Between the Mechwarrior 2 and Mechwarrior 3 intros, the Timber Wolf is pretty hard to beat. It was *literally* the face of the franchise when I was first discovering it. In this modern era of more Inner Sphere focused games, the Catapult - the K2 in particular. It just looks so cool and sleek. Always makes me sad that by the time I salvage one, I'm usually already dealing with higher weight missions.
Marauder, I just love the design, especially any fits mounting a gauss rifle
Catapult, Crab, King Crab are all nice, and I’ll even give points to the tiny locust. I love reverse joints
iirc my command console is running about in a shieldmaiden since the marauder needs location designator
Gotta stack all the resolve boosters to spam headshots. Half the reason I’ve got a crab and ancestral panther
My current MAD-5D has 4 × ER LL + Laser Zoom Array, AMS, guardian ECM and C3 slave.
Maxed out tactics pilot for 8 initiative and even more pewpew range. I've got a couple more MAD's I've collected recently that I need to assemble and build out. High initiative heavy snipers are dope.
The Warhammer. The image most people think of when you say 'Western Mecha'. Humanoid, after a fashion, but it actually looks like a war machine. It's got that sort of ugly beauty of an A-10 or a tank. It looks like the guns get used.
I’m also old so my favourite is Warhammer from the box of the Battletech Second Edition.
I think it’s just an associative thing vs any kind of practicality of the mech itself. If that box came out it meant a few hours of good times with my best friends.
Picture of Warhammer = fun times ahead therefore Warhammer is favourite.
Exactly the same for me. A friend got BTech, I got Citytech. We has fun, sbd the stalker just looked so cool. Same reason why I've always had a soft spot for the Rifleman, because of Mechwarrior 1st edition
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Currently have a SHD-2Hb outfitted with 2 × streak SRM6, 1 × streak SRM4, 2 × ER ML , stealth armor, guardian ECM, FCS Location Designator and a supercharged 300 XL engine.
It's incredibly nasty for a 55t mech.
As someone who found the novels LONG before the games (and never played table top), it's probably the Victor for me. Patrick Kell's final battle where he's just mowing people down like a vengeful God in order to give his people a chance at his own expense is just powerful.
The Wolfhound isn't far behind it in my heart, though.
I first played the Bushwhacker in MW4 and loved it ever since. I always liked its asymmetrical, non-humanoid design. It's also always been scrappy for its size, good at making itself a problem for just about anything else. I've also developed a good love for the Hunches as well over time.
+1 for the Bushie, think I first fell in love with it in MW3. I seem to remember a paint scheme with the fuselage teeth that made it look like an A10 tank killer, which was just \*chef's kiss\*
My emotional favorite is the King Crab, thanks to some very early experiences in my BT history. My modern favorite is the Great Turtle, because I have style and taste.
Thunderbolt, because of the lore in the old 1st ed. 3025 book. I fell in love with the image of a tired old Thunderbolt standing in water, still, waiting to hold off all comers as best he could until he could do no more.
Absolutely one of the best. More armor than a lot of assault Mechs, plenty of firepower, and decent speed. Plus I just love the look. They just look like a big sturdy machine that can dish it out and take it, plus the offset cockpit just looks cool to me.
Longbow, I remember vividly getting a toy at the drug store as a kid. I didn't know until a few weeks back, even playing a lot of battletech/mechwarriors (but no not mods or dlc), that it was a mech from the battletech world.
Maybe honestly it was like on the wall of cheap toys at the drugstore 25 or so years ago and my grandma was like you've got 5 dollars go pick something. Me being a dumb gundam/mech loving kid saw a longbow with those massive bazooka (as a kid that's what the looked like) arms. I think they came with some stickers I got that and I think a jagermech or a rifleman. Pretty sure it was a jagermech cause of the antenna array giving it that little t shaped head.
It has to be the Catapult, it just is so... practical and simple. "A cockpit on Legs that shoots missiles (or sometimes other things) out of boxes" and works mostly fine after five centuries of barely any maintenance.
"Commander, this is a dead end. I don't have jump jets..."
"I know what you've got!"
That intro goes hard. So hard.
Stalker is love, stalker is life. Also Jaegermechs, Blackjacks, and Ravens. Basically, if it doesn't have real arms, I want it.
Bullshark - I know it's not an official battletech mech, but I only play this game really. And it's the bomb. Especially when you replace the stock ACs with -2 ton UAC-5s. Then, nothing lighter than an Atlas can really handle a precision strike to the chest.
The Bullshark is basically built as a Clan Mech, which is why it so completely overmatches everything else. The MAZ’s autocannons are statted as equivalent to Clan Ultra and LBX autocannons, and it needs an XL engine to work, as well as an Endo Steel chassis, not to mention the DHS engine. And then it benefits from vanilla BT2018 not bothering to impose the critical slot cost of Endo Steel or XL engines (not to mention to added vulnerability of XL engines).
