BATTLETECH: The Lu Wei Bing

[@kagetemplar]

"We need a new Assault mech. A Next generation of assault to push us into the future! It will have at least 6 small lasers!"

[@thestabbybrit4798]

Liao: "Davion, can I copy your Assault Mech?" Davion: "Sure, just don't make it too obvious."

[@JetSunstrider]

Clan Wolf: We have an Army. House Liao: We have a walking shotgun

[@williamjanak2013]

It seems like in this era far too many have forgotten how to build machines of WAR and not just quick raids. Great video as always.

[@crazynoob2399]

One of the things I like about the Battletech universe is that nothing is really stagnant. Tech advances and it shows in how utterly lethal mechs become in the Dark Age and later eras.

[@lasskinn474]

Tech advances even in the past in bt

[@colbyboucher6391]

As goofy as the early clickytech stuff was, I actually love some of the Jihad / Dark Age designs the CBT team cooked up.

[@captaingeneralconch]

Capellans: fuck you davion, take our planet we take your key mech and make it better Davions: still got your planet and our Victors

[@Tallus_ap_Mordren]

Yeah, just not your capitol world. Davions don’t like talking about that, do they?

[@arcdraconis9579]

ohh Victor is already my favorite assault, this looks like the sequel I wanted

[@BigRed40TECH]

Victor II: This time it's Yu Huang!

[@sim.frischh9781]

The Lu Wei Bing is a clear improvement on the classic Victor in terms of both looks and capabilities, though that comes at a price. Light Engines are damn expensive, but i like them the most, best ratio between safety and weight reduction out of all the Inner Sphere rectors. Modern twin light PPCs are reliable and accurate, their only drawback is the inimum range, but the MML launcher makes up for that in short range. Plus an ECM, that means suffering fewer hits, that´s always a plus.

[@stormcrow28]

The Capellans wanted even more salt in the Davions' wounds, so in addition to making the Victor, they gave it two larger brothers, the Lu Wei Bing and the Yu Huang. The Lu Wei Bing is a scary mech given how much ammo it carries for that LB-20X. Nice vid.

[@s955120]

It take me some times to finally realize Lu Wei Bing was supposed to mean 绿卫兵 (Green Guards). Before that, I was wondering why this mech was name after Xiaomi's Senior VP🤣.

[@TehSquare]

While there’s a lot of antipathy to the Dark Age, I do enjoy that each faction now has a thing they focus on. The TSM/Stealth/ECM combo that the Capellans use in this era can be a lot of fun to play with.

[@gary9346]

DARK AGE FOREVER

[@angrytigermpc]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this just be a sort of return to form? In the fluff, Liao spearheaded ECM (in conjunction with the Raven) and TSM during the 3SW or 4SW or whichever, that general immediate pre-Clan era.

[@rylian21]

And plasma rifles. Lots of plasma rifles.

[@Bluehairedgirl89]

Lore wise the Dark Age novels were my first introduction to the Battletech work proper. I’d played the games as a girl in my dads computer but never really understood them. I only really got into the world in high school with the dark age novels. So yeah for a long time the Dark Ages was my favorite periods in Battletech and the Republic of the Sphere was my first faction. Which hurts a lot now.

[@gary9346]

@@Bluehairedgirl89 my experience was similar but I dealt with a lot more neckbearda with respect to battletech than you did it seems. I loved Dark Age because it made the neckbeards weep, and I also really got into the Republic of the Sphere because they seemed to be the only people who were interested in peace. Everyone else just wanted to conquer the galaxy via their primary color 80s Reganomics Lamborghini /We're slaving eugenicists but somehow cool bad guys that got super popular faction nonsense.

[@EdmondHiggins]

Great Dark Age mech, good to see it get a video! Is DFA a tactic that fails often? Yes. Am I going to keep doing it? Yes.

[@BigRed40TECH]

It got a video because Channel members voted for it. For non-immediate TRO content, channel members get to vote. One of the mechs that got enough votes was the Lu Wei Bing. :)

[@fedupN]

It's funny, everyone says Victor variant but my first thought was a Vindicator got really into weight lifting. Seems like an awesome mech in almost every situation, particularly with city fighting or close quarters situations. Armored, big gun, with some cloaking. Plus, economically and strategically sound with the easy maintenanceand repair. Agile brawler. Only complaint would be the missile system. Not bad as a support to finish an inclose hit or get the last ping on a runner, but like the ac5 in the 3025 era, feels like an after thought.

