Novice Lancer pilot on a mountain top ridge looking at what looks like an enormous forest fire but grey with tints of eldritch greens and kindling orange, "Why is the fire looking like that?" The older veteran, pulls out his revolver and unloads a single shell, "That there is no fire, son." He then shows the single shell to the rookie. "Keep one for yourself because when that touches you and starts eating away at you, you'll need one. You'll want one."
It almost feels more like you’re the caterpillar AND the leaves. Tearing away the pieces of yourself in order to complete your violent cycle of consuming
DM to player as they enter mech for the first time at ll2: "As you get in the cockpit of your Morning Cloak, you put your hands on the controls. Unexpectedly, they begin to sink in. At first pain at your finger tips, and then a swarm of bugs come out and cover your arms. The pain stops. The bugs climb your arms, surround your head, and you see the words 'Hello . have been you. You have passed. You are the new '. You suddenly realize, you have a Balor. Hopefully, you survive."
When I first read about the Balor it was like the words flowed from the page and into my mind, Whispering of the sweetest destruction. In that moment I knew what it was like to worship an Elder God, for I now had one of my very own.
The true horror of a Balor is that it is not always a "This was something that was an accident" Somebody MADE this. Someone out there SEEKS out these pattern groups like they are their salvation. Because when you hit rock bottom, Sometimes making a deal with the devil is the best way out of hell.
Used the Maw as a villain once before when the players attempted to communicate with it they got one message looping endlessly “KILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER”.
"When all Hell's breaking loose, you'll be right in the eye of the storm!" For your chassis is the storm, and not some erratic fleet foot tornado like Mourning Cloak. No, yours is the way of the Hurricane. Slowly, but surely grinding away everything that gets close to you while also hurling debris at the path ahead.
I love the fact that Balor looks like a raid boss when in reality it isn't just a singular one - it is more a mech-scale zombie apocalypse of raid bosses, because in the lore the greywash doesn't just consume, it spreads and infects to make more Balors. I know that Horus houses a lot of existential horror, but just the idea of this Balrog styled doom knight the size of a house, wreathed in an indiscriminately disassembling cloud, perpetually *multiplying* as it marches along is definitely among the most viscerally terrifying concepts they've got going for them. I mean it is the only mech in their entire roster that is treated more as its own force in the lore and for good reason.
An atypical, fun build for the Balor is to go full on missile platform with Launchers from other mech licenses (like the Monarch). Your short sensor range doesn't matter and you're able to shell the battlefield from a comfortable distance - and you're an absolute nightmare to take down because oh look you're regenerating HP every turn.
If you invest in IPSN licences, you can earn the FOMORIAN frame, which increases your mech's size by 1. In Irish myth, the Fomorians were a giant people, monstrous raiders from beneath the earth or sea, or by arrive by ship. The upgrade is particularly good for builds that have burst effects, like Threat or some systems or weapons, as they measure from the edges of your space and cover significantly more battlefield as you go up in size category. In myth, Balor was king of the Fomorians.
@@lechking941 throw a point in Blackbeard. Now you count as size 4 when choke slamming your opponents. Put a couple in Nelson, and now you can also explode people with your whip
@@ComedicLetter 0_0 fuck me mate. and i was just thinking ISPN was bad now ya telling me you can make a BARBOSSA TITANIC! in str... fack me man doing it to a balor is one thing but doing it ont he biggest base mech in the setting.
My player gave me two tokens for use on our Roll20 game. The first one was a Saladin, and it was the token he used for the first little while. Then he got shot with a heavy weapon. I then replaced the token with a Balor. The other players all immediately said "what the fuck is that?". They were new to the system, and hadn't read up on what the Balor could do. The Balor player just chuckled, then pulled out the Whip.
immagin a crew being pulled for a shitting random emergancy mission. its a hell of a siege. ya thought you had a SALADIN, untill it took a shot and it. just never reacted it continued to walk as if that shot was nothing. only to get into melee range and MELT INTO A SWARM OF GRAY the pilot visable in a heavy hardsuit cackling like a manic as they grab and shread the opposing sherman like it was nothing. seeing now you have a balor. the sentiant swarm. the one thing i can say is be glad if ya see a balor apperar knowing its on your side. as that player showed they are hidden monster of destruction
Judging by how so far we're alternating manufacturers and picking frames alphabetically (excluding non core frames) NEXT ONE IS BARBAROSSA!!!! SUPERIOR BY DESIGN BABY
My favourite thing about Balor has always been its aesthetic. It is literally a walking natural disaster. It cannot be stopped, it will walk, it will consume, you will die. It is as inevitable as the star setting, the moons rising, like a volcano's eventual eruption. Like it said in the battle report, it's angry water. Because water will wear down anything in its way until it gets what it wants. However slow it may be.
