THE BLACK WATCH | A legion of scotsman too angry to die | Battletech lore
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- Generic greetings and welcome to one of the silliest topics in battletech. The Royal black watch, a legion of the angriest scotsman to ever live and the greatest soldiers on top. Because when someone needs protecting, nothing on heaven or earth is getting past the bagbipes blaring badasses. So settle in and enjoy as we go over the source of most of the memes in battletech. The royal black watch, nukes mean nothing, to angry to die.
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0:00 Intro
1:40 Overview
5:37 History & Background
10:39 Black Watch kicking ass
19:42 Battle of Puget Sound
31:22 Other silly stuff - Zábava
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Stephan Amaris once felt peace, as he died after his execution. He sighed, wiped his ghostly forehead... but then he heard ghostly bag pipes off in the distance. "NO NO NO NO NO!" He screamed and screamed.
Ok, family guy has forever ruined the word no for me. I can not read your comment without imagining clevelands voice screaming no repeatedly.
@@scienceinsanity6927 for the longest time I imagined Amaris sounded like Dale Gribble for the lulz.
@@phelan511 the man wore a bib, what'd you expect.
Amaris waddles through the icy fog of hell, haunted by the sound of Bagpipes following him.
Beautiful, haha
Honestly a shirt with the Blackwatch emblem on the front and the the phrase "I will tank the sun!" on the back is something I would buy.
Amaris “Finally I have taken the Star League for myself?”
/incoherent swearing and bagpipes sound in the distance/
Amaris: “Oh…… oh shit.”
*gradually approaching bagpipe, explosion, and energy weapon sounds*" no... no... no no no nonononono!
A Scotsman has two moods, happy and peaceful (usually drunk) or angry and kill (usually drunk). It is the reason the Scots have been used as front line troops of the British army for years.
The Black Watch marines just throwing satchel charges like frag grenades and charging through whatever Amaris could put in their way while blasting bagpipe music is a great mental image.
Meanwhile, the mechs in the gorst flats are just casually going "Target sighted. Cockpit hit. Target down." over and over in between introducing the 4th dragoons to why the Highlander has jump jets and why lighter mechs should fear them.
ah yes, the classic highlander burial an insanly fun manuver when pulled off succesfully but it can go horriblely wrong very quickly
As a US Marine infantryman, the thought of slinging satchel charges like that just makes me unreasonably happy
Ah yes, the classic death from above.
DFA!DFA!DFA! But with a scottish accent.
Nukes are merely an inconvenience
In defense of the blackwatch defending the first lord.
Amaris was trusted, and seemingly giving him a gift, and then shot him with the gift, no one would've suspected it.
''We trained our whole lives to defeat the blackwatch, we have been practicing for countless hours just so we could kill those scotts!''
BlackWatch : **bagpipes intensify**
And Amaris was accompanied by his bodyguard. Regardless the Blackwatch was caught slipping, as regardless of who presented the gift when you see a firearm & you are a bodyguard you don't just stand there as Amaris lifts it to show how pretty it is, you intervene & confirm the weapon is cleared especially when the giver looks like Kubla Khan.
@@harvestbladeswell it was known that the first lord would tell the guards just to stand down and let amaris and his guards through with loaded weapons enough that they probably didn't even try to check it
@@commissarbloodbornefish613Exactly. A bodyguard can’t do much if his or her charge is insistent on getting killed.
yeah, doesnt matter how elite you are, if your charge is a moron theres only so much you can do
The is currently a town on the Gorst flats (fittingly named “Gorst”). It is my dream to convince the town to put up a statue of the Highlanders raised middle finger in honor of what will eventually happen on their stretch of Sound coast line
dude sign me up! maybe if we can get permits we dont need to convince anyone....
If you had taken Star League college physics, you would know that the sound waves create by bagpipes inhibits nuclear fission, thus letting them face tank nukes.😁
The Black Watch takes cover from nukes behind sunglasses.
