The 20mm Vulcan gun has been a staple cannon for American Military Aircraft for around 60 years. It fires approximately 6k rounds a minute. Meaning that every ten seconds it is sending one thousand of these blue tipped rounds downrange. My point you may ask? 1/7 #battletech
This is the Scorpion Light Tank.
You see that small gun on the hull? That's a 20mm Gatling gun. It uses the same projectile and fires just as many. On the tabletop of Battletech, this gun does 1 point of damage a turn, which is 10 seconds in game time. 2/7

Having watched all of 'Space Cobra' (Which I only now realized was the series' actual name) I can say that it is an experience. Every episode had something interesting and new, and it went weird a lot. Steel plated beetles, Robot honeybees, sand treated like water...1/18🧵 Space Casinos with Roulette wheel death rooms, Dictators who love pro-wrestling, Space Goddess death satellites, a literal Genie and his magic castle, Hell, even Hitler's desiccated corpse makes an appearance. There is so much creative weirdness in this series. 2/

So I talked about the Game of #battletech , but what about the Setting? Why are these Armored robots engaging in the Combat that makes up the game?
I will try to keep it brief but the lore for this setting is pretty beefy. 1/🧵 Battletech is a game made by Anime and History Nerds in the 1980s. This is Key to understanding everything. This is the Future as thought of in the 1980's. Computers are big, Floppy Drives are still a thing, and the Internet practically unheard of. 2/

#Battletech is a game of Armored Combat.
What the hell does that mean, you ask?
In its simplest terms, It means you are in an armored vehicle, seeking to defeat another armored vehicle. But because tanks are a bit mundane, these armored vehicles are Robots. 1/19🧵 The basic goal of the game is simple. Destroy your opponent before he destroys you. And to help me explain that, I've an example.
This is a Hunchback. A pretty common Medium Battlemech. We'll call him 'Rusty'. Rusty is a standard Hunchback, the HBK-4G. 2/

FUNDAMENT
HEROTITUS
FRONC REACHES
OCTOBER 31, 3150
"The folk in the Inner Sphere don't understand the world like we Periphery Folk do. They like to think they got all the answers, that everything can be explained. And I'm here to tell you: That's a fool's assumption." 1/9 "Fact is, space is big. Big and scary. And the tech we use to cross it? We barely understand it anymore. You can thank the damn Spheroids for that. And them Tube Scum ain't no smarter either. Things happen. Weird things. Scary things." 2/

So I talked about just how cheap the JL-1 Raider is for #Battletech, but what does that mean?
Obviously, that means it costs less, but how about we look at just how 'affordable' the Raider is from the In Universe perspective. People love talking fake economics, right? 1/12 Primary sources for this little thread are going to be Megamek to calculate C-bill cost for mechs with unlisted prices, and Era Report: 1345, which has the currency converter and multipliers for different currencies and prices. 2/

This showed up on my timeline, so lets talk about Wheat and why Zach Snyder and his Co-Writers are fricken morons. Long thread inbound, so here we go. 1/25🧵 The entire conflict of Rebel Moon stems from a Space Dreadnaught rolling up to a Medieval Farming Village and demanding their grain. And if you think that's stupid, just wait. It will get worse. Anyway, setting that aside for now, lets get into the numbers. 2/