A fun thing that I noticed at least within CompCon is that you can put nanite composite on the gengis Flamethrower which feels , utterly horrifying in practice. Flamethrower that just hunts you down.
Fools see this and say "Oh it's for melee," But the scriptures are clear, The most deadly artillery is artillery that cannot die. Long Live Long Range Balor
So here is a quick build for someone who wants to have a blast with Balor (LL6) Step 1: Max in AGILITY (Do what you want with the rest of the points) Grab skills usefull for melee Step 2: 3LL in Balor licence, 2LL in Dusk Wing, at least core bonus "OP caliber" Step 3: NANOBOT WHIP with "OP caliber" and Flicker Field Projector Step 4: Profit you now have a 6 speed Balor that is gonna be invisible for most of the game "Nothing is scarier than a Balor..... Except an Invisible Balor thats might be running at you like a freight train "
2 lancers walk into a bar the bartender says "hey we don't allow mechs in here" you were wrong it was actually a balor and a lancer who walked into a bar the bartender screams in terror as he gets consumed 2 balors and a lancer walk into a bar the lancer says "stop that you are not allowed to eat people" the lancer then proceeds to scream in terror as well 3 balors walk into a bar the customer's scream in terror after what they have just heard and seen before being silenced by a swarm of nanites 27 balors walk into a bar the infection has begun and there is no hope
Ahhh my favorite of the Horus mechs. Slap a heavy flamethrower on this thing and put the nanocomp adaptation into it and you have a flamethrower shooting out the mech itself for long range devouring swarms!!!
I love these videos so much. They help me conceptualize the mechs better than blocks of text ever could (thanks, brain). The balor makes me think of the Faro machines from Horizon and I absolutely love that. If I wasn't commited to foliage management at the moment, I would be playing a Balor
My first and so far only time playing lancer, I had a Balor\Vlad mech. I gotta tell you there's nothing more satisfying than immobilizing a target inside your nanite tornado and just watching them evaporate
Balor is my favorite mech, a close tie with the Pegasus mainly because those two go great together. Talking my GM into letting my Balor have an Omnigun was so much fun. Just a nightmare of a monster if think about it.
I gotta say, Balor with an +1 Accuracy Nano Whip and Executioner talent is just a nightmare. The build practically needs nothing to work: maybe Skirmish 2 to make up for your awful speed?
Ah, the Hive Drone, also called the Grunt Mower. Pyro Grunts are pretty sturdy with 3 armor, unless you just toss a bunch of bees at it. Fellow player was just ripping up multiple of them last session
imagine being part of those grunts. one second your buddy is standing next to you fighting with you the next second you see a cloud approach you and literally consume him molecule by molecule
@@svenabel2987 hearing about these makes me thing of "lord of all things" and the few descriptions in that book depicting people being consumed by nanobots. can't be a nice thing. especially if they don't aim to kill. also the grunts are autonomous drones? (sorry I have no clue what Lancer is. I just stumbled over this video)
@@roberine7241 in mechanical terms, grunts use the full statblock of an enemy but only have 1 HP, my DM flavored this as them being autonomous drones, rather than fullon piloted chassis
fun fact Gun Balor is actually pretty strong, you walk forward with a giant machine gun, absorbing hits until you're in range to shred em with big gun. If they try to melee you they get shredded by nanites from your trait. On hihger LLs too, you could up your edefense to shore up your Heat weakness and even take Scorpion Mod from Gorgon to make missing you with tech hurt the techer
You can get a Size 3 Balor if you invest into some IPS-N license levels and take Fomorian Frame. And there's some potential synergy there since so many of your things care about being adjacent (easier if you're bigger), and grabbing some of the melee heavy parts of IPS-N licenses works well with the rest of the Balor's kit. Balor with some Vlad systems, immobilising enemies in the middle of a cloud of nanites and caltrops, seems like it would be a good time.
I vow to find that hum sound effect you used because it fits the vibe of being taken over by a hivemind intelligence that only wants to consume perfectly
I adore your horrifying perspective on this mech because it makes complete sense Also something that always terrified me it's a feral machine hunger, there's no NHP in this mech just thousands of robotic grey wash insects starving and reproducing more of themselves from the iron in the flesh of it's last meal
I've gotten into, or starting to get into LANCER because of your videos. And the balor caught my attention the moment you described it. Been waiting for this episode.
I would love the idea that the one who pilots this mech is some Joe Shmoe who suddenly made a deal with a nhp. Using the nanobots they where transformed into a human/machine/nano bot thing and went out to do stuff. The horror of another suddenly seeing this normal looking guy venom into a large mech shape and then a swarm of hunger is amazing. A symbiotic relationship of death and all consuming nanotechnology.
