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What kind of God shows off by killing a fig tree?

I mean, it's rather obnoxious and....silly.

Maybe it was a really kickass fig tree? Like, that tree was what actually happened to Chronos and Zeus was just lying so everyone wouldn't fear the nigh infinitely mighty figging that awaited them in the middle east.

Sweet fuck can we not have the starbound's thread incessant dead horse beating migrate over here, please?

Heh. Yeah, I remember things like that actually crashing the game, back during one of the periods monster generation was freaking insane, especially on the 11+ depth levels. You'd have something like five or six dozen classed monsters roaming around a single level (most of them hostile to each other), with the ridiculously huge piles of associated loot that would get gathered up by whatever survived the melee (but probably not the player swooping in afterwards, of course). Loot lists a couple hundred items long and whatnot.

Pretty sure I've had games end with like 100+ stacks of potions of extra-healing (not plain healing, mind -- that's not impossible even without challenge difficulty -- extra-healing, the next step up) and such silliness, it got pretty great. Eventually toned down because it was freaking insane to walk onto a level with several dozen classed monsters and an equal or greater amount of non-classed (but probably still otherwise templated) ones, including many dragons or whatev'.

No, no, that can be one-up'd. Giant squid.

Admittedly, beyond the chance of being eaten, that has the possibility of backfiring into a reputation for a tentacle fetish, but... maybe that would be an improvement?

... which makes me glad there's no obstacles for me, haha!

Honestly, it's probably a good thing I don't actually watch much anime and have a definite preference towards the salacious in my entertainment. Even after well over a decade of fairly regular interaction with stuff of such nature, I'm still happily not burnt out. Or at least haven't managed to do so more than temporarily.

I barely even notice, some days. The first half of ep. 7 just had me kinda' cheerfully grinning.

... but yeah, those not desensitized to the stuff baug's (rightfully) complaining about might should stay away. I can't blame them, but I have no shame maintaining my original statement, either.

I want to make fake reviews for fake books now

No, no, what you really want to do is make fake reviews for fake performance enhancing drugs.

"So powerful it pierced the veil of time to make a dead man hard for six centuries straight."
-Lazarus, secret caretaker of Jesus Christ's corpse

"It really is the greatest aphrodisiac I allowed to be created by man."
-YWHW

"When I came across Buddha on the path, he had been dead for six hours with a smile on his face."
-Lao Tzu

I know I fixate on the blobs a bit -- pretty willing to raid with thugs/SCs or whatev', but moving a relatively small army into enemy territory is just... hard.

The biggest issue t'me is being able to figure out what's big enough -- being able to take five provinces a turn doesn't matter if five turns later your entire force has been defeated piecemeal and it takes 5+ more to recuperate your losses, all while whatever offered up your defeat in detail rampages around unchecked. Especially given that while a 100 troop 3 mage army may be able to take a province (often easily, depending on PD and defending forces), whatever's left behind probably won't be able to keep it. And while constant raiding is a very, very good thing to be doing (both for the economic effect and how demoralizing it can be for an opponent), it's not, in itself, necessarily going to win the game for you. And the economic effect of it can become very diluted if you're constantly losing your raid groups (of course, that makes the reanimating or domsum nations very attractive for multi-group attacks, since they don't really pay much for their junk).

What's actually nice about the end game is by that point you should (hopefully, and contingent to your nation) have a lot of options for dealing with enemy armies off the main battlefield. Assassins, remote attack spells of both the direct (damaging/assassinating) and indirect (weather/supply targeting/disease, etc) sorts, the as-noted bypassing (if giant army barrels into your nation, hop flying SC/thug(s) a province or two behind them and just clean up after the mess), globals such as vengeful waters, etc., etc. Short of nasty stuff like an SC trapezing in and setting up a lab for an incoming gateway(s), large armies are very... inflexible. Slow, and vulnerable to said defeat in detail if they split up to deal with multi-pronged attacks.

... but yeah, as for actual formations, if it's reached the point the blob is battlefield wide I tend to just say screw it and let it blob. Put casters where they can hit stuff with gift of flight or somethin' or just let the non-caster/unimportant troops get chewed up while the other stuff do their work. At that point I don't really seem them as means of offense so much as ablative HP shields for my actually important stuff, and at that point their placement becomes... less important. _{I have, however, played a disproportionate amount of chaff heavy nations in SP games, which definitely influences that tendency.}