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Thanks for this! Could you do one on other infantry units. Our group is confused about artillery.

One other aspect to keep in mind about Elementals: they absolutely *chew* on infantry and vehicles with those flamers.

Its not coming from a 'this is mech is good' standpoint, but my favourite FWL mechs are the Hammer and Anvil, just love the artwork on those two

I've recommended this video to a couple of our new/er players to the game to give them an intro to Battle Armor. Well done and Thank you for making it!

I avoided using battle armor and vehicles because I felt they slowed down an already very slow game. However, now that CGL has included support cards instead of record sheets, I may start using them. It works great with vehicles.

I use Achileus with TAG to spot for semiguided LRMs, which is a fantastic combo since Achileus are hard as Hell to hit. Longinus Magnetic make swarm attacks worth it. The clamps make it easier to hold on and a full squad does a 20 point hit.

This is a good vid I wish I had early in my btech journey. Agreed swarm sucks.i usually use ba like this: Elemetals- tanky. They hold objectives. Cheap ba (space eles, sarillas, is srm, etc) upskill to 3/2 for leg attacks. BUT! Ba with longer range attacks (Ele with AP Gauss, Corona, fenrir, Djinn David gauss)- shooty crit seekers. Take the ap gauss eles for a spin against IS opponents- crit seeking hell! Looking forward to more videos~ Pirate

I think Longinus needed a shout out. Transportation of some kind is mandatory (because of its IS SRMs), even if its a conventional ground vehicle. But you get very similar capabilities to Elementals

Standard with the LRR are my go to if I am running IS Standard. Still cheapish, but able to doing something if your opponent refuses to go exactly where you expected them to. Of course, those are Civil War era, as are most of the fun designs that aren't crazy. You also didn't really touch on their uses as spotters or bodyguards for fire support units, especially Omnimech fire support units. Big fan of the Slyph, VTOL and BA with a decent base TMM makes them real annoying unless flak is on the field.

Isn't there also a rule that IS BA can't jump while their SRMs are loaded?

Light BA and VTOL BA are solid to self transport after a certain point, especially in alpha strike Medium BA rely on your mechs and armor to get in and do their job, but they can carry themselves forward Heavy BA need mechs to set them in a single position to shoot at enemies and sit still Assault needs combined arms support to deliver, but offers incredibly Tanky BV efficient turrets with crazy weapon loadouts. Looking at the LBX loadouts.

18:40 atlas on its own is vulnerable. Two mechs versus one even of same total weight have the advantage of flanking and enemy splitting fire penalties.

So clan omni fast mechs with arm mounted omnipods only zip in and fire plus deploy elementals who can attack same turn or next turn? I am a trooper noob.

I personally use mag clamps on mechs that have improved jump jets, like the Uziel 8S, which allows my mech to be as effective as it should be and leaves a surprise for my foes

I've had great results with the Kage Light Battle Armor on the IS side. Incredibly cheap at like 130 BV at 4/2!! They're arguably worth it for just being an initiative sink, but they jump 4 and can still do Leg Attacks at full strength 4 armor 1 structure, but that is STEALTH armor which helps them close. They often only have one small laser or flamer or tag or even no weapon and just a 1 hex ECM bubble, but they're incredibly cheap I used them in a D-day tournament, using a boat to bring them onto shore on offense to be annoying and contest objectives and on defense to Crit enemy legs and slow them down enough so that they are unable to reach the objective within the tournament turn limit.

Would you have armoured troops jump onto breached torsos like an armour patch?hunchback left torso covered up so right side AC keeps firing? Or is it mounted vs unmounted all areas covered and cant fire?

Always love the firemoth D & BA Combo. Ablative armour and then if any survive attack

I am an ok battle armor user and a smoker. For dropping BA off at your opponent’s feet. Drop down a heavy smoke screen to block LOS. This tactic is ecstatic with mimetic armor. Good video, good breakdown, and good job.

It's been so long since I actually played with BA that I don't have much useful feedback. Everything sounded good tho. I guess my local group is odd, lots of just mech games and sometimes mech and tank games, not often battle armor or infantry.

You can use Undine battle armor to attach 'Mechs that are in or around water. They also have LRMs, which you can load with Multi-Purpose Missiles (LRM/T) to damage their legs before you close in, or with Thunders to lay down a minefield on their escape route.

