When I saw the visuals, my first though was "While it's awesome that TMC has so much work now, I kinda wish they would work on Hired Steel instead." Then I felt bad for that entitled opinon... But it hasn't changed.
@@wellhello1575 Wanting to see more of such great work is very understandable and saying "I wish their output was faster" isn't a bad thing. It's when you think that they owe it to you, that it becomes bad.
The battle that saw the Clans routed by Victor Steiner-Davion and Kai Allard Liao and the game set for the inevitable showdown at Tukkyaad. This was the battle that convinced ComStar to enter the fray, saw the glory of a Solarice legend square off against the finest of the clan war machine. This was where it became clear to the clans that they wouldn’t be facing a divided enemy as they believed they would. Where Stackpoling was born.
@@nullpexception the unlikely event of a fusion reactor going critical and exploding in a huge nuclear blast that destroys an entire section of the map. Mech reactors are highly stable and designed to shutdown after being hit. But because in Michael A Stackpole’s book Blood of Kerensky he needed to get a character out of a no win scenario so he had the character deactivate the safety’s on the reactor and lured the enemy force in close before ejecting and setting the reactor off so that it completely wiped out the entire company of mechs in one glorious blast. (The character: Kai Allard Liao is an absolute badass and one of my favorite characters in the setting.)
@@canderoussnurd4265 It was not just 1 blast. If memory serves me right they had planted a metric fuck-tonn of mines along the ridges as well. The axeman he used served more as a detonator.
@@19Crusader91 it was a hatchetman, had the entire head assembly blast away instead of the simple ejection seat. And yes, the reactor caused a sympathetic detonation with the charges on the cliffs.
@@19Crusader91 the canyon was laced with explosives but the company of troops who were in the pass were wiped out by elementals and Kai routed them using a Hatchetman. He then stood at the entrance to the canyon as a company of Falcon Guard approached and basically said “I don’t have any ammo and my laser weapons are destroyed so if you have the balls, come face me hand to hand” (or something along those lines. The commanding officer all but fell in love with him for having such a big brass set and honored the challenge by stepping forward in his Thor only to get a huge hatchet wound through his armor and out his arm and for Kai to eject and set off his reactor to detonate the charges. (Absolute badass took out 40ish mechs piloted by the descendants of the Goddamn Blackwatch on his own while keeping a doctor safe in his cockpit). I believe the second addition is where they added the explosives but in the originals the reactor explosion was enough on its own. (If memory serves. I could be wrong. It’s been a bit since I read the book and mine was the original paperback release so it could’ve been changed). Either way that’s where the term Stackpoling comes from.
This is such a unique take on the poem. From how it's delivered, it doesn't convey quiet acceptance of one's death, but an unbreakable defiance in the face of the seemingly inevitable, as though charging at death itself head on and daring it to bring on everything it's got. It's a very Mechwarrior mindset. No guts, no galaxy.
Oof. The choice of poetry is perfect for a Mechwarrior, and that dramatic reading is, as usual, on point. The pace of the music and the video accompaniment is synced wonderfully, and I'm hearing times when the reading's been adjusted to hit musical drops too. All the little bits are working together to create something greater, and now I eagerly await the full scope of the art when it comes!
Alan Seeger. Had he not kept that appointment he might have given us more poems. He seems to have been, in essence, a warrior-poet. May he rest in peace.
There was an era ofa couple centuries where that was a common occupation. The first world war seems to have been the last period to birth people of that ilk. Tolkien probably most prominently.
@@RedOblivion7 Years ago, Mr. Tex made a choice to buy FRAPS instead of another handle of whiskey. It started his path that lead him and thus us to here.
These videos keep getting better and better. If the current geometric progression continues.......we are only like 1-2 years out from a full cinematic movie.
What Tex has 7-8 in the feature film length, another 2 or so at TV movie length several more at "hour" long TV episode length i.e. ~45 minutes. At the geometric progression we are looking at audio books as reference the Armored Warrior Panzerter audio book is 11+ hours while Shadow Mage Spellmonger book 9 is 24 hours long
Nah, full series. Needs multiple seasons. Shut up and take my money. just keep HOLLYWOOD THE FUCK OUT (unless its the people that did Arcane or Fallout)
I have had a mechwarrior movie in my head for 20 years. I can recite whole scenes from memories. Ok so after Tukkayid you have a Steiner planed behind the truce line. Once prosperious, but in the process of being stripped and moved behind the truce line. A returning home com guard has an idea to save his planet from the clans by training the militia to fight like the clans. Jade Falcon show and the Steiners pull out. The militia bid with, fight, and best the Falcons (trinary vs binary of top tier Falcons and one green just from homeworlds rookie clanner). Fighting goes well for the militia, militia wins and gets a few bondsmen in the process. I mean it is a fun idea and I only thought about it for a minute about 20 years ago....and its been with me ever since.
@@species3167 That's one interpretation of the phrase "blend in". You know, like what the kitchen appliance does to food put into it; it's called a BLENDER for a reason...