Zaktact has good videos purely because he lets you fall in love with Lancer with him haha. I love the narration and descriptions so much, it's legit so much fun to listen to.
I love mixing Balor with the strength enhancement suits stuff from the Zheng and a little bit from Blackbeard. You have a good time! The enemy doesn't.
Oooh hear me out. A balor that the idea is it tears the souls/conciousness/whatever you wanna call it, from each person it kills and makes it one of the nanites. Eventually it will consume the pilot on the pilot death too, and find a new host. Carrying on thee legacy and power rof every soul it has taken into its hive mind.
I had a concept for a lancer party, just to be the most varied possible every pilot would use one of the from the different mechs from every company, the pilot of the horus mech would use a balor, refering to it has "him" or "my partner" making the rest of pilots nervous... not because she might be crazy for giving a personality to a machine but... what if she's telling the truth?
You didn't really touch upon (what I believe to be) the best part about balor. No one really knows where balor comes from. It just appears. If even one nanite attaches to your mech, next morning *BAM* you have a balor now.
Just want to point out that both the disabling of regeneration and the regeneration itself trigger at the end of your turn, meaning you get to pick in what order do they happen. So effectively you always heal xD
I played a balor once with stealth melee build. It was fucking terrifying because it was basically just a mass of nano machines slowly walking toward you because they couldn't see you if without a check. And the only thing to make you aware that there's still a mech inside that swarm was the massive claw reaching out and dealing AP damage before sinking back into the swarm
Do you guys see the glowing red dot on Balor's head as an eye and those two jagged bits below it as jaws/mandibles, or do you see the dot as some decorative forehead gem and the jagged bits as like face armor flaps you'd see on an old style helmet?
Another great video! And it's BALOR! BALOR really reminds me of the bees in cartoons and shows. I only used it in one mission but man was it fun. Also I totally did not say "Nanomachines, son!" every time I healed...Absolutely was not the first person to have mech destroyed that mission.
What I have been dping for my Friday game is been building my Balor's Hp up. Next level up I'm going to be giving my boy a max HP of 20! 20!!! 5 HP regained per start of my turn or 10! with Hive Frenzy
Can you imagine the horror of watching your entire mechanised reinforcements get ripped apart my the molecule by a machine that isn't even moving it's arms to attack you..?
You know, it's wild. I've heard so many people say so many good things about lancer. And despite being a big KSBD fan, I bounced because not one single person thought to mention "edritch mecha" or basically anything at all relating to Ra, Horus or NHPs.
I gave my Balor a License Level of Black Witch so I have better options of… fishing. I also intend to have vehicle call ins so they can essentially just drag me around since 4 Speed is brutal
Oooo I'm about to boot up CompCon & try out the build idea I've just had... Balor w/ Lilliputian Frame (3rd party), synthetic muscle netting, jager kunst, and wielding the Nimue's blinkspace greatsword Just. Time, Space, and Bees are not on your side.
I had a glorious idea for an antagonist. Starts off the campaign as a showboaty techbro loser who has a mech that's part Balor part Blackbeard and a high enough level that he can solo the party if he needs to. He is very attached to the NHP though, enough to raise some red flags. Eventually something happens where the NHP castigates, and oops Faro Plague from Horizon Zero Dawn, and the party need to find the main mech and take it down before it wipes out all life on the planet.
Loving this game setting Question: is there a possibility for a video giving some contexts on the player stats and how they work? Like a little explanation on what are nexus weapon slot, for example (cause, atm, I have no idea of what could it be 😂)
That's just a description of what type of weapon it is; there's Nexus, Launcher, Melee, etc. and there are talents that interact with only specific types of weapons. "Nexus" typically is flavored as "it's less a weapon itself and more of a housing for other weapons" if I remember correctly.
I personally can not wait for you to hopefully do a video on the Lich (this would probably be much later as it isn’t even in base game) but I love the tiem traveling unkillable mech that dies from everything
My Forward Camera flickered. The targeting solution searching frantically for something. The millions of tiny computations screaming at me that something was there, pleading with me to level my Thermal Lance and vaporize the empty space at my 2 O'clock. I raised an eyebrow and reset the system. The main camera blinked for a split second, and then it was there, the rolling, boiling, burning mass. It reached me. I heard the air, once empty, hiss my name, calling me to my end. I pulled the manual eject out of a reflex I didn't even know I had. Time slowed down like a slideshow, and I could read the prompt on my forward screen Manual eject detected Asset denial engaged Core temp control off Nuclear in 3... I counted the next two numbers in my head as my combat harness frantically tried to combat the hard G's of getting suddenly tossed out of my cozy pilot station. 2..1.. Light. Gloriously bright The auto tint on my helmet was a little slow to react, but as it settled, I could see the wreckage of my machine. A single white yellow flame in the sea of rolling sickly greys and blues. And behind that, the hulking shifting mass of something evil, something that deemed my existence and afront to itself. I could feel it staring at me with its hateful eyes. And then something bit my foot...
