THE KING CRAB | The greatest 'Mech of all time : Battletech Lore

[@Kiribandit]

You wanna see me core this assault? You wanna see me do it again? -King Crab

[@justsoicanfingcomment5814]

Urban mech + AC20 = Fun😅

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 watched a Urbe land ontop of my buddy's king crab

[@WardenWolf]

Or the LBX variant. "You wanna see me crit EVERYTHING?!" That's also a really, really great way to make the other players and the GM hate you, as you hold up everyone while you roll and assign damage for a crapton of 1-point hits.

[@olstar18]

@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 Or a hunchie. Both can do it especially in an fps. Crab is really vulnerable to getting center torso cored out.

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

I do quite adore the King Crab. It's an absolute meme-cannon of a mech. Its whole existence is basically just "That's a nice assault lance you got there. It'd be a shame if someone were to... BROADSIDE IT."

[@Spore9996]

Absolutely. Love it.

[@nravenz7538]

its a fantastic mech but its so easy to stay behind it since it turns like a cruise liner

[@HD-mp6yy]

There's only one thing better than a King Crab, two King Crabs.

[@EricDKaufman]

gimme 3

[@franksmedley7372]

I see your pair of King Crabs, and raise you a dozen Locusts. You lose.

[@Kiribandit]

​@Frank Smedley I raise you 70 urbies

[@Gabriel-kamov-52]

i've bringed down 2 king crabs with my atlas in one time 😂😂

[@DuraLexSedLex]

@@Kiribandit Only needs the stupid WoB nuclear Urbie to win tbf.

[@derekburge5294]

Kerensky said, "strip all subtlety from the Atlas. Make it the most lethal, braindead W+M1 brick possible." And it was good.

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

He said, as if there were any subtlety on the Atlas to begin with XD

[@Piemasta9000]

​@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 Steiner surprised Pikachu face

[@Gorf2003]

That's like giving something negative subtlety... o_o

[@Tomyironmane]

@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 Running an AS7-D is easy. Running it to the maximum of its potential feels like playing a set of bagpipes. You have long range, medium range, and short range weapons that all have different firing profiles, effects on target, lead requirements, and so on, different engagement strategies... there's multiple overlapping fields of fire and she's a walking fortress, as long as you remember all the parts. The king crab is pretty much "get in close and feed it AC/20 till it dies. Beat with claws." It is not a well rounded solution. It's a fucking hammer. And in situations where you need a hammer, it can't be beat. In situations where you can't use a hammer, it's a hundred tons of stupid. Honestly, if you employ it like you would a hundred ton Urbie, you'll be hard to beat, bar leveling the entire city.

[@wilemelliott]

@@Tomyironmane When your favorite tool in the tool box is a Hammer, everything looks like a nail...

[@polaris30000]

The King Crab is like the shotgun of mechs. It isn't very long ranged, it isn't particularly versatile, it may not be the most practical option, but when the stars align for just the right moment, by all the gods it will make someone have a very, very bad day.

[@_Pickle-]

The annihilator…

[@skyvipers]

@@_Pickle- Ani too slow! 💔😔

[@_Pickle-]

@@skyvipers depends on the map, it can be worth it

[@Spore9996]

The one 1k damage game I had in MWO was in an almost-stock King Crab KGC-0000. I earned almost 8 kills solo with it.

[@jonathanswift7582]

MW5 Kaiju hero mech: Have the mods for clan tech. Have 6 clan PPCs Have SSRMs or ATms Have 2 Med Lasers A single click deletes most things.

[@sethhuff8657]

The king crab is just 2 haunchbacks in a trench coat, change my mind.

[@weldonwin]

The King Crab is four Urbanmechs in a trench coat and a sombrero

[@danielvandersall6756]

Tended to replace the AC-20s with Gauss. Or the RAC-5. Nice weight savings there, and more room for medium lasers. LOTS of medium lasers.

[@jfangm]

I designed an SPL build that turned it into a laserbrrt. Literally every slot was SPLs, except for the slots that were heat sinks.

[@ezariogerion3138]

Sometimes I dream about an impossibility where you can cram Heavy Gausses into its pincers.

[@roguedexx938]

RAC-5 are so much fun with this

[@danielvandersall6756]

@@roguedexx938 Was always a little nervous with them; the jam rate, and the scattershot nature of the weapon. In real play, it's terrifying. Just tears mechs apart.

