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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 10, 2012, 10:10:06 pm

Sure,create a miner too. A side project, put warships above the Green Dwarf or whatever we call it.

When I talk about survival, its more about not getting into a position of getting killed.

Out of curiosity, is a coup d'etat completely out of the question?

Respawn with a flamethrower with infinite fuel.

Headshot Zombie nearest Furtuka.

Await shipment of goblinite. Prepare traps, then process.

Respawn, thinking of a battleaxe.

Grab the new Doomblade corpse and use it to beat the zombies to death

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 10, 2012, 08:31:01 pm

Quote from: Thecard on December 10, 2012, 08:27:05 pm

Quote from: Wrex on December 10, 2012, 08:08:56 pm

We don't have godlike charisma, and brainwashing people is -extremely- hard to do. It's also likely to backfire.


When I said "LCS style" early in the thread, I implied "attain loyal subworks to avoid getting our hands dirty". This excludes the videogame element of being the reeincarnation of Che Guevera, Adolf Hitler, Naploeon, And Karl Marx rolled into one in terms of charismatic abiltiy. That just dosen't happen.

You forgot one.
Sorry, I'm just that anal this time of the day.

Wait, what would make us Napoleonic? Height or a lack of Hitler's strategic brilliance? Incidentally, bazinga on the last phrase.

Spoiler: Dude, you just pissed off a history enthusiast.  Have fun with that. (click to show/hide)

Two things wrong with what you said ('least, two thing's I'm going to pick on):
1) Napoleon was 5' 6"

2) While you're right they were both idiots, they both had the same plans, and they both made the same mistakes.
 a)Napoleon was mainly opposed by Britain, so he decided to try and cut them off in terms of supply.  Did not work for Hitler either.
 b)They both allied with Russia, but it did not stand.
 c)They both united and were brought down by the major allied powers (minus Prussia/Germany in Hitler's case, because duh).
 d)Both were inexplicably charismatic, but neither knew how to really use that.
 e)They were both tyrants first in the Greek sense (of being rulers by popular vote) then became tyrants in the modern sense (evil, maniacal, and absolute).
 f)Both stirred up nationalism.
 g)Both invaded Russia, both points that became the turning point of the war.  Because they lost horribly when winter came.

Oh, and both faced a guerrilla war in a country they defeated early on.  As Hitler had France, Napoleon had Spain.

So yeah, pretty damn similar.

Yeah.  It sounds really fucking counter-intuitive, but it is much easier to blow a military base the hell up than it is to steal a shit-ton of gold from it.  So much fucking easier.

Why exactly do fortress dwarves need magic, and why would they consider it to be worthwhile to dabble in when they have steel, adamantine, and magma? It seems equivalent to suggesting that modern armies need bows and spears to go along with their tanks and artillery.

And could possibly cause tantrum spiral easily if one were to go crazy batshit, which seems highly common amongst wizards etc

Quote from: Volour on December 10, 2012, 02:49:49 pm

Oh you know you would like to see that.

I most certainly do.

this world doen't run on video-game logic. Ships will have point defense cannons.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 10, 2012, 08:22:33 pm

That's more or less what the Hiram-I's I suggested are.

Hirmam-Who?

Oh.  The ship.  Yeah, that's what I mean, but I'm thinking the pirate's bases are far enough from the sun that plastics don't melt, right?  So, why not make some drones out of plastics and glass?  They won't take many hits, but they don't need to if we have cheap drones spilling out every one of our cavities.

we dont know if we have cheap ceramics. we have plastic, glass and thats about it. that we know of.