Scrombles The Mechwarrior: A Battletech Story [Episode 5]
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The adventures of Scrombles aboard the SS Cargonia continue.
His crew keeps telling him they're flying the Argo of House Arano, but Scrombles just mutters something about moving freight and wanders off.
17:29
"They're not just some tiny, shitty nation trying to say... OH! A LASER BLACKJACK! NEAT!"
Use aimed shots, get cockpit mods. That is all. "Hire me, I got briefed by Jim Belushi in a Battletech sim once!"
Oh how I miss that.
3:22 I love how the Centurion and Vindicator turn at the same time
"WTF was that?... Oh it's a Locust, never mind."
The Agromech thing reminds me of the story of a bunch of farmers planning to fight a bandit with a slow, damaged mech (they thought it was a heavy mech; it was an Urban,) with an Agromech loaded with a bunch of shitty weapons and missiles, and the bandit just kills them all off-screen and takes their money so he can get off-world eventually.
I love those kinds of stories, because it helps make clear just how terrifying the equipment of the Great Houses, and Star League before them, actually is.
8:20 "My dad drove an old diesel powered LoaderMech and he let me use it once, that's basically the same thing right?"
As someone who got screwed out of a supervisor position by a grifter using that same argument that then became my psuedo boss...that hurts.
Mighty jingles introduced me to battletech but tex got me to love it.
I haven't watched jingles in forever
Same
He has a wot vid out today very funny
Fun Fact: The Voice Actor that Tex compliments in this video is Christopher Eck from the dev team at HBS. He earned his spot in the game (Yes, you can find a special pilot w/the callsign "Eck") by going undefeated through the 2 in-house tournaments they ran right before launch. They recorded many of the lines during an episode of DFA: The Battletech RPG over on Hyper RPG. They took his headshot that is in the game that night, as well. Oh, and his callsign on the show is Faust. ("I'm your Huckleberry." Is my fav line from the night.)
Incidentally, the voice of Glitch was recorded during the same session. I can't recall her name. She was part of the original cast, but left to do a gig. She's been back a couple times, since. When you play the Flashpoint "Bourbon and Battlemechs" her mech is the Centurion, "Mr. Sparklepants". Her origin story was that she was a Solaris VII Gladiator. Turned out she was actually a Harlequinn. Nasty way to die......
Man, DFA was awesome*. And a fun reminder of how canon can be flexed a bit to make a fun game around the table. Each of the (many) times Talon got shot out of his cockpit only to scale another mech and hijack it mid-combat, it was pointed out how virtually impossible it is in the real setting... but his player just kept rolling awesomely, so how could they NOT let it happen?
*Except that one with Ryon Day as the guest OpFor of the week. The cast was unbelievably pissed with him after that one.
@@patrickcoyle5469 I believe it was only twice, but, yes, absolutely. Connor started out so stiff, but he was really quite good by the end. And the whole "You can't kill me" right into the camera definitely got the channel a few bucks.
I have it on good authority that the cast HATED "Daddy", but they had a lot of fun with Ryon. Ahh, the well crafted villain. ;)
@@kmcd6140 Was it only twice? I guess it's an easy mistake to make... especially if the characters kept bringing it up. And hell, even doing it once is a story that'll be told every chance it has.
Reminds me of Samantha Carter on Stargate SG-1. Just because she blows up one sun, everybody starts expecting routine miracles from her.
T-Shirt idea: "Scrombles hate Scorpin"
YES!
Damn you Tex. All this BT has made me play roguetech again. I lost a whole lance last night to those damn tactical nuke carriers. RIP Scrambles, the sister of Scrombles.
Excuse me. What's in Roguetech now?
Ares Conventions? Never heard of em.
That's the ONE thing I turn off. I don't need a lance of Urbie Nukes on a 2 skull mission.
@@gigastrike2 Pain. Pain and nuclear fire.
