As someone who likes the perpetually "OpFor" factions, I can agree.  Play what you like!

Honestly, I'm not a big lore guy. However with the kickstarter, some of the items were designed with faction specific logos. For no reason I could define I went with Goliath Scorpions. A few days back, I looked up that faction on Sarna. There initial Kahn came from the SLDF Corps of Engineers. I was a Combat Engineer during my time in the military. Kismet? Who knows. SAPPERS lead the way!

I have been having to come to the realization that there are no "good guys" in this setting. But I do love me some clan Ghost Bear.

My favorite faction is Clan Coyote. I'm a chemist and a faction that valued science so highly drew my attention. I also found their interest in native North American culture attractive as my grandmother is a native who grew up on the reserve. Perfect faction for me though they no longer exist in the modern timeline.

Eridani Light Horse. I liked the fact that they were trying to keep the memory of the Star League alive as well as them having an easy paint scheme and an interesting name.

I paint my units in a variety of camo patterns.   I don't put on any logos of faction symbols.   this keeps my entire collection always available for any game I play.

Cool you “made” a mercenary group and paint scheme that became lore! Very cool!

Clan Blood Spirit - which all started as I liked the look of the Crimson Langur medium mech and the Omega Galaxy colour scheme :)

I went with Charon's Children for my pirates, pretty exited to start painting.

House Leal value loyalty and will stab you in the back. That made me giggle a bit.

Thanks for this video, I've been wanting to know what Battletech factions were available but everything else was a little too hectic for me to get a good grasp on what factions were out there!

Faction? Singular? Man, some of you all have great self control

I loved Clan Wolf as a kid so I started there when I came back to the universe circa 2021. Then I moved on to Kurita’s 6th Ghost, now I’m working on Capellans. Got my eye on ComStar but I really don’t want to paint another  white paint scheme 😂

A typical ComStar Lv 2 will field a combined arms unit consisting on 4 mechs and 2 vehicles, though after the Clan Invasion and widespread use of Inner Sphere battle armor they began swapping out a mech or vehicle for a squad of battle armor.

Clans always maintain groups of 5, though some combine them into what are called novas, which are usually 5 mechs and 5 battle armor points (squads). Some Clans use vehicles or aerospace fighters instead of elementals, in this case it is 2 vehicles per point instead of 5 elementals or 1 mech (eg: 10 vehicles/fighters, 25 elementals = Clan star). The combining 2 or 3 novas is called a supernova, but are rare, above that would just be typical clusters and galaxies.

All you Clanners can kiss my star.  I grew up on 3025 and am happy there.  My favorite pre-clan mech is the Hunchback.  Yes, it's a hail Mary, but being able to potentially headshot a heavier mech made me happy.

A nice breakdown for everyone.

I went with a Free Worlds League based Merc force and the Iron Guard.  For the Clan, I went with Diamond Shark/Sea Fox because of the lore and Jade Falcon as my secondary force :)

Mercs for sure. I have a soft spot for the One Eyed Jacks. It was our campaign for years and then was canonized in the official lore.

This is such a great jumping off point. Thank you for putting it together.

Really loved the showcase of all different CSO artists on this vid!

Dude great video. One if the cool things about the FWL is how many different liveries and color schemes. Marik Militia is a popular one but you have the Atrean Hussars, Regulan Hussars,  Orloff grenadiers.

I play Word of Blake, because I really like them for all kinds of reasons (they are fascinating from a philosophy perspective as well as technological one). A "dark mirror" of the Clans, using cybernetics to counter Clanner genetics, WMDs and C3i instead of duels, and Total War instead of Trials.

interesting how the Clans now own Terra and are gobbling up chunks of the Inner Sphere now that the Word of Blake and the Stolos Umbra has left the inner sphere ... :D