BattleTech Lore & History - First Succession War: Military Overview (MechWarrior Lore)

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#battletech #lore #mechwarrior BattleTech Lore & History is a series by Sven van der Plank that covers the history of the #innersphere and Periphery within the #battletech universe. Presented as a #documentary from the year 3025, the videos cover in detail major events such as the Age of War, founding of the #starleague, #reunificationwar, the Golden Age, #starleague Civil War and the four #successionwar.
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Sourcebooks Referenced:
House Davion: Federated Suns (1623)
House Kurita: Draconis Combine (1620)
House Liao: Capellan Confederation (1624)
House Marik: Free Worlds League (1622)
House Steiner: Lyran Commonwealth (1621)
The Periphery (1629)
The Star League (1630)
ComStar (1655)
Handbook: House Davion (35024)
Handbook: House Kurita (35205)
Handbook: House Liao (35204)
Handbook: House Marik (35019)
Handbook: House Steiner (35001)
Handbook: Major Periphery (35203)
Era Report: 2750 (35222)
Historical: Reunification War (35231)
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.I (35232)
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.II (35233)
Historical: Operation Klondike (35230)
Historical: First Succession War (35235)
Historical: Second Succession War (35236)
Field Manual: SLDF (35251)
Field Report 2765: AFFS (35FR010)
Field Report 2765: CCAF (35FR008)
Field Report 2765: DCMS (35FR009)
Field Report 2765: FWLM (35FR011)
Field Report 2765: LCAF (35FR012)
Field Report 2765: Periphery (35FR013)
Jihad Hot Spots: Terra (35205)
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0:00 Star League Restrictions
2:54 SLDF Stragglers
4:22 Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery
6:10 Capellan Confederation Armed Forces
8:53 Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces
10:52 Free Worlds League Military
13:16 Armed Forces of the Federated Suns
16:35 Comparisons
17:58 WarShips
19:02 Draconis Combine Admiralty
19:58 Capellan Confederation Navy
21:17 Lyran Commonwealth Navy
22:13 Free Worlds Navy
23:31 Federated Suns Navy
24:41 Hegemony Armed Forces
25:34 Taurian Defence Force
26:37 Magistracy Armed Forces
27:10 Alliance Military Corps
27:55 Minor Periphery Powers
28:25 Mercenaries
31:16 Brutal Calculus
32:23 Outro

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@reecedignan8365 10 ай бұрын

“And so begins the first Succession Wars” *Trumpets* Can’t wait to see this full series. Keep up the great work Sven.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do. Got some good momentum now. Looking forward to seeing the reception to the next couple chapters.

@Ironclockwork 10 ай бұрын

Considering how little compiled coverage has been given in regards to the earlier Succession Wars, these videos you've made are utter godsends. The political and military outlines you've made in regards to the Inner Sphere just before the First Succession War simply underlines just what a gigantic stack of powder kegs was now sitting around at this time... and how intent everyone was on setting the entire pile off.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I agree that it's an oft overlooked era. I believe that's because it's easier just to describe the state of affairs in 3025 then the wars that led to it, and there are very little later events that are influenced by the SWs, unlike the Age of War and Star League which seem more impactful. By the 4thSW, the Inner Sphere is in recovery so there's less importance on how things got so bad.

@WalterBarnes 10 ай бұрын

Love the Sharpe Reference at 8:47 - I almost missed Sean Bean in action!

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

After the regimental naming video I did, which I thought was a complete mess but somehow people loved, I knew I had to sneak another Sharpe reference in somewhere. Obviously the sourcebook author was a fan too.

@Athlon2736 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankNow that's good Soldiering

@Klatenbach 10 ай бұрын

Every time I hear that MechCommander music I get all nostalgic. Thank you so much for these massive lore undertakings. It really fills in the universe and adds so much context.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome, glad you're finding them useful. Since I first used it in the Reunification War series, I've used the MechCommander music exclusively for the military overviews, and will continue to do so in all future series.