@@MrDmitriRavenoff I figured I'd try it just this once, terrible mistake lol.
Yeah.... basically eight months worth of events got canceled. Can’t complain too much didn’t get laid off. In mech terms some A hole blew up my jump ship but at least I got stranded in a war zone with plenty of work for a merry murder hobo.
Extending the metaphor, I got stuck on garrison in some shit hole kicking my heels doing jack shit, so it can always be worse.
One of my career plays of this game, I named the company the 3rd Cargonian Raiders. Bright Red and Gold colors.
Trees all around him, doesnt use them for cover and damage reduction during first mission... oh tex, never change :D
After listening to five of these now, I want Tex's voice on RogueTech to start saying "Please Fall Down" after he shoots. :D
I love how Tex is explaining how the Taurians are a competent military power as he walks directly into a Taurian ambush
You've got me playing this... and... I just LOVE one-punching locusts
One of my favorite moments in this game was when my Grasshopper pilot cockpit-punched three enemy mechs in one mission. I changed his callsign to "God Hand" afterward.
Melee is awesome in BattleTech, and it's a real shame no other game (except the very wayback Crescent Hawk games) ever implemented it.
@@patrickcoyle5469 The Punch is what keeps me coming back to HBS Battletech.
I always giggle when my mechs stomp on a tank.
@@barrybordner8821 That's great fun too!
"Putting my weight into it!" *ka-fooomp*
Battletech: The Tale of Scrombles. Episode 5.
"We got a cool ship now."
Tex, based upon this episode, I think you can develop some more details on Scrombles' back story--in his youth, he was mugged by a white pine tree, so developed a phobia about going into the woods...that's why he was working so hard to avoid getting into COVER!
I played Battletech, Citytech, and all the rest when they originally came out back in the '80s, then again in the early 2000s. I'm enjoying this playthrough--and thanks for re-sparking my interest in Battletech.
I got back to my own save in Battletech cause of this series, and finally got an Awesome 8Q that I now call Tex.
It fights well along with my Battlemaster and Highlander.
Highlander with the Gauss rifle?
@@Stoffstoffer But of course, because I love saying " There's a Gauss in ze House!" In a vaguely German accent as I headshot a Mech.
I'm in pain watching you NOT use your vigilance and precision shot, as well as not abusing your jump jets to take cover int he woods.
Might be a Roguetech habit.
Not much can be said since this was recorded back in el summertime...but yep yep >
Too much Eye AIDS, also pushing the story missions like a madman
Love the series so far Tex.
Thanks bud
Pssst - hey - hey - what do you call Tex's mercs when they're driving Urbies?
Scrombled Eggs.
You're welcome and I'm not sorry.
You're a horrible human being and deserve to live on Capellan space
Thanks Tex from the past, we definitely need good thoughts here in the future.
Oh yeah, things are totally much better now.
I was hopeful. So sue me
Space station 13 and battletech in the same day hot damn
I dare provide, sometimes
Enjoying the stream Tex - I'm playing an Ironman run through the campaign to get the achievement - coming up on Liberations: Smithon and dreading it.
Definitely use jumping and cover more - pilot everything like a 3025 Grasshopper mechwarrior on speed - except your LRM boats - those just find some nice hill to sit behind - preferably near some water.
The Shadowhawk is an amazing SRM boat - 2 x SRM6 - 1 x SRM 4 in the head - load it up with armor, acuators, jump jets and some small lasers and go to town - it has a punch damage quirk - the rarer 2D variant has an additional support weapon - which is so nice!
