BATTLETECH: The Blood Asp
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2023
- Alright my friends, on the eve of the finale to the #Battletech #Mercenaries #Kickstarter, this #Battlemech was requested and has been completed for you, the audience.
A #Clan Assault-Mech weighing in at 90-Tons, and one which missed the #ClanInvasion at that, in this video we are going to deep dive the legendary #BloodAsp, made by Clan #StarAdder and Clan #SnowRaven. It's famous for appearing in #Mechassault and for first appearing in #MechCommander. This beast even makes its way into #Mechwarrior / #MechwarriorOnline / #MWO too.
So, let's go over this absolute monster, and how it reemerges in the #DarkAge and #Ilclan Era.
And don't forget to support the Kickstarter as well! #catalystgamelabs / #Catalyst has done an incredible job, and it's worth at least your time looking at it.
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Not many hours remain to get in on it!
#RavenAlliance #OutworldAlliance #Periphery #WarsofReaving #ClanHomeWorlds #KerenskyCluster
Also, there is just really limited Clan Star Adder imagery, so I did borrow a fan-piece in this video, found here:
www.deviantart.com/octobomb/a...
By Octobomb.
Small correction: G variant is a Hell's Horses variant that died off, and then was revived along with the other Blood Asp models, by Snow Raven.
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heh... 😎 *charges gauss rifles* , *weapon crit* , *chain explosion* , *dies*
Perfect.
Better drop the Gauss Rifle Ammunition then. I've heard that stuff is dangerous :P
That if it doesn't get you first.
@@BigRed40TECH No it isn't.
@@SpielkindFR I see the :P doesn't really display the sarcasm of that sentence lol
@@BigRed40TECH I'm german. Jokes are VERBOTEN.
Clan Snow Raven: balancing every minor victory with a monumental fuckup. By Kerensky, I love them.
I will be most unhappy if they are killed off in the upcoming novels.
Hell's horses are usually smooth and wrinkly brained at the same time, but Snow Raven is led by the Lamenters or something.
"We have escaped the Wars of Reaving!"
"Where are we ending up?"
"(Sigh) the Outworlds Alliance."
@@BoisegangGaming Don't forget the loss of the CSR Snow Raven when a jumpship moving in appeared too close to it either; my beloved Cold Crows are well and truly jinxed.
Though the OWA is actually kind of a decent place to live since the Ravens "kind of but not officially" took over. They're enjoying a standard of living they haven't had since before the Reunification Wars, Sterling McKenna got them planets off the Dracs and Feddies, and they've still got so many ships that messing with them is probably a really bad idea.
@@EmperorPylades That's true but there's a decent change the wolf hyperspace stupid ray makes them scuttle their fleet or something.
That said it is nice to see that the OA is at least getting *somewhere* in terms of recovering from "Babykiller" Furlough.
@@BoisegangGaming Making the Cold Crows scuttle their fleet would be the same as killing them off, since the fleet is like their defining feature. Well, that, being untrustworthy gangsters in military uniforms, and being utterly jinxed. As of 'Dominions Get Stupid-Beamed' haven't they signed up to be the Wolf League Navy anyway?
Given that they resurrected Clan Coughing Cat and we now have 2.5 versions of the Kiwi Kiwis running around (Jadewatch, the Money Birds and Christu's rebuilding project), I'm hoping we're not going to see any actual faction deaths for a long time.
I love how the dual Gauss rifles make it look like the fangs of a striking snake.
Don't step on steel snek!
Should be the main mech of Clan Snek Cobra. Thank you BPL.
Did you notice that the cockpit is in the shape of a snake's head?
@@Se1fD3struct1on yeah, with the srm forming the bottom part of an open jaw. Was the first thing I noticed when I saw the color thumb print of the video. Love that.
I never thought of that!
I appreciate how much he emphasized that this machine had a significant level of "Rarity" to it, because I was just shaking my head during most of the intro asking _"Why have I never heard of this thing until now??"_
Clan Gauss and Clan medium laser spam. Looks nasty.
Those are my favorite clans
From what ive gathered playing MWO, the blood asp is a bit of an odd one. Heavy, decently fast, good enough guns though perhaps a little lacking in survivability
@@hammer1349 big target to shoot too...Only downside xD
My favorite thing about this monster is the impetus for it's creation; The blood spirits were being ornery shits about how they didn't get to put down the burrocks, so Star adder designed a mech that was the antiethesis of their design philosophies (cost effective and reliable) by making a monster loaded with heavy fire power that could outfight damn near anything in it's weight class and packing the most cutting edge tech. It couldn't have been more clear what the point of this thing was if it had a pair of middle fingers pointing at the nearest Blood spirit at all times.