@samanthamccormick1436 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this! It's rare for the Early Wars to get some love.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I know. They're the most destructive years of setting, but the status quo remains largely unchanged so folks often just gloss over them. Looking to do justice to all those millions who perished.

@BrianBors 10 ай бұрын

I don't know how all of this pans out. So I picked a handful of units to follow as "favourites" and hope they do well in the coming conflicts. My picks: Marik: Free world guards Davon: Syrtis Fusiliers Magistracy: Magistracy royal guard (no reason) Mercs: Blue star Irregulars and the Grave walkers. Now I wonder how they will do, or even if they get mentioned XD

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I love this idea. You've managed to pick some fairly quiet ones though, at least as far as the 1stSW goes.

@BrianBors 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank That's okay. I am a patient person. 😌 You keep doing what you do! You are amazing!

@Taiko206 10 ай бұрын

This is absolutely awesome. The lore in Battletech was already extensive, sometimes even in a very confusing way, but this series really bring it all home and in very good order, plus adding a lot of information one would never think of. Thank you for making the effort to bring it all together so we finally have a detailed history of the inner sphere (at least until 3025 😉)

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome. We're only up to 2787 at the moment but we're not stopping at 3025. One day in the distant future I'll have covered the entire timeline.

@Taiko206 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Already looking forward to that ☺

@fredlandry6170 10 ай бұрын

Even after such terrible losses the SLDF still had two million men and women under arms. It shows how massive the Star League Military was at its height.

@ssjjshawn 10 ай бұрын

At its height, it had 3 times as many people as the American Military. And since the Court of the Star League is in the puget sound, I guess they very technically ARE the American Military, or its decendent.

@MoreEvilThanYahweh 10 ай бұрын

James McKenna was American, so yeah...

@ssjjshawn 10 ай бұрын

@@MoreEvilThanYahweh James McKenna and the Cameron's were actually Canadian, just from British Columbia and close to the US border. But there are a couple SLDF units that are explicitly decended from American Military units, I couldn't find any from the Canadian Military.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Isn't the Royal Black Watch itself a Canadian unit with Scottish ancestry?

@ssjjshawn 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank IRL they're just a Royal Scottish Regiment as Light Infantry, and are still Scottish. I couldn't find when in Battletech they switched over to being the Cameron's protectors or when they adopted mechs. Best I say was "During the Star League Era" as a time

@gregdomenico1891 10 ай бұрын

It really starts to hit home how destructive these wars were, when you did the roster of units for each nation: 90% of them no longer exsist in the current time line( and those that do, are about a 10th of their former size).

@workshoptelescope 10 ай бұрын

The cleanliness in speech reflects an academic quality of writing. Well done as always.

@thomasrose4523 10 ай бұрын

Excited! Every weekend, it's a great time! And bigred 40Techs last 2 videos have had me quite the happy camper. You guys are doing great work!

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm excited to get into the real meat of the conflict next Saturday. Things get ugly pretty quick.

@thomasrose4523 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank same here! Always love learning about my favorite series, and the way you guys do it is phenomenal!

@user-ec1fo6lb5w 10 ай бұрын

Man, ending this with the new doctrine of indiscriminate destruction and apocalyptic civilian death on a shot of a cute little child in a teddy-bear coat with her parent getting news that war had begun is brutal.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

It's a series about the First Succession War. If I'm not making you feel a sense of dread and misery, I'm not doing it right.

@thecommuterzombie 9 ай бұрын

This series is shaping up to be one of *the* defining Battletech lore series on the platform. Fantastic work!

@beniboi6992 10 ай бұрын

Been a big Battletech fan for years, but only lightly brushed the succession wars lore so don't really know much about it, these vids are great. Thankyou for doing these.

@christopherpurches2774 10 ай бұрын

Let the death-ticker rise! Awesome video, Sven! To be honest, my knowledge of Succession Wars 1-3 is rather lacking, so these videos are a godsend, since I can listen to them while working.