Good Poetry choice, just as good as "I did not stop for death today, instead he stopped for me". I can't wait to see How Tex portrays Kai Allard-Liao's defeat of the Falcon Guards practically by himself, this will be an awesome session
This is going to be so good. You can already see the insane amounts of work that went into this. Every vid I'm like, no way they'll top this, but they always do
Second comment, and one more personal... I was a tank crewman in the 11th Armored Cavalry in the winter of 1983, when NATO and the Warsaw Pact almost went to real-live, no-shit war. Look it up, it was called 'The Able Archer Incident'. I had a front tank view of every tracked vehicle in the DDR stacking up on every hard top road in Brandenburg and Thuringia [at least, that's what the S2 told us] and our job was to buy NATO 24 hours if Andropov pulled the lanyard. I remember one of my NCOs reading 'A Rendezvous With Death' to his tank crew and wandered over to hear it. If one sentence encapsulates how we felt in our German Defense Positions at that time, "I have a rendezvous with Death, At some disputed barricade, when Spring comes with rustling shade, and apple-blossoms fill the air' surely is it.
@@Rick586 Well, a few years ago, the Federal Republic of Germany celebrated the anniversary of its Reunification. The German Embassy in the US took out a two-page centerfold ad in 'Star and Stripes' saying 'thank you' to all of us who spent 40 years manning the Wall. I can't tell you how nice it was to legitimately be appreciated.
@@WatchTMC Well, it wasn't like the Bundeswehr wasn't alerted too. And we'd learned on various exercises that we could trust those men. Say what you will about Germans, but you could always depend on a German soldier's professionalism.
@@carlhicksjr8401 My dad was doing his service right around this time. Signal corps, very western edge of germany, almost netherlands. Some crazy stories out of that time as well. The preparations for nuclear strikes were especially ironic, it was basically "lay down, cover yourself with this rubber tarp and hope for the best"
Alan Seeger, Legionnaire 1'er classe, RMLE KIA Battle of the Somme, 1916, in the vicinity of Belloy-en-Santerre "We shall all know how to perish, Following tradition" - from Le Boudin, the marching anthem of the Legion Etrangere Legionnaire Alan Seeger was an American volunteer to the Foreign Legion. As a child he was a sensitive boy and a poet, already published in his teens. He was raised in a fiercely Calvanist-Unitarian tradition with a well-to-do family. He was a young man living in Paris [as many artists did during la Belle Epoque] at the outbreak of War One, and quickly volunteered to serve. After training, he wrote 'A Letter to America' castigating his homeland for what he considered the moral failure of not joining the Allies immediately. While serving he wrote dispatches from the front to the New York Sun, collected under the title 'As a Soldier Thinks of War'. As the Western Front settled into trench warfare, he became increasingly fascinated with death [as many frontline writers did] and wrote 'I Have A Rendezvous With Death' at this time. Alan Seegar is an honored name even today in the Legion, part of a generation of idealists and moralists who joined the Legion to oppose German militarism. These men didn't initially fit in well with the old colonial campaigners, the tough old boar hogs who fought for France because of some personal failing. But many, including Seeger, proved their worth at the end of the bayonet, the only place one could earn the respect of the old timers. His bones lay in Ossuary #1 of the French Military Cemetery at Lihons, near Amiens. EDIT: Seeger was a member of the Regiment de'Marche Legion Etrangere, a collection of battalions drawn from Legion regiments garrisoning Morocco, Algeria, and Indochina. A regiment de'Marche was temporary unit of such drafts of men, what we English speakers might call a 'task group' and a German might call a 'kampfgruppe'. The RMLE was and remains the second most decorated unit in the history of the French Army. The first most decorated is the Regiment de'Marche Coloniale Morocaine, an RM made up of Moroccan colonial regiments, and the two RMs served in the same division together, the Division Coloniale Morocaine.
@@kosswest Koss, the LAST thing I'm spreading is 'glory'. Alan Seeger's name deserves to be remembered because he was a brave man fighting for a nation not his own for the sake of principle. There are a lot of desirable character traits in there, but 'glory' is not one of them.
@@carlhicksjr8401 hm, didn't think about that like this. English is not my first language, so maybe poor choice of words as well. Anyway, thanks for the story and greetings from Ukraine
@@carlhicksjr8401 his brother is better known in the US Peter Seegar, the folk singer. But Alan Seegar's famous poem was JFK's favorite poem. But I do believe officially Alan Seegar is listed as MIA, as his body is only believed to be interred there, as it wasn't identified.
The Battle of Twycross was September 10th, 3050, for anyone drawing connections between this video and their video on The Battle of Tukkayid. I'm hoping the BPL follows suit for sure.
Awesome music - awesome visuals! Awesome POETRY? Awesome TEX DELIVERY of said poetry!!! All for JUST THE TRAILER!!!! It's already THIS EPIC???? Tex and The Black Pants Legion have raised the bar - AGAIN!!! And we are all HERE FOR IT!!! OOOOOHRAAAAH!!!!
I love how this is a proper trailer, not like the trash they produce for modern films, this makes you excited to see the full thing without spoiling it, modern trailers on the other hand are mostly just showing off all the good looking scenes and spoiling as much of the story as possible.
And this had proper dramatic music, instead of the usual completely out of place dark and brooding cover of some classic song Hollywood can't get enough of.
