Battletech Lore - Capellan Confederation, House Liao
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2018
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In this Battletech lore episode I give an overview to the fifth and final Successor State in this series, aka the Capellan Confederation ruled by House Liao. Enjoy!!!
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The last one!!!! NOOOOOO!!! Well ok. This was the best one yet! The capellan confederation is so hard to pin down. Chancellor to Chancellor the realm is never idle. Other than the clans everyone has taken a huge poke at them and they keep going like roaches. The fourth succession war would have seen them gone if Hans hadn't been a nice guy just making a point. Ever since Maximilian the chancellors have all been nuts. And everyone loves to pick on them. Then again they bring it in themselves so it stands to reason it's just carma. The rest of the government is such a cluster f##k it's amazing anything happens at all. The people are what makes the capellan confederation exist. The citizens have so much vested in the realm they can't afford to let it fall. If it wasn't for the warrior houses and the lower levels of the cape armed forces being so devoted to the nation state existence the higher government would have bogged down and fed the worlds of the federation too the other house back before the Star league. With mechs like the vindicator, cataphract and trebuchet as standard machines they are hard to stop and solid performers in battle. They have even managed to get some very notable Merc units to more or less become house units for centuries some how, though in later years that changed. They weathered the jihad really well because of the messed up government, xenophobic and absolutely devoted citizens. WoB had a heck of a time doing anything, can't destabilize a government with surprise attacks when it's function, though absolute, is more often in the way. Any WoB actions against lieo only helped the realm. When it came to the dark age the tricky ducks has a leg up a well since they "disarmed" like everyone else but put all their dakka in moth balls instead of the scrap pile. They had the biggest and nasties army out there thanks to the Chancellor. And thanks to the Chancellor they didn't get a bloody thing done besides mash up their toys and piss off everyone. Oh well. On the table top and in the rpg I love to play against the capellan confederation, I also enjoy playing as them. Monkey wrenches all over the place in the rpg and the warrior houses are tough hombres. The characters of those houses have great skills and are ruthless. NEVER punch out when fighting the capellans they will either shoot you with mech grade weapons if you are lucky, stomp on you, use wmd on you if they haven't already, let one of their many house varieties of battle armor open you up with a battle claw. Or if you are having really bad luck you get captured. The intelligence network of the capellans is not very good outside their borders but damn if they don't know how to get someone to talk... For years... Then if you are still alive you get to go though reeducation. As a whole the capellans get spanked regularly but they are tremendously interesting and probably deeper than any other house, they are almost always the antagonist, and very little is written about them as the main character. They aren't really a major player in the game of the inersphere but they are cunning, devious, brutal, ruthless and dangerous enough to their own people that you can't afford to turn your back to them. They have always been used as the balance card till the clans arrived. If Davion was kicking marik can too bad leio comes and hurts them in places they left open. Basically you poke someone and the capellans are on your other border waiting for you to move "all the way over there" they don't care if they can't keep what they got when you turn around, they will still do it. They can't help it they are capellans. Well done on this video GDN I love the series I sincerely hope this isn't the last battletech post just the last house video. To my knowledge you are the only one with the sand to do bt lore and I wish you could play a couple games with my brother and I.
This deserved to be pinned. Also, its just the last Inner State video for now. I'll keep at it with a Comstar video next, then maybe some technology or get right into individual mechs.
@@GrimDarkNarrator I love seeing this. You are doing a great job for a self proclamed noob. My brother and I have been bt fantastics over 20 years and it's amazing to see. I can't say enough how much I enjoy this. Comstar is going to be a great video. And tech and mechs are going to really get your comments section going. The lore on space travel and communication is pretty well filed out too. TRO description of mechs and the table top performance can vary wildly and individual players do as well. My brother and I to this day, last week infact, spend hours on one mech or it's varieties simply because we play different. You can bet I'm going to sound off on mechs lol. May I recommend starting with mech grade equipment so your viewers have the terminology down. the playable early generation mechs? 2100s unification era or more simplistically 3025 second-fourth succession war TRO so you don't spend lots of time eating lost tech. I would cover them by weight lightest to heaviest weight with the fluf, after doing a Mackie video of course, load of lore of the first of the gods of battle.
"A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back." -Randolph "Tex" Checkers
ah a fellow citizen of Cargonia i see
Hail Cargonia!
Truth. Fuck the space commies.
I found boosters of the old MW Clix game for sale at a heavy discount. I bought all of them and cracked open 60+ in total. I got a lot of Liao units, including Unique (Legendary) characters, so I wanted to know more about them.
Also, in Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries, you fight against the Cappas, but we're never given much back story.
While they are not my favorite faction, I certainly love having a lot of their units to play with and against. Having lore to support them makes the experience all the better. Thank you.
You're welcome. I'll one day return to these main factions and detail them further.
Appreciate your battletech lore vids! It's a very interesting setting as well.
Thank you.
Now this is a series I have been needing
Couldn't agree more. My brother and I have wonders for years why no one does/has done bt lore, it's so freaking deep and it's survived 4 companies that I can remember.
I've enjoyed these GDN, thanks for making them.
You're welcome.
SERVICE. GRANTS. CITIZENSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm here to squash locusts, sir
"Do you want to know more..."
You do know that Heinlein was vehemently opposed to communism and national socialism (Nazis), right?
