BATTLETECH: The Dire Wolf
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- One of the more powerful #Battlemechs ever constructed, the #Direwolf, or #Daishi, is an assault-#omnimech which can lay waste to entire formations of #InnerSphere, or even lesser #Clan machines.
In this video, we are going to examine this #ClanSmokeJaguar, and #ClanWolf battlemech. This will even eventually include its arrival in places like the #WolfsDragoons, #RepublicoftheSphere, or #ROTS, and #ClanHellsHorses.
There are only a handful of machines like this one, that have made such an impact, and to be the chosen mech for so many famous pilots, including Victor Steiner-Davion, Kurita Hohiro, and Natasha Kerensky.
The last Mech from Technical Readout 3050, is now here, and is on display.
We have a special guest as well, who will be linked in this area after the video premiers.
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In my best Tex voice.... 'Clanner language changed radically in their time outside the Inner Sphere. So much so that communications were... complicated as Clanners start answering Aff and demanding a Batchall. But sometimes you just need to say '$&*# YOU!!!' And the Clanners chose to speak those words ... with a Dire Wolf'
That is indeed something Tex would say.
You captured his soul with this one 👌
Gotta love that in-universe even the other clans go "oh god not these fucking guys again" whenever the smoke jaguars show up.
The Dire Wolf is the recurring nightmare of the Atlas, if an Atlas could dream.
>implying the machine spirit doesn't dream
HERESY
If a Marauder can dream, why not an Atlas?
@@135forte I know one Marauder hungers and schemes.
Do Mechs dream of Clanner omnis?
Let's be fair, EVERY mech has had nightmares about dire wolves......
Glad to hear the dulcet voice of TheB33f once more. From the man who brought us the great configuration of the Laser Drill Breaker and the Direstar, it seems only fitting that he brings us the opening to this guns on legs mech.
It was a blast working with B33F on this one.
The Inner Sphere name for this mech, Daishi, is rumored to mean "Great Death". Not so! It actually translates to "Oh lawd he comin'!"
Just slowly :p
"Wait we're up against WHAT?" One of said multiple lighter enemies that are supposed to swarm the clan assault. Allegedly the reason it is forbidden to say "We can hold the line" in the combine.
"I’ve been killing fools like you since before you were born, and I’ll still be doing it long after you’re dead!" - Natasha Kerenski Pilot of the Widow Maker
I totally forgot about the dire star. The most terrifying thing on two legs sice the Cretaceous period.
If ever there was a nightmare to stalk the dreams of mechwarriors, this has to be it.
Anyone know if there is a mech sheet available for the Dire Star? Or better yet a miniature?
I like Clan mechs. If they solved the logistics problems they could be like Skobel Mechworks. Aka the guys who made The Warhammer.
yeah if they had maybe produced parts and maybe mechs on the worlds they conqurered during the invasion they could have solved their logistical problems and even if they still lost to comstar they'd be all set for when they got banished from the homeworlds.
I thought StarCorps made the Warhammer.
@@garrettharriman6333 *Checks my Tex Talks Battletech video on the matter on my hard drive.*
Well, shit. You're right. Skobel made the weapons and other mechanical shit for The Warhammer. My mistake!
It's truly a shame just how many well-designed Clan 'Mech lines have fallen victim to loss of production facilities.
@@sheilaolfieway1885 They did try, and eventually some did get working mech factories, but aside from their own arrogance, they had limited numbers of pilots, limited training output, and the locals REALLY didn't want to work under these technobarbarians.
Nothing less than one of the true monsters of the Battletech universe.
It really is. It was a major focus for a long time too. One of the boogiemen of Battletech.
"We will resist with any and all means at our disposal the efforts to subjugate and enslave our freedoms. We fight with the truth on our side, and we simply ask that everyone listen and judge accordingly. In the end, I know we shall be victorious" - Prince Victor Steiner-Davion, Pilot of the Prometheus
Clan wolf-in-exile assisted Victor in operation Bulldog, and then the dark ages threw that alll away and brought us the fake clan wolf with the son of the bitch of the universe at it's head...
@@sheilaolfieway1885No arguments about what Katherine Steiner-Davion was, but don't forget that he was also the son of Victor Steiner-Davion as well. Which only brings up more questions about Timberwolf pilots and the New Jersey Past Time.
