Resources for the video:

Master Unit List:
http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/6725/malice-mal-xp
http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/6683/malice-mal-xt
http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/6726/malice-mal-xv
http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/6727/malice-mal-yz

Ironwind Metals Malice: https://www.ironwindmetals.com/index.php/categories/cat-battletech/cat-bt-bm/product/battletech-20-5107/category_pathway-2

TRO Dark Age: https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-technical-readout-dark-age
Record Sheets: Dark Age: https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-record-sheets-dark-age

Background outer Space Art was done by the artist, Starkiteckt:

https://www.artstation.com/starkiteckt

Fun fact: a Malice actually killed Alaric Ward, but Clan Wolf plot armour is so powerful that the entire setting rewrote itself to make the Malice a joke, thus saving Ward.

You know you made a stinker of a mech when you cover it on Autocannons and even House Davion goes “yeah, we’ll pass”

Me 5 minutes in “wow big red doesn’t like this one”
Me 10 minutes in “yikes, he likes this less than clan wolf”
Me 15 minutes in “damn, this thing sucks”

Devlin Stone: Hey guys, we're going to basically rebuild the Terran Hegemony

Everyone: Cool, so we're going to avoid the worst excesses of that nation, right?

DS: (Silently glances at the Malice)

E: We're going to avoid the worst excesses of the Hegemony, right?

DS: I'm just going to go for a quick nap, I'm sure you'll be fine

You know...with that weight distribution, you COULD fit four Plasma Rifles into this thing, each with 20 shots, and 20 freezers (IS) to keep it cool. THAT would be a scary ass thing to run into.

The sad thing is that the Malice looks cool and could have been outfitted to be an effective, deadly and more cost effective design.

Big mech, lots of guns, this is sure to be a great mech. Looks at stats Oh no… OH NOOOooo.

The malicious Malice maligning the morose Malice mech pilots

The Malice seems to be the Battletech version of a sports car or Lamborghini, it's meant to look like it can do a lot or look pretty. But the minute you try to "open her up", everything just falls apart.

"There's a sucker born every minute" -P.T. Barnum

Damn Red, you truly ripped this mech a new one! With a smarter weapon loadout, a 64kph assault with almost 40 tons of weapons space at max armor is very valid. Its the weapons choices that are baffling to me

Ahh, the Malice. That thing honestly has a very special place in my heart. It can probably be credited with getting me into Battletech (never played any Mechwarrior games, as I didn't know about them), when I came across the cover art for the Field Manual 3145 by Anthony Scroggins on Deviantart, back in 2013 I think, and I was in love at first sight, with these thick, heavily armored legs, the almost bunker-like cockpit, and the four, long-barreled weapons that made it appear like something right out of Metal Gear, it just looked amazing.

I looked deeper, wanted to know where it came from, and, before I knew it, I had spent 10 hours on Sarna, ordered about 300 Euros of books, material, and miniatures (including a Malice, because of course), and was SEVERELY sleep-deprived.

Sure, the Malice might not live up to its looks in terms of performance, and come from a period even I myself don't enjoy all that much (I prefer the Succession Wars and Clan Invasion. Preaching to the choir, I know.), and it might not even by my favorite Mech in the setting, that title goes to the King Crab, but, to me, more than even the Atlas, the Mad Cat, or the humble Elemental Battle Armor, it springs to my mind immediately when I think of Battletech.

And for that alone, for the fact that it introduced me to this amazing game and universe, it has my love and appreciation, despite being an utter dumpster fire in the game.

Ah the Malice on of my favorite mechs designs but one of my most hated in terms of weapon loadout. Why did one of the coolest Mechs had to have such a terrible weapons loadout.

Is it coincidence that Devlin Stone stepped down in 3130 prior to the production of the Malice in 3132? Perhaps Devlin was hoping when the Malice would be better when he was woken up in the future.

"Hey buddy, I heard you like Jagermechs, so we put a Jagermech in your Jagermech so you get double the Jagermech!"

"Are we going to give this thing PPCs?"

"I was thinking AC5s."

"A pair of RAC5s seems pretty solid."

"No I was thinking quad LB5Xs."

"... why"

I think its not a joke that the Malice was sold a lot to Mercs and Republic forces. At this time new Battlemechs were rare at the start of the Dark age wars.I mean they basically modified any Industrial Mech with weapons and Armor like a Gurilia fighter Today does with a Toyota Pickup. So if you think about it that they drove Industrial mechs against the Jade Falken invasion on Sky i say the Malice would have done way better.

The only possible explanation is the office had a contest to see who could make the worst mech!  The variants we got are the winners!

"You pilot that thing? You're braver then I thought"