[@nravenz7538]

1. just use a nightstar 2. in the lore almost all mechs would shut down if they tried to fire 2 gauss rifles, they are super energy intensive, even if they don't make much heat, the nightstar and stone rhino being special in being able to run multiple gauss rifles

[@failsc2player]

100 tons of pure fun, can't go wrong with this!

[@xendakakorva3267]

My fav has to be the one I dub "Traitor's Demise" I got it from a Steiner mission where I had to take out a crazed commander who was having a hissy fit over his Steiner people working With the Davions and I clobbered his BUTT. HIS KING CRAB HAD 4 UAC5s!!! XD

[@nravenz7538]

its all fun and games until you get cockpitted, its almost hard to *not* headshot a king crab

[@valor1omega]

​@@nravenz7538 In the video game sure, but in the tt game it's much harder. I tend to ignore the later games, anything past mw 3 is an insult to the franchise with how it's weapons modification system is handled.

[@mortyjhones4068]

The gun shields on the weapons where put there so the mech could PUNCH without risk of damaging the guns.

[@scienceinsanity6927]

*PINCH Fixed your comment

[@cursedhawkins1305]

It is actually kind of funny that the Crab in MW5 is capable of melee combat, yet the King Crab cannot.

[@matthewneuendorf5763]

I love the King Crab. It finally got its due as a hero (or in this case, villain) 'Mech in the Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries campaign mode. It also shows up as a final boss of sorts in the HBS Battletech tactical game. To be fair to the scientists and engineers of the Federated Suns, rotary ACs aren't recovered lostech, they're entirely new. They're also much bigger than you might think. If a Shadow Hawk has an 80 mm rapid-fire auto-loading cannon, the RAC equivalent is three to six barrels each in 80mm and able to pump out as much as six times the firepower over a 10 second period.

[@themasterchef9784]

Is it acquirable in the campaign?

[@matthewneuendorf5763]

@@themasterchef9784 Both MW5M and HBS BT include the King Crab as purchasable or salvageable.

[@themasterchef9784]

@@matthewneuendorf5763 awesome 🤘a more endgame purchase I’d assume?

[@Nightmare_52]

Just a shame that it waddles so weirdly when moving, though not as bad as the nightstar flopping around

[@PhantomSturm]

It's such a hard pick between Atlas, Daishi and King Crab. Dashi has the heroic look. Atlas has the badass look. King Crab has the mean/eldritch look.

[@DuraLexSedLex]

All 3 of them like to explode on the first TAC

[@yt-user03561]

Maybe Ragnarok? (Even though that was a MechAssault exclusive) Or Blood Asp which is actually in the other BattleTech games.

[@gmradio2436]

TAC? Please explain acronym. I like the Ragnarok. To bad it got retconned in its own series. Flipside, we have most the rules to make it now. Only the Lava gun is unstatted. Shields are in the California Nebula book.

[@Batlord_Carcas]

Especially the Kaiju and Carnage Hero King Crabs in MW5:Mercs

[@bthsr7113]

@@gmradio2436 Through Amor Critical.

[@boreasthenortherndragon6217]

There's just something especially charming about the way it saunters across the field, in what I call the "royal strut." It doesn't even need to be speedy, it'll blow things up on its own time, and look damn good doing it. Definitely my favorite Assault mech (Highlander is a *very* close second though.)

[@spacewolfblackmane19]

My favorite version is the Dark ages one with the XXL engine. Imagine a King Crab that can run 8. Double LBXs mean that those bigs guns got some reach. More ammunition, a plasma rifle for fun and a sneaky missile launcher 15 to exploit armor breaches

[@boomer19450]

Stealth armor and dual UAC/20s because SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!

[@VallornDeathblade]

King Crab is great but I can't get over my love for "boxes strapped to a cockpit on legs" that is the Catapult. Fill said boxes with SRMs and go for a walk deleting light mechs with volleys of missiles that resemble the fists of an angry god, it's a lot of fun.

[@Archris17]

Virgin catapult, chad archer. Ironically for a missile boat, the only thing the catapult does better is strapping other things to it in place of those LRM launchers. Autocannons, gauss rifles for scaring the ever-living crap out of clanners, PPCs for when you just want to laugh at the very _concept_ of a god...