Thats why it doesn't have hands. The middle finger is silent.
The Blood Spirit interference in the Burrock Trial is one of the most absurdly, poorly written parts of Clan History. At no point in the History is Clan Blood Spirit presented as so demented that they abandoned the Trial System.
By not declaring a Trial of Refusal, and simply attacking, they opened themselves to an immediate call for a Trial of Annihilation. There would not have been a delay for the Invasion. At worst, the remaining Clans would have agreed to a multi-Clan Trial, if they wished to conserve forces.
No Clan would have continued to have relations with the Blood Spirits.
It was as if the writers needed the Clans, as a whole, to suddenly all lose their collective minds.
The Blood Asp always made me think of a Marauder that took more clan steroids than the Marauder IIC.
I love the lore for MechCommander 2 is just “We don’t know how they got here and when we were done they all blew up”
I kinda wonder if they were purposely sent to the IS to see how the ASP would fair in gruling warfare instead of honor slap fights
I remember salvaging one in the game. This is one design I love from the clans.
I blame mechassault 2 for making me love this thing. I need to get 2 of them. One painted in crimson and the other in deep blue/purple.
I already feel the money flying out of my pockets for obtaining duplicates.....
A Blood Asp and Star Adder duo? Sounds terrifying
The Ravens giving the Star Adders the middle finger by stealing their designs and selling them to spheroids is great.
Probably a cold comfort given the events that led to and especially during the Raven's evacuation out of the Kerensky Cluster
@@chrisb3585 If you'll pardon the pun, cold comfort is the only comfort the Snow Ravens ever know.
I love that: "To enhance the light show of doom, it has a targeting computer. Because of course it does"
In all seriousness, fantastic coverage on the Blood Asp! I previously never knew just how deadly this thing was, but now that I know, I'm damn sure to use it more often in the tabletop game. Those twin gauss rifles along with those heavy mediums and heavy pulses on the prime make it a sinister force.
As a small aside, I'm happy you covered my favorite mech in the Battletech universe. I was super sad that it didn't get more representation, or rather more acknowledgement, but you've done it justice. Great work Big Red 40K!
20:49 Do not underestimate Clan Snow Raven! They caused the death of over 1 billion people when their Warships bombarded Galedon.
(But they were all Dracs, so it is okay)
Karma for Kentares, I guess.
Dang. Welp. I'm looking into sourcebooks in the Galedon references of Sarna now. Total Chaos is looking like a must.
Yeah, uh, I'd rate that as justified. Not even because it were Dracs, but because you really cannot afford to fuck around when it comes to quarantine measures for planetary extinction-level bioweapons like the Curse of Galedon. Like, there's multiple planets in the Inner Sphere that 300+ years after the Succession Wars are still forbidden to anyone to land on because of that kind of shit - with *ALL* Successor States considering it a capital offense to try and break those quarantines. The Inner Sphere has learned the hard way that there is no overkill when it comes to biohazard safety.
They got the Black Thorns too though 😢
The writers hate anything and anyone with even a hint of Comstar background 😭
I never thought...... I'd see the day where one of my favorite Assault 'Mechs in all of Battletech...... The Blood Asp....
"It's a clan assault mech, and that's not how that works" :D
My God the perfect assault mech and so terrifying I'm supprised it wasn't named the basilisk because regardless of variant any mech that catches the ASP's gaze is rendered to the past tense
why is it that these insainely overpowered mechs make me cackle like a maniac when i watch vids on them?
Gotta be my favourite Clan mech. Beautiful, scary and hits like a truck.
It is definitely one of the cooler ones. :D
Snow Raven because, for some, "merchant of death" is an understatement.
First learned of this mech and many others through the old mektek mekpaks for mech4 mercs . Even then it was every bit the monster it's advertised to be! Piloting it was always a joy!😊
The Blood Asp, when you need to turn stuff into a bloody carcass
The only game where I had a chance to try Blood Asp is Mech Commander 2 .It would be very interesting to hear about this monster.
IIRC Mech Commander 2 introduced it.
Can’t say much about it since my only exposure to the mech was via Mechcommander 2. But I can certainly say from reading its technical stats, its another balls to the wall, Canopian Battle Powder snorting murder machine roughly in the same category as the Mad Cat Mk2.
As a Star Adder fan, watching this video is a very welcome occurrence! The Blood Asp, along with the Nova Cat & Warhawk is one of the few Omni's I actually like and fully appreciate along with your "light show of doom" line.
18:08 Slight correction the BAS-A mounts the heavy large lasers in its arms not its side torsos. This can be problematic since it means all the mech's weapons are located in the arms which means with enough firepower, enthusiasm and dumb luck the mech can be disarmed both figuratively and literally at once.