I'll paraphrase two lines from Tex: You don't end up with a voice like this because you've made good decisions in life. Learning from the mistakes of others is what the Ancient Greeks called wisdom. He is indeed an excellent teacher, likely for these reasons.
I’ve only recently found BT through MW5 and through that I found Tex and his team and couldn’t be happier as they may be one of the best creators on YT. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and passion with us.
I woke up to a Trailer. Read it was Tex talks, interest increases. Read it was Tex talks battletech, excitement rose. Hears the poem as a beautiful display of Inner sphere heroes face off against the overwhelming outer foe? This is the best morning I've had in months. Thank you Mister Tex, and thank you Black pants legion. Your work has been inspiring to me for not only my love of Battletech itself, but for my own hobbies I do in life. Keep up the good work!!! STEINER FOREVER!!!
They hold the line enough to revive Battlemaster production facility on Twycross. Jaded Falcons destroyed light and medium mechs, just to meet assault ones.
that was fucking cool Tex. I dont care if that makes you cringe. the fact that, over the years i have watched, your work keeps getting better and better astounds me. It does so because unlike many who capture a niche and the fall into the voracious hunger that is ones audience, you instead opt for quality bless you sir, and the team. a beacon of light and enjoyment during these hard times
Goosebumps, fucking goosebumps! The narration, the pacing, the choice (and soundlevels) of the music, the poem, the editing, these are 2 minutes of the best shit I've seen on UA-cam in years! Edit: Ironically, this isn't just a great trailer for the upcoming TTBT, it's also a great trailer for the channel itself.
I swear to god, Tex, if you were in my platoon, I would seriously conder giving you command. You're not even reciting your own words, but you express them better than I ever did. And you pick the right verses. But no leadership until you can demonstrate mastery of tactics and weapons systems. I fully expect you to know how to disable BMP-1 with rifles ang a log.
The team have truly set the bar at it's higest place yet with this trailer. The music, the images and the chilling recitation all come together to remind me of my burning anticipation to watch this story unfold as it has been studied and woven into a video by one of the best documentary crews to ever operate on a shoestring budget. It does not spoil, it foreshadows. It tells me of an epic tale of warriors coming together in a brutal contest of arms, and even though I've read the books, I want to watch their take even more. A while back, a guy decided to buy a video-editing software instead of a bottle of whiskey. Over a decade later, that choice has led to many others that have in turn, given us the amazing videos of the Black Pants Legion. I'm no teetoataler, but I'd say that origional choice has aged better than any cask of the finest Scotch. A huge thank you to the team for this awesome gift in trailer form. As well as a big thank you to Tex, for planting that seed so long ago. I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT FOR THIS ONE, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!
I am very much looking forward to this one. As cool as the Mechs are, it has always been the lore and the history of the setting that has really held my attention with this series and the amazing way it has been presented with the ever improving production values.
At this point, Catalyst should just lose a dump truck full of unmarked bills at the Legion's abode for all the magnificent work you folks do. Take it easy, Tex and the BPL.
Everyone over at BPL is knocking it out of the park with the production value on these projects, outstanding This is full circle for me too. Tex was how I discovered the breadth and scope of Battletech. Now we get a Twycross video just as I finished Lethal Heritage, great timing :)
Tex: > Smokes a pack of Lucky Strikes > Throws back double shot of Old Granddad > Gargles handful of dry gravel "Fetch my microphone. It's time to recite some fuckin' *POETRY*"
All I remember about Twycross is Kai Allard-Liao in a Hatchetman head-chopping omnimech after omnimech in a narrow canyon because clanners couldn't figure out how to brawl.
Thank you to everyone created this. Everything about this trailer is great. The poetry, the music, the cinematics, the editing, everything! Cannot wait for the whole episode!
"I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!" Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Twycross is a wild product- It’s an overlooked and ignored “fist resistance” product by FASA, a “proto tuykaid”- I’m very excited for this video sir!!!
Hallelujah, Tex and the BPL are back in their finest form. I am grinning like a Cheshire cat waiting for the next Tex Talks Battletech. Absolutely amazing trailer. 10/10
I was expecting an episode on the Black Knight. I would have been super happy with that. But what we're getting is so much better! Tex giving out about the clans is always a good time.
Was just thinking we should be hearing something on an upcoming tex talks battletech episode pretty soon. I look forward to the amazing job you guys always put forth
Remember that How Battletech Should have Ended video? The "Why Tex shouldn't write video games" one? With this trailer dropped, the statement seems no longer valid. Hella stoked to see the premiere of the next TTBT episode
Soon cant come soon enough. Thanks again for all the hard work you and everyone put into what is sure to be a monumental and glorious take on our shared history Tex and crew. Excited to see all the baller art everyone contributed to this.
I absolutely LOVE “Tex Talks Battletech” I have watched the videos numerous times and just enjoy them immensely so I am truly excited for the next one. Will probably be painting some of my new Battletech: Mercenaries minis from the kickstarter while watching it.
