Scrombles The Mechwarrior: A Battletech Story [Episode 10]
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Jenner: If I keep head shoting their boss maybe they'll retreat.
Scrombles: METAL BEES BACK! MAKE SCROMBLES MAD! *Exits mech with hammer*
SCROMBLES PUNCH
All you need to fix your Locust problems is a pair of Battlemasters- one picks up the Locust by the right leg, the other grabs the Locust's left leg, and then they make a wish . . .
I actually laughed out loud at this.
Heat sinks in the legs, ammo in the CT. A true periphery mech.
Well, you see, when we were reviewing the mech, we couldn't figure out how structurally integral those heat sinks for the overall stability of the mech, but when we tried to remove the duct tape that was holding them, pieces of the actuators started to fall off. It seems like removing the heatsinks from legs is not an option. As for ammo in CT, we're not sure who's idea was this, but the ammo bins are wielded dead into the CT. And someone also wielded a cup on top of it. No, really, a cup. And scratched "do not remove for your own safety". We've discussed this with techies and decided to not fuck with it. You don't like it? We have a Firestarter for you to ride, fucko. You also owe us a lot of beer.
*Whistles non-nonchalantly as he puts ammo in the cockpit*
@@andrew3038 No harm in that, if your cockpit gets smashed, you're dead anyway.
Those are load bearing heat sinks. And ammo in the CT or head is what is known in professional circles as an “ablative pilot, ejection” (APE) system.
Heat sinks in the legs was common for a lot of mechs in BT tabletop because if your in water it doubled their efficiency (it would also put you the punch table, but that's another story), as for ammo in the center torso; if they've punched through that then your operation time is probably limited anyways (about a one in six chance those slots get hit, the alternatives are either your engine or your gyro). Good times. LOL
I saw enough Battletech to know these huge ammo explosions could only be caused by one thing. *MG ammo* .
@@invertedyaxis7415 Anything from 7.62x51 as miniguns to 20x139 autocannon ammo - cause "machine guns" can range from the good ol' M134 to .50BMG to 20mm cannons.
@@invertedyaxis7415 far as I know SRMs or LRMs don't have the issue, those are standardised in dimensions, but all ballistics come as a massive jumble of calibers. Rifleman's AC-10s for example are 12-shot, smaller caliber autocannons, while Orion uses a single-shot, IIRC 120mm cannon. It's usually assumed that ballistic ammo isn't too difficult to find, but all ballistics are an absolute mess of calibers and round sizes.
@@EgorKaskader yeah, periphery wildcat AC ammo is probably also a whole dicipline of battlefield "engineering" of it's own... XD
I absolutely adore the image of Scrombles getting shot in the brain twice with a machine gun mounted onto a mech the size of a small building and not only surviving but carrying on for the remainder of the fight unimpeded and waiting until after the debriefing to get medical attention. That goes up there with Teddy Roosevelt getting shot in the chest and refusing to go to the hospital until he finished his 90-minte speech.
Tex I was the customer in todays training rollplay at work. This is how it when.
"THIS SCROMBLES YOU HELP. WHY SCORMBLES BILL SO HIGH?"
SCROMBL NO LIKE
Being unable to sleep at 5 am and I get to fall asleep to tex talking about scrombles. Thanks man. Helps keep that existentialism away.
Existentialism is a killer
"Let's build something crazy. Double AC20." Wait until the UACs start dropping! Four AC20 rounds in a single turn is more firepower than you could possibly need and it is *amazing* to watch.
Battletech, the Tale of Scrombles.
Episode 10: *The Bees.*
I'm getting concerned: Scrombles was actually using cover during parts of the first mission.
Putting ammo in the legs: back to regular service.
My personal marauder build is a double UAC-10 or a double gauss build for precision shot reasons. Great little snipers. But I tend to put the ammo in slots other than the CT.