[@avsbes98]

I still love the C5 the most, because nothing is better than a big fucking missile and the C5 actually has a useable amount of ammo for the Arrow

[@JazzKazoo0930]

I rock a c4 splatapult in mw5 with a supercharger. It can easily get behind Assault mechs and knock them out in 1 or 2 hits. A single volley to the rear CT will reliably kill a charger outright

[@Ekdrink]

An archer with lrm20s is heavenly

[@america8706]

I recently started a new MW5 game and decided to give SM a go for the first time in my 30 or so years on this ball. They are soooo much fun. I love running up to other mechs using terrain features as best I can, looking the pilots directly in their faces, and just demolishing them. The first time I one shotted a perfectly healthy mech I almost fell of my chair laughing. I'm still using the kintaro for this but I am so ready for ahe heavy or assault mech with more missile slots to come my way.

[@Crescent-gh9sg]

The Marauder and Marauder II are my favorites due to the versatility and protection. The King Crab is a very close second for me though. When fire power is the question and yes is the answer accept no substitute but CRAB!

[@Crescent-gh9sg]

Duel longtoms on a K. Crab is derpy fun though.

[@demonicpain10]

@@Crescent-gh9sg How the F do you fit two longtoms an a K.Crab?!

[@Crescent-gh9sg]

@@demonicpain10 In theory you can fit them im the arms with ammunition stored in the torsos. In MW5 you can do so with the YAML mod set. However, realistically firing a volley would require anchors to secure the mech to a firing position and would wreck the arms monomer fibers.

[@Bluetheknight21]

When you showed that image of the king crab in the bushes I was like, "why are the trees speaking A/C 20?!"

[@valhalanguardsman2588]

Everything that can evolve comes down to crab in the end

[@SergeantDipaolo]

I don't know, it's just a trend. Everything keeps evolving into crabs.

[@PrinceAlhorian]

@@SergeantDipaolo I don't want to evolve into a crab, I'm allergic to shellfish! 😆

[@MNewton]

Ah yes, the king crab, king of mech carcinisation!

[@isaiahcasey1678]

There is a legendary King Crab variant in Mech Warrior 5 that I really loved. I put 2 LB 10-C ACs in each arm so I had 4 total, and a SRM6 in one shoulder. The other shoulder was left empty to save weight for more ammo and armor. I set up the fire controls so the autocannons could be fired either one at a time, or all 4 at once. This thing was amazing anti-air at ridiculous distances, and the shotguns had surprisingly long harassment range. Up close however, this thing would shred almost any other mech instantly, especially if I line of sight to the legs first. Due to the scattershot nature of the shotguns, this was also one of the only assault mechs that could reliably hit locusts and fleas at any range.

[@Lethanyr]

One of the mods of MW5 give access to the KGC-010. It is my forever guilty pleasure. 2x LBX10, 2xSRM6, 2xPPC by default. Sure there are versions that give you better options, but I love this the most.

[@TempestsFist]

I've always loved the KC and the Stalker on the assault mech side. Though I think the Marauder is still my favorite mech design overall.

[@GhostOfBuscemi]

Marauder 2s are my weakness 🤤

[@flaircraft]

My desktop background on almost every computer I've owned for like 25 years has been various images of Marauders. Fell in love with them when I read Decision at Thunder Rift back when it first came out. The baddest-ass mech in the book, and great looks too. It's too bad Harmony Gold had to come in and rain on the parade :( The re-seen mechs are decent looking but nothing can really rival the original Anime-based designs.

[@Tomyironmane]

@@GhostOfBuscemi you and me both... But I can't help but want to put a flamer in the head of an Annihilator and paint it green... that would make an excellent kaiju movie.

[@jfangm]

The Timby will always be my favorite. But the Marauder family is a close second, if not tied. I would argue the Timby is the ultimate evolution of the Marauder concept, as the Marauder was, effectively, a sort of proto-OmniMech. Had the Star League not fallen, it is highly likely that the SLDF would have something like the Timby within a century.

[@tonk5711]

Challenge: use King Crab and 3 Crabs throughout entire MW5 gameplay. The mighty CRAB LANCE!

[@Omega_1111]

can't argue, King Crab is easily my favorite assault mech with it's only competition coming from the Marauder II

[@jackrogers5712]

It's Marauder II, King Crab or Nightstar for me.

[@darkonxy]

Dire Wolf: I got guns King Crab : *Crits with two AC20s* oh you were talking?

[@caseygray2328]

My dm unleashed this on us during one BattleTech session. Fighting it was terrifyingly hard

[@BalkanRedneck]

If a King Crab steps on you, does that make you a Krabby Patty ?

