Fun Fact, the Vlad chassis was originally known as the Yi Sun-Shin, named after the famous admiral of the same name who essentially saved the Kingdom of Korea during the Imjin War (the Japanese invasion of Korea in the 1590s). Still, since no one knows about Yi Sun-Shin, it was renamed to the Vlad. Which sucks, because Admiral Yi is probably one of the very few in history who could give Horatio Nelson a run for his money.
@@Zaktact Have you ever tried homebrewing your own megacorp? Or never felt the need I'm just curious if doing such a thing with this system would be difficult
@@spac3dout320 A lot of homebrew content exists for the game, including full on megacorps with mechs, lore and everything else. So while it is a lot of work to do, integrating it into the system and setting once you have it finished, is not too difficult.
So I've actually run this game and one of my players ran a Blackbeard. Calling this mech scary is an understatement and a half! Damn thing tore through just about every combat encounter I set up. It grappled my final boss of the ENTIRE encounter. This boss was two sizes larger than it was! It just wouldn't let go! All the same it was super fun, great times and great stories all around.
There is a Raleigh build my friend showed me he calls Johnny Seven Guns "on account of him having seven guns." Apparently you can just have 7 handcannons on that thing and it's not only viable, but pretty effective.
I love how all the other mechs from this faction are designed about being no frills and practical - cowboy aesthetics aside - and then there's just The Vlad. For people who want to impale. There's a Freudian joke in there somewhere. The machine for medieval Romanian warlord cosplayers. At least we have Trucker Mech. My beloved.
my favorite Defender/Controller build in Lancer is the modest Vladbeard, and it's literally as simple as it sounds: Vlad with Blackbeard upgrades. You have 3 Armor at Size 1, you're *always* the bigger robot when you grapple, and any source of immobilize (Grapple, Nail Gun, etc) shreds your victim (None of their defensive properties work anymore), and if they're stupid enough to try to fight back while you're grappling them, they take an unavoidable AP kinetic damage. With Core Power, that damage becomes 3 AP Kinetic *and* you take half-damage.
I sure do love my interstellar shipping company that DEFINITELY doesn’t have a side thing with under the table piracy going on. (Edit) also can’t wait for the episode on Albatross, one of my most favorite factions in lancer
7:12 Technically, all anti-mech weapons are anti-materiel (as opposed to anti-personnel, look up "anti-materiel rifle", for example), meaning "to be used against material resources", like mechs, vehicles, ammo depots, unexploded ordnance, reinforced bunker doors, etc. Which begs the question, is the non-upgraded chaingun for Drake meant to be used against people in hardsuits and other kinds of personal combat protection, not against mechs?
I would not be surprised. Raleigh, Blackbeard, and Vlad have fighting other chassis covered, so efficiently mowing down fodder swarming the spaceports or other secured perimeters helps diversify the portfolio, with the upgraded version able to handle more hard targets. Tortuga can also defend against infantry in close, but it's more about slowly rooting them out while advancing.
Thank you for making this Lancer content ❤ You managed to hook me into it and buy the Core Rule book, now reading through the GM section and the way you bring your vibe to the information is great Cant wait for the next video 😁
Can attest, the Raleigh is beautiful. Had a blast with mine. Also gave it just a *touch* of Pegasus for some extra paracausality weirdness. Just a fun rootin tootin sentient yet concerningly quiet cowboy mech with 4 giant revolvers. Named it Texas Red.
I've been wanting to learn Lancer forever, but I've never seen any youtube content about it before! You really make the lore and system feel very approachable, and I hope I can try the game with one of my groups soon! If you make more Lancer content, a video about Horus would be awesome. They have some absolutely devious mechs and I'd love to learn more of the lore about them!
Super excited for when you get to HORUS. I got a friend i'm tryna rope in and i KNOW for a FACT thats the hook line and sinker for them. Until then, stellar video as ALWAYS! I love these full digestable dives into the Lancer story!
Great video about IPS-N. I wish there are more people like you making videos about the lore and settings of Lancer. Also, I just realized you change your mug every few scenes. Pretty funny.
