Gromnir

we were a mitch ryder fan. as a wee lad we had a 45 o' devil with a blue dress. we played to death... were the version sans the good golly miss molly. will link in the music thread 'cause am suffering a nostalgia moment. HA! Good Fun!

name takes us back to the early 80s. am thinking we have mentioned how the only guilt we ever suffered doing first amendment law were related to the adult entertainment industry, so am admitted conflicted. regardless, as soon as we saw the name shady posted we were recollecting the mitch ryder video with ms natividad displaying her considerable talents. oh well.

so, it was... unfair? ... well, ok then. unfair requires exploitive nonsense and as @majestic has observed, the boss battles you may prepare for is ordinary not the real hurdle for an unfair run. rather it is a few o' the trash mobs and ambushes which happen immediate following a transition or the like which is the genuine source o' frustration for unfair. our dual wielding aeon (hardly the best pathfinder ab build) laughs at 115 ac... and after a hit, no high level enemy is boasting ac 115 anyway 'cause chances are we dispelled most protections. sure we gotta cheese stuff. use madness domain power to boost our own ab and sacrifice skills and saves, but so what 'cause aeon's is immune to just 'bout everything. don't need will or fort saves if am immune to all mind effects, level drain and ability drain, eh? so do the usual with guarded hearth, mark of justice and either a judge, skald or some other buffer silliness which is not so silly for unfair as it is kinda assumed required and 115 ac is evoking a yawn unless there is some other unique quality. btw, our aeon is most often using the ab gaze, aoo gaze and the miss chance gaze, so with mythic level 10 for inevitable excess am seeing attacks of opportunity which trigger on a crit getting +10 for attack gaze, +10 for aoo gaze and another +10 'cause 'course we got ever ready mythic power. add food bonus and luck bonuses and insight bonuses and... etc. is similar exploits for angel, legend, azata and every other mythic path, though admitted am less keen on gold dragon for unfair battles as is kinda lacking in subtlety and relying near complete on a blunt force approach. the whole point o' unfair is to overwhelm the player with jaw dropping numbers and while the gold dragon boosts to abilities and damage is nice and all, they don't keep pace well with unfair. regardless, it's unfair, so... duh. the thing is, kp identifies an actual problem, but only oblique. see, core and normal is gonna be scaled down from unfair, and the real issue is the bosses is gonna scale crude. inevitable darkness on core is functional gonna be the same critter with same immunities and same powers as unfair, but its ac, saves and hps is gonna be lowered. if you know all the exploits, unfair bosses is child's play, and ordinary it takes far more time for us to pre-buff a party for a boss battle than it takes to actual finish the demon lord or whatever. the casual player who makes a vanilla fighter and doesn't have all the right equipment and ideal party composition is far less prepared for core boss than is Gromnir when facing unfair. 90 something ac on core v 115 on unfair? unfair being unfair ain't an issue. the problem we see is that a few o' the bosses scaled down from unfair and played on core or normal is gonna be disproportionately challenging for players who is otherwise enjoying wotr content, players who likely don't know every stoopid wotr exploit and don't wanna need respec their entire party just so they are able to finish the game. as such am thinking is core and normal which is mostest unfair. wotr, at most difficulty levels including core and normal, punishes your for not knowing and taking advantage o' exploits. the game is designed to be enjoyed by hardcore players... which is gonna suck if you are a crpg fan with only vague knowledge o' pathfinder nuance. could be prohibitive punishing. HA! Good Fun!

literal outside our office window at this moment no respect. HA! Good Fun!

