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It started with sending a maxsize conscript squad + commissar to a critical point and getting ambushed by a wraith, ending in it seemingly reviving three or four times before I just called it a draw and ran. The mass of bodies in the way made it hard to tell how much it was hurting, so maybe the soldiers just kept knocking it over with melee.

Well, possibly that, mostly conscript squads being complete trash. They're good for two and only two things -- capping points in the early game and being a meat shield for only slightly longer. The amount of damage they do is basically nothing. If you're trying to kill something with a conscript squad, you're either having a laugh or have screwed up badly :V

As for the rest of it: Yes, more tanks. The general honestly is kinda' shit, at least insofar as direct combat goes. The only really good hero units the IG have are the fire/lieutenant commanders, after you put them in their tank of awesome (and probably stick the vanquisher cannon on it).

IG wants to spam russes ASAP, and super-heavies shortly thereafter. The artillery is... okay. En masse (if you're not going to build at least six basilisks, don't bother with any), it's even pretty damn decent. But you're really not going to do shit without your armor in force. One leman russ is not enough. Six leman russes are not enough. You want more, where "more" is your entire squad limit, plus as many pattern/etc. commands as you can have filled up ready to pop new ones as soon as your old ones die.

Can't really speak on the infantry, though. Maybe use some the support squads a bit. Definitely don't bother with conscripts past the third or fourth minute. Probably don't bother with plain ol' Guard shortly thereafter. IG infantry is... not the most impressive of things, and they're doubly not impressive as anything but armor support. You need your tanks. The IG response to "Should I build more tanks?" is "Yes." Always. Under all circumstances. No exceptions.

... I don't know what horse_ebooks is, and considering it sounds like a lead in to having your screen plastered with horse porn, I don't want to know what it is, nor whatever may be derived from it. Why have you brought this monstrosity before us, TA?

EDIT: also people criticizing today's cartoons with "all similar feel" and "low budget low effort"

do they watch today's kids cartoons godDAMN

... people are doing the video game thing for cartoons, too? S'like... I was there for 90s. Remember most of it, to the extent I remember anything. "All similar feel" and "low budget low effort" has described huge amounts of the cartoon industry for at least the last two decades. If anything has substantially changed, it's that pure production values have significantly increased in general, if only by dint of no longer being limited to VHS quality of whathaveyou.

Watching today's kids cartoons nothin', they appear to have not watched yesteryear's either :V

Ne... neo. There. Sound. Volume. Control? You can turn the sound down. On, like. Anything? If there's not an option in game, you have, you know, your base OS volume control. If... if too loud. Turn down. Is thing you can do?

Anyway, the main thing I recall was that your character had a suit of armor(?) that could also turn into a bike.

Bit of a long shot, but that, at least, sounds like it might be one of the Robotech games. Given the time period mentioned, probably Battlecry or Invasion (note, I haven't played either, but incredibly cursory searching suggests they both can use the same suit). Suit of armor into a bike is a pretty distinctive feature of the Cyclones, though I definitely wouldn't be surprised if something else has used the concept _{like, you know, mospeada :V though I don't think that has a video game, so...}

It's a long ways back, apparently, but trying to catch up with the wtf thread I noticed this:

Back on topic[And ironically, completely uninspired by the current discussion], I've just caught myself typing "they" instead of traditional gendered pronouns when I need to use the latter for an RP. Given that I very much doubt that singular they is accepted in academic circles just yet, this could be a problem in future schooling. My WTF here is that I've already managed to ingrain an entirely new brand of sentence structure on myself in only 4-5 months.

Arc, academic writing is where I picked up the habit of using they and otherwise nongendered pronouns. If you can still manage to get your point across using them, do so. You'll be fine so long as you don't run into some crazy or another.

I'd probably even recommend it, because the use is likely to continue to normalize, and you might as well get in the habit now.

Also:

I'd definately like to replace my poorly functioning right hand for sure, and if I could get a left eye that works, that's also great. But really that's all that's important to me there.

You're very much not far off. We have (pretty poorly) functioning cybernetic hands now (hell, we networked monkey brains together to move a simulated one this year, I think, or last), and barely functional low resolution cybernetic eyes got something workable within the last year or five. Tech's still got a fair ways to go, but if you have the money for it you'll probably be able to upgrade from what you currently have within the next decade or so. We're real damn close to giving the outright blind near-normal vision, and re-limbing the amputated to a near-baseline (or better) level. Medical science is doing some crazy shit right now.

Except practically they're not, at least in every bit of writing I've encountered. I've literally never seen thus used in the way being discussed. Have seen thusly, very rarely.

Probably better to just not use either like that, though. They're approaching archaic at this point, and that particular use is more than a little clumsy.