LANCER Lore: IPS-N | Blue Collar Mechs

Hi hello, want to become lethal forklift certified? Then IPS-Northstar is the galactic corpo-state for you. Blue collar presentation, but again always a nice reminder, THEY OWN PLANETS. So let's see what else owners of 30% of all Union shipping have. Also I realized I said Snake instead of Scorpion from mortal kombat, just acknowledging it here.

Of our Chassis Line Up we have:
Blackbeard - Grapple and violence
Drake - I am hard cover
Lancaster - Medic that's a truck centaur
Nelson - That one part of Monty Python with Lancelot
Raleigh - Cowboy
Tortuga - (Gmod ragdoll sound) + shrapnel
Vlad - The impaling one

CHAPTERS
00:00 - INTRO
00:12 - HISTORY
00:52 - PRODUCTS & OWNERSHIP
03:22 - ARGO NAVIS
05:40 - NAVY & ALBATROSS
06:19 - Blackbeard
07:01 - Drake
07:36 - Lancaster
08:08 - Nelson
08:38 - Raleigh
09:36 - Tortuga
10:21 - Vlad

All the licenses will have their individual videos at a later date. This was just a general overview.

See you out there Lancer.

[fashionsoulsonlysouls]

ah, the Vlad. i recall someone saying: "It was either designed by someone who didnt know mechs cant feel pain, or took that statement as a challenge"

[christianmason-davis]

The Blackbeard: "yar har fiddle de dee, if I win the grapple YOURE COMING WITH ME!"

[svenabel]

Warlocks: "Eldritch BLAST!"
H0rus: "Eldritch MATH!"

[siralcatraz]

Fun Fact, the Vlad chassis was originally known as the Yi Sun-Shin, named after the famous admiral of the same name who essentially saved the Kingdom of Korea during the Imjin War (the Japanese invasion of Korea in the 1590s). Still, since no one knows about Yi Sun-Shin, it was renamed to the Vlad.

Which sucks, because Admiral Yi is probably one of the very few in history who could give Horatio Nelson a run for his money.

[galmenz]

Rayleigh is the mech equivalent of a Harley Davidson, convince me otherwise

[bthsr]

So John Deere, Cat, maybe Oshkosh Trucks, and 30% of all space shipping from commissioning to breaking.
I dig it.

[sirseacow]

7:30 (a paraphrased clip from LazyPurple's How it Feels to Play Engineer video)
"DRAKE PILOT, WHAT KIND OF DEFENSE IS THIS?!"
"I AM THE DEFENSE"

[logandaley]

I’m surprised how much this setting gives me Borderlands vibes with the big corporations having their own flavor and specialty. It’s really cool

[kingbubbles]

The Lancaster is honestly a dream home

[wainwrightjakobs]

So I've actually run this game and one of my players ran a Blackbeard. Calling this mech scary is an understatement and a half! Damn thing tore through just about every combat encounter I set up. It grappled my final boss of the ENTIRE encounter. This boss was two sizes larger than it was! It just wouldn't let go! All the same it was super fun, great times and great stories all around.

[SequoiaSkulldog]

This was unbelievably good, I can't wait to see how wild the Horus video is gonna be.

[LoydeReed]

There is a Raleigh build my friend showed me he calls Johnny Seven Guns "on account of him having seven guns." Apparently you can just have 7 handcannons on that thing and it's not only viable, but pretty effective.

[KillerOrca]

Be me, a Caliban player in my current game; "Wonder if he'll mention Caliban."
Does so.
YES GOOD.

[yecnay]

It’s mah Bois! Move Freight, Kill Pirates, Make Manna!

[Bluecho]

I love how all the other mechs from this faction are designed about being no frills and practical - cowboy aesthetics aside - and then there's just The Vlad. For people who want to impale. There's a Freudian joke in there somewhere. The machine for medieval Romanian warlord cosplayers.

At least we have Trucker Mech. My beloved.

[BlitzkriegOmega]

my favorite Defender/Controller build in Lancer is the modest Vladbeard, and it's literally as simple as it sounds: Vlad with Blackbeard upgrades. You have 3 Armor at Size 1, you're *always* the bigger robot when you grapple, and any source of immobilize (Grapple, Nail Gun, etc) shreds your victim (None of their defensive properties work anymore), and if they're stupid enough to try to fight back while you're grappling them, they take an unavoidable AP kinetic damage. With Core Power, that damage becomes 3 AP Kinetic *and* you take half-damage.

[BeliefDiviner]

7:12 Technically, all anti-mech weapons are anti-materiel (as opposed to anti-personnel, look up "anti-materiel rifle", for example), meaning "to be used against material resources", like mechs, vehicles, ammo depots, unexploded ordnance, reinforced bunker doors, etc. Which begs the question, is the non-upgraded chaingun for Drake meant to be used against people in hardsuits and other kinds of personal combat protection, not against mechs?

[glueboy]

Can attest, the Raleigh is beautiful. Had a blast with mine. Also gave it just a *touch* of Pegasus for some extra paracausality weirdness. Just a fun rootin tootin sentient yet concerningly quiet cowboy mech with 4 giant revolvers. Named it Texas Red.

[Pixelcat]

I sure do love my interstellar shipping company that DEFINITELY doesn’t have a side thing with under the table piracy going on.

(Edit) also can’t wait for the episode on Albatross, one of my most favorite factions in lancer

[fluffernaut]

im not gonna lie....that was very smooth and very well done and i loved that