Battletech Episode 4

[greatboka74]

If anyone remembers throwing dice and fearing a lance of Warhammers and Archers while my Assassin waits to stop over heating... Miss the good old days

[2awsommee4U]

This is real action show

[Bluecho4]

@2awsommee4U Or as real as a limited animation budget can afford. But damnit if this show doesn't do its best! >o<

[XkriskrossX]

This is the good stuff, back when TV was all about fun and kids didnt have to worry about school and homework. Now everything has to be childish, educational, and filled to the brim with cheesey jokes and punchlines.

[Battletechfreak]

always good yo rewatch the old series, but is this the best quality

[SteveC935]

Clan Wolverine or "The Not Named" clan used orbital bombardments before they were Annihilated by Clan Wolf. Remnants of Wolverine escaped however and rumored to have headed to the Inner Sphere again long time ago during the first Succession War.

[Gallowell]

@SteveC935 I believe you are referring to the 'Minnesota Tribe' - the remnants of the Wolverines who did manage to slip out of Clan space and take refuge on uncharted worlds just outside of the IS borders.

[SteveC935]

@Gallowell Yeah, but I don't want to spoil any more of the storylines. The whole thing is filled with twists and turns that will shock ya. "Minnesota Tribe" is what the Kuritan investigators called them because of an insignia patch with a picture of Minesota and a number on it, on a previous Star League Military uniform.

[Gallowell]

@SteveC935 Aye, if I remember correctly, the number was "331" beside the patch of Minnesota and also wore a patch of a wolverine.

[SteveC935]

@Gallowell Yeah. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents goes into a LOT more detail on The Minnesota Tribe and their escape from Clan space.

[Gallowell]

@SteveC935 Unfortunately I haven't read any of the Blake reports. My access to most documents comes from the book series and tech printouts published back in the time when they were still considered 'cool'.

[Battletechfreak]

@Gallowell so what books have you read?

[Gallowell]

@Battletechfreak Too long and not enough room to list them all, but the entire BT series, save for the last 5 or so, plus the entire MW series to date.

[Firewing26]

Hmm... I love how in depth this series goes... but at the same time I am disapointed about a couple parts. The Falcons never once initiated an orbital bombardment of any planet. The only clan to ever us orbital bombardment during the initial invasion were the Smoke Jaguars and even then they lost considerable face with the other clans because it was "excesive and wasteful." Ok sorry I geeked out a bit but this series made me love reading, I want it in good hands.

[WarsharkProductions]

@Firewing26 As well as the clans seeing orbital bombardment as dishonor when killing civilians in the collateral damage.

[Gallowell]

Go and watch "Soldier" (Kurt Russel, '98) and that's perhaps the closest you'll see of free and trueborn in flesh.

[Kayzaks]

As a Kid I never realized how much Information about the BT Universe these Cartoons actually had! Only now I can appreciate it.

[hurricanebjp]

gribae--- COMSTAR is a loser want to be upstart house..My House Davion will never forget how your Comstar mess with our right to rule over all lol

[Gallowell]

@hurricanebjp "My House Davion"?

SOunds like you're living in a world of your own there.

Personally, I dislike the houses. Just give me a planet in the FRR and I'd be happy.

[Purluc]

How about Exosquad? :)

[aemmel1970]

I like how the Clanners look like rejects from a Mad Max movie! lolz!

[Symos]

It does seem to look like Nicoli forgets he is dealing with non-clanners. How could innerspheres know the duties of bondsmen or what a batchal isand such?

[chrisman02]

Is their any way to see these in higher quality? This audio is annoying :(

[Gallowell]

@chrisman02 Sorry, this is about as good as it was, when it first aired in the mid 90s.It's better this way anyway, it's kept simple - not like any of the crap being released today, like those gods-awful Transformer live action movies.

[sarahts21]

@Gallowell All things considered it's not a BAD little 90's cartoon. It's reasonably well animated considering some of the stuff that came out at the time. It's no Ulysesses or Galaxy Rangers but quite watchable.

[Gallowell]

@sarahts21 I didn't say I hated it, I quite like it.

But Ulysesses? That''s one show that I would be glad to burn away every trace from human existence.

[sarahts21]

@Gallowell Really? I quite liked it... even brought the 3 DVD set they threw out a while ago. Still if we all liked the same thing it'd be a boring place to live.