I'm here with a friendly reminder to feed Steve. Also because of the Blackwatch, mainly the Blackwatch.
The Black Watch: The Legion armed with PT Belts
The PT belts are how you tank the sun.
The PT belt is mighty......must be a relic from the golden age of humanity
Just a minor correction. There's a typo in the title. I'm pretty sure the unit's proper name is "The God Damned Black Watch".
I see you're a man of culture and a fan of the BPL also. Haha. Tex says it the best.
When the angry bagpipes sound come from every direction
For some reason I always imagine that it was bagpipes,but then KORN kicks in as satchel charges start flying like frag grenades. Next thing you know they're drowned out by the high pitched wailing of Stephan Amaris cowering behing Cameron's throne. Anyway,awesome breakdown. Would love to see you and Tex,with the BPL,do a really deep dive into the mad Scotsmen. Whiskey fueled,kilt clad agents of rage are always fascinating.
Headcanon: the one who flipped them off last was yelling "GIVE EM STEEL LADS! GIVE EM STEEL!"
"Oh no, they got Frederick"
"FREDERICK'S DEAD AND YE'RE NEXT!"
Please follow this up with a video on the Black Watch's favorite mech, the Highlander. I feel like there could be half an episode just going over why the Highlander Burial is a legitimate and effective tactic for a 90 ton assault mech with jump jets.
Fighting against the Blackwatch means you're going to *die tired.*
Problem with hereditary leadership systems is that eventually an idiot is going to find their way into the position and or is it really easy for some scumbag to manipulate and groom the next heir and betray them when they are no longer useful
"the greatness of a great king will be outshined tenfold by the incompetence of his son"
In this case, both happened. The sixth and final First Lord Of Star League was an idiot who let himself be manipulated by Amaris, and was then killed when he’d served his purpose.
Enjoyed the video. Lifelong resident of Puget Sound, too.
Commenting for the algorithm
its a lovely place our sound
Im here for The Black Watch, Feeding Steve is just a consequence.
"NUKES ARE MERELY INCONVENIENT"
Slight correction, the nuke did in fact kill all the Black Watch defenders at the Gorst Flats.
The Ghosts of the Black Watch came from the fact that *they missed other members of the Black Watch* who decided laying low is for cowards.
Hanni Schmitt died that day.
Colleen Schmitt went to ground with her family while spying on Amaris and then giving that info to the SLDF when they arrived (and asking for a mech to make sure Amaris got his ass kicked) while Elizabeth "Motherfucking" Hazen saw Amaris air strike her brother's hospital in an attempt to kill her, it failed, and she (and 5 survivors from the ***NUKED FORT CAMERON*** which is where I think you got that number) formed The Ghosts Of The Black Watch to make Amaris's life a living hell of bagpipes and murder before joining up with the Big Kappa to kick Amaris's teeth in.
Colleen Schmitt would then form Clan Blood Spirit (as in Espirit De Corp) and be a general badass.
Elizabeth Hazen took up falconry and, after joining the exodus (and performing a raid on a goddamn *battleship while in motherfucking space because it dared mutiny from Kerensky)* she decided to form a little group we all know well.
Motherfucking Jade Falcon.
She also brought *someone else's* sword to a raging gunfight and won so goddamn hard it stopped being a fight and started being a massacre.
After being shot in the neurohelmet.
By a mech grade slug.
After ejecting from a mech sinking in an oil lake that was on fire.
Black Watch are built different.
Also, fun fact, you can actually run the Gorst Flat mission in Classic Battletech.
And hilariously, you can pull off exactly what they do, minus all plot armor.
I would 1000% run that scenario, that sounds fun as hell!
@@PopeMetallicus Pretty sure it's in the Amaris Coup Sourcebook, whichever one that is. Or a Highlander one?
Just checked. It's Historical: Liberation of Terra
Wait gorst does not need plot armor?
