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JUST... WHY!?

Because entertainment news. Also the birth defect thing is really flamboyant even if the disease itself is probably less deadly than your average cold.

Part of me wonders if trump could actually manage to get security clearance if he wasn't the republican nominee...

Another part of me suddenly finds that russian connection even more explicable than it previously was, after wondering about the above.

Yeeaaah... I don't exactly mind having five ratatosks running around, because squirrel power hell yeah, but it can get a bit confusing. Renaming helps.

The freespawn undead nations can have a hell of a time of it, too. Fifty thousand rotfleshes, which army is that one leading, nobody knows! _{I mean, to a degree nobody cares either because they're all herding around several dozen undead chaff, but... still.}

And reanimating nations can be even worse. The piles upon piles of commanders they build up tend to not cycle out as easily. Also scouts. Friggin' scouts. You get indie province with scouts, particularly early, and it never stops recruiting and by the end of the game you're not quite sure which scout that message is talking about because you've got five different guys named that.

However I didn't think it was a DOS game, partly because I don't recall messing around to get it to work on windows.

If it was 90s enough, you probably didn't have to even if it was a DOS game. It wasn't until XP or vista or so that you particularly needed stuff like dosbox. For most of the 95/98 era, DOS usually wasn't any more effort than double-clicking.

That said, there is a handful of other games with play similar to darklands, though names are escaping me at the moment. Unfortunately, the combat style is what would probably help figure it out more than anything. Whether it was first person or isometric/top-down would narrow options down a fair bit.

That said, you may want to check something like this, and see if something looks familiar. Probably a few similar resources, but that's the first that came to mind. Going over one of wikipedia's game lists to see if a name rings a bell might not hurt, either.

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I like the earth blessing for sacred mages, but isn't it almost useless on sacred troops? It seems like it would only help vs incredibly and unrealistically long battles or spammed fatigue spells.

1) Depends on the sacred.

2) No, not really. Fatigue racks up after just a few turns and can quickly become a problem. Fatigue destroys your defense skill long before you hit 100 and pass out.  Staying fresh is always nice.

This, pretty much. Fatigue is what kills easier than almost anything in the game, and is one of the reasons that thugs/SCs that aren't fatigue neutral (or better) are another way of saying "dead", most of the time. Pretty sure it also jacks up the chance of getting crit, though that may be a knock-on effect on the defense penalties.

There's a very, very few amount of non-caster sacreds reinvig doesn't help a fair bit on, and they're mostly undead (and (almost?) all of the nations with sacred undead have sacred casters to some extent or another). It's less useful on low fatigue or out-of-combat fatigue neutral sacreds (and I can't recall if there's any nations that have those but not sacred casters, sooooo...), but still helpful, and means you can do a fair bit more with any sacred indie mages you happen across, of which there are quite a lot.

Minor earth is basically the most versatile bless in the entire game, bar none, without exception. Just about everything benefits from it, and a lot of nations benefit a lot from it. Add on that getting it means you have guaranteed access to dwarven hammers and, well...

Always minor earth. Always.

If this is the way we are using the word "bipartisan" these days, we suck at bipartisanship.  Sure some of them dont like him but he is the freaking nominee.

Fair chunk, by all appearances. It's bipartisan in the sense you might actually get more than two republican politicians to vote to impeach the guy if it came to it.

... some people have really low standards for bipartisanship, these days.

I have never received one, even though I probably should have a couple of times in the past.

This. Been a part of (more than) a few conversations that got deleted, but there doesn't seem to be any lingering knock-it-offs in th'inbox. Flak from some of those conversations probably count about as well as a direct PM, though. If I screw up at this point, I really don't have the excuse of not knowing better :V

Not regularly running bouncing multi-ton hunks of metal over 'em at high speed helps a fair bit, too.