Bay 12 Games Forum

Christmas monies acquired, it's looking like I'll be able to offer something up sometime later this week. Current thought is to throw up a copy of Eador: Genesis from GOG... I'm thinking Saturday. Will give me enough time to rustle up something able to buy online. If web (or metalax, I guess ) doesn't mind going over the twenty five days thing, anyway. So, taking on sign-ups for a pretty darn awesome (if delightfully brutal) TBS!

World, why you spin?

Think it's allergy related, I'unno. Madre has seasonal vertigo. I never have before but who knows if it's something that starts happening as you get older. Point being I'm now kinda' dizzy and the world is spinning a bit. Unpleasant way to spend an afternoon. Hopefully it'll just wear off. Fucking hate medicating anything.

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Pretty much everyone here's roomates. Said roomates make me want to beat them with a very large wrench.

Are they irritating or just masochists?

I meant the roommates of Bay12ers.

Y'know, I'm not looking forward to uni, now.

I have a feeling B12ers are cursed with shitty roommates.

Nah. I've been through... seven? So far. And all were at least tolerable. Even the homeschooled dude from a hyper-religious background (that one was actually pretty cool. We talked philosophy off and on, and the dude ditched a religious university to... well, attend a co-ed campus basically.), both the fairly heavy drug users (one of which, an aspiring rapper), and the one going through officer training with the... uh. Army? Or air force. I think the latter. And the one that woke up screaming like, a fifth of the times he went to sleep. Folks have generally been either pretty chill and civil and/or usually out of the room, so... yeah. S'been alright.

I keep thinking either I've been doing something incredibly right or getting ridiculously lucky. Probably the latter, but... still. B12 folks aren't entirely cursed with shitty roommates. There's exceptions.

Rap... I think about that stuff pretty often. Big thing to me about rap is its pedigree is fucking amazing. You've got jazz/R&B/soul, rock, african-american gospel, and african percussion (which does some pretty damned impressive stuff) as strong instrumental aspects, beat poetry and the combined vocal history of both the european (Coming in via religious choral stuff and the gospel angle) and african vocal traditions as primary vocal/lyrical influence. With a history like that, by all rights the genre should be capable of producing shit that blows the mind. I mean, it has consistently failed to among the stuff I've heard so far, but...

So I keep giving it chances and... there's been a few that are solid. Not amazing, per se, but solid. I've gotten where I leave four or five on my music playlists -- nothing trending along bands, but some individual songs that are strong enough to pass muster. E: Though some of them aren't in languages I can understand. It's kinda' amusing how much not understanding the lyrics can improve some songs

I... just realized that rap is my musical equivalent to Aeon of Strife-style (DotA, etc, for a popular example) video games. Huh. Occupies the same niche of, "Why the hell is this not amazing!?"

Frumple has gained skill increase: Baking!

Secrets learned: Tiny icecream scoop makes excellent dough balls!
An effective way to flatten cookies without taking part of the cookie with you!

Items gained: Batch of gingersnap cookies.
Pound and a half of chocolate fudge.

Damage taken: One slightly burnt toe.

Overall results: Excellent!

Yeah, I'd have trouble giving solid advice... best bet I could think of, just going by what you've said, would be heavy-in on elves and tie on a range-spec commander. If you can get ranged tactics or whatev' to 5, the elves get another pip of range and can outrange the ballistas (providing they don't have a similarly equipped commander, anyway...). First turn mass fire on the ogres, second turn snipe any ballista that advance to get into range. Alternate like that until everything's dead (hopefully on their side ). A full elf party should pretty easily take down 3-4 ogres in the first volley (I've managed that with a half-party of moderately [<10] level bowmen, and elves are notably stronger), and be able to tank some ballista hits (especially if the commander's also got defensive tactics maxed, or some +ranged def stuff. Double bonus if you're in a forest province or can bait a lot of ballistas with an elf on a forest tile). in order to murder the ogres before they get in melee range.

Ogres are one of the higher ranked critters I just wouldn't try to tank, realistically -- that active ability of theirs just does ridiculous melee damage. Sniping at range is the way to go (forest or swamp provinces would probably be ideal fighting grounds, to slow 'em up a bit.) if you can manage it.

As for the warrior, vulnerability (and possibly a shaman for curse, to double-up) and a full elf volley should be able to either one or two round the bugger, especially if the elves have some piercing shot levels.

General point being elves are freaking hardcore lower rank ranged units. Try abusing that.

It's weird, knowing that rapid extinction may well be off the table.

Hey, we can continue to cling to the whole potential environmental problems! We've got that, I'd say.

'Course, the problem with that is that with nukes we had a pretty good idea what'd happen if things actually did go down, and then whens and whys and hows of it going down. Environmental issues, we're still kinda' guessing in a lot of ways and not really sure how bad it's going to get. Guess that makes a difference.

S'also probably not quite a culturally, hrm... pervasive. Yeah, that'll work. S'not as culturally pervasive a worry, yet. Predictions fulfilled as predicted or worse a few (more) times and kick people in the ass and we might start worrying about it more unilaterally.

Kinda' makes me wonder what kind of reaction it'd cause. Nukes seemed to do well to leading toward, what, xenophobia? Other stuff? Whereas biosphere degradation is more of a widespread, pan-continental/national problem. Less PvP, more PvE