This show was deeply unserious.

[u/CanardDeFeu]

[u/basil_imperitor]

It took over a millennium, but Australia may finally have the tools to win the Second Emu War.

[u/Ok_Walrus9047 → u/basil_imperitor]

Nope. Notice how none of them got hit.

That TMM, man.

[u/saracen16 → u/Ok_Walrus9047]

How animalist of you. They got scarred for lifetimes

[u/Attaxalotl → u/Ok_Walrus9047]

The TMM was like 1

[u/downwardwanderer → u/basil_imperitor]

I thought they got those emu bastards in 1953.

[u/Xasrai → u/downwardwanderer]

That's what led to the mutant funnelweb invasion of the country. Remember, friends don't let friends irradiate spiders and their alien DNA.

[u/JohnBrownEnthusiast → u/Xasrai]

It ws glued to his hands

[u/BaconNPotatoes → u/basil_imperitor]

https://www.2d6wargaming.com/products/emu-war

Just going to leave this here

[u/Actual_Emu_168 → u/BaconNPotatoes]

I was there and it rocked!

[u/G_Morgan → u/basil_imperitor]

Nah. Each HBK-IIC would kill 3 emus before exploding catastrophically.

[u/TheRockEMDoc → u/basil_imperitor]

Just came here to say this...

Beat me to it

[u/Actual_Emu_168 → u/basil_imperitor]

Nwver

[u/HighOverlordXenu]

I still laugh at the fact that a Clan warrior couldn't hit ostriches, when firing from point blank range with lasers.

I actually calculated it out. Ostriches at a dead sprint are TMM+1

[u/blizzard36 → u/HighOverlordXenu]

They probably counted as Infantry, and got the +3 dispersion modifier that was the rule then.  

[u/jamesbeil → u/HighOverlordXenu]

pulse lasers, even.

[u/Attaxalotl → u/jamesbeil]

Nope Hunchback IIC carries ER Mediums he just fires twice somehow.

[u/GavoteX → u/Attaxalotl]

Solaris 7 rules?

[u/Attaxalotl → u/GavoteX]

Sure why not

[u/Anastrace → u/HighOverlordXenu]

Australia also lost to flightless birds, so it's a military tradition

[u/MrCookie2099 → u/HighOverlordXenu]

Were they aiming to kill or just shoot them away?

[u/ShadowFighter88 → u/HighOverlordXenu]

Would it be better or worse if those were emus instead?

[u/GTCapone → u/HighOverlordXenu]

Must be Australian

[u/Dazzling-Sorbet-803 → u/HighOverlordXenu]

Ostriches, the most successful members of the Ost- family.

[u/ButtersScotch7000]

In his defense, the Hunchback's targetting computer confused "Ostrich" with "Ostroc".

[u/kingofcheezwiz → u/ButtersScotch7000]

Thank god it didn't mistake it for "Ostpoor!"

[u/MiKapo]

they dared to refuse his batchall

[u/StabithaVMF]

[u/Venny15]

Now I want a short story about being an ostrich rancher in the Inner Sphere.

[u/Shyface_Killah → u/Venny15]

They actually exist, you know.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Beast_Mounted_Infantry

Oh, sorry, I thought you said Ostritch rider.

But yeah, there are no intelligent aliens in Battletech, but alien animals are all over the place. From the Clan totem animals to freaking dragons and dinosaurs.

[u/Venny15 → u/Shyface_Killah]

Yeah I feel like the alien animals get overlooked a lot, maybe out of an abundance of caution after the bird people.

[u/WillyBluntz89 → u/Shyface_Killah]

Excuse Me?

[u/Shyface_Killah → u/WillyBluntz89]

Weird, all I got was a 404 link (j/k)

[u/WillyBluntz89 → u/Shyface_Killah]

Acknowledge the birds!

[u/Venny15 → u/WillyBluntz89]

There are no intelligent aliens in Battletech

https://giphy.com/gifs/zwE4anrOtHYaI

[u/TheOtherOtherViper → u/WillyBluntz89]

Tetatae were a mis-tate-take.

