Getting picked up in a bar by a Clanner really gives a new meaning to "Smash or Pass."

My dude, do not compare yourself to BPL or Mr. Tex. You are not Mr. Tex. And that's a good thing. Why would we need a second one, first one is great. You do YOUR stuff the way you want to do it. If I'd wanted to watch more BPL, I'd go there, not here.

I've been playing battletech for decades and love the in depth lore other channels get into. But I also absolutely love your bar room style of "A'ight, check this crazy shit out..."

So Battle Tech content is popular for the reasons of: * I Dig Giant Robots * You Dig Giant Robots * Chicks Dig Giant Robots * We Dig Giant Robots Most things that are able to go over stuff about giant robots in any depth will get some decent views

My understanding is that most of their abbreviations stem back to Nickolia's brother. They were verbal ticks/slang specific to him that was carried on by the Clans after his death in Operation Klondike.

I wonder how much of Alexander's decision to not rule the Star League had something to do with the character of his sons. Or I should say, his one psychopath son.

Oh boy the Clans what a thing they are. Sorry your buddy missed it cause these guys are a riot and hopefully he is doing well.

You are now a Battletech channel. This is your destiny. That's what we're here for. Glory to Kerensky!

We all look for more content, and as someone just getting into Battletech the lore has been so juicy and full of characters and your content has really, really been helpful, fun, enjoyable and informative about this universe. I'm really glad I found the giant stompy robots and the welcoming community it has. Not going to lie I kinda wish I had more time to play and learn the table top game outside of video games. I hope your friend gets better soon! You two are so nerdy and fun to listen to I look forward to all the content you guys have in store for us!

I kinda wish comstar added an exception to Tukkayid deal that went "ok you can't invade past this point, but if you want to burn Capellans to the ground you go on a trip down there, have fun"

Don't worry buddy. Having a fun, flippant, bar table discussion of battletech is just as great as the deep dives.

I absolutely love the level of love you have for Tex and BPL. Those guys are epic.

Where did we come from? Simple; BT nerds are constantly searching for more content (as opposed to Star Wars nerds who get it shoved down their throat every year more or less and have a billion commentators) so whenever someone covers BT, we crawl from our holes and basements to listen

Nice. When discussing the planet that the Clans take over after winning a football match.... .with appropriate Space Jam pics in the background.

I picked up "Blood Legacy" at at a used book shop in 1995. I was thirteen years old, and had no idea that it was the second book in a trilogy and had never heard of BattleTech and was not a RPG or tabletop enthusiast, so I just got dumped into the middle of this massive universe. Michael Stackpole is such a good author that I was immediately invested in the story and was able to glean a lot of key details of the lore through natural sounding dialog and observations of characters, rather than block exposition. To this day the Battle Tech universe is one of my favorite sci-fi destinations. Really enjoy your style. Hope you keep it going!

You make Battletech videos, and you do it well. That's all I need to subscribe.

I really, like really like the format of these episodes, and the fun comes first vision that you have exercised so far, not to mention the topic, battletech in itself (along with the 40k, Alien and other references) is as cool as it can get. You have cheered me up with the mood of these videos after having a hard time during the holiday and about to face the annual performance review at work which is going to be brutal. Thanks man!

Thank god BattleTech finally getting the love it deserves

24:35 Clan Diamond Shark allow everyone to be represented in Clan Council, with the Scientist and Merchant castes having roughly equal standing with the Warriors and voting power, while the Technicians and Labourers have a more limited say. Clan Ghost Bear also allows everyone to participate in Clan Council regardless of Caste or Bloodnamed status, but only Bloodnamed Warriors can actually make proposals before the Council. I'm not sure how this changed exactly following their merger with Rasalhague. 31:50 Bloodnames are tracked matrilinearly, so I'm not entirely sure how some of the bloodnames got going, though given Clan genetic science I'm pretty sure they could splice some of Nicky's DNA onto some donated or cloned ovums. Its also worth noting that while Clans do practice eugenics, other than ensuring that the genestock of Warriors is free of any genetic or inherited defects, they don't do any selection or tweaking beyond that. 36:59

Thank you That was hilarious. A fun listen!

Referring to the Great House Lord's as 5 toddlers made me laugh! I hope any comments I previously left were not too harsh. I do love Tex and the Black Pants Legion, but if that was the only take on BattleTech I was interested in, I wouldn't be here. I am enjoying your sense of humor, and that of your friend. I was introduced to BattleTech in 1990, and it has been one of my favorite fictions ever since, and my favorite game. I hope your sense of humor helps bring more new fans to the table!