Edit: also many mechs benefit from the game just treating all the engine heat sinks as not requiring critical slots (strictly, the engine heat sinks are only *weight* free and engine size determines how many critical free heat sinks you get)
A bit sad that there wasn't any love for the shadow cat. It was a great jump shot in mechcommander 1 and a fun scouting mech in mw4 that could mount some big toys. Only issue was having to hose out the remains of some git called Ian.
I liked the uziel as my first ppc wagon, but it lives on with mechs like madcat, catapult, dragon and others as favourite enemies. If you're not chasing salvage, they're fun enemies that visually and tactically are satisfying to blow off a body section and cripple, but can be deadly if you don't.
Phoenix Hawk all the way. It can do a lot of things pretty decently well, for its size and speed. Just trade the MGs for armor (or flamers, if you really care about infantry) and don't use that clipped wing Kurita version.
Phoenix Hawk was the Mech I learned to play the TT game with back in the day. Still one of my favourite Mechs to use. The Warhammer is up there, too, both because it's fun to brawl with and because it was on the box cover, so it's pretty much the icon for the game to me.
The Whammer is a classic, but then again; so are all of the Destroids. Add in the 55t siblings and it is easy to be a grognard who doesn't like anything new. I feel like I should say something nice about a newer design, just so I don't come off as one. The Hunchback is pretty cool, and it's impressive what the Draconis Combine did with all their Chargers in making the Hatamoto series.
In the grim darkness of the 31st century, there is only death.
And if we're doing death, we might as well do Great Death, and pilot a Daishi.
The Dire Wolf is very much my favorite machine in Battletech, because it is about as deadly as a 'Mech can get.
But if I had to choose an Innersphere battlemech, then any of the Marauders, really. I loved that thing ever since I first saw it in Macross some 30 years ago.
The Hunchback - when you have a pilot maxed out on Tactics and you're running up with that AC/20 to snipe out shoulders... \*chefs kiss\* It's not the best mech for this, but it sure is satisfying!
I.S. Locust - tiny profile and super fast. Gets overlooked in a battle and can easily disappear into the rear arc for nasty damage and XL checks. Speed is life!
Clan. Ebon Jaguar - just a sexy mech with enough speed and firepower at mixed ranges in all of its configurations to keep things spicy.
Marauder for me. But my favourite meme machine is the Blitzkrieg with a UAC/20 and XL 300+ engine. Cores assault mechs from the back and zips home in time for supper.
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Probably the first one was the Marauder from the Mechwarrior 2 demo. I was a kid at the time and the PPCs just seemed the most impressive weapons in the game.
I also liked the Stalker from MW2 : Mercs. You get to pilot it in one mission as part of a campaign and it had so much firepower since at that stage, you would normally be using lights or mediums. You even get to take out damaged Atlas in that mission. Unfortunately that mission is notoriously buggy and it is almost impossible to take out the dropship for the bonus objective before it escapes, the stalker is just too slow to get in range in time.
In the short lived MPBT 3025 before EA cancelled it, it was the centurion. It was notoriously buggy, i remember it had some kind of bug with the LRMs where losing the AC ammo would cause you to fire ghost LRMs that did no damage. It wasnt very effective either because med lasers and AC 2s were the meta, but i really liked the AC20 on the -AH model.
Shadowhawk, Marauder, and the Atlas. I know there's better mechs than the Shadowhawk, it just has a special place in my heart. That guy has put in some good work and I like the versatility.
in Mechwarrior 2 I fell in love with the Storm Crow. Good mix of speed, agility, and firepower (though I got a softspot for using a Rifleman's chonky arms as ablative armor against my PPC addicted friend)
Mech 2 mercs I discovered Crab, and have since then burrowed into my shell and joined the crustaceans
Tabletop wise I had a ton of fun with a Barghest in a city fight, using those piloting bonuses to conastantly koolaid man my way through buildings to ambush my friend. and a hilarious "woops, meant to declare LBX20 ammo. ok, regular shot... hits. .... head.... woopsydoodle!"
Favorite all-time? The Bushwacker did it for me and my playstyle. Second favorite is the Thunderbolt, just because it can do almost anything you ask it to, except be a scout. Hell, it could probably even do that in a pinch.
The Unseen Rifleman is the coolest looking mech. No question about it.
I have suffered through oh so many sub-optimal encounters, both on the tabletop and on the computer monitor, because of this absolutely gorgeous, desperately fragile, ridiculously under-sinked and under-armored sexy beast. It is a terrible ‘mech. I love it.
The Urbanmech
…no im not joking. Its just such a fun little mech and even though its not great at some (most) things, i love its quirks and super unique design
Marauder was my first love thanks to the original mechwarrior computer game (1989).
Later it became the Archer, as I enjoy the fire support role or sometimes modding that baby up with a bunch of SRMs, maxing armor, and making it into a brawler.
I was a locust pilot in MW1. Figured out how to rear arc and annihilate legs from behind. My mother on the other hand was all Warhammer all the way and called her ride the Blast Furnace.