Hm. I must've misread that. Damn :|
This thing is amazing. I can't wait to deploy it with my civil war/Ilclan mercs... C'mon guys, get us to 8 million!
Looking forward to getting mine!
It’s unfortunate that the 8mil wasn’t met, but we got close!
Just gotta resort to 3d printing, now..
It is available as a add on
@@patrickalthouse8157 wasn’t available at the time of this post.
"We're going to insult our enemies by...naming a big, badass assault Mech after them."
It's just w hat Clanners do. They are weird.
I loved this fella since MechAssault. Though their version had claws on the Gauss rifles.
Mechassault is errrr.... not particularly great at depicting Battletech XD
@Big Red 40k its great at capturing the campy nature of the tv series though!
@@GhostOfBuscemi I don't like the TV series. XD
I had never heard of the blood asp before this video, but immediately upon see the picture I though, "Wow that is a nice looking mech!"
Despite having one of the most memorable deaths I've ever had of a mech, it is a clan mech I love. Its a duelist like the executioner, but rather than a brawler its a fenser for the early part of a fight then goes for the kill with its heavy lasers and srms. It has a great style of play and is fun for a gauss boat.
And the T variant meanwhile is just a gigantic unfair cheating bastard against all these hot-running Clanner energy boats. All those neat, tidy game plans of riding the heat curve to maximum efficiency, and then this thing comes in with two plasma rifles, dunks them into the trashbin and sets the bin on fire.
Took the old girl off the shelf and played her for the first time in what has to be 15 years. Blew apart a Banshee 5s and made a kinatro suffer critical existence failure. She still has it.
It never rains but it pours
It rains Iron, when the Blood Asp is around.
I remember using this back in Mechassault 2: Lone Wolf.
The Star Adder config to be more precise because flamethrowers are cool.
Possibly my fave clan mech. First introduced in MA2 for me [Hey, its arcadey fun, don't judge]. Its heavy lasers really don't go well with my consistently poor dice rolls
(Cool! I finally get a chance to come back to this series and it’s on a clan mech with my favorite quirk. Rugged. Anyway, thank you so much for all the effort you put into this video.)
First time i saw the Blood Asp I knew this was my favorite mech., Followed by the Uziel
What if Battletech, but gunpla? O.o
1/144 scale customized figurines of Battlemechs would absolutely find a market.
The first time I saw the Blood Asp was in the MECHCOMMANDER 2 cover!
It's a gorgeous looking mech. It's the snakecat.
First time I ever saw this Mech was in MechCommander 2. I was a child. I had no idea what a Federated Commonwealth was, what a Clan was, who the Great houses were, or the sheer size of the rabbit hole I was standing at the edge of.
AlI knew was this thing was big, on the cover of the box of the game, and had a lot of guns on it. Clearly, it must be the best one.
It's definitely one of the meanest assault mechs ever made
Oh snap my favorite Clan Mech! This is gonna be great!
I don't know why I keep coming back to this video. I think its just because this is one of my favourite Mechs of all time. I've only had limited experience with it, pretty much only in the video game settings. Yet I still love this thing. It's not the Warhammer, Mad Dog or Atlas. Yet I love this thing.
I just want it. And its a Mech I want to learn.
Big Snek is a Snek.
Absolutely loved this Mac. One of my all-time favorites
I think this video alone got us to 7.5 & got the boys at CGL to do us a solid! Thanks Red!
My first exposure to the Blood Asp was the old Ral Partha mini with the tiny legs and HUGE torso. It was colossally silly. Admittedly I liked it more from Mechassault 2, but that game is hardly if at all Battletech. The 3rd IWM sculpt personally is my favorite in the E configuration. Its a shame that for a long time this mech was sequestered to the HW Clans and Hells Horses by extension. I am happy to see its proliferation in the ilClan Era and beyond through Snow Raven
Great video! I always thought this mech had one of the best stories. I love how a few even made their way into the battlefield carnage of the FedCom Civil War.
I loved making this video, it was a blast. :D
Remember when I requested the blood asp and you said it would likely be a long while before you got to it homie?
Fortune smiles upon me
Surprises me that its daddy was a Kingfisher, the legs are backswept and it doesn't have the humanoid profile of the Fisher. In any case this is one hot rig. Love it when a Clan thinks, 'All y'all should have nice things too" and makes a technical wonder available for export.
My favorite part of the MechAssault games? Blood Asp Alpha Strike downs a Catapult or even better, the Ragnarok.
Snow Raven admits inner sphere plasma is the best.
