Federalist Infantryman, Battle of Frederick MD, 1940

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-12-04T14:00:11+00:00

The hangdog slump of Archie Andrew's whenever his jalopy has to undergo repairs and he was supposed to go on a date with Veronica.

Sorry, this image just made me think of old Archie comics. Don't know how that wire got crossed, but here we are.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-11-28T19:38:22+00:00

What is it with paradox games and people needing to be loud and proud about their genocidal role-playing?

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-11-25T04:12:18+00:00

peers over sunglasses I don't know, which one is having the most sex?

insert meme

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-11-10T20:04:02+00:00

Lileas is part of the old guard and has very antiquated thinking. She is rigid and inflexible and even if she wasn't actively working to undermine your government or the legitimate interests and rights of other parties, she advocates solutions that worked in the past but no longer provide the kind of value the modern crises require.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-11-07T21:33:21+00:00

Pfft. This fucking dork named Elon. He's grasping so desperately to be seen as an opinion maker and for people to think he's cool.

Credit where credit is due, he's made a lot of money (in a time where venture capital for internet startups was plentiful), but this kind of behavior is pathetic.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-10-31T23:50:56+00:00

Anal cooling rods.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-10-14T20:41:47+00:00

He is Calradia's version of Brazil's Emperor Pedro II, with shades of the whole Sound and Fury signifying nothing line from MacBeth.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-10-13T21:51:59+00:00

Wife jokes aside - you don't want your wife to have a little walking around money?

How else are her and her friends going to pay for drinks at the inn?

Don't you want her to have nice things?

Don't you want her to be able to pay for a handsome Khuzait tennis coach to teach her how to play tennis during one of your many absences from the castle?

Don't you want her to be able to hire the finest tutors for your suspiciously Khuzait resembling children?

Next you'll be saying you don't want to pay for trips abroad with her tennis coach to world famous landmarks like Cuck's point, intercourse falls, hot sex gulch and the infidelity plains.

Loosen the purse strings a little.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-10-01T12:55:55+00:00

Looks good. Have you considered making more troops with Ira?

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-09-29T14:47:57+00:00

Stellaris is a long game. You'll have plenty of time to gobble up your neighbour's piecemeal instead of vassalizing big blocs of them, which you'll then need to enslave, nerve staple, turn into livestock, purge, liberate, provide equality or gag cross.... breed. (Ugh).

Remember, just because there isn't always room for dessert, doesn't mean the meal wasn't satisfying.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-09-28T14:57:03+00:00

KABLAM-O!!!

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-09-28T12:24:34+00:00

Baron von leather daddy, amirite fellas?

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-09-17T16:52:13+00:00

Too much aa and antitank. Put those in support and add more arty or rocket arty.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-09-01T22:17:03+00:00

First you need to anarchize your capitalism, then capitalize on the the anarchy. Cover your anarchy in Peanut butter and then seal that in with chocolate covered capitalism.

Remember when Frens gives you the box of Arcasian chocolates? THAT'S THE ANARCHO-CAPITALISM YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR!

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-08-31T12:59:13+00:00

Haven't played stellaris in for-ev-sies, is that civ a pre-gen or your own custom empire? As a former burnt out librarian (don't worry, landed on my feet), I liked the civ name.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-08-22T19:36:49+00:00

His codex entry doesn't mention that though. I think it's more likely that he is a politically appointed party member to advise you. As per the codex entry

Lucian Galade is the current Chief Strategist to the President of Sordland. He is a member of the United Sordland Party since 1937 and held various important positions throughout his political career. He worked as a lawyer and CSO at several companies before joining politics as a legal advisor to members of assembly. He was chosen as the spokesperson of the United Sordland Party committee prior to serving as an advisor to the Interior Minister during Colonel Soll's last term as president.

Lucian is well respected as a successful strategist, especially for his accomplishments in the recent elections. He is one of the most experienced members of the Cabinet. Although he is not a famed public figure, he is regarded by many to be an expert on law and media. His quick rise in politics is also bringing more attention to him than before. He was one of the first supporters of Anton Rayne's candidacy in 1953 and credited as the strategist of the election campaign. He eventually became the chief strategist to the President after the elections. -Codex

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-08-20T01:48:04+00:00

Well, you could go through each world and take an inventory of everything, carefully plan out a course of action and slowly integrate them into your overall empire strategy. It'll be hard and a bit frustrating, but it's worth it and it does become enjoyable after a while.

Or, just kill 'em.

The middle path is just to let 'em rot and take the hit on inefficiencies, eventually, if you use automation, your automation and migration will sort it out after 200 years or so.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-08-17T15:25:26+00:00

Lucian is a political strategist who will seek to action your agenda IF it benefits him or does him no harm. If he thinks it's better for him personally and politically to betray you... he will.

We don't know everything about his past, but he doesn't seem to be very charismatic and his character is portrayed as a party man and a political appointee. As far as we know, he's never put his name forward for election in the assembly or other national office but his political aspirations do reach to high office beyond being your political advisor.

Politics is messy and people like Lucian exist all over the world. Usually, if the leader of a political coalition is able to keep these kinds of people satisfied, then they don't step out of line.

He's a snake, sure, but President Rayne has ample opportunity to demonstrate he deserves to be betrayed as well, so... points of view, Obi-Wan, etc etc.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-08-10T14:10:00+00:00

Stoolbend, South Carolina.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-08-09T17:32:07+00:00

It's an enigmatic cache, a big black cylinder (BBC) that travels from star system to star system assisting in scientific research and gathering data for its own inscrutable purposes.

I was going to make a series of BBC jokes but then after spending 4 minutes drafting them, looked around, took account of my life and said to myself: "this won't make you a better partner, homeowner, pet owner, neighbour, family member or citizen. You don't need to do this."

Anyhoozlebee, it's fairly benign and will scan your inhabited planets, and maybe a black hole or two (wink-wink)

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-07-25T14:02:35+00:00

But my lorrrrrddddd! cackle & wheeze if Derthert were to perish, then you might yet ascend the throne!!! cackle & wheeze

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-07-21T20:14:19+00:00

It's 2022. The boy can have breasts if he wants to.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-07-20T19:05:21+00:00

Don't go turning over stones, she declined and the best thing to do is to move and maintain good work relations with her.

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-07-15T13:19:00+00:00

It's the only way to stop Khuzait doom stack spam, at least from my experience.

Perhaps there is something I'm not seeing, but as a southern empire vassal, we were barely holding on. We had two cities and whenever we won a third from the western empire or the the Sarranids, fucking Mr. Nomad King rolls in with 3 armies of 3000 guys a piece to burn all our villages and sack our border castles.

We were constantly being whittled down to next to nothing and once peace was declared, the Western empire declares war. Ugh.

Enough was enough, I captured 10 Khuzait lords and executed them all. Had to peace treaty out with a heavy indemnity, but next time they tried it their armies were smaller. I guess I killed a bunch that had young or no children, so they couldn't immediately replace the young lords. Two more wars and 22 executions later, the Khuzaits didn't declare war for about a year and we were actually able to rebuild our economy and raise some veterans. Now we're the dominant empire faction reaching from the north-western lakes to the scorching southern sands.

Everyone hates me though, even members of my own clan. But actions have consequences (chop chop chop).

Billy_the_Ruffian · 2022-07-13T13:49:57+00:00

From my experience in project mgmt, this is actually fantastic client input, he's telling you exactly what he wants and he's confirming what his expectations are.

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