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A bit of 80's nostalgia...

So, we're back to 2018 living standards? Edit: It may sound like a facetious comment, but the article didn't put any absolute numbers of the regress

On normal difficulty, the health bar of your army (in the upper left corner) seems to match the infirmary capacity (which you can expand by building in the outposts). I try to heal up as much as possible before end of combat for the same reason. As an old Heroes of Might & Magic commander, the principle of army composition is familiar. The larger the unit stack, the better. Hence trying to focus on a few, useful unit types (that are in regular supply) and then create "Death Stars" (a few, like one or two, all powerful units). In my current game, I have two. Getting those two generals leveled up also meant the third general got left by the wayside, just exploring paths, as the remaining enemy armies are way to strong for the 4 stacks he can command. I could swap stacks between the latter and one of the powerful units, but I just don't see a need for it. The only odd troop type I've kept around is the barbarian warriors. Once you get enough of them to survive initial strike from enemy generals, they hit like a hammer. For the rest, archers/marksmen, shield bearers in defensive mode (to soak up damage) and black knights to do all the killing. I never found any use for scouts (die immediately), inquisitors (nobody expects the Mendevian Inquisition), clerics (they spent all fight self healing but were too few in numbers to last more than 3 rounds) etc.

Sounds a bit like a game without a plan, other than we would like to make a game in our own setting, that isn't an isometric game, but not much decided after that... i.e. no "vision" that the team is eager to implement. Would it be better to release in a state like Alpha Protocol (lots of individual ideas that just doesn't mesh to make a whole game) or rather drop it entirely?

Cleared out Wintersun (in the 7th attempt). Luckily there was a small safe space you can use to buff up in before the pre-battle dialogue starts. All the shields, blesses, communal cats graces, bulls strength, blur, displacement etc. i could drum up and throwing a lot of acid attacks up front before the battle starts (Nenio and Sosiel could sneak up to the trigger limit without triggering it). I noticed most acid based spells ignores magical resistance, leaving it up entirely to saving throw. I can't remember what I picked for Sosiel, but Nenio definitely has greater spell penetration. What she doesn't have is elemental alignment (yes, that's what the currently AWAL Ember has). It didn't help half my party was crippled before the encounter and two of them on deaths door (because I had been running around too long, away from Drezen) Edit: Picked up Ember on the way, she was busy converting the forces of The Abyss to become better people... couldn't really get myself to mock her. Choices were a bit limited after all, good, evil or lawful. No neutral or chaotic gains (unless you consider not gaining one of the other alignment points as a de facto gain) Edit2: Someone mentioned grabbing the cat. I could have sworn it was a cat, but it has grown a bit and is now a tiger

Wintersun isn't far from the location then. I just got this boss fight which turned out to require a bit better preparation than what I showed up with

Hehe... yeah, I got to the point too where some templars decided to run away with my old flame, Ember. After first searching the temple (hey, templars - temple, amiright?), the two houses and the abandoned building for hiding templars and their prisoner, I started searching places I haven't visited on the world map. Currently at Wintersun, uncovering some fishy masquerade going on Edit: Speaking of old flames, ye gods, Daeren and Sosiel are some pushy guys. Went from polite attempts to say no to definite "shutdown", not interested. Edit2: If Greybor or Regill starts hitting my barbarian, I'll do the facepalm thing... bring me some women dammit!

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Who says it's a choice? Maybe some stuff for thought... why do people love a leader? It's not like that leader benefit them in any way. Conversation moved to next thread incarnation:

How wrong does a judge have to be, before getting removed from the job? Edit: For me, the judge referenced here would be an obvious candidate. Like someone completely out of their league or nurturing ambitions of a life in politics after the courtroom....

It's a question of statistics, isn't it? Assuming the Russian army is rotten to the core with nepotism, corruption and archaic doctrines, so it is really only fighting at 25% efficiency of what it's numbers would otherwise have suggested. Same thing with the Russian airforce and navy. Projecting unto the nuclear arsenal, 25% of 5900+ nuclear warheads (2022 estimates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction) hitting something is still a lot of damage.

I have neither of those two names in my party, but the little friendly Babau pops up for me too. Confused me the first few times, wondering where it came from. In the end, I just decided it was one of Arueshalae's (sp?) old lovers from the abyss, missing his (ex-)girlfriend Edit: Could it be related to the mythic path (trickster in my case)? The "closet" meetings, that are part of the trickster path are hilarious. I could just imagine a real world, human cabinet meeting working exactly the same way

Yeah. I decided to play my very first game on the default/normal difficulty. Feel no need to show off my non existing d&d skills in an orgy of self inflicted pain… I leave that to the Slaanesh worshippers

