BattleTech Alpha Strike Battle Report | Draconis Combine vs Federated Suns | Succession Wars Era

[@Atomicmurph]

That's it. Alpha Strike box set is ordered. Going to be here Saturday. It's Battletech time.

[@box2battle]

You are living life correctly. Salute. 🫡

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Love it! Hooray for holidays 🎄

[@Atomicmurph]

Now that it's ordered, I have to figure out a color scheme for the Inner Sphere and Clan mechs. What would you guys think a cool scheme for the Clan and IC mechs would be?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

How complex do you want to get? 😂 I would check out unitcolorcompendium.com for some ideas!

[@box2battle]

@@Atomicmurph Highlanders tartan stripes … for insanity’s sake.

[@carlwells9504]

The imitation Crab in the California roll gag was under appreciated 😅

[@RoKenX2]

dear guy who picks the soundtrack for these videos...... 11/10 keep up the great work always getin me hyped for it o7 kinda has a FURY 3 vibe to it...

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Thanks! It is a mix of music from the old MW2 soundtracks as well as from our 2 original DFA soundtracks (which are free to stream on all major platforms!)

[@Rubb3rDucky5]

Go Birds! 🦅23:57

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Haha hell yeah.

[@patrickligot5100]

Yes! Succession Wars! Re-reading warrior trilogy as of the moment. Awesome match! Battle of Misery please! Dragoons vs DCMS 😁

[@sebastiang.5032]

Aaron vs Ben, best holiday present there can be. Have a great one! 🍻 Greetings from Germany! #Override

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!!!

[@Lhorrplays]

Thanks fellas. Theodore Kurita: Tokyo Drift was the holiday movie I needed.

[@rmcdudmk212]

Eggnog and California rolls. A holiday tradition on Paris. 😂

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

… coming soon in the next Shrapnel hahah Happy holidays!

[@rmcdudmk212]

​@@DeathfromAboveWargamingnext year get some that aren't from a vending machine. Happy holidays 🎄

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

All the best to you and yours! 🎄

[@hunterrose64]

Already received my kickstarter and I've seen several unboxing videos, but I'm still looking forward to the DFA unboxing. Glad you finally got your kickstarter. Friend of mine is still waiting.

[@chriswilson6486]

Hope you guys had a fantastic Christmas! Apparently the entire internet wanted those Warrior choppers, hard to find that pack box now, lol.

[@HouseMasterPoDing]

Aaron...they're not LARPers, they're "Reenactors". Don't get in their way, those dudes are serious, we have them around Gettysburg almost year-round, and some of them do the full immersion roleplaying thing. It can get quite creepy. Anyhow, love the Christmas BatRep! Merry Christmas to you and the whole team!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Haha love it. No doubt Gettysburg has its share!!! Merry Christmas!

[@boateye]

10:00 since when can't VTOL units/helicopters sprint? If so, this is news to me! Where in the Commander's edition does it say that?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

We just had a big discussion about this - its worded horrifically. In the latest edition they differentiated between ground vehicles and air vehicles. Then there are “ground units” which by definition include mechs, ground vehicles, infantry - but NOT air vehicles. (Air vehicles include VTOLs.) The rule for sprinting explicitly cites ground units. … but after checking with CGL it sounds like VTOLs and WIGEs can sprint. Only ASF can’t sprint. Really bizarre (AND frustrating!!!) and should be clarified in an errata.

[@boateye]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming It's a common misconception that ground units don't include air vehicles. Air vehicles are a subset of ground units. There's a handy chart for this on the bottom of pg. 34 of Commander's Edition. I hate the name too. It's confusing and misleading because the "ground" in ground units isn't referring to units that scuttle on the ground. It's referring to units that exist on the "ground map" as opposed to aerospace units that don't. Basically, we have a confusing name because of the existence of aerospace and CGL named units in relation to that rarely used niche within a niche.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Right - but my argument is not in the naming per se … read closely and it distinguishes ground units, ground vehicles and air vehicles. Ground UNITS includes ground vehicles but explicitly not air vehicles. Sprinting refers to only ground units. The category “air vehicles” was added in the latest edition/printing. So reading it “as written” VTOLs and WiGE cannot sprint. The chart on 34 corroborates this. Some references (and I’m not arguing with you here just pointing out what I see 😃): Page 28 Unit Types - read ground UNITS closely, then look at ground VEHICLES vs air vehicles. It explicitly calls out movement types and what is included. - ground units do not include v - ground units sometimes include w Page 38 Sprinting - says “any ground unit” - per page 28, ground units do not include the v movement type I believe the intention might be different but it is 100% not what the rules say. Change my mind 😂

