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[Cbass57484]

Mine would be Joanna from Clan Jade Falcon. Why, because she isn't afraid to dish out the pain. She is an accomplished Mech pilot who killed Natasha Kerensky. She trained Aidan Pryde, Marthe Pryde (who became Khan) and helped train Horse, and helped Diana win a bloodname. No, she didnt win a bloodname, but would you enter a circle of equals with her? No you dirty surat, freebirth whelp, you wouldn't.
If i had to pick a close second it would be Yorinaga Kurita. There was never a better Warhammer pilot and thats my favorite IS mech. Whose yours and why?

[dal10]

Ian Davion. held off a full battalion of kuritas by himself. let his men escape. true leader. he sacrificed himself for his people.

[shameless]

Jaime Wolf

[DireWolf307]

Probably Phelan Kell, or Kai Allard-Liao.

[Helldozer]

Aidan Pryde has to be my favourite from the Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy.

[Skylarr]

Greyson Carlyle A man ahead of his time. Master of Combine Arms Tactics.

I have to include Aidan Pryde as my second favorite.

Cannot forget Theodore Kurita.

Edited by Skylarr, 25 May 2012 - 08:51 PM.

[Max Dragon]

Spektar duh....hehe

[Enaris]

Lot of good choices out there. I'd have to say Andrew Redburn, though Dan Allard is pretty close. (Yeah, Stackpole's books are my favorites, heh)

[trycksh0t]

Minobu Tetsuhara. I would call him the last true Samurai in the universe, and one of the greatest characters in BattleTech history. Dishonored by his superiors, betrayed by his nation, and sacrificed for a battle that was never his.

Edited by trycksh0t, 25 May 2012 - 07:21 PM.

[Edwin Kain]

I Think his name is Paul Moon been awhile since I read exodus road. But without Pauls constant humiliating and instulting nature, Trent maybe wouldn't have been persuaded into giving up the The star route back the SJ homeworlds. So while minor in the scheme of things it was He that pushed Trent that one Step TOO far and thus leading to the eventual decimation of The Smoke Jaguars. Dunno why but I've always hate the SJ no reason just do.

[Phelan Kerensky]

Phelan Kell and Vlad Ward because I am a Wolf and really enjoy the stories surrounding these two...

[Sporkosophy]

Anyone but Stone. Probably Waco.

[Redbrew]

The Black Widow. And I love the Warhammer, with or with out Kerensky.

[Thorolf Kylesson]

Cbass57484, on 25 May 2012 - 06:48 PM, said:

Mine would be Joanna from Clan Jade Falcon. Why, because she isn't afraid to dish out the pain. She is an accomplished Mech pilot who killed Natasha Kerensky. She trained Aidan Pryde, Marthe Pryde (who became Khan) and helped train Horse, and helped Diana win a bloodname. No, she didnt win a bloodname, but would you enter a circle of equals with her? No you dirty surat, freebirth whelp, you wouldn't.
If i had to pick a close second it would be Yorinaga Kurita. There was never a better Warhammer pilot and thats my favorite IS mech. Whose yours and why?

While Joanna was an entertaining character. That book and that fight were the worst I have thus far read in the BT universe.

Victor and his father. On the clan side....Horse.

[Logan Pryde]

Aiden Pryde, Anastasia Kerensky and Horse were probably the most entertaining characters for me.

[Cbass57484]

Thorolf Kylesson, on 25 May 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

While Joanna was an entertaining character. That book and that fight were the worst I have thus far read in the BT universe.

Victor and his father. On the clan side....Horse.

Like Liam said in Batman Begins " you need to mind your surroundings"

[Ian]

So many great Characters, so many overblown characters too... Picking a favorite is tough. I like the ones that don't have ridiculous amounts of plot armor.

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Greyson Carlyle A man ahead of his time. Master of Combine Arms Tactics.

The truely sad part of this is they killed him off and then killed off the Grey Death Legion in a truely miserable book that must have given the original author fits. The only thing I can picture is Herb (who hates the Grey Death) telling the writer "look, write this book so they die a lame and inglorious death, i never want to hear about them again". I mean really, the titular character dies on page two of cancer.... Sad and pathetic Herb, sad and pathetic.

[Renegat]

Morgan Kell because of his Phantom 'Mech Ability!

[Dan Baxter]

Alessandro Steiner. Never have the actions of one man affected so many. If not for his strategies, Katrina Steiner would have never taken power, created a certain peace treaty that makes the strongest sucessor state,a result of which causes Frederick Steiner to scheme until eventually becoming the precentor of Comstar and save the Inner Sphere from the clans.

Edited by Dan Baxter, 26 May 2012 - 06:19 PM.

[Lina Thoren]

Katrina Steiner. (Not her, I mean the real one.)

More than anyone else in the BT universe, her perseverance in the face of multiple attempts on her life, the death of her husband, the many painful decisions she had to make as Archon, and something else I can't mention without spoiling Stackpole's Warriors' Trilogy, spoke to me, and showed, realistically, how a strong person could bear the terrible price of power without surrendering either emotion or morality. The brief letter from her found early in the second volume of the Fourth Succession War Atlas speaks volumes about her character, IMO.

All that, and she was a Mechwarrior in her youth, too. Wish we could've seen a few stories from those days as well.