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Clan Hazy Ocelot thanks you for your insight, freebirth.

To me the new classics win 99% of the time. The Marauder II and Marauder especially, not a great fan of the old marauders

Been a big fan of the Charger since the early 90's!

What do you think of the Mongrel? Asking because you get it in the clan invasion box. To me it seems like a solid choice. Like a beefier dragonfly.

Isn't there a physical attack option that allows you to displace an opponent's unit? Push, charge, or DFA. How does indirect fire interact with partial cover? Maybe there was a way to land cluster damage on that leg....

Vehicles are just not worth their BV.

The Banshee ALSO has its SRM ammo in the FREAKING RIGHT ARM, you know, the least armored location on the mech! This thing is just excessively terrible, and for no freakin reason. Its got heat problems for the sake of having heat problems. One strength of the Banshee that makes it special is that 380 engine, with up to 15 heatsinks internal, crit free. The 5S model runs 14. Hell, its got crits to spare! Freakin 19 crit slots unused and no Endo steel or Ferro. Giving it FF and chanhing nothing else would atleast give it more armor. If you go for Endo, however, you get that second ton of gauss ammo, two more heatsinks (up to 16), and an additional 1.5 tons of armor. Then the mech can fire all its long range weapons and just keep walkin without cooking itself. BV 2208

11:35 Another mech ruined by the Kuritans lagging on DHS and giving them all to the Dragons.

Who the hell puts an Artemis on an LRM5?

I have an intense hatred of the 5S, purely because for the longest time I thought it kept the same weapons arrangement as the 3S but swapped to ERPPCs and gauss etc....and then I was shown the two ERPPC in one torso, the arm SRM and lasers...So I went and made my own 5 series which is exactly what I had originally imagined....god I hate the way they did the weapons on the 5S. DAMN LYRANS THEY GIVE ME THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ASSAULT MECH THEN THEY RUIN IT

I have no nostalgia for the old designs, my first taste of BT was being the right age for the 90's cartoon, and from there getting into MechAssault. And *boy* do I have some feelings about the Unseen Archer. As much as I can agree the top half of the mech is cool, the bottom half is a clownshow. It looks like it put on bellbottoms and platforms for a night at the discotheque, not a war machine. That said, I sort of vibe with some of the design decisions of the Unseen Battlemaster -- it feels both sleek and imposing in a way that reels commendable to other unseen desogns

The Battlemaster is an old favorite! I always faced those medium lasers forward though

If the opponent entered the hex with your tank and then changed facing to fire on your Mech, it was an illegal move. See TW pg.57- entering a hex with an enemy unit automatically ends your movement; I.e. you can’t enter an enemy hex and then change facing.

The reason I don't allow custom Omnimech variations is simply because it isn't hard to turn most clan mechs into absolute murder-blenders that are zero fun to play against.

Fellow missile Scimitar enjoyer reporting in, and I really appreciate the strategy outlined here. It's not something that had occurred to me.

The Banshee 5S really could have used endosteel and used that saved mass to add 2 double heat sinks, a ton of Gauss rifle Ammo, and put the other 2.5 tons into protection

I fought a pair of demolisher as part of the opfor last week, it was my first time playing against vehicles in classic and my opponent was new as well, this would have been very helpful to know!

The lack of Ax-man is highly disturbing. It’s my favorite mech too

The Banshee would have been better served by using standard PPC's and an LBX10. Blackjack should have kept its medium lasers, instead of the streaks.

Always a good day when Trailblazer drops a new vid

Duane Loose’s work cut a path for others to follow. While a number of images were inspired by other IPs, I commend him for coming up with many original designs. The commando, enforcer, dragon, Orion and Atlas are iconic staples of the game. I bet he’s happy to see other artists carry on from where he started by bringing those old designs into the modern era.

Where is the Axman?

Could you do one of these but it’s just every hunchback variant? It’s a cool series, I just think you should do a video on the only perfect mech is all #HunchTech #HBestK

At the longest effective range to fire a Medium Laser, 6 hexes, you get 5 damage for 3 heat w/ a +2 Gunnery Penalty. At the same range a Medium Pulse Laser you get 6 damage for 4 heat and it gets way better closer. I have really warmed to the IS Medium Pulse laser over the years; its a great secondary weapon for killing scum bag Dasher Hs. Also the Black Jack 3 is a great sniper. Jump into heavy terrain with a good firing arc in a central location, start shooting those PPCs.