@@nitesy381 Nope! Just some luck and a skilled commander! The odds and terrain have been stacked in the Black Watch's favor along with the sheer skill on the BW's side meaning you can, actually, genuinely, pull off Gorst levels of Last Stand if you play your cards and mechs right.
@@H9092-2 when plot armor is not plot armor. BT is great.
The Black Watch aka why Amaris should make sure to wear the brown pants.
Very nicely done, I do have a serious objection to the claim that the Black Watch spawned half of the memes in Battletech. I think that title is held by the Urbanmech. That said, I will concede that the Black Watch probably has the largest share of the remaining half. ;)
Steve is turning into a proper Battletech fan, Fuck them Smocked Jaguars!
The Black Watch was so badass that nukes where barely an inconvenience, also the reason why they refused to die was, they had to repay Amaris for all the rum they lost when Fort Cameron blew up :P
Smocked Jaguar, because finger paints are dangerous.
Horray! Angry Scotsman!
Warhammer 40k and BattleTech have one thing in common. They both have a unit of cracked-out Scotsmen who are too pissed to die.
Ok I'm new to both but I dunno who the Scottish for 40k are please enlighten me as to who they are so I can read up on them
The Tanith First and Only.
@@NewGuy2534 iv heard of them but not of them being Scottish now I'm gonna have to look into them
Nukes to the blackwatch are an inconvenient grit as a certain CZcamsr and music video would say.
You did it! I asked for the Black Watch, and you actually did it just days later!!! *Squeals like a little girl seeing a pony on her birthday*
Or squealing like a kikt wearing Scotsman being left alone with a sheep!
The black watch. When nukes are merely an inconvenience.
The Elizabeth Hazyn was one of, if not the most badass Blackwatch members during the civil war. She then went on to be the founding Khan of Jade Falcon, so the Clanners kinda had a reason to be pissy about that flag being stolen by what they viewed as Freebirth pretenders.
Then said freebirths fought tooth and nail on a ctraxt against clan jade falcon and earned their respect for not backing down.
It's probably time to do a full com-star video. You've covered the star league, kerensky, and the clans. That pretty much leaves the inner sphere invasion of clan space, and com-star. And com-star is the more interesting.
I wouldn't mind a video on Jerome Blake and then a video on Comstar, kinda like how we did one for Kerensky
Canada has a Black Watch Regiment .
Not THE Black Watch, though.
The black watch did have the best equipment star league ever made. Like the P.L.O.T armour system.
To be fair, I might actually believe the 500 C-Bils thing if it has a Stiener Noble connected to it. They would actually do it.
As Tex would say (and has said), "The only bastards hard enough and insane enough, for whom satchel charges are viewed as hand grenades, and *nuclear weapons* are merely an *inconvenience...* The mother. Fucking. *Blackwatch."*
My regiment have standing orders that if they hear heavy metal and bagpipes while in an AO, disengage all forces and power down your 'mech. Just disqualify yourself as a threat and let the Apocalypse pass on by. The Northwind guys think it's funny, but they can prank us all they fucking want, I'm not taking chances. Ghostly bagpipes and rock music mean *doom.*
Had the Northwind Highlanders back me up on a mission,the opfor got curb stomped to a comical degree. So so many tanks,mechs and VTOLs got turned to scrap metal that day. Friendly base has barely a scratch on it by the end and the one garrison mech that was there and went into combat with torn up armor actually survived for once.
You’ll be happy to know that I’ve informed North Wind High Command of the standing orders for your regiment. They appreciate the gesture. I recommend you also leave an offering of a dozen cases of Scotch Whiskey out whenever bagpipes are heard. That should protect you.
Probably.
I think.
I haven’t a clue.
@@TheAKgunner It's good we bought that one Scottish Brewery/MechWarrior Bar on said planet afterwards with some spare C-bills. I'll just inform the staff there that all Northwind Highlanders are to be served at half off normal price along with the first batch made after the repairs to the place (Stray AC-2 from the opfor took out half of its equipment) to be shipped to the Northwind Highlanders with my own C-bills covering the cost of shipping it.
