I Have Become Death, Haver of Fun | Iskander LANCER

[@Zaktact]

The Iskander could be a terrifying representation of a rising imperial powers hold over the very laws of physics itself, or it could make things explode. ADDITIONALLY I got the Zero-G rules wrong around the Spread Focus of the Tesseract, as pointed out and corrected in a helpful reply below. Also here are the music tracks in order of appearance. All of these tracks can be found in the youtube audio library. Dance of Gypsies - Hanu Dixit Digifunk - Divkid That One Bar Scene - RKVC Making Money - Jeremy Korpas Day Sparkles - Geopgrapher Frame of Mine - Freedom Trail Studio Shady Guise - The Soundlings Saint Patrick's Parade - Doug Maxwell_Media Right Productions

[@AzureIV]

15:18 Spread Focus doesn't stop anyone from moving. Zero-G areas only Slow the target that doesn't have EVA Module or some kind of flying system. Also, if they move out of the cylinder, through knockback/pull/movement/etc., they can still move to the extent of that movement in spaces away from the cylinder, and then float harmlessly to the ground at the end of their turn. So, if there is a Berserker NPC, which has a Speed of 5 and a Threat of 1 on its Chain Axe, even if it starts in the center of the Blast 3, it still has the movement to reach you if you are within 6 spaces of it (everyone can move diagonally when 'flying'). Though that makes the cylinder a great boon to allies also, especially if it is set up in an area they can fly over minefields, enemy units, or get onto higher terrain, or whatever.

[@lechking941]

its funny how nelson is next. iskander is just a hard counter with its death cloud system.

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

​@lechking941 well there is a reason why LANCER mechs for PCs are never to be used as NPCs. Player mechs are designed to deal with NPCs and vice versa. When put against each other in isolation it's clear there is zero chance it's a fair fight in almost every match-up imaginable.

[@thatoneguy5856]

“Your guitar? Explosive” “Your pilot seat? Explosive” “The complex negotiations of gravity and time? Currently detonating.”

[@spiceracksargent0014]

"Make no sudden moves. Actually, you know what? Just make no movements at all." "The Iskander platform would prefer that you remain stationary. You know, for your own safety." "It would be a shame if something happened to your beautiful mech child there."

[@cheesegoblin8850]

​@@spiceracksargent0014@thatoneguy5856 Legendary Vex reference, the both of you.

[@RandomGuy331]

"What makes me a good demomech? if I were a BAD demomech, I wouldn't be sittin here, discussin' it wit' ya now would I?"

[@blusoldier371]

"LEEEETTTTSSSS DO ITTTTTTTT!"

[@soup4219]

"they were presented a problem and broke reality to make a solution" yup sounds like the work of an NHP to me

[@bthsr7113]

Iskander intent: countering asymmetrical forces and enemy demolition. Isaknder as shipped: That's not an explosive ambush. THIS is an explosive ambush.

[@conwaysquest6961]

Show them what REAL explosives look like!

[@primusstar5995]

Random zaku:**click** “oh landmines…OH LANDMIN-“ Iskander: “oh zey found ze landmines” Swallowtail: “you planted landmines?!” “We walk Lancaster out there.”

[@ProvostZarakov]

I appreciates a good hellsing abridged reference

[@infernodelta70]

The Iskander feels the most 'paracausal' of the 'standard' mechs. Seriously it fits that Harrison was able to pack actual reality and gravity bending tech into the most normal package possible.

[@thomashooper2451]

I love that they decided to break reality for the grenade-tossing, mine-laying mech. They moved mountains for something so mundane.

[@bthsr7113]

@@thomashooper2451 Goes to show how dangerous they are. If this is what they do for a specialized line item, what are they cooking up that hadn't been reported yet? What will they do to make their big dreams happen?

[@thatoneguy5856]

Honestly. I headcanon that part of the reason the think tank decided to break reality so hard was they find it funny. I mean. We certainly do and NHP’s can have a sense of humor

[@karidyas00]

Really? More than anything in the Horus lineup, like Goblin with Osiris, or Pegasus and it's whole... Thing?

[@karidyas00]

Oh wait maybe you meant standard as in regular-looking, not "in the core (standard) book"

[@jaypax]

"Oh, you're fast-as-fuck boy? It would be a shame if.....everything is a minefield."

[@MerlinCross13]

"Bold Speed for someone in Zero G Range"

[@honest_126]

The goblin being the main target of attacks in this video sure feels personal.

[@LexYeen]

have you _seen_ what a goblin can do? it's not only personal, it's justified and right.

