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I decided to go into the newspaper business. The truth shall set you free and all that.

EU? Europa Universalis, Extended Universe, Enemy Unknown, European Union? That is the order in which I interpreted those two letters

Suspension of disbelief goes only that far. It is not a blank check for writers to stop trying I'll play some Mordhheim. A game not without it's faults, but less aggravating ones

Moral dilemmas as presented through New Vegas: NPCs: "The Legion and the NCR are just the same!" Player: "Tell me about the Legion." NPC: "They are an army of cannibals, slavers and murderers. They will overrun us, kill all the men, children and old women, and rape and enslave the young women. And once they have conquered us they will kill all the women and children and old men, and only keep a few young men alive to train as soldiers." Player: "Friend you are contradicting yourself there. Are they killing everyone except for a few women to keep as slaves or are they killing all the women and just keeping some men alive to train as soldiers." NPC: "Frak you, they can do both." Player: "No, not really. But let me get some Radaway, you seem to have spend too much time in the green goo. Feeling better now?" NPC: "Yes, thank you." Player: "So why do they kill everyone except for youngish adults? How exactly do you demand unquestioning loyalty from a man who's parents, children and friends you butchered in front of his eyes. Who's wife and sister you raped, then butchered in front of his eyes? Wouldn't that person harbor some... negative feelings towards you?" NPC: "Nope, Caesar is so awesomesauce charismatic, anyone who is given the chance follows him blindly." Player: "Wouldn't it make more sense to train the orphaned kids, young enough to be malleable, and to forget that it was Caesar who had their true family butchered, crucified, burned alive, beheaded, gang-raped, fed to dogs..." NPC: "No." Player: "No?" NPC: "No." Player: "Ah, OK then. Just thought I'd ask." NPC: "So, they take the men, absorb them into the Legion and train them to use the machete - a man's weapon. And because they learn to use the machete, they are so much more awesome than the drafted fools in the NCR army." Player: " A machete..." NPC: "And throwing spears. Because Caesar is a Luddite. That's why they also only use healing powder for their wounds. Tough, elite real men." Player: "And the NCR?" NPC: "Eh, they are dweebs. They use service rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles. They use stimpacks and all kinds of medicine to heal their wounded. They are so useless, they have even been known to field squads of Power Armour wearing soldiers. Can you believe it? Power Armour vs Machete? No wonder they die like flies." Player: "Riiiight... so, tell me about the NCR." NPC: "They are just as bad as the Legion! They demand: taxes." Player: "Oh, no!" NPC: "Exactly. They demand we provide their army with food so they can fight the Legion." Player: "Who would rape and murder you if they got a chance." NPC: "Huh? Oh, yeah." Player: "So why doesn't the Legion have a chance?" NPC: "They are too busy fighting the NCR." Player: "So, if it wasn't for the presence of the NCR,it is safe to say the Legion would have overrun the region and have murdered everyone here?" NPC: "Pretty much." Player: "So if you could tell the NCR president one thing, what would it be?" NPC: "Easy: NCR go home! We don't need you!" Player: "In which case the Legion would slaughter you on the very next day." NPC: "..." Player: "Yeah, I see your point. I will have a real hard time trying to figure out the moral gray areas here. Man, I hadn't realized the philosophical, ethical and moral depth you people are faced with on top of the usual wasteland difficulties." Player: "So, I think we are good. I killed Caesar." NPC: "A blow to the Legion, but they don't need him." Player: "But they are a cult of personality worshiping and following one single leader and that leader had his head blown off with a custom magnum with custom bullets." NPC: "True, but the command structure is intact. Let me tell you about Legate Lanius..." Player: "He was in the tent with Caesar when I killed Caesar. I killed him too. Magnum, custom bullets, head blown off..." NPC: "Well, the day to day running was being done by Vulpes." Player: "Funny you should mention him. I ran into him in Nipton and he was being a it of an arse, and I had this dynamite left over after fighting the Powder Gang..." NPC: "There is an intact command structure in Cottonwood Cove, they will simply..." Player: "About Cottonwood Cove..." NPC: "The Legion doesn't need Caesar or their command structure. They have machetes!" Player: "Oh, I had forgotten about those. Sorry." I'll give it a rest now

Trying to force myself to finally finish New Vegas. But it is getting hard to do so. Between the endlessly spawning, bugged to hell Legion Assassins, and the terrible writing that makes you wonder if this really was developed by the same studio as Alpha Protocol, it seems less and less likely. (not exact quotes) "Don't move savage, or I'll kill you." "You think I walked through howitzer fire to get threatened by you?" "Blah blah threat blah" other NPC walks up "Our leader wants to talk to you" PC options "Lead the way" / "I am leaving" Waaaaait, one second ago thse people were still shooting artillery at me and I was threatening them for doing so, and now "Lead the way" and "Bye, all is good" are all my options? I go to the Leader. My options are "I am leaving" and direct quote: "How can I be of service?" Please tell me this was written by a kid that had visited on a "Bring your kid to work" day. And then there is all the garbage that is Caesar's Legion. Probably the worst evil group in any game I have played. **** only Dragon Age 2 can even try to rival this drivel.