I'm a fan of the Periphery - I'd definitely like to hear more of your thoughts about the outer states, Interstellar Expeditions, the Explorer Corps and the deep periphery. The Jolly Rodger Affair almost deserves it's own Tex Talk - #$%^ing ComStar!
i'm not sure if you know this or not Tex sir, but if you want to max your salvage you need to use called shots to target cockpit or legs -> if you destroy only both legs you'll get 2 parts, if you only destroy the cockpit you'll get the full mech. If you see a mech you want you should try to attack it with only called shot to the cockpit (if possible, facing it directly : it spreads the missed shot and avoids destroying an arm as much as possible) and hope for the lucky shot. Hope you're having fun anyway, always a pleasure to watch and listen to your stories :)
Damn! Thanks Tex for putting this up. It encouraged me into playing BattleTech again. Just wish I could find people and/or time to get back into tabletop as well.
Gameplay, lore, random shenanigans? What's not to love
Glad to see more Scrombles adventures, I've been enjoying a ton of BattleTech RogueTech myself, I just updated it and am loving the Tanks that I can control. My Steiner Company is definitely coming along, need to get some wolfhounds and commandos.
Thanks for the content Tex. And Goat that new Cargonia rock song was most excellent!
The Taurians are my favorite major faction entirely because of their love of independence, and the insane lengths they'll go to protect it, including nuking themselves in the Reunification War just to deny resources to the Star League. I like to imagine the SLDF invaders were greeted by whole continents of charred glass and ash, millions of blackened skeletons buried underneath, their hands and upraised middle fingers sticking out just above the surface.
Then there's the Special Asteroid Support Forces, infantry trained to jump out from behind rocks and fight hand-to-hand against goddamn warships.
And there's the highest literacy rate anywhere, because words and ideas are freedom's best weapons. The nukes and crazy space men are for people who don't listen politely.
The Taurian border just has giant neon signs floating in space that says 'Fuck Off'.
Also teh AI targets the guy you leave out front. So if you leave your wounded guy constantly closest to the enemy they will target him. Shuffle your guys around to "armor share"
you DO know he's played the game ALOT right? and that this is prerecorded months ago? dont think of Tex as any tactical genius but more of a relaxed player.
@@Janihavik Yes I know it's pre-recorded and that the entire series is already all done. Thanks.
I wouldnt be too quick to dump on agro-mech pilots. The thing that gave American sailors the edge over their Japanese counterparts in the Pacific War was the fact that all those rube farmers had experience in general machine oeration and maintenance. Its the reason why the Kaga and Akagi sank while the Franklin limped back to port.
Enjoying the series quite a bit Mr. Tex. I’ve been meaning to ask from the earlier Scrombles video, what exactly is in Heart Attack Mashed Potatoes? They sound delicious
The recipe is on the podcast.
@@theblackpantslegion Thank you sir, I shall seek it out.
I love the Taurians. They are like Space Texas.
Hey Tex,
For Tex Talks Battletech, I'd love to see / hear a few different topic types:
1) Famous units (Grey Death Legion, Wolf's Dragoons, etc)
2) Famous people (Sharilar Mori, or, if you're in a particularly masochistic mood, the Bounty Hunter)
3) Metagame conversations (why do you think the Jihad was a mistake, either from an in- or out-of-game perspective?)
4) Just wacky shit (Is "Nuclear Holocaust" an insurable event in the BT universe, given the frequency with which they occur? Any other crazy things rattling around in your dome, etc).
Also, this channel has really helped me reconnect with Battletech. Thanks!
It's on my to do list
@@theblackpantslegion That's a helluva list, hoss. Thanks for listening, and I appreciate your material and your effort!
I can't wait for the Tex Talks on Com Star and, since we're talking ComStar, I'd love one on ROM's favorite target, Dr Banzai (the buckaroo - How does Sarna not have a page on Doctor Banzai?)!
@@liljenborg2517 I've never heard of him. Can you give me the highlights?
