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[GreyGoo]

I found it strange that Yen-lo-wang, a mech name after the Chinese king of the 9 hells, is painted with the Japanese raising sun scheme. This paint scheme is appropriate for a Kurita mech, but not on Yen-lo-wang.

[Koreanese]

do you suggest drawing a big ***** on it?

[44th GrayGhost]

It is the correct paint scheme, it is canon - though the sun was centered on one of the lasers on the torso.

GreyGoo, on 30 October 2012 - 09:58 PM, said:

I found it strange that Yen-lo-wang, a mech name after the Chinese king of the 9 hells, is painted with the Japanese raising sun scheme. This paint scheme is appropriate for a Kurita mech, but not on Yen-lo-wang.

[trycksh0t]

Grey, the paint job on Yen-Lo-Wang is it's canon design. The sunburst as a symbol does not exist in the BattleTech universe. Justin Allard created Yen-Lo-Wang as a Solaris VII Arena design, and the colors of his stable were red and white.

[General Taskeen]

Its not exact, but its close:



Some fan made art from MWO's Centurion concept art:

[New Breed]

we don't need this topic again, the last one was a flame fest and got locked.

give up.

[HaneNinja]

Yep, and I'm sure the geopolitical landscape, and national borders are all the same in the year 3049 as they are today right? Chinese engineers couldn't be working and living in Japan or anything. Snarky response aside it's a canon thing. Thats how the Yen-lo-wang looked in the TT codex that's how it looks in the game. Earth is far more globalized in the battletech universe than it is in present day.

[anthony gryphon]

The Capellan Confederation isn't necessarily Chinese per se. Every faction is made up of multiple racial and ethnic backgrounds. The Draconis Combine's galactic southern border has a number of muslim and arab ran planets for example, even though the Combine is known as a predominantly Japanese inspired nation.

Also the red sun burst is meant to be a variation of the Davion sunburst.

[GreyGoo]

I'll accept it, since it is canon. Although this show the lack of historical and cultural understanding from the original authors.

[Quxudica]

GreyGoo, on 30 October 2012 - 09:58 PM, said:

I found it strange that Yen-lo-wang, a mech name after the Chinese king of the 9 hells, is painted with the Japanese raising sun scheme. This paint scheme is appropriate for a Kurita mech, but not on Yen-lo-wang.

This has been posted to death, it's correct. It's also a pet peeve of one of the Devs that people keep saying it's wrong because he spent a lot of time getting the look right based on the lore.

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I'll accept it, since it is canon. Although this show the lack of historical and cultural understanding from the original authors.

BT takes place 1,000+ years in the future. it's not remotely implausible that the world evolved into a global melting pot a la Blade Runner or Firefly and as such the sun burst we associate with Japan took on new meaning or cultural relation.

Also, there are a **** ton of things in BT that make no sense if you think about it too hard, this is on the bottom of that enormous pile.

Edited by Quxudica, 31 October 2012 - 12:09 PM.

[AllGamer]

just redraw the skin, and put the sun in the center where the 2 medium lasers are located

[Raalic]

It doesn't matter where the sun is on the mech. Even if it were centered, people would still complain about it, because that is still a Japanese military banner.

The design is a faithful improvement of the canon version. See this guy's post for the most intelligent, coherent response I have seen yet:

HaneNinja, on 30 October 2012 - 10:09 PM, said:

Yep, and I'm sure the geopolitical landscape, and national borders are all the same in the year 3049 as they are today right? Chinese engineers couldn't be working and living in Japan or anything. Snarky response aside it's a canon thing. Thats how the Yen-lo-wang looked in the TT codex that's how it looks in the game. Earth is far more globalized in the battletech universe than it is in present day.

[Mason Grimm]

This has been discussed.

YLW (the in-game asset) is wearing the skin that the battletech lore requires. The Developers did not make the lore, the back story nor the paint scheme. They are simply following what many have read, know and love.

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