[@honest_126]

@LexYeen Seen what they can do? My first Lancer pilot has a cascaded one that keeps her as a pet. No I'm saying it because goblins are awesome :3

[@LexYeen]

​@@honest_126 a H0RUS pilot of culture, I see.

[@Gibson7Clans]

@@honest_126 you know. You can literally be a loot goblin, if you spec in to Iskandar. You can carry so much around with that 3 burst 6 high Zero-G gravity well. That you can use infinitely. 😉

[@bthsr7113]

@@Gibson7Clans Lancaster and Gilgamesh also work good for grenade builds.

[@ratikus2053]

Aaaah yes. The Demoman mech. Comes with a free bottle of fine Scrumpy in the cockpit. Perfect for turning the battlefield into a mirrored image of my face in high school. Craters and scars everywhere.

[@Attaxalotl]

The Think Tank does not merely produce outputs, they also record the logic they used to come to that output. In this case, their thought process involved a slightly used copy of The Orange Box

[@bthsr7113]

In serious answers, I could see them overcompensating after going down the historical rabbit hole of the CENTURIES of counterinsurgency/occupation operations before the fall. From medieval conquest being rejected to colonialism to proxy wars to "peacekeeping" to "police actions" to more.

[@josecoronadonieto6911]

Using the goblin as the mech most afraid of "the air explodes" is so damn good.

[@wraitsoth]

The Iskander might be my absolute favorite mech. The most fun character I played in Lancer to date was a mechanic and Iskander pilot who essentially saw himself as a Warlock, and his mech as his patron (in gameplay terms, the Unstable NHP granted by the Iconoclast talent) given form. The build itself leaned into the Warlock aspect in the DND by taking as many licenses that grant mine/grenade systems as possible, specifically Sunzi (also for Accelerate to increase the range of explosives), Minotaur, and Genghis. He basically had spell slots, even though there were a lot more than a Warlock would have with so many ways to increase limited systems.

[@WolfBoy-om6dw]

I love this character!

[@toryumau6798]

… “Paracausal Blast!” >)X^D

[@larryfoullke219]

16:21 one of my players refers to this as "Sky Jail" and he uses it mostly to stop our gremlin of a teammate who pilots a Balor that keeps dragging the party into messy situations.

[@emerald_lord2267]

"Think fast chucklenuts" - the last words you hear before taking 18ap damage and being suspended in gravity flux.

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

I fel that bagpipe opening in my soul. LEEEET'S DO IT!

[@rhaaka1506]

My Hull and Engineering stacked Grease Monkey Demolitionist Iskander pilot in my current campaign: "Limited" is just a buzzword.

[@rhaaka1506]

3 levels in Iskander, and 3 in Gilgamesh from the Winter Scar expansion.

[@evinbraley]

@@rhaaka1506 One build I was messing around with was Gilgamesh 3, Iskandar 2, and Raleigh 1. So you have access to Utility Drone, Spear Charges, B/B Charges and Grounding Mines. Prototype weapon, 3x Stub gun and Gravity gun. Now you have tools for most situations.

[@dathore]

"If it was a bad demo/grav control chassis, we wouldn't be here talking about it, would we?" I love how much this works for the mech.

[@hanshirt2953]

Iskander: Explode?! Black beard: no, you'll make me blow up from your land mines. Dusk Wing: I don't see the problem. Iskander: Explode?! Dusk Wing: Sure. Black Beard: Wait n... Iskander:EEEEXXPLOOOOODE!!!!!

[@comlitbeta7532]

I didn't asked how big the ship was i said i throw a landmine

[@obviouslyme3394]

Iskander gotta be my top three favorite HA frames. Patron Saint of Bullshit

[@eggbinary]

YES I KNEW THAT WAS DEMOMANS THEME WHEN I HEARD IT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TF2 REFERNCES THAT WAS AMAZING

[@necktiefox2917]

"There are many scary things on a battlefield. Just the presence of one Everest is enough to scare most infantry into asking for armour support. Anything like a Drake stepping out onto the field is enough to get me to demand friendly Mech support. But nothing is as terrifying to me as watching an Iskander forge a cloud of death out of thin air and battle smoke." - Unknown Purview Anti-Armory Rebel

[@sgregory0753]

Harrison Armoury: 500 Warcrimes

[@galmenz6118]

Warcrimes Incorporated

[@bthsr7113]

With more coming off the line every quarter

[@AzureIV]

Demolitionist Talent from Operation Solstice Rain is amazing with the Iskander.

[@conhunter7024]

Next time on lancer. Yes sir, 'gotta go fast' is indeed a medical condition.

