Thanks everyone! I appreciate it! Never done something like this before, but always talked about it...so putting my time and effort where my mouth is ;)
If I had to make one suggestion, it would be to use the unit icons instead of the faction icons where appropriate.
We have plenty of FMs listing off units, even Camospecs has the icons if you are in a pinch.
However that's a negligible suggestion.
Please make suggestions! Another set of eyes may see something I am missing.
Originally, I wanted to run with the unit icons only, but there were several units where no icons currently exist. Both for the Jaguars and Inner Sphere units. Or the available icons were only in black and white. So I went with an approach that treated each side the same. Really brought home the varied factions involved I think.
It reminds me of another YT channel I like "The Great War", where they take one week of events during WW1 and have been doing so for a while.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! That YT show is the inspiration I am drawing from. I watch is regularly. My goal is to one day do a full blown timeline like they do for one of the major conflicts. Now, we have far less information to draw from than WWI, so I would likely have to get creative and probably just make up some dates. However, if they were in between the main timeline dates we have, I don't think people would mind.
Another idea would be to link the Battletech site in your YT information box (the doobly doo according to most YT users), that way folks can get some tangential learning. I guess if I was doing something like this, maybe add in some Drivethrurpg/Battlecorps links for my sources if the pdfs are available for sale.
Huh...hadn't thought of that. Good idea! Though I might avoid referencing the PDFs for sale. I am coming from the approach that this is some Youtuber in the Inner Sphere and then just a reference to the licenses holders of BattleTech. Let me think on that.
Keep up the good work, I've always liked trying to bring more of our lore to those not familiar with it. O0
That's my plan. Trying to do one video a week for now. Once I get a little experience under my belt (learned quite a few things already), I will try some longer shows. Many other fandoms have tons of fan films and such, its about time that BattleTech start showing its colors too!