Okay getting the legend who gave us such monsters as the Dire Star and the Giga Drill Laser to give the intro to this notorious nightmare was genius!
This guy gets it. :) lol
The King Crab may be my top favorite Assault battlemech, but I still look on the Dire Wolf with great reverence.
Thing's a beast. Every time I'm faced with one, my first thought is "Ah crap, it's a Daishi!"
Even if I happen to be using one as well.
Wonderful video about a truly menacing 'Mech. What would have made it more terrifying would have been the Smoke Jaguars habit of massing Dire Wolves together in a Star and using it as a battering ram to just smash aside any opposition. And if you're driving largely 3025 tech stuff against a Star of Dire Wolves coming slowly at you, you're probably in a LOT of trouble unless you massively outnumber them, or can break up their formation or have things like artillery and the like. But a Star of Dire Wolves could easily smash aside a Company without breaking a sweat.
One thing that always surprised me is that you don't see a Dire Wolf with a UAC-20 or LB-20 until you get the S config although I would assume that weapon mix would be around in REVIVAL too, or perhaps the design was seen as being too slow to bring that big gun into range.
Amazing video enjoyed every moment of it. Can't wait for 3055
Thank you Defiant!
The Dire Star Reminds me of the "Sleepy" Awesome build for Battletech 2018. Kill. Sleep. Kill. Sleep.
Just started, enjoyed the Cameo, this better end with a jole review of the Direstar.
I miss the Daishi from my MW3 days.
Narrated by the greatest mechwarrior of our time
Wasn't sure about the clanner 4 a second, but the dire star bit sold me.. hahaha! Well played!!
I got one of those primed for my Clan Wolf force, gotta paint it up soon for good! It's such a beast of a 'mech!
You joke but I absolutely love the idea of Navajo code talkers being used against the clans and it's just modern-day French
Edit: also all hail the Tug 2C
"close your eyes, everyone dies" is a very punk rock statement. also permanently imagining smoke jags as french-african dudes from now on. i remember chatting with some senegalese dudes on a bus in cancun in my best school learned french and being like damn thats the most unique accent ever.
Thank you for another great mech analysis video!
The B33f's DapperJager video is legendary 👌
Big red is a Big Chad
B33F was a true gentlemen for helping out with the video.
Love it when good guys work together. Be happy my dude
My favorite assault mech.
TBH I didn't click on this right away because I didn't think you'd cover the most ☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️ significant ☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️ variation ever fielded...and then you immediately proved me wrong. There has never been a better meme/troll build in the history of the franchise. Thanks bEEf.
TheB33F!! Awesome video guys, keep them coming. Great to see you again in MWO also(:
TheB33f! The legend himself!
I spit out my soda when I heard the B33F's voice. I require another one.
It was an honour to work with B33F on this video. I was so hyped as the video came together.
The HAG series on the D variant, and in general. The +2 mod at short range is great but balanced but the opposite at long, what makes it so much scarier than just being hit by a pair of clan LRM20s with ArtIV? Still 5pt groupings on a scatter chart. What am I missing?
No AMS will save you from the HAG XD
"So... you want some 'Mech to go with all those weapons?"
"Aff."
"And would you like some Big Red to go with THE B33F"?
"Aff."
BEEEEF, WYA, HAVENT HEARED MY BOY FOR AGES
The "D" in Dire Wolf D actually stands for "Divine Sandstorm"
The B33f has hijacked Bear's video! This is a Dire situation.
B33f is the Man!
100%
The wolves being upset over borderline dishonorable behavior is ironic as hell even the though the Jags did indeed play dirty.
The W is probably my favorite because who doesn't want to threaten 104 points of damage for just 5 heat while running?
Mad cat after a boost on steroids
I can not wait until you cover the Iron Cheetah.
That'll be a bit, but it'll be interesting when we get there.
"Is this an out-of-season April Fool's Joke?"
I was an in-season April Fools Joke. So no. It's definitely in-season :P
I love this mech. Yes it's slow. But the massive amount of guns it can carry that turn whatever in front of you into salvage. In one of the games I slapped on jump jets and bigger engines. It wasn't fast but when you drop 100 tons of fuck you on someone's head they tend to stay down. You can keep your atlas.
I am surprised you did not cover the Widowmaker configuration.
If I do a Natasha Kerensky video, the Widowmaker would be covered in that.