Been waiting since April & now they will start shipping in 7-10 days!
Ladies and gentlemen, clanners, spheroids, and mercs of all ages. Allow me to introduce a variant that I used as a mech commander 2 special. The Blood Asp LT. The LT is a horrifying zealous build that only consists of... 2 Long Tom's, one in each shoulder. That's it, no backup weapons, nothing!
Now it is a cheese build and alone would be pieced up by any mech 10t each way or a skilled pilot. However, if you take 4 of them and use them in hit and run tactics, it is INSANELY effective, especially in battletech tabletop rules!
A good example is my 4 Blood Asps vs. My dad's 12 anubis. In 2 hits 3 anubis would fall. They were pretty fast though, and would get too close for the LT's min range. I had to sacrifice a Blood Asp for them to stop getting close and decimate the rest of the lances. A very fun skirmish! 😊
Only really used it in Mech Assault 2. It is a big, nasty looking, heavily gunned beast. That said I haven't used it enough to have a real attachment to it.
Great video! I feel i may have fundamentally misunderstood the Prime config. Thought it was mobile death at range. Turns out its just doing heavy cover fire until it gets up close to slag a fool.
Also, i love each and every one of those variants. The last HAG centered one was delightful.
Got myself 2 in the KS.
Now, my 3025 Merc company merely needs a time machine...
Like and comment before I even watch the video. Cause its the Mech that got me into Battletech thanks to Mechcommander 2
While I play Mechwarrior and not much of Tabletop Battletech this is still my "go to" Assault Mech.
I have her fitted with 2x ATM12's in each shoulder, and an ATM6 in the CT. This comes with 4 tons of ammo!
The arms have 3x Clan ER-MPL's per arm, the rest is all armor, cooling, and systens.
I can hit you like a LRM30 at range while close in on you to my 360m Optimal and then unleash all of HELL upon you as the ATM's in optimal hit for 90 points of damage plus the 6X ER-MPL's ripping another 24 points off as you alternate fire between the ATM's, L-ARM and R-ARM to maintain heat. Alterntively you can rotate ATM to dual arm lasers for about 6 cycles before heat becomes an issue.
I have shredded Anniahalators in SECONDS with this monstrosity and as such I have named this build the "Blood God".
It's a bit of a shame that we didn't hit 8mil, but I understand they might make this a salvage box choice still, we'll have to see.
Great video as usual Red!
It looks like they're making it and we can buy it, they're just not giving them away.
As a proud lover of all things Snow Raven, I may have to add a couple when the Pledge Manager eventually opens, along with bumping up my Pledge.
Jesus Marrimba, dats a lotta BOOM!
It looks like it has googly eyes and is blowing a raspberry.
I greatly enjoyed the video as both a fan of Clan Star Adder and the Blood Asp. Great video!
Awesome report, learned a lot about this amazing clan mech!
The blood asp A is my favorite clan assault mech.
Twin HAG 40s, because you're not allowed to have fun.
Looking like a Guntank but without the Tank treads lol
Awesome Video, as Usual. I think a few of these will end-up in my Home brew as I bring it up to 3062 and beyond.
When we getting a box for the premiere mercenary group in BattleTech. It’s about time Quints Olympian Groundpounders get their due!!! Blessed be Blake
My all time favourite mech
I dunno, Alexander Kerensky designed the King Crab, I think he'd approve the Blood Asp by a lot.
One Hell of a Vid....I hope we get this mech
I remember this being the literal strongest in MC2
If you look very closely at the picture of the cockpit in the thumbnail pic, it looks like a pair of googly eyes with a tongue sticking out beneath them.
Snek is very dangerous.
@@BigRed40TECH Also goofy looking.
Great video! didn't quite make 8 million but was still an amazingly successful kickstarter. Looking forward to more vehicles and clan mechs : )
Blood Asp the Dark Ages and Ilclan era's AR15, everyone got at least one
Snow Raven's will make sure everyone gets one, for a fair price!
You are mistaken in the beginning of your video about the Urbanmech good sir! It indeed does have value..., as the franchise's meme machine and source of schadenfreude for all other mechs! A most important job! In all seriousness, great video! The Blood asp is one of my favorite mechs. Let's reach that KS stretch goal!
It most definitely does not have value lmao
Blood Asp always looked to me like a super sized Uziel. As for it in Mechcommander 2. I rarely used it because by the time the campaign gave me access to it, I was already to established in my strategy that I didnt bother shaking it up to use it.
Four RAC/5 and two Medium ER lasers
Ah yes, the mech that I decided to use as the basis for all of my gamertags. MA2 is what got me into Battletech and the Bloodasp and I’m glad that the best mech is getting appreciated.
