Why do we Love the Urbanmech?
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The Urbanmech? Croak twice if your being held hostage.
Now that it's done, I don't have to talk about it ever again. Joy.
@ Oh, you'll be back. Once it gets ya, the Urbie will never leave the back of your mind. I wouldn't be surprised your little frog would want his own little suffie of the Urbie one day.
@@theprofessorkeen1911 Dude, the Urbie is not fast enough to ever leave his mind!
@@theprofessorkeen1911 Urbies are like cockroaches that way. Sure, you can squash one or even a few dozen easily but the little &$^%ers keep coming.
@@MechanicalFrog, Urbanmech IIC exists...
"If you can't handle me as an Urbanmech, you don't deserve me as an Imp."
I'll take a Valkyrie instead.
The Urbie-deluxe with cheese.
We don't talk about the (G)imp.
Because it's the trash CAN, not the trash can't.
Optimism.
LMFAO; you take that from Danny Trejo? 😂
@@juangalton999 Tex said it in his second video on it. But he might have been referring to that Danny Trejo joke. I don't even remember what movie it was in but I distinctly remember the line, "Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCANT?" Whether Tex was making a reference, just came up with it on his own, or repeated it from somewhere, I don't know. I'm sure many fans of the mobile (sic) combat single house disposal bin have also said that over the past few decades.
Edit: In case you don't know who Tex is, he's another content creator with some very popular BattleTech content. He also enthusiastically endorses other related channels including this one. Just search for "Tex Talks Battletech" and clear your schedule. He presents his massive lore dumps as in character lectures from a grizzled old mercenary from the Periphery who is now semi-retired as an Inner Sphere History professor. Very entertaining and informative.
@flushmastercyclonis186 Okay gotcha. And yeah familiar with Tex. Hoping he makes more animated shorts. Good to see this fandom is thriving. I admittedly got introduced with Mech Assault and MW4 as a 12 year old. But fell in love again with MW5 and am trying to find a tabletop group in Denver.
@@juangalton999 I also got hooked when I was 12, but that was from the Saturday morning cartoon during it's original airing in 1994. Looking back on it now, that cartoon is absolutely terrible. Laughably so. They didn't really try explaining the massive amount of setting lore as it was targeted at kids so there was not much point. Even though they DO get most of the lore that gets mentioned correct, it's presented in an absolutely basic and direct way that causes most discussions between Clan and FedCom individuals male a typical on camera dialogue between professional wrestlers seem subtle and nuanced by comparison. And I'm not talking about the good ones with charisma, like The Rock and Chris Jericho or any number of current top level performers. I'm talking about a large man in a ridiculous getup pointing at another large man who shops at the same fashion outlets and shouting a really stupid catch phrase, as was traditional back in the eighties. Except one of them has a bunch of glowing green facial tattoos. And that doesn't even get into how the artists had no sense of perspective. One guy ejects from his mech, lands in a tree, tangled parachute and all, then jumps down and suddenly looks to be taller than the tree when he stands up. The same characters standing next to the same mech in one shot appear to be as tall as it's knee and then in another shot ten seconds later the mech's foot is taller than they are and nothing has moved. What appear to be Overlord class dropships (which are about the size of a small city block and carry a full battalion [36] of mechs) are frequently shown with mechs half as tall as the dropship marching out of hangar doors that take up an entire side of the hull. And the bad guys somehow kidnap the entire population of a planet in the time it takes the hero to walk back from a fight where both his and the villain's mechs got trashed.
But it got me interested enough to buy Mechwarrior 2 for PC and get into the novels (which are usually much better written...usually). So it worked.
I half expected this video to start with, "We don't" followed by 30 minutes of pinup-style pictures of a plasma rifle.
legit. I saw the thumbnail and was like "we don't, mechfrog... we don't."
I didn't dare speak for everyone...the "We" in that case would be of the Royal variety*, because we know his feelings one them.
*And we know he ALSO loves Royal variants.
I still would’ve watched the whole thing tbh
@@munkeydude777gotta keep those views numbers up!
@@iainhutchinson1957 Aw so wrong.