First of all, I can't believe I didn't put two and two together that you're RC. That explains why you sounded so familiar; it'd been driving me nuts. lol Elementals are about the only instance I can think of where somebody has made a mass produced super soldier and not have some horrible side effects or some other crazy negative like stealing children, or having most of the "Recruits" die. Once a creche has been birthed you just need to wait for them to mature to adulthood and add ancient spartan style training them in the meantime. Heck, if they have kids naturally, the kids would inherit everything from the elemental parent just like a normal human. Honestly I'd argue the Aerospace and Elemental phenotypes are flat out subspecies of homo sapiens, and not just different body types/variance

Great video, this series is gonna be great. Sorry your buddy missed it, but it's also fantastic having a 50 minute explanation of the Clans instead of the exhaustive start-to-finish Tex has created on The Clans. They're sensational videos start to finish, but they're an entire series you need to kinda watch in order to understand whats happening which means you have to Start with the Amaris Civil War videos, then the Clans videos, which is like, 7 hours of content which isn't really digestible to send to a beginner if they wanna learn. They're what you send to your newly introduced friend when they want to know what REALLY happened.

Of those new subscribers, one's me. Hi. You're entertaining and informative without getting lost in details, so that makes it fun to listen to your "storytime" videos. So I'm kinda... just waiting for the other two parts, noticing your other videos on Star Wars starfighters and adding them to the list to poke at later. Some form of successfully being noticed and supported is what people who can be entertaining deserve... with some exceptions. :)

You pretty much said it, you put your heart and soul into this something some game developers have turned into the equivalent of lostech.

Great one RC and I can't wait for the next episode. Cheers bud and happy holidays!

An absolute boss move, spawning a new order of life "up north". Nice.

Love all your battletech videos they are all great!

Incredible narration. This is my favorite lore channel.

Just so you know, i'm currently binging through all of the lore on this channel and my early impression is that you absolutely deserve the growth and attention of us viewers. The videos have great coherency, are enjoyable to watch and you drag us in with pointed mentionings of interesting facts only to expand on them to show us a different facet of the BT universe that ties up with whatever you're currently showing us. great stuff.

I like celebration dances, etc. for NFL touchdowns. I also like the class of the player who just tosses the zebra the ball after scoring. I dig Tex but there's room for a more fun approach to the BattleTech universe. Keep up the good work!

You way of doing these kinds of videos are the best

Great stuff, hope you take off and make more content

I think you're cool and a good person, youtube man. I like it when you and your friend talk to each other. I also like when you talk to yourself. Your content is great to listen to when I am sleepy and I want to hear about robots

Thanks for the video

After I got a bit tired of 40k after countless books I recently heard my first battletech adiobook and I am very interested in this universe now... Your style is very good, in 40k soany are "keepers of the flame" which is very nerv wrecking... A cool approach like yours is very enjoyable.. Keep it up

Man, you do awesome

Love battletech and even more so when you talk the good good funny man haha but for real appreciate the effort

This channel should pop off. Genuine high podcast value

Imagine how it must've felt to be the first Inner Sphere sap to discover elementals aren't mere tiny mechs, but rather: hueg dommy mommies in exoskeletons out to crush that inner-sphussy.

I don't think Kerensky refused a new Star League throne just out of a sense of loyalties to ideals I think there were some very pragmatic reasons behind it all as well. While many in the SLDF would have followed him not everyone would, the SLDF was composed of people from across the Inner Sphere with loyalties to the various great houses, not absolute loyalties certainly but loyalties that would be seriously strained and for some broken if they were forced to fight the great houses. After the exodus but before the creation of the clans there was a civil war amongst the SLDF that broke down along IS great house lines. I think Kerensky feared that the same would happen to the SLDF if it stayed and fought there. Alongside this is the fact that having already seen the carnage that a fight to displace Amaris and impose order extracted on the Inner Sphere he could see that at best the future for the IS was going to be exceedingly bloody as the greater forces and weapons of the SLDF resulted in an even more destructive Succession War then they already had. Beyond not wanting to participate in that clusterfuck I do think there was a loyalty to the soldiers of the SLDF and not wanting to put them through that horrific conflict as well and wanting to honor their efforts against Amaris by keeping them out of the mess to come. Realistically even with the power of the SLDF I don't think Kerensky could have held together the Star League by force, probably not for his lifetime and certainly not for the lifetime of his son.

