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Starting mech for the kell hounds on mw4. Not a bad choice by any means.

Thank you for sharing 😊

Overrated. Large Lasers are no good bad. Embrace PPC, embrace Panther. Interesting variants tho, never looked at them closely because I dislike the Large Laser. There are some that understand the importance of the PPC, which is nice to see.

Awesome job as always, Iron!! So happy to have you back!! 🧡

I really like the Archer. But I also really hate rear facing weapons, or rather, I really hate not being allowed the option to change the facing of the weapon without a house rule.

Really enjoyed that

The Archer is one of the mechs that I dislike the older artwork of but really like the current design and sculpt.

Thank you for sharing 😊

The Wolfhound was indeed great in MW5 Mercs. I have tried Fire Ant and Urbie only for MC2, I don't remember how far I got. But yeah, sell it and buy some hovercraft. I suppose, if you want mech only forces, the Fire Ant is one of the better anti infantry specialists for its cost. Also thematically some salvaged ones wouldn't be a bad choice to use for training new pilots and maintenance techs. I do think the Urbie has some much more useful variants than the Flea. UM-R90 is a 3/5/3 with a PPC at very similar cost. There's the variant with the RAC/5, the UM-R70. And even the humble and basic UM-60 can pack specialized ammo for that AC/10 allowing for some flexible broomstick usage. Hmmm... All these are Fed Suns options tho, which I found funny looking this up to make sure I had my stuff correct.

With 4 armor and 4 internal on each leg this feels like a liability to me. I've never used it in tabletop, as I'm not inclined to use things that will lose a leg to a PPC, let alone a Large Laser.

I believe this is an accurate account of Star Trek characterization. Humanity is also second to none for destroying AI overlords and destroying Utopias that aren't their own, but both of these stem from the humans having to know what's behind the curtain.

Love me these little things. Small mechs have the greatest potential for what they bring. A good couple of pilots in two small mechs can absolutely overcome a larger, more armored, and armed opponent.

What battlemaps are you using?

I really like the CGL plastic Stalker from the force pack. I haven't gotten it yet, but it's on he priority list.

My favorite MWO mech

Part of the Army Helmet Team: Commando, Firestarter, Trebuchet, Enforcer, Quickdraw, Victor, and Cyclops!

It's not so much that K & F could not practically test their theories at the time. It is more that their theories rejected Einsteinian relativity and institutionalized academia intrenched itself, rejected them, and turned them into pariahs the stigma for which lasted a century until a research team replicated some of their experiments and validated their theories by happenstance. Which is potentially some interesting commentary on academia as an institution. Traveling between jumpships and planetary surfaces can vary quite a lot based on dropships used, solar system layout, and urgency. If it's just a routine flight, dropships will usually burn at 1g straight through accelerating to the half way point then flipping and decelerating the rest of the way. This is a *very* fast form of interplanetary travel which predominantly uses Hohmann transfers were you use orbits and gravity to coast around instead of burning straight through. These "turn and burn" maneuvers are the most common orbital transfers used in BT. Many system/planetary pages on sarna give transit times between jump points and planets and it is this maneuver they assume. Typically the times can range from 5 days to 2 weeks from what I've seen, though I haven't done an extensive survey to find a representative average or range. However, sometimes faster operations are necessary. Important political travel can often bump this up to 1.5 or even 2g. Military operations will frequently preform these transfers using the maximum safe thrust of a dropship. From what I've seen this ranges between 1.5 and 3g. The best and most extensive source on interplanetary travel in Battletech is Strategic Operations. It goes into depth on the functionality of jumpships and gives hard numbers on things like recharge times and orbital transfers.

Hooray new Voice of Iron video

Nice, I painted my locust almost exactly the same.

This is nice, thank you for making it.

