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Biden has also caved and will now be sending Abrams to Ukraine. And apparently the US and NATO have now also agreed with Ukraine that in any spring offensive by Ukraine in the south it would be okay for Ukraine to go after Crimea, which until now had been a red line even for the West. And all the weapons being supplied are apparently to make it possible for Ukraine to shift to NATO operational strategy and tactics vis-a-vis high-intensity combined arms operations.

Unfortunately, at least until Turkey's elections later this year, Finland and Swededn will be blocked from joining NATO by Erdogan. He is trailing in the polls and will fully use "being tough" and standing firm" against Sweden and NATO as a way to prop up his support among certain voting blocs.

Looks like the Russians are very desperately trying to go on offense right now across the whole frontline to take as much territory as they can before all the new Western equipment shifts the battlefield in Ukraine's favor. Yeah at that recent summit on aid for Ukraine, more than 50 countries peldged to send military aid. So that is definitely more than just Western countries. The US is even pressuring Central and South American countries to send lethal aid.

Haha, yes a US congressman literally said this to Biden, suggesting we send one Abrams to Ukraine so that Scholz won't have that excuse anymore.

Yeah the backlash against Germany has been quite severe. Let's see if Scholz continues to feel it is worth it. The US side has explained this, saying they don't have any opposition per se to giving Abrams but that training and maintenance support for Abrams would be too complex for Ukraine. German Leopards are much easier for Ukraine to absorb and handle.

Looking forward to the return of Magnum P.I. My #1 show on TV these days and the only show I'm excited about watching.

Yup. I'm still angry about this one too.

Yup. Again, you beat me to posting this. And I too agree with the points being made. They are still trying to take away OGL 1.0a. And there was no attempt here by WotC to engage with the community. They tried to unilaterally do something awful. It was leaked. They got severely burned by the community. Now they're desperately trying to get people to believe this is how they always intended for things to happen. LOL

Ha! You beat me to it, @Gfted1! Here's another article on the Paizo response to WotC: https://www.thegamer.com/pathfinder-publisher-paizo-system-neutral-open-rpg-license-dungeons-and-dragons/

I believe it may be a new assessment within NATO that Ukraine has a very realistic chance at winning the war if they're appropriately supported.

Memo to any Obsidian person reading this thread: Please, please, please try to convince your Microsoft partner to buy out WotC from Hasbro.

Here's the most recent huge leak on the new OGL 1.1 document: https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634 https://knowyourmeme.com/news/dungeons-and-dragons-fans-furious-following-lengthy-leaks-of-ogl-11 It has caused a huge firestorm in gaming and D&D circles. And if you read through this article very carefully you'll see the new OGL is so very nakedly obviously targeting D&D competitors, and especially Paizo/Pathfinder, to try and shut them down. I fear this will end any possible future Pathfinder games, as well as any new content for Solasta.

I don't see any reason why studios keeping making deals with WotC. They are clearly untrustworthy partners. As recently as last month both Hidden Path and OtherSide released statements that WotC was very happy with their work on their D&D games. So these cancellations are obviously a money thing, in that Hasbro decided they would not make enough money for them. Hasbro stock is down 40%, and they're pulling back their investments to try and prop up their stock. An they're doing it by sticking the knife in the backs of their D&D video game contractors.

I was just now about to post this very article, as I found the story very interesting too!!

So yet another question about the crusade mode. How does experience work for the crusade army units? Each unit has an "experience" value number. However, even though I am winning army battles against demon armies, that experience number for each unit in my army does not change. My general gains experience points, but the units such as footmen and archers etc don't have their experience go up. And Google doesn't show any info re. army unit experience. Thanks!

Ah ok. I'm in Act 2, and that third 30-day timer tower is not even there on my HUD banner yet. Only the 4-day and 10-day timers.

Thanks! My understanding on taking forts was I needed to do one every ten days. So no quests or events on a timer? For example,

Is any part of Act 2 timed?

So I'm now finally at the beginning of Chapter 2 in this my first time through the game. Yeah, it's taken me this long to get through the Prologue and Chapter 1. I don't get much time per week to play my games, sadly. Any major pieces of advise on Crusade Management? I'm using the 'easy' setting but not 'auto' because I do want to be able to get the benefits of doing the crusade part of the game. Thanks in advance! :)

For me, using Firefox, I've been getting certificate security alerts when trying to access the forum login page.

No, no, what I mean is how can I keep a default action in that spot, but still override it and order the character to do something else during combat? I like my party starting out the first round spamming those auto mode actions, because they're often good debuffs of the enemies. But I want them to then stop doing that and start fighting. Is this somehow possible?

A basic question for all you WotR experts: So in your character icon there is the option of setting certain cantrips or abilities to be used in "automatic mode." But when I set such things as Demoralize or Slumber or Daze (cantrip) to automatic mode, the character just keeps spamming that instead of engaging in melee or ranged attack, and they keep doing this even if I manually order the character to attack a target. What am I doing wrong here? How do I get them to override automatic mode and do what I order them to do?

Oh come on! What's even the point of a TV show these days if it doesn't have fluff soft porn?! It's the path we need to take to get to hard porn someday!!

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2448376/ai-copilot-air-force-achieves-first-military-flight-with-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.airandspaceforces.com/artificial-intelligence-easily-beats-human-fighter-pilot-in-darpa-trial/

I'm guessing it's a reference to the old bombers (B-52) having a bunkbed in it for the pilots to rotationally get some sleep on long patrols during the Cold War.