Love that you dressed up for the part. In the group i GM for we renamed all the corps because we hated the names that came with the setting. We call IPSN Ford. SS is Yamaha HA is Darpa GMS is just General Motors. And Horus is Horus....
You forgot an important thing about Tortuga: it's a really good hacker too; so if an enemy thinks they're safe just because they're far away, no they're not. Oh, it also has an on-board AI made by the accumulated memories of dead marines, which Union considers very suspicious
Excellent content, literally can't get enough Lancer content from a creator familiar with 40K That said, your pronunciation of Raleigh did give me the kind of psychic damage that a Medusa chassis could but envy
@@WASDLeftClick I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't named after Sir Walter Raleigh who was an explorer who established Roanoke as well as the queen's naval adviser, I'm not certain but seems to fit the ISP-N theme more EDIT: the reason I mentioned it is that would mean it's pronounced like Rally
i have been getting SOOOO into Lancer recently, these have been the best videos I've seen so far. if i can get my friends interested in the game, ill be sending these videos to them
Love the vids, it killed me when you called it the “Ray-Lay” 😂 it’s pronounced “Ra-Lee” (Ra like the Egyptian god) just like the capital of NC in the US
This video is so great omg!!!! Was really hyped to see more lancer content from you, love your videos Have you seen the new supplement that just came out, Siren’s Song? It added a new Blackbeard Variant called the Empakaai, curious of your thoughts on it when you get to supplements
Just found you today and was shocked by the size of your channel! I saw that you hit the 4k milestone recently, so here's hoping the number keeps going up! I'm loving your stuff!
I see those old Falling Frontier Clips in the intro, you can't fool me. Should check out some of the more recent videos from StutterFox too. Nebulous Fleet Command B-roll is also a good addition.
After all of these faction I think I like ips-n the best. There is something about hardworking reliable mech that is personalized by people in their garage with all the trucker or factory workers aesthetic is just more appealing than the Weirdness of Horus, the wartime look of Harrison, or the pompous looking of SSC
I only wish there was a way to create custom frames. Tbh I’d have a field day with that and probably spend weeks building up a fleet of trade barony specific frames
If not for the intended combat zones, I'd say add some thermal discharge around the head of the Blackbeard to mimic the namesake putting lit cannon fuses in his beard. Besides, it could really ramp up the CQC brutality for those who like their fighting primal. Drake is a good defense design, and all the flash it needs comes from the muzzleS. I love Clifford, the big mech dog. And just like Boston's, it's dynamic support. A Leeroy Jenkins LARP mech is a bit unexpected, but why just support the people who quest for pirate blood when you can supply them too? Aside from not being related to sailing in any way, it makes sense for IPS-N to build it, given that the real life cowboy was a blue collar job, and that hammer could charitably be considered an homage to working on the railroad. "It has a shotgun called the deck sweeper." Color me interested. Especially if there are dynamic insertion options for size 2's. And wouldn't it just be great for theming and tactics to have a Blackbeard team hiding behind a Tortuga when the latter needs to pull back or hold position, but the offensive needs to be pressed forward? Edgelord detected.
I love the Tortuga. I would name mine Torosomnius (only payday fans would get the joke here). I would however get my hands on some Drake licenses in order to equip a minigun. shotguns are nice, but you can't go wrong with that much dakka.
Other mechs, quick summary for some folks. Zheng: big metal Mike Tyson. Caliban: doomguy (you are the same size as a normal hardsuit) Kidd: engineer TF2, also has orbital strikes The mechs combined with other licenses: The new one that comes with Blackbeard: eldritch math in an arm Störtebeker: edgy Raleigh
I know the Vlad is basically a meme at this point but it does serve a practical purpose. If your ship is boarded by pirates, you probably want to take a couple in for "motivated" questioning. Well, the Vlad can immobilize a mech while minimizing the pilot's exposure to shrapnel and bullets. And once the Vlad rips open the disabled mech's hatch, the first thing the pirate inside sees is this spiked horror staring down at them with one hateful eye. I'd bet my big toe that pirate will find the motivation to cooperate pretty damn quick!
Love this video, love me the grungy hard working mecha, plus who doesn't love a good pile bunker? Also im wondering what game/show is being shown at 0:30.