is probable a good idea but am avoiding mods. can't give meaningful feedback on bugs if am using mods. for a typical game there would come a time approximate six-months post release when most major bugs had been addressed and at some indefinite point thereafter we would indulge mod use. wotr is a bit different. am assuming is gonna be at least a few months post enhanced edition before am viewing the game is being complete. completeish? complete enough? am gonna repeat once more how given the issues with kingmaker, and in spite o' ongoing bug issues with wotr, am pleasant surprised (relative speaking) by the stability o' wotr. yeah, the game current has numerous frustrating bugs, some o' which has persisted since the beta. however, most o' the major and common game killing bugs were addressed quick enough and while there continues to be a laundry list o' mechanics issues, particular with mounted combat, is nowhere close to the instability we were experiencing with kingmaker. is another reason am moderate disappointed with owlcat at least temp abandoning pathfinder, 'cause while am recognizing their inclusion o' epic for wotr made a follow-up first edition 1e adventure path problematic, owlcat had made great improvements 'tween kingmaker and wotr and if similar improvements were made 'tween wotr and the next pathfinder game, we would no doubt be genuine impressed and satisfied. haven't played the new dlc btw, but the through the ashes release, while highly linear and buggy, implemented numerous alternative quest/obstacle resolution options we saw as an impressive step forward in owlcat's approach to pathfinder gameplay. was looking forward to the next full game to see what owlcat had genuine learned from wotr. too bad. @Gorthread the item descriptions o' your spell caster's belt slot. HA! Good Fun! ps could be wrong, but it appears as if the most recent minor patch changed elemental barrage so it is no longer proc'd by weapon effects. am suspecting for most causal players this would go unnoticed, but for those o' us who were looking for hard and unfair difficulty exploits, this is a major nerf. can't complain too much seeing as how from the power description we never woulda' guessed weapon elemental damage would result in an elemental barrage trigger.

i am conflicted. on the one hand i am sincerely hopeful that in the thick of the chaos just beyond your door you are seeing something more dramatic in the events around you than that which is actual playing out, because that would mean you, and many like you, face less imminent danger than believed. converse, i would welcome this moment as one o' those instances of real change, but rare do such social, cultural and military revolutions occur w/o the blood o' villains, heroes and innocents being spilled indiscriminate and beyond measure. regardless, good luck.

am thinking the idea o' rosaline is fantastic. am also believing a great concept is gonna be wasted on predictable and pedestrian, ya romcom dreck. what a shame... unless am wrong. HA! Good Fun!

