BattleTech Lore: Clan Volume #6: Annihilation (Twilight of the Clans)

[@Madcat529]

Everyone, you have no idea how much all the positive support means to me. The comments detailing how good I did, and how you all love the style, and want more... It's incredible. Thank you so much

[@dieseljester]

I always loved Katherine Steiner's reaction at the conference when Victor called her bluff: "He gets to go off and fight the clans while I'll be stuck back here dealing with Sun-Tzu!?" LOL. Suck it, Katherine! XD

[@shade8816]

Hey Clanners, remember how you attacked with little to no warning? Inner Sphere has an opinion about that. Thank you for all this wonderful lore.

[@Springfield1191]

Between you and the Black Pants Legion, I've thoroughly enjoyed the large amount of lore that you guys are providing in your content. Keep up the good work.

[@Madcat529]

I'm good buds with Tex! He's part of my current Battletech project as a voice actor. I'm glad you're enjoying the lore!

[@asdrubalvect6328]

IS: "Hey kid, you can't skate here!" Smoke Jaguar: "You cannot tell me what to do!" *Skates onto a mine and dies*

[@5ve1e79]

Clans win in the end lol

[@emptank]

20:00 Jaguar space defense technician 1: uh guys did any of you just hear something strange? Jaguar technician 2: like what? Tech 1: like someone in the far distance shouting 'yoh' but in a very long and drawn out manner? Tech 2: no I didn't hear anything like that weird. Tech 3: hey guys I'm picking up some odd radio transmissions coming out of the mountains. It sounds like Taiko drums and a fast playing shamisen. Tech 1: I wonder what that could ever mean?

[@schaddenkorp6977]

Honestly the Combine could not have asked for a better enemy than the Smoke Jaguars.

[@StrangeAether]

"Die clanner!" -Absolute Chad

[@datorxodar4595]

Great job. Well written, well delivered. I miss these books. Turn based Battletech RPG was the first PC game I ever owned around 27 years ago....man I'm old.

[@glytchd]

💚🍻

[@thomasrose4523]

Always love the theme of Pirate's Moon, hope you're doing well!

[@MrCipasa]

Smoked Jaguar indeed

[@beezzarro]

"Planet Tharkad, 3058" *2571 displayed prominently front and center of screen* Sorry for being snarky, I actually really enjoyed the video. Thank you for making it.

[@maxrander0101]

so you know i consider no length of video too long when it comes to Battletech Lore as the lore is so rich and detailed that it needs to be told in full so that the new generation can come to love the rich world that is Battletech as it was a large part of my childhood that it helped me define parts of my own life and made me friends that i have kept till this day and our company has been through so many battles together and had so many generations of the same family used as chars that we consider them part of the stories that are Battletech we need more of the old school Battletech and mechwarrior games their is so much to learn and know that would make great games

[@piercegalactic]

90 seconds in and I had to stop to say, “I love the dramatic music lead in”. I sense another winner here....

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Battletech KZbinrs unite! I just found your channel, loving it!!!

[@RyanTheScar]

I was eagerly waiting for this! Starleague above all!

[@Madcat529]

*Stares in Trueborn*

[@theeatherlash69]

@@Madcat529 "Redde Creditori Tuo" ('Pay Your Bills' in Latin) - Sincere Regards, Comguard 3rd Army - Level V-Lambda (The Emerald Falconeers) ... Participation at Tukayyid, Bulldog & Serpent

[@e-train765]

Mannnnn such good memories, grinding Jaguars beneath my Annihilator on Tranquil Dakka dakka Clanners

[@Madcat529]

Jags in 3151: "You missed"

[@shadewolf0075]

​@@Madcat529 wasn't that literally only because the wolves were like "oh hey you get to be a clan again" and just gave the few Jaguars who were left some mechs and territory?

[@Madcat529]

@@shadewolf0075 No. It was a lengthy detail regarding the Wolfs invasion of New Earth, where the Fidelis were stationed. Since the Fidelis were betrayed by the Republic, Paul Moon made a deal with Alaric where the Fidelis would allow the Wolves to take New Earth, and access the Fortress Republic on the deal that should Wolf win ilClan, they they would remake Clan Smoke Jaguar. Alaric accepted with the stipulation that once CSJ rebuild and prove themselves proper clanners (and not the nihilists they used to be), would CSJ be fully reconstituted.

