Agiel

Unfortunately I can't speak to how well the Mythic path synergises with a bomber archetype, as in my playthrough my PC was an Elf Knife Master Rogue. The Perception 2 Trick helping to impart Improved Improved Improved Critical to party members certainly did wonders for Camellia and Woljif (the latter, whom I had largely neglected, managed to get bumped from terrible to tolerably usable). Mobility talents for my Rogue PC were also quite hilarious, as on top of maxing out Dex and the usual AC-buffing shenanigans (short of the vaunted Monk/Scaled Fist dips) the Trickster spell-list includes the critical survivability spells such as Mirror Image and Displacement (on top of the <<Bit of Fun>> Mythic ability, which is Mirror Image in all but name) she could run circles around crowds of mobs and body parts would fly everywhere due to all of the flat-footed AOOs. As mentioned in the previous thread the Persuasion 2 trick can open the way to some one-shots with a ready supply of Polar Rays (see: Ring of Boreal Might), but as the Paralyse check is 10 plus your ranks of Persuasion the max DC is limited to 30 at level 20, leading me to believe its utility will not be as great in Core and above. Nonetheless as Gromnir has stated repeatedly, the essentially free Dazzling Display at the beginning of combat bestowed by Persuasion 1 will certainly be invaluable.

You're scarcely scratching the surface of what it is that makes a Carrier Strike Group such a useful asset. Take the 2015 deployment of the Russian Air Force to Hmeimim. For several weeks the US DoD announced the ever increasing amount of aircraft and materiel flowing into the air base before the Russian Air Force finally commenced air operations in earnest out of Hmeimim. A carrier air group by contrast has essentially everything it needs to start operations as soon as it's on station (available aircraft for all roles such as AEW and refueling, support personnel, armaments, fuel, lodging and food for aircrew, etc. capability I'm sure the Kuznetsov crew thought was eye-watering as their deployment was ostensibly a very expensive and roundabout way of ferrying some MiG-29Ks and obsolescent Su-33s to Hmeimim). Hence Clinton saying the first question a President asks when a crisis erupts is "Where's the nearest carrier?". Even absent the carriers the "gap" you mentioned is plugged in by aircraft out of Kadena using aerial refueling This need for rapid flexibility instead of permanent presence is also underscored by the fact that the US Army and Air Force in Europe have since been consolidated with their Africa commands. In terms of ground forces there's only one ABCT in Europe on rotational basis, with the only major combat unit permanently garrisoned being 2nd Cavalry Regiment (raise your hand if you can picture a _Stryker_ Brigade on a road to Moscow). The effort to get a permanent Army presence in Poland during the Trump administration (mind you, an idea put forward by the Polish themselves and attempted to entice Trump to go ahead with it by proposing it be named "Fort Trump") was all but stillborn when the US and Poland failed to resolve the issue of cost-sharing. A more politically expedient solution has been found in the form of simply selling the Polish armed forces M1A2 tanks, and will likely be carried out even if Trump or a Trump-like candidate gets elected in 2024 (more jobs for General Dynamics, after all). You speak of NATO needing a boogey-man to stay relevant. That argument cuts both ways. Russia ranks dead last in trust in institutions, and thus in the middle of a deadly pandemic (excess deaths, considered by epidemiologists to be a far better indicator of the impact of COVID-19 than official death counts, put death rates in Russia at a phenomenally higher rate than the rest of the developed world) Putin needs a big political win on the level of his annexation of Crimea, else normal Russians no longer consent to serfdom to the oligarchs.

Apart from the fact that European defence spending on the whole was in seeming terminal decline up until the annexation of Crimea and the the shootdown of MH17 gave European governments the kick in the pants nearly three whole US presidential administrations had failed to do, and that the character of US foreign policy ever since Obama's second term has been one of disengaging with European matters (arguably the biggest factor in softening the US position of JCPOA in favour of Iran were European negotiators, their reasons misguided or not). This is reflected by the fact that China remains top of mind for the Biden administration (only one CVN is in the Mediterranean as opposed to the two CSGs and one ARG currently in the Western Pacific) and they've made abundantly clear that it is unlikely that any wider American involvement is forthcoming (barring, well, I don't know, Wagner Group or other thugs wantonly marauding west of the Dnieper), all but stating that if nothing else Europeans themselves have to take the lead on this. Face it, Putin is the best advertisement for NATO membership among Russia's near-abroad. I hardly think escalating in Ukraine to keep it from joining NATO is a good trade if it drives Sweden and _Finland_ into NATO's arms and adding 500+ miles of frontage with NATO countries with no love for the Kremlin, are highly motivated, armed to the teeth, have high degrees of interoperability with NATO, and are also less than 100 miles from Russia's _second_ most important city.

@xzar_montyHey thanks! Worked on it on and off for about a week (hey, I wish I had Darkergrey's work ethic) so it's hard to say how many hours in total I spent on it. Initially I thought Aivu would be the toughest part of drawing it (as I am not a scaley), but as it turned out Arueshalae's outfit turned out to be what vexed me most, taking two scrapped passes until I finally got it right.

After much procrastination I managed to knock this out: Because on a world countless lightyears from our own mothers still use Royal Dansk Cookie tins as a sewing kit container.

