MECH WARRIORS LORE?! | BattleTech 101 Reaction

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  @aliciaxdeath · 2 years ago · pinned

  heads up! I had to cut out a song in the first 3 mins of the video due to copyright so if there is a weird cut sorry!

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  @theblackpantslegion · 2 years ago

  Thank you kindly, madam.

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  @Myomer104 · 2 years ago

  The reason they didn't make Chargers into kamikaze units is because 'Mechs are vastly more valuable than their pilots. A common motto in the Succession Wars is "Kill the meat; save the metal."

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  @cartagia6441 · 2 years ago

  As I recall, Tex’s day job is in a Defense procurement think tank.   Which explains why he’s so good at talking how the military industrial complex works.    And the cynicism

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  @FattoCattoGo · 2 years ago

  If you're enjoying the historical documentary style presentation, Tex literally has a historical documentary out about what happens when an unqualified crazy person gets buckets of government support and makes something resembling an airplane. Tex Talks History: The Greatest Con in early Aviation - The Dr. Christmas Story.

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  @quox3987 · 2 years ago

  Welcome to Game of Thrones but before Game of Thrones and with giant robots, space ships, techno-zealotry, and canonically dubious monster girls from space Vegas.

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  @logandarklighter · 2 years ago

  Best comment from the original video in my opinion: <br><b>&quot;The Charger is the FLORIDA MAN of Battlemechs. It&apos;s not so much dangerous because of what it CAN do. It&apos;s dangerous because of what it&apos;s WILLING to do!&quot;</b><br><br>To which I can only add - <br>Random Clanner Timberwolf Pilot to the Kurita Charger running at top speed into a jet-boosted DFA across the Battlefield at him and about to turn him (and possibly his own Charger) into scrap: <br><b>&quot;YOU CAN FLY????&quot;</b> <br>Crazy Charger Pilot: &nbsp;<b>&quot;NO! JUMP GOOD!!!&quot;</b> <br>(Samurai Jack meme for the win. &nbsp;) 👍😎

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  @fatcoyote2 · 2 years ago (edited)

  YES!<br>NEW STUFF!<br>And Tex is a hell of a guy. He donates everything that doesn&apos;t pay his support staff to charity.<br><br>Also, in that bit where Tex talks about what people think may or may not work in warfare until actual war starts, it turns out he was right.<br>When the Ukraine-Russian war kicked off again, it turns out that when nobody owns the sky, we start using trenches again. Nobody, apparently, saw that coming.

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  @1krani · 2 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the meat.&quot; - famed Charger pilot Mike Tyson

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  @nokiademon773 · 2 years ago

  There is an author of battletech on file saying, &quot;i&apos;m sorry, but if you want a war in battletech it has to work this way because thats where the mech battalions are and this is where the dropships are.&quot; &nbsp;<br><br>Like, they SERIOUSLY considered logistics.

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  @nemamiah7832 · 2 years ago

  A thing to note, Charger video was also gathering money for charity. As are most (if not all) big videos by BlackPantsLegion. Specifically St. Jude Children Research in this case. Good people, all in all.

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  @EPIC2X_ · 2 years ago

  Fun Fact: Mr. Tex here is actually canon in Battletech lore, turns out the people who write the lore for Battletech are fans of the &quot;Tex Talks&quot; series.

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