You'd get your first look at the 30-ton Trash Can as you move into an intersection. But the Urbie, he knew you were there a long time ago. He moves like a heavy mech: stompy, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think, maybe, with his cheap Periphery Radar he'll lose you if you don't move. But, no. Not the UrbanMech. You stare at him, and he just stares back. That's when the attack comes - not from the front, no - from the side. From the other two Urbies you didn't even know were there.
UrbanMechs are a pack-hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he's out in force today. And he fires at you with an Imperator AC, a 12-ton Anti-Mech weapon, like a sledgehammer, on the right arm. They don't bother to go for the cockpit, like a Hunchback; they just shoot here - in the center torso, and here in the leg. Or, maybe, across the gyro, spilling you across the tarmac.
Point is: you're alive when they start to eat you.
🤣😆😄👍 Now, that was a nice movie reference. I loved it. Well done.
Art.
I realize that was a movie riff, but that's a damn interesting little dialogue there. I could actually envision some bloodshot-eyed old mechwarrior relaying that little scene to some rookies in the regiment at the canteen's bar. Have you considered writing a Battletech story?
"Clever girl"
"I assure you there is no AC10 pointed at my head."
Promises promises.
@@MechanicalFrog That emotional support small laser aint too supportive when you're on the shiny end.
MechFrog Urbie went full Vietnam War - "We had to burn the urban environment to save the urban environment".
Or maybe it's the generosity of Terry Pratchett - "Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."?
"If I can't have it, no one can."
@@MechanicalFrog - your restraint in not going plasma AND inferno is noted
LMFAO, that does sound like Terry Pratchett 🤣
The urbie is fun because its a light mech that is meant to be played as if it were a heavy. Its a pug that is so convinced its a rottweiller that it actually tries to shred throats.
The UrbanMech. It's a Point Defense Turret that can move out of the way slightly.
very slightly.
aRe YoU sTiLl ThErE🎶
A slightly self propelled auto cannon with attached laser pointer/emotional support laser
Mechfrog tolerates Urbanmech for 31 minute! I put two Snub PPCs on mine... I regret (and learned) nothing.
That's a little big MAD. Like a tiny little Hammer. And I kinda like it.
Great minds think alike.
He has finally succumbed to the brain rot.
Godspeed little frog; we will try to remember the days _before_ he gave in to the darkness.
Why do we love the UrbanMech? Because many of us drove the automobile version of an Urbie as our first car and lived in an Urbie apartment or house. You either embrace it or reject it.
My friend Bill had a junker like that in high school. We joked that his collection of Billy Joel CDs in the center column were worth more than the car. It was old, busted, and had bits hanging off of it. He would leave it parked with the windows open and the keys ignition, DARING somebody to steal it because the insurance claim would get him a better car. Yeah, that sounds like an Urbie.
Or another dude, a very large young man (played nose tackle on the football team) who's grandma or something bought him a car when he turned 16. It was a Pinto. I'm not certain, but I think he might have had to cut out part of the back seat to get the driver's seat far enough back that he could fit inside the thing. Dude would drive past and you'd do a double take wondering if you had just glimpsed a clown car being driven by a four hundred pound gorilla in a varsity letter jacket. I'm pretty sure it was still faster than an Urbie.
Federated Suns: I know this mech is cheap, but I'm not sure if it's wor-
Orgus Industry: It's factory default comes with a Brand New AC-10 cannon!
Federated Suns: I'll buy 5,000 units right away and I'll be back for more!
This is my head canon Mechfrog and you can't change this.
I won't fight you on it.
To paraphrase The Mighty Jingles, because it's not GOOD, but it has CHARACTER, and Character counts for something.
The Urbie is the Tog of the Battlemech world- party time 🎉
@carlwells9504 Precisely!
The way I see it the UrbanMech is one of the few realistic mechs in the entire BattleTech universe. It fights in an environment where other vehicles would struggle. Having legs make it slower than a wheeled or tracked vehicle (physics are real after all). It's big gun is suited for ambush work and infantry support. It's main job would be destroying fortified positions.
It- It’s IMPOSSIBLE?? Did I miss the community post teasing this? This is definitely a surprise, but definitely a welcome one.
Needed to be a surprise.
Nobody expects the Urbie to get the jump on them but they always seem to manage it
@@MechanicalFrog I understand it, you’d probably have the whole Urbie fanbase drooling.