SCROMBLES LEARN
@@mirrorsandstuff FYI, in case you missed it. Gauss ammo doesn't explode. The gun does. Real wonderful when your fancy Atlas takes a couple of bad shots when every other panel still has armor.
@@kmcd6140 I'm aware of that: those lightened Gauss rifles are expensive, so I just try to keep my snipers out of harm's way.
What of the reason comstar hasnt killed ya is cuz the ship engineer is comstar plant. After all she seems to know alot of lostech engineering to be fully fixing that near scrap ship all the way back to full. And comstar wants you to help this war then is going to remove you from the scene after.
Comstar is probably less interested in restoring House Arano and more interested in dismantling the Taurian Concordant alliance with House Espinoza. Once the Alliance was broken, the balance of power settled back to an uneasy stalemate. After the Tripiz Affair, Comstar had its eye on the region.
I’ll buy it.
@@zorhamorningstar3862 sounds plausible, and by that time, that plant will be able to present the captain with a generous ComGuards offer he can't afford to refuse in the form of a severed horse head with a note in his bunk...
You should do books on tape
Or do one of those eight hour sleep mixes. You have a very soothing voice.
Thank you for saying so
Thanks again for spicing up this unfortunate year with awesome shit!
Unclever puns are the best. Have an upvote for the crappy pun. Please add more in the podcast!!
Did you know ammo goes boom? Yes especially in over heated battlemechs
Found my self in tears listening to the Glory glory song.
the outro and opening jolt me awake every time with the sudden shift in volume range
Ah, a fellow Bulwark enthusiast. Truly a man of taste.
Oh look I can get %60 damage reduction just by standing in forest ? Yes please.
Thank you for this series Mr. Tex, it’s makes getting through the work from home grind much more tolerable
No problemo
Did this mission just recently but I did it with a kingkrab, marauder, archer, and a black knight. Still nearly lost two of the 4 mechs. Had to destroy some of the ammo crates to beat it
Use Marauder for cockpit-kill h4x, it tends to just straight up remove mechs you dislike from combat when piloted by someone with Tactics at 9
Scrombles' Slaughtered. Most every time he goes out.
i love the song at the end.
(recently found your channel and am now marathoning your videos)
Upvote for the very bad pun. Keep doing what you're doing Tex.
@Tex: If you ever do the ammo dump mission again, go left. You pop the turret in the middle of map, and then you can stomp any truck that comes out. Only prob I've had is when the "truck" spawns as a Mobile HQ and provides an initiative bonus. Of course I bring a Firestarter for chasing such things down. Small laser & max armor version.
Garrison Commander: "Alright missions simple, were gonna jump these merc assholes the second they show."
(Tex and gang shooting ammo dumps)
Garrison Commander: "HOLY SHIT they just flatten Tommy and like four buildings, who the hell are these people?!"
At this point in game I had an Blacknight, Catapult, Assassin and a Battlemaster. I spent more time grinding though.
The Blacknight and Battlemaster severing as my front line as the Catapult(did it's job) slapped people at ranged, and the Assassin was just there to be an Asshole to the enemy.
Heh.. sounds like my current playthrough... Threw over 300 tons at the prison at Weldry: 2 Marauders, one Archer, and a Highlander. And from there it just went more and more nuts. Couldn't afford waiting longer for the assault though, because any repair on those big boys aboard the Leopard takes ages, which was just not workable. Base garrison was down before Kamea even nuked the wall.
There is no such thing as overkill.
The newgrange had - if I recall correctly - had to deal with three quarters of a Steiner Scout lance plus an Annihilator with UAC10s
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 sounds hillarious, though I've become a RT addict/machocist XD
@@SonsOfLorgar I've tried RT for a bit. Unfortunately it is beyond my 10-year-old rig to handle properly.
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 Extended commander edition adds some of the extra stuff without bringing my machine to it's knees. RT wouldn't even start for me in the latest version :).
@@gusty9053 thanks for the info. I am, however, going to hold off on another BT playthrough until my PC can handle RT properly.