I love this community... saw the vid pop up, 25min online, clicked it, put a like in (number 696 very nice!) and after enjoying 2min of Tex reading poetry the like counter was up to 741 ...wait, make that 815, that's what it climbed while I wrote this! :)
Amazing trailer. You guys really knocked it out of the park again. The video is great. The combination of visuals and the poem sends shivers down my spine.
OOOOOOFFFFF (Sound of being gutpunched). Love the poetic and musical choices for the trailer, I trust the talk will live up! (Notice that was not a question, I am sure it will ;)
Everybody's talking about how good the music and poetry is when the background imagery is flipping phenomenal.
1:41 The two Clanner mechs going back to back.
By the look of it i would bet a dollar :) it's the guys behind Hire Steel again. They did something similar for the Urbie episode.
When I saw the visuals, my first though was "While it's awesome that TMC has so much work now, I kinda wish they would work on Hired Steel instead." Then I felt bad for that entitled opinon... But it hasn't changed.
It’s fantastic!
@@wellhello1575 Wanting to see more of such great work is very understandable and saying "I wish their output was faster" isn't a bad thing. It's when you think that they owe it to you, that it becomes bad.
I love hearing Tex recite poetry. Would absolutely love to hear him recite The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Actually I have to agree on this one.
_Half a league, half a league, half a league onward_
I don't generally like poetry. I blame it on a really bad college teacher. But Tex's voice is very compelling.
He has some up on the BPL website.
I would love him recite "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
The battle that saw the Clans routed by Victor Steiner-Davion and Kai Allard Liao and the game set for the inevitable showdown at Tukkyaad. This was the battle that convinced ComStar to enter the fray, saw the glory of a Solarice legend square off against the finest of the clan war machine. This was where it became clear to the clans that they wouldn’t be facing a divided enemy as they believed they would. Where Stackpoling was born.
@@canderoussnurd4265 Stackpoling?
@@nullpexception the unlikely event of a fusion reactor going critical and exploding in a huge nuclear blast that destroys an entire section of the map.
Mech reactors are highly stable and designed to shutdown after being hit. But because in Michael A Stackpole’s book Blood of Kerensky he needed to get a character out of a no win scenario so he had the character deactivate the safety’s on the reactor and lured the enemy force in close before ejecting and setting the reactor off so that it completely wiped out the entire company of mechs in one glorious blast.
(The character: Kai Allard Liao is an absolute badass and one of my favorite characters in the setting.)
@@canderoussnurd4265 It was not just 1 blast. If memory serves me right they had planted a metric fuck-tonn of mines along the ridges as well. The axeman he used served more as a detonator.
@@19Crusader91 it was a hatchetman, had the entire head assembly blast away instead of the simple ejection seat. And yes, the reactor caused a sympathetic detonation with the charges on the cliffs.
@@19Crusader91 the canyon was laced with explosives but the company of troops who were in the pass were wiped out by elementals and Kai routed them using a Hatchetman. He then stood at the entrance to the canyon as a company of Falcon Guard approached and basically said “I don’t have any ammo and my laser weapons are destroyed so if you have the balls, come face me hand to hand” (or something along those lines. The commanding officer all but fell in love with him for having such a big brass set and honored the challenge by stepping forward in his Thor only to get a huge hatchet wound through his armor and out his arm and for Kai to eject and set off his reactor to detonate the charges. (Absolute badass took out 40ish mechs piloted by the descendants of the Goddamn Blackwatch on his own while keeping a doctor safe in his cockpit).
I believe the second addition is where they added the explosives but in the originals the reactor explosion was enough on its own. (If memory serves. I could be wrong. It’s been a bit since I read the book and mine was the original paperback release so it could’ve been changed). Either way that’s where the term Stackpoling comes from.
Crow really knocked it out the park with this trailer.
Boy howdy he did.
Honestly the Marauder intro has been my favorite bit of editing magic the man's done, until they dropped this gem right here.
Whole team did really, Holy Crap.
Let's not forget Hutz. That man can make a comercial stand up and beg
BRO lets take a look at the job Hired Steel did too!!! This one is going to be WILD!!!
This is such a unique take on the poem. From how it's delivered, it doesn't convey quiet acceptance of one's death, but an unbreakable defiance in the face of the seemingly inevitable, as though charging at death itself head on and daring it to bring on everything it's got. It's a very Mechwarrior mindset. No guts, no galaxy.
Oof. The choice of poetry is perfect for a Mechwarrior, and that dramatic reading is, as usual, on point.
The pace of the music and the video accompaniment is synced wonderfully, and I'm hearing times when the reading's been adjusted to hit musical drops too.
All the little bits are working together to create something greater, and now I eagerly await the full scope of the art when it comes!
Aye. Our dear Tex got a voice for poetry, doesn't he?
looks like a a LOT of phone bills had to be paid to get this one off the ground
Right?? I swear, all of their work keeps getting better and better.
What's the name of the music, speaking of?
Alan Seeger. Had he not kept that appointment he might have given us more poems. He seems to have been, in essence, a warrior-poet. May he rest in peace.
Indeed.
There was an era ofa couple centuries where that was a common occupation. The first world war seems to have been the last period to birth people of that ilk. Tolkien probably most prominently.