The whole reason why he wrote Starship Troopers was because he hated authoritarianism so much. Even if you couldn't vote, you still had all the rights that a voter had; except the right to influence the government.
@@mr.gunzaku437 Nah, that book is some fascist dogwhistling.
I love earlier-era Liao. The only thing I like more than a scrappy underdog is a scrappy underdog led by a complete lunatic.
Naturally I'm also a fan of several Periphery States
There's lunatics in the great houses too :D
Damn dude. What a channel! You are extremely prolific. So much content for a tabletop nerd to consume
Welcome!
as a fan of the Northwind Highlanders, I am stuck with the Capellan treachery as part of the history. now that the planet of Northwind is a sovereign entity, it will be interesting to see what happens next.
Great video
Thanks.
I like the Capellan Confederation.
It's nice having a target that comes with no remorse, like zombies.
NEVER TRUST A CAPELLAN!
This was well done ... wish you would do more but ... popularity of this game has wained.
I'll do more, just not on the successor states for the time being.
Have you not heard about the new box sets?
Mechwarrior 5 is set to drop.
Will you cover the very complicated relationship/"alliance" between the Capellans and Draconis Combine? And the recent union of Houses Liao and Marik?
At the moment I'd just doing Mech videos, since they get like 2 or 3 times the views. I'll return to faction lore after doing "enough" mechs though.
Capellan Confederation. Nice!👍
Capellans are the literal example of strength without intelligence and disloyalty to the mercenaries that they hire.
Best exempel is McCarron's Armored Cavalry!
All hail the Celestial Throne!
Greetings from the Throne of the Honorable Coordinator of The Combine.
I’m just starting and searching for which house appeals to me, and this is the one. I hope I’m not left in servitor status for much longer than 5 years!
It amazes me to this day that Liao has somehow managed to survive. I mean the 4th succession war should of sealed their fate. With the Fed Com raging a war, Marik should of take advantage and invaded too.
in my opinion they were saved by their diplomatic ability to leverage their technologies. towards the end, the were a minor power in the grand scheme of things, but they still had the R&D capabilities equal to any of the major powers, so they were able to stay alive with that lol.
@@sergeigen1 also, their military is made of crazy people, completely uncaring towards death
Before the lore got going, and before I started to care about it, my brother and I assumed that the Draconis Combine were communists China due to the red. We also assumed that Capellan was Japanese because of what looks like a Katana. When we play now, we ignore the lore in this regard.
You can play in whatever way makes you happy :)
Shouldn't be music in this video. You know... a cappella...
they have historically been the writers's punching bag but they always endured.
They shouldn't have survived the 4th Succession War, but I think the writers didn't want to take out a major faction that fast. That & they wanted to make ComStar really powerful.
Capella is a vital buffer state between the big dogs. I think Comstar realized that and thus saved their hides.
Imo: Sillier factions that follow war rules like “not committing war crimes” should be the ones that fall, not the realpolitik faction.
What would we do without our Punching bag state?
Them and Comstar are no doubt my favorite lol
Sounds like space North Korea...
All the successor states are
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Bra the only reason i can think of for cappalean not getting completley ovveran is because it would sway the balance of power and the status qou
Never heard of them before, but I'm a total Battletech lore 'Noob'
Don't worry about it, they are almost never main characters. They are back stabbing types. They are devoted as all hell and dangerous but even from the beginning they were used as a balancing force in the universe by the franchise. Not big enough a threat to go straight after with bigger problems elsewhere, but as soon as you start to finally gain ground on those bigger fish and it looks like someone might turn the tide the capellans sneak in and blow up a couple mech factors, poison a planet and you have to turn around or risk losing any ability to didn't at all lol. But welcome to battletech, don't do trade deals with marik and don't punch out in a fight with Lio mech warrior and don't hang around when an Atlas shows up. Welcome to the addiction I have had since 1993.
Compared to Warhammer, I'm a noob at this too.
@@paulhuston9991 Explain punch out with Liao Mech plz.
@@dubuyajay9964 don't eject. They'll murder you.
Petition to pronounce House "Liao" as House "Meow" in the future!
The joke went over my head, im afraid.
@@GrimDarkNarrator Oh don't mind me ;). It was just kinda amusing hearing you making cat noises in your grim dark narrations...
These guys also remind me of old Imperial China, which was known for its totalitarian style of governance back in the day. Qin Shi Huang and the Ming Dynasty were tankies before tankies were even thought of.
Well, they are definitely inspired by the Chinese culture, just like the Draconis Combine are japanese samurai.
the Sarna comunality, huh? interresting, then that means site is under Capellan control? or are they just ruling over it but have no direct hand in it? >_
Maybe just an easter egg that grew into a website :D
great video, but i disagree on them being communist, or even socialist, because they have no democracy whatsoever within their planets, and have almost entirely state control. rather, i think they are a monarcho-fascist confederation. it’s kinda the same situation with the t’au empire, except the t’au are not as authoritarian as the capellans, even with the ethereals and their mind control bs.
Bleh, capellans
All my homies hate Capellans.
Your homes sound like good people
Stop talking.
No you
Very good and useful youtube comment 👏👏👏
@@_BirdOfGoodOmen Good. Useful. RUclips comment.
@@MrJack556 thanks 😌
@@_BirdOfGoodOmen it was a joke. There are no good useful youtube comments.