WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Der dicke Preusse spricht Episode: Battlepod zu Gast beim Bungletech Publishing Date: 2023-09-29T21:37:59+01:00 Podcast URL: https://derdickepreusse.de Episode URL: https://derdickepreusse.de/battlepod-zu-gast-beim-bungletech/ 00:00:39.170 --> 00:00:45.129 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of BattlePod. Today it's not a normal episode, no. 00:00:45.418 --> 00:00:55.689 We have a special episode for you. I was invited to a English podcaster, a Canadian one to be exact. 00:00:55.689 --> 00:00:58.329 It was Bungletech. 00:00:58.624 --> 00:01:06.105 He interviewed podcasters from all over the world. Only BattleTech podcasters. 00:01:06.231 --> 00:01:15.990 And now you can watch the episode with me and in the podcast description I'll give you the link to the complete episode. 00:01:16.169 --> 00:01:24.169 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. 00:01:24.713 --> 00:01:33.489 Hey everyone, we are back with, this is pretty exciting, from Germany, EK, from the BattlePod. 00:01:34.048 --> 00:01:37.729 Podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today and answering some questions. 00:01:38.135 --> 00:01:41.502 Hi, thanks for the invitation. I'm pretty excited. Excited is the right word. 00:01:41.649 --> 00:01:50.409 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 00:01:50.409 --> 00:01:53.277 to just to confuse our listeners. I'm totally okay with that. 00:01:53.547 --> 00:01:59.329 I will do it. So BattlePod, how long has your podcast been active for? 00:01:59.329 --> 00:02:08.032 Our first episode was published on January the 7th, 2018 at 20 o'clock and 40 minutes. 00:02:08.374 --> 00:02:12.329 So that means you've been around for over five years. Yeah, I think so. 00:02:12.329 --> 00:02:18.123 Today I looked for when our first episode was and I said, oh, that's a long time ago. 00:02:18.329 --> 00:02:23.329 Wow, you must be one of the oldest Battletech podcasts out there, probably then. 00:02:24.056 --> 00:02:30.329 And I can say the biggest one in Germany. Also because we are the only one, but... 00:02:30.510 --> 00:02:33.103 This is just so, this is so typical. 00:02:33.329 --> 00:02:37.329 Germans that have a longer history than North Americans. 00:02:37.847 --> 00:02:47.869 It's perfect. I don't know if America is not a smaller timeline timeline because they are German, British, and all the others. 00:02:47.889 --> 00:02:53.649 So it's the same history, only we have a little split up, but I think it's the same length. 00:02:54.024 --> 00:02:56.369 Spoken like a true Battletech brother. 00:02:56.842 --> 00:02:59.609 So what's the story behind the name of your podcast? 00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:05.929 No, I can say back at the day at 2018, most podcasts was ended up in Germany with 00:03:06.087 --> 00:03:12.449 POD and so I used a Battletech, oh, why can I use, oh, Battle, oh, BattlePOD. 00:03:12.659 --> 00:03:17.790 It's a good name back in the day it was that people talk about podcasts. It's always a pot. 00:03:18.465 --> 00:03:23.889 So if we combine our podcast together, we would literally just become battle tech. 00:03:23.889 --> 00:03:29.259 Yeah. Oh my God. a new podcast with us working together called BattleTech. 00:03:30.069 --> 00:03:31.599 Oh, man, that's nice. 00:03:33.688 --> 00:03:40.799 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 00:03:40.799 --> 00:03:43.679 for Germany and Battletech, but you've been around for a really long time. 00:03:43.834 --> 00:03:48.479 I'd love to know what your focus is on bringing stuff to the community. 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:57.919 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, 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:04.341 is his name in the community, and he knows everything about Battletech and the history. 00:04:04.647 --> 00:04:11.786 And I say, okay, I want to know more about the history. And then we say, okay, we will do it. 00:04:11.993 --> 00:04:18.719 And it was our first episode. We talked about what we will do and a little about the first history. 