[@cobalt968]

The MML5 is less than impressive at long ranges, but on the other hand it offers some tactical flexibility over a standard SRM rack. It’s an SRM with additional options, plus you can use specialty LRM ammo to lay down minefields or some other stuff. Which is also a known Capellan pastime.

[@arcangellord5372]

Same thought bro

[@nicolasgodines1129]

All I heard was "Heavy Chinese Victor with a shotgun that looks like a Gauss Rifle". That being said, I might proxy this with my Victor and say it's salvaged by the FedSuns. Great video, can't wait for the next one.

[@BigRed40TECH]

Thanks Nicolas!

[@ironboy3245]

I have no idea why the LB20 wasn't a HAG rifle, it definitely looks the part

[@MultiKbarry]

@@ironboy3245 Because the CC lack the need and capacity to produce such a weapons system.

[@ironboy3245]

@@MultiKbarry captured clantech?

[@MultiKbarry]

@@ironboy3245 The clantech they do make/salvage/trade for tends to be energy they don’t care much for Clan missiles and ballistics.

[@diksbumpkin9708]

Interesting mech, can't wait til I'm finally playing IlClan era

[@BigRed40TECH]

Same here!

[@Captain_Draco]

A video series that might be fun would be profiles on custom mech variants used by key characters in the novels such as Justin Allard-Xiang's Yen-Lo-Wang, etc.

[@BigRed40TECH]

Maybe some day.

[@BoisegangGaming]

CCAF mechs are really interesting the same way Chinese equipment reverse-engineered from soviet stuff is. They don't have the best industrial base, they don't have the best technology, but they're using what they can.

[@ALV694]

Although now they have surpassed Russian tech

[@BluntEversmoke]

@@ALV694 *laughsinRussianjetengines*

[@cobalt968]

A heavier and arguably better version than its Davion counterpart. The comparison of the Lu Wei Bing and the Victor is not unlike that of the Capellan Cataphract and the FedCom Caesar, in which the Capellans lost the factories that produced the Cataphract to the Federated Suns before the CC could field a significant amount, which would then become the more streamlined Caesar a couple of decades later. I’d bet a couple thousand C-bills that this twist of fate wasn’t lost on the Capellan engineers that designed this chassis, or the Davion pilots that suddenly found themselves in a lopsided mirror match.

[@BigRed40TECH]

Capellan designers are wise, and dangerous.

[@AaronV1972]

I love Romance of the IV Kingdoms

[@BigRed40TECH]

As do I lol

[@MrDarthtelos]

Is that … a head? *Clicks pincers with malicious intent* KING CRAB GANG!

[@RogueSabre]

The views are really gaining some traction and u have a good amount of comments. Kudos, u deserve it. Keep up the great work

[@NemFX]

Ah, good. This week has some mechs I'm not familiar with this and the Anzu, are unfamiliar to me, as opposed to the over familiarity I have with most of the mechs. This one reminds me of the Dragon moreso than the Victor.

[@MajorTymojo]

Man, while the IS got somewhat of a tech jump by examining captured clan tech, I can't help but imagine what the clans would have faced if they invaded an IS that didn't make the rubble bounce with nukes, given it was closer than further to 300 years since they left, and what the IS was able to churn out roughly 100 years after the helm memory core. I suppose the performance of the clans in the dark age not being able to just roll over Cappellan forces with mechs like the Lu Wei Bing when there's very rough numerical parity as opposed to their initial stomp of the invasion corridor gives a clue. I'm sure a mechwarrior piloting a victor would have given a first, second, and third born child to be in a Lu Wei Bing instead!

[@evilmiera]

Whereas I'd be all about a Battletech universe where an IS without a Helm Core got invaded by the Clans

[@observationsfromthebunker9639]

@@evilmiera That would be rough, not the least because ComStar would've been the saviors of humanity! Wow, 40K with 'mechs here we come....

