The Culture: Oh Sweet Jesus, BTech Writers Had No Sense Of Scale

Sven van der Plank released a new video on the last campaign of the Third Succession War. It's long, but good.

We're seeing units with 85 and 95% casualties taken.

I see you, VetBros. Yes, that's insane. Yes, that's 40K levels of "Dude, what the fuck?!" Fighting like Vraks, but it's not even close to Vraks, is insanity- and thus, bad writing, because even given certain allowances there is just so much Nope going on here that cannot be justifed.

All this over a Star League Defense Force supply cache, by the way. They thought it important enough to send hundreds of BattleMechs, entire Air Wings of fighters, entire squadrons of DropShips, and six-figure or more numbers of personnel to one planet and--because of leadership that is decidedly pre-Modern in sensibility--they kept going well past the point of practicality which was the same as throwing good after bad and making things worse.

Sven did a fantastic job; I can't wait for him to do the Fourth Succession War, 3039, Clan Invasion, etc.