Not sure about the crushing victories. How many times did you take out all opponents? Or all heroes and left them with only henchmen who can't roll route tests forcing them to auto-lose?

The third piece of advise is: if you can't get a mission with a good deployment: only bring 4 people. Strike team deployment zones are 3-4-3, so you'll still deploy "tightly around wagon".

That isn't said just by that one bloke. It is the standard advise you'll get on any Mordheim forum by anyone with triple digit hours of game time

Been playing quite a bit of multiplayer Armello recently. Partly because of the anniversary event that ends tomorrow. Partly because after some really bad game experiences, not only have the games and people become more pleasant, I am also winning - a lot. I think in the past ten days I have lost two games, laying 2-3 games a day.

From the Witch Hunter campaign briefing: Harken to the words of Grand Theogonist Gazulgrund who said 'The enemy of my enemy is still my foe.'

Brian Herbert I threw in the recycling bin. The only reason he is not the target of a class action lawsuit by fans of the original book, is that during the trial all his lawyer would need to do is produce a copy of Chapterhouse Dune and ask: "Is what my client did truly that much worse?" Granted, the answer would still be yes, and the verdict guilty.

So in Mordheim every critical hit gives an Open Wound debuff until end of the mission, which reduces Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill. Butal difficulty Walk in the Fog scenario - in which both warbands are spread out in a long line. I decided right away to abandon the secondary objective (collect 13 wyrdstones) and to rush everyone to my east flank, where my Executioner would advance towards the enemy, supported by my Templar. Of course when they made contact, it was with the enemy Matriarch and Maiden of Sigmar. I had hoped one of them would have deployed on the far side. In retrospect I should have remembered where the impressive deployment spots are for the reverse setup. I charged with the Executioner, to stop the Maiden from assisting the Matriarch, engaged with my Captain and Flagellants. They exchanged a couple of hits, then my Executioner crit and stunned her. Crit again. The Templar crit, the Witch Hunter crit. When the Maiden got back to her feet, her to-hit chance was down to 19%. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you get stupendously lucky.

I'll vote Geralt the worst because I tried to read the books. When I see them on bookstore shelves I still get shivers. Not the good kind of shivers.

Have you considered giving one of those Lad's Got Talent down the road?

Skaven swarmed my archer Zealot and tore him to pieces. The rest of the witch hunters then hacked and bashed the rats into wyrdstone dust, but the Zealot is dead. And he had just maxed his ballistic skill... Oh well, ce'st la Mordheim.

Tried out my executioner earlier. He looks good. But I need to see how he does against other impressives and not just henchmen.

None, I only do skirmishes I have done 1-1 with the mercs. Am at 2-1 with possessed and 2-4 with skaven I think. Been a while. My witch hunters just got their Executioner. Haven't tried him out yet.

Good job! Sisters is the only campaign I completed. After that I don't have the energy to brave the rest. Though hunters is easier than the original ones. Mercs and Hunters cover similar ground warband wise. Both have access to a lot of ranged. Mercs have the best ranged henchman (though I like the Cult of the Possessed Brethren as well when it comes to archers). Hunters can build their Zealots for range (one of mine is an archer), but they'll never be as good as a Marksman or Brethren. Merc Captains are great parry tanks. Witch Hunter captains are great dodge tanks. They both basically have the same starting passive, just one for parry the other for dodge. I am not a fan of the warband specific skills for mercs. Trial by Pain for the Hunters is amazing though - opponent takes damage every time they attack? Killed a couple of enemies that way

That's definitely a bug (or someone died accidentally.) He thanked me for not killing anyone. I had a number of comments about my lack of a body count so far. HR had that bug, where tranq darts would sometimes kill people. The game gave no feedback either way, so you completed the game and didn't get the pacifist achievement, because somewhere early on someone had died when you knocked them out.

That Cito guy obviously has no clue what the modding community is up to. If the "Breeder" modders move from FNV to 4, those apes will act quite differently...

You really need to build a character for casting if you want to use magic in Mordheim. My Purifier hurls spells as if there was no tomorrow. But she has a Sigmarite Warhammer to reduce wrath chance and mastered the skill for it as well. Ideally I should have her with a helmet that reduces it further, but I gave her an extended spell range enchantment instead. You do want to get it to a point though where your first spell per turn is almost "free". A wrath chance of 5% is a good gamble. Though I haven't played my sisters lately. Been concentrating on my Witch Hunters. Act II Mission IV is a pain, but since you beat the Aluress mission you'll be fine. Merga will only join the fight after you (de)activate all the obelisks. So you can try to move part of your warband into position for that. The reinforcements are a real pain. edit: also, people are discussing Mordheim and I am not told? What gives?

Nobody say anything, but Drowsy is here, don't spook him! Haven't sen you in ages.

Voice acting that bad?

Male character in Age of Barbarian rescues a maiden. She asks if they'll be able to get out alive and he tells her not to worry since from now on "My sword will do the thinking." ...

Nice one labadal!