Mr. Tex, thank you for that time you chose FRAPS instead of whiskey. What’s grown from that moment is wonderful to behold and a priceless treasure.
wdym by that?
@@RedOblivion7 Years ago, Mr. Tex made a choice to buy FRAPS instead of another handle of whiskey. It started his path that lead him and thus us to here.
(For the uninformed: FRAPS being a paid recording software, now overshadowed by OBS and Shadowplay.)
Every now and then I re-watch the trailer; Tex and the group have come so far. It gives me goosebumps. This is so incredibly well made.
Not sure what im more hyped by; the poetry, the Hired Steel work, or the upcoming video. Fantastic.
Hired Steel truly does some amazing and of I may, loving art work.
These videos keep getting better and better. If the current geometric progression continues.......we are only like 1-2 years out from a full cinematic movie.
What Tex has 7-8 in the feature film length, another 2 or so at TV movie length several more at "hour" long TV episode length i.e. ~45 minutes. At the geometric progression we are looking at audio books as reference the Armored Warrior Panzerter audio book is 11+ hours while Shadow Mage Spellmonger book 9 is 24 hours long
Nah, full series. Needs multiple seasons. Shut up and take my money. just keep HOLLYWOOD THE FUCK OUT (unless its the people that did Arcane or Fallout)
Knife Fight City here we come!
I have had a mechwarrior movie in my head for 20 years. I can recite whole scenes from memories. Ok so after Tukkayid you have a Steiner planed behind the truce line. Once prosperious, but in the process of being stripped and moved behind the truce line. A returning home com guard has an idea to save his planet from the clans by training the militia to fight like the clans. Jade Falcon show and the Steiners pull out. The militia bid with, fight, and best the Falcons (trinary vs binary of top tier Falcons and one green just from homeworlds rookie clanner). Fighting goes well for the militia, militia wins and gets a few bondsmen in the process. I mean it is a fun idea and I only thought about it for a minute about 20 years ago....and its been with me ever since.
Can't wait for your analysis of Victor Steiner Davion. He's always been a favorite of mine, flaws and all.
@@MLCrisis1790 He had a glorious surfer mullet in the 90s animated show
Victor Who^^ ?
And what about Kai Allard-Liao and the Great Gash^^ (poor Falconguard :P )
@@merkarion7883 Eh, they got over it. All it took was the rest of the Clan getting their butts whooped on Tukayyid.
Thank fully in my Universe Victor put a cap in his Sister’s head and then went on to form the Star League after marrying Omi.
@robertivey7644 bruh I feel ya they deserved to be together. Alas true love is the first thing to go in war.
Twycross: Where the Falcon Guards adopted their new earthtone camo scheme, and everyone learned just how well they could blend in with terrain.
Kai Allard-Liao has entered the chat
Blend in with? Don't you mean they became the terrain? (LOL)
Green Bastards. From parts unknown.
@@species3167 That's one interpretation of the phrase "blend in". You know, like what the kitchen appliance does to food put into it; it's called a BLENDER for a reason...
@@species3167 You can't deny that they were almost indistinguishable from their surroundings! ^_-
Good Poetry choice, just as good as "I did not stop for death today, instead he stopped for me".
I can't wait to see How Tex portrays Kai Allard-Liao's defeat of the Falcon Guards practically by himself, this will be an awesome session
This is going to be so good. You can already see the insane amounts of work that went into this. Every vid I'm like, no way they'll top this, but they always do
Another year and they will be full on, full length cinematic productions.
Second comment, and one more personal...
I was a tank crewman in the 11th Armored Cavalry in the winter of 1983, when NATO and the Warsaw Pact almost went to real-live, no-shit war. Look it up, it was called 'The Able Archer Incident'. I had a front tank view of every tracked vehicle in the DDR stacking up on every hard top road in Brandenburg and Thuringia [at least, that's what the S2 told us] and our job was to buy NATO 24 hours if Andropov pulled the lanyard.
I remember one of my NCOs reading 'A Rendezvous With Death' to his tank crew and wandered over to hear it. If one sentence encapsulates how we felt in our German Defense Positions at that time, "I have a rendezvous with Death, At some disputed barricade, when Spring comes with rustling shade, and apple-blossoms fill the air' surely is it.
Thank you for sharing that story. I can't imagine how terrifying that must have been.
@@Rick586 Well, a few years ago, the Federal Republic of Germany celebrated the anniversary of its Reunification. The German Embassy in the US took out a two-page centerfold ad in 'Star and Stripes' saying 'thank you' to all of us who spent 40 years manning the Wall.
I can't tell you how nice it was to legitimately be appreciated.
@@carlhicksjr8401 As a german, thanks for sharing that story. Can't imagine how that must've felt like.
@@WatchTMC Well, it wasn't like the Bundeswehr wasn't alerted too. And we'd learned on various exercises that we could trust those men. Say what you will about Germans, but you could always depend on a German soldier's professionalism.
