman performed the vocals here.

Closer to three times. The only color that moves faster than red is Blackwatch tartan.

8 mechs hold the line against the destruction of the star league, buying time to end the reign of the traitorous emperor, Amaris. Battalions fall to bring them down, and in the end, it took nuclear weaponry to put them down. Entire elite regiments of battlemechs fell to the weaponry of Scottish royal guardsmen too angry to die, fighting for the sake of mankind.

@@valsioncustom and the craziest thing: the nukes still were not enough. Some of the Black Watch survived to continue carrying out a guerrilla resistance until General Kerensky returned to Terra, including the future founders of Clans Jade Falcon and Blood Spirit.

I'll be right behind you in my Bushwacker... Someone has to cover the noob in the Urbie

Might have stolen a prototype Cataphract and upgraded the hell out of it just to anger the Capellans so here's some ECM cover for ya.

well if we all joining in I'll go grab my black knight will quick

@@26th_Primarch I would like to point out that I mounted a Gauss and a pulse laser on my Urbie... Just say'in. It may only be good for a few minutes but a cockpit shot is a cockpit shot, especially with a gauss rifle.

@@26th_Primarch Hey, my Urbie has an AC 20, so watch yourself

Maybe not in that order?

@@Deridus Nope. You down your whisky, strap on your kilt, and then go murder some goddamn Rimmers.

just show them Tex Talks Battletech

The story will sell itself, once you get them into it.

Hail clan Snek Cobra!

Clans Jade Falcon and Blood Spirit be like "Damn straight our ancestors were awesome!"

@@GhostBear3067 We honor them still

@@GhostBear3067, and yet Jade Falcon would shriek about how "dishonorable" the Blackwatch's methods were for daring to use actual tactics

@@TheAchilles26 why do you think best clan ghost bear decided to NOT use zelbriggen during Tukayyid?

I mean the Gunslinger Program of which EVERY Black Watch member was trained in, made absolute legendary soldiers. Amaris needed his troops so trained and his plans laid for so long to even hold a candle to the elite level badassery that was the Black Watch and the Black Watch Marines. And even then, like the Harkonen and the Emperor's own fucking Sardaukar on Arrakis in the final assault on the Atreides forces in Arakeen: The Black Watch nearly almost WON . . . . .

@@tyvernoverlord5363 Level 0 Mechpilots, the best humanity can possibly be. True nightmares.

There's a very good reason Stefan Amaris had nightmares about the Black Watch for the rest of his life after the events of the Amaris Coup.

It's even better

Exactly that, yes. The Black Watch is what you get if the special forces of every world government is funneled into one force and given nuclear grade plot armor

And some still managed to walk away and formed the core of a brutally effective partisan organization.

@@Significantpower not the mech force. The final stand of Hanni Schmitt ended with all 8 Royal mechs destroyed, their pilots incinerated. The ghosts of the Black watch were five survivors from Fort Cameron, led by captain Elizabeth Hazen (founder of Clan Jade Falcon). Colleen Schmitt (grandaughter of Hanni) would also survive, going on to found Clan Blood spirit

For them, nukes are merely an inconvenience. 😂

Man I hate phones auto currect