Hello and welcome to the latest episode of BattlePod. Today it's not a normal episode, no.
We have a special episode for you. I was invited to a English podcaster, a Canadian one to be exact.
It was Bungletech.
He interviewed podcasters from all over the world. Only BattleTech podcasters.
And now you can watch the episode with me and in the podcast description I'll give you the link to the complete episode.
There you can also listen to the others. Now I wish you a lot of fun and we'll hear each other again in a short while with a new episode.
Hey everyone, we are back with, this is pretty exciting, from Germany, EK, from the BattlePod.
Podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today and answering some questions.
Hi, thanks for the invitation. I'm pretty excited. Excited is the right word.
Heck yeah, we're both excited, man. Well, thank you for being here and feel free to throw in random German words if you want
to just to confuse our listeners. I'm totally okay with that.
I will do it. So BattlePod, how long has your podcast been active for?
Our first episode was published on January the 7th, 2018 at 20 o'clock and 40 minutes.
So that means you've been around for over five years. Yeah, I think so.
Today I looked for when our first episode was and I said, oh, that's a long time ago.
Wow, you must be one of the oldest Battletech podcasts out there, probably then.
And I can say the biggest one in Germany. Also because we are the only one, but...
This is just so, this is so typical.
Germans that have a longer history than North Americans.
It's perfect. I don't know if America is not a smaller timeline timeline because they are German, British, and all the others.
So it's the same history, only we have a little split up, but I think it's the same length.
Spoken like a true Battletech brother.
So what's the story behind the name of your podcast?
No, I can say back at the day at 2018, most podcasts was ended up in Germany with
POD and so I used a Battletech, oh, why can I use, oh, Battle, oh, BattlePOD.
It's a good name back in the day it was that people talk about podcasts. It's always a pot.
So if we combine our podcast together, we would literally just become battle tech.
Yeah. Oh my God. a new podcast with us working together called BattleTech.
Oh, man, that's nice.
So what does your podcast aim to bring to the community? So you say you're the biggest podcast in Germany for Battletech, because you're the only podcast
for Germany and Battletech, but you've been around for a really long time.
I'd love to know what your focus is on bringing stuff to the community.
My personal focus was, I like the law of Battletech. And then back in the day, I talked to a friend of mine, a storyteller,
is his name in the community, and he knows everything about Battletech and the history.
And I say, okay, I want to know more about the history. And then we say, okay, we will do it.
And it was our first episode. We talked about what we will do and a little about the first history.
And then we get our third host, Hoshi. He's from Austria. He also knows really,
really much about the history. And our last host is Onay. And it is really nice that we have him,
because before every episode, he will read the source books. So at first, we take a little look
at the timeline overall, just from the beginning to after the, to the Il-Klan. We don't talk about
Ilkland yet, but we will. And after we talked about just only for the history, what happens
then? We have talked about the history of the houses. We have already talked about Steiner.
We talked about Marek. Marek was not our loveliest history because every couple of years,
some Marek leader killed another one or died in an accident. Yeah. So there's many names.
It was not the loveliest history podcast, but we liked it and we know more about Marik now.
And also we talked about the Dragon House, Kurita. My friends and co-hosts, they are also in a Battletech clan, the 36th Dire and Regular,
but Kurita.
And so that was our first, we want to talk about the history and bring the history to
the community. And also, I want to know more about the history because I'm not so deep in the history.
And so that's also why I don't prepare very much because I can ask more dumb questions.
And then over the time, we talked also about the MacWarrior Online, MacWarrior 5,
the Battletech Heartbreen Scheme game, and we will talk about everything that all happened.
And not long ago, the German reseller of Battletech lost the license.
And at the moment, we don't have a German reseller. So we only have the English products.
And it's quite interesting what will follow after that.
Interesting.
So you're basically everything on your podcast summarized is really focused on a historical view on Battletech, be that in the lore, or be that in the actual real world right now we live in, in terms of the actual games that exist or the production issues of the franchise.