Bag pipes and loyalty
in battletech if you hear bagpipes you better run away if you want to live
Running doesn’t help. You’d just die exhausted.
The 4th Amaris Dragoons called in Air support on the Black Watch, the smart money is on them.
"They were so angry that nukes were just a f*cking inconvenience" -Tex of the BPL
Highlander video soon? Nothing screams bagpipes like a Highlander burial.
not this month, but certainly in the future
15:40 You did as requested and added appropriate music. I very much approve.
Just one minor correction.. It was not Hanni Schmitt who went on the exodus with Kerensky. That was her granddaughter Colleen Schmitt who worked with the survivors of the Royal Black Watch to make Amaris' life as miserable as possible. And according to what I've read Colleen only joined the SLDF when Kerensky launched his invasion of Terra, providing him with a wealth of intel.
I was watching Pancreasnowork's coverage of this topic before dinner. Now I have this as dessert. Mmmmmmmm
They say hell is the worst thing you've experienced in life. Imagine going to hell and hearing bagpipes, smelling whiskey and blood, for all of eternity
For all the talk of ridiculous plot armor, the Black Watch is less stupid than a lot of other plot contrivances of that particular bit of backstory.
A fun episode, as usual. Hanni Schmidt actually died on the gorst flats - the whole unit did. But her daughter Colline Schmidt, also a Black Watch officer, survived in the bunker under Fort Cameron, along with around 20 others. They were the Ghosts of the Black Watch. Also, the 4th Amaris Dragoons were a Regiment. They had around 40 Mechs, 100 tanks, a dozen or so infantry platoons, and maybe 12 aerospace fighters. Still a serious force, and one if the best trained among the Rim Worlds Republic forces. But the numbers you threw out there? Dude, your exaggerations had exaggerations! XD
I made that meme in your opening seconds! It was inspired by On the Origin of 'Mechs' description of the Black Watch's last stand.
Look, Ma! A gag I made for Twitter is on a modestly sized CZcams channel!
Thank you for reminding me to watch that podcast
The whole video should have the ""Scotland the brave" playing in the background🤣🤣
It should be noted that Fort Cameron was only mildly inconvenienced by the nukes dropped on it. Fort Cameron (and, by extension, The Citadel of which it is an extension of) are Castle Brians or the equivalent of Cheyenne Mountain on steroids with anti-spaceship armaments and enough ground-side armaments and supplies that assaulting one is *not* something you can do lightly.
So, the staff of Fort Cameron dawned their anti-rad gear, shoveled the rubble out of the way, and lasted for at *LEAST* a day before Amaris sent his prised battleship to bombard the damn thing for several *HOURS* before it was silenced.
This feels like it adds weight to my hypothesis that Great Gappa's Ghost is something like an AI piloted drone mech utilizing things like Black Watch tactics and the digitized copy of an angry Scottish grandpa's mind
In my phase 1 Army training I had a Black Watch Sargent who was a stereotype on steroids even had the nickname Big Duncs. if there was any one who you could imagine taking a nuke to the face and only been made slightly angrier it was that man. I can clearly remember his NBC training and what the manual said to do in a nuclear attack and what Big Duncs told you what you will do are two very different things. I was a member of a proud Scottish regiment with a distinguished history but the Black Watch did make you feel a little jealous
Skipped over [briefly alluded to at best] is that the Black Watch leadership joined Kerensky and founded Clan Jade Falcon.
I absolutely need art of that left arm.
Nemo me impune lacessit
Half of the memes? Urbie would like to have a word.
Lore question, why the hell is the Black Watch defending Clan Cameron? The Black Watch was formed in the early 1700's to fight against Clan Cameron amongst other Jacobites.
Almost 2500 years of forward momentum, the restructuring of humanity into a neofeudal multi-stellar empire, and weird requirements caused by huge spaces of time (and multiple world-shattering wars, and the orbital obliteration of an island by warship) made the political and cultural standards of Earth change QUITE a bit.