[@katamed5205]

I like how the king crab looks like a bridge of a ship, a pillbox. Irlt feels like a building given arms and legs. And all I can think of is. That’s where I wanna be in! Just you, you commander and maybe a third seat for a repairman or something. Manning this deathdealer. Setting up an ambush alongside an army of smaller mechs. All while keeping in contact with other king crabs.

[@R17inator]

King Crab was the greatest Star League-era Assault 'Mech... until FASA retroactively added powercreep monstrosities like the Devastator, Nightstar and Pillager into the era when they could have just put their loadouts onto King Crab variants or made them a post-Invasion response by the IS to Clan designs. Hell, the bloody Pillager was built _a century and a half_ in the lore before the King Crab and Atlas.

[@Spore9996]

Yeah, it's a bit stupid that they added those retroactively...

[@railhead1902]

I too have the same reverence for this monster of an assault mech. It has won me uncountable victories simply because it was too angry to die. especially since i solved it's staying power and gave it RAC 5's as a funny joke. An indomitable beast i affectionately named the Karkinos.

[@evilemperor5325]

The ridiculous height differences between mechs are something that came about in the video games. Back in the 80s, the P&P game's designers apparently paid more attention to basic materials science. All the Mechs were all much closer in height. The squat, stocky build of the King Crab originally would have put its height at less than nearly all mediums and around the same as the humanoid lights.

[@ivoryace95]

All arguments about longevity on the battlefield, armour, technology, etc etc fall flat when faced with the counterpoint of "I have two ac20's"

[@Grimmance]

King crab, for when you need to face tank 5 heavies as you get into ac20 range, or plan to fight in cities /valleys.

[@boneshaman8912]

King Crab was the first mech I ever got for TT. This mech also git me into BT

[@EnergyBurst2]

I remember when I first heard about the King Crab some 2 years ago I fell in love with it for its name alone, but I was glad that I had after learning about the mech in detail, plus it looks neat and unique.

[@michaelrue1400]

I liked the red paint scheme better than the green, yellow, or little orange highlights. The grabbers kind of make it look like Maximilian from the Black Hole.

[@Dragon_Werks]

The original miniature looked like the hood of a early '70s Camaro or Firebird, super sized and given arms, legs, & firepower. My personal favorite Inner Sphere King Crab build: * 300XL * 16 Dbl Ht Sinks * 19 tons Standard Armor * 2x Gauss Rifles (RA/LA) + 3 tons Ammo EACH (2 RA/1 RT/2 RA/1 LA) * 2x ER Lg Lasers (RT/LT) * 1x Md Pulse Laser (Hd) * 1x ECM Suite (CT) FYI, I took the time to figure out what the BattleTech artillery pieces actually mic out to. Thumper: 155mm Sniper: 211mm Long Tom: 283mm

[@pragmedic1]

Digitigrade legs, on other points, I agree. I generally don't use assault mechs, but if I do, its ALWAYS a CrabDaddy!

[@Scudboy17]

I ran a slighty modified KC with endo steel to add some extra armor as well as a couple of medium lasers, a couple of small lasers, and an upgrade to double heatsinks, to drop a couple of the standard heatsinks to add a couple of extra tonssl of AC20 ammo. Every square inch of space in that frame was used, but the extra endurance and close range firepower made it a tough nut to crack. Ran it in a lance with 2 Archers and a Trebuchet. General attack plan was the missile boats pick a spot to hide and bomard everything in sight and the KC acted as their bodyguard, killing everything that came close. Devastatingly strong battle plan. The few times I lost with was due to beam boats like Awesomes making it to water to help them cool and then beam spam the whole board, or someone using jumpers like Grasshoppers and Victors to get around the KC. The King Crab was almost always my last mech standing too, tho my Trenchbucket had a surprisingly good survival rating too lol. The Archers almosy always died. People always took LRM spam so personally.

[@ironwarriorhonsou9303]

The Highlander had something to say about it being best; "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!"

[@andrewszigeti2174]

"Hey, Mr. King Crab!" PANG! "How do you like my Gauss Rifle?" PANG! "Boy, isn't it a pity you only have half my range!" PANG! "Oh, you're starting to get close to being in range, let me jump back a bit...." PANG!

[@ThatSlowTypingGuy]

@@andrewszigeti2174 Man, I wish we could jump backwards in MW5.

[@goawayihavecommentstomake1488]

@@ThatSlowTypingGuy Pretty sure you can walk backwards and then jump??