Ah the dire wolf. The ultimate assault omni-mech. While slow and kinda boring. It just gets the job done when you have to smash your opponents. Looks like clan wolf made a successful breakthrough vehicle or “Durchbruchwagen”. Figures the wolves would find inspiration in a way by the old tiger tank and make it work. There are times I have to roll my eyes and say “come on man” at the success of my clan.
A'ight broke, don't fix. Hammers are good. Bigger hammers are better. Biggest hammer is bestest.
Does anyone out there know what happened to Sarna? All I get when I click a link or pull up any of my favorites is a blank page.
Works fine for me. The video wasn't made with Sarna btw :P
Dire Star in the end💀
Sometimes I forget davions have a french influence. The hate remains but the reasons become obscure
Yeah FedCom was short a Charlemagne to hold that empire of east and west franks together
Off cause it's Reds fellow Canuck THE BEEF ahahahah that choice can never be mistaken
Best intro of all so far
The Daishi Prometheus and Widowmaker configurations for the win. The primary configuration is alright but the paired UA5's seem under-powered for use on an assault 'Mech.
You know that opening makes me wonder just how much of the Federated Suns is French speaking rather then English or a different language.
The only House I know the full language "percentages" on is the FWL, where 75-80% of the House does not have English as a first language.
@@BigRed40TECH that makes sense given the nature of the FWL, English and French being the official language of the FedSuns doesn't change the fact they have a large Chinese, Hindi and Japanese speaking minority (that we know of), and they're likely the least diverse of the major houses save for Liao.
English, French, and German are the most common official languages in the Federated Suns, and their importance more or less goes in that order.
There are other languages as well, but they don't have the same traction, and aren't viewed as wide-spread in the same way. But I don't know the percentages.
I'd assume that English, followed by French, are the 2 big ones, with German being the 3rd. But that's based on some hazy memories on that front.
@@BigRed40TECH I know English and French are the official ones, German as the third makes sense given how it's an official language of their de facto eternal ally in the Lyran Commonwealth and is also widespread in the FWL so it'd be a logical language for anyone to learn for commerce, which makes me have a hunch the 4th would be Japanese simply due to proximity to the Dragon.
B33F LIVES
B33F Lives!
son my time in faction play made me the gamer i am today💂♂@@BigRed40TECH
@@burningchrome8622 Same. I was a Drop Caller for the FWG. lol
sir your content is a delight@@BigRed40TECH
Ah the one slowish clan mech. When you see one your first response should be calling your local artillery battery.
I like it's hat.
The T looks nasty.
It is!
THE B33F!
You have made another magnum opus
It would be nice to see the dire wolf being built on new earth by the clan smoke Jaguar and clan wolf instead of the holdover clan hell horses.
I have a very negative opinion on whatever they are pretending is Clan Smoke Jaguar in the Ilclan era, personally.
Should never have been done. So I'll be agreeing to disagree on this one unfortunately.
All hail Dar Woof
It's kinda annoying how many creators in this space basically go out of their way to never talk about Victor. I was really hoping Prometheus would at least get some acknowledgement.
I mention he piloted a Dire Wolf.
If I ever do a video covering Victor as a whole, it'd include the mechs he piloted, including the Daishi.
The problem with covering him in general though, is he did too much. Doing a biography on him would be extremely difficult.
wait a second, mwo has HAG now? O_O
It does.
god bless the smoked jaguars
Hon hon. Honhonhonhon.
O7 B33f
ALPHA STRIKE !!!
Beef in French !
GG, this done my day, and it was shity 🎉
Better pronunciation than many i heard before.
Based b33f intro
House Davion approved introduction.
IT'S THE B33F *taylor swift fangirl scream*
I'm sorry, HOW many PPCs?!
11 lol
INTROUDCTION?
*TheB33f's 11 C-ER PPC Direstar intensifies*
"No sir, nothing unusual on Scanners, i think the clanners couthed and run."
Rounds the corner in his centurion and Faces off a Daishi C in a range of 250 Meters.
In BV terms, your opponent wanted to play a 4k game and you didn't want to think, so you just brought one mech.
For those like me who struggle to brain.
*adjusts glasses*
That is 7 urban mechs of the classic variety, and all of an 8th one but the air conditioning to use for spare parts.
(7.9 urbanmechs apparently)
Clanner: Put all the guns on my mech
Engineer: What do you mean all the guns?
Clanner grabs engineer by throat and stares into his terrified eyes.
