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Ben getting back into this franchise recently. I found a cool YouTube channel that does some great in depth talks about the series. What's super cool about it is that the team frames it as though it's a historical series set within the series.
Anyway, does anyone else even know what this series is? Did you play the PC games or even check out the Tabletop stuff?
Yes! Well, I'm at least aware of it from the '90s. I've only played the MechWarrior 3 multiplayer demo back in the day, but that alone was great fun.
Has the series expanded since those days?
Quite a bit, actually. Granted, I got into back when the Clans were being introduced. Let's see, Comstar had a civil war between the religious factions, there was a huge communication blackout that crippled most of the factions and sent the Inner Sphere back into a pre-Fourth Succession War period (think starter BattleTech, where salvaging is everything and dueling happens more often than large scale offenses) and some dude managed to conquer the Terran Hegemony and started a Republic that managed to get the Clans and Inner Sphere houses to all work together.
The map is crazy with three new territories run by clans, and it looks like the Clans may have finally retaken Terra. So crazy times in the last 20 years since I last really looked at the series.
Trying to finish up MechCommander Gold. I'm on the last six missions of the OG campaign and sad I had to sacrifice a great elite pilot to get past this obnoxious mission where I have to stop a swarm of enemy mechs from escaping the map. Now I'm stuck in an escort mission with a hot-headed pilot who thinks he's invincible in an Atlas.
I also picked up BattleTech on Steam since it was on sale. Turn-based might be more up to my speed than the RTS shenanigans of MechCommander.
On the final two missions for MechCommander Gold. Been ages since I played this, and I honestly don't think I've beaten it. At least, I can't remember if I have.
I am laughing because I've just moved to Heavy Assault Mchs with good speed (i.e. Clan mechs) for these last few missions. Been rocking a team of Mad Cats (Timber Wolves), Masarakis, and Vultures. I'd use an Atlas, but they are too slow, and the latest missions have required speed. The most obnoxious lately, besides that rescue/escort mission I mentioned in my previous post, involved capturing oil refineries in a massive gas and oil complex, where there are tone of gas tankers just lying around to be ignited and send you, the enemy, the environment, and anything else in the general vicinity to kingdom come.
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