am knowing this is getting repetitive, but... Dearie asks Trump lawyers whether they believe FBI lied about seized documents title o' linked article is misleading 'cause what judge asks for is proof from trump that the fbi did shiesty & shady when conducting their warrant search o' mar-a-lago. ... am admitted moderate annoyed with the vast majority o' tv lawyers regarding this special master nonsense and their observations o' the ruling by judge cannon. we spent a couple weeks listening to responsible attorneys explain the issues related to the trump search and the subsequent request for a special master as part o' team trump's 41(g) motion. how many times did we hear that while they disagreed with her, perhaps judge cannon was being cautious and affording the ex-President the benefit of the doubt given the unique and highly publicized circumstances. pundits focused on irrelevancies and embraced the nonsense. made us moderate annoyed. #$%@ this current exercise in stoopid with regard to a special master all stems from a 41(g) motion by trump, a motion which we has repeated observed is a CIVIL action with trump as plaintiff. there is no f'ing benefit o' the doubt in favour o' a plaintiff in civil 41(g) motion. judge cannon making arguments for trump which team trump did not make as well as assuming some kinda possibility o' nefarious activity by the fbi is so freaking opposite o' the manner in which every other 41(g) motion ever has been adjudicated that we were having a difficult time believing any district judge woulda' served up such a steaming plate o' _________ with the expectation the doj would swallow. judge dearie, the special master, isn't doing anything particular surprising by demanding trump to prove documents is classified and demanding evidence o' fbi malfeasance not to mention requesting answers to obvious threshold questions such as why has a special need for items seized. it may appear as if judge dearie is being uncompromising but truth is he is doing exact as one woulda expected o' judge cannon if she had been doing her job. the obvious flaws with judge cannon's special master ruling were jaw drop levels beyond the realm o' plausible, relying on no relevant precedent, reversing burden o' proof and ignoring fact that trump had never offered any explanation as to why documents classified were in fact his property or presenting a reason why he had a special need for their expedited return. but again, we need remind persons how we are in fact opining 'bout a civil conflict 'tween trump and the doj. not criminal. if the doj decides to indict, then they need prove guilt o' the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt, and they is quite possible gonna be attempting to prove trump were guilty o' crimes under the espionage act, one o' the more maligned bits o' law existing on the fed books... although admitted the law is criticized for reasons not related to trump's willful withholding o' documents. is quite possible many on this board already see trump as an obvious wrongdoer and there is no way any honest court in the land would find trump anything but guilty. is a bad starting point. likely setting self up for disappointment. reality is the doj faces a difficult task particularly as you are gonna be hard-pressed to find an american jury w/o at least one or two persons as certain o' trump's innocence as many here are o' his guilt. temper expectations and remind self the most important part o' the mar-a-lago warrant search were separating confidential, secret and top secret documents from an ex-President with questionable security motivations. as 'posed to the doj successful prosecuting trump, am personal more concerned with the possibility trump has similar stashes o' documents elsewhere or that he has already shared state secrets with country club guests either ignorant o' the possible damage or even knowing full well what wrongs he is causing. oh, and put trump in prison does not end the damage he might do, not by a long shot. if jan 6 didn't prove to you that trump will watch everything burn as some calculated effort to save his own copious arse or just outta spite, then am not certain anything will. HA! Good Fun! ps alan dershowitz tried similar special master 41(g) nonsense on behalf o' mike lindell to say the judge, a trump appointee, were less than gentle with the plaintiffs is describing in mild terms. took less than 5 whole pages to utter emasculate team lindell. a few favorite passages with our emphasis added to direct attention: Though Plaintiffs cite Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g) as the basis for their motion, Plaintiffs do not discuss the Rule or cite any authority that might explain why the cellphone’s return is appropriate under the Rule. To be clear, Plaintiffs cite Rule 41(g) in their Motion and in the caption and introductory paragraph of their Memorandum. But that’s it. ... Absent an obvious answer that Rule 41(g) requires the cellphone’s return, it would be a stretch to grant relief on the basis of this rule when the moving parties nowhere explain how the Rule’s procedural framework and substantive standards support the request. ... (3) Whether Rule 41(g) requires the cellphone’s return is not obvious, and that’s understating things. ... Far wiser to hear from Defendants (and Plaintiffs) regarding these and other potentially relevant factual and legal questions before deciding any aspect of Plaintiffs’ motion. ... Plaintiffs’ Motion [ECF No. 9] is DENIED ... *chuckle* might not be obvious, but the "and Plaintiffs," comment is the equivalent o' a backhand slap. now keep in mind, the phone seized by law enforcement in question is in fact mike lindell's, so is a smidge different than the classified docs from mar-a-lago, but more significant, dershowitz and his clown car team were requesting relief ex parte, meaning they were trying to pull off this sleight o' hand w/o any input from the doj and what would appear an intentional effort to avoid doj participation. at least with mar-a-lago the doj were present to explain why what were being demanded were... stoopid. took cojones the size o' church bells for alan to request 41(g) relief ex parte, and am s'posing if the 11th circuit had ruled different then maybe dershowitz would look like a genius today 'stead o' nevertheless, am recognizing how if the 11th circuit did the improbable (but no more unlikely than cannon's silliness) and effective rewrote 41(g), then alan maybe gets his special master, so perhaps were worth the effort. regardless, is a good day for those who like to watch maga lawyers being ridiculed by judges. 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respec'd lann (3/17 zen archer/divine hunter (hunter)) 'cause velociraptor talons no longer count as natural weapons: other, rendering useless our weapon focus and improved critical feats for the dino. lann lost access to domain spells on respec. to test the problem we created a knockoff merc approximating our lann zen archer/divine hunter and the merc similar suffered from the absence o' domain spells. as a spontaneous caster, divine hunter access to domain spells were kinda a major positive and is in fact part o' the pnp design if altered somewhat. for example, being able to cast divine power multiple times per rest were a major benefit. sent a bug report. am expecting a fix in december... if lucky will be december of this year. based on past experience, such a fix is not gonna be high priority. nevertheless if you got a divine hunter who current benefits from domain spells, be warry o' respec. HA! good Fun!

is an act v improvements to mythic path opportunities which is being added and gold dragon already has the most development... 'ccording to owlcat. two separate paths current for gold dragon was deemed satisfactory. is information via reddit btw (am getting this second hand as we don't do reddit,) 'cause you will never learn anything useful from owlcat by way o' their official wotr forums. HA! Good Fun!