I enjoy all of Trailblazer videos 🎉🎉🎉😊

I'll actually come out swinging for the oft-maligned IS medium pulse laser. I feel like there are actually a couple of major places where they are clear upgrades over the IS medium laser, and the battlemaster 3s does tick all of those boxes. 1: if the mech cares more about saving heat and weight than it cares about saving tonnage. The big downside to a MPL is weighing 2 tons instead of 1, but thanks to the increased damage and accuracy you get more expected damage per heat out of the same critical space as a regular medium laser. Since the 3S has an XL engine but keeps single heat sinks (like most disappointing post-core "upgrades") this fits in with what it's doing. 2: brawlin' mechs. If you are at 6 or fewer hexes, you are always happier or at worst about as happy firing a standard laser. At 1, 2, and 4 hexes a pulse laser is more accurate, and at 3, 5, and 6 hexes it has the same accuracy thanks to the -2 eating range penalties. The only thing you're losing is the long range shots that you're not expecting to care about in most cases anyway. Since the 3S wants to get close anyway, it likes the pulses. 3: rear-mounted weapons. Mechs that are trying to get behind you are generally light and fast, and they probably aren't going to be very far behind you so the pulse benefits make them extremely effective deterrence. 4: Mechs that have *a lot* of lasers. Having 4 medium pulse is slightly better in most cases and the same weight/heat as 6 medium lasers with 2 heat sinks, so once you hit that threshold you're generally better using pulses, and that's right where the 3S sits. I cant really justify the lrm20 though. You probably wouldn't be firing whatever long-range weapon the 3M mounted at brawling range anyway since it generates enough heat with its pulses and SRMs, but i'd happily trade all the weight and ammo drawback of the LRMs for just about anything else.

I kind of feel the 3M Battlemaster could have lost a few heat sinks and added something else . Mechs like the Vindicator are guilty of this too

Great surgery recovery video, thanks for the content. What would be your pick for all the banshee mechs, personally love the design of the mech.

11:06 I love the Blackjack-BJ3 narratively. It's exactly what I would want to manufacturer if I were building a 3042-3070? era IS garrason. The BV is a little high for optimal lists tho, I completely agree with that. But still, 2 PPCs for less than twice the cost (tonnage, cbill, or BV) of two Panthers. It's an amazing mech 😍

I don't think I have ever been called a marshmallow before. I'm far more pale than one of thoes.

Battle value value was fun to say but battle value efficiency sounds cleaner

In a narritive game I'll radio the OPFOR commander abd discuss terms of surrender.

Can't we just say they are all beautiful and refrain from Beauty contests? Shouldn't they all be judged by what is inside? Participation trophies for ALL!! Seriously if it wasn't in the original TR3025 isn't it just a future variant? LOL

What about the Devastator EC? Same thing, except now the PPCs are the prototype improved variants that now do 12 damage! 4 heat neutral headcappers!

You need to consider the odds as well as the total volume of damage... like for the warhammer here 2 ML + SRM6 can be 20-ish damage, so even if only half of that hits you're still as good as having fired the PPC. I've done a lot of this math trying to find scenarios for the AC/2 lol. Given a 1 range band advantage, a pair of AC/2 hitting on 8+ is exactly break-even with AC/10 hitting on 10+ lol

I did guess that, but that doesn't matter I would remember to do it myself in a heat of battle. And I certainly made the same mistake twice.

Full agreement on not putting veteran gunners on your brawler mechs, and I'd even say any non-jumping unit... otherwise the enemy will just run at you to get those to-hits as low as possible.

The way I build Clan forces is around a pair of Mediums, mainly the jumpers. Those boys are as hard to hit as lights and as well armored as (clan) heavies, and as long as they have at least 2 medium pulse lasers or an ERPPC they're dangerous. Then the other three are whatever weight class the star says it is, and can hang out at longer ranges thanks to the danger of advancing past the screening force. So I generally rate the badly armored, overgunned designs more highly because you can put the burden of keeping enemies at a safe distance on another unit.

Playing Clan forces, you can't afford to let the opponent hit you at all. Mad Dog Prime is a great mech for that, hanging out at max range with those LPLs as long as you can make it happen. IMO the best-suited loadout of any clan heavy.

On the old Ost mechs, their legs look too spindly to be able to hold the rest of the mech up to me. Too top heavy, bottom light for me.

The Crusader really should have two of those antennae on the sides of its head instead of one in the center, because when we saw the GBP-1S in Macross, it was attached to Hikaru Ichijo's VF-1J Valkyrie.

The optimal assault mech is two Hunchbacks.

This is why i disagree with Mech reviwers who rage against rear mounted weapons , have you actually played BattleTech ? Do you think it happens on an open plain with uninterrupted lines of fire ? Do you think its not going to degenerate into a brawl ? You know what i would have taken instead of the Avatar and Schrek ? 2 Cataphracts

5:15 ah classic move ive had people lose their minds when ive done this ....... why you would have been better off with say a Rifleman 5N as your precision ammo caddy and just ignored it had large lasers

1:50 you took a Shrek AC Carrier with Precision Ammo and a 2/3 pilot why ? Absolute waste of BV

Oh your stratergy relies on long range shooting with high damage weapons ......... you're playing BattleTech wrong ......... i play against Clans typically 15000 BV where they take 5 death machines i take about 2 companies worth of stuff guess who pretty much always wins ?

yea i'm sry but i find the originals pretty fugly ... the only exception being the longbow/phalanx (the redesign still being better) many of the original designs (BT original mechs aswell) have dinky limps and look more like sketches than done designs