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Ooh, random map generator might be enough to get me to give this a proper try. Thanks for the necro.

Worth remembering that statistically it remains the fact (I think?) that a large majority of cases are symptomless or minor. Even with Trump's various negative modifiers I think he's still more likely than not to recover and live without major long term health problems.

That said, with this many people in the inner ranks sick it's also statistically likely that at least a few get it bad, and maybe one or two die.

Truly a modest proposal.

My point is actually similar to your first point above -- in e.g. agriculture there are ways to do it very wrong. And it can be pretty high stakes.

So for what it's worth the flying to Reed was actually just a few minutes ago (I live within visible range of the chopper route). He seems to be walking okay, according to local live footage.

What's up peeps, thanks to everyone who gave me some reccs on my last request! Today I'm looking for mercenary management games or something nearby,

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Battle Brothers--I've actually grown to like TBS games, but Battle Brothers is an absolute nightmare... there's never really a point where difficulty and level-of-badassery intersect, and every time you lose a brother it takes a long time to recover, frankly it's just too brutal for me.

I'd suggest modding here, namely Nexus mods that make the economy a little easier (e.g. increase sell price of your loot) and maybe also reduce the scaling a bit (this one requires downloading one of the 'X bro' mods and tinkering a bit, so is a tad more involved). I had the same problem you did, but ultimately found that modding it to be a bit easier allowed me to ease into the game a heck of a lot better and get over the difficulty hump.

Darkest Dungeon* -- I have it, but I haven't played it yet so... idk anyone recommend it?

Based on your issues with Battle Brothers, I'd give this one a hard pass. Been a while since I've played, admittedly, but losses in Darkest Dungeon are both really brutal and sometimes just plain bad luck (moreso than Battle Brothers). Lots of grind.

BATTLETECH* -- uh... I don't really know where to start with this one. I have it, and I've tried to get into the setting at large before (Mechwarrior, et al.) but it's pretty impenetrable to me. I might give it another go, but it hasn't kept my attention.

Modding makes it more interesting, but also makes it much more impenetrable. Not sure I have a good suggestion here.

I'm really just looking for something that lets you build a very customizable core party/team/warband and adventure around a rather fleshed out world with fights. Or at least something where, if it's a more controlled setting, that isn't dominated by RNG and garbage rolls, etc.

If you're fine with post-Soviet jank, there's Freeman: Guerilla Warfare. It's basically modern Mount & Blade in the balkans. Passable bullet physics and other mechanics, though field battles can get a little samey.

I kind of want to suggest Blasted Road Terror for giving the feeling of a mercenary management game a bit, but really it's too far off mechanically to do so. Still, it's a neat little game. Mad Max world where you're a small group doing random missions (that play out like a better version of Convoy). Minimal world building and progression only for your mothercar and equipment, though.

Low Magic Age could be a good D&D-styled contender, but it's too early in development still.

Sands of Salzaar was mentioned above, but be aware that the actual combat can feel pretty darn janky.

Reassembly is... probably not close enough, as you're a faction instead of just mercenaries, but combat is akin to Starsector while floating about as a flagship, making bases and fleets while conquering known space. Different factions have different block-types, and ships are made out of the various block-types.

I think someone already mention Space Pirates and Zombies 1 or 2. Also topdown spacefighting; both have certain pressure mechanics that somewhat drive the plot, though. I prefer the first game to the second, personally. More about upgrading equipment/resources than managing individuals, though.

And that is all I have, I think. It's also a genre I'm fond of and wish there were more proper entrants in. For more fantasy there are plenty of SRPGs that give a bit of feeling of that thematically but mechanically are less freeform (outside of just grinding random battles).

Edit: Actually why not, let me do a quick plug for Horizon's Gate as well. Third in a series of SRPG games from a lone dev -- the first, Voidspire Tactics, is basically a giant handcrafted dungeon with a party. The second, Alvora Tactics, is RNG dungeons with a party. The third, Horizon's Gate, is more of an age of sail game. A fair number of smaller dungeons for land combat a-la FFT, and an open world with trading and ship combat (which is also FFT-ish, though less customizable than the land combat). Plot is relatively light. Being an SRPG there is RNG, but I haven't found it that harsh and there's a good array of difficulty options.

No, Yucca Mountain! All the talk about nuclear waste was just a cover story to keep people away, and they've been working on it for decades.
EDIT: Also explains why Harry Reid was so opposed to the project, since he was one of the baby-eating lizard Jews or whatever the fuck it is they're supposed to be. And why Trump was so vehement about the Democratic governor of Nevada when he was there recently.

Man, I wasted an opportunity by not getting in early on the whole Q thing and engaging in some fucked-up worldbuilding.

Funnily enough, from what I've read studies more recent than the congressional law on Yucca have raised significant concerns about seismological activity and other, er, geological insecurities when it comes to secure storage. I guess a better choice than porous limestone, at least.

Gave Sands of Salzaar a brief whirl and while a fair number of parts are interesting, the battles themselves are pretty awkward affairs. Ranged troop behavior means much of a given fight leads to everybody running around like headless chickens. It could really use some form of zone of control or the like. Other issues are some UI awkwardness and durability woes. For the price, though, it's a decent entry in the genre.


Been playing some Genshin Impact lately. It's... kind of like Breath of the Wild with more RPG stats and gatcha. Exploring the world is pretty nice and it's quite a beautiful world, though time will tell if the level/stat system in it will start demanding bad grinds.

The gatcha is both really tame and awful at the same time, in that the main thing behind the paywall is characters. You get a full party pretty early on and several more guaranteed characters for free, so drawing for extra characters don't seem that necessary, but if you really want waifu/husbando XYZ then the rates themselves are quite horrible and from what I hear the free draw resources are kind of stingy.

The characters are also very anime, for good and ill. At least you can change the VO on the fly between four different languages (Chinese, Japanese, English, Korean), and the VO isn't awful for any.