[@galmenz6118]

an advice on actual play for iskander. everything you have is "limited", and the "normal grenades" that actually do damage are mostly on other licenses or the 2 vanilla ones from GMS (which are more than fince ofc). definetly invest in engi and/or hull with grease monkey talent and demolitionist talent, because a MISSION is usually 3+ fights, and those limited nades need to last till the end otherwise you are out of luck as an iskander. dont also forget that till LL 3/4 you wont have access to other nades beyond GMS, so be wise on your gear choices! in the end the mech is really fun to play, but it also comes with a very notable resource management akin to a wizard in dnd that goes beyond just hp like most mechs have to deal with

[@Gibson7Clans]

@2:18 you just made me the happiest lancer fan of your chanal. You’re going down all the mechs, “CORE RULE BOOK FIRST” ! That means I will one day see my beloved Lycan mech. 🎉 which is in an expansion book. The Winter Scare. 😁

[@LexYeen]

I am _buzzing_ with anticipation for when he gets to Shadow of the Wolf's Hecatoncheires.

[@halyoalex8942]

@@LexYeen I have no idea what either of those mechs are but the names are badass so i'm excited for the episodes on them.

[@camdenphillips8203]

@@halyoalex8942 in order nudist manticore altframe with fucking awesome plasma claws that get more lethal the moment anybody in your party takes structure damage and the second is a balor altframe in the size half club that was cooked up by the KTB to do some black ops assassination stuff

[@rigbycarter2157]

It shared to understate how much continues joy this series brings me. I can only wait with baited breath for the promised day you talk about CALIBAN

[@galmenz6118]

rip and tear

[@notloopers1110]

Stay strong my BROTHERS we'll get our turns in... Like a year lmao

[@lechking941]

im waiting for kobold. i want to see his visuals for it just making the land not so landshaped. melting wtf ever is around it to turn into a weapon as i consider it.

[@CFreezerBurnC]

Planting explosives in the air itself is a hell of a drug. I hadn’t given the Iskander much attention, but you made it sound sweet. Congrats!

[@MerlinCross13]

"What makes me a good Iskander Pilot? IF I WAS A BAD ISKANDER PILOT, I WOULDN'T BE HERE, DISCUSSING IT NOW WOULD I? I BE PLASTERED ACROSS THE WALL OR FLOOR!" "By the explosives or the gravity?" "YES!"

[@Yacovo]

Orignal prompt: Find a way to deal with mines. How it's going: You can use this to seed the *air* with mines! Thanks for the video.

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

Just the right amount of Demoman references. Also... NELSON HYPE

[@Gibson7Clans]

@@ananonymousnerd.2179 yes. 😁🥂 Nelson is the Lance mech with no brakes. Or give him his explosive shaped charge pike. While riding a Lancaster mech. And you litterally have a death Korps of Krieg Death rider as a mech, 😁 the horse mech is also unkillable with so many repairs and high speed.

[@conwaysquest6961]

Nelson. The only mech that can go from a dead stop to Mach 1 in 0.2 seconds.

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

@ I was just thinking that the Krieg used explosive-tipped pikes too XD

[@Gibson7Clans]

@@ananonymousnerd.2179 yes, 😁 it’s great.

[@subzeroab0]

The Iskander's death cloud mixed with goblins puppet system would be a nightmare to fight against. Every turn just taking 3 ap of unavoidable damage.

[@BalthusHomewood]

The Iskander's specific callouts about how its attacks damage soft targets, and how the prompts were based around IEDs (the tool of people fighting a technologically superior foe) paints a really grim picture about just how the Iskander may have been intended to be used. Bending space and time to beat a foe who's best move is to bury an improvised explosive is a specific kind of petty excess :D

[@toryumau6798]

… Mr. Harrison sure does like to send a message, eh? >)’:^D

[@bthsr7113]

This is why Horus distributes Kobolds to rebellions To relevel the playing field in all meanings of the word.

[@maxspecs]

Pairing the Gravity Gun with the Heavy Gunner pilot trait is one of my favorite combinations. This lets you fire the gun off-turn against multiple targets, pulling them where you want *and* immobilizing them. The best part is that it still deals full damage, unlike any other heavy gun you use with the trait. It's also a surefire way to make sure the enemy doesn't move enough spaces to throw off your clamp bombs!

[@Winters004]

Reminds me of the good times in one of our previous Lancer campaigns where I was running an Iskander and the GM made the mistake of giving me the Cynosure exotic system. For context, one of Cynosure's abilities is that you can involuntarily move EVERY UNIT on the map one space in the same direction. Combine that with Death Cloud, and, well, let's just say the GM never bothered running grunts in any future mission ever again.