I’d know, I’m one of them lol
But to explain why I myself enjoy the mech, I like the UrbanMech because I tend to like an underdog. It’s not an exciting or flashy or pretty ‘Mech, but it’s functional in the set of circumstances it was intended to be in. That said, I do think some of the variants make very odd choices, especially the ones that come later on and use higher tech stuff. Some of them seem more like variants for the sake of variety (FASA/whoever owns them now problem most likely) rather than well-thought-out design choices. I think it’s possible to upgrade the mech but keep it fairly cheap and not lose what makes the mech what it is.
@@MechanicalFrog I’m glad you were a good sport and gave it the time of day despite not being a fan. I understand the frustration or hate on the Mech, it’s definitely overhyped. I’d rather see mechs like the Hollander or other of those niche type Mechs take some notice at some point. Heck, vehicles are generally not popular (partly because BattleTech’s rules screw them kinda hard, they’re just very easy to disable lol, but alas it was intended as a primarily Mech-focused game.
We played MechWarrior Destany using tabletop rules for mech combat. We started in a lance of Urbies as city defense. One mission had a few tanks and mechs that we took out without too much issue, but then he sent an Atlas up against us. We were supposed to lose this mission as part of the story, but my AC20 Urbie immediately blew its head off, so he had to change the whole entire plot since we immediately took out the main bad guy.
You never roll the 12s you need, only the 12s you deserve.
@@kobudo the Urbie never fails to deliver when everything's on the line.
Sounds like an Urbie-legend to me!
Gamemaster rule: if you don't want your players to kill it, DON'T GIVE IT STATS. If it CAN be killed, they WILL try and they just might get lucky.
@ Oh, the GM thought it was just as badass as we did. He wasn't angry, more just shocked. Eventually a few sessions later my urbie bit the dust, but it was in a blaze of glory. I had 20 engine hits, so I had zero functional heatsinks, my armor was shot, and my next AC20 shot would very likely shut my mech down from heat. I took that last shot at a barely hit wolverine, pierced right into the wolverine's srm cache, and took him down with me. I ejected, was picked up by a tank, and we escaped, but we had to leave my urbie behind to be captured :
Ah, the Humble Urbie.
In most situations it dramatically underperforms, but thanks to a good weapon and surprisingly good armour it can never be ignored.
Some of the variants are downright shocking in the amount of hurt they can dish out, and never, _never,_ assume that a SuburbanMech isn't a threat.
Hey, it may be thirty tons, can’t move fast enough to get to McDonalds in time to DoorDash it, or adequately hold up to sustained fire at range, but what it does have is the most fun BattleTech animation ever: the Urbie Derby.
"Why do we love the Urbanmech"? Who are you and what have you done with the real Mechfrog!
I feel free. I never have to make this video again.
@@MechanicalFrog You can't leave - nobody escapes the Urbanmech without being irreparably tainted by its force of being.
It's like saying that you can come back from being a Hunchback pilot.
The comedy value of an AC20 with jump jets in a city fight never gets old.
And lo, Kerensky spake: "If they refuseth the Urbanmech, I deny them the Flashman."
Phooey.
Only thing an urbie fears is racoons.
🤣😆😄👍 Raccoons, I loved it. Well done.
I didn’t even need to bully you into making this one, but it certainly made my day
Glad it can lift some spirits.
"Why do we love the UrbanMech?"
Me: "For the meeeemes..."
The Plasma Urbi strikes me as a good way to have an event called "The Great Fire Of"
Man i love using these for city fights on campaigns. Always get a kick out of it with the players. Doing DFA’s or jumping back attacks with this fun sized ac20 is fun as hell.
I'm glad people find joy in it.
I have a variant of the UM-R60L, it ups the tonnage to 50, adds 2 med lasers, and increases the armor and speed. It's called a Hunchback. Yes, the Hunchback is my Urbanmech.
Often the Urbie defenders will point out that if you change almost everything about the mech, it is good. I agree. If you change everything about it, it can be good.