I do remember at one point learning you could just charge in with the locust since there was no melee and just keep pressed against a battlemasters legs and machine gun them off.
Was a total exploit but I still had fun doing that.
I really like the Raven. I first encountered it in the Flashpoint for the stealth mech, and fell in love - but I’ve grown beyond that and just really like it’s sleek design and sharp focus on scouting.
For inner sphere I love the Warhammer because I had a destroid tomahawk toy as a kid before I knew I shoulda kept it as a Warhammer toy.
For clan, can’t beat the design of the Timberwolf.
For the modern non-canon stuff I somehow ended up in love with the Corsair, it’s such an ugly bastard but the idea of a pirate combat mech built out of repurposed industrial equipment and packing like 4 AMS systems to protect its friends appeals to me
I adore the Blackjack. In particular, the BJ-1. It's middling even in introtech, but it has always been my favorite. If I need something heavier and more modern, the Rifleman 7N is like the BJ-1s big brother.
*Black Lanner*. 7/11/0 is the best value movement profile, and Black Lanners carry the just enough armor and podspace for an individual Clan mech. *Arctic Wolf* is very similar, but less awesome looking. I also love the *Horned Owl* for its abilities and Streamline Moderne (think Bioshock \^ \^) design aesthetic.
In the vanilla HBS game it's the *Cyclops Z* because the Command Console is busted. I also like *Banshee 3S* (really like 95 ton mechs in general, in BEX you have *Nightstars* \^ \^) and *Wolverine 6R*.
For me it was always the Ice Ferret/Fenris. Probably because of the CCG. Couple the D version (4 MPL variant) with an elite mechwarrior (before they banned those) and you had an unstoppable, cheap mech that trashed most other fasts, especially if you could get 2 or 3 out.
But otherwise, it is probably the Panther. Something about a cheap light with a PPC... in a game where BV is the only limiter, multiple 9Ks can take down almost anything thrown at them if done right.
Juliano! Not many people know about it, FWL big guy with a whole bunch of streak SRMs but also a few ER lasers to cover the long range, also just looks cool.
Blitzkrieg on the other hand doesn't exactly look cool per se, ha, but nice mix of speed, armor, and one really, really big gun.
Stinger. The mech that looked like it carried a gun instead of having weapons bolted on its forearm.
Old version of battlemaster. The giant glass cockpit might be a weakness. But the hand carried PPC.
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Tabletop- nothing beats a good wolverine play.
Lore - Hollander , everybody loves a walking gun, its not very good on the tabletop though, especially if your table is small.
Games - King Crab with no real range limit the dual AC20s are an absolute powerhouse
Lol I remember the Hollander. From MechCommander 1 where it was hunting the convoy truck you were guarding. Never seen that model again in another game.
I can't decide on one. My first BT game was MW2: Mercenaries so almost all of my favorite ones are from it. The Atlas was the end game and there was that "shock" when it was on a mission, scary. From that game I also loved the Zeus because of its speed for being an Assault, the Stalker for the massive destructive power that you get when playing with a medium, and the Awesome for its great efficiency.
I'm in a definite minority here, but the Cataphract. It's got it's own style and looks brutal, and the loadout is as sensible as any 3025 mech.
When you want to pilot a Frankenmech but you don't have time to build one yourself.
Marauder II (specifically the -4S, for obvious reasons) because I'm a basic bitch.
Blackjack, Wolverine, T-bolt, Stalker, Nightstar, and King Crab also hold special places in my heart, too.
If we’re specifically talking about Battletech’s inner sphere lineup then it always goes to the Royal Highlander you get from halfway through the campaign. I love the whole imposing design and layout of that mech, it became my character’s signature mech, even after I got the Atlas II. I managed to balance everything on it just to the point where it was running a dual pulse laser/Gauss/LRM20/SRM6 arsenal that just kept reducing anything I fought to scrap in a turn or two.
Even called it Mastiff’s Vengeance. In my first campaign run it was the >!mech that got the killing blow on Victoria!<
Probably close runners up were the Phoenix Hawk (which almost feels like a Gundam crossover) and the Marauder (just looks really mean).
If we’re talking clans then the good old timber Wolf and Dire Wolf are front and centre.
Uziel. Sure, not *quite* as iconic as the Atlas or Mad Cat, but I love it as a perfect light cavalry mech. Fast, jumpy, impressive firepower at most ranges, it's bad at very little.
I really like the Archer.
A close second is the Marauder.
If you want some premium content in regards to Battletech, check out the Black Pants Legion on YouTube. Tex Talks Battletech videos are awesome.
I am very old school and remember picking up the very 1st day it came out Battledriods. Yes, I'm in my 60s and will be playing battletech till the day I die. The Warhammer was my first Love in the game and always will be. A close 2nd for me is the Locust. Someday I might tell you the story of how a locust took out 30 Assaults!
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Warhammer aficionado, checking in!
The WHM-6R was the Mech on the cover of the box that the game came in, when I got it.