Have to mention the one that died in the industrial accident wasn't the insane one, he lived for a while after his sister joined him in leadership to keep him back on the track. His successor was the one that died in the accident, Richard Cameron the first, and he was a good guy, just shit happened that cause that when he was on a good will tour while fixing what the prior lord screwed up, though he didn't lead for long.
The Blackwatch are what happens when you activate cheats and then have max level pilots in every mech, max level crews in every vehicle, and max level veterans in every infantry group.
Team Bansai is a part of Battletech Cannon... the writers at one point where very much about tossing around humor and fandom of their own.
The Royal Black Watch… Nukes are an inconvenience. 😂😂😂
Thanks!
I think we all agree with Steve.
Steve!
“too angry”
Jerome Blake set off the nukes, killed Cameron, and then framed Amaris for it. He then used Comstars powers to rewrite the official narrative.
Clan *Smoked* Jaguar
Disappointed that there was no bagpipes playing whenever they said Highlander.
Hearing the FTL music in the bed made me go download and play that game again.
Dammit.
We need to make an A+ Movie that is just 15 minute setup with another 1 hour 45min of fight scene interspersed with necessary intermission of Amaris or his generals.
Maybe another 15min setup if needed...
A 2 hour oumaje to masculinity and warrior spirit.
Basically The Alamo, but with giant stompy robits
To the blackwatch, nukes are mearly inconvenient.
So, im an old school battletech player/fan.
I mean, i have the tech books with LAMs and other mechs that had to be forgotten because of lawsuits.
Hell, I i have the sourcebook for the flipping cartoon.
But i need a good rundown of the hostory of BT after... Uh... Lemme think about the last cannon-ish thing i remember...
The split of Steiner-Davion? I think i recall some of a renewed push by the clans?
Look, I'm drunk atm, and its been a LONG time since I've looked at the lore. You know what i mean.
Oh shit the blakeist jihad. I vaguely remember that.
So, run that down, and then a rundown of the lore after that. Kthnxbye
@@swj719
Blakests nuke fucking everything. Things are shit for quite a while.
Their presence lets the Great Houses unite under a man named Devlin Stone, who with their helps kicks their ass off Terra. Which results in Comstar being literally fucking dead, full stop. No survivors nothing else.
He then claims most of the planets of the old Terran Hegemony and forms a new government called the Republic of the Sphere.
Things are good for a bit.
Then the HPG (basically ALL OF IT) fucking DIES, and we still dont really know why. Its called Grey Monday, and no ones fixed it, even 20 years later.
This is what we call "the Dark Age" and a BUNCH of shit happens, mostly brushfire wars, internal conflict, and the houses going at their old enemies. New groups rise up, this thing called the Chaos March forms, everyone fighting everyone else. Its like a Fifth Succession War but now the Clanners are here too.
The Republic starts to die, and closes its borders with a Fortress Wall (an anti K-F Drive field that stays unbreached for quite some time) and leaves the rest of their land to the rest of the Sphere. So everyones pushing in towards Terra again.
(Oh also at some point the Taurians, Canopians and CAPELLANS form a group called the Trinity Alliance but the Taurians leave)
As all of this is going on, some fuckhead named Alaric Ward rises up to lead Clan Wolf, and through his skills and (lets be real here Clan Wolf plot armor and favoritizm) reorganizes the clan and breaks the Fortress Wall and leads a now reunified Clan Wolf to hit Terra.
Jade Falcon comes screaming in lead by a completely unhinged chick named Malvina Hazen (boy, hows that for on the nose naming huh!) and they brawl on Terra (after working together to kill the Republic finally and put its ass int he ground forever).
Wolf wins, surprise, 98% of the Falcons die (because Hazen took EVERYONE she could to Terra, as did the Wolves) and no we have THE ILCLAN.
