BATTLETECH: Land-Air-Mechs Are Lame

A video I'm glad to finally be done with, this will be the only piece on this subject I intend to create. The #LAM is a left-over from an earlier time in the history of #Battletech, harkoning back to the days of #Macross / #Robotech.
Well, I'm going to go over why I personally can't stand them, won't play against them, and think they're generally bad for the setting. The #Ubanmech #LAM is hopefully not a harbringer of a return for these cursed pieces, because frankly, it'd greatly diminish my interest in the setting.
Sometimes, things are better off just being left in the wastebin of history.
Reminder, this is a pure opinion piece in this instance. I like to think I make that clear in the video, but if your reading this and didn't catch that, well, you've got it now.
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[@darkalman]

A couple of the new Battletech players at my local store found about LAMs recently and asked me about them.

[@GrammarTron3000]

Wow, Red. I can't believe you love LAMs so much. I agree with this video, LAMs should be made again, and in plastic.

[@robin6469]

Man says he doesn't like making 'negative videos', then drops the hottest diss tracks on Clan Wolf and LAMs 🔥

[@DDVargas1983]

Clearly, Big Red is a man of Protoculture.

[@Gigas0101]

"I had a blue control deck" To know evil, you must do evil. I can't judge, I had a warp world deck.

[@stephenknizek2651]

You can type as many words as you wish, but I cannot hear you over my Wasp LAM’s jet engines.

[@tommydude6735]

Meanwhile me: Prefers the old lore that described battlemechs as nimble beasts that could have the articulation to safely pick up a person and brand them with a hot ppc barrel without killing them (thanks early novels and house kurita)

[@rahjar]

"Much beloved company: harmony gold" I died

[@MrSleepy677]

Judging by this video it's clear, we need LAMS to return to Battletech.

[@JustinKase1969]

I still love LAMs - they are the epitome of what Star League was, and loved the aesthetic :) I had experience with Battletech before Macross / Robotech, so it never felt weird to me. LAMs have had issues with rules with the pendulum swinging both ways over time, but I think there is a way to find a happy medium and do hope to see a resurgence of them when the new Aerotech (eventually) comes out. Long live the LAM !!!

[@jeffersonian000]

From a logistics standpoint, LAMs are the only mechs you need. An Overlord can deliver 42 fighters that become helicopters or mechs as needed to complete a mission. Union? 14. Leopard? 6. You are now dealing with modern warfare cranked to 11, only the carrier needs to sortie only Harriers that are also tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

[@MechanicalFrog]

Dire Wolf LAM.

[@MattHopperAster]

Never half-ass two things. Whole ass one thing. -ancient Terran proverb

[@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285]

Ah, Clearly red wanted to be rid of this so much he couldn't wait for saturday.

[@ApsalusSigma]

From a world-building perspective, I like LAMs because they are a great example of Star League technological spectacle, as well as a in-universe example of story-telling deconstruction of the idea that any and all 'LosTech' is actually practical.

[@Bass1690]

I never really took a close look at LAMs because as you mentioned, I'd heard they weren't very good. Kinda funny that using them to their full effectiveness essentially requires that the pilot have the piloting skills of an anime protagonist though. Maybe LAMs have a place in the California Nebula lol.

[@BoisegangGaming]

Clearly we need to go back to when it was "Battledroids". Wait, no, that's even worse.

[@emdeo]

'LAMs are blue control' is not the argument I expected, but a very effective one nonetheless.

[@osogitzgraymane72]

You brought up starscream in the end. Which I found funny because all throughout the video, I was thinking "people just wanna be starscream from the Bay movies".

[@Freezezonian]

I find LAMs interesting, and I'm okay with them being more of an older tech that ended up hitting a deadend due to tech constraints and falling out of production.