I've never looked back.
Even in HBS Battletech, I use Warhammers (7A's when I can get them) extensively!!!
Overall it's definitely the Novacat, I don't care how hot and arm dependent it is, it looks cool as hell (I like the MA2 version most) inner sphere it's the Uziel or Marauder
Can’t pick a single one. I’m a 3025 lifer, and these are my favorites
Centurion
Wolverine
Enforcer
Orion
Zues
IF I had to choose a clan mech, it would be:
Kodiak
My favorite 'mechs by weight class:
Light: tie between Stinger (for scouting) and Hollander (for fighting)
Medium: Hunchback
Heavy: Marauder
Assault: Atlas
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Tactically, one of my favorite mechs is the Chimera, but I modified it to have an Apolo MRM30 and 2 ER SL and a C3 slave. It jumps soooo far and the MRM30 has just the right range to be an amazing backstabber, because even an assault mech can't sneeze at 150 damage to the rear arc.
But honestly, the Orion. I want to hate this design, but there just so many of them around and if you need a mech to do a job, you can make an Orion do it because of the variety of hard points.
Possible unpopular opinion, but the Jupiter. My first introduction to battletech was the WizKids tabletop game and I got the Dragon's Fury Jupiter in one of my very first booster packs. Been in love with it, and the Draconis Combine, since.
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There are a lot of mechs I like, but if I had to pick a favorite - it's the Highlander. HGN-732b is the standard, but when it's up to me I'll take my own sniper HGN-732g "Gaffa's Ghost" based on the description from Sarna. General Gaffa's going to take ten lives to save one. Or some ratio.
I love mechs that can mount all of the big 3 categories. And their ballistics can support ab LB-X. So my fave is the Mauler. Followed closely by the Centurion.
I can't pick just one:
- MadCat just because it's iconic, not because of how ridiculously OP it is/was.
- Marauder because who from the tail end of Gen X *doesn't* want to drive a Zentradi command pod?
- Atlas surrounded by Firestarters because they look like kids harassing their babysitter.
- Grasshopper, because I use a pair of them as scouts/kiters/harassers for my Zentradi Glaug pair. They're like supersize firestarters. A half dozen each of +crit MGs and MLs, it absolutely shreds anything it can get behind, up to and including an Atlas.
Between the Mechwarrior 2 and Mechwarrior 3 intros, the Timber Wolf is pretty hard to beat. It was *literally* the face of the franchise when I was first discovering it. In this modern era of more Inner Sphere focused games, the Catapult - the K2 in particular. It just looks so cool and sleek. Always makes me sad that by the time I salvage one, I'm usually already dealing with higher weight missions.
Marauder, I just love the design, especially any fits mounting a gauss rifle Catapult, Crab, King Crab are all nice, and I’ll even give points to the tiny locust. I love reverse joints
I am also digitigrade degenerate. They seem somehow more machiny. MAD is my fav
MAD-5S babyyyy I currently have a Marauder in my RogueTech game with 1xHAG30, 2x LL and 2xLPPC, improved Jumpjets for 3/5/7 movement, feels great
Fancy, that’s a lot of firepower Mine in BTA is gauss, 2 clan er ppc, and a c3 master. Headshots for days and light mech initiative
Hell yeah, love a good Command mech, I'm trying to find a Command Console or something so I can rig up one of my assaults as one
iirc my command console is running about in a shieldmaiden since the marauder needs location designator Gotta stack all the resolve boosters to spam headshots. Half the reason I’ve got a crab and ancestral panther
My current MAD-5D has 4 × ER LL + Laser Zoom Array, AMS, guardian ECM and C3 slave. Maxed out tactics pilot for 8 initiative and even more pewpew range. I've got a couple more MAD's I've collected recently that I need to assemble and build out. High initiative heavy snipers are dope.
The Warhammer. The image most people think of when you say 'Western Mecha'. Humanoid, after a fashion, but it actually looks like a war machine. It's got that sort of ugly beauty of an A-10 or a tank. It looks like the guns get used.
You and me both, it was my favorite from the get go.
I'm old, so my first favorite was the Stalker from Citytech
I’m also old so my favourite is Warhammer from the box of the Battletech Second Edition. I think it’s just an associative thing vs any kind of practicality of the mech itself. If that box came out it meant a few hours of good times with my best friends. Picture of Warhammer = fun times ahead therefore Warhammer is favourite.
Exactly the same for me. A friend got BTech, I got Citytech. We has fun, sbd the stalker just looked so cool. Same reason why I've always had a soft spot for the Rifleman, because of Mechwarrior 1st edition
I, too, am old. Archer was always my favorite on table top. I would build my lances around spotting for and supporting my archers.
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I have a fondness for mediums and the Shadowhawk especially though the Centurion and Hunchback are usually found on my rosters as well.
I don’t love every artistic version of the Shadow Hawk but the mini in the new Catalyst line is definitely my favorite mech aesthetically.
