Painting Lore: Miniatures Inspired by the Story

The Capellans get a lot of hate-rade from the Battletech community, mostly as due to there status as the smallest of the great houses and generally on the losing end of most engagements during the succession wars. But in the Second Succession War they turned a a poor choice into a moment of legend, and all it cost them was a Chancellor . The battle of Orbisonia started out well.  On Chancellor Ilsa Lia o's direction the premier house units of the Red Lancers and Prefectorate Guard were stripped of there previous Battlemechs and rebuilt almost entirely with Marauders and Warhammers .  As a result when the Red Lancers arrived on Orbisonia in 2828 and dropped on a supply depot they took a regiment of Marauders out against whatever the planets garrison had to offer - which turned out to be not nearly enough.  On the other side of the city were the Avalon Hussars who moved to engage; but not realizing the Red Lancers were running all Marauders - because who does that besid...

  If you have been reading any of my blog posts then you know I love the deep lore stories; and some of the best came out of the side panel fluff embedded in the original house sourcebooks.  I have focused a lot on House Kurita, because lets be honest - they are super fun to write about - but here is one from the equally good House Steiner Sourcebok:  The Legend of the Black Pearl. Angela Franks Angela Franks was a holo-vid star in the Lyran Commonwealth , and an avoid patriot spending her time off set running war bon drives and other such pro-war activities.  In 2853 she decided that running charity and war bond drives was not sufficient so she retired her holo-vid career and joined the Lyran Armed Forces to do her part.  Obviously this act was a great propaganda coup for the Lyran state and as such Angela was granted a Mechwarriors training pipeline and, by all accounts, excelled at it.  The Lyran propaganda machine captured her career in holo-vid realit...