Ps, that was a great link to why the Mad Cat is over rated in lore, it is also overrated against Combine upgraded tech in game aka, IS elementals, c3 and LAMs will consistently beat standard clan. Of course your opponent must allow use of LAMs, but if they don´t, just use Arrow4 (which at company level should always be used) , assuming they allow that. If they don´t, your facing an A*hole who want every favour in their favour.

Being real we can blame ELITE for the open world BS. They all grew up wishing they had programmed that. I remember the 80’´s 8 bit, 8 colours and we were even then saying ¨nice graphics, shame about the gameplay/game”. This century I look at Morrowind as the equivalent, which I still have fond memories of. GTA3 was I think “see this is easy to-do”. Lastly T-34 for WW2 and when I get my M1Pro, I´m gonna have to go old skool on Mech Warrior, forgot how much fun that was. Oh yeah and Warhammer 3, I know it´s got bad reviews but I´m thinking, that will suit me fine. TY.

True, but we did get the two MechAssault games out of it (both are set in the Jihad era). They are the video game equivalent of a J.J. Abrams movie in that they flippantly disregard the rules and consistency of the universe they’re set in. However, unlike Abrams joints, they are so much fun that I am happy to look the other way. Bringing a building down on top of an enemy mech chasing you never gets old.

I would love to see a modern take on that series, especially since I consider 2 to be a step in the wrong direction. When I buy a mech stompy simulator, I want to stomp around in mechs, not run around as a defenseless human or drive a crappy APC. To be fair, that was around the same time that EVERY game decided that it wanted to by like GTA III and add “open world” elements. Most of them didn’t work.

Also Battle Tech went shit with the Jihad war.

Tex made an equally great point about real life at the end of the Timber Wolf video (Mad Cat to you freebirth stravags, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Tf_Rn0Koo), which is that like WWII Germany, having the absolute best equipment and training matters ****-all when literally the entire rest of the world/galaxy is united against you, since they massively outnumber you which means your defeat is inevitable and just a matter of time.

1d4chan actually has a surprisingly good (and funny!) overall summary of the 1,200 years of Battletech lore:
https://1d4chan.fandom.com/wiki/battletech