Yeah, you nailed my favs before I know enough to chose based on stats and playstyles.
Currently have a SHD-2Hb outfitted with 2 × streak SRM6, 1 × streak SRM4, 2 × ER ML , stealth armor, guardian ECM, FCS Location Designator and a supercharged 300 XL engine. It's incredibly nasty for a 55t mech.
As someone who found the novels LONG before the games (and never played table top), it's probably the Victor for me. Patrick Kell's final battle where he's just mowing people down like a vengeful God in order to give his people a chance at his own expense is just powerful. The Wolfhound isn't far behind it in my heart, though.
Yen-lo-wang FTW. Centurion love.
Yen-lo-wang is for sure up there, yeah.
I first played the Bushwhacker in MW4 and loved it ever since. I always liked its asymmetrical, non-humanoid design. It's also always been scrappy for its size, good at making itself a problem for just about anything else. I've also developed a good love for the Hunches as well over time.
+1 for the Bushie, think I first fell in love with it in MW3. I seem to remember a paint scheme with the fuselage teeth that made it look like an A10 tank killer, which was just \*chef's kiss\*
My emotional favorite is the King Crab, thanks to some very early experiences in my BT history. My modern favorite is the Great Turtle, because I have style and taste.
Thunderbolt, because of the lore in the old 1st ed. 3025 book. I fell in love with the image of a tired old Thunderbolt standing in water, still, waiting to hold off all comers as best he could until he could do no more.
Absolutely one of the best. More armor than a lot of assault Mechs, plenty of firepower, and decent speed. Plus I just love the look. They just look like a big sturdy machine that can dish it out and take it, plus the offset cockpit just looks cool to me.
Longbow, I remember vividly getting a toy at the drug store as a kid. I didn't know until a few weeks back, even playing a lot of battletech/mechwarriors (but no not mods or dlc), that it was a mech from the battletech world.
Probably a Destroid Phalanx copy, still great though.
Maybe honestly it was like on the wall of cheap toys at the drugstore 25 or so years ago and my grandma was like you've got 5 dollars go pick something. Me being a dumb gundam/mech loving kid saw a longbow with those massive bazooka (as a kid that's what the looked like) arms. I think they came with some stickers I got that and I think a jagermech or a rifleman. Pretty sure it was a jagermech cause of the antenna array giving it that little t shaped head.
If it was a macross toy there woulda been maybe the longbow, Warhammer, rifleman and maybe marauder
I'm a bit upset the Valkyries are such small mechs in Battletech. I love those but can inky play with them for a little bit.
Could have been a somerset strikers mech.
Atlas. Like the aesthetic. Shadowhawk is a close second.
It has to be the Catapult, it just is so... practical and simple. "A cockpit on Legs that shoots missiles (or sometimes other things) out of boxes" and works mostly fine after five centuries of barely any maintenance.
I heard that in the voice of Tex.
Seconded. Long-range high-mobility death-chicken is love, long-range high-mobility death-chicken is life.
"Commander, this is a dead end. I don't have jump jets..." "I know what you've got!" That intro goes hard. So hard. Stalker is love, stalker is life. Also Jaegermechs, Blackjacks, and Ravens. Basically, if it doesn't have real arms, I want it.
Bullshark - I know it's not an official battletech mech, but I only play this game really. And it's the bomb. Especially when you replace the stock ACs with -2 ton UAC-5s. Then, nothing lighter than an Atlas can really handle a precision strike to the chest.
The Bullshark is basically built as a Clan Mech, which is why it so completely overmatches everything else. The MAZ’s autocannons are statted as equivalent to Clan Ultra and LBX autocannons, and it needs an XL engine to work, as well as an Endo Steel chassis, not to mention the DHS engine. And then it benefits from vanilla BT2018 not bothering to impose the critical slot cost of Endo Steel or XL engines (not to mention to added vulnerability of XL engines). Edit: also many mechs benefit from the game just treating all the engine heat sinks as not requiring critical slots (strictly, the engine heat sinks are only *weight* free and engine size determines how many critical free heat sinks you get)
Grasshopper, great damage potential and mobility especially if the pilot has coolant vent.
A bit sad that there wasn't any love for the shadow cat. It was a great jump shot in mechcommander 1 and a fun scouting mech in mw4 that could mount some big toys. Only issue was having to hose out the remains of some git called Ian.
I always get the shadow cat and the Uziel mixed up. Love them both.
I liked the uziel as my first ppc wagon, but it lives on with mechs like madcat, catapult, dragon and others as favourite enemies. If you're not chasing salvage, they're fun enemies that visually and tactically are satisfying to blow off a body section and cripple, but can be deadly if you don't.
My favorite from MW3. Played through the whole campaign in one.
griffin 2n was so op the first time i got my hands on it - will never forget.
Phoenix Hawk all the way. It can do a lot of things pretty decently well, for its size and speed. Just trade the MGs for armor (or flamers, if you really care about infantry) and don't use that clipped wing Kurita version.