00:04:18.719 --> 00:04:26.399 And then we get our third host, Hoshi. He's from Austria. He also knows really, 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:35.039 really much about the history. And our last host is Onay. And it is really nice that we have him, 00:04:35.039 --> 00:04:43.199 because before every episode, he will read the source books. So at first, we take a little look 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:52.559 at the timeline overall, just from the beginning to after the, to the Il-Klan. We don't talk about 00:04:52.701 --> 00:04:58.399 Ilkland yet, but we will. And after we talked about just only for the history, what happens 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:04.719 then? We have talked about the history of the houses. We have already talked about Steiner. 00:05:04.845 --> 00:05:13.439 We talked about Marek. Marek was not our loveliest history because every couple of years, 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:19.039 some Marek leader killed another one or died in an accident. Yeah. So there's many names. 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:26.208 It was not the loveliest history podcast, but we liked it and we know more about Marik now. 00:05:26.469 --> 00:05:37.118 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, 00:05:37.469 --> 00:05:38.721 but Kurita. 00:05:39.153 --> 00:05:43.348 And so that was our first, we want to talk about the history and bring the history to 00:05:43.599 --> 00:05:49.857 the community. And also, I want to know more about the history because I'm not so deep in the history. 00:05:50.145 --> 00:05:57.112 And so that's also why I don't prepare very much because I can ask more dumb questions. 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:02.959 And then over the time, we talked also about the MacWarrior Online, MacWarrior 5, 00:06:04.098 --> 00:06:09.439 the Battletech Heartbreen Scheme game, and we will talk about everything that all happened. 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:15.432 And not long ago, the German reseller of Battletech lost the license. 00:06:15.779 --> 00:06:21.879 And at the moment, we don't have a German reseller. So we only have the English products. 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:24.758 And it's quite interesting what will follow after that. 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:25.578 Interesting. 00:06:26.217 --> 00:06:45.747 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. 00:06:46.490 --> 00:06:51.747 We talked about both, because we don't want to talk only about the in-game history. 00:06:52.026 --> 00:07:00.287 And we all love Battletech, and we all don't like the license history and actual license. 00:07:00.287 --> 00:07:05.847 Also with Computer Games is here, MacGyver Online got another license, they can't use 00:07:05.847 --> 00:07:09.527 the tabletop license minis and so on. 00:07:09.527 --> 00:07:16.656 And then with the, I don't know the name, the baddie of the Battletech history who also, 00:07:17.167 --> 00:07:22.571 go to court most times and don't make something with the, with his license. 00:07:22.715 --> 00:07:28.620 I don't know the name at the moment, Harmony Gold would be really nice if they say, okay, 00:07:29.047 --> 00:07:35.727 here you've got the license and we make a good deal and we have more of the old tabletop 00:07:35.727 --> 00:07:43.375 Models that was many in the Germany want to have the old ones for say, grow up, but we 00:07:43.567 --> 00:07:45.221 got new ones. They're also cool. 00:07:45.743 --> 00:07:49.128 So what makes your podcast unique? 00:07:49.659 --> 00:07:54.287 I think the history, just that we will talk about history from, I don't know, what's the 00:07:54.287 --> 00:08:02.887 first year, I said, 2030 or so, was the first in the Battletech history and then we go from 00:08:02.887 --> 00:08:06.610 From there to the El Clan area. 00:08:07.537 --> 00:08:11.267 That's our unique history. Yeah, I think that's accurate. 00:08:11.287 --> 00:08:16.887 Nothing comes to mind about a podcast that specifically focuses on history. 00:08:16.887 --> 00:08:21.847 I know this podcast that focus on stories as podcasts that focus on, 00:08:22.364 --> 00:08:29.927 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. 00:08:30.700 --> 00:08:36.267 All right. The question of the day, because our podcast is themed on making mistakes. 00:08:36.624 --> 00:08:38.343 I just have to ask this question to everybody. 00:08:39.127 --> 00:08:44.555 What is your favorite Battletech bungle? I've got two. One out game. 00:08:44.787 --> 00:08:48.579 You know, you have the small laser and the large laser. 