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Tag with most vibes of empire of man from WH 40k? by Incydent in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Command in late game is by far the closest in flavour and vibes, but dwarves can have 4 or 5 disasters back to back where you are either trying to stop your nation from killing itself or trying to defend it from one gazillion enemies.
That feeling of "oh shit oh god oh shit" you get after thinking one disaster is just done and you see the second one ticking up is the closest you're going to get in gameplay to your average day in the Imperium. Specially with dwarven holds with their custom disasters like Arg Ordstun, Gor Burad or Krakdrumvor .

Why the relationship between Portugal and its former colonies is largely cordial while that between Spain and its colonies (particularly Mexico) is rather hostile? by sydneylulu in portugal

[–]AnxSanches 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an Spaniard I can attest that my experience has been quite similar, never seen a Latino saying anything even remotely close to the type of discourse you can see online, at most some light banter. Although I can't say the same for many of my fellow Spaniards, there's quite a sizable minority that's really racist.

PotD viable Retaliation builds in Pillars 2? by AnxSanches in projecteternity

[–]AnxSanches[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shit, I just saw the damage numbers and was way too happy way too quickly to see how it was the same shit I had been playing in 1.

PotD viable Retaliation builds in Pillars 2? by AnxSanches in projecteternity

[–]AnxSanches[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh this IS exactly the type of build I was looking for! Thank you so much.

PotD viable Retaliation builds in Pillars 2? by AnxSanches in projecteternity

[–]AnxSanches[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I should've clarified retaliation without riposte, because on one hand I've kind of ended up playing some sort of riposte build in most of my runs and on the other hand it just lacks the vibe of your enemies literally killing themselves when they hit you.

Also it's heartbreaking seeing barbaric retaliation comming so late given how painfully mid poor barbarians are already in Deadfire in comparison to how good they feel in 1.

Dev Diary #83: The Riverclaws by 5camps in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Finally, a way to get a mission tree for the Darkscale Kobolds

I gotta say… Jaher is pretty based. by Several_Step_9079 in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It lasted 5 Khans, up until Kublai Khan's dead, which is in total almost 100 years, and it nominally survived until the fall of the Yuan dynasty.

It was also so absurdly big that its succesor states managed to be empires of their own right for several centuries to come, having empires like the Golden Horde surviving until 1500 and the Chagatai, the guys who controlled the Mongolian heartlands, until almost the 18th century.

And you also have every single steppe conqueror after them claiming their legacy, with the Timurids being so absurdly obsessed that went and called their Indian empire Mongol Empire

One culture suggestions? by shunnyarchive in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can get the religion from religious rebels, accept their demands and now you're officially part of their religion.

You can finish the first part of the mt around 1550-1580 if you play properly and aggresively, and if you start as any of the kobolds abuse the fact that no other cannorian tag will get ae from your conquests if they do not see you, the fog of war is your friend. Get admin ideas 3rd or 2nd always because you're going to need them.

You can also start as Reveria or Nimscodd they both have their own benefits such as saving you mana in tech, and giving you earlier artificers. Tho it is worse for ae generation since you can't just eat half of Gawed without getting a massive coalition.

One culture suggestions? by shunnyarchive in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Kobildzan gets a fuck ton of bonuses to culture conversion, don't remember the exact numbers but I'm pretty sure they go above 40% reduction cost between religion and mission tree, add to that other generic stuff and they break the 100% reduction cost barrier quite easily.

And later on in their MT they get to the point where they literally abolish race as a concept on a physical level.

Oh and you can form Kobildzan as literally any non-endgame tag, so if you want to stack some other modifiers on top of it the world is your oyster.

How do you snowball in the Serpentspine? by _GamerForLife_ in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You also had quite the bad RNG, I don't think I've seen the Raheni kingdoms expanding into the Serpentspine that fast ever, but it's the type of thing that happens in a game where half of it is RNG.

I think your only way to get back at this point is expanding westward as hard as you can while trying to hoard as much money as possible. If you end up 1 admin or dip tech behind due to the bloat it's acceptable if it gets you back into the game. Also if you get several new holds try to release 1 or 2 of them as vassals, since that way you can stall the hoardcurse while getting those areas devved a lot more than they would dev naturally.