I am roughly following along with this let's play as I finish the campaigns myself, and I a excited you found the AC 20 Marauder build. The called shot bonus it gets makes it a Core-o-matic.
GM AUTO CANNON, "Because Fuck That Particular Guy!"
Need better bang bang is the best line ever... of all time...
Stompy robits in the morning, yes please.
Omg .. SRM 6 vs SRM 6++, Scrombles. . Scrombles took 1 to many to the head!
SCROmblES SAeve FOR laeter
Tex, I agree with you on the mortar, at seven tons and only one shot it seems rather a waste and of very limited use. Maybe if we field a second lance, put it on a Jenner so it can run in, boop something, and skedaddle. LOL
I agree. Boop n' scoot
I feel like Comstar probably already wiped the computers while that was a crashed pirate hideout. The actual hull itself doesn't really interest them.
Now the virus you catch in a later story mission? That would have Comstar go absofuckinglutely apeshit.
Meh, I like the Crab but I've always kinda regarded it as "the poor man's Marauder" and you already have a Marauder so it's fine.
I enjoy watching/listening to Scrombles' forays. I work overnights and they help pass the time. Tex Talks Battletech in general is great to listen to because of his voice and the length of said videos. I can listen to both parts of From Exodus to Elementals and my shift would be mostly done. Scrombles' had been a welcome addition to my playlist.
Unrelated to this in particular, but still Battletech and MechWarrior related, the channel GaMetal did a cover of Freedom Fight from MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries recently. Give it a listen.
Sorry to continue to necro the comments on these vids....but this mission was a big one for me. I'd managed to build a specialist light mech (gyro that gives evasion plus skilled evasive pilot), a Catapult with effectively LRM50 in it, and I found a guass on the market....so my Blackjack carried a guass and armor and nothing else. But my tonnage was lighter overall (no Maurader yet). I did chase down the trucks, and slowly draw all the defenders into a killbox in the valley to the SW, so no ammo crates blown up either....it was almost a clean sweep, but my ammo gave out eventually and it became a brawl with the last defenders. Everyone was becoming shambling scrap heaps. And the very last enemy's last move before getting cored? Crazy ninja kick to the guass. Never underestimate a "disarmed" Griffin limping over to kick with its last limb lol
By the time I successfully finished this mission I had 2 (maybe 3) assault mechs. Even then, I took lots of damage and one pilot died. It a TOUGH mission.
Your Marauder is starting to look a bit like what i run in MWo when i just need to shoot stuff.... 6 Med pulses, 1 U/ac 20. Hilarity ensues when anybody comes around a corner in front of me.
Then you realize it's an Urbanmech
@@ElGreco15 Urbanmech at the wrong time can make anyone shit their pants. Urbie Durbie.
@@RoKKr023i urby derby always wins!
Sometimes you just put shit together for fun
RNGesus giveth, but he also taketh away.
whoop!! tex helping me with my uni work
HAHA! JOKE'S ON YOU! I SHALL UPVOTE FOR THE TERRIBLE CRAB JOKE!
The only way I was able to kill both transport and save as many crates as possible was to run three heavies and a sacrificial Jenner to truck stomp.
"pre fuck up" lol love it
What’s better the strategy or the commentary 🤣? I love it
NOOO! SCROBLES NO WANT GO BACK TO HEAL BED!
SCrOmbLes LiEK ApPlESAUS
I liked the ac10/med laser/srm build on the dragon. Still kinda range limited but with it's speed it can nullify that. The stalker he is trying to get is a monster assualt as an lrm barrage mech.
The other day I also had that warning random event occur to me as well where they trash talked my Behemoth, so I deleted the message as well and was thankful that it said that there would be no lasting consequences.
Or so I thought.
Because the next contract I took was just a 2-star about taking down a pirate lance so I thought it would just be another routine run to pay the bills with, but during the mission I found it was a bit odd that during the fight the enemy lance seemed to be going out of their way to target my Behemoth in her Shadowhawk while ignoring the rest of my mechs and it seemed like they were trying their best to knock her down after seeing the amount of damage they were doing to her legs until she finally toppled over after losing a left leg.