[@boateye]

@DeathfromAboveWargaming appreciate the back and forth here! I am not trying to start a fight/argue with a channel I enjoy ☺️ I will happily take that "change my mind" challenge though 😜 I just want to be sure we're all reading the same thing. For the record, i started playing in and I'm reading from the 6th edition printing. The 7.1 errata doesn't affect this discussion at all. Below is my understanding of unit types according to pg 28. Sorry in advance for a long message. I came with receipts! I read pg 28's section on ground units, ground vehicles and air vehicles. The section on ground units sums up to say that it includes any units with MV on their unit card and doesn't include any unit with Thrust on their movement card (I.e. Aerospace units). I think your summary of ground units in pg. 28 is conflating ground units with ground vehicles. Yes, ground vehicles don't include VTOL and WiGE units, that is true. However ground units include both ground vehicles and air vehicles. You must pay close attention to the usage of "units" vs "vehicles". I've run into a similar issue when discussing deploying vs. dropping transported units. We may use those two words interchangeably, colloquially and especially when playing, but they are very distinct ways of unloading transported units as far as the rules are concerned. Back on topic, pg 28 outlines ground VEHICLES are a SUBSET of ground UNITS. The ones that have tracked, wheeled, and hover are ground vehicles. Air vehicles are ALSO a subset of ground units. Those are units with WiGE and VTOL movement. Adding this category in the latest edition doesn't exclude air vehicles from being a ground unit. As an extension, naval vehicles, are also ground units that use submersible and naval movement. For completeness sake, units with no movement type listed on their card, like on most Mechs and Protomechs and Industrial Mechs, are also ground units. Again, this is because they have an MV stat and not a Thrust stat. *That is where the line is being drawn between a ground unit and an aerospace unit.* The chart on pg 34 doesn't corroborate what you say. It corroborates what is laid out above on ps 28. The indentation of each line on the page 34 chart shows you which category those units types fall under. Much like a file tree on your computer when you dig into folders. Ground units and aerospace have the same indentation on that pg 34 chart. They are mutually exclusive categories. All other units and unit type types fall under one of those two categories. One cannot be part of both at the same time. Even the rules for LAMs consider them a ground unit that can just become an ASF unit when in their ASF form. This is very much an "all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares" situation. Air vehicles are ground units, but not all ground units are air vehicles. And all ground units can sprint according to pg 38. So yeah, because of the existence of aerospace, this is how CGL has decided to categorize units. A unit is either an aerospace unit, or not which would make it a ground unit.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Hmmm I wonder if I don’t have the most recent printing. My ground unit entry says nothing about Mv. That would explain the disconnect! I appreciate you. I guess I need to go buy the latest codex er rule book again 😂

[@barryxanchez2965]

More Alphastrike! Love it!

[@NandoVP48]

Man, those maps always look gorgeous.

[@androssthered1157]

WOOO CHRISTMAS DAY VIDEO!!! GONNA watch this in between festivities. LET'S GO FEDSUNS

[@enentol]

Great to see a Succession Wars game!

[@conflicthorizon]

Love watching you guy! Merry Christmas!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Merry Christmas to you too! 🎄

[@TinBane]

Oh, those bulldogs are nice models!!, and super excited to see a valkyrie on the field!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Happy holidays!!

[@TinBane]

happy holidays to you too!! :)

[@Northumberland785]

Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it. Will we get some more override games coming out soon?

[@greenjoseph4]

I received the Armored Combat box, InnerSphere heavy, battle, and direct fire lances, as well as the Norwind Highlander’s command lance…

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Hell yes!!!

[@barryxanchez2965]

This is awesome

[@Gamuray]

In terms of Battlemechs lasting centuries... Consider that most armaments are primarily used as deterrents and the more expensive the equipment the more likely a government is to reserve it for "safer" encounters of it sees any at all.

