Thing is, you need ranged to keep it threatening. That said, this is the clans. That’s not a problem. If you need a cheap solution, just buy a battle cobra. Or a griffin IIC prime/4. Or a shadowhawk IIC 2 if we want to keep to the faction (2x ER larges, 3 small pulses, 1 er small. That’s perfect for covering the weaknesses of the kodiak)
@@Harpy_Explains something I think I need to stress with the clans, is that you don’t need to spend 2000+ BV per unit just to get a clan star. You will be still paying the piper, but good decent mediums from the clans can at least hold some sway in combat. AND DON’T BUY A VAPOR EAGLE.
Ah, the dreaded red text of something going horribly wrong in MegaMek. I probably have the log somewhere from my most recent game. DCMS (myself) vs. Smoke Jaguars. My command lance consisted of 4 Hatamotos of varying loadout. Despite two of them carrying no ammo, and one of them having CASE, every single one of them Stackpoled on me, hilariously destroying many of his Elemental points and damaging his 'mechs each and every time.
another important thing to note is elementals (or other clan power armor) are an excellent choice with this thing because its points cost is somewhere between "you caint have it" & "the fuck you mean a 10,000 point game? i only have two hunchbacks!" also if your fighting this thing, while fast compared to IS assaults its still as stubby as an atlas when it comes to range. just bring some crunchy single damage weapons or even a couple VTOLS to force it to turn around or take backshots. for all its might fast units and long range will bully the fat bear.
Don't forget your ERLL. Sure, it's too hot to run in CQB when you have all the other toys to choose from once the enemy is 12 hexes or closer, and all your weapons are in range, but if you ignore that ERLL, you max range is 15 hexes. So keep your opponents from feeling safe at standoff range.
It better be a nightmare given the thing is 2927 BV, which is an insane amount of BV investment for one unit. As shown its not immune to headshots nor fire. The Clan Invasion as a whole is pretty much an advert for inferno missiles, because most clan mechs don't like having an additional 15 heat shoved on them.
@JH-ph4qb you're paying an atlas + a blackjack for it, and I think the kodiak can get more work done. Also, I got headshot twice in a row during that game, but I forgot to screenshot the first one
@@Harpy_ExplainsI hung up my flamethrower years ago. default pistol and stay mobile. no, I'm serious, there's nothing more annoying to a pyro than a scout that refuses to close distance and just keeps shooting. you'll force a mistake out of sheer gamer babyrage. let us come to you mad.
I always felt the video games lacked the effects of combined arms warfare to really showcase how crazy it is to be on the receiving end of a Clanner attack. In every mechwarrior video game, you're always missing the unorthodox tactics that have been used in the tabletop to level the playing field - or massively stack it in the favour of the clanners. So the Inner Sphere lance leaders (the players) are never forced to experience the hard thinking they have to do in order to overcome what the leaders in the fictional universe and tabletop have to contend with.
Love the Spirit Bear hero variant of this in MWO, I had incredible success running a HAG/UAC + 4× SRM6 combo with the MASC. Like if you gave Fredder Fabear Foxy's speed
The Kodiak isn't even the scariest assault mech that CGB has made. If you want to play with something truly heinous, try loading up a Mastodon- the firepower of the prime is lower but it only builds heat when it's guaranteed to be dealing 40+ damage to some poor bastard and it packs some nasty survivability tricks (CASE II and reinforced structure)
Smokey you better stay strapped or your ass is . . .gonna get called out for its baffling bad design decisions. Four tons of ammo and half of them are for the two streak 6s? If you fire both of them every freakin turn, and if they both hit every freakin turn its FIFTEEN rounds of shootin. Whereas the ultra AC20 gets a mere ten rounds if you feed it a starvation diet and only five if you set the fire selector to 'PARTY HARD' Not that it has the heat capacity to fire the auto cannon even if it's set to BORING. Let alone the pair of streak 6s or the ERLL. The mech can't even walk and fire it's brace of arm ER medium lasers and stay heat neutral. So what do you do to fix this? First off, trade the ultra for the LBX flavor of 20 autocannnon. Not only are the heat levels much easier to stomach but you're going to be ripping huge holes in people's armor and being able to also fire cluster shells is swank. The second derp bear major malfunction to fix is those oversupplied streak sox shooters. Trade em in for a triplet of 4 packs and have em share a single ton of ammo. Then take that spare ton and either add an extra heatsink, upgrade one medium to pulse, or add in another ton of AC ammo.