"so even if we assumed the plaintiff did declassify some or all of the documents, that would not explain why he has a personal interest in them." am not certain why so few tv lawyers bother to mention what Gromnir and the 11th circuit believe is both essential and obvious, but there you have it. HA! Good Fun!

Why this New York lawsuit is really going to anger Donald Trump the one understated advantage letitia james has in suing trump org is trump's ego. am thinking it will come as a shock to nobody that trump inflated the value o' his assets in attempting to secure loans from financial institutions. the thing is, there ain't no fraud unless those lenders relied on trump false statements. for there to be fraud, there needs be somebody who were in fact duped. to that end, trump's best defense is to show that his propensity for untruth were so well known that no lender took his financial disclosures serious. am not doubting trump has masses o' documents showing lenders refusing to give him money clarifying that the reason for refusal to lend money were that banks did their own due diligence and in spite o' trump claims o' wealth, trump org represented far too great a risk. show a big stack o' such letters as proof that nobody with any sense believed trump is a valid defense. heck, is not a secret that trump to this day is persona no grata insofar as wall street is concerned and in the 90s nobody other than deutsche bank would lend to trump, and deutsche bank were unlikely caught unawares, but knowing the risk involved, they lent increasing amounts to trump. so who were the suckers duped by trump? regardless am suspecting trump's best defense is to reveal what a transparently terrible lending prospect were trump org and that nobody in the industry would be fooled by his fabulist tendencies and outright lies regarding the worth o' trump property. have trump lawyers public admit just how little he were worth and that only the willful obtuse would be believing trump's financial statements? is hard to imagine trump being okie dokie with such a strategy. as to tax fraud... well that is a different issue and a different case altogether. edit: pretty much eviscerates judge cannon. no property interest by trump. no harm in being deprived of documents he never owned. trump didn't make any claim the documents were classified and in any event, they are classified presumptive for a pre indictment situation as in the present context. the current executive has broad discretion to decide and investigate matters o' national security, so deprive the fed o' a chance to do investigations o' the documents absent any proffer o' evidence such were seized improper is an improper exercise o' judicial power and beyond the scope o' a special master. etc. trump and judge cannon just had their lunch money took... again. first judge dearie and now a unanimous 11th circuit court of appeals. has been a bad week for trump, and is only wednesday. HA! Good Fun! ps the 11th circuit stay is not particular meaningful in the grand scope o' a possible case by the US v. trump, a case which don't exist as yet 'cause has been no indictment. 11th circuit efforts has no impact on the merits o' a case not yet brought by the doj. this whole judicial exercise insofar as the special master has been an inexplicable waste o' time and the fact the 11th circuit needed to weigh in woulda' been incomprehensible to us save for the fact it actual happened... so shame on Gromnir. but again, our point o' adding the ps is that insofar as trump possible being indicted and going to prison for obstruction or illegal possession o' state secrets, this ruling is correct but relative meaningless in that all it achieves is a metaphorical trout slap to the face o' judge cannon and team trump. it also presumptive ends unnecessary delay. converse, insofar as the impact o' the feds being able to investigate the damage trump did to security assets as 'posed to sitting on their hands, this could be a big deal... is just not meaningful from a potential US v. trump scenario.

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not using lann optimal, but admitted am also rare making the best use o' lann as an archer. keep in mind an end game zen archer with hurricane bow and legendary proportions is gonna be seeing base 8d8 shortbow damage before any modifiers. with a skald in party, he could be doing x5 on crits. am personal using lann most frequent as a hunter (divine hunter) or inquisitor (sacred huntsmaster) though cleric is tough to argue against being his best option. with the change to guarded hearth am gonna eventual try lann as a 2/18 zen archer/judge 'cause adding sacred bonuses is now more meaningful. am admitted a bit disappointed with the enhanced edition features revealed thus far. if the expanded combat log works as designed, that one is kinda kewl and appreciated. we were aware o' the pet stuff 'cause owlcat had mentioned previous, but photomode? whatever. that said, am s'posing if a few more fixes is implemented, we will be satisfied... at least after most o' the new bugs enhanced creates is expunged. HA! Good Fun!

