Faction Lore: The Word of Blake

[@SwordlordRoy]

Peace of Blake be with you.

[@ajac009]

be nice to see pics of maps and their units and mechs and what not.

[@metalmadness5851]

The Word of Blake Jihad claimed many things, including FASA Corporation. Kinda ironic, isn't it?

[@phaedrosx]

Fake News: The Jihad signalled the revival of the tabletop game, given Dark Age (and the Clix game) was thrust upon the oldschool players with only a mere mention of the Jihad in the Dark Age novels. Catalyst went back after acquiring Battletech, and wrote the Jihad as well as the Dark Age. >.> Shattered Sphere was technically the end of Classic Battletech.

[@nickwalker4936]

Is that Dougram in the thumbnail?

[@Kinepho]

Pros: Nice information to hear for a huge Battletech/Mechwarrior fan like myself. Cons: So many mispronunciations in this video. Made me cringe with each one.

[@Daishi85]

Yep!

[@thehillz726]

like what? i'm new to this stuff.

[@TheInsomniaddict]

@@thehillz726 1:06 Demona Aziz 2:01, 2:21, 5:25 Capellan Confederation 2:24 Sarna March 2:58 21st Centauri Lancers 4:15 Aegis 5:25 Lyran Alliance 5:32 Christian Månsdottir 6:10 Tharkad 6:35 Devlin Stone (close but not quite)

[@thehillz726]

TheInsomniaddict ohh oki thanks

[@ragna1010]

could you do outreach i kinda want to no why it was allways a hub for any merc game or in the series

[@drmayeda1930]

Outreach, is the home of the mercenary review and bonding commission, the governing body for mercenaries. It's also the home world for the wolf's dragons. A group of warriors from clan wolf sent to spy on the inner sphere. It served the same function as Galatea. A place where people can go to find mercenary units.

[@rh352]

If the Jihad marks the end of the tabletop game, what covers the dark ages and all that? (I'm legitimately curious because I didn't know the tabletop game doesn't include those)

[@montyhedstrom1356]

Check out Era Report 3145.

[@certanmike]

Darkage was the click game by wizkids

[@fearanarchy]

Firat set of Mechwarrior Dark Age from WizKids was fun. Chainsaws and Construction mechs being centerpieces

[@williamcase426]

BLAKE OF WORD

[@Phareux]

were there any novels about the jihad?

[@Pestolents]

yes, there were a number of them printed. good luck finding them though most are out of print.

[@Phareux]

Do you know any titles? Thanks either way

[@Pestolents]

go to this web sight. there is a complete list. www.sarna.net/wiki/List_of_BattleTech_print_novels

[@Phareux]

Thank you

[@TerzaGuardia]

Your videos are pretty great, but could ya please stop adding syllables to stuff? :D Ca-pel-ans, not ca-pel-ee-ans. Sar-na, not sa-ra-na. Ly-ran, not lee-ree-an. Other than that, though, you do solid work.

[@WastelandSeven]

What?? And break tradition??? LOL

[@jamesricker3997]

You skipped over the part about the real Thomas Marik

[@TheMiteyPirate]

something i didn't even know about ill have to look into it.

[@TH0r0lf]

No, Novels stopped at the Fed Com Civil War then restarted for the Dark Ages.

[@Pork_eating_crusader]

Aff!

[@jamesc.2054]

Dougram. Nice.

[@concordetconstabulary219]

For me the universe stops at the end of the FedCom Civil War. Battletech is supposed to be a setting of no hope and idealism. The last best hope for peace and justice was General Kerensky. Without him there is no peace. Just war. And ComStar is supposed to be the shadow hand that is always manipulative.

[@dark7element]

I liked the Jihad because it was an epic-scale, Succession Wars-type conflict in the 'modern' era where for a brief few years it was back to the era of warships dueling in the void, invasion forces of 1000+ mechs, and weapons of mass destruction being employed by all sides. It was intentionally made to allow 'advanced gameplay' and give people an excuse to finally use of this fancy experimental tech that mostly languished as footnotes in the lore. People often criticize the storyline of it for being a bit dumb and unrealistic. E.G., how did the Word take on everyone at once plus Comstar like that. And, well... they didn't. They had most of one of the inner sphere nations on their side (Free Worlds League), the Capellans, Draconis Combine and the Federated Suns were mainly fighting each other for most of the conflict (it was pretty much a "5th succession war" even at the same time all this Comstar stuff was happening). Half the major factions ALSO had some kind of major civil war going, both the Lyrans and FedSuns were getting attacked by the Clans... it was a mess.

[@christianholzschuh6853]

@@dark7element I too stopped at endgame. But I have to ask where this prophercy of the star league came from? I mean, as far as I know Comstar and their mentality the hardliners are all about splitting up the inner sphere, and then they do a 180 degree turn and try to force unity?

[@dark7element]

@@christianholzschuh6853 I'm pretty sure restoring the Star League was always Comstar's secret endgame. They were just sabotaging the sciences in the successor states because they thought that if they regained their pre-1st Succession War capacity, they'd fight for control of Earth again and nuke it into rubble. Myndo Waterly attempted a coup d'etat to seize control of the second Star League almost immediately, even before they'd won the fight against the Crusader clans. The hardliners were always the dominant force in Comstar, it's just that Mary Sue Davion convinced most of the Comguard to side with him by being a noble, chivalrous warrior and all that shit. Which means that the parts of Comstar that ACTUALLY made it a force to be reckoned with - their intelligence service and their science and engineering divisions - mostly went to the Word of Blake. And since the great houses basically handed the Free Worlds League, the galaxy's biggest industrial powerhouse, over to the Word of Blake on a silver platter with their stupid body double scheme, it's not at all hard to see why the WoB was able to become such a threat. Bearing all this in mind, the Word of Blake *still* always knew that the war was unwinnable for them if it became a total war. They never intended for it to escalate like it did.

[@christianholzschuh6853]

@@dark7element Wait, so Myndo Waterly was a lich?

[@leehrvyoswld]

Lost the silly music.