[@Furydragonstormer]

I swear every time I think the combinations for mech team compositions in this couldn't get oppressive/scary enough, your next video covering another shows just how much more severe it can get. This thing that is Iskander, is a bully through and through!

[@henrydimmock2691]

"Oh good zey found the landmines" Dragonkid on the iskander.

[@bthsr7113]

Pegasus: We walk our Lancasters out there

[@Arbyther]

Harrison: Fix this problem Think Tank: Okay... but how about we make it worse?

[@comlitbeta7532]

I really like the goblin being the default target practice

[@Dragonsage64]

Don't know much about Lancer gameplay or character creation, but I'm imagining a Balor with grav tech and I'm terrified.

[@Zaktact]

Very possible and very scary.

[@remor698]

The Iskander's core power flavor text is one of my favorite reads in all of Lancer. Just a whole paragraph of all forms of explosive traps, minefields and the like being posed as a problem to be solved, followed by a full detail technical breakdown of how exactly their disarming solution functions. And then just one sentence to flip the script: "The seeder can also carry explosive hivemines." That reversal of purposes from clearing minefields to making the mother of all minefields with the exact same tech is just hilarious. Also, in my mind the core power still includes gravity tech. Unless I'm missing a rules section where area effects are vertically flat, this minefield expands in all three dimensions - there are a ton of presumably small scale, focus firing proximity explosives just floating in the air. I headcanon that as the Iskander lowering local gravity to a slight enough degree that these small hivemines can float without having any real mechanical impact on any units on the field. Must be a hell of a feeling to be in that area of effect, where not only are you suddenly seeing a seemingly endless array of LIDAR scanning explosives spanning for hundreds of meters around you, no matter how securely closed off you thought your spot to be, but the mildly reduced gravity that comes with them is bound to have your body feeling that something is fundamentally wrong at that moment.

[@rocketeer454]

I had never considered playing Iskandar before, but your video has convinced me!

[@Skyfire1011]

Gotta love how Harrison Armories R&D and Think Tank are dedicated to making some Union Human rights Leader just cry and seathe. Geneva Conventions? More like Checklist

[@5050Odds]

Geneva is lost to pre Union history lol

[@xRosaliax]

When I first got into Lancer, I gravitated (lol) HARD to the Iskander. Just the idea that it fucks with gravity and also just makes everything explode was fascinating. Love it. Desperately want to play it. Just huck some poor berserker into the air and airblast it into scrap. ❤

[@franciscoadasilvajr4514]

I was very much surprised of how well this video went I was curious to how you would flesh out the Iskander, since his description tend to be very much straight "this weapon does this and that. Buy it!", but you were able to really carve out some VERY good points about this frame Now, I'm hyped to see the Nelson one and everything that you may release before it

[@Pachitaro]

Iskander 🥺

[@Kenzisa1Blazestone]

Yay new video! This is exactly what I need! Iskander was gonna be the frame I initially was going to use before switching to Gilgamesh for Solstice Rain!

[@severussnape2917]

I love explosions!

[@Corvus-Xoriat]

Day 61 of ominously hovering in the corner until Pegasus my beloved gets a video. I couldn't leave If I wanted. The Iskander has decided if I stop hovering, I will touch the floor. The Iskander has decided that the floor is angry

[@Corvus-Xoriat]

62.... wait a few seconds.... 63

[@notloopers1110]

The whole taking a turn to fall after leaving a tesseract makes me imagine mechs doing that one cartoon gat of running off a cliff and running in the air for a second before plummeting Imagine a Nelson running out of the zero-g and being so happy before then fucking PLUMMETING

[@amberheart2533]

For anyone who REALLY wants to have some fun, combine this with Hydra's Tempest Drone and/or Sunzi's Accelerate to create the deadliest version of Microsoft Pinball ever seen

[@daniil-bassow]

Damn, my beloved mech is in the vid! Great content so far

[@yolegokclashes1351]

Really great video! Sherman and Iskander are the two mechs I played a full campaign with.

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

Honestly, the stub cannon is hilarious just in and of itself. It's a remarkably nasty CQB weapon, and you can significantly expand the number of uses it has. Combine it with its use in aux/aux mounting points, and you've got a remarkably mean skirmish weapon.

[@fundude365]

Remember, whenever you're considering your grenade or mine loadout for the Islander, always put an asterisk after that range stat. Range 5* * Once per turn you can _really_ *toss that caber!!*

[@estavel117]

Let’s gooo

[@QuestGiver]

It's really nice being this early to a video like this. Especially to a oneof this guys videos. It's like being early to vacation!