...except that the majority of the Great Houses are going "yeah thats nice" and either letting it go because they have other things (The Dracs took New Avalon! They got kicked off bu they took New Avalon!) and the CAPELLANS of all people are looking hungrily at Terra itself, because both the Wolves and Falcons are so savaged they're a viable target.
Also, the former worlds held by the Wolves (the Wolf Empire) and the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone are now ripe for the taking, and the latter (called the Hinterlands) has exploded into MORE HOT SPOT CONFLICT because there's four or five microstates there.
And the FWL is poking at the Wolf Empire too.
Hope that helps.
Fantastic
No, not the bagpipes! We surrender Blackwatch, please no more bagpipes 😂
how bout a section on areospace fighters? think they are under rated
I was stationed in Ft Lewis and picked up my dog from a rescue shelter 5 min from Gorst.
Aint much out there is there?
Hmmm.... Hanni Schmitt was killed at Puget Sound. You are thinking of her granddaughter Colleen Schmitt who would go on to become a Clan Khan. And the five survivors of the Black Watch I do not think were part of Schmitt's force at Puget Sound. Instead they are like Captain Elizabeth Hazen, the future leader of the Ghost of Black Watch and Jade Falcon Khan, they were off duty. The rest of the Black Watch were all killed by Rim World forces.
As a Scotsman, I endorse this message. (Which means, for the americans: Born and raised in scotland)
No mention of how they "jamed" the vox at the Clan homeworld? If i remeber right they were forced to use a orbital Bombardement to win
You should look into Elizabeth Hazen
you should be cautious around the king crab you should be scared to an altas but an altas in a kilt you runway and then use the mech toilet and only once you on the dropship and in orbit
Campbells ain’t got nothing on Kerensky soup stock
Who would win ultra instict goku,or the royal black watch?
Yes that is what I'm here for 😂😂😂
i live in Puget sound
So about the nukes...
-Got surface level of battletech lore understanding. But they may not have as much plot armor as you may think.
-Feels odd to me to call nukes the sun. At least current nukes use fission not fusion which is what the sun is.
-Some one survived the little boy blast at only 300m away from center. While some one outside nearby was a carbon shadow. Its bank vs a small yield nuke. And the garrison of the black watch is military installation vs high yield. Point being nukes are more survival-able than you may think.
-As for mechs surviving, they run on fusion reactors. They have micro suns in their pockets. They have to have decent shielding to not fry themselves or prevent issues if an enemy reactor goes critical. Given the energy weapons that the armor resists and heat dissipating abilities of the mechs, short of be caught in the main fireball it may not be all that damaging. I could see is the pilot being killed or injured when the mech is thrown in the blast even if the machine survives.
-If hit but an air burst nuke, the mechs would most like be lightly damaged. Given a crater that would be a surface burst so they would have in or very close to the fireball. The fireball center should be around 1,000,000c while the surface around 6,000c and the diamond weave in the armor should melt around 50,000c. Their nuke plot armor is somewhat plausible given their level of technology.
we all know in battletech a mac in your name and a kilt are as good as terminator armor in other tabletop games
"If it ain't Scottish it's crap."
You can run but than you will die tired I remember my wife bought a t shirt with a F15 and some Arab Tanks on it with this text for my son wen he was 5
Hmmm seems like heavy plot armor......
Its not the Black Watch...its the g*ddamned Black Watch.😉😁
You know how to pronounce Puget Sound. Are you from Washington?
Aaahhh.... Scotland the brave
*too. It's "too angry", goddamn it
Fine then grammar yahtzi. I fixxed it, happy now? Lmao, nice catch.
@@scienceinsanity6927 oh Jesus Christ, thank you.
I don't know why that triggers me.
Love your show, fellas.
*clan smooth-brainuar
Wow... seriously just called Scott's British
Head cannon: Amaris was a secret loyal badass and the history books were rewritten to hide the truth that he died trying to save the Star League from a conspiracy by Jerome Blake.
Kerensky was his best friend and took his army into exile after he was tricked by Blake into killing Amaris.
So the blackwatch are just bad writing by Scottish people