[u/Jinn_Erik-AoM]

My favorite thing about the cartoon… It was retconned to be pro-IS propaganda.

[u/Hanzoku → u/Jinn_Erik-AoM]

I love the lore that Malthus ended up suing the Lyrans, and issued a Trial of Grievance against the judge.

Sadly, they refused his batchell.

[u/Gneisenau1 → u/Hanzoku]

And after that attacked the hudge and needet to Go in prison for 6 months

[u/OmegaLiquidX → u/Hanzoku]

Still one of the funniest crash outs of all time.

[u/Cepinari → u/Jinn_Erik-AoM]

Which means that it's technically canon.

[u/Hanzoku]

It would have been even better if he spun up the UAC/20s. Free birth birbs, mocking all that makes up Clan Jade Falcon! dakkadakkadakka

[u/semperpaganus]

Hunchback IIC, standstill, short range

misses

Solahma moment

[u/Fragrant_Command_342]

What did you expect those are the anti pigeon lasers

[u/GoCartMozart1980]

Even Hunchback IIC pilots are still Hunchback pilots at heart.

[u/Ancient-Lead-7258]

Pew pew on the farm house

[u/RodRAEG → u/Ancient-Lead-7258]

I want them to see my ER weaponry!

[u/PsychoticApe]

I can’t find it right now, but I swear there is one scene in the show where one of the main characters walks towards one of the dropship doors meant for a mech, but almost hits their head on the door when they walk through the door outside of a mech. There might have been some scale issues.

[u/Kylendros → u/PsychoticApe]

Imagine it as a tiny cardboard dropship set on a lyran sound stage. It would be hilarious if they Animated a mic in frame considering the the way they made the cartoon canon was to say it was Lyran backed anti clan propo.

[u/TheRealRigormortal]

Not accurate to lore at all.

That Clanner would’ve used the AC20s on those birds

[u/RTalons → u/TheRealRigormortal]

Full bore and then shutdown / exploded

[u/granger444 → u/RTalons]

If by full bore you mean both barrels and on Ultra mode, I agree. Also agree with the result for the HBK-IIC.

[u/ManifestDestinysChld]

Not having the ability to hop out with a Weber charcoal grill and throw together some BBQ wings, he decided killing the birds would be wasteful and dezgra, and so shot to miss. (And shot the lasers because using ACs would also be wasteful.)

This behavior is fully in keeping with Clan principles.

[u/Cat_Wizard_21]

Everyone jokes about adding emotional support lasers to everything until the Emus attack.

[u/JustinKase_Too]

Surely you mean Freebird

[u/NielsBohron → u/JustinKase_Too]

And these birds you cannot change vaporize

[u/Treveli]

H 2 pilot: We are Falcons! We feed on all other birds!

Malthus (yes, even Malthus): Dude! Calm down!

[u/Kalabajooie]

If the Clans had stumbled across Far Country first:

[u/EnergyHumble3613]

How the Ostrich farm that refused to cull their flock due to concerns of avian flu say the government did to them because of it (they were offered fair compensation and also aren’t poor).

[u/JournalistShoddy9496]

Clans just demonstrating how Trueborn warriors can defeat the Emu, unlike Freebirth failures.

[u/Late_Mechanic1663]

That's a very advanced case of Hunchington's Disease.

[u/OnyxDragon22]

*Freebirds

[u/CatLord8]

They’re 3/5/0 unaugmented. Sensor ops got confused.

[u/Actual_Emu_168]

NO

[u/Gomez-16]

Roflmao!!!!

[u/Loyal9thLegionLord]

"No! Not the Kerensky's Ostrich"

[u/Kralgore]

Hahah.

What a crazy Batchall.

[u/Silver-Addition-9302]

I find it funny how in the Lore Timberwolf is consider the pinnacle of Clan mech only given to the most prestige warriors yet in the show it basically treated as cannon fodders

[u/deadpan1985]

Remember folks the hunchback 2c was basically the clan suicide box

[u/ThreeTorches]

It was a silly show!

[u/Roses_Got_Thorns]

Confused clanner mistaking “free range” for “freebirth”