@@geoffdewitt6845 Doctor Banzai is the enigmatic scientific genius polymath leader of the Merc company Team Banzai (a team of super genius mech pilots and scientists - for example their Orion pilot Yvonne Morticia also pilots their drop ship and commands the Nth Dimension - the team's private jump ship). He's a doctor (specializing in prosthetics after he was wounded in battle) but is well versed in many scientific disciplines. He's an ace mech pilot and commander. He formed his team around 3015 and they've only ever worked for House Davion and Doctor Banzai served as a personal advisor to Hanse Davion. He also was instrumental in the founding of the New Avalon Institute of Science. When his unit is not in combat, they all teach advanced classes at the Institute. And (this might be a clue) he's a friend of Jamie Wolf and Natasha Kerensky (leading to wild theories that he and many on his team are actually clan science caste who came with Wolf and, like Cranston Snord, hare off on their own). He reportedly designed the Hatchetman (according to the 3025 Technical Readouts). He also runs a company (closely associated with the NAIS) called the Banzai Weapons Design Company that developed the Starfire fighter for Davion with modular weapons that gave Davion a leg up reverse engineering Clan Omnimech technology, and it was Team Banzai who also created the first Inner Sphere version of Clan's powered armor.
In 3029, ComStar sent in a surprise raid of mechs disguised as Liao's Death Commandos to destroy the NAIS with bonus objectives of nailing Hanse and Banzai (since they were threatening to recover too much LosTech and throw off the whole Comstar-steps-in-and-saves-the-day-when-the-rest-of-the-Sphere-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket plan). But Davion and Banzai both rally their units and fight them off (and figure out that it was really ComStar, but they keep that card close to their vests, so to speak.)
Team Banzai was later renamed the New Avalon Cavaliers during the Jihad when the Blakists orbitally bombard the NAIS (see how much ComStar HATES the NAIS?). But this was mostly to avoid IRL copyright problems with the makers of the 1984 cult classic, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" because the Doctor B. Banzai in BattleTech is a -complete rip-off of- homage to Buckaroo Banzai with several members of Team Banzai even named after the characters or the actors in the movie.
And, that's not the "highlights". That's pretty much all we know about him. There's a short paragraph on Team Banzai in the original MechWarrior rule book and references to Yvonne Morticia and Banzai designing the Hatchetman in the 3025 Technical Readouts, and the 3026 Technical Readouts talks about the Starfire's Banzai-developed modular weapons. The Battle of New Avalon is related in the novel "Warrior: Riposte". But there really isn't a lot of information about him and his team. Sarna.net doesn't even have a page on him - and, to my knowledge - there's no official illustration of him, they don't even describe his appearance (I assume because he's supposed to look like Peter Weller in a bowtie instead of his Robocop costume - even though Dr. Banzai does specialize in cybernetics . . .).
Dammit, Tex, use the damn trees! ;)
Earlier today, life sucked, badly. Coffee maker had a meltdown and not longer works. Now I have a new one, tomorrow will suck less. A day without a caffeine boost... a bad day. Luckily, I had some instant coffee, but it's not the same.
Anyone else have their closest turn into a mech museum as the game goes on?
The Taurians are probably my favorite faction
Loving the series, even when I cringe watching Scrombles suffer organ failure every battle. :P
You kept saying "geek the locust"... So I knew you played ShadowRun.
1:44 Speaking of which... *pauses video and goes off to make coffee* Alright. Coffee sorted. Let's continue. #CoffeeIsLife!
Coffee is life
@@theblackpantslegion it is indeed. Especially after only 4 hours of sleep..
good, bad all that should matter is how much you are enjoying the game
I still like "Scromble's Scramblers" a little better than slaughter division. However, I also recognize that you recorded this ages ago and couldn't change it if you wanted to.
"We are the perfies chosen scrombles slaughter Divison"
I hear ya on that Centurion Tex, freaking love that medium mech. Try to field one in tabletop whenever I play.
Centurion was my favorite medium for a long time but my most recent campaign on mekhq has the wolverine stealing that place in my heart.
@@beardedraven7285 Wolverine is a real good mech. Especially if you slap a rapid fire AC on it.
Scrombles scrambles swiftly sideways.