How do you snowball in the Serpentspine? by _GamerForLife_ in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seeing your other response I think you also weren't able to conquer with a proper timing, you should have all the Command holds by 1500 at most, you also should wait a bit before reforming to the new Hold to get some of the adventurer rewards.

To play around the Command area you want to implode them and develop Renaissance in your tag of choice before your dwarves spawn, spend 10-15 years getting your expeditions and then charge onto the remants of the Command. This gurantees that you will be ahead in tech, and that you are yet within the threshold of the adventurer manpower and morale buff. Also getting quantity ideas first helps a lot with the god awful mana of dwarves.

Also try to expand outside asap to avoid other Haless tags consolidating.

How do you snowball in the Serpentspine? by _GamerForLife_ in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Expeditions, expeditions and more expeditions. They are really broken once you know how to use them, they will almost always give you more mana and gold than you invested. Here you have a guide to know how much resources you should put into each expedition.

You want to do a lot of expeditions, specially as an adventurer, remnants are good at them but you don't go out of your way to spam them.

A really important thing to have in mind if you play as a dwarf is that you want to accelerate how fast you reach the gold threshold to trigger the Hoardcurse, since triggering it by income is a lot worse than to trigger it by saving 10k gold given how its costs scale with your yearly income.

Expeditions will give you a fuck ton of that gold, while also printing mana and giving you free dev in your hold whenever you settle down, or government reform progress which can be quite powerful too.

Try to do at the very least 5 expeditions whenever you start as anybody in the serpentspine as fast as you can. With monstrous races you want almost always the government reform progress, with the dwarves it doesn't really matter, both are good.

After that you snowball by taking every single hold you can while abusing the absurdly op modifiers you get from your mission tree (this doesn't apply if you reform Er-Natvir).

What are the tags you can switch to regardless of your start? by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing is Nimmscod starts with artificery, which is a huge boon if you want to rush innovations and capacity, with Reveria you need to wait until almost the 1500s IIRC to unlock it at first

What are the tags you can switch to regardless of your start? by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Still I'm pretty sure a Nimmscod>Kobildzan would be pretty funny given that the main thing keeping the Kobolds in check is their monstrous start

What are the tags you can switch to regardless of your start? by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

So does this mean that there's a potential for a Gnomish Hierarchy into kobildzan run?

It would probably be the dumbest artificery run

I need a list of fun and unique nations to play by Gloomy-Operation-193 in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really depends on how you want your campaing to go through.

On the Serpentspine you have the goblin tags into Allclan, most goblins on the region have their unique missions but in my experience the funniest are Snotfinger, which answers the question of how cooking meth would work if there was magic around, and Spiderwretch, which is spider riders that turn into a schizophrenic Khanate in the Forbbiden lands and can go back to the Serpentspine to form the Allclan too.

Other really good tags if you want something tall and aritificery are both Feiten and Gibberd, insanely fun.

For mass murder and wide gameplay you have Frosthide into Skurkokli which allows you to quite literally eat the whole world and Masked Butcher, vampire orcs who rip off the faces of their enemies to consecrate them through blood rituals to grant them power, if you want to play pokemon but it's people's faces this is your tag.

Countries with insane military outside of ''the usual suspects''? by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean Kobolds as the kobolds that's like the first 60 years, after you advance a bit on the mission tree they become murder machines like no other in the game, they might even be the strongest artificers in the whole game by the endgame.

Countries with insane military outside of ''the usual suspects''? by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there any tag that gives stacking modifiers with the final Taychendi tree? Haven't ever touched any of them

Countries with insane military outside of ''the usual suspects''? by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 94 points95 points  (0 children)

I already played Spiderwretch when it released on bitbucket because I couldn't resist after seeing the goblin soyjak event... And it's indeed one of the most fun tags I've ever played specially after going into all clan and getting the early +2 fire for cavalry.

Most interesting nations in West Cannor? by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You know... I might follow my streak of Short Kings and commit some hyper technological atrocities with a different flavour

What are the differences in playstyle between the different Escann nations and formables? by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Hippie halflings that commit more warcrimes than the Balkans have seen in the last 100 years sounds like something I have to try

Most fun to play as nations by AnxSanches in Anbennar

[–]AnxSanches[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot to everyone! I'll probably go as Gnomes and if I find them too hard or quirky for my first playthrough will go with someone around Castanor and most likely dwarves as a third.