The hunchback also carries twice as much ammo, even in the old podunk 3025 base model. Later iterations on it (at least based on the original loadout) don't really do much aside from upgrading the lasers to pulse or ER versions, doing the same with the autocannon (ultra/LB-X), and adding more ammo with most of weight saved by things like endosteel structure and ferro-fibrous armor. Because when you get something right the first time, all you really need are some basic upgrades on the same sort of gear. I'm personally fond of the 5S model, which has pulse lasers and an SRM-6 on top of the standard big gun and armor (it also has jump jets).
@ Try the Hunchback 6S or C. Hunchbacks are like zombies. the regular ones are bad enough, the fast ones can be nightmare fuel.
I made an Urbanmech variant, adding three medium lasers and moving it into Heavy category. It's name is Jagermech... but it rebuild so much it's Urbanmech Mk II by this point. It plays like Urbanmech, just with more guns and armor.
I used many Urbanmech mainly modified R90 that have LRM and ammo. We call that "Urbanmissile".
Our group made a pair or sometimes trio with single Assault mech and one or two "Urbanmissile" for additional firepower support and it worked.
Almost all enemy ignore "Urbanmissile" or "Suburbanmech" so they're relatively safe and also easy to buy. 3/5/3 was fast enough with Assaults.
It was funny to see bunch of Urbies around Assaults like Atlas or Mackie. I felt they looked cute but unit of two Awesome and three R90 was not weak in 3028.
Urbies managed to get the jump on the community again.
They're always...soemwhere.
...Is the Urbanmech in the room with you, Frog? Are they, in fact, holding you at AC 10 point?
I get why people like the Urbanmech, I really do. But it's never clicked with me.
Now I don't have to field requests to cover it again for a very long time. :D
@@MechanicalFrog Frog is free! Rejoice!
@@MechanicalFrog Do an extended cut of the Urbie! At least an hour long!
In its niche, I find it surprisingly effective. Like you said, you can down something with a back shot. But when you consider a lot of enemy scouts are wasps, stingers and locusts and it horribly out guns them. Only way to play them in the field i find is en mass and in gun lines.
@@kathilmechworks4895 Now you've got me imagining 18th century line infantry battles, except with Urbies. Does one stand off to the side blasting out fife music?
@PointyHairedJedi the funny thing is I've seen some one do it and be effective.
In the 3025 setting (where it comes from) many light mechs will take internal damage from a single AC/10 hit. And most that do not will have little armor left. At the same time most can not reply in kind (Panther and Wolfhound are exceptions, Javelin IF it is still there after the AC/10 round)
What I was getting at you don't want to be in a wasp in a hidden unit scenario walk down an ally and bump into one of these or be in a hunchback and walk by and give one of these a back shot and have it cook your ammo off. They are great for fighting dirty, but that's what they are designed for. You just don't want to get it out of its scope.
I mean, do we? We don’t hate it but love is such a strong word…have no negative feelings about? Yeah, let’s go with that.
Our lord and master! Oh heavenly secret weapon of the Capellans, Urbanmech! Lead us into victory over the evil Clans!
We love it because people underestimate it and don't realize it isn't the standard model but has either an AC20, Arrow IV to play nice with the Raven. We also love it because it is incredibly cheap, and short of using vehicles or retrotech this is as cheap as you can get. Honestly as a city fighter, having a plasma rifle to melt infantry and vehicles in their native habitat feels right.
A special shoutout to the R29 from the BTA mod. it has a 290xxl engine, endosteel, guardian ECM, and a supercharger. why do you ask? Because this monster has a COIL and just cored my previously intact assault mech after sprinting well over 10 hexes, and kicking me. It did this despite pouring my entire lance's firepower to try and make it stop. instead it glowed hot as a sun and shut down knowing it had caused me to insta-fail the mission. It continues to live in my nightmares.
Glorious.
As a battletech fan, there's nothing more humbling early in your fandom than charging at this stubby little trash can, only for it to blast you in the face with an AC20 while it's marching towards you at 30kmh like some miniaturized Atlas
After years of playing the MechWarrior and MechCommander games, I finally started getting into the Battletech tabletop. I appreciate all the hard fun work you do, MechFrog, for the fun and informative videos.
I love the Urbanmech not for what the 500-ish BV 1.4mill C-Bill trash can it is, but the Trash can I think it could be. I found it to be very beginner-friendly as my first foray into constructing my first Battle mech configuration from scratch; being critical and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of a particular mech chassis, then allowing me space to create something for myself - personalizing, making something my speed - I guess I owe this mech a lot for loving the game more than I ever thought I could.