[@Gigas0101]

If we got new leadership for the Capellans, would people hate them less? This machine is very Capellan, though. It's practically a frankenmech, it's gotta fill multiple roles, and it probably looks damn good in green. If I get any of the newer game supplements I'll want at least one of these beasts in my collection. Also, I'm pretty sure Wei is pronounced a bit closer to "way" than "wee", but get someone smarter than me to corroborate or refute that to be sure.

[@BigRed40TECH]

I think it's a great machine. Even if it's got flaws, it's just fantastic.

[@jtjames79]

Hating the Capellans is what makes the faction fun. I don't play the Capellans because I like them, I play them because everyone hates them. 😈

[@BigRed40TECH]

The chancellor thanks you for your service. lol

[@Gigas0101]

@@BigRed40TECH I wholeheartedly agree, didn't mean to sound like I was bashing the design. It reminds me of the Vindicator, a great machine able to fill multiple roles and serving as the poster boy of the Capellans in its respective era.

[@drmayeda1930]

All the Cappellans need is a SANE chancellor. Sun Tzu was a good start but I don't know about the others..

[@faithmcclosky4528]

Great video as always Red, I'm glad you finally found that half gallon of Capellan Kool-aid I left for you in the fridge!

[@tenchraven]

The problem with the ikClan's storyine, there are some excellent mechs. The Victor II - I mean Le Wei Bing is one of them.

[@BigRed40TECH]

Ilclan's got great stories, outside of Clan Wolf, aka, Clan Mary-Sue.

[@kennethelkins-wulff9644]

@@BigRed40TECH Screw you ya Hippie! Clan Mary Sue my a**! At least give them some credit! Clan Marty Python might be better! Oh wait! Clan Circus Clowns 🤡! That's the one!!!

[@observationsfromthebunker9639]

@@BigRed40TECH I lost a lot of respect for Clan Wolf after they stuck the knife in the Republic. House factions I could understand, Bannson the Bastard I could understand. Cappies mugging a guy who got hit by a car, 'nuff said. Wolf and Jade Falcon wrecked the Republic on purpose so they could feel good about " being clan".

[@depth386]

Someone fill me in: Why isn’t Ferro Fibrous or even other types of Armor more common in the Dark Age or ilClan eras?

[@BigRed40TECH]

Money money money. It also takes up a ton of internal critical in a mech. It's only worth it under the right conditions.

[@Chromevod]

This is one I'm unfamiliar with, but with this as my introduction I admit I'm intrigued.

[@jdmmike7225]

When you said Walked out of their new facilities it got me thinking. How are mechs transported when not in battle??? Just dropships or are there ground based transport vehicles as well??? Anyway great job, another insightful video to add to the collection.👍

[@RobertWilke]

Well considering that these are mobile weapons platforms. Depending on where they have to go they just might hoof it and march to where they need to go. As far as distance we never see ground transports as they are already ridiculously heavy. If it’s anything not needing a union class drop ship then a leopard might be the best way to move and drop them.

[@jdmmike7225]

@@RobertWilke Word, I asked because I thought I saw something that said Mechs have a max range on foot. I was imagining a huge NASA style treaded platform like what they used to move the Space Shuttle only alot faster.

[@RobertWilke]

@@jdmmike7225 something like that would be a giant juicy target so nope. The advantage of the leopard is it’s a quick in and out deployment vehicle. Anything bigger can hold more but needs it’s own massive array of weapons and be armored to hell since it’s not moving for awhile.

[@DIEGhostfish]

Large Prime Mover flatbeds..

[@jdmmike7225]

@@RobertWilke Oh hell yea definitely wouldn't be using it anywhere near a battlefield that's for damn sure lol. And your right at that point your better off with just going with a dropship.

[@mattcarper9853]

Oh look! It is the Victor!

[@BigRed40TECH]

Boooooo lol

[@mattcarper9853]

@@BigRed40TECH I can't help that they stole it!!!

[@michaelallen3894]

Awesome!! I've just added two IWM minis in my Fortress cart for next month.

[@DIEGhostfish]

Yup Huang is fun, a fgauss vEiant would have been cool a faster Highlander with 2 big guns.

[@AGS363]

筆記是一個很好的補充，謝謝！

[@RyeFields]

Now I have to watch out for more assault mechs sneaking up on me! When do *I* get to be a stealth pilot?