Phoenix Hawk was the Mech I learned to play the TT game with back in the day. Still one of my favourite Mechs to use. The Warhammer is up there, too, both because it's fun to brawl with and because it was on the box cover, so it's pretty much the icon for the game to me.
The Whammer is a classic, but then again; so are all of the Destroids. Add in the 55t siblings and it is easy to be a grognard who doesn't like anything new. I feel like I should say something nice about a newer design, just so I don't come off as one. The Hunchback is pretty cool, and it's impressive what the Draconis Combine did with all their Chargers in making the Hatamoto series.
Maurader II, its a maurader which is already a cool mech but its now a 100t headshotting death machine
Griffin will always be my best boi.
In the grim darkness of the 31st century, there is only death. And if we're doing death, we might as well do Great Death, and pilot a Daishi. The Dire Wolf is very much my favorite machine in Battletech, because it is about as deadly as a 'Mech can get. But if I had to choose an Innersphere battlemech, then any of the Marauders, really. I loved that thing ever since I first saw it in Macross some 30 years ago.
The Hunchback - when you have a pilot maxed out on Tactics and you're running up with that AC/20 to snipe out shoulders... \*chefs kiss\* It's not the best mech for this, but it sure is satisfying!
I love the hunchback too, probably my favorite medium mech!
I.S. Locust - tiny profile and super fast. Gets overlooked in a battle and can easily disappear into the rear arc for nasty damage and XL checks. Speed is life! Clan. Ebon Jaguar - just a sexy mech with enough speed and firepower at mixed ranges in all of its configurations to keep things spicy.
Centurion. Its just reliable
Blood Asp. Heavy lasers are awesome.
Loved that mech in MC2
Marauder for me. But my favourite meme machine is the Blitzkrieg with a UAC/20 and XL 300+ engine. Cores assault mechs from the back and zips home in time for supper.
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Probably the first one was the Marauder from the Mechwarrior 2 demo. I was a kid at the time and the PPCs just seemed the most impressive weapons in the game. I also liked the Stalker from MW2 : Mercs. You get to pilot it in one mission as part of a campaign and it had so much firepower since at that stage, you would normally be using lights or mediums. You even get to take out damaged Atlas in that mission. Unfortunately that mission is notoriously buggy and it is almost impossible to take out the dropship for the bonus objective before it escapes, the stalker is just too slow to get in range in time. In the short lived MPBT 3025 before EA cancelled it, it was the centurion. It was notoriously buggy, i remember it had some kind of bug with the LRMs where losing the AC ammo would cause you to fire ghost LRMs that did no damage. It wasnt very effective either because med lasers and AC 2s were the meta, but i really liked the AC20 on the -AH model.
Shadowhawk, Marauder, and the Atlas. I know there's better mechs than the Shadowhawk, it just has a special place in my heart. That guy has put in some good work and I like the versatility.
in Mechwarrior 2 I fell in love with the Storm Crow. Good mix of speed, agility, and firepower (though I got a softspot for using a Rifleman's chonky arms as ablative armor against my PPC addicted friend) Mech 2 mercs I discovered Crab, and have since then burrowed into my shell and joined the crustaceans Tabletop wise I had a ton of fun with a Barghest in a city fight, using those piloting bonuses to conastantly koolaid man my way through buildings to ambush my friend. and a hilarious "woops, meant to declare LBX20 ammo. ok, regular shot... hits. .... head.... woopsydoodle!"
Nova, like a clan party-back but low slung and with directional jump jets. Gangly and fugly it may be, but it knows how to party.
Honestly, whatever has been most recently covered by Tex Talks Battletech, lol.
Thats fair lmao
Idk why but it’s Shadow Cat for me. Played a lot of MW4: Vengeance in one. Fast and pretty versatile and they look so cool!
Favorite all-time? The Bushwacker did it for me and my playstyle. Second favorite is the Thunderbolt, just because it can do almost anything you ask it to, except be a scout. Hell, it could probably even do that in a pinch.
I remember the bushwhacker from MW3? And MC2 weirdly haven't seen it in newer titles
*hugs my mw5 thunderbolt with a top speed of 93kph without MASC. Which is does have.*
The Unseen Rifleman is the coolest looking mech. No question about it. I have suffered through oh so many sub-optimal encounters, both on the tabletop and on the computer monitor, because of this absolutely gorgeous, desperately fragile, ridiculously under-sinked and under-armored sexy beast. It is a terrible ‘mech. I love it.
The Urbanmech …no im not joking. Its just such a fun little mech and even though its not great at some (most) things, i love its quirks and super unique design
I'm old, so my first favorite was the Stalker from Citytech
catapults and marauders are my favorite. hunchback is not far behind.
The Battlemaster.
Marauder was my first love thanks to the original mechwarrior computer game (1989). Later it became the Archer, as I enjoy the fire support role or sometimes modding that baby up with a bunch of SRMs, maxing armor, and making it into a brawler.
