Hired Steel

[Hawk.eye]

Since I haven't seen a post about this simply _excellent_ project, I thought I'd post some YT links to it.

Some rather prominent (well, among the BT community at least) names in the voice-over cast as well.

Pilot:

Episode 1:

Episode 2:

 

[Spartakus]

Whoa!

That. Is. Cool.

 

[Kereminde]

Whoa!

That. Is. Cool.

Yes, yes it is.

 

[Spartakus]

Hmm, my not MWO/MW5-trained eye has some trouble identifying these tanks here. As far as I can tell:

Mercs:

• Rifleman 3C (AC/10 instead of LL and AC/5 per arm) - customized, one of those is a UAC/5 I think
• Catapult C4 (LRM20 and 2 SL)
• Hunchback 4H (AC/10 + 2 exrta ML)
• heavily customized Shadowhawk (2 SRM6 + AMS + UAC/5 + 2ML) Propably an XL engine to free that much weight.

Pirates:

• Locust (stock)
• Thunderbolt (stock?)
• Pegasus?
• Some other hover tank that is somehow supposed to be an easier target then a Locust????
• some MBT (Patton/Rommel? Looks like it has a PPC, but it's not a Manticore)

 

[Hawk.eye]

The Locust does seem to be stock and the T-Bolt reads as a TDR-5S on the attacker's sensors (in the command center in ep. 1, when the drone scans it)

Those Tanks _are_ heavily modified, but I would also go with a pair of Pegasus (the basic hull-form fits pretty well) and the turret of the tracked tank indeed screams Patton/Rommel, even though the gun is definitely wrong - then again, we are talking 3042(?) and there are other changes as well, like the reactive armor on the Hunchback

 

[Spartakus]

AH, I found the answer in a Youtube comment. Apparently all their vehicles are custom made models to avoid legal trouble. I presume the available models are all owned by HBS and by extension Paradox.

 

[Kereminde]

AH, I found the answer in a Youtube comment. Apparently all their vehicles are custom made models to avoid legal trouble. I presume the available models are all owned by HBS and by extension Paradox.

You know, maybe they could have asked permission... and not gotten Mitch's favorite answer.

 

[Cekay]

Creator here. Just dropping quickly to inform you that we finished and released episode 3 this Friday. Hope you like it!

 

[Curtis Cook]

Thank you for these. Amazing how good nine months(!) of effort can look.

 

[Major Jeff]

Creator here. Just dropping quickly to inform you that we finished and released episode 3 this Friday. Hope you like it!

Way cool

 

[Curtis Cook]

Thank you for including those storyboard pages during the closing credits. I had real problems trying to understand the radio 'chatter' and reading the storyboards clarified things enormously.