It was with this mech that I perused through my tech manual, learned and applied the math, and built my first Urbie in case my friends and I have newbie-friendly 4-player Urbie-Derby matches.
Below, I will be sharing my first attempt at a build ~ 900BV. It may look boring, but I enjoy it a lot when employing the extended torso twist and the low/narrow profile quirks from the chassis that this has. Thank you, Battletech community.
And thank you, Urbanmech, for being a clutch little piece of trash.
Urbanmech - RM X-1 - “Urbinator”
1.5 T Endo-Steel (51 pips)
7 T 180 Standard Engine (6/9/0 - 7 HS capacity)
6.5 T Standard Armour (104 pips)
2 T Standard Gyro (4 CT Slots)
3 T Standard Cockpit (5 Slots)
11 IS DHS (1 T for 11th DHS; 22 Heat Dissipation)
1 Large Laser (0/5/10/15)
8 H 8 Dmg 5 T
4 Medium Laser (0/3/6/9)
3 H 5 Dmg 1 T
Alpha: 28 Dmg
Low/Narrow Profile (+)
Extended Torso Twist (+)
Minimal/No Arms (-)
No Jump Jets 😢
Atlas: “Look it’s a urbie.”
The All mighty Trashcan: *Angry Trashcan noises as it draws a Middle finger on the atlas’s Head*
Take that...
Should be followed by:
*Goofy-yell sounds as the Atlas punts the Urbie over the horizon*
@@atmosdwagon4656🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆😄😄👍
The Urbanmech is an equal opportunity friend. People will point and laugh, but he gets to walk laps around the base drinking orange soda fresh out of the mess hall vending machine, and if someone comes by to steal your share of soda before you get back he will shoot them _so much_
I've had great success with the Trashcan. When used right. Each time, it's been when I was given a certain BV to buy mechs, and I'm in a city. I can field nearly a company of the little waddlers for the cost of an Atlas. In literally any other situation, it's a target worth laughing at. I mean, the name says it all. If it isn't a dense urban environment, or dealing with ground pounders, it's a waste of resources. I've got the sheet for a modded one to this day. All Machine Guns, flamers and small lasers. In our home game cannon, it was stationed on Hesperus to deal with Union strikes. It was dubbed, "The War Crime".
Ive killed three assaults with my prized urban mech in my table top career, two were with the PPC variant and the last was a zeus using the Ac20 and the laser to rip out its previously lrm chewed CT
I'm glad it has performed for ya.
I pretty sure no one attacked that mech, lol.
If you want a fun light - medium fight i reccomend a clan plasma cannon and any type of AC2 to just be an annoyance
That must have been the dumbest Zeus pilot in the Inner Sphere, or their commander owed them an arseload of Cbills.
A very patient and analytical take on this little guy. Well done!
I managed to restrain myself. Quite proud.
Of all the things to fill out on my 2025 bingo card of crazy happenings, I never thought that MechFrog doing a video on the Urbanmech would be one of them!
And now I never have to make the video ever again. What a relief.
The Urbanmech is like a mini boss for light mechs to defeat, or at a walk escape from.
If you ask me it’s made fun of with names like “trashcan” for a reason. We all know it’s a bad mech, but lots of us have what I like to call the urby story. The urby story is where the little guy was fielded on TT or on a computer game where it did something it really shouldn’t have been able to do. For example cockpit critting an atlas turn 1 in my case.