Clanner: Are you deaf quiaff? ALL THE GUNS.
Engineer: Aff
They even had a variant with the anti-pigeon laser in the head. Truly, a mech for all occasions!
Louis XIV had all of his canons made with "Ultima Ratio Regum" stamped on them. The Last Argument of Kings. The Dire Wolf is like that but for Battlemechs. Great job, Red. It's a worthly look at this 3050 era Last Argument. And that secret variant revealed toward the end?!?! I wont spoil it for those that have not watched the video yet. But WORTH IT.
I like this latin phrase and I will use this.
The final Battlemech to be covered from Technical Readout 3050! Thank you all for your support. Notes and assets:
Check out the B33F's Channel! It's one of the BEST Channels for Mechwarrior on the Platform!:
www.youtube.com/@th3b33f
The B33F on Twitch:
www.twitch.tv/the_b33f
The Dire Wolf can be found in plastic, inside of the Clan Command Star:
store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-forcepack-clan
Resources used to make the video:
Technical Readout 3050 Upgrade: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-technical-readout-3050-upgrade-pdf
Recognition Guide number 13: store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-recognition-guide-ilclan-vol-13
Also in the Legends pack, Natasha's... slightly different mold for her layout.
@@voodoochild1975az That's gone out of stock, and won't be restocked.
@@BigRed40TECH yikes! Extra glad I got one then...
Dire Wolf my beloved 😩
One day, Dire Wolf will love us, as much as we love her.
Direstar is genius, fire one round to utterly annihilate the enemy then melt itself into a trench hole from the heat for added protection.
17:38 for those that know, LOL. For those that don't, she was roasted alive in the cockpit by a Jump Jet!
I had originally heard it was Rhonda Snord in her highlander that did it, but it turns out to have been Joanna of Clan Jade Falcon.
In the middle of a sandstorm -- or was it a tornado...been years since I read the novel that battle took place in.
No, was it not Natasha that roasted Joanna? Natasha basically got her DWF stripped of all weapons and laid on its back, and Joanna was talking mad shit, so Natasha lifted her DWF’s leg & fired her JJs into the cockpit at point-blank range. I think it was the Trial to allow the Wolves to get off-planet after being back-stabbed by the Falcons.
@@19Pyrus70Natasha’s toasting of Joanna was in a canyon/ravine during the Falcons’ attempt to eradicate the Wolves.
@@ESC_907
That might be. But I remember something about a sandstorm -- or some kind of bad weather -- taking place and both of them having their 1-on-1 duel right in the middle of it.
@@19Pyrus70 Joanna was a member of a newly deployed Sibko. This was around the time that there was the “Traditionalist” older groups, and the impatient younger groups. There was one among them, a guy, who was a Wolf plant. They went out the night before and laid some kind of trap I think? It was definitely a canyon. Look up I Am Jade Falcon, it is even on the cover art. Ah, Trial of Possession for the Gash of Twycross, unfortunately my Kindle app does not display the page number. -Chapter 31
"History has often taught us that the path to victories in the future is not to rush into battle like the Smoke Jaguars or the Jade Falcons. Where they rush into battle, charge where angels fear to tread, we know that victory is a matter of stalking one's prey. The hunt, the pursuit, the methodical wearing down of one's foe, that is often the key to victory. Let the Falcons say what they will about Ulric Kerensky. We shall show them how true Warriors achieve victory! ”
- Khan Natasha Kerensky, Pilot of the Widow maker, addressing her 352nd Assault Cluster before the Battle of Colmar
killed by Star Commander Joanna of Clan Jade Falcon
when the The Black Widow had a 30 ton advantage
@@farmerned6By a Jump Jet, which isn't even considered to be a weapon no less.
@@sypoth I'm convinced the other option was death by orbital bombardment.
You know what Dire Wolves are, right? They're like wolves... but they're DIRE.
Dire Wolf in Finnish is hirviösusi.
Translate it back to english and it becomes Monster Wolf. Which this mech definitely is. 😁
Oh. I always just thought they were regular Wolves, but with severe digestive issues. Who knew?
@@seanbrazell7095Drie-tary Wolf
Love that I couldn't understand 90% of the first 2 minutes. Great content.
I was being sarcastic, I don't deserve your like BigRed. Please forgive me for my transgressions.
By Kerensky's shining head, I did not expect B33f to make a guest appearance in a lore channel such as yours, this is a glorious surprise.