@@chillyavian7718 They should make a completely ordinary chassis for horus, but they’re a bunch of rumors about what is special about it (like, end of the world and that) in reality it’s completely normal, people are just paranoid about it. Alternatively, it’s completely normal, just pretty tanki, but for some reason, everyone that is in proximity to the mach is unlucky. Basically, it’s a tank that depuff the ennemy around it.
@@chillyavian7718 I was thinking more of a mech that was a bit of a joke, like EVERYONE is unlucky when close to it, even the user and it’s allies, but your idea work too. Maybe it’s the drunken master equivalent of mech.
Ooh boy, if this is how you do HORUS pattern groups, I can’t wait for the existential horror that is gonna be Lich or Pegasus.
GUN: GUN
Or Gorgon. Fuck you mean looking in his general direction can cause brain emorrages, and it works on machines and AI too?!
D R I N K D E E P A N D D E S C E N D
Novice Lancer pilot on a mountain top ridge looking at what looks like an enormous forest fire but grey with tints of eldritch greens and kindling orange, "Why is the fire looking like that?"
The older veteran, pulls out his revolver and unloads a single shell, "That there is no fire, son." He then shows the single shell to the rookie. "Keep one for yourself because when that touches you and starts eating away at you, you'll need one. You'll want one."
The Lich has called. Or have you called them.
they are within you now, and they will see you reach your goal with them.
Well, one of you at least.
@apocolototh1948 *But why not both? Why not all three of us? Or is it four, is five? Are we many or are one? Indivauls and pairs overlaid upon*
@@devindeocharan8323 because the ability only makes 2 simultaneous positions :P
Ah, my favorite flavor of mech: Horror story antagonist
As being a Chaos 40k fan and a deathknight War craft fan taught me. The coolest characters are Thing + horror story protagonist
@@DarkKnightroolz based chaos enjoyer
@@Landmassorussia Ave Dominus Nox!
@@DarkKnightroolz Hydra Dominatus!
There's a few Lancer chassis that could be argued to fall under that description.
You're a hungry hungry caterpillar. And they are yummy leaves.
I AM THE SWARM
It almost feels more like you’re the caterpillar AND the leaves. Tearing away the pieces of yourself in order to complete your violent cycle of consuming
DM to player as they enter mech for the first time at ll2:
"As you get in the cockpit of your Morning Cloak, you put your hands on the controls. Unexpectedly, they begin to sink in. At first pain at your finger tips, and then a swarm of bugs come out and cover your arms. The pain stops. The bugs climb your arms, surround your head, and you see the words 'Hello . have been you. You have passed. You are the new '. You suddenly realize, you have a Balor. Hopefully, you survive."
This is just fantastic.
Ooooooo I love this description for the Baylor!
now thats heart shattering.
Great, now I've got to make Horus NHPs talk like The Board from Control, thank you for such an awesome idea!
When I first read about the Balor it was like the words flowed from the page and into my mind, Whispering of the sweetest destruction. In that moment I knew what it was like to worship an Elder God, for I now had one of my very own.
Most normal aquisition of a Horus license
DRINK DEEP
AND
D E S C E N D
@@LoydeReed You dont choose Hórus, Hórus chooses you
The true horror of a Balor is that it is not always a "This was something that was an accident" Somebody MADE this. Someone out there SEEKS out these pattern groups like they are their salvation.
Because when you hit rock bottom,
Sometimes making a deal with the devil is the best way out of hell.
Used the Maw as a villain once before when the players attempted to communicate with it they got one message looping endlessly “KILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER”.
oh hey, god of cancer! from that one thing with the god of everything else
Personally, I hate that, I wish hivemind villians had more to say and more thoughts, since they are different minds all connected
"When all Hell's breaking loose, you'll be right in the eye of the storm!" For your chassis is the storm, and not some erratic fleet foot tornado like Mourning Cloak. No, yours is the way of the Hurricane. Slowly, but surely grinding away everything that gets close to you while also hurling debris at the path ahead.
Listen to [Let the storm descend upon you] by [Avantasia], this mech and that song were made for each other.
@@nullpoint3346 That's epic, thank man!
Ah yes, my favorite “mech”
Loads of tiny metal termites.
I love the fact that Balor looks like a raid boss when in reality it isn't just a singular one - it is more a mech-scale zombie apocalypse of raid bosses, because in the lore the greywash doesn't just consume, it spreads and infects to make more Balors.