‘As Far as I’m Concerned, That’s the End of It’: Skeptical Special Master Presses Trump’s Lawyers on Declassification Evasions at Hearing so, judge cannon ordered a special master to review documents and her rationale were in part that a neutral third-party expert with an intelligence background could wade into the complex issue o' whether the Presidential Record Act ,by means o' possible declassification trump's lawyers had not yet claimed trump had exercised, somehow resulted in unresolved questions o' fact and law and the sooper-sage special master could then find solutions to such profound problems. again, keep in mind this kinda effort by a plaintiff to exclude evidence typical takes place after the indictment, so the whole situation is kinda unprecedented particularly as judge cannon did not suggest the fbi had acted improper but rather observed that somehow 'cause o' trump being an EX-president, coupled with public distrust in the doj and fbi, specific warranted a special master review. regardless o' the fact the only documents doj were resisting insofar as special master review were the clear marked classified, secret and top secret stuff, the judge went ahead and granted trump's request for a special master to review all material seized during the warrant search. "that's the end of it," is gonna be seen as a criticism o' trump's legal team, but is actual a shot at judge cannon. special master judge raymond dearie asked a handful o' simple and obvious questions, questions judge cannon shoulda' asked before appointing a special master. judge dearie made more than obvious that at this pre-indictment stage there ain't no complex issues o' law or fact and no special knowledge or handling were required to decide if classified, secret and top secret documents need be returned to trump. what an utterly incomprehensible waste o' time. a district court judge's rulings does not establish precedent, so am wondering if the doj should risk the possibility the 11th circuit were sniffing the same glue judge cannon got ahold o' before making her special master decision. for all intents and purposes, the doj won, so is there a reason to press their luck and risk having judge cannon's special brand o' stoopid be remembered five years from now as anything more than an obscure footnote in a law journal article or history book? HA! Good Fun!

am suspicious o' the label. beyond the recognition am having an annoyingly accurate visual recollection, we don't make any such claims. as for @Gorth and his beer elementals, am gonna note fire elementals is a surprising solid and easily overlooked army unit. fire elementals got the powerxd6xunit number damage potential. given their relative cheap unit cost, is possible to acquire or create many fire elementals. hellknights, for example, got a 43 xp unit cost. fire elemental cost 40, they got a power of 20, their burn effect lasts 3 turns and they got immunities even hellknights do not. is possible to create a whole lotta fire elementals if you wish to... but is only a meaningful act v approach. 'course campaign strategizing is all meaningless if you got a mage general and a s-ton of marksmen.... particularly if you max'd combat morale. HA! Good Fun!

lucky you. our ocd resulted in us "needing" to do on our own at least once. maybe not literal need, but skipping or cheesing woulda' resulted in an unpleasant brain itch. extreme unpleasant itch... unable to sleep level o' brain itch. on the plus side, our bizarre memory means we don't need the guides or mods henceforth. so not worth it. the thing is, enigma remains a tedious slog even if you are able to breeze through the puzzles. owlcat added so much retracing o' steps and repetitive combat that even if puzzles is solvable via a mod or annoyingly specific recollection, enigma remains a dull chore... though am admitting being able to breeze through puzzles lessens the pain considerable. btw, were a complete accident having us discover the dc boosting goggles of mind control. if there were some clue for solving that puzzle we missed it. not that anyone asked, but we don't have jack nicholson, as good as it gets ocd, thank goodness. we don't need perform seeming irrational rituals to get through the day, and we even walked out o' @majestic's favorite movie less than halfway through a viewing, so is not as if am complete broken with our desire to complete tasks. even so, we got an unhealthy desire to complete jobs the right way... even if we know from a reasonableness pov the right way would be to cut bait and move on to the next problem. HA! Good Fun!