[@seanbrazell7095]

I can't remember the last game I was THIS unapologetically - even dare I say SQUEEFULLY - excited to get my filthy heretical hands on!

[@Carkastoken2]

Fantastic! Thanks for putting this together, it dulls the monotony of gluing my battletech minis.

[@Madcat529]

=)

[@NewsOfTheInnerSphere]

Paul Moon's story arc had always fascinated me. He started as the bad guy in the Twilight of the Clans series and then had one of the best redemption arcs I'd ever read in Forever Faithful.

[@Madcat529]

I fully agree

[@magni5648]

I always had mixed feelings about Bulldog and Serpent. On the one hand, the Jaguars were warcriming assholes and absolutely deserved it. On the other hand, they were warcriming Kuritans, which firmly counts as ironic karma and the two of them absolutely deserved each other.

[@Madcat529]

I'll allow that

[@ElRojo651]

on a mission of genocide and glassing, some pirates are what rubs the commanders the wrong way?

[@todo9633]

This is great, very useful for learning about the Battletech universe.

[@aconnagan3680]

You just popped up on my feed. I listen to game lore as I fall asleep at night. Just in case your wondering what KZbin is targeting for your viewer base. 😀

[@Madcat529]

That's awesome! Sleep well!

[@robbomegavlkafenryka6158]

The Clans were technically successful in their goals to revive Star League.

[@randomcenturion7264]

Imagine spending your whole life told you were destined to revive the Star League from the Inner Sphere barbarians, only to see THEM do it to stop YOUR barbarity. That is some existential dread right there. They're whole life was a cruel cosmic joke.

[@piercegalactic]

Wow!! Great series man!! This video was the best dude.

[@jvoodoochild2755]

Thank you for the content

[@schaddenkorp6977]

I kind of wish you had included when Vlad pointed out what the consumerism of the IS would (in his eyes) lead to in the future.

[@Hippy576]

I've read the Twilight of the Clans series and you did a great job summarizing it. The details are great but would be hours if you tried covering everything. The Wars of Reaving are almost apocalyptic with the chaos and viciousness so that's gonna be...intense

[@Madcat529]

I am anticipating multiple part videos for WoR. I'm also trying to catch up on my reading so I can say I read the books before making a video for once.

[@Hippy576]

@@Madcat529 The Wars of Reaving are soucebooks and scenario packs so it's a little more spread out. No novels unfortunately

[@chrisl10308]

Very well done.

[@Madcat529]

Thank you!

[@nocomment3294]

cannot thank you enought for your work

[@MrFireforge]

Thank you for this

[@chazsaw]

That was great! I definitely prefer this style of delivery :)

[@Madcat529]

I too prefer this style. Gives me a reason to talk in my natural "Fuck off" Vocal tone.

[@steventcunliffe]

Great lore video!

[@MysteryMastery69]

I watch this every few months because it's so well done and such a great story overall. Glad you're still doing what you do.

[@Madcat529]

Appreciate you watching!!

[@bigt4331]

I remember battletech when I was a kid, no one I knew , played battletech and I was to young to figure it out, now I'm 43 and have just discovered battletech again, any idea of where I should start to get in to battletech, seems like a huge universe to navigate??

[@Madcat529]

Depends where you want to start. Table top game? Fiction? Games? Lots of options!

[@bigt4331]

@@Madcat529 well I just got a good PC so I was thinking, like battletech on PC , or mech warrior? Or a book, I just don't know where to jump in book wise?

[@Madcat529]

@@bigt4331 Battletech by HBS is a solid choice. If you want the first person experience, Mechwarrior 5 is also great. Books wise, depends what your interest is. If you're a clan person like I am, I started with the Blood of Kerensky trilogy and continued on from there. Wikipedia has an entire list of books in order of timeline for the most part.

[@weldonwin]

I can also recommend Tex Talks Battletech for Battletech history, having produced a trio of epic documentaries on the Fall of the Star League, the origins of the Clans and most recently, the origins of Battlemechs

[@matthewpena3932]

Awesome lore video

[@Madcat529]

Thank you!