[@astropixel7853]

" Iskander has already touched the entire combat arena.."

[@BackedPotatoMann]

Watching this at 4:30am is so worth it

[@TheAMB13]

always love these vids auto watch

[@CopiHuman]

the Skeleton Key is truly "If I were a bad Demoman, I wouldn't be sittin' here, discussin' it with you now would I? "

[@rita6355]

You know the orchis kind of synergizes so well with this one

[@mehmarcus1995]

"What if we took Dafeng's 'TAI-YANG-SHOU' explosive thrower, and turned it into a mech?"

[@kyub3y467]

I didn't think much of the Iskandar but after this video I see it in a new light.

[@rocktoo7603]

Thanks to this I will be running iskander with goblins puppet systems now :]

[@bthsr7113]

Love that title. Could apply so well to so many games. Warframe is the first that comes to my mind.

[@HexJayBun]

I'm excitedly waiting for the Hydra. My favorite Horus Frame.

[@benjaminstorace6699]

Thanks to all these videos I'm imagining a NorthStar affiliated team stumbling upon some sort of Horus sheninigans only to be blindsided by an Elite Harrison Armory team as a boss encounter.

[@lecat127]

Greta video. Represented my unhealthy mech obsession PERFECTLY

[@cardinalthewarden888]

LETS GO! i love this mech! cant wait for pegasus.

[@johnarcher6150]

I watched this first thing this morning as I was driving and now I leave a comment. Feed me more robot advertising.

[@slicero2574]

“How do we deal with a mundane problem? An extraordinary solution. Just bend or break reality and the laws of physics, easy.” Once again, made a mech that wasn’t on my radar feel like one to look at. Now if only I could get a game…

[@vifs_vestige]

oh hell yeah, new mech breakdown video

[@dwightyoung2291]

SUPERIOR BY DESIGN

[@callmesp2415]

Ngl one of the best narration voices on yt

[@Gibson7Clans]

This is sweet. I love to see more of your mech videos. 😁 how long do these kinds of videos tend to take to make?

[@snake22173]

Nice vid

[@igorthebylarge9111]

Man I'd love tobsee some Lancer gameplay from you!

[@oligb1469]

Iskander: It don't go down? It do go down

[@hendor2885]

great vid as always zack, still me realizing swallowtail will be one of the last ones: 😮🙁

[@MarcusOTerra]

WOOOOO worth the wait!

[@josefblack]

The mech I’m using in the campaign I’m in is a Caliban. It’s disgusting how well it synergizes with the party’s Iskander.

[@BlackReaper0]

What a great title.

[@masterzoroark6664]

Behold the power of the stars used in a way one would use an especially long pole

[@datalysjr3339]

Gooood, now I shall sit here and wait patiently eager to learn more about this so called G U N I’ve heard so much about

[@NoobPTFO]

"woe be upon ye" the mech

[@Llangion]

Harrison just knows how to make fun

[@machineboot6748]

Go ahead, move, see what happens.

[@xmah1194]

I think a put a subconscious fear of ledges into my GM. Because my Iskander kept gravity shifting people off cliffs

[@raylenn4444]

Oh boi....if you combine the drake's license with the iskandar's license... you can create the ultimate defensive lancer.

[@IrisDImtv]

Likeable in its quirkyness. Even if as "minemech" I'm more up for Salamander, Kobold's alt-frame

[@stetonwalters574]

Why does the mech look like. It's about to go backpacking through europe?

[@Zaktact]

Explosives and a tesseract kept in the back.

[@quentinking4351]

And I thought the Genghis was my favorite mech... I mean, "Burn it all" fits my personal aggressive playstyle. But this... could be fun. Also, most people only see flechette written and don't know it's pronounced "fleh-shet". It's French for "arrow", since they're a bunch of little arrows packed in as a submunition.

[@borjinator]

Let's goooooooooooo!

[@dukefishron517]

I wish I could clip the first 51 seconds bc it’s so goddamn funny. Please make that a short if you can

[@docbaker3333]

Landmines, Gravity Generators, Bombs? Their yours my friend as Long as you can show me an authentic Lancer License.

[@toryumau6798]

… “Oho, you thought that was air you’re breathing in?” [ JoJo poses, then snaps finger. ] >);^]

[@Timberdoodle720]

Caliban + iskander is always hilarious.

[@Gibson7Clans]

@14:05 so what your saying is, I can be the U-Hall guys, being an Iskander that floats and tows 5 recked mechs for salvage back to base. 🤑