Battletech: Cossack Mercenary Commanders Thoughts From The Inner Sphere Episode 372

[@ogrehaslayers605]

I really enjoy your videos!

[@Helcarexe26]

Glad you like them!

[@Magermh]

This mech has been out for a long time and I have never played with or against it. Did not even know about the medium VSPL variant until this vid.

[@Helcarexe26]

I'm not surprised that people haven't seen this one in a game before, Having 3 RL and MPL version could find some uses on the battlefield

[@lorddraconum]

Seems like a mech i would use as Militia. or Security forces

[@Helcarexe26]

@lorddraconum I has the total feeling of a security force mech and not belonging on the front line

[@WolfHreda]

It's so ugly, I hope its eventual updated appearance doesn't take that away. Because it's very charming. And being a St. Ives/Capellan design, I appreciate its compromises made. Endo-Steel and an XL engine, but 10 standard heat sinks? Incredible. 😂 It's no Vindicator, for sure.

[@Helcarexe26]

Knowing CGL will beef up the looks and make it more menacing looking, one would think with Endo it would come with DHS, but you can't make it work unless you up the speed on it due to crit space.

[@nathanbrown8680]

This mech is a terrible waste. You save 300k C-bills by modifying a Commando into one, but who'd want a Commando variant with only 3 tons of armor? My meccenary commander's thoughts are to sell it and buy something that isn't a glorified Wasp. I don't think light mechs are fiscally responsible for a mercenary. Unless they have hardened armor there's just too armor before they start taking expensive component damage. But at 20 tons you can't even take two medium lasers to the same location without internal damage. With expensive tech behind that paper thin armor, no range, and a speed profile that should have been obsolete with the invention of non-primitive fusion engines, buying Cossacks is like buying Trellshire Industries stock during the Clan invasion. Even for the militia of an agriworld well behind the borders with nothing worth an objective raid this is a bad buy, though not quite as bad as if it will get shot at.

[@Helcarexe26]

You have that exactly correct with any good Merc Unit would still use a Succession Wars mech and just add some good advance tech to it and save the money for more of the same. I feel you'd be better off with a Phoenix Hawk instead that has the armor and ability to cause havoc than the Cossack. The Cossack has the feel of a militia or police force mech than a front-line fighter

[@SHDW-nf2ki]

It's a shame for a mech with such a weighty name is so, eh.

[@Helcarexe26]

Its one of those things that the designers want it to have an awesome name and have people overlook its lackluster performance