I didn't understand what was going on until suddenly out of nowhere I got a warning that enemy forces had arrived and cresting over a nearby hill was another pirate lance... and one of them had a *Rifleman* and it was at that moment I had a sinking feeling like I had been set up which was only confirmed when the second pirate lance just spent their entire surprise round just unloading all their guns onto my fallen Behemoth...
...She didn't even get a chance to get up before her CT exploded.
It was then I thought that the one piloting that heavy mech was the very same merc commander that had tried to convince me to fire Behemoth and probably didn't take to kindly to me ignoring his sagely advice so he decided to lay down a trap to finish her off himself for whatever imaginary slight she might have done to his deranged commander.
Whatever the reason was I'll probably never know since I cored the bastard for taking down one of my best pilots and leaving he and his crew as nothing more than burning meat trapped inside melted and slagged mech corpses.
It's going to be sad when he realizes how bad the dragon is in this game.
It was bad in 3025. At five tons lighter a Shadow Hawk, Wolverine, or Griffen is better. Heck a Scorpion is probably better, I know I've used it more and seen it used more than a Dragon.
TEX! You're fucking awesome, don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
Also : your vids have inspired me to attempt a battletech comic; a woman in Canopian space ends up joining the Mercs who fucked up her family buisness to figure out and hunt down those who hired em
Sounds fuckin rad. Go for it
Jeebus H christ... the Smithon mission is jank asf, but mostly because nobody told me that this is possibly the only situation a jumpy light could be used to take out the Firestarter and 2 LRM turrets on the first turn...
23:54 nooooooo that LB-5X+ AC.....
If you like documentaries, check out James Burkes' The Day The Universe Changed and Connections. Great stuff about the history of science that makes you look at it all differently
Hitman IS great, only her callsign in my game is Paint (literally the only difference apart from skill spreads... voice and portrait was the exact same). But yeah, she's the mood all the time on the battlefield. Even had one mission going wrong one time, she gets hit the wrong kind of way and I was like, "No... No! ... NO!", and then she was exactly like "No... No! ... NO!" And so we had a moment of emotional harmony... which I proceed to erase "All You Need Is Kill"-style by pulling a mulligan on the level and starting over from round 1 because I cared.
Never thought id see texs kerbul approach to battletech
thanks for saying something about the polls. I only saw them if RUclips shows them to me. I will look for them now.
Cockpit mods, very necessary
The Cliffhanger of what Documentary was watched.
Yeah, the LRM nerf makes it almost impossible to kill pilots before the mech itself explodes. Battletech really benefits from a forced withdrawal/ejection system, where pilots riding a badly damaged mech try to leave the battlefield, and if they can't, eject: these are supposed to be nigh irreplaceable machines, people shouldn't be riding them into scrap unless they're willing to die.
Unless your fighting Capellans, of course, because they'll just shoot you after you eject, but you can stomp their heads right back and take their stuff so it all works out.
Aww yeah, is it Stalker time?
Also I don't get why the ComStar ninjas would care about the Argo. It's rare, sure, but it's unarmed, it's a DropShip that can't actually land on a planet or dispense mechs, doesn't seem to have any LosTech of note (until you start cramming it full of SLDF-era mechs), and it's falling apart until you take the duct tape to it. It's no Tripitz. Unless the current Primus just wants it for his personal party barge.
This series got me to finally fix up my PC with parts from black Friday and between then and now I have dumped about 30 hours in
'candy girl' plays while a crab blows up repeatedly.
I mean we have seen that Comstar doesn't always fuck with old tech that is found more so if it's out in the periphery in the hands on nobodies that can't effect their plans
Please just explode. That's what happens when a firestarter meets a King Crab with a UAC 20 +++ and a UAC 20 with 4 med lasers ++>>> alpha strike.