[@SmittyRB1]

@@goawayihavecommentstomake1488 in MW5 jumping imparts forward momentum so not really

[@gmradio2436]

It is a very different story in different terrain. Or if up against a variant.

[@jameswright2623]

I love the king Crab. I have like 6 in MW5 including the hero variants. And my best friend almost exclusively plays it when we run missions together. Although a bit of an ugly duckling in the beginning its really shaped up with its new makeover. Overall its a fantastic mech that deserves more love. Though it doesn't compare to my true love, the Marauder II.

[@_Pickle-]

Do you have the the annihilator

[@jameswright2623]

@@_Pickle- I have every variant. It's so damn so I refuse to use it lol

[@clockwork7daemon]

I tried this last night on Mechwarrior 5: Mercineries, and I love this Mech. I tended to replace one AC 20 with the Burst Fire version.

[@JazzKazoo0930]

I rock twin burst fires, if I pull both triggers I can't see anything for about 2 seconds

[@tilokretzer4092]

Try heavy rifles or 4 ultra ak5. Deadly or dakkadakka Both are fun

[@Kingofdragons117]

The 007 had only a single RAC5 in each arm. My personal Favorite is the KGC-008. It has C3I for getting short range bonuses at long rang, 2 LAC2s, 2 ER Medium Lasers, and 2 HEAVY PPCS. And that isn't even the scariest part. No XL engine so it is pretty durable and top it all off, it has JUMP JETS for when the Crabbo wants to CRUSH stuff with it's mass.

[@robkitchen5344]

ECM cancels out C3 equipment.... easy 1 ton/ 1 critical space ...basic removal of the MG/ammo that 75% of all mechs carry...and at 5 hex distance of 360° of coverage...not every mech need have EaCM protection....but at only a ton weight per mech.. why wouldn't you considering the alternatives of not having it on board of not be inside the bubble.....

[@magni5648]

@@robkitchen5344 Guardian is 1.5 tons and 2 crit spaces, Angel is 2/2. Clan ECM is 1ton/1 crit, and if you actually mount ECM as a Clanner I want you to hand in your warrior caste license.

[@EpicSOB_]

15:25 sloped armored helps against esplosives too, proper slopes can redirect some of the force of an explosion around the hull, especially if it's not a direct hit.

[@sebastiang.5032]

You, sir, are a man of style and knowledge. It's great to finally see someone love the KC as much as I do. 👑🦀❤

[@revenvrake7412]

Must admit my favorite custom mod is to pull the AC-20s and slap a pair of MRM-30s or 40s into those arms. They actually 'fit' unlike the AC-20s which extend into the torso and if you have freezers it can handle the extra heat. But stepping into someone's view and then throwing between sixty and eighty rockets at someone for several turns while laughing never gets old.

[@jedder]

That picture in 16:35-18:00, I'm imagining a 😊face peeking out from within that shell, and now I can't unsee it from any other KC Mech.

[@Noisemarine]

King crab smash! Nice to see this beast getting a bit of love at last.

[@fezenclop]

For some reason, in the game, bye, harebrained schemes, every time I send out a bunch of mix with a king crab the king crab becomes the focus of all the fire.

[@AkalaTanara]

The Supernova was one of my all time favorite mechs as I found it in MW3, the style of it, name and power, just loved it. But when I played MWO it wasnt there yet, so I got more into the older sorta brother, the King Crab, after finding it, I ditched all my other mechs early on to pick up the KGC faster and never looked back. I still love the SNV more, but its like, right tiny bit above the KGC, and in fact I have a King Crab the size of two soda cans tall sitting on my desk, while I don't have the SNV. Love this sexy beast. Also played the SNV (and only time I ordered a mech pack from MWO) after it came out later on.

[@PopeMetallicus]

The biggest of the big, the stompiest of stompy bois, and the most utterly terrifying thing to come out of the Star League

[@UrbanmechAce]

I want to talk briefly about a special mech in my heart for the UrbanmechAce does not always tread ground in a trash can. My King Crab in MWO is armed with 4 LBX/5 Autocannons set to chain fire for blinding my opponents in a hail of cluster fire fury, 3 ER medium lasers to cleave their armor and expose their structure for the LBX, and for anything that gets too confident 3 Rocket Launcher 15s. It is painted bright orange to match its temperament. I call it the Alaskan and it is my favorite assault mech. I have ridden into battle many times within its impervious carapace. The King Crab is proof that carcinization goes beyond biology.