17:37 funky render

Thanks for the breakdown. I never liked Battle Armor because they make it effective by cheating. I mean they "created new rules" but so many of those rules boil down to "the rules say so". Why are Elementals harder to hit than other infantry (despite having the same mobility)? The rules say so. They clearly do not have mech scale machine guns so are they classed as such? The rules say so. How they possibly have a mech scale flamer when it's impossible for them to carry enough fuel? The rules say so. Same thing applies to Inner Sphere vs Clan. Why does Inner Sphere armor have one less point which allows weapons to hit breakpoints needed to one shot them but not Clanner armor? The rules say so. Why hasn't the Inner Sphere caught up to Clanner tech despite the cannon moving ahead by decades? The rules say so. Worse still this mentality regarding Elementals directly fed into Protomechs which are so stupid I won't allow them in any game I'm playing.

Houseruling standard mechs to be able to carry battle armor is warranted IMO. If they can hang onto an enemy they can hang onto a friendly.

3:25 artillery is also a good option to remove them , it'll hit all of them at once

I think only allowing BattleArmour and Mechs massively changes the game ....... I would automatically assume a pro Clan TO or at least pro Clan bias

Great breakdown I am just building my Wolf-in-Exile force, so it's particularly timely

For innersphere players there are some great wolves dragoons omni vehicles that are good for deploying battle armor. A Badger with a unit of IS Standard BA inside the infantry bay and riding on the outside is around 800BV and is fairly quick at 6/9 movement.

I've been trying to figure out if power armor units are weak to machine guns like infantry unit. Is that the case?

For 3025 era, I'm quite fond of the Wolverine WVR-6M, and the MAD-3M variant of the Marauder.

Very helpful!! Espcially deployment!

The Man O'War Prime makes sense when you consider Clan society. During the original Clan invasion the Prime had an enormous kill count because of the quality of its pilots. "I am so skilled.I can defeat you with a weak load out. "

No Longbow?

I know this is just about 'Mechs, but since we are on FWL stuff, want to know what makes the wraith even worse in the FWL faction? It can carry anti mech battlearmor

The wraith is like the Uziel 8-s. It's criminal to have a BV that low for what you get.

This is a very unique way that you have produced explaining the rules through play and sharing it with us. I believe you have hit the nail on the head for these videos. now if you can produce these in short video form I believe you have a money maker on RUclips. I salute your effort in being original with the information!

Good cheep mech series is good. I hope you keep it up. I agree with your selections and there alternatives. Keep it up.

Funny lore tidbit about the Man o'War: due to it's huge enigne and most weapons located in the arms veteran IS pilots simply amputated the arms of the Mech and then left it alone, leaving an angry Clan pilot behind. Of course how that would work in a table top game is another story.

Definitely hope you keep up with this one!

I don't like the thought of exposing some elements of my force early. The opponent's going to focus all firepower on the easiest target, as long as you're deliberate about which unit that is, the rest only need to be harder to hit than that guy. Better to have their weapons in play with low targeting penalties

For a merccompany the longbow is a nogo. Four hunter tanks and you could also purchase four galeons with tag infantry for its price, maybe....

I really appreciate your thoughts on this. As others have mentioned, the Awesome is perfect for this faction. I look forward to seeing your thoughts on the other inner sphere factions. 🤞

Wraith TR1 is one of my personal favorites

I am excited to see the weird Liao mechs

Idk but this damn Sarissa is working out for me

I totally agree with your recommendation of the Wraith. I've had a ton of success with it.

Great video! Looking forward to Fedsuns video.

Glory to the Regulan Fifes, Glory to the Cameron-Jones,

The league also makes my favorite mech, the Black knight. Purple bird strong.

As the LRM faction, I would have added a Longbow or Trebuchet variant in there somewhere. The LGB-12R with 4xLRM15s with jump jets is one of my go-to's for delivering swarms of semi-guided munitions.

Always considered Marik to be the LRM boat faction Love the look of Orion, it's disappointed me a bit with its explosive hits and pathetic heat sinks I like the awesome, but my group plays RAT vs RAT so "just use two Shreks" isn't an option