@@carlhicksjr8401 My dad was doing his service right around this time. Signal corps, very western edge of germany, almost netherlands. Some crazy stories out of that time as well. The preparations for nuclear strikes were especially ironic, it was basically "lay down, cover yourself with this rubber tarp and hope for the best"
Alan Seeger, Legionnaire 1'er classe, RMLE
KIA Battle of the Somme, 1916, in the vicinity of Belloy-en-Santerre
"We shall all know how to perish,
Following tradition"
- from Le Boudin, the marching anthem of the Legion Etrangere
Legionnaire Alan Seeger was an American volunteer to the Foreign Legion. As a child he was a sensitive boy and a poet, already published in his teens. He was raised in a fiercely Calvanist-Unitarian tradition with a well-to-do family.
He was a young man living in Paris [as many artists did during la Belle Epoque] at the outbreak of War One, and quickly volunteered to serve. After training, he wrote 'A Letter to America' castigating his homeland for what he considered the moral failure of not joining the Allies immediately. While serving he wrote dispatches from the front to the New York Sun, collected under the title 'As a Soldier Thinks of War'. As the Western Front settled into trench warfare, he became increasingly fascinated with death [as many frontline writers did] and wrote 'I Have A Rendezvous With Death' at this time.
Alan Seegar is an honored name even today in the Legion, part of a generation of idealists and moralists who joined the Legion to oppose German militarism. These men didn't initially fit in well with the old colonial campaigners, the tough old boar hogs who fought for France because of some personal failing. But many, including Seeger, proved their worth at the end of the bayonet, the only place one could earn the respect of the old timers.
His bones lay in Ossuary #1 of the French Military Cemetery at Lihons, near Amiens.
EDIT: Seeger was a member of the Regiment de'Marche Legion Etrangere, a collection of battalions drawn from Legion regiments garrisoning Morocco, Algeria, and Indochina. A regiment de'Marche was temporary unit of such drafts of men, what we English speakers might call a 'task group' and a German might call a 'kampfgruppe'. The RMLE was and remains the second most decorated unit in the history of the French Army. The first most decorated is the Regiment de'Marche Coloniale Morocaine, an RM made up of Moroccan colonial regiments, and the two RMs served in the same division together, the Division Coloniale Morocaine.
thank you sir, spreading word of glory for brave men is always appreciated.
@@kosswest Koss, the LAST thing I'm spreading is 'glory'.
Alan Seeger's name deserves to be remembered because he was a brave man fighting for a nation not his own for the sake of principle. There are a lot of desirable character traits in there, but 'glory' is not one of them.
@@carlhicksjr8401 hm, didn't think about that like this. English is not my first language, so maybe poor choice of words as well. Anyway, thanks for the story and greetings from Ukraine
@@kosswest Ah. My apologies then. Good luck against the Russians.
@@carlhicksjr8401 his brother is better known in the US Peter Seegar, the folk singer. But Alan Seegar's famous poem was JFK's favorite poem. But I do believe officially Alan Seegar is listed as MIA, as his body is only believed to be interred there, as it wasn't identified.
HAHAHA YOU FINALLY FELL INTO MY TRAP YOU CANNOT ESCAPE NICOLAI MALTHUS IN THIS EPISODE!!
Ackshually its Adler Malthus iirc
@@vianenhive Nicolai did fight on Twycross.
Seyla!!!!
I've waited years to hear you say those words, Tex. Alan would be proud.
Yes. I do believe Mr. Seeger would approve. Pacing, music, visuals and the resulting gravitas of delivery. Near perfection.
The Battle of Twycross was September 10th, 3050, for anyone drawing connections between this video and their video on The Battle of Tukkayid. I'm hoping the BPL follows suit for sure.
dang.
You jinxed it
The recitation, the editing, the music, the art...this is how you make 2 minutes matter.
Soon tm. Can’t wait Tex, Glory to marik
Awesome music - awesome visuals! Awesome POETRY? Awesome TEX DELIVERY of said poetry!!! All for JUST THE TRAILER!!!! It's already THIS EPIC????
Tex and The Black Pants Legion have raised the bar - AGAIN!!! And we are all HERE FOR IT!!! OOOOOHRAAAAH!!!!
In the word of the immortal "Macho Man" Randy Savage..."OH YEAH!!!"
I love how this is a proper trailer, not like the trash they produce for modern films, this makes you excited to see the full thing without spoiling it, modern trailers on the other hand are mostly just showing off all the good looking scenes and spoiling as much of the story as possible.
And this had proper dramatic music, instead of the usual completely out of place dark and brooding cover of some classic song Hollywood can't get enough of.
Say it again for all the executives in HolyWeird.
Not to mention that narration is included. When was the last time that was used? The Zootopia teaser trailer?
well this was a nice surprise YT ACTUALLY gave me a notification you put this up
IKR? unexpected behavior!
maybe the latest federal suits are finally installing a fear of z0rg in them
@@mrcalzon02 Yeah it only took 2 hours this time! Progress?
It is not often that a YT vid has me looking up poets and poetry on the internet. Damn this channels battle tech stuff is amazing.
Can't get enough of that gravelly voice. Teach me all the things, Professor.
I'll paraphrase two lines from Tex: You don't end up with a voice like this because you've made good decisions in life. Learning from the mistakes of others is what the Ancient Greeks called wisdom. He is indeed an excellent teacher, likely for these reasons.