[@BigRed40TECH]

After the Assault-Mech catches you, you'll be stealthed for all time O.O

[@lexington476]

Ok, LB-20X or Ultra AC/20?

[@BigRed40TECH]

Depends on the mech and purpose. Both have valid reasons to take them. Just different purposes.

[@billythekid1638]

Ahh the nostalgia of that mech commander 2 background music. I missed that game 😭

[@Tatsu_of_Liao]

Love this mech!

[@Demolitiondude]

Kurita, clan wolf, now adding liao to crusade list.

[@TroySeward]

Nice job cool mech

[@Tallus_ap_Mordren]

Alternate take: this is an improved Thunder.

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

Future history can be a dicey thing. Remember Battletech said the Soviet Union existed past 1998 and G.M. perfects the fusion engine in 2017 and I don't want to talk about G-F drives😁

[@DIEGhostfish]

Gm did fusion in 2020 UT the (ex) soviet Civil War seems to have been tragically accurate.

[@Stormeris]

Honestly I much prefer the way Lu Wei Bing looks like when compared to the new Victor, but man the actual mini is extremely undersized and looks more like a light mech

[@colbyboucher6391]

Scale is all over the place... it probably looks more normal vs. older minis. The game used to closer to 6mm scale but a lot of the minis got real chunky. It's totally weird how out of line this thing seems.

[@Dokdiamant]

Okay, if this would be a MW5 Mech, and because this isn't an omni Mech. So it have one big AC Weapon, one small to medium Missile and 2 medium Energy Weapon Slots. Which means, it could replace the LBX AC 20 with a Gauss, and both light PPC with ER L Laser or Pulse Laser. This would make Tonnage free, evtl. because I haven't have the Data of how heavy the Light PPCs are, for some more Double Heat sinks to compensate the extra heat from the new Energy Weapons. I know this may switch the Roles of that Mech, push it more in one direction as an Headhunter, but it may work good in that role. The only Minus I see in this right Arm is, that it could be easily disabled, more easy than a normal arm with Weapons attached to it. Also it could have a less good "range of fire" because of how it is mounted. It is more flexible than a Torso weapon yes, but for an "Arm" it is so unflexible like the Guns of a Black Jack or Rifleman. The Angel ECM sounds pretty cool and because of the Description here, I only see one System which against it maybe is Useless: TAG. At least until the Missiles are in it's "radius of action". For the MML, am not really good informed in how much they are different from normal SRM or LRM so i cannot say something to this. The Mech really sounds like a newer version of the Victor, bur with the quirk of a rigid kind of Gun instead of a right arm with build in weapons like the older model. Also there is only this one Model without alternative Configurations which maybe is, because it is so new or because of tech shortage in the capellan domain. So it may have some potential for improvements and Field versions. ^^ (Also, it have no CASE for it's ammunition? Strange...)

[@swiftmatic]

I want one! 🤩

[@x13rads]

Is there a time schedule for the nightly chats? Noticed tonight’s was set to private, is that a normal thing?

[@BigRed40TECH]

My modem is dying. Company is sending out tech tomorrow. It's my made internet a complete nightmare.

[@iansaviet600]

when I first saw it, i thought it would have a plasma rifle

[@Bluehairedgirl89]

Now this is pretty interesting. I’ve stated before that I have some misgivings about assault mechs and the use of a lot of advanced tech but this is a pretty good response. Not for the first time the Capellans have a good head in their shoulders, I think the experience during the Succession Wars taught them that quantity and reliability of a quality all its own. It says a lot that these things are being produced in such numbers and are so easy to maintain that I’ve seen the drifting out into the periphery in the service of the Magistracy and the Concordat. And that easy to repair feature means that it’s easy to salvage so I’m sure there are plenty floating around in the chaos of the Free Worlds League, in remenant Republican forces, and whatever the hell is going on in the Suns. That alone is a testament to its quality. Overall, I like this machine a lot. It’s very much my style of a close ranged aggressive killer that also understands logistics. I’m not the biggest fan of how much ammunition it uses but nothings perfect. If you’d told me such a thing as a ‘Trooper’ assault mech existed I would have laughed in your face, until I saw this thing.

[@Bluehairedgirl89]

(Thank you very much for the video. I love that part at the end of the lore section, tell us how you really feel about the clanners. :p)

[@BigRed40TECH]

The Plot-Armoured-Canids must die! lol

[@Bluehairedgirl89]

@@BigRed40TECH (Absolutely!)