[Opheliaimmortal777]

Loved this show so much. Just wish they paid the animators a little more.. :)

[chrisman02]

@Opheliaimmortal777 Yeah, when that clanner walked onto the dropship, he was as big as a Mech, then he just disappeared!

Also, WTF @ the staircase appearing out of the Vulture...

[Gallowell]

@chrisman02 Keep in mind that the cartoon series was made more for kids and didn't use as much canon from the book series, so discrepincies like that, while bad, should just be overlooked.

[hurricanebjp]

gribae  are nuts COMSTAR is no children of the STAR LEAGUE

[gribae]

@hurricanebjp What the fuck are you talking about? Go and read up a bit on the history of ComStar, the Exodus and General Kerensky - then come back to me.

[RomanOfSparta]

"I cant see their faces, but i know their not happy"

ahhh.....i love that line

[Gabkicks]

omg that fake japanese accent is so bad 9 minutes into the vid. lol.

[Katzentatze]

Enhanged Imaging is the Codeword for:

We use Low-Style CG Graphics for Combat Scenes?

Whirr Whirr Whirr... Annoying.

Even though i like the Show, and Batteltech as RPG and Strategy Game.

[gribae]

This was early 90s - cutting edge at the time.

[HailSinbel]

Dude :P it's year 95 :P back in those days people went "Woooooot! Check those Special EFFECTOZ! They be shaaaarp an' sweeeet!"

Obviously it was impressive for kids back then.

[RomanOfSparta]

amen brotha, i remember pretending to be sick from school on 1 occasion just so i could watch this show

[ThePretorian72]

Your right and the makers of the game had gone long ways to canonize this series into the BT-Universe. But I love every bit of it, so I enjoy this upload really. Sound quality could have been better.

[Hajadda]

For those who want to "throw"dice again. There is MegaMek and MegaMekNET to play the good old boardgome over the web.

[ottselguy]

Lemme at mathus One on one! Ill lodge my hydrolic wrench so far up his ass he will cough up cogs and bolts for a week!

[EvilCleric]

I'd love to see that Bidding.

Malthus: I bid my Assault Star.

Ottsel: I bid my wrench! Bring it, ya truebirth bastard.

[ottselguy]

*puts on comstar jacket*

WHO ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE STAR LEAGUE ? COMSTAR!

[gribae]

If you want to get technical, both Com Star AND the Clans are the Children of the Star League.

[MikeofWyoming]

There was a cartoon? Wow I remember tossin dice and drinking Mt Dew.

[CrashFu]

Did... did they successfully DFA attack four elementals with a DROPSHIP? I think that sets a new record for epicness.

[ottselguy]

i laguehd so hard. thats all the clans deserve.

[EvilCleric]

Hey, they wanted to give the Clans the ultimate Highlander Burial experience.

[RomanOfSparta]

love what he says

"I cant see their faces, but i knoooow their not happy"

[copershark]

the clans reminds me of Aeons from Supreme Comander kind of nice

[Buemmo]

@copershark the way they live comes close to it... but the background story is totally different

[dantepoe818]

anyone see Ep13???

[Jshaw71]

good old 90's cartoon, better than this anime crap we have these days, i avoid watch cartoon network these days as it's slowly degrading into anime network... i dion;t see whats so great about animes, by the time they are aired here in america, all the animeness of it is stripped away and scripts are badly dubbed and dumbed down... i am sad for the creators of the anime series that make it here to america...

[nordicberserk]

Thats why fansubs (fan subtitled anime) are the best. Download or watch them online.

[Jshaw71]

well, in general i stay away from animes... i like the stuff i have grown up with and accept no substitutes for what us westerns have done with animation...

[nordicberserk]

Hmm. no offence, but you sound sorta biased. Western animation is good, but suffering under teh teletubbification that is happening (those antena sporting bastards gotta die).

Anime is cool and, from time to time, does things western animation doesnt.

[ctruman]

some of the older 90's western animation have been good, the batman series, superman, ironman..i know they weren't as intense as their japanese counterparts, nut it was more grittier, as was said earlier telitubbying is killing the genre.

[nordicberserk]

Yea. The slightly older ones were better. The newer ones all assume children are retards that only respond to overly cute characters.

[Jshaw71]

unforantely that reason we don't get 'intense' series as oftemn is because of the limits childrens televisions exectutives want to put on what we see on television, and they so theres no censcorship these days...

[AlphaandOmega]

Anybody remember a Cartoon called Centurions? that was a badass show in it's day. Now people think kids'll be traumatized if they see cyborgs these days. Damn you FCC!