It is not a bad mech if used right, at least in the time frame it was designed (3025). This is the mech equivalent to the Cold War KaJaPa. 25to tracked vehicle with a (at the time of creation) solid 90mm gun (same as the M48A2 and A3 tanks of the same period). That beast would hide in ambush and go for the sides/back. Or the supply convois (M3 Bradleys make nice escorts. IF they can get the first shot with their TOW out. If not - well to quote a certain cute Tiefling: FIREBALL!(1) )
Same with Urbies. They hide, the sneak, they know that city and it's sewers. Urbie sized sewers. Where your big, fat Dragon or Black Knight can not go. If you send in your Wasps/Stingers/Locusts - well they can not take an AC/10 round all that well (Locust can in the chest - barely). In a proper environment expect a plate you overlooked to slide away and an Urbie come out on his JumpJets firing at your rear like a Tarantula from the Terran Trade Authority setting. They have eyes everywhere. That tell them when to show up over hardwired telefones. That stand by to fill that AC/10 round sized hole in your chest with a nice Inferno rocket. Their AC/10 needs little power so they hide with reactors on low power. In urban camo paint. The first thing you see of them is when the slowly swivel their torso around. The last thing you see in your rear view mirror is when they slowly swivel their torso around. And then the AC/10. From 30m. Into your rear.
(1) Thankfully for the Bradleys it was only an excercise
For a lark, we did a mission of my 2 mostly medium lances vs a whole company of Urbies. One Urbie got our blackjack with a hit to the back that lit the ammo. But even then, because damage is simultaneous, the blackjack took out the AC-10 of a second Urbanmech with its medium lasers (that had missed its own shot - a glass canon with no canon is just glass). Otherwise it was a total wipe.
We found the Urbie to be a pretty ineffective mech. As an “ambush predator” it rarely got off more than one shot before getting smashed, even in two or three-on-one situations. 10 points of damage an leave a pretty big crater in any location’s armor, but, unless you’re lucky enough to hit the same location with other mechs, most mechs, even an URBIE, can take a few 10-point hits. All mechs lighter than an Urbie can escape if the Urbie can’t knock it down on the first hit, many mechs larger than an Urbie can survive the 10 damage and get away, or turn and smash the little guy. Any mech 50-tons or more can nearly kick the leg off an Urbie.
The real fun was when we then did an Urbie on Urbie fight. That was a bit more fun, because it was the only thing an Urbanmech was truly effective against was another Urbanmech.
Why do I love the Urbanmech? It is the only LAM I own for tabletop
Wow the R100 is practically a Vindicator. I never heard of that variant.
Urbies are one of the mechs that Cappies never undervalue a perceived inferior machines, when their niches have its own strategic values to be used as an advantage
Urbie still has its place to be useful - as a nuclear deterrent with nuclear Arrow IV ballistic missiles
BTW, Mech Frog. There's a new latest Urbie variant equipped with triple SRM-6 racks & AES. Rumored to be made by Kell Hounds
Ah, the Urbie. To quote Tex (Black Pants Legion): "The memes. Oh, God, the memes." The Urbanmech will forever be known as the little trash can that could. As for the AC/20 variant, well... To quote Tex again: "Because what's funnier than a trash can that cores an assault mech in a surprise attack?" For my money, one of the best variants is the UM-R27. It's not terribly expensive as it only has two tech tricks. Enhanced actuators and CASE. This coupled with three SRM 6's makes this Urbie pretty good at shooting fast targets. Indeed, the UM-R27 is a decent weapons platform to deal with those pesky Savannah Masters.
Remember it’s trashCan not trash can’t. While the urbie isn’t really good it makes up for it by being small derpy cute and full of character. It’s the pug of battlemechs.
Urbie has that underdog quality. And the memes, oh the memes.
Why do we Love the Urbanmech? Cause its so Cute!!!!!
Where the Urbanmech is deadly is in its ability to be ignorable. You don’t want to waste any shots on it when there are scarier things to bring down. I have fallen for this trick, and found out very quickly you should never ignore an AC-20 or MRM-30.
I have essentially a full lance of Urbies in my Pirate/Mercenary army, lead by the completely non-cannon LAM variant, backed by a UM-63 for doing standard Urbanmech things, and a UM-68 for mid range sand blasting, the only outlier is a Jagermech-7D, but, when you really think about it, isn't a jagermech just a really big Urbie that hates VTOL's?
I like that you decided to make a positive video about the trash Can. Respectable that you can put your own prejudice aside to give it a proper showing.
I deserve some sort of prize for behaving myself.
It hits basically every possible loveable underdog button a mech can hit. It's a joke character, a killing joke character (in particular the nuclear variant). And above all else, it's a stubby little roundboi that's doing it's best.
The thing was basically designed to be weirdly popular.