I question any claims of practicality on humanoid mechs that do not have their weapons as part of their body. They do stick to their chosen aesthetic though.
In the flavor text of mech variants it mentions integrated weapons. Some fluff here or there to argue for both held or integrated, but in short it's to allow the player to have their mech look the way they want/ table rule it the way they want. Fan of integrated myself.
Great video! Very fun! However…hearing you pronounce the Raleigh as “Ray-lay” instead of “Rah-lee” pained me so much as a North Carolinian. It’s named after Sir Walter Raleigh
![[4K] Watch SpaceX Catch A Starship Rocket From Space!!! #IFT5](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pIKI7y3DTXk/mqdefault.jpg)
ah, the Vlad. i recall someone saying: "It was either designed by someone who didnt know mechs cant feel pain, or took that statement as a challenge"
Mechs may not feel pain - their pilots definitely are. *Especially* if they use a neural link…
Vlad was designed by someone who thought Horus mechs were cool as fuck
@@rita6355 And they dont?!?
Warlocks: "Eldritch BLAST!"
H0rus: "Eldritch MATH!"
Victim of eldrich math: OHHH GOOD HEVANS WHY IS THIS WORSE THAN THE OTHER ONE?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!
@@jameslude3146one hurts your body with pure magic
Other forces you to do algebra
@@gramfero With no calculator!!!!!!!!!!
@jameslude3146 I've done that... not in a way i could explain though since my brain tends to do maths without my permission
@@lillithyukiutacrow2532 ah, engineer
The Blackbeard: "yar har fiddle de dee, if I win the grapple YOURE COMING WITH ME!"
Gotta love the beat.
RIP YOU APART IF A PIRATE IS THEE! And you are a PIRATE!
Fun Fact, the Vlad chassis was originally known as the Yi Sun-Shin, named after the famous admiral of the same name who essentially saved the Kingdom of Korea during the Imjin War (the Japanese invasion of Korea in the 1590s). Still, since no one knows about Yi Sun-Shin, it was renamed to the Vlad.
Which sucks, because Admiral Yi is probably one of the very few in history who could give Horatio Nelson a run for his money.
What it was Admiral Yi!? That's such a loss of name. Would make the spike and navy theme work with turtle ships.
So John Deere, Cat, maybe Oshkosh Trucks, and 30% of all space shipping from commissioning to breaking.
I dig it.
7:30 (a paraphrased clip from LazyPurple's How it Feels to Play Engineer video)
"DRAKE PILOT, WHAT KIND OF DEFENSE IS THIS?!"
"I AM THE DEFENSE"
_looks at Horus_
"Warning, this is much to creative!"
The Lancaster is honestly a dream home
Space RV and Garage in one.
You know the pilot is listening to "taking care of Business" on repeat
I’m surprised how much this setting gives me Borderlands vibes with the big corporations having their own flavor and specialty. It’s really cool
It's one of the things that drew me to it. So much fun playing with the megacorp idea in sessions.
@@Zaktact Have you ever tried homebrewing your own megacorp? Or never felt the need I'm just curious if doing such a thing with this system would be difficult
@@spac3dout320 A lot of homebrew content exists for the game, including full on megacorps with mechs, lore and everything else.
So while it is a lot of work to do, integrating it into the system and setting once you have it finished, is not too difficult.
So I've actually run this game and one of my players ran a Blackbeard. Calling this mech scary is an understatement and a half! Damn thing tore through just about every combat encounter I set up. It grappled my final boss of the ENTIRE encounter. This boss was two sizes larger than it was! It just wouldn't let go! All the same it was super fun, great times and great stories all around.
Two of my players went Horus with a gorgon and a pegasus, the others went calibain and blackbeard...there were no survivors
This was unbelievably good, I can't wait to see how wild the Horus video is gonna be.
Rayleigh is the mech equivalent of a Harley Davidson, convince me otherwise
No, no, I see your point.
There is a Raleigh build my friend showed me he calls Johnny Seven Guns "on account of him having seven guns." Apparently you can just have 7 handcannons on that thing and it's not only viable, but pretty effective.
Be me, a Caliban player in my current game; "Wonder if he'll mention Caliban."