[@bacon_security]

Anything less than twin AC/10's or Heavy PPCs is quintessential Heresy. I will never switch from dual AC/20's.

[@Xenobears]

There’s a fun hero variant King Crab in MW5. Instead of a large ballistic mount in each arm it has two medium ballistic mounts in each arm. I salvaged four tier 5 UAC/5 guns, loaded them onto that bad boy, and piled on enough ammunition for a fun filled campaign of mayhem. It stomps a lot of mechs well outside of the range most assume they would have to worry about a King Crab. I also replaced the LRMs with two SRM 6s to shotgun blast enemies point blank with missiles. It’s a fun mech to play.

[@acetraker1988]

Lore: Best thingy ever. Actual Game Rules: *Begins Sweating.* *A weapon that is powerful but never hits is useless.*

[@magni5648]

It's a specialist to the Atlas' more generalist assault Mech. The Atlas is meant to break through an enemy position and take all comers, hence the varied loadout and it being able to damn well outgun and outlast the frekainÄ Locust that went behind it. The King Crab is meant to specifically *murder other assault Mechs* and blast open heavy fortifications. And it excels at that niche.

[@Kommunisator]

Why no love for the classic King Crab miniature of Ral Partha? It had the most elegant pincers, and was the only one to come with its own helipad on the top :D

[@ShionWinkler]

2:00 "Oh the Clans are angry about that's yet another invention by karensky that is truly and only for the inner sphere to play with" Ahhh, do you not know your Battletech lore? When General Kerensky and the majority of the Star League Defense Force left the Inner Sphere on their Exodus, they brought with them most of the initial production run of King Crabs, including all of the prototype KGC-010 models.

[@Frostyviewer]

That's the one I loves too 😢

[@Nomisdoowtsae]

Me when your dad charges a King Crab and a Hunchback with a Victor in the opening cutscene: "Well he's dead. Guess I'm avenging him later"

[@logandaley1544]

The first time I got a King Krab in Mechwarrior 5 and opened up those Ultra AC 20s I knew it would be a great mech.

[@Robisme]

“In the city with AC20’s.” Perfect title for a King Crab song.

[@TheDanlovejoy]

when i was new to mwo i almost recreated that jungle pic you showed, but instead of a dire wolf i was in a jenner, i legged it back to my lance formation real quick after that

[@gunrunner7224]

I tend to look at the king crab when ever it shows up in my lv100 missions in mw5 and just hit the happy button on my ana-1x and dump 4 heavy rifles right into its face. Cant fight back when the core stackpoles.

[@IamHattman]

As a desicated hunchback pilot, i would be the guy in the presented scenario of a Hunchie coming around a corner to see one of these. At which point I would then try to open up my dinner delivery of canned shellfish.

[@valor1omega]

In novels I am surprised enemy infantry hasn't tried to get on its back to set powerful charges in the shoulder joints. The k-crab would be extremely vulnerable to such tactics due to how wide it's back is. In fact it's one of my favorites as our Game master allows it. I love the cursing that follows after depriving the K-crab of its primary weapons, lol.

[@magni5648]

A King Crab being sent up against infantry is in itself a one-in-a-million thing. The damn Mech is built to hunt other assault Mechs or - with adequate support - roll up on heavy fortifications and blast a hole right through. Using that thing to stomp on PBI would be a criminal waste of a specialised asset like that.

[@4rc4n3f0rg3]

at 19:33, did you not see the tri-laser cannons inside the left (from the outside and right in the cockpit POV) claw?

[@trevbee2316]

So, a note good lore master. Sloped armor does indeed help with missiles and lasers. When a laser hits flat metal ot can focus more, when it hits a slop it loses some focus over area. The grester the slope, the greater the reduction. As for missiles, most use a shaped charge warhead to penetrate armor, over a slope that effect is reduced or near nullified.

[@seriouslyconfused1]

i was paying Meckworrior 5 mercenary and got me a King Crab with duel AC 10 auto canon in each arm absolutely loved that thing wish I could have took it to my next profile. Miss it so much.

[@stephanvandermerwe1468]

Let me give you nightmare fuel. Image the usurper amaris hearing bagpipes and its a battalion of kingcrabs charging to get his ass

[@bms1115]

At 18:30 that looks like an STL file, could someone help me find it?

[@robinburt5735]

Many years ago i designed a Clan mech called the King Crab 2C that had 4 x LB-20Xs on it that was possibly the scariest thing ever made.