Love the BT version of Blood Upon The Risers! RLTW!
This series has been a hell of gateway into battletech and all the nonsense you can get up to
Try Mechwarrior Legends (free) if you want more shenanigans. See this channel for details. Also APGamingReal has a tabletop Battletech game with SidAlpha on youtube.
Oh you can do stupid things
**10 seconds in** I guess I will drop once more! Star Colonel Lucifer Osis approves of this message!
@BlackPantsLegion @Tex FYI you can use Tab to cycle through targets in your LoS. you don't have to click on each mech/vic
SCROMBLES TOPICS GOOD! COMPLAINERS SHUT CAKE HOLES :(
TEX: if you can bait them up the center, you can get 5 to 6 of the enemy mechs with the Boom-Boom Ammo of Doom!
Yeah, I know. I'm never that lucky
@@theblackpantslegion The timing is tough: I have played through the campaign about 6 times: I've only pulled it off twice. Both times, I pulled the OpFor to the Center while using the Spider's 8 hex jump ability to get eyes on the back crate. Once the Dragon steps into that threat area, boom! (The trick is to not let them "see" the Spider until the Boom.)
the last time I played this mission one my 4 heavy mech almost got scraped with a pilot inside..
Sine, sine... maxima minoris molimenti ea!
That first mission is dumb. "Let's sacrifice 8 Battlemechs to save some ammo crates"
11:59 Why does Tex never punch the little light mechs with tons of evasion?
Does make you wonder why even a periphery power would just store volatile crates out in the open...
Everyone knows you have to store your flammable liquids in red barrels spread through the entire compound. When it comes to ammunition, only fools store it in specialized Ammo dumps that have proper blast walls and fire suppression systems. The best place to store it is out in the open to maximize speed in reloading. Although you do have to keep the loading machines locked away, wouldn’t want the enemy loading from your own tactical supplies.
The explosive symbols were mistaken for a certain brand of spicy salsa. The quartermaster was pissed and refused to accept and store the shipment until it was sorted out. Then the player characters showed up.
Lady Arano miss pronounced "Fiesta Pail" during the briefing. Intel Failure.
Staged out for transport?
Just Jim
Nah, not for transport. For ease of relieving oneself after the spicy salsa from those mislabeled fiesta pails decided to come out violently. Think about it, who needs mechs when one can use chemical warfare? Taking a phrase from tremors 3, ass blasters.
"This could be a good build" - It is not
*Narrator Voice* But it got the job done
Kinda funny, all the missions I have played, I encountered 1 stalker, during one of those random trash an assault mech(s) missions
WHAT!? Wh-Hawt!? I can't hear you over the *OPENING THEME!* >.
I have no idea how you are expected to stop those transport trucks. I suspect this was the dev's way to try to make you bring light mechs, which would be fine if they didn't throw three or four lances of enemy forces at your single lance
Hey Tex have a good day!
mhm.. I've never been overly fond of the Dragon. Never found a setup that worked for me.
Can't wait to see Tex use Boomer, and when he says something says 'Okay Boomer' ;)
Since the game uses what seems to be a x2-5 damage upscale of real battletech for its engine [unless the new company completely changed damage and heat scales from FASA], does it use 3-D rendered versions of the classic tabletop maps? The map for the missile run mission looks familiar to one in the old box set, but I gave my physical materials to the player that took over as DM for me in highschool [as my DM did for me, we had a campaign that ran for 3 DMs for the same mercenary company] and only have PDFs of the standalone books now.
On my damage scale comment, for example, that Mobile HQ has 5 tons of armor...across the while vehicle, a shot from the rear with 2 LRM 20s [even counting shit Inner Sphere targeting, ignoring his ghetto Artemis FCS "missilry suite"] would do on average 12 points each [since both shots hit from his sniper tier gunnery] that's 4 clusters of 5 damage and 2 clusters of 2, while with shit clustering it is possible no noticeable damage was done, at least the turret should have popped and half of either the rear or one side armor would be gone. A direct hit from 2 LRM 20s should smoke that 25 ton RV.