Does so.
YES GOOD.
You really can't ignore caliban
Call am and Barbarossa interaction:
“You are tiny”
“You are now airborne”
*BFG Division intensifies*
It’s mah Bois! Move Freight, Kill Pirates, Make Manna!
I love how all the other mechs from this faction are designed about being no frills and practical - cowboy aesthetics aside - and then there's just The Vlad. For people who want to impale. There's a Freudian joke in there somewhere. The machine for medieval Romanian warlord cosplayers.
At least we have Trucker Mech. My beloved.
my favorite Defender/Controller build in Lancer is the modest Vladbeard, and it's literally as simple as it sounds: Vlad with Blackbeard upgrades. You have 3 Armor at Size 1, you're *always* the bigger robot when you grapple, and any source of immobilize (Grapple, Nail Gun, etc) shreds your victim (None of their defensive properties work anymore), and if they're stupid enough to try to fight back while you're grappling them, they take an unavoidable AP kinetic damage. With Core Power, that damage becomes 3 AP Kinetic *and* you take half-damage.
"Some.....PeopleCallMeTheSpaceCowboy." im not gonna lie....that was very smooth and very well done and i loved that
check out Neil cicierega: WOW WOW
I sure do love my interstellar shipping company that DEFINITELY doesn’t have a side thing with under the table piracy going on.
(Edit) also can’t wait for the episode on Albatross, one of my most favorite factions in lancer
7:12 Technically, all anti-mech weapons are anti-materiel (as opposed to anti-personnel, look up "anti-materiel rifle", for example), meaning "to be used against material resources", like mechs, vehicles, ammo depots, unexploded ordnance, reinforced bunker doors, etc. Which begs the question, is the non-upgraded chaingun for Drake meant to be used against people in hardsuits and other kinds of personal combat protection, not against mechs?
I would not be surprised. Raleigh, Blackbeard, and Vlad have fighting other chassis covered, so efficiently mowing down fodder swarming the spaceports or other secured perimeters helps diversify the portfolio, with the upgraded version able to handle more hard targets. Tortuga can also defend against infantry in close, but it's more about slowly rooting them out while advancing.
Just because they tell you not to use it on meatbags doesn’t mean it won’t work.
Thank you for making this Lancer content ❤
You managed to hook me into it and buy the Core Rule book, now reading through the GM section and the way you bring your vibe to the information is great
Cant wait for the next video 😁
Can attest, the Raleigh is beautiful. Had a blast with mine. Also gave it just a *touch* of Pegasus for some extra paracausality weirdness. Just a fun rootin tootin sentient yet concerningly quiet cowboy mech with 4 giant revolvers. Named it Texas Red.
I've been wanting to learn Lancer forever, but I've never seen any youtube content about it before! You really make the lore and system feel very approachable, and I hope I can try the game with one of my groups soon!
If you make more Lancer content, a video about Horus would be awesome. They have some absolutely devious mechs and I'd love to learn more of the lore about them!
Super excited for when you get to HORUS. I got a friend i'm tryna rope in and i KNOW for a FACT thats the hook line and sinker for them.
Until then, stellar video as ALWAYS! I love these full digestable dives into the Lancer story!
Great video about IPS-N. I wish there are more people like you making videos about the lore and settings of Lancer.
Also, I just realized you change your mug every few scenes. Pretty funny.
Love that you dressed up for the part. In the group i GM for we renamed all the corps because we hated the names that came with the setting.
We call IPSN Ford.
SS is Yamaha
HA is Darpa
GMS is just General Motors.
And Horus is Horus....
You forgot an important thing about Tortuga: it's a really good hacker too; so if an enemy thinks they're safe just because they're far away, no they're not.
Oh, it also has an on-board AI made by the accumulated memories of dead marines, which Union considers very suspicious
Let’s not forget that IIRC anyone who wants a shotgun, regardless of frame, just dips into the Tortuga license to get at that sweet sweet Decksweeper.