@mickbrown7793 10 ай бұрын

I'm interested in your source for the Deneb Light Cavalry. My own understanding is that the 4th Deneb Light Cavalry were a SLDF regiment that joined the FedSuns in return for badly needed food supplies on Deneb Kaitos, their homeworld, and trained up regiments in their own image for the AFFS. I don't recall any reference that they were originally recruited from the FedSuns. Both FM: Federated Suns and House Davion list the origin I just gave.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I'm not sure of the exact source but I have a list of those books I've referenced in the description.

@DavionLoyalist 10 ай бұрын

The Davion Guards and Hussars really the carry the AFFS throughout the Successions Wars

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I don't know if carried is the correct term. They may have just about held the line, but they were getting brutalised in the first few years.

@SulliMike23 10 ай бұрын

I can only guess that the AFFS and the LCAF gained much needed experience during the First Succession War and managed to use that experience for the other wars that followed.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Well the Fed Suns came within a hair's breadth of being wiped out, so it's perhaps no wonder that by 3025 they've spent the intervening centuries strengthening their military to ensure that never happens again (until it almost happens again).

@HD-mp6yy 10 ай бұрын

Until they get whipped out. Glory to the Dragon!!

@harvestblades 10 ай бұрын

Sven you do outstanding work, & your use of maps really helps make sense especially if you are new to the universe. Looking forward to the next episode!

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm pleased you think so. I really struggled to visualise where things were happening when I used to just read the sourcebooks, so these videos help me have a better understanding of events too.

@IKMojito 10 ай бұрын

Great stuff yet again, was great getting to watch this premier

@robbybarbera 10 ай бұрын

Outstanding! Looking forward to Saturday.

@fernandozavaletabustos205 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for these kind of lore videos!

@entr0physt 10 ай бұрын

LoL "South Essex!!!" So that brings up an idea. Sharpe is a fictional series, but one of the things I love about BT is that it sends me down all these cool real-world rabbit holes. I actually found your BT videos via a link to the one describing what the combined arms unit names meant, and from where they originated. It might be fun to explore historical parallels to BT events, whether they inspired the lore or just happen to line up. Looking up "Gallowglass" made me wonder if they'd inspired the notion of Clanner society, for example.

@jollyjohnthepirate3168 10 ай бұрын

Outstanding content sir.

@ArawnNox 10 ай бұрын

I'm so looking forward to this! Nobody else has gone in to your kind of detail on the Succession Wars and I'm 100% here for it! :D

@juniormartin3528 10 ай бұрын

THIS IS AWESOME. sven, you keep 'em comin', i'll keep on watchin' 'em.

@R17inator 10 ай бұрын

It would be cool if we could also get some "Meanwhile in the Kerensky Cluster and Pentagon Worlds" intermissions or side videos at some point.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I'm absolutely going to cover the Star League in exile at one point, but don't expect any mention of them in this series. I'm keeping the focus purely on the Inner Sphere for now.

@Killayeti67 9 ай бұрын

Just found your channel from the most recent BPL podcast, and I am loving it! Keep it up!

@lorefox201 10 ай бұрын

a great numbercrunching episode! my favourites

@RenBR 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video :)

@HawkTheRed 10 ай бұрын

Another Video, another top notch presentation. Can't wait for the next one.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I'm excited to finally get the show on the road with the next chapter, but the following one I believe will be the highlight (or lowlight) of the entire series.

@rickusjamesus 10 ай бұрын

Effective charts! Love the presentation

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm glad you liked how I visualised the numbers.

@KarlRosner 10 ай бұрын

I love how yous aid you wouldn't go crazy with another series like the civil war then just went and started working forward haha.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Well at least this one isn't eight hours long, lol. I'm managing to exercise *some* restraint.

@nono2645 10 ай бұрын

oh watching these makes me want to play huge games of classic battletech FOR THE GLORY OF THE COMMONWEALTH!!!

