KGT -31- Battletech - The UM Urbanmech

[@SpiritWolf1966]

I enjoy all of Khealos’s Gaming Table videos 🎉😂😊😮

[@Khealos]

Thank you!

[@semperatis]

Why didn't you mention Hanse Davion's little 'Suburban' mech variant? PPC; 2xML; SL and movement 3/5/3.

[@Khealos]

I thought about it, but it doesn't feel like an Urbanmech to me. It feels like someone tried to more "optimize" the Urbie - and the fun of the Urbie (to me) is that it's a waddling trashcan. YMMV Thanks for watching!

[@bishopsteiner7134]

yes, Yes I do like the Urbanmech and yes I do field them (well, more did, not a lot of tables here in MX). Low BV means the ability to flood a cityscape. And a gauntlet of pop up ambushers will whittle most forces of fancier mechs down far quicker and more effectively than most folk think. They are absolutely useless, outside of this environment/tactic, for the most part, yes. But the fact they are available in a Company Pack, and your own campaign anecdote, should explain the proper usage. As for my Favorite? The UM-96. Not quite as out there as I wanted, but I was restrained by a WYSIWYG mandate, so I could not add the Partial Wing that would have been the Piece de Resistance. Still, it's "my" variant, so I gotta vote for it. It's night unkillable, hit's hard, and the SN-PPC's 9 hex minimum range is ideal for city fights. And still cheap to make. I'm just sad that I couldn't give it the 5 jump that I wanted. Least favorite canon variant is hands down the AIV. Like the concept, hate everything about the execution. Mind you the original stats were a gag by some players, and I respect that. It's that Herb Beas chose to add it unchanged to canon, in a way that is utterly nonsensical (WoB having to spend billions in R&D to create it's custom Endo, XL engine, etc), when one could have gotten the same net result (lobbing a nuke 5 hexboards) by simply making a reductive build on existing Urbies, stripping things like JJs that serve no purpose for an artillery launcher. You say the Suburbanmech doesn't feel like a proper Urbie, and I agree. But a little added speed IMO is less an affront to the concept than cramming one with custom high tech gear for such a niche use. Hell, one could literally have just used a Hollander and straight swapped the Gauss for an AIV far more efficiently and effectively. Rant over! Cheers! 😝

[@Khealos]

Rant away, my friend! It was a good read, and some different insight into the Urbanmech! Thanks for watching