Battletech Lore - Forgotten Battle Armor (Taranis, Rottweiler, Void)

[@georgesulea]

The head makes the Taranis look like a giant Dwarf warrior.

[@donright4492]

He also looks like Thanos too from my perspective

[@Wrangler-fp4ei]

I think it looks more like (face wise) Thantos, from Marvell comics

[@DrVanBoom]

I really like the Void. Advanced Stealth armor and JumpBooster (4 hexes) make it really hard to hit. And with the support ppc or Magshoot Gauss you can hit/harness from a distance.

[@sohrabroozbahani4700]

Taranis, Taranis... oh, the Knight house Taranis in the 40k, that name did sound familiar 🤔😁

[@leonardtreadway7082]

All so different!👍👍

[@mr_ThreeEight_1776]

Not forgotten if you look at SARNA often

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

True.

[@Magermh]

I have never seen or used the Taranis. It's good to see some input. The Rottweiler is a wonderful battle armor. I play quad battle armor much like mechanized infantry. I consider a squad of Rottweilers for every three Fenrir and would consider VTOL's like the Ripper.
The Void I have played against once. And I still want to get the mini. They worked well with their jump MP on a forested map. I will point out again to newer players. Consider smoke rounds for any stealth equipped infantry. But my opponent did not use smoke and still did well taking down a mech.

[@mikefanofGDNgenuinedarksyde703]

Heh, the Lost Suits of GDN's Long List. You can't be faulted for missing some designs, good sir; BattleTech's array of overall mechanized mobility is extensive.
It seems that the Taranis would be another useful two-legged support tank. Heavy, but any tank roster continues to need that light-to-heavy spread. Quicker mobility can be left to the friendly giant 'Mechs with jump jets to land on the Taranis' opponents.
I haven't seen so many quadruped suit/robot/high-tech mech designs in any other universe/IP as in BattleTech...outside of, say, Voltron (by ratio of units). This "Rotty" is pretty sleek and sexy-styled. Its build also sounds like it was made to live up to the real-world, living animal's inspiration not only in functional 'look' but also performance. A pack-guard battle armor style; how novel.
The Void looks quite unique and fancy; and the extra aesthetics look to serve a need beyond embellishment. Particularly considering it originated as an 'action figure' modular add-on build. Like Draconis Deadly Lego Suits. Lethal Lego? An organic, insectile facade that sounds more suited to smaller, compact weaponry/gear attachments instead of the likes of PPCs.
As much as I can't lose the feeling that using any "quad" battle armor would eventually kill the back of any BattleTech human, something about the Rottweiler appeals to me over the other quadruped armors. Maybe this battle armor seems more controllable than its living-animal inspiration. Maybe the intentional team effectiveness makes it seem like less time would have to be spent bent over in one of those suits by completing missions more quickly; thereby foregoing Inner Sphere chiropractic.
Well, thank you, GDN! For this interesting and voluminous subseries within this engaging galaxy of BattleTech. Sign out, but may your comms always be on. Until your next installment.

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

I loved doing the Battle Armors series. Was something to look forward to every week. I might return to vehicles at some point, so i don't run out of mechs.

[@gregdomenico1891]

Thanks for all of the hard work on these. I learned alot on a bunch of later designs. I still don't like Quads, though. Oh, and I have never been able to say this on one of your videos; First!

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

Thanks for the watch. I personally find the quad battle armors silly as well.

[@Wrangler-fp4ei]

Thank you for making the videos, it will help future players of the game who many not have access to tabletop books!

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

Hopefully.

[@halfdanasatru9251]

Awesome 👌 Thank You .

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

Thanks for watching.

[@donright4492]

I love the Rottweiler because of its speed but my dad love too so we would have a lot of units within our army that moved really quick
So when we did battle on the board it was always a question about who can get their units out on objectives or out maneuver The other units
We always prefer speed a lot in our units what were some decent armor to hold up and I fight when you need two so there would be a long game of cat and mouse
Which me and my dad love to
do Because it was fun seeing
his reaction when his Rottweiler
would blow up or crash and burn👍😀

[@nicholashughley277]

Dark can you do a lore on the Orca and the Omega

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

Orca has very little lore. I did cover the Omega in a video with the Poseidon. Check the battlemechs playlist.

[@corvusscottwilliams4751]

Taraan is the Cornish god of Thunder , Taraana in Cornish means the Thunderer.
All the best from Cornwall England.

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

Best wishes from Sibiu, Romania.

[@NemFX]

The two issues I have with battle armours are simple. The aesthetics are terrible. And the weapons dont make sense. See, looking at this logistically? Youd offload all the technology that nobody uses onto these things. Machine guns, ac2s, maybe ac5s, srm2s, small lasers, small pulse lasers. Those would make sense. You would have stockpiled so many but not use them, cause everyone keeps going for the bigger numbers.

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

I think they look pretty cool, at least aesthetically.

[@Magermh]

I take I am nobody and will accept my win rate of 60%. I am a combined arms player. I look at many of those weapons. AC2 flak ammo, AC5 precision ammo. SRM2 smoke dispensary. Small Laser swarm attacker, mg platoon hunters, small pulse laser well not all units are trained well.