[@tanall5959]

King Crab: When you need to make an Atlas piddle itself in terror, accept no substitute!

[@Brendan1259]

I love the King Crab, I have a King Crab minni from the Comstar command box that I have panted up really nicely.

[@Dandroid_1]

This thing is my top mech in MW5. I have a full lance of nothing but King Crabs with CQB loadouts. Can absolutely wipe entire Atlas assault lances. Willing to wager a King Crab Lance could give a Timberwolf some major trouble. I own two King crabs for personal use. One with AC20s, and another with Gauss guns, never know when those clanners might show up, the Crab will be ready. They should use that excess space on the roof to mount the AC20s/Gauss guns up there and instead turn the Pincers into Giant flamehtrowers with serrated teeth. Why? Because fuck anything unfortunate enough to get into melee distance.

[@teeceedee]

im along for the ride . i love models and i havent ever seen a king crab except for the mospeada one and this is great!!

[@donk8961]

A point about lasers pun intended, sloped armor would have an impact on laser energy transfer because the surface area that the laser strikes will be greater. Have I done the math to figure out if it’d be statistically significant? NOPE but I’m posting anyway. Also the Marauder 2 is the only mech I enjoy looking at more than the KC for all the reasons I love the KC. Sloped armor. Reverse joint legs. High torso mount for long range weaponry. I'm just a sucker for that gigantic shoulder cannon.

[@sohrabroozbahani4700]

When this guy gets a sensor lock and the presence is revealed on the battlefield... you can only go... OH... CRAB... before the static fills the radio channel...

[@Puerkl8r]

Best IS assault by far, and one of the best looking mechs ever. Only topped by the Dire Wolf on my list of favorites.

[@andrewgause6971]

I'm a Clan Wolf Warden boy at heart (Yay for Kerenski's original intent to be a shield Humanity never even knew it had). But the King Crab is one of my favorites. It reminds me of a chunky Marauder and I love that design.

[@mastergreenfox6004]

3:48 Oi! Hey! Don't be hatin' on OG King Crab and his looks! You and I both know he'd deck you harder than anything else that moved for that!

[@seanbrazell7095]

Imagine my joy then when I started up Dragons Gambit in MW5 only to find it as one of the default mechs you get in your new career. I was.... Pleased.

[@ChuckvdL]

A few rules were bent but at one point we had a king crab armed with clan tech (effectively a IIC) fielding a mix of ER PPC’s, and Gauss rifles, that could deal five 15 point hits of damage per round. It was insane

[@XaviusNight]

The perfect lance: King Crab (Lance commander; assault close brawler configuration) King Crab (assault long range support configuration) Crab (medium range fire support) Hermit Crab (light scout and target designator)

[@christophermzdenek]

The nastiest one I've ever played (and recreated in MW5 and BTA 3062) had light FF, a LT engine, UAC-10s in each arm and case II to protect the rediculous amount of ammo. Armor tonnage stayed the same, so more armor, longer range DAKKA, and I think I had added an extra LG laser. When I eventually got it switched over to DHS, it was just never-ending firepower. The guy running the tabletop game finally called it quits because the only way to challenge us was basically to bone us by fiat. Better to end the campaign on a high note.

[@steweygrrr]

This will either improve or utterly wreck your opinion, depending on your point of view, of not one but two BattleMechs: King Crabs are Timberwolves that lost a fight against a hydraulic press. They are heavily armed Goombas looking to give a certain pair of Italian plumbers their comeuppance. I now enjoy King Crabs.

[@Frostyviewer]

Got that touch of death

[@kaydenkuah3844]

My top 3 favourite mechs: 3. Atlas 2. King crab 1. Marauder/marauder 2

[@scienceinsanity6927]

Ohhh, you had me in the first half not gonna lie when i saw the atlas at the topof the list. then i saw the marauder in number 1 and, yea. thats acceptable. your comment gets to live

[@kaydenkuah3844]

@@scienceinsanity6927 Boys, I did it. I survived! For real though, your video on battlemechs in general got me interested in the king crab. I watched a lore video on it and read it up on sarna and found it hilarious.

[@cartho1103]

Ah, yes, the Kind Crab. The mech for when you wanna make your enemies ancestors shiver in their graves

[@goliath4802]

I love it as well I believe wholeheartedly that it is one of the three kings the three most powerful Mechs in the game those three consist of the king crab, the atlas, and finally the annihilator.