We talked about both, because we don't want to talk only about the in-game history.
And we all love Battletech, and we all don't like the license history and actual license.
Also with Computer Games is here, MacGyver Online got another license, they can't use
the tabletop license minis and so on.
And then with the, I don't know the name, the baddie of the Battletech history who also,
go to court most times and don't make something with the, with his license.
I don't know the name at the moment, Harmony Gold would be really nice if they say, okay,
here you've got the license and we make a good deal and we have more of the old tabletop
Models that was many in the Germany want to have the old ones for say, grow up, but we
got new ones. They're also cool.
So what makes your podcast unique?
I think the history, just that we will talk about history from, I don't know, what's the
first year, I said, 2030 or so, was the first in the Battletech history and then we go from
From there to the El Clan area.
That's our unique history. Yeah, I think that's accurate.
Nothing comes to mind about a podcast that specifically focuses on history.
I know this podcast that focus on stories as podcasts that focus on,
history specific of max, but there's nothing that really goes through the timeline, like what you're sort of explaining, so that's pretty cool.
All right. The question of the day, because our podcast is themed on making mistakes.
I just have to ask this question to everybody.
What is your favorite Battletech bungle? I've got two. One out game.
You know, you have the small laser and the large laser.
And in Germany, the translation to small laser was Leichterlaser.
And the large laser is the Schwerelaser.
So schwer is for heavy and leicht is for light, not heavy.
When you talk about a small laser, SL is your large laser, LL.
So it was the same two letters for different lasers. You talk about a large laser, we talk about a small laser, and that was my favorite Battletech
bungle out game.
In game, my personal opinion is that Kerensky just leave and not rebuild everything or make
it a democracy or so.
Then we don't have the many wars, which are cool, but sometimes I think it would be nice
if he first tried and then go away.
That is so funny. That is like a hugely political statement because you're basically saying you're saying
that the exodus was a bungle. That's hilarious.
I know many people would agree with you, I know many people would agree with you, but.
That's, that's deep. That's a deep man. And I love the language translation bundle of the, of the small laser.
That's that's freaking cool.
And so much stuff like that must happen. The German translation of the max was there as well.
So I just don't know the German words in the beginning because at the mo the last translator,
they used also the English names, but at the beginning we just got different names.
So we don't really know what you are talking about because our mech got a really different name. Oh my goodness.
Okay. So there is, we have the clan names, we have the inner sphere names in the West and then
in the East, there's going to be different clan name and inner sphere names.
That's crazy. We got to do a podcast episode just dedicated to this.
We're going to do it.
On the topic of mechs, what is the best mech and why?
The best mech? For me, personally, it's the catapult. I love LRMs and I love the design of the catapult, but don't really know why, but it's the first
mech is where I get my love to Battletech, it was the catapult.
So I love him still. And also the second best is the Steiner Scout Lance.
Oh God. I was wondering if you'd bring that up.
You had to represent Germany. So is there a specific variant of the catapult, just the base variant of the catapult that
you think is the best?
I like all of them.
PPCs or LIMs. I love the LIMs more, but I like the PPC variant as well.
So what I'm hearing from you is the catapult is the best mech because you like the catapult.
Yes.
And that's as fair as it can be, baby. Thank you for your honesty.
And thank you for coming on to do this interview really quick. It was amazing.
I definitely want to have a more detailed conversation in the future.
For people that want to listen to you, where can they find you?
Just type in BattlePod and we will be on the first side of Google at the other search engine.
I'm also referenced as DerDickePreuße.
It's the heavy Prussian, you could say. And it was my first main podcast and that's a under podcast.
It's my biggest podcast.
Just type in BattlePod and you can also type in DerDickePreuse, but I think BattlePod will do it. Rock on.
Thank you very much, good sir, for your time. Hope to make a new episode with you, your hosts, and my co-hosts.
So, that was the episode, I hope you had fun with it. I wish you a nice day, a nice evening and see you next time.
Ciao!