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[Jamjor]

I've been reading a little bit of lore on Clan and IS - but watching videos on gameplay, everyone is talking about IS mechs and Clan mechs and Clan invasion.

Are Clan mechs new in the game? Do they have an advantage?

Can anyone give a quick rundown of the lore between IS and Clans?

Much appreciated

[Koniving]

Clan mechs are new. They are supposed to have an advantage (in lore it's common for them to fight 5 to 12), but here they are push-overs that some people don't know how to kill yet (thus they must be overpowered). Their hitbox design on a few special ones doesn't help, however, as it opens them to abusing armor allocations that wouldn't normally be feasible.

The utmost basics...
Inner Sphere factions are burst-damage oriented and best at closer ranges
Clan factions are DPS damage oriented and are much better at longer ranges.

As for lore, I refer you to this thread which I randomly bumped.
There's a video on there from me by Wauweli. It also has a link to another thread that has FAR more videos and details (mostly in video format) that pumps out the lore.

Who the factions are (including ones we can't play as), why they started fighting in the Inner Sphere, the Star League's Operation Exodus ("screw you kings and your squabbling, we're taking the bulk of the armies and technology and going into deep space beyond the periphery!") which then, after 200+ years become the Clans and return (with a misguided belief that they were forced out in some cases rather than they chose to leave, so some are there to conquer and some are there to embrace -- by force -- and then defend the Inner Sphere)...etc. is all covered in there.

If you were to watch all the lore videos, it'd give you the lore and more in about 12 to 15 minutes. And that's with the impressive and mood setting videos by Wauweli. Tack on the Clan introduction videos from MW2 and that's another 5 minutes.

Edited by Koniving, 19 August 2014 - 11:47 AM.

[Egomane]

Koniving, on 19 August 2014 - 11:41 AM, said:

As for lore, I refer you to this thread which I randomly bumped.

Just a reminder, bumps without actual contribution to the thread are spam and forbidden. So I removed your random bump.

Another good thread about battletech, mechs and more, with some links to stores where you can buy the old novels, is this one:
http://mwomercs.com/...ore-start-here/

[HlynkaCG]

Yes, they are new to the game having been introduced in June.

In general clan tech is lighter and has longer range at the expense of lower front-loaded damage and running much hotter.

[Sandslice]

Jamjor, on 19 August 2014 - 11:29 AM, said:

I've been reading a little bit of lore on Clan and IS - but watching videos on gameplay, everyone is talking about IS mechs and Clan mechs and Clan invasion.

Are Clan mechs new in the game? Do they have an advantage?

Can anyone give a quick rundown of the lore between IS and Clans?

Much appreciated

Kon's thread covers a lot of it. If you want a Cliffs Notes version, it'd look like this.

1. Star League and Clans:

Spoiler

In the later 28th century, the Inner Sphere (the five star empires or "Houses" that control most inhabited worlds within 500 light years of Earth) was roughly unified under a hegemony called the Star League. While the Star League military (the SLDF) was busy fighting "Periphery" (around the fringes of the Inner Sphere) nations, a fellow named Stefan Amaris pulled off a coup d'etat and took over the Star League.

After his coup was quashed, the five Houses fell into infighting over whose leader would take up command of the Star League; Aleksandr Kerensky, the commanding general of the SLDF, realised that the strength of his army could easily crush all of the Houses. So instead of doing so (because he actually cared about humanity,) he took most of the army with him on an "Exodus," going way into deep space.

The SLDF would find a few worlds to settle; but they fell into infighting themselves, and Aleksandr launched a second Exodus with just 800 loyalists just before he died. His son Nicholas found a cluster of worlds including Strana Mechty (Russian for Land of Dreams) and settled it with the 800. He'd go on to reorganise this contingent into twenty divisions called "Clans."

The Clans spent several years getting used to their new organisation before going back to reconquer the worlds settled in the first Exodus. Once this was done, the Clans could fully implement their caste-based and heavily rules-based society, which allowed their technology to grow beyond Star League tech into Clantech.

Around the year 3000, the Clans started pondering an invasion of the Inner Sphere; after some politics, they created a recon unit called Wolf's Dragoons to scout the Sphere. Eventually the Wolf Khan (high general) cut off communication with the Dragoons, telling them to instead prepare the Inner Sphere to defend against invasion.

The current MWO timeline is early in that invasion.

2. The Inner Sphere

Spoiler

Kerensky had left behind some of the SLDF, including the communications ministry that became ComStar and a number of military units, including the 151st Division (that became the predecessor of the ComStar military, the Com Guards) and the Eridani Light Horse, a mercenary unit. ComStar became pretty much a techno-cult, obsessed with preserving Star League technology and protecting it from the "heretics" of the Inner Sphere.

Not that the Houses were doing a good job of holding onto technology; rather, they were throwing everything they could at each other (including Nuclear Weapons and kitchen sinks) in a series of conflicts called the Succession Wars. By the time the Third was winding down (3025) and the Fourth was about to pick up, humanity seemed at serious risk of running themselves into the ground entirely.

Then in early 3028, a mercenary unit called the Gray Death Legion - under retainer to House Marik at the time - had control of the planet Helm. After being framed by a false-flag operation, they wound up fighting Marik and ComStar forces and claiming the Helm Memory Core. This cache of Star League lore and equipment contained enough information to allow the Inner Sphere to rapidly refurbish all the "magical" factories, and revitalise Star League tech. Even now, with the Clans on the horizon, the Houses are prototyping more advanced tech...

The short form.

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Jamjor, on 19 August 2014 - 11:29 AM, said:

I've been reading a little bit of lore on Clan and IS - but watching videos on gameplay, everyone is talking about IS mechs and Clan mechs and Clan invasion.

Are Clan mechs new in the game? Do they have an advantage?

Can anyone give a quick rundown of the lore between IS and Clans?

Much appreciated

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