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The one thing it needs is to have an AA quirk. Still, would be a good use for heavy vehicle bays on a dropship looking to set up a long term presence. Set up a strong defensive perimeter in the initial landing.

Have a pair of these in my Star Adder forcers one of the few clans that will use artillery. Its not something you put in the front lines but with two arrow IV launchers it will make a mess out of what ever is tagged. Made a mess out of a Jade Falcon star last time I've used one and funny you mention elementals arrow IV's solve that problem very quickly.

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The version that I have played with the most was the AAA Huey. The only issues I have had with it was the slow speed of 2/3. This has me keeping the vehicle on roads and near roads. The slow speed makes me a little worried that counter battery fire will hit as 2/3 has a hard time running artillery splash range. ADA arrow 4 is a way to double down on the AAA focus. Yes, I would agree with running this tank in pairs as I do the same but running it with a Mars would also be good. I run it with the Hachiman “HAG variant” for more focus on AAA and clustering damage. The games that played the Huey my opponents abstained from bring the air power like VTOL. I like the Huey. I try to evade the fusion engine version mostly because of BV. But there will be a case that I would consider it. Do get this vehicle for a clan vehicle line up. It is recommended.

I'm here for the pronunciation alone. This entire design doesn't seem to be clan designed. Like some inner sphere idiot engineer was hired by a clan to make it.

The Huey is an odd tank, for a long time it was the only cannonical vehicle the Clans had that carried Arrow IV, with the Naga being basically a Wolf exclusive (or near as damn it) design. So for the other Clans this was the ONLY way they had Arrow IV in canon. Yet you had loads of 3050 - 3058 Omni's with TAG onboard for Arrow direction, whereas the Clans as a whole basically hate Arty and its basically wasted tonnage outside of the few times you'd ever see one of these things. They're tactically immensely slow, and strategically also just as bad as you need a dropship to carry one around. And all the extra armament is just wasted. Still it does make an interesting design and a good subject for a video :)

Wheetch- ilo poch tlee is how it's pronounced Rusty. The Aztec god of the sun & war.

Back here in 2024 as I will be painting some soon. Actually found this again when searching for videos on them. I think I may do a similar idea with the winds and mix an airbrush metallic with a dye and airbrush in a similar paint scheme.

Liking the look of this one a strange name though

Very nice foundation for a slaanesh army Rusty you have a lot of nice models there. Despite being smaller I really like the old keeper of secrets model

Very cool army Rusty and I love the original Demonettes ❤. I have a printed upscaled original scanned greater demon of Slaanesh I’m painting for a second edition games day in Australia. If you like the look of that I will try and get you the file mate. Cheers

The nightmare of PBI and thermally resistant Battle Armor. I'm surprised there's no AP Gauss variant. It's basically the next gen MG, reaching farther and hitting harder. Barring that, I'd replace the 12 ER micro lasers on the 2 for 6 micro pulse lasers. And of course replace the heavies with the original ER models.

So... if the two LRM-10's were swapped for four LRM-5's, it would save two tons. You could then add in two heatsinks and have a mech that could fire all three medium lasers while running non-stop and never have to worry about heat. Or add one heat sink and one medium laser for x4 ML's when you have a good position... and honestly still be in fairly good shape heat-wise if you don't overdo it. Plus if the medium lasers were moved to the torsos and it had hands added, it could punch twice per turn. It's already got 8 tons of armor, nearly the max for a 40-tonner and very good for the Introtech era. With these minor changes the Whitworth would be a cheap and mean little boi who could spend the first half of the game providing LRM fire support for light-medium lances, then dump it's ammo and charge into the fray as a tiny zombie mech.

I have seen the Athena used is several games and have a respect for the vehicle. It is often considered the ideal case mount weapons carrier because the targeting computer compensates for having to move the vehicle to face targets. The Athena has a good reputation for tournaments as a winning pick. I have never considered teaming it up with vehicles like the Ishtar but that does sound like a good idea.