[@observationsfromthebunker9639]

@@BigRed40TECH Clan Wf should've perished in the Jihad while they were still heroes of a sort.

[@justinhammer3196]

Capellans can defeat all the other great houses and the clans with just 3 ravens. Ravens with no ammo. That's how kewl the Confederation is in the new era.

[@ArexusGalia]

When the chinese "knock off" ends up being better than the original. Glory to the Celestial Wisdom!

[@johnsullivan8673]

just like the real life Chinese flankers today.

[@robertgriffin662]

A novice player here. Have a ? With LB-X weapons in game can you carry slug and cluster, or just one or the other?

[@BigRed40TECH]

You can select either, but you need to allocate the ammunition per ton, to be specifically being that. It has 4 tons of ammo, you need to select how many tons are what type. Before the game.

[@robertgriffin662]

@@BigRed40TECH thanks, I thought you could. Great video and please keep them coming!

[@sethharpenger607]

MML 10 is my ideal refit

[@Max-oi4kj]

Те самые 5 тонн, которых не хватало Виктору, и вот из хрустального меха, это стал суровый боец

[@phantam23]

Great vid Red, love the amount of detail you gave for what is a relatively less-detailed mech. The pronunciation of the Chinese names was a bit inconsistent, most of the time you pronounced the Lu Wei Bing pretty well, but other times you pronounced Wei as Wee (it's pronounced kind of like "Way or Whey". Another slight nitpick is Yu Huang, which is pronounced with a focus on the Ang as if saying Want, but with a He sound at the front.

[@BigRed40TECH]

I struggle enough with English. You're lucky that it even half resembles their names. :P

[@phantam23]

@@BigRed40TECH You got it right half the time at least! :D

[@FrostyThundertrod]

Great mech

[@krieg4017]

Good.

[@BigRed40TECH]

Very Good, even.

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

So this is basically a victor variation.

[@eurocrusader1724]

I'll have two,with extra rice on the side... To go. In my battlemaster.... 😋

[@Omniseed]

Looks like a SuperCommando to me

[@treevenewson]

It's basically a 'roided up Victor. I do the artwork, it looks bad@$$, and it's excellent successor to the Victor. If the Davion's hadn't help upgrade the St. Ives 'Mech factories the Cappies wouldn't have any Assault 'Mechs.

[@BigRed40TECH]

Not wholly true, but largely true. lol

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

@@BigRed40TECH If you look at the weapons they are copys of the Victors weapons. A class 20 autocannon a missile system two energy weapons.

[@BigRed40TECH]

@@thunberbolttwo3953 Its also very similar to the Yu Huang as well though

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

@@BigRed40TECH Lol nice try but FAIL.

[@ambientlight3876]

Agreed. It's clearly the next generation Victor in both appearance and function. It also fixes the Victor's biggest weakness: the lack of armor. This design is an incredibly nasty brawler that can keep the pressure on. Overall it's a solid and well designed assault 'Mech.

[@3limin8ted89]

love how everyone in the comments agrees that this is pretty much the victor but modified 🤣

[@BigRed40TECH]

In the video, I actually know the origin of that too, and display it for people near the tail end. It wasn't meant to be this way, lol.

[@jamesricker3997]

The Capellans wanted something to counter the Victor

[@Timberjac]

Except for reducing a ton in exchange for a slot (which is usually more limiting in heavy designs than the weight itself when using endo-steel for the internal structure), I don't find it meaningful to use two LPPC instead of a traditional PPC.

[@Timberjac]

@@richmcgee434 Good point you are right.

[@WolfHreda]

Funny how all it took to make the Victor really good was... 5 extra tons and a fuckload of C-Bills.

[@Dirt1061]

I will take one or two in plastic please!

[@Doumaxwell1959]

It's a Victor variant

[@BigRed40TECH]

Kind of. The video actually explains what its inspiration was, and gives an insider's view near the end :)

[@dillburn]

Oh cool a new Capellan new generation mech to replace the Yu Huang. "It looks like a Victor". Oh, look at our new Victor 2.0!

[@BigRed40TECH]

I know right?

