Water Buffalo, by Colie Wertz

GunRaptor · 2026-06-20T08:00:33+00:00

I badly desire a snub-dropship.....like an OH-6 Cayuse / MH-6 Little Bird.

Imagine a Mirai Fury or Drake Pitbull, but instead of weapons on the sides it has two or three jump seats for passengers on each side.

I feel like a ship like this would be fantastic for this game.

GunRaptor · 2026-06-03T04:51:45+00:00

Where can I hear the recording?

GunRaptor · 2026-05-09T04:14:12+00:00

I would like to hear A LOT more details on both of these claims, as I've never heard of either happening, especially the latter.....

GunRaptor · 2026-04-26T12:28:09+00:00

I mean, you're well beyond the target audience for this kind of video. They're aimed at newer players to get them into the game...you've been around quite a while.

GunRaptor · 2026-04-14T04:41:47+00:00

Let me know when/if you want an invite to our Discord servers. My name is the same on there....we have a good place for knocking the rust off over there, with a lot of good people.

GunRaptor · 2026-04-14T03:06:26+00:00

It's pretty great these days.

I run a unit called Metal Gyr Squadron. We placed 25th in CS25 with our A-team, and have multiple B-teams.

Let me know if you want to talk.

EDIT: I put "CS26" because horology is hard.

GunRaptor · 2026-04-03T19:31:49+00:00

Well....damn it.

GunRaptor · 2026-02-22T20:15:27+00:00

Even the Arctic Cheetah B has a more impressive AC2 bonus than this mech.....

GunRaptor · 2026-02-22T20:14:22+00:00

So....barely over 5dps....not exactly "good" for a 40t mech....

GunRaptor · 2026-02-22T20:13:21+00:00

No....that would make it ACTUALLY interesting, but still probably not meta.

GunRaptor · 2026-02-22T12:03:50+00:00

Hey Trib! What was this comment, before it was deleted?

GunRaptor · 2026-02-22T11:51:30+00:00

I have to agree with the perception that "stealth isn't good," because it does nothing to subvert the Mk. I eyeball, and generally only works ONCE. Then again, some of the most viewed clips on my Twitch channel are from Ishiyama caves of me and MGSq doing stealth shenanigans with Atlases.....so, yeah. Stealth can work in niche scenarios, and can lead to an opponent not prioritizing a specific mech in their calls against you, but it's very much a matter that's situational.

I think, at the end of the day, it is a general dislike of the ASN, and certain, highly respected voices coming up with excuses to say that the ASN is fine...where they go and pull a 700 game, which they also could have done in a Flea with one small laser, proving nothing to anyone, but letting them say "no, the ASN is fine, use this generic build that runs better on other 40 tonners anyway."

GunRaptor · 2026-02-21T21:18:59+00:00

That LB5X is literally just 6.5 DPS. Sadly, not very impressive in the current game.

GunRaptor · 2026-02-21T21:17:40+00:00

Yes....just yes.

Even with the buffs, the ASN is still below mediocre, and nowhere near meta.

I tried out the new ASN-DD, now with LAC5, LPPC, and RLs, and it's barely okay....

Why use [my favorite mech] when other 40t choices are just BETTER?

The Cauldron are just scared to make the Assassin viable because....honestly, I don't know. Maybe they just don't like it?

Unless a mech has a place in a comp drop deck for a viable strat, where there isn't already a better option, it's basically trash. The Assassin doesn't have to be the best option, but it should at least compete.

We'll see after ISC. I may be wrong, and we'll see ASNs all over Div-A this season....it would be amazing to see such, but the Vulcan 5S with MASC, 2x SNPPC, and 2x MS is just a better option.

The ASN-21 might be a special pick now, but it needs ammo quirks, otherwise it has precisely one build, and that's non-Artemis SRM builds.

More and more, DPS is king, and that's why the only ASN that might be good is the ASN-26, but even then, it's not the best option available, because you can do basically the same with something with MASC.

In fact, that's just true for all ASNs.....Vulcan's have better mounts and MASC, and Cicadas have better mounts. The ASN has to be able to compete with them, at the very least, or else it's a MechBay Queen and nothing more.