The Locust is one of those mechs that gets miscast in a battle game, as you sort of pointed out. (I'd argue that there are plenty of people who'd be perfectly content with largely a recon role in piloting, though.) A lot of mechs were designed with a storyline purpose in mind that puts them in a bad way when thrown into a straight-up fight of the sort that most scenarios are built around. The Locust is a recon speeder, if it's engaging anything it's engaging other Locusts. Another example would be the Hussar, a dedicated skirmishing platform built to zip up, take a quick shot or two in passing with its ER Large and then zoom away before too much return fire shows up. But that kind of hit and run harassment isn't fun to play out on the tabletop, so when you see a Hussar in a game it's often just being used as a suicide charger. The trick for getting the most out of these kind of mechs is to build scenarios that utilize their abilities. For my campaign, I devised a mission where the main purpose was for one force to draw the defense out by appearing to menace an HVT, while the real mission involved slipping an Ostscout through the lines to call artillery down on fixed position targets (a radar array that was the actual objective.) So the main force is running around like crazy puffing up and drawing fire and the Ost is just zooming around designating targets that the artillery is then flattening. The HVT was a secondary target but by the time the main objectives were down things had heated up too much, so the Ost bailed. Artillery switched to tossing smoke rounds and the bulk of the force disengaged, mission accomplished. That's how you can get some utility and fun out of lights and bugs- it's not the damage they do, but by spotting and designating and locating targets, it's the damage that's done with other assets like indirect fire and air strikes.

the original city drift mech. This mech taught me the dangers of city fighting at speed. dump your only real scout into a building and crippling it 1 turn in. ... some lessons are learned in the hardest ways. Nostalgia for when there were not so many speedsters...

The Jenner is indeed a nice mech.

The Clan Invasion mod for MW5 has the Fafnir IIRC.

Your love of this mech really comes through 😊

Ah, yes, the mech you get when you don't want to get a few hovercraft.

I play companies of Panther, and refer to Panthers as “the littlest Heavies”. They are designed to be used as heavy mechs with 2-4 working as team versus one larger opponent, while maintaining the ability to destroy lighter opponents 1:1. My favorite upgrade to the stock Panther is swapping the HS for DHS, the PPC for an ERPPC, and the SRM4 for an LRM5, but not to mini a Griffin. I do this because I also run Dragons with PPCs and the LRM10 swapped out for 3x LRM5’s.

The only way to meaningfully improve the Panther, in my opinion, is to bump it up to a 5/8/5. Thankfully, it's a relatively inexpensive machine to upgrade. The 13 standard heat sinks can be traded out for 10 doubles, almost immediately freeing up all the weight you need for improvement. Sadly, Wakazashi didn't have the support they needed to get DHS in good numbers. Swapping the PPC for a Snub-Nose is a very good upgrade, as is swapping out the SRM-4 for an MML-3 or 5, depending on your other weight saving measures. I even made one with two Light PPCs, one with a capacitor, and an MML-5. It's a ridiculously good set-up, as long as you're comfortable with an XL. I was playing a game with my son, who loves panthers in any form, so I gave him a Kuritan lance including both a Panther and Jenner, and he did some serious work with them. Makes me very proud.

I too just discovered you as well. I love this absolute Chad of a mech.

It's a fun light fire support sniper, although with my preferred play style especially in later era's it's not that good of a fit for my preferred forces (full blitz/super heavy fire distraction). It still pairs well with just about any force composition you can imagine especially as a filler unit.

Just discovered your channel. I love the voice and your short story on why you chose to talk about this mech. It adds a personal touch to the history lesson you've given. Keep it up👌

I use panthers frequently. It is better in large numbers. The advantage is sheer number of ppc shots at a single target. Once a panther gets damaged I let it fall back behind the rest of the line. 1 panther is meh. 4 panthers..... people flip out when you start regularly hitting 2 or 3 ppc hits on a single target. They get even more mad when you fall back the damaged panther but it still fires and it cant be easily reached without exposing your mech even more to the remaining panthers. 769 bv for a stock basic panther is a dream when pushed into a numbers game. 4k bv battle? Your opponent take 3 or possibly 4 mechs. You take 5 or you take 4 and 2 of them are significantly better pilots. If you want to spice it up a bit more have 1 panther drop the srm4 and pick up a command console. Small change for big improvement to your numbers advantage.