Okay, not the main focus of the video, but polar wells are incredibly cool as a concept. I love that 💖
Excellent content, literally can't get enough Lancer content from a creator familiar with 40K
That said, your pronunciation of Raleigh did give me the kind of psychic damage that a Medusa chassis could but envy
Happy you like the videos. Have brief notes of some Warhammer stuff, but mostly outlines at the moment. Notes on pronunciation are appreciated.
@@Zaktact Boi. You mispronounced the name of the capital city of my state. It's "RAWL-ee".
@@WASDLeftClick I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't named after Sir Walter Raleigh who was an explorer who established Roanoke as well as the queen's naval adviser, I'm not certain but seems to fit the ISP-N theme more
EDIT: the reason I mentioned it is that would mean it's pronounced like Rally
@rooney2643 It is. There's a big bronze statue of Sir Raleigh there. He had a significant role in the founding of colonies here.
Love the nebulous fleet command game reference. Was literally playing when I saw the clip in the background!
i have been getting SOOOO into Lancer recently, these have been the best videos I've seen so far. if i can get my friends interested in the game, ill be sending these videos to them
Pretty good comprihensive video covering the lore in a fun way, also 1:48
Man, I love the energy of this vid my dude, so glad yt shorts got me to your channel.
Can't wait to see Harrison armory breakdown :3
Glad he’s here to talk about the most based of the big four companies, other than gms of course
This series is criminally underrated. Great job
Seeing niche rts games in the background fills me with joy
love the way his mug keeps changing
Long story short:
Unionize NOW!
LET’S GOOOOO NEW LANCER
LANCER! LANCER! LANCER!
Love the vids, it killed me when you called it the “Ray-Lay” 😂 it’s pronounced “Ra-Lee” (Ra like the Egyptian god) just like the capital of NC in the US
Cool video! Love this corpostate (only because it' s a Titanfall reference)
Yay Lancer, Looking forward to the blades vid too.
This video is so great omg!!!! Was really hyped to see more lancer content from you, love your videos
Have you seen the new supplement that just came out, Siren’s Song? It added a new Blackbeard Variant called the Empakaai, curious of your thoughts on it when you get to supplements
Just found you today and was shocked by the size of your channel! I saw that you hit the 4k milestone recently, so here's hoping the number keeps going up! I'm loving your stuff!
The Drake is definitely my speed. Heavy armor, big, rapid fire belt-feeder. Just a brick-shithouse machine gunner. The Tortuga is pretty cool too.
Man these videos are truly incredible. Please make the horus line soon.
I see those old Falling Frontier Clips in the intro, you can't fool me. Should check out some of the more recent videos from StutterFox too. Nebulous Fleet Command B-roll is also a good addition.
Can't wait for him to do the caliban. Oh it's gonna be great.
Blue-collar worker union... yeah, their inventive along with driven
Great video lancer is very swag
A nice summary for the corp, and the mechs that they have, but im pretty sure you forgot about the Caliban
I love these videos. I'm currently writing a homebrew campaign
LANCER MENTIONED
Day 317 of waiting for him to cover zone of tru-
Wait...
After all of these faction I think I like ips-n the best. There is something about hardworking reliable mech that is personalized by people in their garage with all the trucker or factory workers aesthetic is just more appealing than the Weirdness of Horus, the wartime look of Harrison, or the pompous looking of SSC
love how the coffee mug is going bigger and bigger and bigger
Oooohhh nebulous fleet command trailer footage! Neat!
Smart of the company to go with the acronym IPS-N instead of N-IPS.
I only wish there was a way to create custom frames. Tbh I’d have a field day with that and probably spend weeks building up a fleet of trade barony specific frames
Love the stuff, interested to hear more of it all!
so you got to tell me where you got all thoese mugs
Lancasters must be protected at all costs, they are absolutely precious
If not for the intended combat zones, I'd say add some thermal discharge around the head of the Blackbeard to mimic the namesake putting lit cannon fuses in his beard. Besides, it could really ramp up the CQC brutality for those who like their fighting primal.
Drake is a good defense design, and all the flash it needs comes from the muzzleS.
I love Clifford, the big mech dog. And just like Boston's, it's dynamic support.
A Leeroy Jenkins LARP mech is a bit unexpected, but why just support the people who quest for pirate blood when you can supply them too?