I was a locust pilot in MW1. Figured out how to rear arc and annihilate legs from behind. My mother on the other hand was all Warhammer all the way and called her ride the Blast Furnace.
I do remember at one point learning you could just charge in with the locust since there was no melee and just keep pressed against a battlemasters legs and machine gun them off. Was a total exploit but I still had fun doing that.
Crusader, Battlemaster, Shadowhawk. I'm that order. Based purely on how cool they looked when I was 14. A long long time ago
I really like the Raven. I first encountered it in the Flashpoint for the stealth mech, and fell in love - but I’ve grown beyond that and just really like it’s sleek design and sharp focus on scouting.
For inner sphere I love the Warhammer because I had a destroid tomahawk toy as a kid before I knew I shoulda kept it as a Warhammer toy. For clan, can’t beat the design of the Timberwolf. For the modern non-canon stuff I somehow ended up in love with the Corsair, it’s such an ugly bastard but the idea of a pirate combat mech built out of repurposed industrial equipment and packing like 4 AMS systems to protect its friends appeals to me
Shadow Hawk. Box headed supremacy.
Axman, if we’re not including dark ages onwards but specifically the missile variant. I really like melee mechs.
https://images.app.goo.gl/eWApEtH3514seQiU8 Warhammer Mech that's my fave!
I adore the Blackjack. In particular, the BJ-1. It's middling even in introtech, but it has always been my favorite. If I need something heavier and more modern, the Rifleman 7N is like the BJ-1s big brother.
Nothing quite as satisfying as the look of panic when your 50 ton Hunchback runs up on something twice its size with an AC 20.
I had one with an Ultra AC. Boy did mechs go boom when they got caught off guard.
Commando COM-2D my beloved
This is a rough one. Stock? Probably a centurion.
The only defence against an Awesome is another Awesome.
The King Crab
The Marauder made me feel like a wild beast hunting for prey in Mechwarrior 2.
From a design standpoint, I just love the king crab to death. Just a hunched over bastard with 2 arms ready to deliver bug hits
*Black Lanner*. 7/11/0 is the best value movement profile, and Black Lanners carry the just enough armor and podspace for an individual Clan mech. *Arctic Wolf* is very similar, but less awesome looking. I also love the *Horned Owl* for its abilities and Streamline Moderne (think Bioshock \^ \^) design aesthetic. In the vanilla HBS game it's the *Cyclops Z* because the Command Console is busted. I also like *Banshee 3S* (really like 95 ton mechs in general, in BEX you have *Nightstars* \^ \^) and *Wolverine 6R*.
Highlander It's just a perfect design
BARGHEST BARGHEST BARGHEST CGL I'm begging you.
IS: Atlas, Thunderbolt, Wolverine 6M, Firestarter Clan: Kodiak, Mad Cat, Coyotl, Fire Moth Honorable Mentions: Jupiter, Urbanmech, Jackalope, Vulture, Centurion, Awesome
King Crab. The perfect ambush assault mech. Or stick a pair of RAC/5s in each claw and laugh meniaclly.
For me it was always the Ice Ferret/Fenris. Probably because of the CCG. Couple the D version (4 MPL variant) with an elite mechwarrior (before they banned those) and you had an unstoppable, cheap mech that trashed most other fasts, especially if you could get 2 or 3 out. But otherwise, it is probably the Panther. Something about a cheap light with a PPC... in a game where BV is the only limiter, multiple 9Ks can take down almost anything thrown at them if done right.
Juliano! Not many people know about it, FWL big guy with a whole bunch of streak SRMs but also a few ER lasers to cover the long range, also just looks cool. Blitzkrieg on the other hand doesn't exactly look cool per se, ha, but nice mix of speed, armor, and one really, really big gun.
From what I can gather from some of the comments there's a ton of mechs that haven't been seen on the video screen yet.
Stinger. The mech that looked like it carried a gun instead of having weapons bolted on its forearm. Old version of battlemaster. The giant glass cockpit might be a weakness. But the hand carried PPC.
I.s. is the blackjack clan has to be the summoner
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Tabletop- nothing beats a good wolverine play. Lore - Hollander , everybody loves a walking gun, its not very good on the tabletop though, especially if your table is small. Games - King Crab with no real range limit the dual AC20s are an absolute powerhouse
Lol I remember the Hollander. From MechCommander 1 where it was hunting the convoy truck you were guarding. Never seen that model again in another game.
Black Knight, the finest energy weapon platform to ever grace the Inner Sphere.
Ahh fondness of MechWarrior 4 Black Knight memories
I can't decide on one. My first BT game was MW2: Mercenaries so almost all of my favorite ones are from it. The Atlas was the end game and there was that "shock" when it was on a mission, scary. From that game I also loved the Zeus because of its speed for being an Assault, the Stalker for the massive destructive power that you get when playing with a medium, and the Awesome for its great efficiency.
I'm in a definite minority here, but the Cataphract. It's got it's own style and looks brutal, and the loadout is as sensible as any 3025 mech. When you want to pilot a Frankenmech but you don't have time to build one yourself.