[ottselguy]

I remember as a kid I thought of how cool it would be to "drive" a mech ..... the hell where they thinking cancelling this

[EvilCleric]

I loved that show!

[Buemmo]

@AlphaandOmega yeah. we live in crazy times today... just look at what they call music these days *facepalm*

[TheBlackSpider82]

@AlphaandOmega "Man and machine....power extreme!!"

[payot]

If it wern't for anime there wouldn't be any battletech as it was inspired from it.

[Jshaw71]

while that might be true i perfer american animation style over japanese styled animation anyday of the week, that's just how i am...

[PlanckLimit]

(3:15) Mech-but Escalator LOLWUT?

[TheDarkLord404]

Why aren't the other clans mentioned? Wolf, Ghost Bear and Smoke Jaguar were in this spearhead too.

[Cybrose]

True, but each of the clans attacked different regions, these 'mech warriors were just lucky enough to only encounter the falcons

[DefilerhXc]

clan wolf apears in later episodes. and they do s crap job of portraying clan wolf as well.

[gribae]

It's a cartoon representation of the BattleTech novels "Blood of Kerensky Trilogy." There were a great many errors between them both, but I believe the cartoon focus only on one Clan, since it was created for children 9as young as 10. You don't want to confuse the kiddies, do you?

[ThaAzNAnimeFreak]

Confusing kids is fun...

[Jshaw71]

it's not that they didn't want to cinfuise the kids, probally the script writers did want to bother with getting everything right, and saw the series as a way to increase the toy sales, i bet, but not for sure...

[midgetydeath]

what i find kinda amusing is that the clans only attacked the inner sphere because they were bored. lol.

[WhiteTiger225]

think of them as nomadic raiders, they live to battle

[KadenXx]

The clans attacked because they were following the dream of alexander kerensky. They were attempting to secure terra (earth) and reunite the starleague under a single banner.

[Sulaco1001]

The funny thing is: Read some actual history on the Mongol Horde under Chinggis (Ghengis) Khan. You will notice similarities.

[abntemplar82]

really think of them more like the christain crusaders from the 1st crusade

[texanpilot23]

not bored.. they wanted to unite the IS under one banner that why Kerensky left and spent all that time training the clans.. to eventually invade the IS and instill the traditions of the old Star League.

[robspartan117]

they did want to come back and reunite it, but knew it would be a long time before they could. the first 50 years they had (before the clans were formed) kerensky's band almost killed themselves through massacres and mini-wars several times. your also forgetting that alot of the clans wanted to just protect the IS not Invade it. ya know, Wardens and Crusaders

[MojoPain]

Wow really cool the way they didn't dumb down showing an orbital strike lol never seen a day time cartoon wipe out an entire city before.

[chas1123]

Mechs are not supposed to be lumbering there supposed to be fast.

[WeissDraconis]

Remember that back then, animation was not that complex, and in any case, the Clans seldom used guerilla taactics anyway, and the Inner Shpere forces seem to not know that, either. It was the 80s, not 2006, when this series was made.

[Sulaco1001]

Make that the early 1990s.  This was not an 80s cartoon.

[NemFX]

The technology of animation was stupidly limited back then.

[RangerZRO]

Don't compare one technology cartoon to others, this was different other cartoons in the 80's and early 90's were great. Better than was we have today. Actions cartoons back then animation was quality at it's BEST!!!

[DefilerhXc]

if they got rid of the green line grid during the 3d mode wud of made the experience a whole lot better.

[monkeyishi]

not all of them what about assualt mechs

[Kennyboy0077]

Depends on which one ..

[Solinas36]

Awesome been searching for this cartoon since I first watched it and bought the toys back in the 90's and been a BT player since 1st edition :) the clan invasion breathed new life into the BT universe imo

[LumaisDrakkenguard]

ohh yes i remember this sho and the old games:) my trusty warhammer never failed me:)

[Gigas0101]

haha! sorry just reminded me of some guy's animation up here where he and his friends are playing battletech but one guy doesn't seem to get the message and keeps trying to attack the huge robots with eldar.

[necroguard]

thx for posting you rock!

[SturmSilberhand]

boah... im a BT warrior myself and i always searched for the serie but didnt find it. Thx for posting

[youdragon]

i cant find ep 1,2 or 3 can u post them

[WolfKnight27]

It's a little hard to see what's going on in the tunnel scene, but mostly good recording! For the Inner Sphere!