[@chrisduwe4130]

VTOL'S that are available for 1st and 2nd succession wars are Cobra, Cyrano, Nightshade, Ripper and the Vector

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

And airwolf

[@williamveens4164]

i feel the comment.. no im just bad.. that's me every time i play against my kids.. lol

[@andrewbuhagiar2663]

Merry Battletechmas. Where we celebrate the birth of Wolf Jesus

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

lol little 5lb 6oz baby wolf jesus. I like to picture my baby wolf jesus in a tuxedo t-shirt. It says “I’m casual, but I’m here to party”

[@MrMatek13]

I just wanted to ask, is the soundtrack you use for your videos available anywhere? I just think it is awesome and I would really want to use some of these songs for my gaming group at some point.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Our DFA soundtracks are free to stream on all major streaming platforms (including here on our YT channel).

[@verysilentmouse]

I got a tv to see dfa better

[@stephenyates1415]

What are your thoughts about the quality of the Kickstarter stuff? I've had chance to properly inspect mine today and a lot of the details feel softer than I've come to expect.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

I would agree that on average there is less quality than some of the more recent packs (mercs lance packs for example)

[@paulhalcott5824]

Agreed. At first I thought maybe my primer and paint was too heavy, but I looked at the next few mechs and realized it was the models.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Yah - I actually think primer and paint exacerbates it to some degree too, or least made it more noticeable for me. … if I had to guess, maybe rushing to meet deadlines?

[@fherot8200]

You clickbaited me by making title 'ilclan' then tricked me into watching whole thing by making it entertaining.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

LOL sorry that was a cut and paste error from our last batrep 😂 I will update but glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!!

[@jonathanblair9731]

Where did you get the power line towers? I'm working on collecting terrain now, and I'd love to add these in.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Check out Tomytec. We have a review on some Tomytec stuff in our playlists. They primarily make stuff for model railroading but the N-scale stuff does work great for BT!

[@Joshf4phan]

So how do the mechs last so long? Well, the default starting skill level for CBT is 4/5. The range mods mean that most of the time if the mechs don't push up too close, they're just going to chip some armor until somebody decides to go. It's pretty plausible to think that with the value and scarcity of mechs a lot of fighting in the Third Succession War was akin to counting coup, doing and taking enough damage to satisfy honor before one side or the other decides to retreat. Basically, the sort of games played on the tabletop come about either when one side is so trapped they have to fight, or they're planting a flag and deciding that whatever they're fighting over is worth dying for. But most of the battles weren't like that, they were simply skirmishes over border worlds.

[@Joshf4phan]

Good game, though. Excellent job repping for the Dragon, Aaron.

[@ManuelGuajardo-zd7hx]

Hi guys finally thank the gaming gods for the actual classic the much beloved quickdraw design and speaking of Aaron I have a quick draw succession wars large laser variant that I have used in classic and alpha strike successfully I just didn't like original variant so I did my variant by dropping the jump jets and freeing up tonnage and adding 2 large lasers Er large lasers in ilclan era adding 2 tons of armor and two medium lasers firing forward I kept the movement at 5 walking 8 running but no jumping to keep the quickdraw still fast on its feet as a Calvary mech in a lance instead of a skirmisher which Aaron I copied the weapons and movement of a another 60 ton innersphere design the ostsol so now if you use this variant you can call the quickdraw as I do the fastest gun in the innersphere lol and you should have had Dan on not gaming but dressed as Santa claus in the death from above Christmas special forget peanuts Christmas special lol merry Christmas to all battletech Alex 101☃️

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Charlie Brown Christmas is one of my favs!!!

[@ManuelGuajardo-zd7hx]

Hi guys finally thank the gaming gods they put out the much beloved classic quickdraw design which I made a succession wars large laser variant ErLarge laser in ilclan era because I didn't like the original variant so I dropped the 4 tons of jump jets and added 2 large lasers and 2 medium lasers and adding more armor but kept the movement at walking 5 running 8 keeping it fast on its feet turning it into a Calvary mech in a lance instead of a skirmisher which I copied the weapons and movement of another innersphere design the ostsol as a template so Aaron if you use this variant now you can say as I do about the quickdraw the fastest gun in the innersphere lol and you should have had Dan on dressed as Santa claus for the death from above wargaming Christmas special forget the peanuts Christmas special lol merry Christmas to all from Battletech Alex 101 ☃️

[@GreediePhilippa]

Thanks for the analysis! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

[@AaronV1972]

Someone cheating again, Jenner lost a laser

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

lol get the fuck out of here. No one gives a rats ass about the result when you’re playing to have fun. Try it sometime.

[@TinBane]

@@AaronV1972 didn’t the Jenner die the same turn it got crippled? You don’t apply that till next turn, right?