Got my FireFox sorted out (backed up favourites, uninstalled, deleted everything in the three AppData subfolders that had Mozilla and or Firefox in it, then reinstalled and imported favourites) Also got my gfx card repaired... mostly because it was two and a half years old and i had forgotten it had 3 years warranty One of the fans had started vibrating so badly I could hear it upstairs (my pc is downstairs). I.e. not good. Ordered a replacement fan from a company that specializes in gfx card fan replacements (no kidding, such companies exists). Replaced the card, pc and... black screen. I'm sure the left over screws I had from the gfx card were unrelated to it Pulled out the card and put in my old 1050 card, using that for a week and a half while mulling over what to do. A new card was definitely not on the budget at this point in time (I really would have expected it to last 5 years before upgrading my 2070 to something more contemporary. Took the card apart again, touched and wiggled everything, reassembled the card (still without finding a purpose for my new spare screws) and put it in my pc. Magic! Now it works again and I can hopefully wait at least another year and a half (at least) before splurging a small fortune on a new card and or pc. Off to the local Games Workshop store tonight for a few games of 40K Kill Team with some new found friends.

Don't worry. The instant party wipes comes later. Following by gnashing of teeth, head scratching, guide reading and listening to advice in the pathfinder thread

Chernobyl was one of those things that couldn't really happen. It took so much combined human stupidity and ignorance of the workings of the reactor to "provoke" the disaster. And when the (entirely man made, not an accident or coincidence) disaster started happening, all the wrong decisions were made to stop it and as a result exacerbated it. Level bombing the reactor with a squadron of B52's or the tectonic plates deciding to split apart underneath it couldn't have created outcomes as bad as the human operators managed to. Worst case scenario?... Sweden will get some new porn habits.

"There are no Ukrainian infidels in Moscow. Never!" - Russian Information Minister I do think Putin will take to using part of the nuclear arsenal against Ukraine before that happens though. Also why I believe it to be the main reason Biden will not send any toys to Kiev that can hit Russia from afar, because he expects a similar outcome. Defensive warfare support only. @Zoraptor yeah, I wouldn't put it past the west to support Navalny. Just what Russia needs. An ultra-nationalist, whose first bullet point on the agenda is to kill off all Muslims living in the Russian Federation and the the second bullet point being to unite all Russian speakers in a Großrussia.

Oooh, didn't know it was that good as a "damage sponge". Thank you for the heads up. I might just stick with it for now then (since, the game comes with built in cheat mode in for of respec of everything short of gender iirc). I might down the line consider bulwark and boar, but honestly, he looks just awesome on a triceratops I'll keep my dino as a wrecker until such a time where I feel like it needs more help staying alive It's all a thematic thing after all, a reckless, raging, chaotic barbarian on a wrecking mount and inspiring ferocity in his party members (envision Ember on fire, charging at the enemy while yelling "Murder death kill! Murder death kill!")

Already got second thoughts about my triceratops riding barbarian. Don't get me wrong, the cool factor is enormous, but his natural fast movement speed on foot feels wasted. I suppose a pet would make sense if not used as a mount, but a giant centipede feels out of character and Regill is already the resident raptor champion. Time to test run another barbarian configuration (while still relatively manageable at level 10) for a bit. I have no idea how to manage time and money in the crusade part btw. The only things I sort of pay attention to is whether or not demon armies are about to lay siege to a place or, as happened once so far, the crowd gets restless if I don't conquer a fortification every 30 days. I'm getting closer to the end of my second 30 day period and have an army capable of taking the next fort once the middle flag turns yellow. No idea if it really matters or not, but I'll just pretend there is a bit of urgency and the people wants to hear constant good news from the front. Explored most of the locations now in the first bit of the map (minus the DLC) and wondering if I head south or southwest next (there doesn't seem to be a direct road west) Edit: Not quite true, there was a place with a puzzle I need to solve, that couldn't be solved in the first visit. I got a tonne of bricks with green runes (iirc) in my inventory and also a dozen knives of no value, but with some rather amusing backstories (since they weigh very little, I decided to hang on to them for now)

Nah, not yet. Figured I would nuke FF tonight and do a new install of it edit: I probably should wipe the boot drive and refresh my 8 year old windows installation (it’s older than my pc as I simply moved the hdd from my previous pc)

Ran into a dragon on the road in what felt like a not so random encounter. I wonder if that was linked to Greybors companion quest It sent Camellia to “deaths door” but otherwise decided it was better to flap away and fight some other day when I started hurting it. I think I’m getting hang of the crusade management. It really is a bit like playing the old HoMM

Nothing an EMP pulse can’t fix?

My curiosity got the better of me and I decided to respec a bit to try out a few different things. My barbarian is now truly living on the edge of the chaotic life, embracing the "Mad Dog" archetype, riding a (wrecker) triceratops. I remembered to put some stat points in INT for the Trickster path, but mostly just STR and CON (and the leftover in INT). Picked some nice feats like limitless rage and reckless rage (and the one that shares my rage with my team so we're all going to be raging barbarians). It was a bit of a toss up between a skald or a vivisectionist level for now (level 10). In the end, I did like the mutagen better (i.e. vivisectionist). I might try the skald later tonight and see how that pans out. Also ran into a skeleton merchant a few times as a random encounter. Bought a few nice things for the team.