[@DIEGhostfish]

Yu Huang is a giant monke and should have been named the Wukong

[@Sapper21b10]

Kid: DAD! I WANT A VICTOR! Dad: We have a Victor at home! Lu Wei Bing = Victor at home.

[@steveharrison76]

Right, get that MML5 off there, it's doing exactly sod-all and is fooling nobody. I have huge issues with the 'I'll have one of each' approach to arming a 'mech. Go big or go home. Use the saved space for MOAR AC AMMO SO YOU CAN DAKKA ALL DAY!!! Apart from that, this is a decent mech, I reckon! Nippy enough, good armour and it's got that sweet Jump-Jet and AC goodness I like, Though I'd personally prefer a UAC/10 because I like to be able to shoot the enemy from some sort of range, rather than having to stand next to them and fire the big-gun, and the beagle is delicious gravy. What can I say? AC/20's have their place, but for me, that place is absolutely not as a primary weapon. They're an 'I win' button for when things get messy and personal, in my book. Those are just my tweaks though - stock, it's a decent machine. Nice!

[@44R0Ndin]

Sort of agreed, but I think a little differently. IMO a weapon that takes ammo means you need a supply line, and supply lines get cut easily. Energy boats are where it's at. But get that ER stuff outta here. Too much heat, even WITH IS DHS being reintroduced forever ago (from the Dark Ages perspective). Everyone seems to forget that even in the Dark Ages, you should respect anything that mounts an IS standard PPC. I don't mean the ERPPC, most of the time you can ignore units mounting more than one of those because they're spending every other turn not firing some of their weapons because of the "Oh my god everything's on fire" levels of heat the ERPPC puts out. The normal IS PPC has always hit like an AC-10 with more range, and yes, sure there's "some" heat to deal with but in the Dark Ages era IS double heat sinks have been re-introduced for a really long time and are more than capable. Don't waste heat on an ERPPC or ER Large Laser when you could mount TWO standard PPC's for only a little bit more heat, which literally doubles your DAMAGE provided both hit, and doubles your hit chance as well since you're firing 2 weapons instead of one. Range doesn't kill things. Nobody in an assault mech is scared of an LRM5 or an MML5 firing LRM ammo even if it does have a really long range. Damage on the other hand, that is exactly the thing that puts mechs, people, vehicles, and practically everything else out of action provided you can apply enough of it. The only two advanced PPC relavant technologies that I like are these: The Heavy PPC, and the PPC Capacitor. Ideally those two technologies would be combined. Doing that would create a great replacement for the LBX-20 on the Lu Wei Bing. Notice how the way those two PPC technologies I mentioned improve on the original PPC "recipe" is that they let it do more DAMAGE, in exchange for it taking more weight and/or crit slots. More damage kills things quicker. More range kills things the same speed, further away. As for the rest of the weapons on the Lu Wei Bing, I have more plans: Ideally the MML5, its two tons of ammo, and the 2 Light PPCs would then be replaced by a combination of Snub Nose PPCs (which let you deal DAMAGE with NO minimum range, a shortcoming of most kinds of PPC that even I'll admit is sometimes a reason to fit an IS ERPPC on a "short ranged" mech), PPC Capacitors for said SNPPCs, and/or more DHS for keeping everything cool. Alternatively, if the heatsinking needs are extreme (and with this many PPCs on board that's probably the case), I would instead cover the minimum range bracket with 4 medium pulse lasers and the rest would be double heatsinks. Am I stupid or is ammo stupid? I try to make it so that the only thing in my lances that carries ammo is the LRM carriers or artillery vehicles or Arrow IV vehicles.

[@decepticonpecock]

one MML is perfect if you plan on getting cheeky with special ammo though.

[@kythebengzon8023]

Ah yes Chinese Victor. We meet again.

[@brucejegeist3713]

its just a battle master by all , remade .

[@Wawa090]

Not sure if there are any comments but you did good with the chinese pronounations. keep up the good work and if possible can you do the sha yu or shark?

[@MrGrimsmith]

An interesting mech but considering how much I dislike the Victor this one isn't winning any prizes either. I can see how it would work within the Capellan doctrine but it still seems a little too light to hold an assault line and likely to just get rolled over before the supporting forces can get in to position.