I know that Horus houses a lot of existential horror, but just the idea of this Balrog styled doom knight the size of a house, wreathed in an indiscriminately disassembling cloud, perpetually *multiplying* as it marches along is definitely among the most viscerally terrifying concepts they've got going for them. I mean it is the only mech in their entire roster that is treated more as its own force in the lore and for good reason.
Ah horus mechs never change, unless of course you are balor then you change a lot
An atypical, fun build for the Balor is to go full on missile platform with Launchers from other mech licenses (like the Monarch). Your short sensor range doesn't matter and you're able to shell the battlefield from a comfortable distance - and you're an absolute nightmare to take down because oh look you're regenerating HP every turn.
If you invest in IPSN licences, you can earn the FOMORIAN frame, which increases your mech's size by 1. In Irish myth, the Fomorians were a giant people, monstrous raiders from beneath the earth or sea, or by arrive by ship.
The upgrade is particularly good for builds that have burst effects, like Threat or some systems or weapons, as they measure from the edges of your space and cover significantly more battlefield as you go up in size category.
In myth, Balor was king of the Fomorians.
so your telling my a hidden quark is having a ISPN license and a balor license and you get the mother of all fucking evils
@@lechking941 throw a point in Blackbeard. Now you count as size 4 when choke slamming your opponents.
Put a couple in Nelson, and now you can also explode people with your whip
@@ComedicLetter 0_0 fuck me mate. and i was just thinking ISPN was bad now ya telling me you can make a BARBOSSA TITANIC! in str... fack me man doing it to a balor is one thing but doing it ont he biggest base mech in the setting.
@@lechking941 the shuttle wrestler
@@ComedicLetter The bunker is moving! I repeat! The bunker is mov-PUNCH
My player gave me two tokens for use on our Roll20 game. The first one was a Saladin, and it was the token he used for the first little while. Then he got shot with a heavy weapon.
I then replaced the token with a Balor.
The other players all immediately said "what the fuck is that?". They were new to the system, and hadn't read up on what the Balor could do.
The Balor player just chuckled, then pulled out the Whip.
Ooh that's so cool. Great way to represent it.
immagin a crew being pulled for a shitting random emergancy mission. its a hell of a siege. ya thought you had a SALADIN, untill it took a shot and it. just never reacted it continued to walk as if that shot was nothing. only to get into melee range and MELT INTO A SWARM OF GRAY the pilot visable in a heavy hardsuit cackling like a manic as they grab and shread the opposing sherman like it was nothing. seeing now you have a balor. the sentiant swarm. the one thing i can say is be glad if ya see a balor apperar knowing its on your side. as that player showed they are hidden monster of destruction
*[hyperaggressive beehive noises intensify]*
Judging by how so far we're alternating manufacturers and picking frames alphabetically (excluding non core frames)
NEXT ONE IS BARBAROSSA!!!!
SUPERIOR BY DESIGN BABY
Superior by design.
Woohoo big barbie is ready to play
My favourite thing about Balor has always been its aesthetic. It is literally a walking natural disaster. It cannot be stopped, it will walk, it will consume, you will die. It is as inevitable as the star setting, the moons rising, like a volcano's eventual eruption. Like it said in the battle report, it's angry water. Because water will wear down anything in its way until it gets what it wants. However slow it may be.
This thing just takes the "not the bees" meme and turns it into a homicidal robot!
10/10 would swarm again
A fun thing that I noticed at least within CompCon is that you can put nanite composite on the gengis Flamethrower which feels , utterly horrifying in practice. Flamethrower that just hunts you down.
Heat-seeking heat.
Hey I thought that tech priest destroyed the STC for Phosphex?
Can you make it piercing too? For maximum BS?
@@bthsr7113 It's piercing by default. Cus it's an AoE weapon so it hits everything in radius.
@@dragodx8238 Thanks for clarifying.
This series has been a great way for me to start getting into LANCER. Also, angry bees are now my favourite mech, so menacing.
Fools see this and say "Oh it's for melee," But the scriptures are clear, The most deadly artillery is artillery that cannot die. Long Live Long Range Balor
If you don't mind constantly taking Reactor Stress, take 3 LLs in Barbarossa to get the Siege Cannon and overheat every time you fire!