I will try to do my best. Now u got me thinking about it
Get in the fucking Archer, Tex.
Great stuff as always.
Well, your next mission is to work on knowing the future!!
Scorpin' Scorpins.
Scrombles breakin necks and cashin checks!
Going by Starwars logic, if a Farm boy who plinks rodents with a hopped up Speeder can take out a Moon sized Space Station, I am pretty sure an Agrimech Farmhand should become the next Solaris VII Champion.
There are no midichlorians in the Inner Sphere!
@@brianhenry152 He will have to get Herpegonosyphilaids to compensate, and add some crabs to the mix.
Stompy murder robot time
I would definitely watch tex play rougetech if he can manage to get it working
Oh yeah, Fallout 1. I liked to play it as an idiot.
Great way to start my day off.
So I know this is a year after release of this video, but Russia invaded Ukraine yesterday and the whole geopolitical climate right now... Hearing your hopes that everything is going to be okay, and how supportive you are, of "whatever is happening in the future"... means a lot to my mental health tbh. Thank you :)
I could never get roguetech to install. I'm happy with the little mods I use. Beat the campaign on Monday and acquired a Cataphract 1 ballistic, 5 energy, 2 aux.
TPB =best canadian show ever. NO NO BEST SHOW EVER
Caffeine is always good. The only problem that I often have is when I got some blood into my coffee sistem...
I would go with a Lance of Wolfhounds because ammo dependency is for losers.
I'm enjoying this.
I wonder if Yum! Brands Inc. made it to the 30th century KFC and a Fried Chicken shaped Mech mascot
Should've called him "armless" instead of "scrombles"
Sorry to throw another rabbit hole at you Tex. But since you are a historian have you ever read the three kingdoms novels or watched the show and or studied that era? Awesome stories and lotsa interesting people.
I have.
This probably belongs here - though I suspect we've all seen it - Red Cliff
ruclips.net/video/pd0bqLQrtdE/видео.html
Stompy Bot Tactical Simulator
My Rad Nads epilator for manly men arrived today. Depending how it goes today could be great... Or I'll need skin grafts.
Sounds like you need to play more Laura Bow gamers
So question, is Drop Tonnage an actual in-lore thing or is that just a gameplay aspect used to limit a player from going full Steiner Scout Lance on lesser missions? If so, what on earth is the in-lore justification for the limitation of what the Mercs being hired can bring to do the job you hired them for?
It kinda is, but kinda isnt. Dropships have a lot of capacity.
@@theblackpantslegion That's what I figured, given the idea that a drop ship design would be able to carry anything up to an assault lance...so what would limit a merc team from bringing the best they could for whatever job they had? Didn't know if there was some aspect of the MRB rules or something from COMSTAR that mandated limited warfare for mercs.
Hey Tex, what's your opinion of the C9N-A? I was running a lance with two of them in a campaign I was running before the 1.9 update borked my install.
its a solid performer.
I like them - but it's funny how often you end up retrofitting them to be effectively a Trebuchet (LRM spam) or a Hunchback (AC20 or MLaser spam) - it just seems to happen - maybe I just don't like the Hunchback's look
@@cameronmurtagh9977 gotta love the long-bow centurion. A lance of 2xLRM15s and a pair of medium laser Centurions got me comfortably into the mid-game.
Light roast or dark roast coffee?
8:30 Wut's wrong with AgroMech guys?
you put a shitton of cbills and money into making that vindicator a laserboat.
You twisted badly with it, presenting the damaged arm to the enemy - you are surprised when you lose the arm.
Instead of buying just 1 heatsink and rebuilding that thing to its laserboat state, you scrap it.
Why.
You say you didnt sleep much during your roguetech playthrough, but this is alarming. Either because you arent sleeping more, and you didnt get better - or you are sleeping more, and this is you better.