@matthewmarek1467 10 ай бұрын

The setup and explanation of forces here is thorough and complete. I've never seen anything this clear and comprehensive. Incredibly well done. Hopefully we can get a similar breakdown of forces at the end of the 3rd or 4th Succession War.

@thomascraiker6449 10 ай бұрын

Great video!

@Dracobyte 10 ай бұрын

Another awesome Battletech lore documental!

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Dracobyte, glad you think so.

@DzinkyDzink 10 ай бұрын

May I like this?

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thumbs Down only

@lorefox201 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankdon't tell me what to do

@Dracobyte 10 ай бұрын

Yes!

@JC-nl9yq 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankYou don’t own me

@Jim-kz4zo 10 ай бұрын

No . Be a man . Don't listen to us

@Steven-dt5nu 9 ай бұрын

Great maps. Battletech and maps.

@macrux152__8 10 ай бұрын

Gods the Chesterton regulars. The guys who got Thunderbolts and Hunchback mechs.

@BigRed40TECH 10 ай бұрын

Superb work Sven!

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Big Red. Currently watching you Dire Wolf vid that came out when I was on holiday. The French opening has me somewhat nonplussed, lol.

@BigRed40TECH 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank It's my favourite part of the video lol Especially, since the translation is just a joke, with the "Colonel" Telling the First-Prince that they mistook the Dire-Wolf as a fishing boat XD

@jasonfarley9025 10 ай бұрын

Love it! The end of the beginning... ...the beginning of the end. Let it be done!

@chuckbuck5002 10 ай бұрын

Begun the Succession Wars Have. - Minoru "Fuck the Davions" Kurita.

@doyouevenpraise189 10 ай бұрын

oh this channels is becoming a BattleTech lore channel? count me in!

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I've been doing BT stuff for around two years now, transitioning away from the old let's plays I used to do.

@doyouevenpraise189 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank ah now I saw the vids. When I was looking at your vids only command and conquer vids appear for some reason. good to know!

@gregbird5684 10 ай бұрын

Thank you good sir, 👏👏👏👏👏👏

@pappicusrex1238 10 ай бұрын

Hyped for this series! Bring on the war crimes!

@MM22966 10 ай бұрын

I know it isn't a "Battletech" thing, but I would have appreciated a word about WMD stockpiles/models/use, given how widespread its use was in the 1st SW. Perhaps something can be added in a later chapter?

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

You're right, I probably should have commented on it. I just took it as a given that folks understood they had vast numbers available, but we're never given any concrete figures by the siurces that I could have referenced. There is one point in the next episode where I talk about the Capellan being caught off guard by the lack of restraint in nuclear deployment, and learning in that moment that nukes are fair game.

@MM22966 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Understandable. As I said, nukes and chemical/bio weapons aren't really a "Battletech" thing. I have a suspicion they were mostly added/made mention of much later to properly explain how so much destruction could happen so fast (not just with mechs/warships) when they started writing more detail about the SL Civil War and 1st SW. Nukes are a plot device, not a character of Battletech, not even as a NPC. I DO appreciate how much you delved into the Warship situation, though!

@parallaxgames 10 ай бұрын

Ya know, I'm a strong Marik man, and by the Clan Invasion, they're at industrial parity with Steiner at least, it's just kinda painful to hear how they're kind of scraping the bottom at this point. I can't hardly wait to hear what happened, although I suspect gross incompetence on the parts of Houses Liao and Steiner will play a role.

@MysteryMastery69 10 ай бұрын

This is for my friend Al G. Rhythm. May it spread far and wide

@ianschneider7998 10 ай бұрын

Great work. Keep it up. Do you have the maps you create available anywhere?

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

They should be linked in the description. I don't have every minor iteration (there's literally hundreds) but I have the beginning and end of each major conflict.

@brent1975 10 ай бұрын

This is amazing. Where did you get the Military Unit crests? Those are so cool.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Check the description. Any that aren't from those linked galleries are from official sourcebooks.