[@liberatumplox625]

What a weird way to spell Grasshopper.

[@cj4872]

I love the skeleton paint of it to just see the derpy crab eyes on a mech that will obliterate you if you scratch it

[@menschalter1582]

The KJ variant with 6 er ppcs would be a absolute nightmare in a lore acurate battle.

[@beefwellington480]

Just found your channel. Love the content!

[@Ally5141]

King Crab is literally the best looking mech in the entire franchise, probably one of the more sensibly designed ones too. Low profile, flat, not a big fckin target like the rest of the mechs. Only issue are those goddamn arms, not only are they an useless dead weight, they also lower the height of the guns. Bc it seems no one heard about fighting hulldown in the inner sphere.

[@kitkami]

Never really considered this mech till I happened to get one on my battletech game and I loved it. It was slow but pretty much immortal.

[@IanSenkel]

I haven't seen it tall about anywhere but can I please get a vs episode on Amored Cored and Battlemechs?

[@KillerOrca]

Reject Atlas and Mad Cat, RETURN TO KING CRAB Cancernificarion commences

[@kazwright1233]

"Step 1: Shoot a leg with gauss cannon as the low armor can't withstand the force and will leave it immobile. Step 2: back up out of the AC20's range and fire gauss rifle until dead." --- Highlander Pilot Kaz. Ranking pilot with the most "Highlander Burial" kills

[@Rodrigodrt]

Fear itself is my ally. Always atlas! Crab is food.

[@thorveim1174]

the newer king crab definitely wins points for style even if its armament is a case of "terrifying on paper, quite awful in reality". Because its extremely ammo-dependant, and is quite harmless for its size out of the (short) range of its AC20s.... and it doesnt help that its speed is low, meaning its unlikely to ever catch up to anything that refuses to get close.

[@SmittyRB1]

I see your argument but raise you the KGC-001 clanbuster. It replaced the AC20s with twin gauss rifles. God bless those shifty assholes at comstar.

[@thorveim1174]

@@SmittyRB1 oh yeah. Only gripe then is that its far from the only mech with 2 gauss and thus has a lot of competition (though its durability is a good argument for the crab in that case)

[@Spore9996]

@@thorveim1174 Now if only they'd put the KGC-010 into proper production pre-Jihad again...

[@magni5648]

Those two weaknesses aren't even that much of an issue for the King Crab when it does what it's meant to do: Run up to an enemy assault Mech or bunker and blast a couple feet-wide holes through it.

[@FeldonKane]

As much as I love the King, which I do, I have always been partial to the Masakari and the Stalker. Not to forget Death from the Sky itself, the good ol' Highlander.

[@GuiltyKit]

I really am a fan of the progression of Battletech art. I haven't really seen much of it since I played MW2-4 way back when, and some Inception game in MS DOS. But wow they have absolutely stepped up their art game. Like more than any other TT IP, I think.

[@taurvanath]

I fell in love with the King Crab the moment I laid eyes on it. I played with it for a long time... unfortunately I got really upset when my arms got blown off. Nowadays I use the Annihilator or Corsair for my dakka.

[@anja2792]

The king crab and atlas are great, but both are mainly brought out in certain missions because yeah they put out massive "nope- zones" around them, but are so slow you need a mission that makes the opponent come to them. The gauss canons are actually far scarier because you can't get away from the range when it gets set up.

[@paulrobertmarino7623]

This reminds me of my favorite mech in MechWarrior 2 the Crab, similar to but not to be confused with the King Crab. In the mercenaries edition of the game every time i played it first I would try to kill and salvage a crab as soon as possible, then i would outfit it with beam lasers and extra heat sinks. I did this so I could run up on enemy mechs and circle around them while shooting out a specific leg. Once they were flailing around on the ground I would approach carefully close enough at just the right weapons blind spot so they could shoot the cockpit in complete safety in the great tradition of saving the metal while killing the meat :). To me if outfitted correctly to give it more staying power in a fight it was simply unbeatable due to its speed, maneuverability, and ability to stay low enough to make it hard to hit. I cant tell you how many times I beat that game using the crab for every mission after I salvaged one, no other mech in the game ever made sense for me and believe me I tried them all because thanks to the crab i salvaged almost every other mech I came across :) . from the chats I've seen about MechWarrior 5 its a favorite by many in that game too for similar reasons I just wish that game supported an FCS like they claim it does.