@@Attaxalotlpffft, what a great idea
i love Balor
i love the fact that it's pilot inside it is as much as it's mercy as anyone around it
So here is a quick build for someone who wants to have a blast with Balor (LL6)
Step 1: Max in AGILITY (Do what you want with the rest of the points) Grab skills usefull for melee
Step 2: 3LL in Balor licence, 2LL in Dusk Wing, at least core bonus "OP caliber"
Step 3: NANOBOT WHIP with "OP caliber" and Flicker Field Projector
Step 4: Profit
you now have a 6 speed Balor that is gonna be invisible for most of the game
"Nothing is scarier than a Balor..... Except an Invisible Balor thats might be running at you like a freight train "
2 lancers walk into a bar the bartender says "hey we don't allow mechs in here" you were wrong it was actually a balor and a lancer who walked into a bar the bartender screams in terror as he gets consumed
2 balors and a lancer walk into a bar the lancer says "stop that you are not allowed to eat people" the lancer then proceeds to scream in terror as well
3 balors walk into a bar the customer's scream in terror after what they have just heard and seen before being silenced by a swarm of nanites
27 balors walk into a bar the infection has begun and there is no hope
went in looking for demon with wings came out with The Bee Movie cosplaying as cat woman and a wood chipper
...not wrong
Ahhh my favorite of the Horus mechs. Slap a heavy flamethrower on this thing and put the nanocomp adaptation into it and you have a flamethrower shooting out the mech itself for long range devouring swarms!!!
I love these videos so much. They help me conceptualize the mechs better than blocks of text ever could (thanks, brain). The balor makes me think of the Faro machines from Horizon and I absolutely love that. If I wasn't commited to foliage management at the moment, I would be playing a Balor
I mean, kind of. Definitely their biofuel acquisition.
My first and so far only time playing lancer, I had a Balor\Vlad mech. I gotta tell you there's nothing more satisfying than immobilizing a target inside your nanite tornado and just watching them evaporate
That would be a fun combo.
Balor is my favorite mech, a close tie with the Pegasus mainly because those two go great together. Talking my GM into letting my Balor have an Omnigun was so much fun. Just a nightmare of a monster if think about it.
I gotta say, Balor with an +1 Accuracy Nano Whip and Executioner talent is just a nightmare. The build practically needs nothing to work: maybe Skirmish 2 to make up for your awful speed?
but what if,
come with me on this journey,
sekhmet
@@LexYeenAs if the angry swarm of grey goo was not terrifying enough
Ah, the Hive Drone, also called the Grunt Mower. Pyro Grunts are pretty sturdy with 3 armor, unless you just toss a bunch of bees at it. Fellow player was just ripping up multiple of them last session
imagine being part of those grunts. one second your buddy is standing next to you fighting with you the next second you see a cloud approach you and literally consume him molecule by molecule
@@roberine7241 they were automonous drones, so it's okay. Warcrimes don't apply to robots
@@svenabel2987 hearing about these makes me thing of "lord of all things" and the few descriptions in that book depicting people being consumed by nanobots. can't be a nice thing. especially if they don't aim to kill.
also the grunts are autonomous drones? (sorry I have no clue what Lancer is. I just stumbled over this video)
@@roberine7241 in mechanical terms, grunts use the full statblock of an enemy but only have 1 HP, my DM flavored this as them being autonomous drones, rather than fullon piloted chassis
fun fact Gun Balor is actually pretty strong, you walk forward with a giant machine gun, absorbing hits until you're in range to shred em with big gun. If they try to melee you they get shredded by nanites from your trait. On hihger LLs too, you could up your edefense to shore up your Heat weakness and even take Scorpion Mod from Gorgon to make missing you with tech hurt the techer
Paracausal HMG is…*shutters* beyond terrifying.
BALOR and SUNZI are *very" good friends.
"In a shocking and quite horrifying turn of events, it is in fact the halfling that is throwing the barbarian".
balor my beloved
You can get a Size 3 Balor if you invest into some IPS-N license levels and take Fomorian Frame. And there's some potential synergy there since so many of your things care about being adjacent (easier if you're bigger), and grabbing some of the melee heavy parts of IPS-N licenses works well with the rest of the Balor's kit.
Balor with some Vlad systems, immobilising enemies in the middle of a cloud of nanites and caltrops, seems like it would be a good time.
Caltrops made of Nanites
I vow to find that hum sound effect you used because it fits the vibe of being taken over by a hivemind intelligence that only wants to consume perfectly
I adore your horrifying perspective on this mech because it makes complete sense
Also something that always terrified me it's a feral machine hunger, there's no NHP in this mech just thousands of robotic grey wash insects starving and reproducing more of themselves from the iron in the flesh of it's last meal
Hell yeah, its time for the license that allows my favourite combo: heat seeking sword
Certainly enjoying these lancer videos a lot. Cant wait for CASTIGATE CASTIGATE CASTIGATE CASTIGATE
I love that it shapesshifts. You dont know it's there until it's too late.
Hell ya, eldritch horror gundum
I've gotten into, or starting to get into LANCER because of your videos. And the balor caught my attention the moment you described it. Been waiting for this episode.
Within me burns the flame of the Nanomachine
Your mildly hoarse Voice fit well with the feel of the video and really inspired a fun character concept
I'm happy the hoarse voice added something to the video.