Clan language also incorporates quite a few Russian words in their lexicon.

Honestly the Clanners are how i run orks in my d&d settings the strict cast system and war worship make it a perfect model.

11:00 So in order to prevent total war, he let the great houses wage total war. Maybe he didn't want the burden of being King of all Humans.

When it comes to the "breeding programs" you missed out the fact that the eugenics is strictly for the warriors. For the other castes it went back to the old style of selective marriages. Children are raised together and tested. When they fail, they get kicked out and assigned to lesser castes. And, since they were bred to be big and strong, Elemental dropouts tend to be assigned as Laborers.

I remember in one of the novels when Martha Pryde and Vlad Wolf have intimacy it was described as "a fight where no one wins versus the other." or some such.

Thanks!

Aleksandr Kerensky was a man that had watched everything he had lived for die. He was faced with a dilemma that had no good solutions and chose the option he thought best under the circumstances. His son Nicholas would twist his dream into something unrecognizable as fanatical eugenicists mongol horde free lovers. That said I'm surprised more SLDF Royal units didn't stay, then again their attrition rates during the civil war were horrendous dispite them having the best the SLDF could give them. The Royal Regiments loyalty oaths were not to the Star League, they were to House Cameron and the Terran Hegemony. This is why way back in the 80s and 90s when the Exodus was first mentioned I had issues with Kerensky's decision. Now I'm a genX that grew up in a US military family on both sides of the tree that went back to the revolution. I then served in the US armed forces myself. I take my service oath to the Constitution and People of the United States very seriously. I also have studied history for fun and understand that in a feudal society the oaths are often to a Royal individual or lineage and the Cameron's were dead. However the worlds of the Terran Hegemony remained, the Hegemony citizens remained, those worlds had all been ravaged by not just conventional war but nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. It is not easy but survivors can be moved to safer places, minefields and contamination can be cleaned up, infrastructure can be rebuilt... and instead Kerensky took most of the SLDF including all its engineer and medical units, logistical assets, and families and fled. This is why for the table top I created a mercenary force that claims to be descendants of SLDF Royal Regimental Combat Team that despise Kerensky, Comstar, and the MRB. A unit that stayed behind because it's support elements could be used to repair the damage done and help the Hegemony survivors while providing security and safety to them. Like everything in Battletech their story is ultimately a tragedy but it made sense that more than the Eridani and Highlanders would stay behind. Then I named them the Discordant Lead as personal way to poke fun at Harmony Gold.

One note you missed....its that the 5 house lords came together and mutually agreed to remove Kerensky as commander of the SLDF.

My only commentary is a tiny nitpick, it's Lyran Commonwealth not Lyrian Commonwealth.

I definitely have to say, things are better when Steve is there for you to bounce things off of! 😛 Also, your channel many not have the production quality of Black Pants Legion. But it is good to have things presented from multiple perspectives. Just need to more clearly define what your perspective is.

14:11 my favorite bit, since the House Leaders realize they screwed up

"10 ft tall amazon gf" ah yes, Tex's Ex Wife. When "reproduction" is synonymous with "An extended Trial Of Position".

Honestly you had me laughing a few times on this one 🎉

Decent video but I've got to contradict on one point in the final section: there's definitely Cloud Cobra clanners who can teach you all about yoga, flexibility and managing your qi. They just, well, never invaded in the Inner Sphere, so you'll never meet one.

Can you talk about history of the Gray Death Legion?!?!

Im gonna be real with you. The reveal of Armored Core 6 just made me interested in mechs again and I started looking back into MechWarriror. So now... Here I am. I tend to like the "muscle car" approach to mechs that happens in the west.

So battle challenge between clans can also be an afternoon of me and my friends playing battle tech.