I've been a fan of the B33F for years. It was genuinely amazing that he was willing to work on this video with me. Huge props to him. I look forward to his new content coming out over the coming weeks and months. It's a great time to be a fan of the franchise atm.
Wait the b33f is back? 👀
@@ashtonshephard3852 Keep an eye on his channel :D
I really like the A. All ranges, all weapon types, fully cooled. Able to headcap. A to-hit bonus on some of the big guns. AMS for defense. It's just a great breakthrough mech.
One of the most dangerous Clan mechs ever designed. Even in MWO, this mech is a beast to face! It deserves it's IS name, Daishi.
Just finished painting a dire wolf last night, some of the gaps between the arms and body are a pain to get to. but the pure firepower on it is wild
Those arms are way too close to the legs for painting fun. But being playable straight from the box is a big selling point for the CGL minis.
Great Video! Thanks B33f for hijacking this thing.
It was great lol
Just so you know, the Dire Star is a variant of the Dire Wolf in HBS Battletech's BTA 3062 mod. DW-S Direstar. But it has 12 clan ERPPCs, instead of 11. IDK how they managed to cram in the extra PPC tho.
HBS doesn't follow the *exact* same build-rules tbh.
They had to keep the pace balance between action and tactics....little more dakka to keep the gun bunnies happy
Frighteningly in both Roguetech and BTA, there are mechs in the game that are almost purely designed to ruin your day. Their alpha usually results in a catastrophic engine overrun (or instant shutdown at least) or total expenditure of their limited ammo (Rocket builds).
@@albertko1 this is true. The COIL urbanmech can be a more frightening sight than a Dire Wolf sometimes.
@@albertko1 Was playing a forested night mission on RT and suddenly 12 PPCs blasted me from off map the first 11 missed so I thought they were light PPCs till the final one hit for CERPPC damage and I felt terror.
Awesome video and fantastic collab with The B33f! The DireStar will not be ignored. 😈
As a proud member of the Alpha Strike mafia... I think I need to do the conversion of the Dire Star for Alpha Strike.
You forgot the most Dire mechwarrior of them all... Mark Knopfler.
Then B33F, I knew it.
Here comes Big Red to sell me another Clan mech. At this rate I am going to have to buy the Command Star.
This video is very special. I hope you enjoy. :)
If you actually play the game past the Clan Invasion era, there is no reason NOT to buy a clan command star, even if you are a Spheroid.
I allready did after the Summoner and Stormcrow vids...
I used to think the Annihilator was the end-all-be-all of firepower in Battletech. Then I saw a Dire Wolf, and resolved to salvage one at all costs! #yoink
Ah, but have you heard of the Bane/Kraken? It's not an omnimech, but it's still an incredibly potent weapons platform/well armored test bed.
100 tons of fun, clan certified.
My funniest combination in a direwolf 2 C-ERPPC, 3 C-LPL and 30 DHS in total. Every so often you have to stop firing a gun, but a good turn, "dethrone" of laughter to anyone.
There is half a ton free and one slot in the head... to install any absurdities in the cockpit, such as a fridge for ice cream, a collection of old games to play on the computer, perhaps to install an additional air conditioner for the pilot (or a fan).
Or if you want to be more practical a Light TAG.
So the new plan is to turn the dire star into a tabletop mech…will it be effective? Eh…maybe, but it will be fun….I shudder at the BV costs of that thing.
I am so glad for that final build, yes, that's perfect. This is the future Humanity deserves.
Excellent video as always!
I'd just like to add the utterly insane X variant, a hodgepodge of random guns that still manages to be deadly because it's a Clan assault with a targeting computer.
Dire Wolf X
Large pulse laser
Heavy medium laser
2x ER micro lasers
Ultra AC-10
LB 5-X AC
SSRM2
SRM 4 (Artemis)
LRM 15 (Artemis)
"As well as enough spare weight to fill in any needed number of heat sinks."
DW-DS: Hold my ER PPC
DW-DS On second thought, let me hold *_YOUR_* ER PPC
DW-DS: And yours
DW-DS: And yours
DW-DS: And yours
DW-DS: And yours
DW-DS: And yours
DW-DS: Just give me all the ER PPC's
A mech as subtle as slam firing a Winchester 1897 Trench Gun point blank into their face and then gut them with the bayonet afterwards.