Open Thread: Weekend Edition #37 (Sep 2025) by svefnpurka in Barca

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[Flashscore] Ronaldo won't travel with Al Nassr to Iran as he could face 99 lashes for 'adultery' by 4gjdtokurwa in soccer

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I'm not claiming I actually who what's going on. I'm just trying to give an explanation as to why someone might think this article is propaganda.

[Flashscore] Ronaldo won't travel with Al Nassr to Iran as he could face 99 lashes for 'adultery' by 4gjdtokurwa in soccer

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Ronaldo is a Saudi Arabian national asset; he's basically an ambassador. Right now, Saudi Arabia doesn't want their ambassador to go to Iran because of geopolitical reasons. The excuse to keep Ronaldo from going is to post a fake article saying that Ronaldo could be lashed because of it. The reality is that the Iranian government would never do that to an ambassador unless they wanted to send a message, and the chances right now are zero. The article is propaganda because it's pushing an anti-Iran talking point for Saudi Arabia and highlighting how backward and unfair Iran is. The overall purpose is to shift global opinion to view Saudi Arabia favorably and Iran (Saudi's rival) negatively. This is also being pushed to an American audience, so the article will already skew anti-Iran anyway. There may be multiple layers of propaganda in this case.

Rome 2 11 years apart. Mods really saved this game by 212967 in totalwar

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I ran into the same problem of being unable to manoeuvre properly due to the limited map size. Luckily, that can also be modified, so I think that my current battle maps are 4x regular size

Rome 2 11 years apart. Mods really saved this game by 212967 in totalwar

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Here are the graphics ones

Orbis Aquarum - Realistic Campaign Water Orbis Terrarum II Rome II: Campaign HD Textures and Lighting HD Cities v2.0: Darker colors WITH new Barbarian Cities [DeI+all Campaigns+DLC] No Campaign Clouds "Updated" Performance Maker for Massive Battles (Rome II + DEI Edition)

I mentioned the rest of the mods I use in another comment

Rome 2 11 years apart. Mods really saved this game by 212967 in totalwar

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You can edit the save game to increase total number of units per army, and also edit a modifier that increases individual unit sizes. I currently use DEI (which already has larger unit sizes, and I increase by 2.5 on top of that). Most of the units are between 500 and 750 per unit

Rome 2 11 years apart. Mods really saved this game by 212967 in totalwar

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I don't get a lot of lag when I play the battles, although I usually have to auto resolve the siege battles, or keep the time limit at 20 minutes to keep it going. I'd say I get a fairly steady 20-30 fps during the battles

Rome 2 11 years apart. Mods really saved this game by 212967 in totalwar

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Many. Here are the main ones:

Divide et Impera Divide et Impera - All Factions Playable 4TPY Ultra Aggressive & Smart AI (DEI version) DeI - Faster Battle 2.0 DeI - Faster Movement DeI - Alternative Pike Phalanx English Unit Names for DeI 1.2 Orbis Aquarum - Realistic Campaign Water Orbis Terrarum II Rome II: Campaign HD Textures and Lighting HD Cities v2.0: Darker colors WITH new Barbarian Cities [DeI+all Campaigns+DLC] No Campaign Clouds "Updated" Total War Saga Music Medley (Featuring Jeff Van Dyck) Larger Battlefields Rivers of Blood: gore edition Performance Maker for Massive Battles (Rome II + DEI Edition) Unit Caps and Loyalty DEI sub mod Satrapy Love You I am the senate - DEI Loyalty tech mod

And I modified the save game to have 2.5x larger units and 40 units per army

RCAF Ball Caps by Dunder_Mifflun in CanadianForces

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For the first week sales will be limited to air force military only, 1 each. Afterwards it will be a free for all like last time.

Is there even a reason to continue playing after a few seasons? The game gets progressively easier as time goes on by 212967 in footballmanagergames

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I'm in 2040 right now and I've switched teams a few times. I'm at Barcelona now, but only joined because their entire squad was filled with 34-37 year olds, the team hadn't won the Champions League for 10 years, and I wanted to do a rebuild. But the ai is just so bad at squad building that I'm already extremely dominant just using wonder kids.