[@matthewpena3932]

@@Madcat529 I backed the BT clan kickstarter and starter with Mechwarrior 2 so I always had the question of what happened to the clans after the invasion.

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

Hey...did anyone ever go back for those Ghost Bears?

[@Madcat529]

Yes, Serpent on the return journey grabbed them and brought them to the Sphere.

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

@@Madcat529 ah ok so we don't have yet another group of partly Scandinavians in the deep periphery on some random rock.

[@RynxXK5]

You should redo video 2, 3, and 4 in this tone, it is amazing!

[@Madcat529]

2 was not done in this style. 3 and onward have all been done in the monotone book reading style.

[@RynxXK5]

@@Madcat529 ah that's what's in meant, they are great videos

[@Madcat529]

@@RynxXK5 I figured, just wanted to be sure on both ends. And thanks, I put alot of effort into them

[@RynxXK5]

@@Madcat529 I will say you got another subscriber, please keep doing these, they are great to listen to and very informative.

[@Madcat529]

@@RynxXK5 good, cuz I intend to keep making them

[@Alicks2010]

MW3 intro mid video just hits different during the story.

[@mathewkelly9968]

Pity this is undone by the unfathonable decision to just wave Clan Smoke Jaguar back into existence like 90 years later

[@Madcat529]

No, this is one of the few decisions that makes sense from the ilClan. You're also saying this to a Smoke Jag player. The Second Star League was an illegitimate alliance that wore the corpse of the original Camoran Star League. Their "Annihilation" was not done properly in a trial in the Clan ways. Past that, the survivors in the form of the Fidelis ended up signing on with the Republic of the Sphere while Victor Steiner-Davion was in the room. The same man who could say he "killed" the Clan. At the end, even he agreed the Jags paid their penance to humanity and earned their rebirth. Under the leadership of Paul Moon, the Jags have established themselves of keepers of the true Clan Way, neither warden nor crusader. They are simply stewards to a new Star League as was always originally intended for the Clans (but y'know... Nicky K. Is a sociopath and corrupted that). Like or hate him, Alaric Ward has a good point by his phrase "Only the Clans decide who dies and lives among us" considering the context of that sentence was him promising vengeance upon the Draconis Combine for nearly wiping out the Nova Cats. Clan Smoke Jaguar more than any other Clan has the right and the story set up to support their return, same with the Nova Cats. It's not a matter of "wave and they're back". You're missing the narrative reason. Alaric wants to make it known to everyone that the Second Star League was no Star League, so invalidating everything it TRIED to accomplish is the biggest throat punch you can do in a writing sense. It's very well done, and I'm glad the Jags are back in a new era where they're no longer the assholes. Especially an era where the former Mongol Falcons made anything the Jags did back in the Clan Invasion look like a humanitarian effort in comparison.

[@antoniomendoza2682]

Great job, thank you very much :)

[@Madcat529]

Thank you for watching!

[@emptank]

Awe what's the matter Smoked Jaguar? Is it not so fun when a bunch of weirdos show up out of the depths of space and start blowing up your stuff with out any warning? Well maybe remember that the next time you want to go and restart star league. You might just get exactly what you want.

[@Madcat529]

*Hour of the Wolf has entered the game* My kitties are back, my friend :)

[@erikalvarez4516]

Operation Bulldog was Mechwarrior 3 right? My favorite campaign

[@Madcat529]

That was actually Task Force Serpent. You played a ELH spec ops team in MW3

[@erikalvarez4516]

@@Madcat529 ohh ok. I am starting to get into the lore its very cool!

[@stonewall286]

@@Madcat529 good to learn

[@Madcat529]

@@stonewall286 if you are able, read the novella "Trial under fire". It is the canonical telling of the MW3 campaign corrected so it actually fits in lore. IE; no one mechwarrior can take on entire binaries solo as the game suggests. But the events and characters are all there

[@mrten9664]

What website has the old mechwarrior games for download that will work on windows 10?