19:55 Ringo Peterson???? We now know the name of one of Frog's alter egos. I am sure he was piloting a U60L.
I know for many the Urbanmech is the little mech that could. Yet for me the mech that will always have a soft spot is the Bushwacker.
Mainly because with that mech they try to push the envelope of what could de done with a mech but it got overshadowed by events beyond their control.
Also I just like the look of the Bushwacker.
I really dig the updated artwork for the urbanmech. Hopefully, they will put out some updated artwork for the hornet.
The UrbanMech can equipped with a Gauss Rifle for longer range combat
the R80 and R90 have both served me well as cheap bodyguards for my awesomes. I've been meaning to give the R96 a tryout.
people always forget that the urbanmech is never meant to operate alone.. it's meant to be supporting a mix of infantry and vehicles. it's an assault gun, the StuG of battlemechs. on the offensive it's meant to blow up defensive hardpoints and buildings stopping the infantry, on the defensive its meant to be a mobile pillbox able to put some hurt on enemy mechs and tanks.
The mech so bad that my Dunkerque Dragoons have one for mascot purposes. Since all the mechs carry battle names, it's named Uclés, after an 1809 battle at one of the tiniest hamlets in Spain. All the other battles starting with U were far too grand to be a good fit.
Quite the name.
It is an Urban myth that people love yhe urban mech!
9:57 I do want to one day play a R60L. It seems so impractical it will be real fun. A one-shot glass cannon only good in close woods or city.
Great video as always, but when are you gonna do one on the Urbanmech?
He round and adowable :3
Serious answer, the urbanmech is the Bidoof or the Cirno of the battletech franchise. Adorable small dumb goober that is given near deity status by the fanbase for comedic effect. It punches above its weight and feeble stature, leading to it feeling like an underdog in any situation it is fielded in, and everyone loves an underdog story. Yes, a good force will simply out maneuver it or snipe it outside of range. But its like a pawn in chess: objectively the weakest in alot of cases, but a good commander will make the maximum use out of it possible.
Also an urbanmech might be a bit of a morale booster for backwater garrisons where having a mech, ANY mech, feels like something they can use. Its just big enough to "require" an armored response, which in alot of cases is all you need it to be.
Is it a good mech?
No. "Okay" or "niche choice, but good for its niche" for some variants as they may be the cheapest way to get X or Y big weapon on a unit, the urb 63 is the cheapest by BV LB10X unit outside of field gun infantry which might not be allowed at your local table. The Arrow IV urbanmech is both hilarious and also the cheapest Arrow IV mech as well.
We love urb
It’s not an impressive mech, but it still scares the hell out of everyone when you unexpectedly walk up on one in a city fight.
At the next adepticon we need a line of these marching, just like they do with the Pikachus in Japan. I love these little guys!
I dig the the more primitive look schematics look, with the perspective side sketch for the armored, maybe even try it with a simple hand writing font for the actual stats to push it more back of the napkin vibe.
A beautiful MF configuration. Creative and unexpected. It's probably the first from MF BattleMechs that I'd want to field just for the look on the OpFor's face when my walking stubs start picking off his scouts.
Good stuff MechFrog. I think you gave it a very fair looking at.
Glad you enjoyed it
Some time go I shared a story about an Urbie, the last mech standing, which DFA'd two nearly pristine enemy assaults on a jungle map - pushed one off the map, the other one off a cliff headfirst - and broke both his legs in a process of winning the game in the dumbest way possible.
Now I have a story from my BT gaming group. Or rather, a report on a ludicrous trend.
There's a lot of Urbie memes in my group. We know they're nothing special and underwhelming, at least on paper, but it's never not funny to take one if you have some spare points left. It got to a point where the two most experienced players, who basically run the local steadily growing BT community, almost always use Urbies in introductory games for new players. Not just for the sakes of a (somewhat overused) meme, but also to, hypothetically, give the newbies (who also get to use much better machines worth more BV) a fair chance to win their first game. But those stupid trashcans overperform EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. How? AC20 headshots. Through armor crits. Blown off limbs. Destroyed joints. You name it, they did it. In many games, sometimes during multiple games in one day. It's beyond bananas.
There's no point to find here. There's only the laughter of dice gods.