@oldmandeath 10 ай бұрын

I feel bad, youtube has been pretty bad about letting me know when you upload. So to make up for it I watched the last three here in a row! They have all been great, I love these breakdown videos helps set the stage I think. I am excited to see more of this. The graphs were great and overall easy to read. Only thing I might change or update is having a Key on screen to help at a glance know who you are talking about. Especially when you start using acronyms it can be a bit hard to follow if you are not up to date on all of them.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Hey no worries, glad you've been enjoying the series so far. Thanks for the feedback. I can look at adding some text to make it clearer.

@spiritbomber9359 10 ай бұрын

Now for the real meat and potatoes of the succession war

@louiskemner3216 10 ай бұрын

The First Succession War scorecard: Everyone loses

@jessestanley1690 10 ай бұрын

Where is the love button lol KZfaq should add one

@Siegerzkranz 10 ай бұрын

It's so funny that using HBS Battletech art means we see the Bullshark again and again, a mech which doesn't actually exist as a canon machine, and which if it did would be totally unknown in documentary 3025

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

It's real to me, godamnit. And I have never particularly cared about years of introduction for 'Mech art in my prior vids. I try not to include any clan designs but definitely the early stuff features Star League era 'Mechs throughout, same issue with the Reunification War series.

@Siegerzkranz 10 ай бұрын

Oh it's not a big deal, there's honestly not enough art to go on that's good for this type of use anyways, just a funny artifact

@masayukiokuno5717 10 ай бұрын

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time" --Edward Grey, August 3rd 1914. Darkness is falling to every person at the time and future, even the SLDF and later Clan who left Inner sphere behind couldn't escape from that. I think the whole battletech universe never back to the height of this era after the humane nightfall. 3049 or 3129, even ilClan era there wasn't enough recovery from the damage was caused. Yes people's life in 2786 was very bad compare to 20 years ago that before the Amaris coup and civil war. But what coming next is completely incomparable destruction that Sven already said in this video, which Word of Blake's Jihad and all of wars and conflicts after Clan invasion feels poorly made parody play. I feel sadness, somber, kind of depression even I know this is completely fictional lore of the game me and lot of people enjoying. Your creating great content Sven. I'm waiting next video. Thank you very much.

@rookiemechwarrior 10 ай бұрын

So begins the succesion wars, characterized by the phrase "it gets worse"

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, the devastation and loss of life is so extreme that by the end of the second year, they've already stopped counting.

@oriffel 10 ай бұрын

the best part of these videos? Finally learning how to pronounce everything

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I try my best but every episode I get corrected on something else. For example, I just learned that Oriente is not pronounced the same as Orient.

@Runningfromtheredqueen 10 ай бұрын

This video needed more Kenyon Marik. Like, at least 20% more Marik.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I agree. I will definitely make some changes before I reupload the compilation.

@wyvernfallgaming 7 ай бұрын

I searched the entire soundtrack of mechwarrior5 battletech and mech commander and coudnt find the music in 19:20 whats the song called

@KillerOrca 10 ай бұрын

The Grave Walkers sound REAL interesting...

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Weirdly little is known about them given their supposed long history. Just a throwaway sentence in a sourcebook that no author has ever desired to explore or build upon. Then I think they get wiped out unceremoniously during the Clan Invasion.

@KillerOrca 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank Why am I not surprised...

@zachary5ful 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank They actually survived the clan invasion but got pretty badly mauled. They made it all the way to the Jihad era and in 3085 merged with the Kell Hounds and became the 2nd Battalion for the Kell Hounds.

@Ironhold_Watch 10 ай бұрын

Woosh

@floriangallus7760 10 ай бұрын

Awesome as always. Official Battletech numbers especially when it comes to army strengths always seem a bit low to me regarding the interstellar scale.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, it averages around 3.5 regiments per planet, which isn't very much at all. BUT you have to remember that very few planets have a population comparable to Earth. Most have just one or two cities, with 90% of the populace in that one location. Many others have just a few thousand scattered among mining outposts. It's less of a deficit when you consider that.

