i guess USAID was founded by an executive order, so maybe they can do that unilaterally

playing? what even is that

literally not one of them are good without mods, and those mods aren’t good until i’ve fucked with them myself

couple of things i didn’t catch in my playthrough, wish he’d revealed the masqued captain’s location better, i looked everywhere for that dude to get the bounty

dang bannerlord tactics do be looking pretty sophisticated these days. maybe it could be tooled appropriately

30 years war and it’s a total war style game

1648 is a weird mod for m2tw, they created star forts to play on but they don’t really work properly. more fundamentally the thirty years war, 17th century warfare worked differently than how total war has been conceived, a colunela¹ was such a tightly-knit combined arms unit it cannot be micromanaged by weapon-type like total war units are conventionally. 1648 for m2tw and Pike and Shot for NTW therefore play like bootleg 18th century line battles which is simply not how the thirty years war should look, one would have to design autonomous unit ais that will manage missile-pike formations for the player, as well as complicated cavalry maneuvers like caracole—it would end up very unlike how total wars feel if it was done right.

not that i don’t think it would be worthy/cool to do a 3d real time strategy pike-and-shot simulation, it just can’t be “total war” as it is currently thought of. also i’d be right pissed if someone went to the trouble and limited it to the thirty years war if you didn’t get to do the league of cognac, french wars of religion, 80 years war, english civil war… what would even be the point

(E) 1: colunela was the basic missile-pike combination used in the early italian wars, lending its name to modern ‘colonel’, the tercio is a specific permutation regarding the apportionment of arms in the formation—and a particularly unhelpful term because many of what got called ‘tercio’ were not actually thirds!

the dastardly KPD get their marching orders from the Kremlin but also would be abandoned the moment great opportunity for the Soviets arises

oh no the dark terror of war has dawned on the weimar republic

wait how many Soviet divisions are being ferried across the baltic rn? the Italians could help the fash but the French & English would sit out like in Spain, very meaningful and committed support from the USSR was very practicable and infinitely more appropriate in Germany’s case.

back on my total war bullshit, i can’t play Elder Kings 2 because the ck3 cracks and the EK2 updates don’t line up rn but i can play elder scrolls total war, which has the additional fun of being able to send armies thru iconic morrowind & skyrim city maps. honestly for a sorta unfinished mod it has the best spread of custom maps outside the lord of the rings ones.

Skyrim civil war in the game Skyrim? complete ass. Skyrim civil war where i get to command the double envelopment that skewers ulfric stormcloak?

the player is never the peasant though, the way most games in these settings are played is from perspectives of the kinds of people that interfaced with the economy through coinage. mercenaries, adventurers, rulers, urban traders, in a ‘real’ premodern economy these are small proportions of the population, but they were also first in line for interacting with a monetary economy.

cowboys always say yeehaw

if your game detects you not saying yeehaw when you lasso or drink a whiskey or shoot a gun the game logs you out and deletes your savegame

1 state is talking about seizing greenland and it is not russia

i know you look big on a mercator projection but you can’t be your own continent, you’ll have to stick with america.

god willing not yankee tho

coming off like a combined 10 hours in hoi4 in the past few days. i’ve decided i do not like the TNO mod, hoi4 really number-go-up worms into your brain so it was hard to realise but FUCK that was a waste of time and boring. TNO fundamentally doesn’t understand the game its based on and its devs are depraved masochists. Hoi4 is a game about preparing for the Big War, then you fight the war. TNO the Big War is a fucking failstate, what even is the point? and the developers just want to make longer and longer ‘paths’ for countries, because you know what a lack of war in the war game really needs? even longer to be sitting around twiddling your thumbs!

if this offer includes executing the royals i’ll give it critical support

i think there’s a bit of misinterpretation going on here, the season 2 Piltover ‘occupation’ of Zaun was not a fascist takeover by the city. Both Piltover and Zaun were becoming a colony of Noxus. Kiramund and her cops literally start wearing their insignia. She’s the chosen collaborator of an imperial occupation like Khedive Muhammad Tewfik, not Mussolini.

the movement from this plotline to the alliance in the end is extremely rushed and inadequately set up, I don’t think one person is really capable of single-handedly instigating their own colonial domination, and then revolting against it. But anyway the anticolonial struggle melds the national bourgeoisie and working class movement against the occupation, in an expected way, this is not a ‘fascist’ corporate movement against an external enemy. In fact, the enemy ‘collectivism’, when it was transparently harnessed to serve empire looks more like fascist false collectivist pretenses than Piltover cops and Zaunite guerillas making a truce to fight an imperial incursion.

The main theme from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

that entire soundtrack, i was a child so it took unreasonably long to complete the game & they’re <2 minute loops on each planet/zone. shit is etched in my brain

Ukraine already violated the treaty and have been using antipersonnel mines, they must just be close to out of USSR leftover stock. Russia not being a party to the treaty have also been using them the whole time. This isn’t a very substantial change besides getting Biden’s fingers directly in another crime against humanity, dude just loves killing people