00:08:49.047 --> 00:08:55.231 And in Germany, the translation to small laser was Leichterlaser. 00:08:55.587 --> 00:08:58.517 And the large laser is the Schwerelaser. 00:08:58.767 --> 00:09:04.540 So schwer is for heavy and leicht is for light, not heavy. 00:09:04.847 --> 00:09:11.642 When you talk about a small laser, SL is your large laser, LL. 00:09:12.307 --> 00:09:25.767 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 00:09:25.767 --> 00:09:28.127 bungle out game. 00:09:28.127 --> 00:09:35.067 In game, my personal opinion is that Kerensky just leave and not rebuild everything or make 00:09:35.067 --> 00:09:36.912 it a democracy or so. 00:09:37.107 --> 00:09:42.627 Then we don't have the many wars, which are cool, but sometimes I think it would be nice 00:09:42.627 --> 00:09:45.627 if he first tried and then go away. 00:09:46.112 --> 00:09:52.147 That is so funny. That is like a hugely political statement because you're basically saying you're saying 00:09:52.147 --> 00:09:57.419 that the exodus was a bungle. That's hilarious. 00:09:57.518 --> 00:10:00.606 I know many people would agree with you, I know many people would agree with you, but. 00:10:01.287 --> 00:10:07.467 That's, that's deep. That's a deep man. And I love the language translation bundle of the, of the small laser. 00:10:07.467 --> 00:10:08.303 That's that's freaking cool. 00:10:08.927 --> 00:10:14.487 And so much stuff like that must happen. The German translation of the max was there as well. 00:10:14.647 --> 00:10:22.047 So I just don't know the German words in the beginning because at the mo the last translator, 00:10:22.047 --> 00:10:26.370 they used also the English names, but at the beginning we just got different names. 00:10:26.627 --> 00:10:34.107 So we don't really know what you are talking about because our mech got a really different name. Oh my goodness. 00:10:34.490 --> 00:10:38.613 Okay. So there is, we have the clan names, we have the inner sphere names in the West and then 00:10:38.867 --> 00:10:41.755 in the East, there's going to be different clan name and inner sphere names. 00:10:42.267 --> 00:10:45.707 That's crazy. We got to do a podcast episode just dedicated to this. 00:10:45.707 --> 00:10:46.391 We're going to do it. 00:10:46.707 --> 00:10:51.347 On the topic of mechs, what is the best mech and why? 00:10:52.126 --> 00:11:03.776 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 00:11:03.776 --> 00:11:08.336 mech is where I get my love to Battletech, it was the catapult. 00:11:08.336 --> 00:11:15.253 So I love him still. And also the second best is the Steiner Scout Lance. 00:11:15.640 --> 00:11:19.970 Oh God. I was wondering if you'd bring that up. 00:11:20.186 --> 00:11:25.776 You had to represent Germany. So is there a specific variant of the catapult, just the base variant of the catapult that 00:11:25.776 --> 00:11:26.757 you think is the best? 00:11:26.973 --> 00:11:28.396 I like all of them. 00:11:28.702 --> 00:11:35.616 PPCs or LIMs. I love the LIMs more, but I like the PPC variant as well. 00:11:35.616 --> 00:11:41.908 So what I'm hearing from you is the catapult is the best mech because you like the catapult. 00:11:42.340 --> 00:11:42.890 Yes. 00:11:43.336 --> 00:11:47.256 And that's as fair as it can be, baby. Thank you for your honesty. 00:11:47.876 --> 00:11:51.748 And thank you for coming on to do this interview really quick. It was amazing. 00:11:52.243 --> 00:11:55.448 I definitely want to have a more detailed conversation in the future. 00:11:55.682 --> 00:11:58.391 For people that want to listen to you, where can they find you? 00:11:58.876 --> 00:12:05.494 Just type in BattlePod and we will be on the first side of Google at the other search engine. 00:12:05.629 --> 00:12:08.676 I'm also referenced as DerDickePreuße. 00:12:08.676 --> 00:12:17.395 It's the heavy Prussian, you could say. And it was my first main podcast and that's a under podcast. 00:12:17.476 --> 00:12:18.629 It's my biggest podcast. 00:12:18.796 --> 00:12:26.658 Just type in BattlePod and you can also type in DerDickePreuse, but I think BattlePod will do it. Rock on. 00:12:27.289 --> 00:12:33.756 Thank you very much, good sir, for your time. Hope to make a new episode with you, your hosts, and my co-hosts. 00:12:34.229 --> 00:12:43.796 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. 00:12:43.961 --> 00:12:44.436 Ciao!