A Panter and Jenner in the same lance had two consequences for me: 1) (many Years ago) As a new player, I started working more with light mechs... 2) Many of my mechs are now painted in Sword of Light red! A Panter is not a small Griffin... the Griffin can survive staying still for a round in a good position to get a better shot and take some damage if its on a nice hilltop... and go in close to use the fists. the Panter must always move and get hot if its use is jumpjets, using some rounds to jump in cover and hide to cool down.

Back into your closet

I have been enjoying the Battletech miniatures game for a little over a year now. It is ridiculously affordable, and very fun. When you play there is no down time, and you are engaged the whole time.

Get it man!

Good job man!

First of all title is inaccurate, you seem to have 106 subscribers. :P Love this, it's a nice journey and I'm glad the algorithm led me here. One thing to consider that might branch you out a bit is reading accounts of Battletech history. We're doing a campaign of the battle for Mallory's World right now, and you probably could find or compile a reasonably readable summary of events around those pivotal moments. Definitely looking forward to hearing some of your own works, too. Internet media has been kind of a cluster in many ways, but it does let people just put their art out there. We should all feel free to create and share. A hundred down and hopefully a lot more to go. Cheers.

Hello

As long as the Mechs are here, I'll be here.🤠

In case you don't already know this, the Mechcommander games were released for free. Mech Commander 2 is even open source. Both games are pretty good, and the story of Mech Commander 1 is an excellent story in the Battletech universe.

Your Battletech content is great 👍 Thank you for sharing 😊 You could probably go reasonably far if you leaned into voice acting.

We're in it to win it!! Great channel, sir. Can't wait to see it grow into a 100K Plus

I've been a subscriber for a month or so based on your MW is cool video & hoping to encourage more BT/MW content. I just had to Google what an SCP even was since you're hoping to eventually do nearly 1k of them. Good stuff!

FTL in BT--though they call it a hyperspace jump sometimes--is closer to a quantum jump. The KF drive is basically a big capacitor that discharges after every jump. Unlike a capacitor, you have to trickle charge it so you don't break it, hence the energy sail. You can, in a pinch, use the fusion drive of your JumpShip to do it, though. The space magic really comes in the military DropShips which sustain a 1g acceleration and somehow miraculously use only about 21 grams of hydrogen fuel per second. A DropShip drive's output is measured in terrawatts. The fact it could power a small planet is quietly overlooked. Can't have a DropShip captain retire and become the planetary utility company when they should be transporting troops, after all.

Well if you want to do some nonscripted content showing or doing some tutorials on painting would be great as you seem rather passionate about that.

Congrats on 100 subs! While I really need to get around to painting my mechs as I have maybe 45 units & my Merc Kickstarter coming soon. Like you YT lore & BT in general videos (even Tex's) play innthe background while I get work done, & even this video I am washing dishes & prepping supper I'm about to grill for the family. Keep up the great work & keep the BT content coming!

Congratulations 🎉🎈🍾🎊

Aaaaah the Jenny. I've gotten some good mileage out of those over the years. My player group has one that's survived a ridiculous amount of perilous situations, including taking a direct-fire long tom round at one point. They call it 'Blessed', which fits. Also tech comment, I thought your background track was a good choice and right at the perfect volume to provide some supplement to the reading without being distracting. (Not any kind of an AV tech here, but as a plebian viewer too many people overdrive their background music and make it annoying and distracting.)

As much as I love the meme machine, I'd take a Davion-built UM-R90 Suburbanmech any day. Although the Kuritan UM-R68 satisfies my desire to cause blanket destruction in, on, around, and behind my target with that MRM30 loadout.