Aren't those different models of Sherman? Different marks had different lengths IRL.

Strange look, but pretty deadly. I don't have many clan vees but these are on my list to get

It does look cool unusual but very cool

Well done. Much nicer seeing the older style models.

Seems like an ideal unit to fit an MML 9 to.

Nice army

Your side would have been dead by turn 3 if they weren't jumping everywhere! lol

Great video.

The fixed heatsink actually annoys the piss out of me for trying to customise it.

Great update.

The Ishtar looks like a tractor in my eyes. They just put the seats on the wrong end. Leave it to the clans to over engineer a John Dear. It has been ok for me as a tank, and I mostly consider it as a mech support vehicle. Never played with standard tank. I have mostly played the Ishtar Original variant. The tanks higher speed gets it into a position, keep up with the line, and keep its frontal armor forwards. I never fired that UAC at double rate due to game costing jams. Just used the UAC for the extra range and when the ammo runs low start firing at double rate. The Gauss variant could do good work with that HAG. But at 2K BV with a 3/5 crew that’s costly for fire support. Considering the use is to support mechs. I should pick the Gauss variant more often, but many games never had the BV to devote to it. I know that the lore calls this vehicle a garrison vehicle, but I have never played it that way. I consider the Ishtar for all-wheeled lines. Depending on your choice of taking a left or a right to get to the beach.

I have played against the Oro “HAG” variant several times. It has always been a threat on the board, and I would recommend the HAG variant when playing in the era of Ferro Lam armor that reduces all incoming damage by 1 point. Most of the time the tank was taken out because the armor is thin but not much of an issue. Those guns are something I do not want to stand in front of being still. The Oro is a popular tank for many. I have seen the tank played in many alpha strike games and tournaments. When considering the Oro for the anti-air. I often consider VTOL’s to be the target but LB’s are great at killing hover craft for the -1. Every time the chance has come to try playing the vehicle. I have passed it up for other vehicles. As I am still learning clan vehicles and may need to give the vehicle some game time. Players that use Hell’s Horses line-ups have often played vehicles like the Kokou Defense Tank and Enyo Strike Tanks next to the Oro. Respectfully I have played this so-called anti-air lineup of Kokou with a mech like the Rifleman IIC, Black Python, Cygnus 2, and Thunder Stallion 4 or “Fire Stallion”, and Hellstar.

Just put together a bunch of these with swappable turrets for AC/5, LRM, & SRM Variants. I really like what @Helcarexe26 suggested with swapping the LRM 5 for an SRM 4 on the LRM Variant. Any idea what the Catalyst Games BV is for that? (If not I can calculate it and get back to You)

I kinda love this derpy little tank, but I'm a sucker for ACs. I love how well it 'feels' like a defensive unit that would be garrisoned at bases: The AMS, long range weapons, super slow speed, and looking like a redeployable turret gives it a very distinct vibe.

The Ku is one of the better vehicles the clans have that I enjoy playing. As a direct fire support vehicle, the Ku acts more like a heavily armed APC that is the vehicles base. I share that thought of the Ku being comparable to a heavy truck. I agree with the use of the pulse laser and would like a variant that has a HAG 20 for doing light AA work. The Turhan II is a good reason to own a mini of this vehicle. I have mostly played the Ku in MegaMek games where the fusion engine often gets hit. But the ability to move around the Iron Hold Assault Battle Armor, “Anti-Tank” variant, has been its best use case. Two points of space toads would be fun and funny to deploy. The speed being a 4/6 is little bit of a letdown. The Ku success is when I have deployed it in a city from experience. I often consider them as I deploy lots of AAA mechs and vehicles. As I was in a community that used VTOL’s in plentiful numbers. The vehicle may not appear that impressive, but I would totally obtain the mini when I reach to construct a Clan line-up. Mostly for the transport variant. Normally the mini comes in 2 vehicles a box. So, I would consider using the Turhan II and the main gun variant in a wheeled force using Odin Scout vehicles and Ishtar heavy vehicles. The Iron Hold anti-tank variant of assault battle armor is well known to one hit Urbanmechs. Most often when playing clans the BV is expensive to deploy assault battle armor but I consider them worth the investment. To play assault battle armor the lack of transports maybe a bit of a disappointment as a hand full of vehicles besides the Anhur or a custom Bandit have a 10-ton infantry compartment.

