Northwind Highlanders Command Lance Unboxing | Mercenaries Lance Pack | BattleTech Product Review

[@SvenVanDerPlank]

Really ingenious design with the Highlander base. Allows a pose that looks natural in flight and on the ground.

[@frankb3347]

I prefer the Southbreeze Lowlanders but this is pretty cool too. Thanks for the review!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Haha love it.

[@vondoober]

I'm still hoping for a light bug swarm box, that is a very solid lance though!

[@sebastiang.5032]

The one pack I got a hold of over here in Germany! 😁

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Hooray!

[@PhillyT1977]

I used to flock all over the place when I was a young teen gamer. I could flock all day!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

So much flocking. Flocking nuts.

[@thomberg3457]

I once got caught flocking in art class and almost got expelled

[@jamessmith5666]

No review of the Alphastrike cards and pilot cards?

[@ShimmeringSword]

That's a lotta banner. Cool seeing my lineart on all of them together.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

You would (or wouldnt) be amazed how many times we are asked “where can I buy that” … they are works of art for sure!!!

[@thomberg3457]

The line art is awesome isolated on the dark background

[@mathewkelly9968]

Will have to wait months for this from my Australian stockist but standing strong on my order

[@TheFatalT]

Same here

[@mathewkelly9968]

@@TheFatalT word brother

[@sebastiang.5032]

Light looks great so far in the new studio! 💡

[@BMichaelGalloway]

Your channel's name had me subscribe, knowing you are FULL Battletech-oriented.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Appreciate it!

[@johnwoodworth9127]

Thanks so much for doing all these. I wasn't really sold on any of these packs until I saw your reviews. :)

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Awesome! Always glad to hear they helped someone out there!! Enjoy the minis when you get them.

[@TheFatalT]

New studio looking good!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Thank you Theo!

[@redbaronsnoopy2346]

Luv the videos as always, looking forward to the kickstarter. Thanks to you all.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@trikk9964]

... this is great! Love the Highlander!

[@troyradford75]

Awesome! My box is on back-order until the end of June. Looking forward to getting it.

[@troyradford75]

Love the new studio by the way.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Thanks man!! We are amped about it.

[@zipscool]

My favourite Mercenary group in the whole setting next to the Black Thorns and the Gray Death get some much deserved love. Very happy with the look of the minis and eagerly awaiting the day my own box arrives. Digging the new studio as well guys. Very snazzy

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Thank you thank you!

[@Joric78]

Finally managed to get some of the boxed sets, so I'm hopeful that we'll actually get these here in Oz eventually. Without having to pay $130 in shipping that is. Picked up the Clan Command Star and Comstar Battle Level II at well below retail, which is nice. Couldn't find them in my state, but only a couple of days shipped at a reasonable rate. Now I'm trying to track down some of those Army Painter sets (although the actual Battletech set is unlikely to show up here for some time).

[@cfox7811]

Great camera angles boys. Best view of mechs anywhere on U-toob. This is the first time I have heard the phrase pseudo realistic... I think I would use the jump exhaust just to be able to see a flattened urbie - the only way to have an urbie on the table.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

LOL! And thanks 🙂

[@gavincross2902]

Nice box set. Is that tabletop Travertine? Whew, Studio is looking good.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Haha no its a wood table with a black neopreme mat!

[@ZackHeise]

I think you guys mistook the rear mounted leg medium pulse lasers for jump jets on that Gunslinger

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

There are JJ ports on the leg - the little nozzle thingies we speculated. Are the MPLas leg mounted? Either way pretty cool.

[@ZackHeise]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming ah I misheard and thought you were referring to the nozzles. I believe those would be rear mounted leg mpl. Seems like an anti elemental sort of thing or meant to make a light mech dance when it tries to back stab.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Very cool! Yah I definitely did not connect that those were mplas!

[@thomberg3457]

Wow leg lasers. Big fan of leg weapons

[@Macrochenia]

Of the four merc packs that were released in the last month/month and a half, the Highlander pack is definitely my favorite. After thirty years of waiting, it's nice to finally have a Gunslinger mini that doesn't look like a dog turd.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

LMAO only 30 years

[@geekchris105]

Happy to see more Warhammer and Highlander goodness - both are mechs I can see having multiple of which are currently really only around in sets that it'd be weird to double up on. Still a little sad about no marauder in any of the new boxes - the marauder is my favorite heavy mech and I really don't need another archer in my collection since that was in the alpha strike starter box)

[@TinBane]

I think they’ve saved a lot of the mediums for the mercenaries kickstarter. I think also a lot of medium/light variants are not very interesting and not all that different. But even just more of the jumping mechs being light or medium would have been nice.

[@AlexDenton0451]

Which is why I'm gonna buy whatever the top tier is for it lol, I'm excited

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

I am with you man!! 1.5 weeks and we should know the tiers… I am def aiming for max plastic.

[@PhillyT1977]

There isn’t a bad mech in this set. Warhammer are one of the two greatest heavies ever (along with the Cataphract), grasshoppers are always nice though I wish he got the jump jet treatment. The gunslinger is really cool, a slightly cheaper Nightstar type mech, and the jumping highlander looks awesome even if it gives up 6 tons of weapons for jump jets you’ll never really use…

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Hahah love it!!

[@SolomonSamson747]

New studio looks amazing! Bit of an echo, actually the velvet would help!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Velvet for sure. Or lav mics. Maybe 2024 😁

[@joshua425]

Agree with paying extra for the added mech to add variety.

[@Ruggedtoaster]

Best thing for the IDF I think is the ability to do at least something to mechs trying to keep you out of sight.

[@teejay91b]

Hey guys just wondering about your thoughts on the proliferation pack CGL announced. Being a dirty clanner, I want the Coyotl.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Its interesting - definitely a cool collectors item. I am not sure I would ever really use many of them outside of a special game etc. Like overall reusability is not extremely high.

[@joshua425]

I want my blood asp

[@lorcannagle]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming There are modern variants for all the designs in the box. Not sure if I'll use them either - I've had a Gladiator assembled and painted for years that's never hit the table! But it's nice to have.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

I’ll have to take a second look. I thought there was a Mackie in there. 😆

[@lorcannagle]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming Yeah, they did some Star League tech upgrades of it in TRO 3075!

[@christophersagen3349]

The crushed urban mech base is worth it alone lmfao id love to see more characterful bases

[@madcat3525]

Great Unboxing! I like the new studio. I like you Aaron, I wish Catalyst would add a medium or light mech to the lance pack. Aaron , did you get some Aries Games and Miniatures decals? Looking forward to more videos.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Thanks! I get Fighting Piranha Graphics decals via Aries. Is that what you were asking?

[@madcat3525]

Aries Games and Miniatures has its own decal. You can now have a Aries Games And Miniatures mech force.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

🤯 amazing

[@Dirt1061]

Loving the lighting and deeper dive on the cards and use of them! But you both switched sides and it is throwing me way off!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Hahah that’s funny I didn’t even realize!

[@thomberg3457]

Its like those star trek episodes where we are the evil dimension versions

[@omegavulture8379]

More bagpipe!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

I always think of the groundskeeper from the Simpsons.

[@lorenwillis425]

Would have liked to actually see the differences between the original and current sculpts, as opposed to just the comments.

[@charlesballiet7074]

It would have been perfect if they had substituted the warhammer for a blackwatch. really would have fit the theme of the company

[@captaindudeman3613]

Aoife is pronounced EE-fa 😊