[@Madcat529]

www.reddit.com/r/mechwarrior/ Check the sidebar. Follow the instructions and make sure you read potential problems/issues ahead of time. It's not an easy process and takes a little bit of know-how.

[@19Pyrus70]

I thought Victor shot Lincoln, not chopped his head off. Wish I still had the novel to check that.

[@Madcat529]

You can check the Sarna page. I referenced both novel and Sarna and it was death by beheading, no gunfire

[@19Pyrus70]

@@Madcat529 My memories of those BattleTech novels seems to be extremely faulty.

[@Madcat529]

@@19Pyrus70 sounds like you should go back and re-read them this holiday ;)

[@19Pyrus70]

@@Madcat529 I agree. Too bad I lost *all* my novels & source books between 2008 & 2010. And I'm not sure how many of those novels are available in ebook form.

[@Madcat529]

@@19Pyrus70 been reading mine on a kindle, Amazon sells the books you can read on pretty much any device

[@johndarrow3421]

Ah there is an error .. McCarrons armored calvary was not involved in task force serpent

[@killerkitty0785]

Do you plan on part 7 and beyond?

[@Madcat529]

I am! Been very busy with (in order) catching up on games, holidays, mech 5, then project winter war (mech 5 mod I'm the director of.) I'm hoping to squeeze in some time, but when I do another video, it'll be a reference series one.

[@nicholasmartin4919]

What is this game?

[@mathewkelly9968]

Tbh besides plot armour I dont see how the Clans ever stood a chance vs the Inner Sphere

[@Lieutenant_Dude]

Reading history helps make this obvious. The clans did exactly what Napoleon and Hitler both did while invading Russia. They had a smaller, better equipped military, but didn’t plan for the logistics of extended supply lines and provisions.

[@jeffm1463]

What is this game playing in the background?

[@Madcat529]

Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

@@Madcat529 Do you somehow have a different version of MW4: Mercs than me? I mean, that was definitely the Halloran IV/Transpax mission, but the HUD looks a bit different than I remember, and my game didn't paint the icons for the ER large lasers green like that.

[@Madcat529]

@@thegardenofeatin5965 MekTek version

[@iller3]

This was great. ...now if only the backdrop Gameplay had been from Mechwarrior 3 instead ;)

[@Madcat529]

Ha, I'll be streaming that on the channel soon!

[@revlouder5865]

What game is this

[@Madcat529]

Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries

[@revlouder5865]

@@Madcat529 awesome thanks

[@wilsonriley1856]

Smoked Jaguar

[@Madcat529]

Then we returned in ilClan ;)

[@wilsonriley1856]

@@Madcat529 But Wolf won.

[@Madcat529]

@@wilsonriley1856 this is true, but CSJ was remade. Wolf can be ilClan so long as us Jags can roam the stars once more

[@richmcgee434]

@@Madcat529 Congrats on becoming the Bucky/Winter Soldier of the BT universe. So when do us Fire Mandrills get to make a comeback, eh? :)

[@Hammerheadcruiser]

Clan wolf refusing the result of the trial of refusal, sounds pretty unclanlike to me. A bit lacking in honor there I see.

[@Madcat529]

Not necessarily. You can refute the results on the basis the trial wasn't correct or the person/people who formed it were in not of "right mind" or did so without greater Clan approval

[@colinmerritt7645]

It's alright. Wolf had their plot armor so they can ignore losing

[@mathewkelly9968]

36:50 and that is why any Clan claims of hpnour are worthless and no one should abide by their stupid "rules"

[@ORMONDROPON]

I highly recommend that you find someone to look over your scripts before recording them, and it would probably be for the best if you forget that the word "whom" exists, as you have no idea how to use it. Great content though.

[@Madcat529]

I do have someone, and I re-read my own stuff and edits multiple times to make sure I myself am happy with it. Moreover, the use of "whom" is correct. If it's incorrect, you might be in a different part of the world with different grammar rules. Thanks though!

[@kereminde]

KZbin tagging this as "Destiny"? Really? :)

[@Pugiron]

Cameron is the same name as the lunatic Kirk Cameron. Stop trying to make it into some exotic alien name,

[@justinheads5751]

your pronunciation of trafalgar shows that you don't recognize the name from history. lol