Battletech/Mechwarrior Lore - Tex Talks Battletech : The Mackie - Community Livestream!

[@gallendugall8913]

Duncan Fisher first appeared as the arena match announcer in Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries which had a full Solaris campaign with six different arenas and multiple weight classes to progress through. The role had a lot of funny/insightful comments about your character, your mech, your damage and so on that were event triggered so it sounded like you had real live color commentary, very immersive. George Ledoux has been a fan favorite ever since. He returns as the character in Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries which has a short Solaris campaign DLC.

[@TheLastSterling1304]

War never changes, warfare does.

[@trifontrifonov4297]

1:04:00 Logistics. The Warships in Battletech are the ultimate weapon, but they also cost A LOT. Building ONE Warship can take the industrial base of multiple planets and bankrupt said planet. And it take long time to be finished. Any one faction starting to mass produce Warships they would still had to finish them. And no way in hell the rest of the Houses would allow that to stand. And while you are making your fleet the resources needed to build it would be taken from all of your other military forces. It would mean less tank, mech, armor vehicles, bombers and interceptors. And i am not saying that they did not try to boost how many ships they had in their fleets. They did. But the Warship while tactically superb is a goddamn albatross around the neck of the faction that builds it. And even then faction using lesser ships but with better tactics and logistics can still kick the ass of a fleet using the big guns. The Taurian Concord kicked the asses of multiple Warship fleets with a fleet running on frigates. And while writing this someone in chat said the same in a sentence. Maybe i need to watch the whole video before i start writing essays. 😂

[@franksmedley8619]

Yeah, I have that problem too.

[@gokbay3057]

1:47:33 I would say that "A Primer on the Clans" is best watched after Amaris Civil War. (I forgot if you watched them but there are also Tex's Tukayyid, Tripitz Affair and Inner Sphere 101 videos that are not focused on a simple mech and also are not so massive as the Amaris+Exodus to Elementals and should also not have any spoiling effect on the latter two.) (I have checked and you have done Tukayyid and 101 but not Tripitz Affair I think.)

[@ssjjshawn]

1:04:00 Warships require extremely specific infrastructure to build and maintain, and a vast amount of resources. The build up to making them is very obvious and other Houses try to sabotage it at any chance

[@ben1l752]

And space AT&T

[@refurbishedtechpriest9076]

There's also something to be said about wanting there to be a habitable planet with at least some useable infrastructure and industrial capacity. With Mechs at least you have a better chance of keeping the planet you want/are defending as viable as possible.

[@ssjjshawn]

@@refurbishedtechpriest9076 Also Battlemechs can act as Industrial Mechs in a Pinch. Warships don't have any use like that aside from being a Jumpship

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

​@@ssjjshawnand Jumpships themselves are also absurdly expensive investments. During the succession wars era, only about 12 new Jumpships got biult per year across the entire Inner Sphere. So with that context try to picture just how much more a Warship takes.

[@ssjjshawn]

@@RipOffProductionsLLC iirc that was in the FedSuns only, it was closer to 100 jumpships per year by the time of the end of the 3rd Succession War. It's just most jumpships by then we're either State or Comstar owned

[@WarhawkTalon]

I've got to recommend that you watch the very big two-parter on the Amaris Civil War before you continue to watch the mech videos (I assume the next one was going to be the Rifleman). Tex continues to reference back to things talked about in the Amaris Civil war, as it is *the* significant historical event for the setting.

[@gokbay3057]

It is important to note that the tanks tested against the Mackie had like half their armament (most importantly their long range missiles, which would have provided more tactical flexibility) taken out.

[@JetBalrog]

I had this on in the background and was like only kinda paying attention at the start and suddenly I hear "space station 13" followed by the default male character scream from that game and wow that got my attention fast.

[@weldonwin]

1:14:55 I have questions, namely how did the line of this beautiful woman, eventually give us Fat Genghis Khan?

[@090giver090]

A) Most of Stefan Amaris' portraits are SLDF propaganda. B) All portraits of Stefan are from SLCW era. And people tend to look differently in their 20s and 60s. So, either Stefan might have looked like young Bruce Lee when he first arrive to Terra, or Terence would be looking like Fat Genghis Mama 30 years after this picture was made. Pick one at your own discretion 😜

[@kacperkonieczny7333]

2:10 Stream starts 5:10 Reaction starts

[@eagle10799]

57:47 One small step for Mackie! One giant leap for mechkind!

[@Jacen32272]

1:03:00 Lyren command officer status is bought, not earned. Plus, they can outproduce any of their neighbors, bot not all of them at the same time. Whenever they focused on one border, their neighbor on the other border attacked. In other words, they can afford to dumptruck in men and equipment, but can't do so fast enough to make up for their having crap officers. 1:12:00 It's rare for there NOT to be at least one member of any Great House's court, often the ruler themselves, to be screwing at least one spy from a rival house, with plenty of "pillow talk" making it's way to said spy's handler. With said spies being among the LEAST useful intelligence assets in play. If you were the Archon of the Lyran Commonwealth, the intelligence operations of the other Great Houses would have your breakfast menus for the next month before you did. To say there was a LOT of spying going on is the understatement of the last six millennium... 1:43:00 And now in my headspace the Berkley Public Library is getting buried in requests for the Tex Talks Battletech episode on the Black Knight...

[@cropathfinder]

Should really watch Tex's dark heresy game he DMed "magistratum mundanus" its one of the best DM'd and played games of dark heresy and they played a good part of it like a 40K police procedural even using real 911 calls as inspiration for some of the cases they did

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

There's also Star Track on the Courtesy Flush, where the editor Mike GM'd a Star Trec game with Tex as the captain, complete with Tex reading off their own twist on the "Space... The Final Frontier..." speech. Captain Horatio's awesomeness is directly proportional to hiw much he is in violation of Star Fleet regulations.