I am a bit sad that I pushed my character away from drones and towards Hacking, ending up with billions of graywash drones would have fit so well
ooh, i didnt think about this before today but now i want an empakaai chassis with every balor system attached to it
A real monster.
I would love the idea that the one who pilots this mech is some Joe Shmoe who suddenly made a deal with a nhp. Using the nanobots they where transformed into a human/machine/nano bot thing and went out to do stuff. The horror of another suddenly seeing this normal looking guy venom into a large mech shape and then a swarm of hunger is amazing. A symbiotic relationship of death and all consuming nanotechnology.
Heavy Melee on the nanobot whip also means you can use Executioner to potentially pull TWO people in the Bee Blender™
Zaktact has good videos purely because he lets you fall in love with Lancer with him haha. I love the narration and descriptions so much, it's legit so much fun to listen to.
Your sheer glee while talking about this hornet hell of a mech is infectious. I absolutely love this! Thank you for covering the Balor :D
balor epidemic would be a goated campaign.. i have an idea
I love mixing Balor with the strength enhancement suits stuff from the Zheng and a little bit from Blackbeard. You have a good time! The enemy doesn't.
Glad to get more in-depth info on the Eldritch Horus Mechs, really love how friggin' weird they are.
So, is the buzzing and the bug bite just the way of the Balor saying “I hunger…”
Oooh hear me out. A balor that the idea is it tears the souls/conciousness/whatever you wanna call it, from each person it kills and makes it one of the nanites.
Eventually it will consume the pilot on the pilot death too, and find a new host. Carrying on thee legacy and power rof every soul it has taken into its hive mind.
That sounds like such a fun concept to run with.
Balor is tied with Gorgon for largest Horus frame
Good catch. I tripped up there.
One of the last youtuber i still get excited to see uploaded
I had a concept for a lancer party, just to be the most varied possible every pilot would use one of the from the different mechs from every company, the pilot of the horus mech would use a balor, refering to it has "him" or "my partner" making the rest of pilots nervous... not because she might be crazy for giving a personality to a machine but... what if she's telling the truth?
You didn't really touch upon (what I believe to be) the best part about balor. No one really knows where balor comes from. It just appears. If even one nanite attaches to your mech, next morning *BAM* you have a balor now.
Just want to point out that both the disabling of regeneration and the regeneration itself trigger at the end of your turn, meaning you get to pick in what order do they happen. So effectively you always heal xD
I played a balor once with stealth melee build. It was fucking terrifying because it was basically just a mass of nano machines slowly walking toward you because they couldn't see you if without a check. And the only thing to make you aware that there's still a mech inside that swarm was the massive claw reaching out and dealing AP damage before sinking back into the swarm
Your description of that thing was pretty fucking metal!!
The baelor is the reason why the genghis MK1 is necessary again
Do you guys see the glowing red dot on Balor's head as an eye and those two jagged bits below it as jaws/mandibles, or do you see the dot as some decorative forehead gem and the jagged bits as like face armor flaps you'd see on an old style helmet?
I always saw it as a cyclopean insect in the line of metal insects. The old helmet I can also see, like an undead ghostly warrior.
Another great video! And it's BALOR! BALOR really reminds me of the bees in cartoons and shows. I only used it in one mission but man was it fun. Also I totally did not say "Nanomachines, son!" every time I healed...Absolutely was not the first person to have mech destroyed that mission.
I just wanted to say because of you my ttrpg group finally stepped away from dnd and have been loving lancer.
What I have been dping for my Friday game is been building my Balor's Hp up. Next level up I'm going to be giving my boy a max HP of 20! 20!!! 5 HP regained per start of my turn or 10! with Hive Frenzy
_Nanomachines, son!_
blender cloud walker is my favorite
I hope when you get to Pegasus you remember to say the funny line. Not that one, the other one. The one with the books.
Can you imagine the horror of watching your entire mechanised reinforcements get ripped apart my the molecule by a machine that isn't even moving it's arms to attack you..?
I really wanted more illustrations of the Horus mech, mostly the Balor, showing those different versions
Just love all the background visuals for the lancer vids.
You know, it's wild. I've heard so many people say so many good things about lancer. And despite being a big KSBD fan, I bounced because not one single person thought to mention "edritch mecha" or basically anything at all relating to Ra, Horus or NHPs.
I gave my Balor a License Level of Black Witch so I have better options of… fishing. I also intend to have vehicle call ins so they can essentially just drag me around since 4 Speed is brutal
"I'm not locked in here with you you're locked in here with me"
Oooo I'm about to boot up CompCon & try out the build idea I've just had... Balor w/ Lilliputian Frame (3rd party), synthetic muscle netting, jager kunst, and wielding the Nimue's blinkspace greatsword
Just.