last time we serious checked were 2013 and at that time it were still technically illegal for a citizen o' the uk to suggest the abolishment o' the monarchy. the only reason am aware o' such is 'cause in the early 90s we saw a guy get arrested in hyde park for his public demand o' an end to the monarchy. were a bit shocking to see such happen and so we periodic checked if the law remained valid. given the national mourning current underway, we has been embracing uncharacteristic restraint, but am thinking @Gorth would be unsurprised to learn we got a few thoughts on monarchies and monarchs. HA! Good Fun!

am pretty sure greybor is only on the military council. no reason to skip logistics, diplomacy and leadership. if memory serves, on the one run we had greybor early, his suggestion for infantry unit upgrades is spearmen and headhunters for archers, so am never concerned with greybor 'til rank 4ish(?) for military anyways... and only ever post beta did we have wenduag contribute to a military council meeting and am admitting we got fleeting recollections o' her now likely irrelevant and many patches removed suggestions.... convicts (infantry) and bandits (archers)? our memory is better than average, but we literal only used her once and am suffering no sadness at her absence. *shrug* aside, the bound of possibility may no longer be equipped by legendary characters, although if you had equipped previous to the most recent patch it remains in the cloak slot... am not sure if it functions in combat but chances are it does. a respec might unequip, so be careful. am suspecting ex-aeon devils may also have bound of possibility issues, but we got no way to test at the moment. HA! Good Fun! ps headhunters is actual kinda a nifty ranged unit, but they is most useful when they is getting hit as they got a retaliation thing going for 'em... but we would prefer not to be hit. as we noted, we near never utilized wenduag recommendations save ever so brief testing during the one run we had her, but am recalling bandits were actual a solid ranged unit and perhaps post marksmen nerf maybe they is a viable option. dunno.

am feeling no need to apologize for enjoying 90125, big generator and talk. HA! Good Fun!

which is precise how democracy is s'posed to work. *shrug* is a whole lotta laws we personal believe is foolish and/or counter productive. our feels is immaterial. if amentep is correct and thong lady is active trying to have the law or ordinance changed, then we applaud her civic virtue, but until she succeeds, her exposed buttocks in a thong is likely gonna continue to count as being nude for purposes o' code. regardless, is many words which mean something different in law as 'posed to the oed or merriam-webster entries. also, tweets and tik-tok videos have a tendency to be misleading. HA! Good Fun!

we hate to be that guy. nudity in code is a legal definition as 'posed to dictionary. public nudity is described in code by means o' all too often dated, comical, and crude language including mentions o' "pubic hair" and similar. the thing is, in the edited video you likely don't see where cops no doubt inform the young lady how exposed "buttocks" is enough to satisfy public nudity laws in the carolinas, portions o' the south excluding most o' florida, as well as much o' the heartland. just 'cause you know what nude means don't result in you being correct 'bout definitions o' nudity in law. ... some o' us praise democracy when it results in statues memorializing civil war icons being taken down in tennessee and alabama. if The People finally recognize that statues erected purposeful during the 1920s and civil rights era as part o' a concerted and intentional effort to degrade and demoralize black populations should be removed as prominent public displays, then such is democracy working as designed, no? unfortunately we don't like democracy near as much when it leads to books 'bout transgender youth being removed from local libraries 'cause the undereducated and angry majorities in backwaters has been convinced by skeevy politicians that all that gay sh!t is a threat to real american values. democracy is not inherent wise or smart. democracy is one more than 50/50 deciding what is gonna be best for everybody... and with representative democracy is possible for a minority to functional be deciding what is best for the majority. regardless, "nude" don't necessarily mean what the young lady believes it means. "nude" has whatever meaning The People decided it should mean, 'cause like it or not, that is how democracy works. HA! Good Fun!

