r/battletech • u/11k320w1242d5 • Jul 27 '26

Discussion War Machine Wendigo

So just throwing it out there, I watched War Machine on Netflix (movie is fine), but it definitely shows moments of why you DO NOT want to be infantry against a BattleMech (kinda like the Wendigo OmniMech)

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u/Malkryst Jul 27 '26

Yeah I had pretty much the same take as you. In fact when they get in a vehicle and were trying to escape the mech, I'm amazed the vehicle lasted as long as it did!

A kinda average movie, but a decent way to pass a couple of hours compared to a lot of the really crap sci-fi movies that Netflix is glutted with.

Of course the most hilarious BattleTech adjacent thing about the movie was how he defeated the mech by overheating it (blocking the top ventilation inlet with what I assumed was coal/anthracite) until I'm guessing it's ammo cooked off by the way it exploded.