Great mech and good strat. I know you are playing by the rules but this is an example of why I never liked elementals. Basically, for Elementals to be viable they write the rules to allow them to "cheat". Why are they harder to hit while faster units aren't? The rules say so. Why are they allowed to do special attacks forbidden to other units (despite mechs having better targetting)? The rules say so. Why are their weapons mech scale but regular infantry are not? The rules say so.
Leg attacks have nothing to do with targeting, they represent the infantry climbing on to a meks legs and peeling armor off to try and break the actuators underneath.
The tabletop game came first, so battletech is manly a tabletop game setting, and then video games were made in that setting. I was surprised when I learned that as well
I understand this isn't quite Battletech, but my Annihilator build with 4 heavy rifles and 4 medium lasers in MechWarrior 5 has 136.8 points of damage per salvo. It overheats like crazy, but man, what a fun build this is: ruclips.net/video/vJCwfp5hSDs/видео.html
Thing is, you need ranged to keep it threatening. That said, this is the clans. That’s not a problem. If you need a cheap solution, just buy a battle cobra. Or a griffin IIC prime/4. Or a shadowhawk IIC 2 if we want to keep to the faction (2x ER larges, 3 small pulses, 1 er small. That’s perfect for covering the weaknesses of the kodiak)
you are now the proud owner of the good advice pin
@@Harpy_Explains something I think I need to stress with the clans, is that you don’t need to spend 2000+ BV per unit just to get a clan star. You will be still paying the piper, but good decent mediums from the clans can at least hold some sway in combat. AND DON’T BUY A VAPOR EAGLE.
That damage is criminal. The Kodiak's model is legit so good. It has such an imposing presence that is truly spectacular.
One of if not the best CGL sculpt
"Hey Kodiak?"
"Yeah boss?"
"Do you see that medium mech over there?"
"Yeah boss?"
"I dont want to anymore."
"With gusto."
The Kodiak offers a trade!
It gets: shutdown!
You get: one free autoeject system test (involuntary)!
terrifying, this thing is basically 3 different hunchbacks (4g,4p,4sp) in a trench coat ready to ruin your day.
*3 hunchbacks in a fursuit*
@@Harpy_Explainslifetime fan earned with this moment holy shit
@@Harpy_Explains That's even more terrifying.
Clan Ghost Bear looked at the Atlas and said "How can we make a mech that's scarier?" then arrived at the death bear.
Ah, the dreaded red text of something going horribly wrong in MegaMek. I probably have the log somewhere from my most recent game. DCMS (myself) vs. Smoke Jaguars. My command lance consisted of 4 Hatamotos of varying loadout. Despite two of them carrying no ammo, and one of them having CASE, every single one of them Stackpoled on me, hilariously destroying many of his Elemental points and damaging his 'mechs each and every time.
another important thing to note is elementals (or other clan power armor) are an excellent choice with this thing because its points cost is somewhere between "you caint have it" & "the fuck you mean a 10,000 point game? i only have two hunchbacks!"
also if your fighting this thing, while fast compared to IS assaults its still as stubby as an atlas when it comes to range. just bring some crunchy single damage weapons or even a couple VTOLS to force it to turn around or take backshots. for all its might fast units and long range will bully the fat bear.
Don't forget your ERLL. Sure, it's too hot to run in CQB when you have all the other toys to choose from once the enemy is 12 hexes or closer, and all your weapons are in range, but if you ignore that ERLL, you max range is 15 hexes. So keep your opponents from feeling safe at standoff range.
My friend fielded one of these recently, and it was absolutely terrifying to fight
It better be a nightmare given the thing is 2927 BV, which is an insane amount of BV investment for one unit. As shown its not immune to headshots nor fire. The Clan Invasion as a whole is pretty much an advert for inferno missiles, because most clan mechs don't like having an additional 15 heat shoved on them.
@JH-ph4qb you're paying an atlas + a blackjack for it, and I think the kodiak can get more work done. Also, I got headshot twice in a row during that game, but I forgot to screenshot the first one
I never knew about it, i think i'm going to fall in love.
as a former pyro main,
[gasmask noises]
As a current scout main
I dislike your class choice
@@Harpy_ExplainsI hung up my flamethrower years ago.
default pistol and stay mobile. no, I'm serious, there's nothing more annoying to a pyro than a scout that refuses to close distance and just keeps shooting. you'll force a mistake out of sheer gamer babyrage. let us come to you mad.