I had hoped you'd touch on the ..incident aboard the Prinz Eugen and Elizabeth Hazen, but alas... Perhaps an invitation for your audience to also take a look at Tex' video ;-)

Except for my beloved Nova Cats not a fan of the Clans , the egalitarian Australian in me despises their world view . And that's saying something as my inner sphere factions are mainly Capellans and Dracs with some other forces on the side

Thank the youtube algorithm, I got here because I was watching vids about Battletech Alpha Strike, and Roguetech and because I already watched BPL vids before.

fun facts about the clan eugenics: the huge ones are pretty much only for battle armor usage; they have 2 other phenotypes: one is the mech pilot, who are still beefy dudes and ladies and larger than average but not to the ridiculous extant of an elemental (thoguh it can depans.. some look just as massive), and more importantly are selected for brains that interface more easily with mech neuro-helmets, and they have another phenotype for aerospace fighter pilots, who have small, skinny bodies that take little space as well as huge heads for increased brainpower, making them look like your stereotype grey alien in shape. think they also made another later on for protomechs, selecting for small size again as space in a protomech for the pilot is at a premium; its to the point the sphere would need to resort to child soldiers to get their own protomech pilots, explaining why even in the more advanced eras, only the clans use protomechs at all. (you can use machinery to make up for your guy being too small after all like in battle armor, but cant when the operator is too big) Point being that they dont try to create a single ubermensch, but instead seek a constant improvement of task-oriented phenotypes. Also its implied despite all the selecting, the mech and aerospace pilots are no better at their jobs than an average eprson would be if they went through the same (very through and effective) clan training. Elementals are the exception because, well... muscle mass matters for shock troops, there is NO getting around that :p also a big difference between the yatzees and the clanners is that while they look down on those NOT part of the breeding program, they will NEVER build death camps for them even for the most ruthless ones; sure they will be kept lower on the totem pole, but they are still a part of society (and in some clans there is no hangup about them becoming leaders as long as they pass trials like everyone else)

17:00 It just hit me the grand exodus of the SLDF reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica *Humming BSG main soundtrack* "Fleeing Successorstate folly the members of the SLDF tries desperately to find a new home to begin the Star League anew." “ Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was the foundation Upon which our true society was to be built. Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks: They shall have our undying gratitude, For they are the muscle behind us all. Merchants to buy and sell with fairness: They shall have our commerce and respect, For they are the bones upon which we are built. Technicians to build and fix the machines: They shall have our admiration, For they are the fingers with which we grasp life. Scientists to create and discover: They shall have our awe and our attention, For they are the mind of our society. And above all, the Warriors who protect: They shall have our cooperation and worship, For they are the blood and soul of us all. ” - The Remembrance (Clan Wolf), Passage 67, Verse 26, Lines 21-37[1]

I thought Battle Tech sport would be a couple of the really big mechs kicking an Urbie back and forth.

Clan Jade Falcon is my favorite Clan.

I'm just here for the FTL music.

everyone calles Kerensky this great general but in my option he is not in fact he is a deserter who took the force that was built for one reason: to keep the peace and prevent the great houses from having the succession wars, but he fled and allowed nearly 400 years of brutality and bloodshed. he should have played the role of peacekeeper and could have even fostered a neutral faction to take on the role of the camrons. or in short much like in the plot of gladiator sometimes humble men must assume the roles of power so as to keep more ambitious and evil men from inflicting woes unto the innocent citizens of the empire

I like the light hearted and meme takes on MechWarriors. I'm new to the IP so I appreciate surface level lore. I would probably fall asleep if it were serious and I f I want in depth or more info I can Google it Alex Karenski is essentially the George Washington of mech warrior. LoL

My next planner profile will now have blonde eyes and blue hair, thanks for that.

The clans are... interesting

Lol could you picture a commerical for some Kerenskys's Good Ol Fashioned Soup Stock lololol

has anyone noticed anything odd about the centurion's loadout at 32:17, it just seems kinda off with the amount of weapons

Oh man I know ftl music when I hear it, fuck yeah!

Lol! You can gargle gravel and down whiskey! Try it! Hehehe

Contractions are indeed used as a common part of clan speech QuiAff? (they just are not what we are used to.) IMO much of what a clanner would use as a contraction likely stems from military shorthand. In the end I think it is more portmanteau than "contraction" I have only been a clanner since maybe 89, so I am still learning this stuff. :) Use of Qui Aff and Qui Neg are simply I am asking a question... I expect this answer. (I have always heard it pronounced like QWee including in the battletech cartoon (Which BTW is cannon, but is generally treated as a FedCom propaganda show thus explaining the inconsistencies with established cannon lore)

Not all omni-mech technology belonged to the Clans by the end of 3059, as the one Inner Sphere lance that survived landfall during Operation Bulldog, the decapitation strike to take down the leadership of Clan Smoke Jaguar had a Sunder, a 90-ton, Inner Sphere built and designed omni-mech when they hit the planet at Tranquil.

