Kerensky said, "strip all subtlety from the Atlas. Make it the most lethal, braindead W+M1 brick possible." And it was good.

You wanna see me core this assault? You wanna see me do it again? -King Crab

There's only one thing better than a King Crab, two King Crabs.

I do quite adore the King Crab. It's an absolute meme-cannon of a mech. Its whole existence is basically just "That's a nice assault lance you got there. It'd be a shame if someone were to... BROADSIDE IT."

The King Crab is like the shotgun of mechs. It isn't very long ranged, it isn't particularly versatile, it may not be the most practical option, but when the stars align for just the right moment, by all the gods it will make someone have a very, very bad day.

The gun shields on the weapons where put there so the mech could PUNCH without risk of damaging the guns.

100 tons of pure fun, can't go wrong with this!

Everything that can evolve comes down to crab in the end

I love the King Crab. It finally got its due as a hero (or in this case, villain) 'Mech in the Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries campaign mode. It also shows up as a final boss of sorts in the HBS Battletech tactical game. To be fair to the scientists and engineers of the Federated Suns, rotary ACs aren't recovered lostech, they're entirely new. They're also much bigger than you might think. If a Shadow Hawk has an 80 mm rapid-fire auto-loading cannon, the RAC equivalent is three to six barrels each in 80mm and able to pump out as much as six times the firepower over a 10 second period.

It's such a hard pick between Atlas, Daishi and King Crab. Dashi has the heroic look. Atlas has the badass look. King Crab has the mean/eldritch look.

Tended to replace the AC-20s with Gauss. Or the RAC-5. Nice weight savings there, and more room for medium lasers. LOTS of medium lasers.

King Crab is great but I can't get over my love for "boxes strapped to a cockpit on legs" that is the Catapult. Fill said boxes with SRMs and go for a walk deleting light mechs with volleys of missiles that resemble the fists of an angry god, it's a lot of fun.

The ridiculous height differences between mechs are something that came about in the video games. Back in the 80s, the P&P game's designers apparently paid more attention to basic materials science. All the Mechs were all much closer in height. The squat, stocky build of the King Crab originally would have put its height at less than nearly all mediums and around the same as the humanoid lights.

My favorite version is the Dark ages one with the XXL engine. Imagine a King Crab that can run 8. Double LBXs mean that those bigs guns got some reach. More ammunition, a plasma rifle for fun and a sneaky missile launcher 15 to exploit armor breaches

There's just something especially charming about the way it saunters across the field, in what I call the "royal strut." It doesn't even need to be speedy, it'll blow things up on its own time, and look damn good doing it. Definitely my favorite Assault mech (Highlander is a *very* close second though.)

The Marauder and Marauder II are my favorites due to the versatility and protection. The King Crab is a very close second for me though. When fire power is the question and yes is the answer accept no substitute but CRAB!

I've always loved the KC and the Stalker on the assault mech side. Though I think the Marauder is still my favorite mech design overall.

One of the mods of MW5 give access to the KGC-010. It is my forever guilty pleasure. 2x LBX10, 2xSRM6, 2xPPC by default. Sure there are versions that give you better options, but I love this the most.

can't argue, King Crab is easily my favorite assault mech with it's only competition coming from the Marauder II

There is a legendary King Crab variant in Mech Warrior 5 that I really loved. I put 2 LB 10-C ACs in each arm so I had 4 total, and a SRM6 in one shoulder. The other shoulder was left empty to save weight for more ammo and armor. I set up the fire controls so the autocannons could be fired either one at a time, or all 4 at once. This thing was amazing anti-air at ridiculous distances, and the shotguns had surprisingly long harassment range. Up close however, this thing would shred almost any other mech instantly, especially if I line of sight to the legs first. Due to the scattershot nature of the shotguns, this was also one of the only assault mechs that could reliably hit locusts and fleas at any range.

When you showed that image of the king crab in the bushes I was like, "why are the trees speaking A/C 20?!"

I’m surprised you didn’t talk more about the KGC-001 clan buster that turned the King Crab into a massive ranged threat.

This is a mech that benefits from recovered tech a lot. My refit had duel LB20X and a bunch of LRM5s for support and AA duty. Hide it behind a hill with the LRM support units and the enemy will get a NASTY surprise when they send a medium lance or two to knock out the support units.

Dire Wolf: I got guns King Crab : *Crits with two AC20s* oh you were talking?