We didn't get 8 million in the Kickstarter, but I believe they said it'll be available in the pledge manager for purchase
They did! :D
God damn... The A-config literally deletes a ton of armor with every trigger pull for each individual weapon system. That's terrifying. xD
Some amazing timing. I just updating my mods in Mechwarrior 5 and got one of these last night. Just waiting on the refit to finish so I can try it out.
I remember the Blood Asp from Mechcommander 2 and MechAssault 2. It was the first time I ever heard of Clan Heavy Lasers, and Clan Star Adder.
To me its memorable for being unremarkable otherwise. Being a 90ton assault mech its above average in speed and relatively lightly armed. Its similar to the classic Warhawk 85on assault mech. Its large engine limits its equipment resulting it in having underwhelming firepower and lacking in the range clan technology provides. The Prime Blood Asp has only 2 Gauss Rifles for long range combat, with the rest of its weapons are for close range, and it cannot handle the heat at short range. Now that I think about it thats kind of like the Atlas.
To me the ideal assault mech is something closer to the Dire Wolf. The Dire Wolf has a large number of weapons for various ranges and enemies
G Configuration.
Why's it called that?
Because... [Damage panel lights up] GEE-zus!
[Mech topples, limbs blown off]
Awesome video as always!
Thank you!
Good!
thank you
Red, blood asp has saved my line a few times in battle. When I had to attack a research lab area. It help my assault star to destroy the pro type mechs I had to fight. It was clan tech vs some powerful weapons and a 1,000 ton mech
My second favorite clan mech. Madcat, Blood Asp, Thor
I've been playing since 1988, and 90 tons never got real representation until this design was released. 90 tons is such an excellent weight class. It's my favorite weight to customize and create, specifically because there was no Clan 90 tonner detailed in the original 3050 release...and also because the Cyclops is hot garbage on the tabletop. The Blood Asp doesn't quite match up with some of the monsters I have created but it is a heavy hitter and fun to deploy. Loved the video, Red. Can't wait for the Executioner.
Custom mechs will over perform. I don't take them into consideration.
The sexiest clan mech 🤩42 tons of pods on 64 kph, what flavor of death will it be today, sir?
It really is a pity that Mechwarrior 5 is Inner Sphere-centric; I would love to try out some of the Clan 'Mechs in an updated video game setting that isn't MWO.
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY!!!!
Looks like something I’d wear on SolarisVII.
My favourite mech
No step on Snek.
Oh my Blake... I want a Hell's Horses Star with two Prime Variants and two B variants... the combo would be so deadly, and they compliment each other so well!
I was waiting for this mech for so long! I was hoping for some MW5 gameplay footage though. Still another top tier video!
No MW5 gameplay for this one :(
Clan Star Adder: insulting an enemy by naming a Mech after them.
Great video! It's a fun and educational video to a top tier omnimech. Even if you only did slap it together to hype the Kickstarter. 😜
People voted with their wallets for me to do it. I was surprised I was able to piece this together at this quality before the KS.
@@BigRed40TECH Hey, I was impressed by the quality delivered in less than a day. It's why I'm subbed here, along with many others.
@@observationsfromthebunker9639 I put 20 hours into making this video XD
My first instinct with the prime is to rip out the SRM launcher and ammo, and replace it with cooling/Gauss ammo.
Edit: Kerensky was already weeping from Tukayyid.
For the Prime I'd reduce the number of Medium Lasers by two, use the savings for more Gauss Ammo and snipe.
Mine is swapping the gauss for a pair of LBX-10s so I can say fuck you from 600m+ or up close with untelenting slug or scatter rounds and invest in more armor and a chin mounted PPC
This is one of those clan omnis that look great on paper, but are often inexplicably hampered by the lack of ammunition for it's massive guns. The clanners should have known better by 3060 than to have 24 tons of explosive dead weight after firing eight rounds.
after 8 rounds it's better to turn off the gauss as you don't want to risk a hit to them
@@certanmike Except you can't power them down RAW.
The idea is to kill the guy with that ammo before you blow up.
@@ghoulbuster1 Yeah. Good for a duel, but troublesome when there are more opponents. Even with Zellbringen you sometimes have to fight more than one 'Mech and then it starts to be felt. There is an easy fix for this thugh by degrading the SRM launcher and getting one ton of ammo and and some extra bang for the gauss rifles. Not having to carefully mother your shots for your principal long range armament also helps.
Problem is that it was made by a Homeworld clan, late in the Wars of Reaving, so not adhering VERY strictly to Zellbrigen generally meant that you died next. Can't be showing any signs of that Spheroid taint.
Now I really want a Blood Asp!