I’ve only recently found BT through MW5 and through that I found Tex and his team and couldn’t be happier as they may be one of the best creators on YT. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and passion with us.
Been looking forward to this breakdown of Soldiers vs. Warriors in the 31st century.
This goes so fucking hard. Every element is perfect.
I love the smell of burnt Capellan in the morning, smells like... Victory..
Why can I only like this once?!
these are clanners and steiners getting they're shit pushed in though
House Liao nambawan!
Yu no ken deny.
Wai yu lai? Wai yu lai?
Yu no ken deny.
House Liao nambawan!
@@heymay724 And that has exactly what to do with dunking on Capellans?
Which they deserve.
@@60sSam the confederation always endures.
I woke up to a Trailer. Read it was Tex talks, interest increases. Read it was Tex talks battletech, excitement rose. Hears the poem as a beautiful display of Inner sphere heroes face off against the overwhelming outer foe? This is the best morning I've had in months.
Thank you Mister Tex, and thank you Black pants legion. Your work has been inspiring to me for not only my love of Battletech itself, but for my own hobbies I do in life. Keep up the good work!!!
STEINER FOREVER!!!
Tex - THE voice of Battletech in my heart.
It was at Twycross that the Inner Sphere said, "We shall hold the tide!" and for one bloody moment, the tide was held.
They hold the line enough to revive Battlemaster production facility on Twycross. Jaded Falcons destroyed light and medium mechs, just to meet assault ones.
that was fucking cool Tex. I dont care if that makes you cringe.
the fact that, over the years i have watched, your work keeps getting better and better astounds me. It does so because unlike many who capture a niche and the fall into the voracious hunger that is ones audience, you instead opt for quality
bless you sir, and the team. a beacon of light and enjoyment during these hard times
Goosebumps, fucking goosebumps!
The narration, the pacing, the choice (and soundlevels) of the music, the poem, the editing, these are 2 minutes of the best shit I've seen on UA-cam in years!
Edit: Ironically, this isn't just a great trailer for the upcoming TTBT, it's also a great trailer for the channel itself.
Tex could fill videos just reciting poetry and I would still watch and listen.
If there was a movie with that kind of animation style, I would totally watch It.
I swear to god, Tex, if you were in my platoon, I would seriously conder giving you command. You're not even reciting your own words, but you express them better than I ever did. And you pick the right verses. But no leadership until you can demonstrate mastery of tactics and weapons systems. I fully expect you to know how to disable BMP-1 with rifles ang a log.
A log? Are we talking about how the disabled tanks in the Spanish civil war?
Epic. Truly expertly delivered and paced. Bravo sir. Bravo.
The team have truly set the bar at it's higest place yet with this trailer. The music, the images and the chilling recitation all come together to remind me of my burning anticipation to watch this story unfold as it has been studied and woven into a video by one of the best documentary crews to ever operate on a shoestring budget. It does not spoil, it foreshadows. It tells me of an epic tale of warriors coming together in a brutal contest of arms, and even though I've read the books, I want to watch their take even more.
A while back, a guy decided to buy a video-editing software instead of a bottle of whiskey. Over a decade later, that choice has led to many others that have in turn, given us the amazing videos of the Black Pants Legion. I'm no teetoataler, but I'd say that origional choice has aged better than any cask of the finest Scotch.
A huge thank you to the team for this awesome gift in trailer form. As well as a big thank you to Tex, for planting that seed so long ago.
I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT FOR THIS ONE, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!
I am very much looking forward to this one. As cool as the Mechs are, it has always been the lore and the history of the setting that has really held my attention with this series and the amazing way it has been presented with the ever improving production values.
Aaaawesome! You folks got me with this headshaking heartflaming storytelling. Let Kerensky be with you on the dark pass.
Just two days ago I had a nagging feeling "I should rewatch Tex Talks" it seem to have been prophetic.
At this point, Catalyst should just lose a dump truck full of unmarked bills at the Legion's abode for all the magnificent work you folks do. Take it easy, Tex and the BPL.
The consistent quality and craftsdwarfship jumps from episode to episode make this my favorite thing ln UA-cam
So glad you and the team are making Battletech videos. I listen to your tech talks while at sea as comfort vids.
Twycross: where the Clans learned the word "No". This is going to be Fucking Phenomenal.
mmmhhhh to hear that sweet sweet falcon cry when Tex reaches that rendezvous at Twycross.
I hope there's a whole bunch of companies that pay you to read their audiobooks for them. You have a gift my friend .
Honestly if there is a way to donate money to have Tex recite more poetry, I would like to know. The gravitas in this man's voice is unreal.
Patreon And just keep messenging him I do
Everyone over at BPL is knocking it out of the park with the production value on these projects, outstanding
This is full circle for me too. Tex was how I discovered the breadth and scope of Battletech. Now we get a Twycross video just as I finished Lethal Heritage, great timing :)
Recreating the old art of the Atlas punching through the cockpit of the Masakari is super cool, but I'm just so excited for more DC Bruins art.
OH SHIT, GUYS AND GALS- IT'S HAPPENING!
I love this Alan Seeger poem. One of my all-time favorites.