Aside from not being related to sailing in any way, it makes sense for IPS-N to build it, given that the real life cowboy was a blue collar job, and that hammer could charitably be considered an homage to working on the railroad.
"It has a shotgun called the deck sweeper." Color me interested. Especially if there are dynamic insertion options for size 2's. And wouldn't it just be great for theming and tactics to have a Blackbeard team hiding behind a Tortuga when the latter needs to pull back or hold position, but the offensive needs to be pressed forward?
Edgelord detected.
The addition of Wow wow solidifies to me that you are a really cool person :)
Me see Lancer, me like video.
I love the Tortuga. I would name mine Torosomnius (only payday fans would get the joke here). I would however get my hands on some Drake licenses in order to equip a minigun. shotguns are nice, but you can't go wrong with that much dakka.
Love the videos, Love the faction. Keep up the great job!!
Other mechs, quick summary for some folks.
Zheng: big metal Mike Tyson.
Caliban: doomguy (you are the same size as a normal hardsuit)
Kidd: engineer TF2, also has orbital strikes
The mechs combined with other licenses:
The new one that comes with Blackbeard: eldritch math in an arm
Störtebeker: edgy Raleigh
loving learning about lancer through your videos. Zaktact run game when?
If you ever stream a game of Lancer you have a, at least one, guarantied watcher.
I know the Vlad is basically a meme at this point but it does serve a practical purpose. If your ship is boarded by pirates, you probably want to take a couple in for "motivated" questioning. Well, the Vlad can immobilize a mech while minimizing the pilot's exposure to shrapnel and bullets. And once the Vlad rips open the disabled mech's hatch, the first thing the pirate inside sees is this spiked horror staring down at them with one hateful eye. I'd bet my big toe that pirate will find the motivation to cooperate pretty damn quick!
Love this video, love me the grungy hard working mecha, plus who doesn't love a good pile bunker? Also im wondering what game/show is being shown at 0:30.
Happy you liked the video. Footage from a game trailer, Falling Frontier.
Love the coffee cup.
I do like to collect them.
Took me watching this a second time to see the coffee cup gags lol
With the mechs I heard world eaters, imperial fist, ultramarine, white scars then spacewolves and lastly nightlords
Mech violence is always fun. 7 coffee cups?
The Niel ciceriga wow wow jump scared me lol
Crusades where for land and power, Albatross are here to help those in need. Big Damn Heroes
1:46 how are you sopose to stop some bug mean mother Huber from tearing you a structurally superfluous new behind?
Wait in a hallway on a ship. Can you put a Blackbeard behind Tortuga? And be able to grapple things towards the tortuga's shotgun
Great gag with the mugs, hahaha.
Seeing the war robot's drone gave me a stroke just say the game names hurt
I question any claims of practicality on humanoid mechs that do not have their weapons as part of their body. They do stick to their chosen aesthetic though.
In the flavor text of mech variants it mentions integrated weapons. Some fluff here or there to argue for both held or integrated, but in short it's to allow the player to have their mech look the way they want/ table rule it the way they want. Fan of integrated myself.
@@Zaktact hurray for practicality! What's the point of piloting a robot if you don't treat it like a robot?
Definitely my favourite corpo.
Anaheim Electronics: Lancer Edition.
Man I gotta play Hardspace Shipbreaker again
Great video! Very fun! However…hearing you pronounce the Raleigh as “Ray-lay” instead of “Rah-lee” pained me so much as a North Carolinian. It’s named after Sir Walter Raleigh
I really want a list of background music that was used in this video.
Nebulous Fleet Command at 2:42
ohhh yeah babyyyy
I love this
it's like RaD and BAWS had a mech child
just an fyi, its pronouncem ralley, not ray lay :).
Someone should make a horus version of Lancaster that applies temporary werid upgrades.
Is IPS-N just a goddamn eyeglow corporation?
Anybody know what song is being played during his description on Lancaster?
do you have any plans for a discord server?
Day 1 of asking for an Albatross video (or minor factions including them)
Any got that song that was near the end of the Raleigh segment?
Tortuga, my beloved
Where is the Caliban? I miss my doom mech!
Trust the tech, not the company.
Words to live by.