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No, but that's probably because I don't talk to people.

And again, every card has an impact that can win or lose the game, even if it's a few points of damage, getting an early body and a ping or something can easily win you the board early on, propelling you into winning the rest of the game.

Of course it does. But that's not the point. The point is that nothing about what the rest of the deck (aggro shaman) is doing needs Finley. Given the rest of the deck, it's probably the best choice for the 30th card. But if you swapped it for a Worgen Infiltrator, the rest of the deck still works.

You do need Finley, the Shaman hero power is awful and getting him is a huge game-changer.

It's a good card in the deck, of course. But you don't "need" it, and you'll play most games without it.

Autoresolver now deals less damage to high quality units (e.g. Slayers) in standard battle situations and deals more to low quality units.

Well, it'll need to be a pretty big effect. Slayers almost always took >50% losses in autoresolved, even in a decisive victory against weak enemy forces.

In other news, droid pops are treated like pre-sentient natives in the 1.2 beta. So you can't move them or build on their tiles, and purging them causes your other pops to get all riled up.

1.2 just officially released. They claim this bug is fixed.

Quote from: Persus13 on June 09, 2016, 03:21:59 pm

Quote from: Neonivek on June 09, 2016, 03:09:36 pm

Quote from: Jopax on June 09, 2016, 03:05:33 pm

Any country that existed at the time, the three main factions of Axis, Allies and Comintern and certain nations get the option of forming their own factions during the game.

There are a LOT of countries that existed at the time... Are you absolutely certain?

Because that sounds amazing on paper (Since if I ever got this I want to play the greatest country in the world... Canada )

Have you ever played a Paradox grand strategy game before? Almost all of them allow you to play as any country. Although as Jopax said, how fleshed out each country is varies.

It is just that there are a lot of very minor countries that existed back then that had nil to no actual influence on the world (Plus quite a few that would come into being)

Though since a lot of them were colonies, it does cut down quite a bit.

The ability to play them is surprising.

Don't be too impressed... like people have already said, playing a tiny insignificant country typically means you have little to nothing to do. Although it can be amusing to see what you CAN do, which has been a staple of Paradox games for a long time (world conquest starting as Ryukyu in 1444 being the stereotype).

It would be like playing Crusader Kings and being able to play... I dunno... China

IDKIUT but that's pretty much what half the playerbase said when India was added to CK2.

I'm a little disappointed.

As Mexico, I joined Comintern. Finland somehow joined the Allies so when SU invaded Finland, that kicked off the whole thing.

Fight with USA is pretty much even, in autumn 1940. Somewhat goofy but whatever. I've advanced deep into Texas. USA is outbuilding me but apparently has worse divisions.

Then in spring 1941 my communist coup plot finally fires and everything west of the mississippi (sans texas, which I'm slowly finishing off) switches to the communist states of america, including all of the US divisions that were there (dozens). war is pretty much a foregone conclusion now. CSA immediately joins comintern so the American Civil War gets folded into the whole Soviet Invasion of Finland.

It really feels too easy.

Force-wise I have yet to see a reason to build anything but 100% infantry armies.

King of Dragon Pass seems vaguely appropriate under these criteria.

Nah. The mechanics are all hidden, but they're not that complex.

KoDP is more of an RPG, and not so much a "strategy" game.

I just found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9popqd6zPQ

disguised toast is one of the best HS youtubers.