@rainyvideos3684 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank There's something better that makes it look more real. Look at the size of the US Army and compare it to the size of the USA and population centers. You might think it is smaller then geography demands and you would still be correct. I'd say it's quite realistic with that comparison in mind.

@efffvss 10 ай бұрын

@@rainyvideos3684 But the US military has been broadly 'at peace' since 1945 (I realise this isn't precisely true, but it's close enough by the 'full strategic arsenals deployed, existence of the State itself is at stake' standards that Battletech aims for). For comparison, at its peak in WW2, the US military was apparently in the region of 16 million men. That's a little over 11% of the total US population at the time (just shy of 140 million). Whereas today the US 'only' has 1.35 million in the military and a population of 334 million, so 0.4%. So yeah, the idea that the Inner Sphere as a whole 'should' have been able to put a lot more men and metal in the field than the canonical numbers suggest definitely has legs.

@rainyvideos3684 10 ай бұрын

@efffvss I got that. I'm in the military. But we're also smaller then we should be. So the point stands. Especially since we're supposed to be orienting ourselves to fight near peer opponents.

@lilyphoniex3757 10 ай бұрын

long live the concordat

@DaraEhteshamzadeh 10 ай бұрын

Where did you get the mech commander soundtrack?

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

I get the .wav files directly from game folder.

@chrisl10308 10 ай бұрын

I often wonder the insane pressure being the commander and chief of a multi star system war on multiple front against numerous enemies of equal footing. FDR died just because of WW2 and that only took place on 1 planet.

@shiryuyamamouto9141 9 ай бұрын

The first one was a flood of blood over the Inner Sphere

@greatjonumber4958 10 ай бұрын

Based and Kenyon Marikpilled

@robertsullivan4172 10 ай бұрын

Anyone know where he's getting the conventional regiment numbers? Cause I can't find it in the first succession war sourcebook.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

p.166 of the 1stSW sourcebook. I then cross-reference that with FM 2765:DCMS which gives us relatively exact numbers for conventional forces only 20 years earlier to see that those tables give totals that are in the same ballpark. It's not exact but the relative differences between the houses should be accurate since the numbers are drawn from the same table.

@robertsullivan4172 9 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankthanks a million.

@robertsullivan4172 9 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlankstill getting used to battletech's much smaller skill compared to warhammer 40k. Hahaha Edit:skill=scale

@rainyvideos3684 10 ай бұрын

Sven something to add that you might not be aware of, or maybe you just made a mistake in editing and recording. You said the Liao Guards were personnel brigade of the ruling house and then list their strength as 4 regiments. Well regiments are brigade equivalent formations in terms of the level of military command that they sit at with the next level above them being a division. And since there are four regiments, it would be more accurate to say that they are the personnel division of the ruling house.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

You're right and you're wrong. In BattleTech, for whatever reason, the various groupings/supercategories or however you want to refer to them are consistently referred to as brigades. This leads to somewhat confusing situations where the Davion Brigade of Guards contains eight combined-arms divisions, and the Lyran Guards brigade is subdivided into five divisions. It's just a relic of whoever first wrote these things not having to deal with large formations at the time, so they used the word brigade liberally.

@Tucker0603 10 ай бұрын

Is it bad that I really want a Soyal class ship? Mass drivers and all such magnetic weapons are soo cool to me.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

The Halo fan in me is drawn to them. Plus they're bloody enormous by post-Star League standards (and no small number of them). To the best of my knowledge, the LCS Nightwind is the only remaining vessel that's heavier.

@Tucker0603 10 ай бұрын

@@SvenVanDerPlank I'm just imagining how bonkers it would be to be a merc company with one, you know someone would get drunk and try to launch mechs outta the mass driver.

@SvenVanDerPlank 10 ай бұрын

Hahaha, that's definitely a joke I can imagine Tex making. 'Mech deployment to the surface via orbiting mass driver.