Dragon totem mech of the God less Kuritians.😀
The Battletech theme song already exists. Its "Dogs of War" by Floyd. Listen to the words, it seems written about Jaime Wolf and Morgan Kell.
Dare I ask why there's so little mention of the Hounds and the Dragoons around here?
There will be a mention of them, in time. And I always thought that song was pretty good
If you can force the enemy to go where you want them to go, by drawing them into the kill zones, that mission is much easier. In fact the whole game is. The AI will run right at you so keep that in mind.
Commenting just because I feel left out
its okay. Don't be lonely
happy
I think you asked if there was a way to do a mission for good will? WELL you can just slide both cursors for money$$ and salvage to the left and take nearly nothing and gain favor of the unite or side your fighting for!
It sounds dumb, but I almost hate buying mech parts. The ones I hose my enemies out of mean more to me.
Oh yes.. more scrombles... Mm.m
No Tex no! Never put ammo in the center torso. One good crit and you can loose your whole center line.
Who Tex worse group to deal with capellans or clanners.
Answer: yes
Agree on the Mortar being overrated. The War Crime cannon on the Bull Shark, however... good fun.
Laser based Stalker is heresy. LRM80 FTW.
I've got an 'interesting' story about ammo goes boom. It takes place in Iraq in 2003.
I noticed you don't use the multi target skill, i feel you could benefit from using it
Magna tormentorum suprema?
#Blackpantslegion
@BlackPantsLegion
Tex you should try a few more precision strikes, especially with the Marauder who has a bonus on precision strike
a tip from one of the 6432 hours. HBS battletech has played
Kind regards. tank_2000_9
IMO you should never sacrifice armor, but maybe I'm crazy.
Granted I'm only 19 minutes in, so maybe she'll die again, but I'd say you really need to get Hitman a Hatchetman Mech....
Unfortunately, you can't get the DLC special mechs in the campaign.
Would love to learn how to play tabletop battletech, but I got no idea where to start, this game is the closest I got to that.
Anyone got any tips where to start, or find info o anything? Thanks, appreciate it.
The beginner box set is two medium mechs, a paper battle mat, and simplified rules (no heat management, at least), and it's only $20!
The next level up is the "Game of Armored Combat" box, and it's got 8 mechs (2 of each regular weight class I think), multiple battle mats, and the regular rules for mech combat, but leaves out vehicles and infantry if I remember correctly. That one's $50, and also comes with a short story in booklet form, and a full-color primer on the history of the Inner Sphere.
You can get the full rules for using vehicles, infantry, etc in the "Total Warfare" book, if you find you like the game and want the full experience.
Look for local gaming clubs, same one that introduced me to warhammer fantasy, and 40k taught me battletech. unlike tex....... i love clanner tech even if most of them are crazed fanatics. play tonnage against newbies, use C bill balance later.
There's also the Mech Factory
battletech.rpg.hu/mechfactory_frame.php
@@skrang9671 Thanks, will try and get a starter set next time i travel to the US for work (probably on February or March), currently stuck on south america due to the cov19 situation and stuff like that is really hard to come by here. Thanks!
@@mikewaterfield3599 Would love to, but i travel to the US 4 times a year due to work and there are no wargaming clubs on South America at the time (stuck here currently until February or March), there used to be one gaming club on SA, but it closed down due to the cov19 situation and it wont open again, so next time i travel i will try and find a gaming club, Thanks for the advice!.
ok gotta ask if ya had the choice would you join up with the uncle cause lady arano really makes me want to
Probably whoever paid first and on time
@@theblackpantslegion fair mercenary honor and all that good policy
The "Care Bear Stare" is not funny when the fucks you're fighting have more LRM batteries than you have evasion tokens.
I need to set up a couple of Heavy Mechs or that mission will be a disaster for me