If you want to play a mech like Pyro, Firestorm, Hellfire configuration 3, and good old Firestarter.
I always felt the video games lacked the effects of combined arms warfare to really showcase how crazy it is to be on the receiving end of a Clanner attack.
In every mechwarrior video game, you're always missing the unorthodox tactics that have been used in the tabletop to level the playing field - or massively stack it in the favour of the clanners. So the Inner Sphere lance leaders (the players) are never forced to experience the hard thinking they have to do in order to overcome what the leaders in the fictional universe and tabletop have to contend with.
Love the Spirit Bear hero variant of this in MWO, I had incredible success running a HAG/UAC + 4× SRM6 combo with the MASC. Like if you gave Fredder Fabear Foxy's speed
I’m curious what your thoughts on the bane clan assault mech I just got it’s model from the kickstarter and I’m probably gonna use it soon
never heard of it but it sure looks cool now that I've looked it up
my friend ran one once and I thank God every day that when my battlemaster and awesome laid into it fell and took a bunch of damage to its head
Ghost Bear for lyfe
My day be so fine
Then boom
Kodiak alpha strike
Bear ghost best clan.
The Kodiak isn't even the scariest assault mech that CGB has made. If you want to play with something truly heinous, try loading up a Mastodon- the firepower of the prime is lower but it only builds heat when it's guaranteed to be dealing 40+ damage to some poor bastard and it packs some nasty survivability tricks (CASE II and reinforced structure)
Ah yes. The Ghost Bear Waffle Stomper
Smokey you better stay strapped or your ass is . . .gonna get called out for its baffling bad design decisions.
Four tons of ammo and half of them are for the two streak 6s? If you fire both of them every freakin turn, and if they both hit every freakin turn its FIFTEEN rounds of shootin. Whereas the ultra AC20 gets a mere ten rounds if you feed it a starvation diet and only five if you set the fire selector to 'PARTY HARD'
Not that it has the heat capacity to fire the auto cannon even if it's set to BORING. Let alone the pair of streak 6s or the ERLL. The mech can't even walk and fire it's brace of arm ER medium lasers and stay heat neutral.
So what do you do to fix this? First off, trade the ultra for the LBX flavor of 20 autocannnon. Not only are the heat levels much easier to stomach but you're going to be ripping huge holes in people's armor and being able to also fire cluster shells is swank. The second derp bear major malfunction to fix is those oversupplied streak sox shooters. Trade em in for a triplet of 4 packs and have em share a single ton of ammo. Then take that spare ton and either add an extra heatsink, upgrade one medium to pulse, or add in another ton of AC ammo.
Love you're videos, might want to shrink that into a bit. 35sec is excessive.
@Core_VII Yeah, not one of my best intro bits, I think I could have shortened it and had the kodiak do the Freddy jumpscare or something
Great mech and good strat. I know you are playing by the rules but this is an example of why I never liked elementals. Basically, for Elementals to be viable they write the rules to allow them to "cheat". Why are they harder to hit while faster units aren't? The rules say so. Why are they allowed to do special attacks forbidden to other units (despite mechs having better targetting)? The rules say so. Why are their weapons mech scale but regular infantry are not? The rules say so.
Leg attacks have nothing to do with targeting, they represent the infantry climbing on to a meks legs and peeling armor off to try and break the actuators underneath.
I just learned of this thing today like 11 hours ago, and it's the only assault mech I've ever loved
Is this video about a battletech/mechwarrior rpg or the game mechwarriors
@chaosdragon5160 it's the battletech tabletop game that mechwarrior games are spin-offs of
@Harpy_Explains ah ok did not know there was a tabletop for battletech, but it's good to know
The tabletop game came first, so battletech is manly a tabletop game setting, and then video games were made in that setting. I was surprised when I learned that as well
Very „High Low“ battleship ship doctrin of you ssss
few big hitters with lots of little shits around to haras sss
Having seen their Shadowhawk IIC, that makes WAY to much sense.
How to play the Blackjack
I understand this isn't quite Battletech, but my Annihilator build with 4 heavy rifles and 4 medium lasers in MechWarrior 5 has 136.8 points of damage per salvo. It overheats like crazy, but man, what a fun build this is: ruclips.net/video/vJCwfp5hSDs/видео.html