[@leosign225]

Just a point of order here. Once you hit the 70 ton+ for inner spere mechs you have two options. Guns or speed. To deride a mech for going 65kph at 85 tons is just, well, silly. Even with super chargers, MASC and other options the tradeoff is too great. You can be the quickest mech in the world but if you dont bring enough guns to the fight its not worth the BV. For inner sphere mechs, if you're crunching cost to capability ratio your best option is a slower but more heavily armed and armored machine. Speed is life yes but honestly for heavy and assault units your best defense is "Kill the bastard first and who cares about running"

[@Chris_Sizemore]

Lu Wei Bing ... is going to sand paper you to death? LBX scatter shot makes this gun perform like a short ranged LRM. Use solid rounds or just mount a LRM-20 and use the saved weight to mount 4 medium lasers. The MML-5 is "efficient" if you were seriously thinking about using a SRM-6 and a LRM-5 on a mech... but even as a bonus the extra ton of LRM ammo probably could of been spent on a better weapon system. Compared to a Battlemaster the Lu Wei Bing is just under gunned. The 8 tons assigned to jump jets could make a huge difference in changing up the weapons package for this mech to make it armed like an actual front line assault mech, but that would cripple the mobility the Lu Wei Bing is gambling on to give it the edge it needs to win an engagement with other assault mechs. Even comparing the Lu Wei Bing to Victor variants from the same era show the Lu Wei Bing in a poor light. Any of the 10 series of Victors is better armed, though not as armored. I honestly think the better weapons packages of the Victors give them a better chance of winning than the slightly better armor of the Lu Wei Bing. The Lu Wei Bing looks good compared to a Victor... the original stock model used during the succession war.

[@BigRed40TECH]

Sandpaper cannon of doom. :D

[@Tallus_ap_Mordren]

But the beauty of the LB-20X, is that you can take both solid and cluster ammo.

[@g2fxgraphics]

Hmm…sandpaper means more chances to roll snake eyes.

[@KeystoneCarcajou]

Glory is forbidden to Capellans. They can't have nice things.

[@BigRed40TECH]

If that were the case, then why do they own like, most of the Republic Territories near their border? XD

[@Goldhawk7]

That's a lotta Buckshot. All that AND ECM. *Pleasure moan*

[@kazekamiha]

I mean if you're gonna copy something then copy what works.

[@bryy2053]

@5:02 I get it, you got the "edgy" ONE EYED look, but broh, im putting my money and mouth on the other long haired dude on the left.......WTH?

[@MarsStarcruiser]

LBX-20 is garbage screws up this entire build. The scatter gets wide too fast. It would have been better off ‘downgrading’(upgrading) to LBX-10 for tighter grouping at close range for better armor penetration/critical chance, or longer projectile velocities to carry out to share distance with its other armament. Its is certainly not an enemy assault killer, as the bigger ones utterly rape at medium laser/AC-20 ranges(180-270 meters), which can be managed easily on visual spotting alone. Its best bet would have been to dictate range as the faster mech, and keep battles at 300-400+, where much of the longer range firepower such as missiles, can be warded off better with its ECM.

[@aka-47k]

idk if the revolutionäries that overthrew china are that noble, the result was capellan state of Liao lol.

[@B4umkuchen]

Why would you name your Mech after an ancient search engine owned by one of the most evil companies in Earth's history? I smell ComStar conspiracy here...

[@BigRed40TECH]

Blake willing.

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Like all things Capellan….. disappointing.

[@erikbjelke4411]

I don't care how much of a bastard Alaric is, I'd still root for him over Daoshen "Hey, sis, let's make a baby" Liao any day of the week. And yes, I say that being aware of Alaric's parentage. No one gets to choose who their parents are. The 'Mech looks pretty sweet, though. Even if I greatly prefer the Suns, it's nice to see the Cappellan Confederation slowly pulling away from being the Zoidberg of BattleTech.

[@BigRed40TECH]

Alaric is the result of incest.

[@christopher5723]

cool mech, but I just cant bring myself to like space-china.

[@BigBatts]

They steal ip in real life and bt lore alike. Checks out

[@adfury]

No matter how good the mech is, it's Capellan, therefore it's garbage.

[@BigRed40TECH]

This is unfair. It's not a Clan Wolf Mech.