is just our experience, but am personal finding hedge knights is gonna be a better option for dealing damage, but hellknights tank exceeding well and do reliable damage. we like to have both hell knights and hedge knights. hedge knights is guaranteed to replenish weekly and with stables in most outposts you will develop overwhelming numbers kinda quick. a large stack o' clerics provides considerable heals and they are also a durable unit, though am suspecting if you only have a handful they is gonna wilt quick. based on recollection, the cleric heals is powerxd6xunit number, which means you need serious numbers to see results. if your general is healing archers, then he/she ain't doing damage, and even then, is possible you got multiple units requiring heals. cleric heals also do not reduce general energy, but you need a goodly stack to make an impact. clerics is hardly necessary. have skipped clerics as often as not. 'course have also skipped hellknights, but they got resistance to mind effects and their chaos smite ability means they hit many critters with damage resistance. if you feel you got an either/or proposition with clerics and hellknights, then am thinking hellknights is not a wrong choice. is a few obvious bad choices, but more hellknights is not one such. @InsaneCommander am not certain, but am thinking greybor's upgrade (hedge knights?) doesn't happen in his absence. am knowing we got mounted scouts kinda late in act iii for a couple o' our past characters. nevertheless, we got the footmen and archer upgrades early, and those made a big difference in our overall effectiveness. delay all decrees 'til you finished the dragon hunt were likely unnecessary and maybe kneecapped your own army a smidge as well as putting on hold a whole bunch o' decrees which woulda' boosted your crusade. no biggie. if you killed the dragon, then just move forward and try to get as much done as possible... and don't forget monuments... add as many monuments as possible once that option becomes available. crusade morale and combat morale stack, so add every combat morale option via decrees and whatnot 'cause high morale is gonna mean 2x actions for a unit. HA! Good Fun!

am typical having 'bout ten "armies" by the end o' act iii, but most such groups is comprised o' two or three small units with an overall army strength less than three. you receive free armies from time-to-time as part o' crusade and/or your mythic path events and most o' such additional armies is useless and do nothing more than take up space on the campaign ui. would be nice to disappear all the clutter beneath a reserves tab or somesuch, but is not a biggie from our pov. am admitted perplexed by the lack o' upgraded units in your armies. archers, footmen and mounted scouts is your starting units and you should have the option to upgrade such units kinda early in act iii. as to the spider mutant, folks who imagine it as anything other than creepy and weird is curious. somehow the slavish devotion makes more appealing? how does that work? in the pnp adventure path there were a ce barbarian follower available in what would be act ii. am s'posing she were viewed as too similar to amiri from kingmaker, but she has a quasi familial relationship with staunton which coulda' proven interesting in a couple encounters. woulda' also made a melee barbarian companion available instead o' yet another ranged option... and if owlcat wanted to give jestak the anime treatment, they coulda' made her a cat person and doing so woulda' been no more weird than their efforts with the multi-eyed and chitinous spider mutant. HA! Good Fun! ps while they is not as reliable available given they is mercs, with the nerf o' marksmen and a buff to mongrelmen archers, the mongrelmen makes a decent addition to an army. also, as far as we can tell, the recent patch changed talons from natural weapon: other to something else. am gonna assume talons is now benefiting from claw weapon focus and improved critical, but we ain't done a respec to reveal exact how talons is treated in game. is not a big deal for most characters or critters, but such a change does impact velociraptors. pps @Gorth am hesitating to mention, 'cause is cheese, but when the weekly merc refresh occurs, you get one free chance to change the available units. ... it is possible to savescum such that you recruit clerics, hellknights or both with 100% certainty.

mentioned earlier, and perhaps it has been fixed, but elk were broken when we tested. elk should get three attacks and a free trip when using gore... and keep in mind as the elk levels, it should get more more attacks as its ab increases. when we tested, regardless o' level, the elk were limited to a single gore attack and there were no free trip. on paper the elk receives mighty charge, multiple attacks and should now be benefitting from free trips on gore attacks. elk should be a fantastic option and am thinking it would be a good daredevil build particular for a few cavaliers. immunity to flanking as well as the mighty charge numbers is nice additions particular for cavalier types. am not sure 'bout bully 'cause even with the boar and triceratops we cannot current choose trip-related feats, so am not certain how exact the trip is being implemented. regardless, be warry o' the elk. we got what you were saying and am agreeing. the thing is, the same reasons for not having the spider mutant in the party kinda make her/him/it (in the pnp ap, wendaug is referred to both with male and female pronouns and am not certain is a mistake) a not right mind choice for romance. HA! Good Fun!