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Kinda late as its been out for a little bit, but Viking Conquest got updated to 2.025 recently. I played and loved (and still have it installed) Brytenwalda and VC is just a turbo version of BT. Some features got replaced, like sailing (which got pimped) and the whole bard thing got axed, but for an ascended, upgraded paid version of a free mod, Viking Conquest has become one of my favorite modules for M&B.

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Though, Pearl is the one who had the idolized hero figure who pushed her to become more and then died, leaving her to grow and work to find her own way in the... well... universe.

I typed "Perl" three times, I don't even use the language, what the hell?

It's fine, it's firday and im a lil tipsy sitting at my corner desk while me and my roommates watch Riki-Oh (with Backstroke of the West next) or however you speel it and I'm typing words wrong every few lines and laughing my ass off, so speeling isn't important.

But you do have a point about the whole hero figure inspiration thing, but Steven keeps drawing natural parallels to me about being the chosen one who can unite the races and free the gems from the oppressive government so he's kinda the focus of my thought. I can see him growing into it, but he's got a rude awakening coming when the Diamonds just don't care or listen to him when we get to that point. I guess I'm hoping for some drama, let us introduce such a paragon of manliness, a man of indomitable spirit who awakens the fighting spirit of the Gems and Steven once more and becomes a beloved side character of the group ......only to die in the first real encounter with the Diamonds, his last moments inspirational to the end. Damn it gurren lagann.

*edit again, also gotta praise the music choice for the last episode, perfect garage band sound for the episode theme, i actually hunted down the music on youtube and have it on repeat.

I choose for Head of State.....perhaps Canada. Only reason being is it's quiet and most nations just don't bother you much. Not to mention, I've dated a francophone Canadian chick and she was pretty and had natural Canadian niceness, a great combo.

Absolute authority......I honestly don't know. Heck, The Imperium of Man, let me wipe those High Lords of Terra out and work from scratch to make the Imperium great again.

Jimbo's been my nickname as long as i can remember, and since Jimbo by itself usually is taken, I slapped on M for my last initial and 12 cuz that's how old i was when I fully accepted it as my nickname. Before this I just kinda experimented cuz I disliked being called Jimbo but I came to accept and promote it and it's become my internet persona. The true self.

I would think that it would vary, but given the chaos --> bad vein, and given that pleasure and the likes is a corrupting influence, I am somewhat suprised there is no veggie tales in space.

But there is. It just happens to involve more heretic gutting and mutant burning. Probably platitudes that don't quite sound right too.

"And so remember kids, if your neighbor keeps coughing after a week, he's probably a Nurgle worshiper and should be burned." And segways right into a commercial for Emperor's Own^tm brand Soylens Viridians chips, potato flavored.

A Warhammer 40k Civilization type game with planet and space layers. All the major factions will be present, the Imperial factions divided into 4 major parts:

The 'Regular' Imperium of Man is represented by the Guard and plays like any normal civ but with more heretic burning. Kinda weak in the beginning of colonization but economic powerhouses at the endgame able to produce enough to drown entire cities with bodies and tanks. Pretty decent all rounders, just need the numbers.
Space Marine Fiefdoms are small but produce way more, think something like militarized versions of Venice. Extremely powerful individual units but you won't have a lot of them and support from the regular Imperium helps a ton. Much, much better all rounders.
The Church is represented by the Battle Sisters. Their forces are divided between the elite sisters and their lower fiefdom PDF rabble. A lot like Bretonnia from regular Warhammer. Plays alot like the regular Imperium but their cities are cleaner looking.
The Mechanicus is really more of an addon, as they only get 1 city like any trader civ, but that one city is enough to power their entire faction. Very few early units; in fact, only one: the Skitarii. Servators get unlocked to handle specific combat tasks later but for the majority of the game, you only get those red suited chrome boys. Then the endgame happens. Deploy all titans on a city and laugh manically through your drive thru window speaker you call a mouth.

The Tau would be the equivalent of any of the religious civs. Infect Imperium cities with the Greater Good and freedom and watch them happily convert to your side. At least until they get self nuked. Excellent ranged combat, best in the game in most unit categories, but melee ranged units murder them. Even Guardsmen that get close enough to use the bayonet move.

Orks are well, Orks. They have the ability to migrate their 'cities' closer to enemy territories in order to get closer to the fightin'. Quickly amassed, tough units. Very few early game tricks up their sleeves. Lots of cannon fodder to soak up sieges while you pound on cities.

The Eldar; in any other game with covert options, it'd be these guys. That's not to say they don't have good units, but each one is very specific to a task. While the other factions can swap heavy weapons attachments to units on the fly, with the Eldar you have to create a whole new unit to do so. Also, they can relay units from any city to any other city really quickly.

The Necrons. I really don't have any ideas for these guys, other than notoriously tough units that take forever to build.

The Tyranids, these guys are also hard to come up with civ options for. The ability to infest cities, sure, and quickly built cannon fodder that needs to be within X tiles of a leader unit to gain full combat strength.

And finally the forces of Chaos, the 'regular' Cultists and the Dark Eldar. The regular cults are represented by mass expendable cultists early on, and graduate into Chaos Space Marines mid game with Daemon support later on. The ability to weaken city defenders with cults and open up temporary warp portals to quickly get units to the front.

And the Dark Eldar. The ability to raid cities for slaves to boost output. The ability to use warp gates to quickly get units around. Same Eldar flavor with some spice thrown in.
 

Not to mention every single person who's ever played mount and blade would have cheated at some point. It's just way too fun to be a ridiculous super juggernaut.

I second that, but I try to keep the cheating to a minimum most games. I find I don't cheat that often after I made a ridiculously high leveled 'legacy' character that I import into every game I start now. He started his legacy in vanilla Diplomacy, carried his skills through the Floris Expanded Mod Pack, honed his leadership through Sword of Damocles Warlord and used all his immense strength to dominate Prophecy of Pendor. He still exists on my HDD somewhere, but I didn't use him in mods that drastically change the game, such as Viking Conquest or Brytenwalda.