I believe the Kaylessa/Forn Autumn Gaze story was another backer quest, which might explain why it doesn't 100% jive with Pathfinder's background. If you so happened to bring a certain companion to the random event you do get a moment of surprising empathy:

A Chaos Undivided faction has been unveiled, though strangely enough it does not have GW staple Be'lakor playable:

Having grown up watching the Cantonese dub for Doraemon (a small fraction of the apparently 1700+ episode series) this review convinced me to take a look at the movies in spite of the absurdly high standards I hold 3D-animated films over 2D: Will say there's some pretty good slapstick to be found, and I genuinely found the storyline with Nobita's grandma touching, given that I still have a living grandma who doesn't have much time left.

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For nearly all Mythic paths, particularly good-aligned and non-Chaotic ones, I don't really see much role-playing justification to take Wenduag over Lann. You as your character have seen first-hand how deceitful she is and are given just about every justification in thinking that she can turn at the drop of a hat, and from what literature I've read about her storyline unless you follow a very specific set of decisions she'll do just that. Granted as compared to Lann it seems at least a bit harder to stumble into a romance sidequest with Wenduag with my female PC.

Ostensibly they believe it'll help create a climate in which their children will support "Robin Hood schemes to help inner city blacks and Latinos".

Just as well that those fixes were for Trickster talents were either mere stepping stones to the truly broken talents (World 1) or ones that I invested no points into (Nature, Stealth) on my playthrough. Granted the bug that truly crippled my Trickster playthrough was Persuasion affecting my own party members and paralysing them.

Dutch Disease rears its ugly head again.

STALKER 2 delayed until December. Not wholly unexpected, given that it is GSC Gameworlds and STALKER we're talking about and that Ukraine faces the possibility of invasion.

Most interesting change is the ability to purchase settlements by way of diplomatic agreements or, presumably, purchasing them with currency. Can't tell you how many times in the previous game a playthrough was undone due to an ally taking over a settlement to complete a province.

Didn't seem like there was an appropriate place to put this in the Computer and Video Games board: Pretty much sums up all my playthroughs. Bear Flag Republic 4 Lyfe.

There were some complaints that Creative Assembly (and by extension Games Workshop given that they're writing new rules for the faction for the WHFB revival) leaned too heavily into that aspect of Kislev. These appears to be less to do with any perceived stereotyping (hell, there even is a new character that borrows some visual cues from Rasputin) and more that it made the faction feel a bit one-note (bear mounts for generals, cannons hauled into battle by bears, a Kaijiu-sized bear spirit). In contrast the brand new Cathayan faction looks to be a lot more well-thought out, drawing from a wider breadth of Chinese sources (Taoist sorcery, Terracotta warriors, sky-lantern hot-air balloons. I'd be very surprised if in future DLC for the faction they don't get one of those stone lions as a new unit). Come to think of it, Games Workshop would be leaving a load of money on the table if they didn't make a new model of an old lady riding into battle in her chicken hut.

Of which the 3rd installment will feature bears, Cenobites, anti-vaxxers, fat bastards, and more! Or, if you mainly play as the Wood Elves like me, the opportunity to meet interesting and stimulating peoples and creatures of far-off lands... and kill them.

From a lot of others' playthroughs I've seen they have armies re-named "Trash-1", "Trash-2" ad-infinitum to store un-wanted army units since army slots for generals are at a premium and they cannot be disposed of conveniently otherwise. The Crusade mode of the game could certainly use a "disband unit" option a la the Total War games so as to reduce the amount of busywork sorting through what armies need to be moved or not.

He also tried to have a little girl burned at the stake, but leaving him alive is one of only two ways (the other exclusive to Trickster only) to...

Hey, there's even a name for this effect. The few economies that were inoculated against it such as Norway were able to weather the shock in commodities prices due to pre-existing attitudes towards a storage economy, transparent financial disclosures, as well as diversified industries that were competitive with other developed-world economies where Soviet industries in areas like civil aircraft experienced wholesale collapse once exposed to foreign competition.

Hey thanks! And to you as well @KP on top of ZA WARUDO! Managed to win a key for the DLC season pass, but on and off whenever the inspiration hits me I'll do a quick cartoon and occasionally will get responses that say they managed to brighten someone's day, and given that most of the creative stuff I do for a living is largely soulless those are the greatest rewards. Have an idea for a strip featuring Aivu, so stay tuned. @ChairchuckerSame here. Did a restart for a playthrough that was going wonderfully because I had sold some of the buff books to a vendor I no longer had access to before I learned their significance, and even re-speccing a bad character build feels a bit... dirty, with all the weird bugs with the current implementation and how it effectively functions as a free Scroll of Atonement.

I enjoyed it well enough, enough so that I've decided to re-visit it a little over half a year after my last playthrough. I was looking forward to it less because I see the CDPR label as an assured sign of quality (even once you get past the bugs the game still has some gameplay balancing issues, many of them glaring) and more because I go gaga over anything set in a cyberpunk setting, so my character zipping all over Night City like Priss Asagiri and beating up people with cyborg arms under neon lights made it worth the price of admission.