Battletech: Garm Revisited Mercenary Commanders Thoughts From The Inner Sphere Episode 377

[@qwik123456]

Dang by the screenshot I thought it was going to be a a heavy

[@Helcarexe26]

@qwik123456 I guess never judge a mech by it's cover 😂 Have a great day

[@JosephMitchell-zw3db]

Agreed 😊

[@Helcarexe26]

It might find it's way into a merc or periphery unit

[@Magermh]

I think the Garm is a mech that I have commented before and wrote that the GRM-01C was much like a micro-Hunchback and was the only one that I have seen perform to any effect in an urban battle. The Garm was released back when the unseen where still unseen. When those mechs had become unseen many players could not get the mini and played with those mechs. The Garm was supposed to replace the roles of the Valkyrie, LRM support, and Blackjack BJ1, when loaded with flak ammo, as a low battle value AAA. This capability kind of went away by 3060 as many blackjacks were being played as the ER LL or PPC variants. The Garm was kind of a go-between the BJ1 Blackjack and VLK-QD Valkyrie. Players that I have spoken to about the Garm dislike the mech. But all of them played it in mech-on-mech combat, never a complete combined arms group. The mech is hardly comparable to the mechs in the roles the Garm was released to fill. I have had little success with the GRM-01A unless it’s supporting a line like the Maxim BA Field or Factory upgrade with Standard IS BA. The light Fedsuns lance with Valkyrie, Firestarter, Watchman, and maybe Hollanders or Centurion. The Garm totally makes me consider low-intensity conflicts or patrol to picket. The Autocannon would have cluster rounds for dual purpose air and ground targets. The LB has better impact vs hover vehicles. The LRM would be loaded with Swarm rounds to break up mechanized infantry clusters or blobs. Regrets how many players use combined arms units and mechanized infantry are few. As many a player considers them trash. The last note is the weapons are not impacted by laser inhibiting arrow 4. It could stand in the aerosol and fire out. I forgot the thunder active "AKA bouncing betty" munition for the LRM-10. This would help the Garm counter Hover units.

[@Helcarexe26]

@Magermh At face value the Garm is considered a bit of a trash mech. When you add the specialist ammo then it starts to fill in the role of a defensive mech for a garrison.

[@Magermh]

@@Helcarexe26 Garrison unit? Never knew that about this mech. From what was in the overview and Field manuals the Garm was a replacement for the Valkyrie VLK-QA and QF being pulled out of lower tech rated C, D and F units. They would take these Valkyries back to the workshops and rebuild them into the new Project Pheonix model, of QD1 and 3. As the VLK-QD was a factory model still in production with new armor molds supposable as it was updated to the QD1. This was to justify the reasoning why the Valkyries were off the RAT’s in 3060-3062 as there was no MUL. Why consider the Garm a garrison or low-tech unit as trash? When looking at the below comments. Battletech is like releasing a mech into the wild and then it finds its niche. :)

[@Helcarexe26]

@Magermh I'm lot a big fan of it for the most part and being a slower mech with minium style of weapons loadout it falls in with the Panther in capability. But in an era of advanced weapons on the battlefield, it's better suited for garrison duties. Nothing wrong with having a garrison mech, just knowing that going into action makes a pilot think before getting stuck in

[@nathanbrown8680]

This is why I don't like light mechs. This thing is at a movement profile where it competes with 55 tonners or possibly even 75 tonners for dropship space. Now, sure, garrison mechs don't go in dropship mechbays, but it's not pinching pennies enough to be a garrison mech. Endosteel is supposed to require space based industry while traditional standars structure seems to be workable in any machine shop. Anywhere that can make endosteel spare parts is a place that merits a garrison of at least second line mechs. This does not meet the second line mech standard for its era. For my C-bills I think I'd rather equip my militia with succession wars Valkyries. Mech for mech they might not be as good, but they're cheaper and easier to repair and get spares for. And the balance if I'm limited on mech pilots can go into getting some better tanks which any neurohelmet incompatible yahoo can operate.

[@Helcarexe26]

@nathanbrown8680 I'd rather have my force entirely made from Succession Wars mechs. Something to be said about having cheap easy to repair and operate mechs.

[@krashkow]

I dig your content, but you need to either improve your audio set up or speak more loudly into your mic. Lots of moments in this vid made me go “what did he say?”

[@Helcarexe26]

@krashkow I listened to the video again and noticed my audio is louder than the commercials on it. I do use a desktop computer and stereo system for watching videos myself. I use a Snowball mic for recording and turn up the audio feed . Just curious what you use to listen to the videos? Thanks for watching

[@krashkow]

@@Helcarexe26 I was listening on my car stereo via Bluetooth. I should add that it was overall volume that was the problem, but more an issue with “highs and lows.” Most of the time you sound fine, but occasionally when your tone would dip some words became hard to distinguish.

[@Helcarexe26]

@@krashkow 👍😎👍