I use 2 metrics when determining how decent a human a person is. 1. How do animals react around them and viscera. 2. Are they cappellan sympathizers.

You know, I wasn't really a fan of eugenics until you mentioned 10-foot tall muscle mommy and now I'm questioning all my principles

Fuck yeah Battletech lore!

perhaps Kerensky should have taken control of the star leage, maybe then he could have controlled the warring families.

Your videos have urged me to drag out the minis and 3d terrain.

Forgetting the novel name, but you can see the initial terms (and the changes taking place even then...) Quiaff = Query Affirmative, Quineg = Query Negative. Which... yeah, I'd create a contraction there too. >.>

I'm kinda surprised you didn't mention the Battletech cartoon which is canonically watched by Jade Falcon children, and is basically laughed at because of how weird it is.

Why is there a BSG song in the playlist?

This is the only way I can consume Battletech lore. The long historical essay style just can't hold my attention. Please keep doing your videos in this style, it's great. The hyperbole and comedy make it so much easier to digest.

K, didn't see it in the first several comments though it might have been pointed out later, but l feel like you missed an important part of Clan culture. The Clans are almost pathologically frugal. My memory is a little hazy on the exact order and which side gets to declare the time and place once a Batchall has been issue, but the defender declares the number and type of forces they will be defending with and then the challenger has to declare the number and type of forces they will attack with...however, if the number of forces the challenger declares isn't significantly smaller than the defenders, the challenger will lose face and their courage and honor will be questioned. They might even find themselves challenged for wasting resources. This was the primary reason Comstar was able to fight the Clans to a draw on Tukayyid resulting in a 15yr truce. If the clans had come with their full force, they would have steamrolled the Com Guard. Thanks to the Clan pride in their frugality, they underestimated the Com Guard and failed to commit sufficient forces (aside from Clan Wolf's victory which coupled with the losses inflicted by Clan Jade Falcon as they retreated rendered the Com Guard combat ineffective enough to sue for a draw).

I think yoga is very popular with the clans. Here is the reason. No blind spot. There is no where within fist range you can hide. That fist will find you. Even behind and the middle of there back. You know the spot right behind the shoulders. Clanners can punch that sopt.

Kerenski, the big hero. That knew billions of people were about to die in horrible unchecked war. And decided to do nothing about it. As a matter a fact. Took the only entity that could have prevented it. He could have easily set military law for a decade and create a constitutional democracy easily, then give up power to the voting public. Something that had many examples throughout history. The man was no hero. He oversaw literally the devolvement of humanity in which it would never recover from.

There seems to be this general understanding in the fandom of which factions own / make which: * Mechs * Mech Variants * Weapons * Weapon Variants And which of each are rare. I'd love to know where this understanding comes from, because I missed the boat. Having mostly played the games (everyone gets everything) and read the books (GDL consistently has about 27 Marauders fielded per lance, despite being pre-helm and no matter who they are fighting or who that person is pretending to be... GDL is not the exception in the dozen novels I've read. How do people know who's canocally supposed to be the disco faction or the Victor wielding iddiots or what's uncommon?!? Because I can't find any consistancy in anything I've seen and I rly am interested to know.

My only complaint is the persistent "lyrian" instead of lyran.

Also, it's fun to jump and splash into puddles!

What is the source material you are using to get that the Pentagon worlds were all in the same star system? It's known as the Pentagon world but it's a cluster of stars. Not planets.

Hello RC, I assume Steve got better by now. I've heard him in other videos. I have subscribed and like what you do so I'm watching your previous videos on BT. That said, this is merely a English language technical correction. I hope this is in the nicest way possible. There is too much negativity already. You said that the Clans don't use "conjunctions". You misspoke. It should be "contractions". A contraction is the smashing together of two words. A conjunction words like, "for, but, and, nor". You're doing great. Just trying to help.

Maybe Karinski should have become the first lord after all...

One thing, it is the Lyran Commonwealth not Lyrian.

You guys should hang out with tex

BATCHAL isn't a contraction, it's a portmanteau. There is a little difference.

"Kerindki's genetic leniage" is far less weird to say

So the clanners have a lot death by snu snu scenario🤔

Clan love = snu snu