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Hell, we might have towns, cities or kingdoms with no standing militia or army, just mercenaries. In fact, it was common to have your army be MADE of mercenaries in midevial times, as letting your lords (who constantly squabble with each other) raise their own armies is just asking for them to start fighting each other over petty things and waste your manpower.

Dik Ethlalquogub, "Dik Showercreams"

... Oh god. xD

You can make random maps in Wesnoth, a free open source RTS with a few RPG elements. They even have names given to roads, villages and the like.

Don't forget pepper spray. The police even use unarmed combat sometime. I think a worthwhile upgrade to this would be to use my secondary weapon idea, as I stated in another thread.

The standard knife gotten from the Oubliette is pathetic. We need combat knives! Stilletos! Pocket knives! Each of them would be for a different use.

Pocket knife = Equivalent to the knife we have now. Not very effective but cheap.
Combat knife = Costs 80-100$. More powerful than the knife.
Stilleto = A knife that's used for stabbing only. Gives a bonus when attacking in concert with the Stealth or Disguise skill, or if the Conservative isn't alarmed.

Which brings me to another concern - we need a new combat system, because spending an entire turn to stow your rifle/shotgun/pistol and pull out a knife when it runs dry is just flat-out ridicoulous. It should be possible to designate an alternate weapon, and have each individual Liberal switch between them at will. This raises some problems - it wouldn't fit with the current combat systems. Liberals would need to act individually.

As an extention on this (though not for it alone) I would suggest having each liberal able to perform an action individually in one turn if you would so like instead of everyone doing the same thing. As an alternative for this, make switching one liberal's main/primary weapon not end the turn.

One of my axedwarves was fighting off a goblin siege and got picked on by a goblin axelord. Somehow, both of them dodged into one of the trenches I had dug around the entrance and they finished their fight down there; the goblin hacked both of the dwarf's legs off and then bled to death. Soon after the battle finished it started raining...so my dwarf basically laid there with no legs dying of thirst and drifting in and out of consciousness in a muddy, rainy trench with only a rotting goblin corpse for company.

This reminded me of world war 1. How would dwarves go about trench warfare?

Granted. Your mouth melts, matrix-style. You starve to death slowly, as you can still drink by putting water up your nose and swallowing it, but can't eat. You can't cut it open, either.

I wish I hadn't thought of such a gruesome death in my wish-granting.

To clarify - I will attempt to break goblin G's arm FIRST. I meant "in case teleportation screwing up goblin G's internal organs" doesn't work. Not after my first post.