Time, Space, and Bees are not on your side.
Yes, my favorite mech. Bees.
Sheer Unadulterated Terror.
Can't help but imagine this guy mixed with a Blackbeard and calling it a Balrog
Balor is my favorite frame. Love this series
Oops, your mech is in your bloodstream, and it ate half your Sagarmatha. But it's maybe your friend?
I had a glorious idea for an antagonist. Starts off the campaign as a showboaty techbro loser who has a mech that's part Balor part Blackbeard and a high enough level that he can solo the party if he needs to. He is very attached to the NHP though, enough to raise some red flags. Eventually something happens where the NHP castigates, and oops Faro Plague from Horizon Zero Dawn, and the party need to find the main mech and take it down before it wipes out all life on the planet.
It might be helpful to go over the 'Core Bonuses' of each foundry since that should inform you about what each of them likes to do/focuses on.
Not a bad idea.
The balor aka a tyranid ripper swarm upgraded with necron tech that you get to pilot.
Horus mechs are just fascinating. Each is neat. But when I heard what the Balor was, I knew I had to play it!
Just found this channel from this video, love the style and writing. Can’t wait for hehe haha gun horse man thing that is my beloved, Pegasus *
Funny how a lot of Horus mechs are not one solid mech. Horus rarely follows the rules. Thanks for the video.
Loving this game setting
Question: is there a possibility for a video giving some contexts on the player stats and how they work? Like a little explanation on what are nexus weapon slot, for example (cause, atm, I have no idea of what could it be 😂)
That's just a description of what type of weapon it is; there's Nexus, Launcher, Melee, etc. and there are talents that interact with only specific types of weapons. "Nexus" typically is flavored as "it's less a weapon itself and more of a housing for other weapons" if I remember correctly.
Ah, a mecha-Tyranid
Horus mechs are crazy scary
ALL the manufacturers have terrifying offerings. Even the baseline Everest and its variants can be utterly terrifying.
Ahh yes a look at Lancer's version of the Nematodes from Spongebob.
I personally can not wait for you to hopefully do a video on the Lich (this would probably be much later as it isn’t even in base game) but I love the tiem traveling unkillable mech that dies from everything
this sounds like a fun chassis for beginners to lancer
Love your videos, want to get into Lancer so bad
My Forward Camera flickered. The targeting solution searching frantically for something. The millions of tiny computations screaming at me that something was there, pleading with me to level my Thermal Lance and vaporize the empty space at my 2 O'clock.
I raised an eyebrow and reset the system.
The main camera blinked for a split second, and then it was there, the rolling, boiling, burning mass.
It reached me.
I heard the air, once empty, hiss my name, calling me to my end.
I pulled the manual eject out of a reflex I didn't even know I had.
Time slowed down like a slideshow, and I could read the prompt on my forward screen
Manual eject detected
Asset denial engaged
Core temp control off
Nuclear in 3...
I counted the next two numbers in my head as my combat harness frantically tried to combat the hard G's of getting suddenly tossed out of my cozy pilot station.
2..1..
Light.
Gloriously bright
The auto tint on my helmet was a little slow to react, but as it settled, I could see the wreckage of my machine. A single white yellow flame in the sea of rolling sickly greys and blues.
And behind that, the hulking shifting mass of something evil, something that deemed my existence and afront to itself.
I could feel it staring at me with its hateful eyes.
And then something bit my foot...
3:03 i deadass thought you were just making a Finn Balor joke
So the tier 3 upgrades for balor are either, pull into the blender or throw the blender at. Ill take note for when i fight one.
I would like to point out that the Nanobot Whip can, on max damage, one-shot the mech it's attached to.
I took me a disappointing amount of time to figure out what was up with the Cataclysm in the background.
0:46 An odd ball for horus would be a normal chassis.
A completely normal Everest in Horus design
@@chillyavian7718 They should make a completely ordinary chassis for horus, but they’re a bunch of rumors about what is special about it (like, end of the world and that) in reality it’s completely normal, people are just paranoid about it.
Alternatively, it’s completely normal, just pretty tanki, but for some reason, everyone that is in proximity to the mach is unlucky.
Basically, it’s a tank that depuff the ennemy around it.
@@Mastercheap Oooh, maybe somekind of dodge-tank chassis? Kinda weak but with massive dodge and the ability to force rerolls of enemy attacks maybe?
@@chillyavian7718 I was thinking more of a mech that was a bit of a joke, like EVERYONE is unlucky when close to it, even the user and it’s allies, but your idea work too.
Maybe it’s the drunken master equivalent of mech.
@@Mastercheap or the true normal mech with 1 in every stat, call it the foothill