[@franksmedley8619]

Hello OMR, aka: 'Boss'. The reason someone like Steiner didn't just go off and build a super massive fleet was that there was so much spying by everyone, there was no practical way to do so 'secretly' enough for them to build enough ships to counter the combined might of all the other Houses, and the Hegemony as well. So, a combination of 'They will find out too soon for that to work', along with 'It will cost more than we can afford', in combination with 'Dog pile on the person not following the rules'. As for the 'disconnected' feeling. I know that one as well. Battletech's universe diverges quite significantly from our present and immediate past. By a wide margin. Battletech never developed 'fly by wire' missiles, the better computer technologies we have, 'fire and forget' weapons, and a lot of other things we take for granted nowadays. But, on the other hand, B-techs universe did develop efficient water purification systems, Fusion Power, and not just fusion power, but fusion power systems scaled small enough to be MOBILE. With fusion power alone, space travel inside our solar system becomes possible, and even profitable. Thus asteroid mining, and the colonization of Mars, terraforming of Venus, and colonies on the various moons of Jupiter and Saturn become not just possible, but inevitable. Drop Ships could lift out of Terra's gravity well on fusion plasma flames to seed gigantic arrays of solar collectors to beam power around the solar system in ever larger and more populous arrays to the point where a Megawatt of power would cost pennies. Mining various moons' icy exteriors would net trillions and trillions of tons of Deuterium for Fusion Reactor fuel. With 'fuel' not an 'issue', technology and space-faring would become 'common'. About as complex as cross-continential shipping via Tractor Trailer rigs today or long-distance train transport of goods. The discovery and development of the Jump Drive allowed Mankind to expand rapidly, or relatively so, across our local area of the galaxy (please note that the entire Inner Sphere, the mapped portions of the Periphery, and the entirety of the Clan and Pentagon worlds amounts to a bit less than one half of one percent of the Milky Way Galaxy as a whole). By the beginning of the 4th Succession War, Canopus, and very few other planets had the technologies to extend life and make bionic replacement limbs using Myomer muscle tech and dermal sensory systems. The Hegemony as a whole had such tech and more. Lifespans of the wealthy were on average over a century, and pushing two. I only find it odd that the Hegemony did not develop Powered Armor. They had 'bionics', and having that, an endo-skeleton using Myomers was a possibility. Just a few thoughts. Spoken Frank-ly.

[@bthsr7113]

The SLDF DID develop Battle Armor in its twilight, but the Nighthawk was mainly a limited production special forces sneaky toy. ECM, stealth armor, and jumping. No onboard weaponry, having to carrying existing man portable systems. And the Clans would develop actual frontline production power armor.

[@franksmedley8619]

@@bthsr7113 The SLDF came AFTER the Hegemony. Yes, the SLDF did create an early type of un-armed 'battle armror' where the soldier had to use 'standard' infantry, man-portable weapons. Your reply is like saying 'But they did have Radar in WWII' to the question of why didn't WWI science develop remote detection systems? Yes, the SLDF did create 'power armor' of a sort, but the Hegemony didn't have that. The Hegemony did have at least the beginings of 'cyber-ware' for limb replacements and some organ replacement. This could have been developed into Cyber enhanced Infantry (note, NOT exoskeletons).

[@franksmedley8619]

@@bthsr7113 I guess what I am getting at is that the Hegemony, a government BEFORE the Star League, had cybernetics. The Canopians maintained the height of the Star League's own Cyber-Tech and used it in their entertainment industry. Two Words: 'Cat Girls'. So, what i am getting at is that the Hegemony, AND the Star League could have easily fielded cyber enhanced Infantry. Using Veterans that had lost limbs an had cyber replacements. If you 'armor' those replacements, then all you have to do is heavily armor the torso and groin areas. Suddenly you have human armored soldiers that don't go down to light weapons fire. That are even better than an 'all up' combat robot, since at the core, they are still Human, just with cyber enhancements. Such cyber warriors could use 'mounted' weapons and jump jets, as well as 'man portable' weaponry, and even 'crew served' weapons like the reliable M2 Heavy MG.

[@bthsr7113]

A time of war, a time of change, a time of innovation, and a time of giants taking their first stomps while Titans and Gods begin a long nap.

[@skyeranger]

24:00 the Tintavel Massacre was of special importance because it cost BILLIONS of live, with a big, fat capital B. It claimed more lives in one "incident" than all other wars in human history so far combined. Of course the succession wars would change that ... for the worst.

[@captain-commander8138]

Love tex his voice is Soo good

[@Arynightrose0901]

hehe this isin't even the longest tex episode ;) The amaris civil war was so big that they had to splitt it into two oh yeah in one of those credits rogal is speaking as the post man so something too look forward to if you miss tts ;)

[@jameshunter3867]

... Would recommend doing the Amaris Civil War, as it sets the stage for introducing the Clans. 😎

[@ВячеславБолотов-й8у]

If you didnt watched Charged episode of Tex - i recommended to watch it. Strongly

[@cropathfinder]

Carries used to be the power projection go to but in the age of hypersonic missiles they are highly expensive mass graves. Just look at how scared the US is to currently deploy them near the middle east on the indian ocean side

[@darkinnovator2479]

Didn't Ciaphas Cain defeat a Khorne Berserker in single combat? Wouldn't that count as a physical feat?