I liked the red paint scheme better than the green, yellow, or little orange highlights. The grabbers kind of make it look like Maximilian from the Black Hole.

King crab, for when you need to face tank 5 heavies as you get into ac20 range, or plan to fight in cities /valleys.

I tried this last night on Mechwarrior 5: Mercineries, and I love this Mech. I tended to replace one AC 20 with the Burst Fire version.

King Crab was the first mech I ever got for TT. This mech also git me into BT

I too have the same reverence for this monster of an assault mech. It has won me uncountable victories simply because it was too angry to die. especially since i solved it's staying power and gave it RAC 5's as a funny joke. An indomitable beast i affectionately named the Karkinos.

the newer king crab definitely wins points for style even if its armament is a case of "terrifying on paper, quite awful in reality". Because its extremely ammo-dependant, and is quite harmless for its size out of the (short) range of its AC20s.... and it doesnt help that its speed is low, meaning its unlikely to ever catch up to anything that refuses to get close.

I remember when I first heard about the King Crab some 2 years ago I fell in love with it for its name alone, but I was glad that I had after learning about the mech in detail, plus it looks neat and unique.

The Highlander had something to say about it being best; "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!"

The 007 had only a single RAC5 in each arm. My personal Favorite is the KGC-008. It has C3I for getting short range bonuses at long rang, 2 LAC2s, 2 ER Medium Lasers, and 2 HEAVY PPCS. And that isn't even the scariest part. No XL engine so it is pretty durable and top it all off, it has JUMP JETS for when the Crabbo wants to CRUSH stuff with it's mass.

You, sir, are a man of style and knowledge. It's great to finally see someone love the KC as much as I do. 👑🦀❤

King Crab was the greatest Star League-era Assault 'Mech... until FASA retroactively added powercreep monstrosities like the Devastator, Nightstar and Pillager into the era when they could have just put their loadouts onto King Crab variants or made them a post-Invasion response by the IS to Clan designs. Hell, the bloody Pillager was built _a century and a half_ in the lore before the King Crab and Atlas.

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In novels I am surprised enemy infantry hasn't tried to get on its back to set powerful charges in the shoulder joints. The k-crab would be extremely vulnerable to such tactics due to how wide it's back is. In fact it's one of my favorites as our Game master allows it. I love the cursing that follows after depriving the K-crab of its primary weapons, lol.

My dm unleashed this on us during one BattleTech session. Fighting it was terrifyingly hard

King crab smash! Nice to see this beast getting a bit of love at last.

Also one of my personal favorites!

The biggest of the big, the stompiest of stompy bois, and the most utterly terrifying thing to come out of the Star League

King Crab is literally the best looking mech in the entire franchise, probably one of the more sensibly designed ones too. Low profile, flat, not a big fckin target like the rest of the mechs. Only issue are those goddamn arms, not only are they an useless dead weight, they also lower the height of the guns. Bc it seems no one heard about fighting hulldown in the inner sphere.

Mess with the KING CRABBO you get the KING STABBO!!!!

My top 3 favourite mechs: 3. Atlas 2. King crab 1. Marauder/marauder 2

Fear itself is my ally. Always atlas! Crab is food.

The Supernova was one of my all time favorite mechs as I found it in MW3, the style of it, name and power, just loved it. But when I played MWO it wasnt there yet, so I got more into the older sorta brother, the King Crab, after finding it, I ditched all my other mechs early on to pick up the KGC faster and never looked back. I still love the SNV more, but its like, right tiny bit above the KGC, and in fact I have a King Crab the size of two soda cans tall sitting on my desk, while I don't have the SNV. Love this sexy beast. Also played the SNV (and only time I ordered a mech pack from MWO) after it came out later on.

I love the king Crab. I have like 6 in MW5 including the hero variants. And my best friend almost exclusively plays it when we run missions together. Although a bit of an ugly duckling in the beginning its really shaped up with its new makeover. Overall its a fantastic mech that deserves more love. Though it doesn't compare to my true love, the Marauder II.

All arguments about longevity on the battlefield, armour, technology, etc etc fall flat when faced with the counterpoint of "I have two ac20's"

I love the skeleton paint of it to just see the derpy crab eyes on a mech that will obliterate you if you scratch it

The king crab is just 2 haunchbacks in a trench coat, change my mind.

