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Oh. I remember Word of Lowtax faux-roleplayed (tetatae) capellans for maximum hatred so good on them for carrying on the tradition of pissing everyone off I guess.

I hate all battletech lore so I can't really tell the difference.
 
Gimmick Account said:
Oh. I remember Word of Lowtax faux-roleplayed (tetatae) capellans for maximum hatred so good on them for carrying on the tradition of pissing everyone off I guess.

I hate all battletech lore so I can't really tell the difference.
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I like some of the designs in battletech than I remember reading the lore and looking at all the faction logos and just utterly repulsed by the setting its so fucking bad, not to mention it got worse apparently when a tranny became the lorenigger for it. Thank god you can just paint your own dudes and add your own logos and less gay lore to it lmao.
 
Lach said:
Thank god you can just paint your own dudes and add your own logos and less gay lore to it lmao.
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Nah if I ever get into tabletop (and I've been seriously considering it lately to get something fun to paint) I'm definitely going with biblically-accurate ComStar just so I can show up dressed like a wizard
 
robobobo said:
Natasha was like 80 during the Clan invasion, she damn well shouldn't sound young. Given that the clanners thought you were over the hill by thirty, they should've been trying to put her in a museum through the whole thing.
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IIRC, they did try. The problem is that Clans always choose violence and Natasha would just, well, kill them.

That aspect of Clan warrior culture is so upside down it's even lampshaded by Phelan in one of the books.
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
IIRC, they did try. The problem is that Clans always choose violence and Natasha would just, well, kill them.

That aspect of Clan warrior culture is so upside down it's even lampshaded by Phelan in one of the books.
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Yeah, and when Phelan learns about how rapidly they churn through guys he's all "Wait, what? My old man would kick my ass if we fought in BattleMechs on account of everything he's learned in those years". As far as he was concerned they were getting rid of guys right as they were the perfect age to start training the next generation in all the dirty tricks they picked up over the years. That regular churn that guarantees the next generation never directly learns from the one before is the greatest flaw the Clans have, especially since their worst and most disgraced warriors just shy of being solahma wind up on sibko duty instead of their best.
 
Snekposter said:
Yeah, and when Phelan learns about how rapidly they churn through guys he's all "Wait, what? My old man would kick my ass if we fought in BattleMechs on account of everything he's learned in those years". As far as he was concerned they were getting rid of guys right as they were the perfect age to start training the next generation in all the dirty tricks they picked up over the years. That regular churn that guarantees the next generation never directly learns from the one before is the greatest flaw the Clans have, especially since their worst and most disgraced warriors just shy of being solahma wind up on sibko duty instead of their best.
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I have a feeling this might have been intentional on Nicky's part to keep the clanners from questioning his twisted doctrine. Discredit and discard the old so they can't pass on their learned experience, forcing the young to rely on the regime's same old teachings with each generation. A Stalin classic.
 
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AbduluCthuluZulu said:
I have a feeling this might have been intentional on Nicky's part to keep the clanners from questioning his twisted doctrine. Discredit and discard the old so they can't pass on their learned experience, forcing the young to rely on the regime's same old teachings with each generation. A Stalin classic.
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Yeah that aspect is pretty much on the nose. When Operation Klondike started the avergae age of active clan warriors was the highest and from there it went rapidly downhill until it settles to mid 20's

Also Natasha had to undergo a retrial when she arrived from Wolf's Dragoons to regain her warrior status. She trialed together with Phelan and Natasha scored 4 kills earning her the rank of Star Colonel. Though if you are a Clan warrior who earns enough merits and a bloodname you are out of the cycle and can serve until older age. for example Ulric earned his bloodname when he was in his mid 30's and nobody dared to actually remove him from the rosters because he was just that good. But it should also be considered that Clan warriors train from a young age while IS Mechwarriors usually begin training when 16 or older (unless they are trained by their family and that training is usually more informal then academy training). Of course this also leads to the Clan manpower pool being rather small while the Is has a huge manpower pool to draw from
 
Balr0g said:
Also Natasha had to undergo a retrial when she arrived from Wolf's Dragoons to regain her warrior status. She trialed together with Phelan and Natasha scored 4 kills earning her the rank of Star Colonel. Though if you are a Clan warrior who earns enough merits and a bloodname you are out of the cycle and can serve until older age. for example Ulric earned his bloodname when he was in his mid 30's and nobody dared to actually remove him from the rosters because he was just that good. But it should also be considered that Clan warriors train from a young age while IS Mechwarriors usually begin training when 16 or older (unless they are trained by their family and that training is usually more informal then academy training). Of course this also leads to the Clan manpower pool being rather small while the Is has a huge manpower pool to draw from
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It takes 20 years for the Clans to create a front-line soldier, but the Inner Sphere can do that in a tenth of the time in extremis. From Lost Destiny:
Phelan felt his heart begin to pound again, but it was no longer from nervousness. Suddenly he saw what Ulric had always wanted from him. I am a fusion between the Clans and the Inner Sphere. I know, I understand, what Ulric could only ever hope was true. He nodded his head, then slammed his fist into his left palm.

"Special people, you say. Special circumstances, you sputter. I disagree with every cell in my body! Yes, Kai is special, and so is Victor and so are the Dragoons and the Hounds and the Genyosha, but they are not unique. There are countless special people in the Successor States. The Com Guards, before they fought us at Tukayyid, were untried forces. The Wolf Dragoons you faced are all orphans adopted at the end of the last war or freeborn offspring of those Wolf Clan members who originally ventured out into the Successor States.

"Look at me. In the Successor States, the only thing remarkable about me was my family and my hardheadedness. Granted the latter has been of help in the Clans, but had I completed the course of study at the Nagelring, I would have been just another MechWarrior—probably not even a Leftenant. Yet here I stand among you, the leaders of the Clans, having commanded a Star and having won a Bloodname."

He pointed back at the ilKhan. "This is the truth the ilKhan has seen. Three hundred years of breeding has not made us all that different from each other. Were we to proceed, it would be the battle of a knife against a grindstone. Yes, we would get sharper, we would win great victories, but in the end, we would be ground away to nothing.

"The ilKhan's agreement with Focht buys us the time we need to prepare ourselves for the future. This invasion will never again know the lightning victories it did at the start. As ComStar showed us, our tactics are not suited to a long, drawn-out conflict. You did not prepare for that and you lost. The Wolf Clan did prepare for that and we won."

Phelan pulled his head up. "The world-by-world conquest and administration of the Successor States will be nothing if not long and drawn-out. In the fifteen short years the ilKhan has bought us, we can prepare the bases we need to continue our conquest. He has been true to his role as war leader because in seeing defeat on the horizon, he has stopped us from rushing headlong into it.

"Remove him, repudiate the deal, and the Clans will be a memory long before the agreement has run its course."
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The Bogwater Flows On said:
I like parts of the lore up to Dark Age. I hate everything Dark Age onwards.

I hate lots of the other lore, but there's stuff I like/can headcanon into liking.
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the objectively only good part, the tetatae conquering the galaxy in bird robots, is post-dark age though?
 
To be fair, I'm pretty sure the goons were just all-in on Capellans to piss off the FedCom-loving majority. The whole Word of Lowtax thing squeaked through about a year before the trannies had completely overrun SA, so going around trolling people wasn't yet overly problematic and a bad look yikes.
 
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