Production value still on the rise, I see. 🙂👍
Someone straight up asked when tex was gonna recite more poetry. This man plays em close to the chest.
This gave me goosebumps. I almost thought this be tex's intro to a battletech novel, flush with mechwarriors, politics, and canopian cat girls.
Tex: reminding folk that poetry can be badass
Honestly, that was an incredibly professional trailer. Everyone who worked on this deserves the praise I see on these comments, you deserve it!
Tex:
> Smokes a pack of Lucky Strikes
> Throws back double shot of Old Granddad
> Gargles handful of dry gravel
"Fetch my microphone. It's time to recite some fuckin' *POETRY*"
Nothing getd me quite as hyped as tex reading peotry in theae trailers.
Its always worth the wait
"What do we say when we meet the god of death?"
"Not today."
Love when UA-cam decides to not notify me of a trailer for the videos I've been watching the most lately lol
This makes that one moment in BT history sound so much more amazing than Stackpole could ever put into words tbh
THIS TAKES AS LONG AS IT TAKES. WE, THE GRATEFUL FANS WILL WAIT. When it's done, we will still be here. Just have faith.
And when the people needed him the most, he returned.
What a journey when TexTalks needs a Trailer...well done!!!
Tex out here reminding us that poetry is manly AF. Can. Not. Wait. (But will wait as long as you mad lads and lasses need to work your magic)
Ok.
Tex, Mike, Goat, all of you...
You have now outdone yourself.
This was absolutely brilliant.
All I remember about Twycross is Kai Allard-Liao in a Hatchetman head-chopping omnimech after omnimech in a narrow canyon because clanners couldn't figure out how to brawl.
Thank you to everyone created this. Everything about this trailer is great. The poetry, the music, the cinematics, the editing, everything! Cannot wait for the whole episode!
"I-I am going to be a storm-a flame-
I need to fight whole armies alone;
I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms;
I feel too strong to war with mortals-
BRING ME GIANTS!"
Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Twycross is a wild product-
It’s an overlooked and ignored “fist resistance” product by FASA, a “proto tuykaid”- I’m very excited for this video sir!!!
Hallelujah, Tex and the BPL are back in their finest form. I am grinning like a Cheshire cat waiting for the next Tex Talks Battletech. Absolutely amazing trailer. 10/10
I was expecting an episode on the Black Knight. I would have been super happy with that.
But what we're getting is so much better!
Tex giving out about the clans is always a good time.
I love this! I am looking forward to the full video! Tex reciting poetry like that, is what helped hook me on the Hunchback ❤
Nothing short of phenomenal. Great choices on poetry, music, and imagery.
And so it begins
This is a fantastic trailer. POB's to everyone involved.
Was just thinking we should be hearing something on an upcoming tex talks battletech episode pretty soon. I look forward to the amazing job you guys always put forth
Oh man... That... That gave me chills. That 3D rendering of the mech battles, that is on a whole other level. I'm so stupidly excited.
Remember that How Battletech Should have Ended video? The "Why Tex shouldn't write video games" one?
With this trailer dropped, the statement seems no longer valid.
Hella stoked to see the premiere of the next TTBT episode
Soon cant come soon enough. Thanks again for all the hard work you and everyone put into what is sure to be a monumental and glorious take on our shared history Tex and crew. Excited to see all the baller art everyone contributed to this.
I absolutely LOVE “Tex Talks Battletech” I have watched the videos numerous times and just enjoy them immensely so I am truly excited for the next one. Will probably be painting some of my new Battletech: Mercenaries minis from the kickstarter while watching it.
At first I was annoyed that I didn’t realize this was a trailer and not the full vid, but then I watched it again just to listen to Tex recite poetry.
I love this community... saw the vid pop up, 25min online, clicked it, put a like in (number 696 very nice!) and after enjoying 2min of Tex reading poetry the like counter was up to 741 ...wait, make that 815, that's what it climbed while I wrote this! :)
ever since the gear of war trailer with this poem in it I made sure to memorize it. It slaps so hard
I legit got goosebumps.
Amazing cg, the always incomparable Tex, the deep dive into lore... this one's gonna be SPECIAL. Strap in.
Watched it a few times now and I'm still getting chills. Awesome job.
Well this is certainly next level. Bravo!
Amazing trailer.
You guys really knocked it out of the park again. The video is great. The combination of visuals and the poem sends shivers down my spine.
OOOOOOFFFFF (Sound of being gutpunched). Love the poetic and musical choices for the trailer, I trust the talk will live up! (Notice that was not a question, I am sure it will ;)
By the Old Gods and the New, this is glorious... Wow...
I shall not miss this rendezvous
That was incredible, looking forward to the full video. Great job Tex, and your production team.
I have missed the well-aged, whiskey-soaked goodness that is Mr. Tex, aka Randolph P. Checkers, Esq.
Gentlemen, damn, just damn. Mr. Tex you are a phenomenal narrator , I cannot wait for the video and the poetry is superb.
I love the AC20 round being fired by the Atlas. That was cool.
You guys just keep impressing me more and more. All of you. I look forward to seeing your newest effort very much.