Some good stuff with the buildings. Most of mine are gale force 9 and thunder head studios. Will be interested to see how your campaign goes.

Cool update Rusty. Liking the Orcs and Goblins, excellent stuff.👍👍😉

Those buildings are very cool, where did you get the files?

This is very cool Rusty!!! The Nurglings are my favourite!!😂😂👍👍😉

Thank god they redesigned the mechs. The old miniatures were embarrassingly horrendous.

Nice overview of the nurgle army. Love that FW soul grinder that’s so cool!

That's a good looking army really impressive

Love the Plaguehulk. Rather randomly I got a knock off one from eBay years ago, I didn’t realise it was a recast until I received it the quality was awful! Also very much appreciate the Forgeworld Daemon Prince, he looks super 👌

RIP David Sutherland (2005) who did these great cover art illustrations. A Vietnam War Veteran - died young of liver failure - after a bitter divorce and a lack of work after his time with TRS. He was 56 yrs old.

I thought that this had a fusion engine(10 h/s), so why does it have another 15 h/s, shouldn't it only need another 5 to cover the heat? Do they perhaps mean that it has a total of 15 h/s including the ones in the engine?

Excellent looking tank

I like this thing. 1500 BV for something that wants to get in and kick you in the shins while firing extremely accurate pulse fire. To be honest I really prefer Pulse Lasers on melee mechs like this, it has the tonnage to do serious damage.

Thanks for the video

Your videos are always awesome, thanks for doing this stuff and keeping it going for so long!

I kind of love this mech. Its a specialist, a sometimes mech. If that sometimes involves fighting VTOLs, Aerospace, or Tanks it can excell at going for either motive or outright deadly crits. Against mechs it's great at delivering consistent supporting fire that forces the opponent to either prioritize the sniper across the map or the skirmisher right on its flank in the midgame. And for the battle value, its a very affordable asset on the field!

Your city is a total grid, not organic at all.

Thanks for the show guys. Really enjoyed the conversation as always. I painted some gorgeous Baron’s War models as I listened. Enjoy your summer break and catch you on the 22nd. Cheers ❤

Looks at your collection. Realises mine is a Mech Battalion with paired Battalion of Battle Armour for my generic camo mercs/house/pirates. And a Conventional infantry battalion. A clan cluster of 20 mechs and 30 Elemental squads. A Liao Warrior House Mech Battalion and a Battalion of Fa Shih Battle Armour to ride them into battle. With 12 troop transports and 10 platoons of basic infantry or a Battalion of Conventional infantry. A Word of Blake force consisting of two Level IIIs of Battle Armour (Purifiers and Longinus) a Level II of the Celestial Series of mechs, a level II of Artillery (Marksmen tanks) 4 level IIs of basic Infantry. (So it needs some aerospace, vehicles, tanks and some more mechs.) But looking at my overall numbers its 94 Mechs, 174 squads of Battle Armour/Elementals. 24 platoons of Infantry (with another 150-300 to paint.) 18 Tanks whether transports or Artillery so far. So many basic infantry...and Battle Armour. I think the mechs are my supporting elements for my infantry divisions.

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The Ku is perfectly passable but really that's about it, its a typical Clan vehicle which means its slathered in weapons but isn't that well protected but it serves very well as a garrison tank as its got a punch for all ranges. The addition of the ER Small though is dumb as its just a lot of extra heatsink weight for very little gain. I'd replace it with an AMS and add some MG's if you can.