Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Messages - Frumple

Pages: 1 ... 1237 1238 [1239] 1240 1241 ... 1929
18571
*wails* Why does the thing have to be so grotesquely phallic? Why!? I didn't want to contemplate the existence of the Lesser Ribbed Dongtoad! And now I am! It has teeth. Its existence makes my existence worse off!

18572
It's the same person though :o
... who is that, anyway?

18573
Other Games / Re: UFO: Afterlight
« on: May 30, 2014, 03:11:58 pm »
Seerrriously, pretty sure it's laser damage that bypasses most of its toughness or whathaveyou. If you've got a dual-pistol character, carrying a double-alien-pistol-thing backup can chew through 'em quick.

18574
Other Games / Re: Its called "AI War: Fleet Command"
« on: May 30, 2014, 01:24:51 pm »
And yeah, I can note that bionic dues is pretty nice. Runs out of replayability pretty quickly -- which is kinda' hilarious for a roguelike -- but quite decent. We've got a thread for it running around here, somewhere.

18575
Other Games / Re: UFO: Afterlight
« on: May 30, 2014, 09:27:48 am »
They really kinda' are. Iirc, either a nice laser or psi weapon can deal with them fairly easily, though. Having someone (though probably only one -- the attachments and whatnot the ballistic weapons almost always outperform, after a point) with backup beam dakka is usually a good idea, if you can manage it.

Aliens are really nice, actually. That infinite ranged heal is incredible, and the psi-gun packs a major punch once you've got a trained up critter. Good stuff.

18576
Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: May 30, 2014, 05:58:53 am »
Yeah, I'm not actually sure if I'd want to go rainbow with an abysian pretender. Not quite sure what I'd be looking for (I mean, a decent high earth would be nice for making my ridiculously tough troopers moreso later on -- armies of foo -- as would decent N for GoH.), but it would probably 3/4 in 1-3 (Not fire/blood, probably not astral -- Abysia's got native S3 via one out of ten cap'd warlocks) paths... maybe less, depending on booster access for said path. At the very least, instead of going 2 across the board, I'd be tailoring it to boosters -- water could be left at 1 (gets to 3 without much difficulty, and can go even higher if you burn some artifacts on it) pretty easily, ferex, but other stuff might be able to stand being higher. Not so much looking for a site-searcher (though that would help, early on), but rather a ritualist -- someone to summon more diverse battle casters/summoners. Or a forger, too... elemental staves would probably be pretty nice on your anointed if you could wrangle 'em. Expensive, but being able to easily turn your anoints into E4 or E5 (boots, earth power)...

Problem being that if you did run for staves, you'd be having either a fire or earth overlap with your nationals. Not exactly the worst thing (at least for earth -- fire would be kinda' wasteful), but eh.

18577
Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: May 30, 2014, 04:07:09 am »
T... doesn't look like making skull staves would help you produce those ethereal critters any. Have to have at least base proficiency in a path for a booster to, well, boost.

Honestly, I'm kinda' wonder what's up with those guys. F/D is not something that's common, and EA Abysia seems to have no access to it whatsoever.

18578
Other Games / Re: Incursion
« on: May 30, 2014, 03:31:38 am »
Rangers are supposed to get extra feats -- their "combat style" stuff listed in the manual -- if they're wearing light or no armor. Mithril armor is supposed to bring armor down a category (heavy to medium, medium to light, light to no) for the purposes of... well, basically everything, iirc, though I could definitely be misremembering that bit and you'd want to check the description of the mithril quality to be sure. As such, a ranger wearing medium mithril armor should still qualify for its extra feats, but presumably does not -- I can't remember/figure out an easy way to generate mithril armor to check whether it's actually happening or what the description of the mithril quality is, ha.

18579
Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: May 30, 2014, 02:52:44 am »
They've got enough sacred casters (and sufficient astral access besides -- strike that, all of your warlocks and 1/10th your annoited can make shrouds) that a minor earth bless probably wouldn't hurt. Definitely wouldn't suggest going in for a Burning One bless -- beyond the cost of 'em, and the capital-only, they're also slow. Map-move 1 is almost always a terrible thing to be relying on, on the strategic level. Admittedly, most of the rest of your stuff is move 1, too, but it's mostly recruit-anywhere. Lot more flexibility, there.

As for a rainbow pretender, it wouldn't be the worst idea. EA Abysia has pretty terrible spell access. They've got good fire and sufficient blood, but their next highest after that is S2, with everything else (everything else being... earth.) being 1. Having someone that can summon up some casters for, say... air, water, nature, or death, wouldn't exactly be a bad thing and would offer a hella' lot more flexibility for the nation. Sure, you can do a lot with blood, but...

18580
Ooh, sounds fun. Kick a jellyfish for me.

18581
General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: May 29, 2014, 10:51:32 pm »
No, no, I think the only explanation here is that Yoink's hooch is so bad he's gone blind enough he can no longer taste. Don't ask how it happened, overindulgence can do that to a person.

18582
General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: May 29, 2014, 10:17:46 pm »
You forgot "loss of inhibitions". I have a lot of those stupid things.
I noted loss of conscience and control already, ha.

Quote
If you don't like beer/other alcohol because of the taste, I recommend you try cider. At least once. C'mon. For me?
Cider tastes just fine without alcohol in it. No need to ruin delicious hot spicy apple juice with ethanol :P

18583
General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: May 29, 2014, 09:59:04 pm »
Being drunk is the single best feeling ever. :-\
People are really bad at selling it, then. I've never heard any description of it that wasn't closer to a nightmare than anything else. Loss of control, loss of coordination, loss of conscience, and not a damned thing gained from it.

Quote
My sad is that there are so many people on here who dislike alcohol. I mean, seriously, what? Have you never tasted a good beer?
Never tasted one, at all, and never will. I've watched entirely too many families, including my own, get wrecked by the stuff to even chance the slightest risk of getting hooked on it. M'not exactly virulently hateful of the stuff anymore -- though I was for a long, long time -- but you'll put a bullet in me before you put a brew. Only reason I comment at all is that despite a great deal of effort and a massive amount of wishing, I've still been around the stuff quite a lot in my life :-\

18584
Vengeful Water broke 5k gold damage this turn.* It's incredibly minor and somewhat spiteful, but I find myself oddly cheered by being able to do that much damage with so few provinces, casters, and income. I kinda' like this spell, though in retrospect it was a fairly terrible mistake -- I really should have cast maelstrom instead, ha. Wasn't expecting to last long enough to profit from it, really.

P.S. Please continue burning resources on the weakest and least capable faction, Mict. I'm sure with Arga and the deadbros rampaging around you can afford the cost :P
P.P.S. That was a joke. Please go kill them instead of me ;_;

*Yes, I've got a spreadsheet and I'm keeping a tally. 72 commanders and 10 bodyguards, so far. Totally going to release it once everything's said and done. Only thing approaching note I've managed, ha.

18585
Growing up is terrifying. I'm all for having a job and being responsible, but does that have to come at the cost of my lack of maturity at large?
It does not, and those that say it does are sad, silly people. Reject their nonsense, and enjoy life as you have enjoyed it.

Pages: 1 ... 1237 1238 [1239] 1240 1241 ... 1929