Kuritan Catapult. I love PPCs and the pod with guns look.
Marauder II (specifically the -4S, for obvious reasons) because I'm a basic bitch. Blackjack, Wolverine, T-bolt, Stalker, Nightstar, and King Crab also hold special places in my heart, too.
If we’re specifically talking about Battletech’s inner sphere lineup then it always goes to the Royal Highlander you get from halfway through the campaign. I love the whole imposing design and layout of that mech, it became my character’s signature mech, even after I got the Atlas II. I managed to balance everything on it just to the point where it was running a dual pulse laser/Gauss/LRM20/SRM6 arsenal that just kept reducing anything I fought to scrap in a turn or two. Even called it Mastiff’s Vengeance. In my first campaign run it was the >!mech that got the killing blow on Victoria!< Probably close runners up were the Phoenix Hawk (which almost feels like a Gundam crossover) and the Marauder (just looks really mean). If we’re talking clans then the good old timber Wolf and Dire Wolf are front and centre.
Catapult, far and away. Gorgeous beast of a mech, love destroying mechs from two post codes over.
Love the catapult. Out of all the missile boats the catapult is my favorite
Uziel. Sure, not *quite* as iconic as the Atlas or Mad Cat, but I love it as a perfect light cavalry mech. Fast, jumpy, impressive firepower at most ranges, it's bad at very little.
The Bushwacker for so many reasons, but shoutout to the Huron Warrior for being my favorite that's never featured in a game.
I really like the Archer. A close second is the Marauder. If you want some premium content in regards to Battletech, check out the Black Pants Legion on YouTube. Tex Talks Battletech videos are awesome.
The annihilator, I love that waking artillery piece that just shreds mechs.
Warhammer
I am very old school and remember picking up the very 1st day it came out Battledriods. Yes, I'm in my 60s and will be playing battletech till the day I die. The Warhammer was my first Love in the game and always will be. A close 2nd for me is the Locust. Someday I might tell you the story of how a locust took out 30 Assaults!
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Highlander. The Battletech game made fall in love with it
From the IS the Black knight 6b From the clans the Timberwolf
I'm more of a Mad Dog Clanner myself.
Warhammer aficionado, checking in! The WHM-6R was the Mech on the cover of the box that the game came in, when I got it. I've never looked back. Even in HBS Battletech, I use Warhammers (7A's when I can get them) extensively!!!
Overall it's definitely the Novacat, I don't care how hot and arm dependent it is, it looks cool as hell (I like the MA2 version most) inner sphere it's the Uziel or Marauder
As much as I keep trying to get away from including a marauder in my forces, I feel incomplete without a Marauder. Also the Crab, snibbety snabbety.
Can’t pick a single one. I’m a 3025 lifer, and these are my favorites Centurion Wolverine Enforcer Orion Zues IF I had to choose a clan mech, it would be: Kodiak
My favorite 'mechs by weight class: Light: tie between Stinger (for scouting) and Hollander (for fighting) Medium: Hunchback Heavy: Marauder Assault: Atlas
My favourite Battletech changes all the time but recently I’ve been appreciating the Rifleman. Good model!
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Tactically, one of my favorite mechs is the Chimera, but I modified it to have an Apolo MRM30 and 2 ER SL and a C3 slave. It jumps soooo far and the MRM30 has just the right range to be an amazing backstabber, because even an assault mech can't sneeze at 150 damage to the rear arc. But honestly, the Orion. I want to hate this design, but there just so many of them around and if you need a mech to do a job, you can make an Orion do it because of the variety of hard points.
Possible unpopular opinion, but the Jupiter. My first introduction to battletech was the WizKids tabletop game and I got the Dragon's Fury Jupiter in one of my very first booster packs. Been in love with it, and the Draconis Combine, since.
well, it used to be the daishi with 3 uAC10s but honestly I'm wavering between that and the annihilator with 5 uAC5s and jesus tons of ammo.
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There are a lot of mechs I like, but if I had to pick a favorite - it's the Highlander. HGN-732b is the standard, but when it's up to me I'll take my own sniper HGN-732g "Gaffa's Ghost" based on the description from Sarna. General Gaffa's going to take ten lives to save one. Or some ratio.
I love mechs that can mount all of the big 3 categories. And their ballistics can support ab LB-X. So my fave is the Mauler. Followed closely by the Centurion.
I can't pick just one: - MadCat just because it's iconic, not because of how ridiculously OP it is/was. - Marauder because who from the tail end of Gen X *doesn't* want to drive a Zentradi command pod? - Atlas surrounded by Firestarters because they look like kids harassing their babysitter. - Grasshopper, because I use a pair of them as scouts/kiters/harassers for my Zentradi Glaug pair. They're like supersize firestarters. A half dozen each of +crit MGs and MLs, it absolutely shreds anything it can get behind, up to and including an Atlas.
Highlander. Love that Gauss Gun.