I love the Behemoth because it's the Rottweiler to the Marauders Doberman. But the King Crab is up there.

Digitigrade legs, on other points, I agree. I generally don't use assault mechs, but if I do, its ALWAYS a CrabDaddy!

I ran a slighty modified KC with endo steel to add some extra armor as well as a couple of medium lasers, a couple of small lasers, and an upgrade to double heatsinks, to drop a couple of the standard heatsinks to add a couple of extra tonssl of AC20 ammo. Every square inch of space in that frame was used, but the extra endurance and close range firepower made it a tough nut to crack. Ran it in a lance with 2 Archers and a Trebuchet. General attack plan was the missile boats pick a spot to hide and bomard everything in sight and the KC acted as their bodyguard, killing everything that came close. Devastatingly strong battle plan. The few times I lost with was due to beam boats like Awesomes making it to water to help them cool and then beam spam the whole board, or someone using jumpers like Grasshoppers and Victors to get around the KC. The King Crab was almost always my last mech standing too, tho my Trenchbucket had a surprisingly good survival rating too lol. The Archers almosy always died. People always took LRM spam so personally.

The original miniature looked like the hood of a early '70s Camaro or Firebird, super sized and given arms, legs, & firepower. My personal favorite Inner Sphere King Crab build: * 300XL * 16 Dbl Ht Sinks * 19 tons Standard Armor * 2x Gauss Rifles (RA/LA) + 3 tons Ammo EACH (2 RA/1 RT/2 RA/1 LA) * 2x ER Lg Lasers (RT/LT) * 1x Md Pulse Laser (Hd) * 1x ECM Suite (CT) FYI, I took the time to figure out what the BattleTech artillery pieces actually mic out to. Thumper: 155mm Sniper: 211mm Long Tom: 283mm

All Shall Become CRAB!

Everything eventually evolves into crabs. Everything.

Approved.

when i was new to mwo i almost recreated that jungle pic you showed, but instead of a dire wolf i was in a jenner, i legged it back to my lance formation real quick after that

I like how the king crab looks like a bridge of a ship, a pillbox. Irlt feels like a building given arms and legs. And all I can think of is. That’s where I wanna be in! Just you, you commander and maybe a third seat for a repairman or something. Manning this deathdealer. Setting up an ambush alongside an army of smaller mechs. All while keeping in contact with other king crabs.

Must admit my favorite custom mod is to pull the AC-20s and slap a pair of MRM-30s or 40s into those arms. They actually 'fit' unlike the AC-20s which extend into the torso and if you have freezers it can handle the extra heat. But stepping into someone's view and then throwing between sixty and eighty rockets at someone for several turns while laughing never gets old.

Challenge: use King Crab and 3 Crabs throughout entire MW5 gameplay. The mighty CRAB LANCE!

I tend to look at the king crab when ever it shows up in my lv100 missions in mw5 and just hit the happy button on my ana-1x and dump 4 heavy rifles right into its face. Cant fight back when the core stackpoles.

15:25 sloped armored helps against esplosives too, proper slopes can redirect some of the force of an explosion around the hull, especially if it's not a direct hit.

Well here is an argument in favor of Carcinzation. One day... ALL shall be Crab.

Ah yes, the greatest headshot magnet in the entire franchise.

There’s a fun hero variant King Crab in MW5. Instead of a large ballistic mount in each arm it has two medium ballistic mounts in each arm. I salvaged four tier 5 UAC/5 guns, loaded them onto that bad boy, and piled on enough ammunition for a fun filled campaign of mayhem. It stomps a lot of mechs well outside of the range most assume they would have to worry about a King Crab. I also replaced the LRMs with two SRM 6s to shotgun blast enemies point blank with missiles. It’s a fun mech to play.

As soon as I saw the mêlée-ac20 covers I immediately and irreversibly thought - HILLARIOUSLY - that SOMEONE scotch taped a pair of giant, dull bladed small rounded little kid scissors

I want my Urbie to ride a King Crab into battle.

2:45- I immediately remembered my King Crab Battletech card and..... Yes, you are correct 😑🤘

I love the King Crab, I have a King Crab minni from the Comstar command box that I have panted up really nicely.

Lore: Best thingy ever. Actual Game Rules: *Begins Sweating.* *A weapon that is powerful but never hits is useless.*

You mess with Crabbo and you get the stabbo.