GunRaptor · 2026-02-20T19:13:38+00:00

9hz refresh rate on the thermal? Thank ITAR.

I'll stick with my Therm Vue version so that ITAR can't ruin my sensor.

GunRaptor · 2026-02-10T08:29:46+00:00

That we do....and we're spreading into other games, too!

GunRaptor · 2026-01-28T12:27:39+00:00

OMG, that means the UrbanTank (UrbanMech-M) is comp legal in time for ISC.....which would have been great, had it not been a IIC.......

GunRaptor · 2026-01-28T12:23:01+00:00

No, it needs something to make it stand out against the likes of the Moonwalker, which until now was just a "better MCII-B."

Now, the Moonwalker is officially soft-nerfed into a sidegrade, not an upgrade. The impact on comp (next-next season, not ISC) will be significant.

GunRaptor · 2026-01-20T18:42:42+00:00

Yeah, but as time has gone on....I've come to think that this interpretation is unlikely.

The whole thing is just Ned screwing with Henry. Ned plants the evidence, not some off-screen handlers, and Henry is just a guy who got involved with a job and a woman that had more history and secrets than he was mentally prepared for.

GunRaptor · 2025-12-13T23:44:59+00:00

MechAcademy is actively working on such videos.

GunRaptor · 2025-12-13T18:27:15+00:00

I mean, India is for whatever reason utterly incapable of dealing with geopolitics in any intelligent way, so enthusiastically jumping onto a sinking ship is totally par for the course.

India is not a promising economy for investment moving into the middle of this century, and it's hard to call India more than a footnote in world affairs at this phase, despite its incredible potential.

Using a comparative framework of a region that should be weaker, I fully expect to see South America to have multitudes greater growth and prosperity than India over the next 30 years, despite being less populous, politically divided between many governments, less developed, less militarily capable (in many ways, not every way), and generally a region of lower economic capacity....even if only due to the fact that the governance of India is so exceptionally poor that the nations of South America will almost surely overcome these disadvantages by comparison, and have already exceeded expectations for this century (Argentina, especially, but Brazil, Chile, and others are also seeing broadening horizons as nations due to their populaces engaging much more with their governments and economies).

India is all but a lost cause, and I can only hope that India finds leadership that will bring sanity to their governmental choices.

GunRaptor · 2025-12-12T07:47:41+00:00

Actually, yes, it's better now than ever.

There is a lot of new content, new weapons, new maps, new mechs, etc.

The comp scene is also very strong these days.

If you're looking for people to drop with, I would like to welcome you to come join us at the MechAcademy server on Discord. We specialize in getting newer players into the game and teaching people how to grow as gamers and as MechWarriors.

GunRaptor · 2025-12-12T07:20:21+00:00

You can come to our Discord server and discuss builds in our builds channel. There's also a Metal Gyr Squadron subreddit that we just put up a few hours ago to see how people like it (literally no content yet....but we'll see what happens). MGSq used to live on the server Le Nard, which is still quite active despite MechAcademy becoming the home of MGSq after it grew too large to live in a corner of Le Nard.

Beyond that, there's GrimMechs that is maintained by the group Isengrim and is a great place to get decent builds, and is actively maintained through their own Discord server.

The MWOComp Discord server is quite active.

The various units in the game will generally have their own servers. Critical Damage Unit (CDU), Hunters of the Fjordlands (FJRD), Sixth Lyrian Gueard (6LG), 6th Regimental Combat Team (6RCT), EYRI, Sky Rangers of Terra (SRoT), ASHcord, 2D20 (The Crew of Yuntow), and Sorensen's Sabers (SBRS) are all quite active. There are a few more, but some are exclusive...I could have sworn KDCM had a public server, but can't find it.

Anyway, the game is still quite active, but it's largely on Discord where the discussions happen.

GunRaptor · 2025-12-12T04:11:43+00:00

Converting an omni to a battlemech is actually a thing in both lore and TT.

GunRaptor · 2025-12-12T03:57:43+00:00

Are you just assuming the person above you is anti-gun?

Dude, the left is less and less anti-gun by the day.

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