The UrbanMech “Urbie”: the oddball of Mechs. Surprisingly to see Frog cover this, though welcomed. I have use this funny mech with poor judgment but not the less had fun with it included a Lance.
I always thought that paired Large Lasers would be a decent loadout. Keep the small laser, upgrade to 10 DHS and drop in an SRM rack. Cheap, decent and minimal needed ammo.
I'm almost surprised you didnt mention the nuclear option for the UM-AIV
I can't help but love and hate the poor little Urbie. I've never used one before. I've laughed at it a lot. I've been impressed that it's still around.
I've made custom units based on it... Always sped up to 3/5/3, of course. Usually with energy weapons or artillery.
Another exciting video though! I've been on an old school DnD kick lately on RUclips. So thank you Frog, for bringing me back into Battletech content. 😊
Once you change the engine, once you've torn out it's throbbing heart and stuffed some random.... thing. In there. Is it still an Urbie?
Want a faster Urbanmech? Mug a Kuritan and steal the keys for his Panther.
The urbanmech does one thing, and does it passably.
Urbanmech should be painted like R2-D2, for giggles.
“some were less kind..” the understatement 😂
In either my first or second game on MegeMek my free starter Urbanmech missed every shot until it didn’t. At long range, against a moving target, the AC-10 needed an 11 to hit. Rolled 11, hit. Rolled 12, hit head. Rolled 8 or 9, one critical hit. Rolled 4, destroyed cockpit. My little Urbie hollowed out the cockpit of a medium mech at long range. The other player hunted down and killed the Urbanmech pilot, but it was a glorious few seconds for him or her.
Thanks Mechfrog for the video. I though only Capellan's used the Urbanmech but i looks like it is everyone's standard trash can with a gun!
Yeh, unfortunately it's kind of everywhere... like a bad cold.
Jokes aside, the R-96 is a genuine menace. The range on that snub-nose means it can almost always contribute to the fight, the absurd amount of armour, +2TMM and low price means it's hard to knock it out without over-comitting, and (unlike most urbies) it's juuust fast enough to keep up with the assault mechs you'd want to support with it.
jokes back to front: It even has a little emotional support laser in case infantry shows up.
Because they're a great source of AC20s which you can then put on your better mech.
Hell yea MechFrog finally my Urbie video, now i just have to wait patiently for the hunchback 😁
"soon"
Frank Duate's Lego Urbie is literally an R2-D2 with platform shoes and guns!
You put Inferno on an urban DEFENSE mech?
*insert we did it Patrick we saved the city meme here*
I don't see an issue.
real capellan hours
Because it is its own trash can. 😊
Bonus points for Carver V reference.
You may not like it, but this is what peak mech performance looks like.
I... well... er... ok.
Good episode, with a surprisingly low level of hate for the little bucket on legs!
the MRM-30 urban mech is actually useful on the defence. for their points cost most of them are almost alright as back up units. but the mrm-30 is just enough of a threat that you can make use of it pretty easily.
Surprised you didn't throw a Plasma Rifle on there, also why 7t? Half a ton for 1 extra point instead of just adding an emotional support laser is a bit much.
finally. The Mech we all LOVE
I can see Urban-Mech sized tunnels where they run around popping up in unexpected positions. And then a Black Knight being send after them crawling through the too narrow to walk tunnels playing TunnelKnight
Once was playing a multi mission campaign. Most of the battles were slugfests, so we were all in heavy and assault mechs.
Then, we got a mission to destroy a base at the end of a valley. Our "intel" led us to believe we would face a lance of heavies and some turrets. Instead, we faced 3 lances of Urbanmechs armed with PPCs or LRMs, sniping at us from extreme ramge from the steep ridges on either side of the valley.
Only one of us had the jump jets to close quickly.
We killed half of them while the other half ripped us apart.
Urbanmech us nice baby sitter for more static units. Longbow and urban has been fun combo.
I'm glad people enjoy it.
Work with what you got sort of thing. Also you paint work on your mecha ands art are looking good.
Urbie is Love. Urbie is Life. Embrace Urbielightenment.
It sure is a mech...
No one dares litter when the trash can has an AC10
Kapow!
They say if you can't say something nice, you should say nothing at all. Mechfrog, you deserve cookies.
I behaved myself.