For some reason, in the game, bye, harebrained schemes, every time I send out a bunch of mix with a king crab the king crab becomes the focus of all the fire.

Battletech: Here are the Atlas, King Crab and Mad-Cat. Me: Wow (puts all three in a recycling plant just to watch them burn) ill have a Maruader, please.

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ide take 3 demolishers over this any day

The perfect lance: King Crab (Lance commander; assault close brawler configuration) King Crab (assault long range support configuration) Crab (medium range fire support) Hermit Crab (light scout and target designator)

The first time I got a King Krab in Mechwarrior 5 and opened up those Ultra AC 20s I knew it would be a great mech.

I love it as well I believe wholeheartedly that it is one of the three kings the three most powerful Mechs in the game those three consist of the king crab, the atlas, and finally the annihilator.

Give the Crab mech a couple of claw pincers on its arms, and a pair of plasma cannons on its shoulders, and one would have the Invid Assault mecha from Robotech

"It had a growth spert" -Steve

Gen-xer here. I remember when Nike Air came out and they used this awesome song and got sued by the Beatles. I think I was in like 5th grade.

So, a note good lore master. Sloped armor does indeed help with missiles and lasers. When a laser hits flat metal ot can focus more, when it hits a slop it loses some focus over area. The grester the slope, the greater the reduction. As for missiles, most use a shaped charge warhead to penetrate armor, over a slope that effect is reduced or near nullified.

Best IS assault by far, and one of the best looking mechs ever. Only topped by the Dire Wolf on my list of favorites.

Let me give you nightmare fuel. Image the usurper amaris hearing bagpipes and its a battalion of kingcrabs charging to get his ass

Anything less than twin AC/10's or Heavy PPCs is quintessential Heresy. I will never switch from dual AC/20's.

As much as I love the King, which I do, I have always been partial to the Masakari and the Stalker. Not to forget Death from the Sky itself, the good ol' Highlander.

i was paying Meckworrior 5 mercenary and got me a King Crab with duel AC 10 auto canon in each arm absolutely loved that thing wish I could have took it to my next profile. Miss it so much.

As a desicated hunchback pilot, i would be the guy in the presented scenario of a Hunchie coming around a corner to see one of these. At which point I would then try to open up my dinner delivery of canned shellfish.

boar's head: am i a joke to you

Many years ago i designed a Clan mech called the King Crab 2C that had 4 x LB-20Xs on it that was possibly the scariest thing ever made.

I want to talk briefly about a special mech in my heart for the UrbanmechAce does not always tread ground in a trash can. My King Crab in MWO is armed with 4 LBX/5 Autocannons set to chain fire for blinding my opponents in a hail of cluster fire fury, 3 ER medium lasers to cleave their armor and expose their structure for the LBX, and for anything that gets too confident 3 Rocket Launcher 15s. It is painted bright orange to match its temperament. I call it the Alaskan and it is my favorite assault mech. I have ridden into battle many times within its impervious carapace. The King Crab is proof that carcinization goes beyond biology.

This thing is my top mech in MW5. I have a full lance of nothing but King Crabs with CQB loadouts. Can absolutely wipe entire Atlas assault lances. Willing to wager a King Crab Lance could give a Timberwolf some major trouble. I own two King crabs for personal use. One with AC20s, and another with Gauss guns, never know when those clanners might show up, the Crab will be ready. They should use that excess space on the roof to mount the AC20s/Gauss guns up there and instead turn the Pincers into Giant flamehtrowers with serrated teeth. Why? Because fuck anything unfortunate enough to get into melee distance.

A point about lasers pun intended, sloped armor would have an impact on laser energy transfer because the surface area that the laser strikes will be greater. Have I done the math to figure out if it’d be statistically significant? NOPE but I’m posting anyway. Also the Marauder 2 is the only mech I enjoy looking at more than the KC for all the reasons I love the KC. Sloped armor. Reverse joint legs. High torso mount for long range weaponry. I'm just a sucker for that gigantic shoulder cannon.

4:54 Give me four medium mechs of my choice. I'll get it done.

Remove the large laser and replace AC 20's with ultra 20's more dakka more fun

LONG LIVE THE KING!!!

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I'm gunna piss him off. The King Crab is the biggest Urbie style mech. It does what Urbie does, but bigger.

The modern King Crab pictures resemble the Marauder.