Because I get bored crazy easily
Might be he is playing sub-optimally to twist peoples peeves. I think it would be funny if he played it off as inexperienced mechwarriors. but also Scrombles gonna scromble. he knows no logic. only gun go boom make money. money buy books. books delicious.
Tex is triggering all the OCD and harvesting the salt like the villain he is!.
I was thinking NOOOO!! WTF ARE YOU DOING!!!?? Until i relaxed, moral of this tale: Don't rush it, you'll get your ass kicked
First off I know I’m in a very small minority here. But out of curiosity and I know there is one battle tech book that had Stone Age bird aliens (and as I heard a lot of people hated it). But what would you guys like if there were advance aliens in battle tech? I mean the univers is a very big place.
Humanity has never officially found any aliens. The ones you mentioned have been the only ones to ever appear in a novel. Even those are who knows how far away because you need to mis-jump to even get to that system. Of course if that happens your not coming home again. When the Clans invaded the Inner Sphere they were suspected to be an invading alien race.
@@robertdubois3448 We don't even know if that planet was within the Batteltech universe - a miss jump could theoretically come out anywhere or anywhen - even a parallel universe - perhaps Futuramam style that was what happened to the FedCom once the birds took over!
@@cameronmurtagh9977 I believe I read somewhere in a discussion on how big the Inner Sphere was actually mentioned the planet and said it was in the game universe but over a thousand light years from the edge of the Inner Sphere. Basically not even the Jarnfolk have been out that far.
@@robertdubois3448 Never seen any reference to the planet - but happy to be proved wrong - there's a lot of BTech - I think after Far Country - they did what they could to walk it back
@@cameronmurtagh9977 They did. After that there were no more stories involving aliens. I don't remember why. Probably from problems aliens would bring into the storyline.
Sigh. That's the canadian we've made famous.
The intro is very loud compared to your voice. Maybe rebalance?
The problem with this game is the utter laziness of the developers.
Your weapons shoot in a straight line through terrain, unit models and obstacles. With almost no impact on hit chance or locations.
The enemy ai is WORTHLESS. The opfor simply rushes head long at you with NO concern for keeping them selves alive or limiting damage. Even the most expensive heavy lrm boat will charge at you, head on, firing like a capellan light banzai charge.
The mission structure is JUST APPALLING;
-you fight a lance of heavies...
-you move forward one step and trigger "reinforcements"
-you now have two lances of heavies, versus your lance of mediums.
- you now loose.
If the devs weren't so mind bogglingly lazy or greedy (the dlc is worthless) they could have come up with something. They did not.
Granted, mods fix a lot of those issues, but I agree that the devs could’ve touched up on it. I wouldn’t go as far as to call them lazy though.
@@Logan912 incompetent is a better word, which is why the game has so many memory problems to the point where the more save files and how many different types of weapons you have causes the slowdowns/memory leaks
@@honeybadger6275 Yeah, if they do end up making a sequel at some point, they absolutely need to use a better game engine. Unity can do a lot of things, but the memory leaks and load times are horrible. Like I said, mods fix a lot of the issues with the gameplay, but they also make Unity’s shortcomings a lot worse.
Maybe they could’ve possibly fixed those issues with patches and better coding, but they never did.
@@Logan912 I don't believe unity was wholly at fault. Pretty sure owlcat games made the 2 pathfinder games and thewh40k rogue trader games on unity. I've played them quite a bit and none of them suffer from the memory leak issues/horrendous load times like battletech. I honestly think the devs just implemented their systems wrong on that game. And pathfinder kingmaker came out the same year battletech did so its likely using the same or a very close build of unity.
Can't understand a word, try using a mic.
You seem to be having some audio difficulties.
I must be dumb on playing this game or something but I managed to get to this part with 3 marauders and an archer, everything was raking in 1m c bills per contract while stomping anything under 50 tons in one CT shot. Moral of the story is it apparently pays to overstay your welcome in the prologue, it seems to break the balance of the whole thing.