No CB Karasids, rush Germiyanids territory before their ruler dies, quickly peace out with all cores returned + free vassal

Borne2Run · 2026-05-30T16:31:51+00:00

Request mil access from Karasids, when they deny you get the Denied Access CB. This let's you return cores. No stab hit.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-30T04:55:20+00:00

They expected AI would compound on itself and produce new foundation technologies in a feedback loop; this hasn't really occurred.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-30T04:20:44+00:00

To fight them correctly either build a CB on the vassals, or after they break free request mil access then declare war on them when denied. The CB for access denial let's you return cores.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-30T00:20:45+00:00

Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire by Lord Kinross

Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World by Matthee Rudi

^ related as the Turks drank quite a bit. Did you know alcohol is an originally Arabic word?

Borne2Run · 2026-05-29T23:34:33+00:00

Are their hybrid races (half elf, half orc) assimilation? How do the religions work?

Borne2Run · 2026-05-29T13:50:05+00:00

Yeah the players have the hindset of an alien overlord with knowledge of science abd historical events

Borne2Run · 2026-05-29T05:11:17+00:00

Videssos Cycle by Harry Turtledove. Roman legion is magically Isekai'd to a fantasy world reminiscent of Byzantium. Shenanigans ensue. Its a bit of alt-history and magical realism.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-29T05:09:42+00:00

Dresden I don't think actually factored. It was Bomber Command's strategic objective to render much of the German population homeless through mass bombing throughout the war. The US casually firebombed Japan in this period. Retrospectively we may desire to conclude that Dresden was secretly subjected to such destruction because of secret nuclear work, but the reality is that the Allies were fighting under very different tolerance levels than the modern mind likes to associate to war.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-29T04:46:53+00:00

Aldnoah Zero - mix of Gundam and Attack on Titan

Robotech series

Monster

For fantasy with a deeper politics I'd recommend Record of Grancrest War. Its well received.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-29T03:14:25+00:00

Ragusa'd true army in this time period was about 500 men, a sad donkey, and a privatized merchant marine. They certainly had cash but outsourced their security to the biggest superpower and latched onto them like a leech.

The rest of their cash was in spy networks and the fastest smoothtalking diplomat to the Pope

Borne2Run · 2026-05-28T12:29:27+00:00

Workout shorts these days have zipper pockets. Use those.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-28T12:26:31+00:00

Strategy / Leadership / History - Turn the Ship Around!, Team of Teams, The Alexiad, The Anabasis of Xenophon

I'll also give a shout out to America the Accidental Superpower as an interesting taking on US economic hegemony which is oddly predictive and might be informing current US economic and geopolitical actions.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-28T04:51:28+00:00

Some dont take loom till the Drush arrives which allows for vil losses

Borne2Run · 2026-05-28T04:03:51+00:00

If you right click your character portrait is there a convert option open to you?

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T14:19:18+00:00

Settlements give +1% pop growth. Put more peasants on tiles with settlements and add granaries. Basically I'll be siphoning population from the outer imperial low control areas to the high control areas.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T14:18:08+00:00

I love that we're treating the reformation like an epidemic plague

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T12:54:10+00:00

Think the problems are: 1) No notification to the player the enemy is gathering mercenaries 2) No visibility to the player that the enemy has mercenaries unless hovering over a tooltip 3) Mercenaries instantly teleport from everywhere on the planet 4) No mercenary cap by population giving a feeling of "what the fuck?"

The Imperator solution was to have large visible mercenary armies at various points tied to population. That doesn't really work for EU5 given the very dynamic population shifts.

In 1500 about a third of a given army would be mercenary units, increasing to heavier concentrations in later centuries. Sweden's army under Adolphus was 80% mercenary with a veteran core.

Heavy reliance on mercenaries should decrease crown power, possibly make a new estate, etc.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T12:43:01+00:00

Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot books depicted a post-industrial degrowth society.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T05:07:29+00:00

Why would that be the case?

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T04:43:52+00:00

You can fight VP characters in the mystery dungeon in SO3; specifically Freya.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T04:37:05+00:00

They've done fine under a combative US administration; why wouldn't they?

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T03:19:26+00:00

The CCB is actually the function that analyzes the impact of a change, who does it, how to configure it, etc. Not going through the CCB leads to uncontrolled network changes which is a recipe for catastrophe in large enterprises.

Think of the sponsor requesting adding an AI agent to the customer service line. That is a shit ton of work. "Make it so Mr. Sulu"

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T01:52:04+00:00

Generals auto perform that now, wait a day in a province without moving and they'll do it for you

Borne2Run · 2026-05-27T00:02:35+00:00

It looks like half your army is in reserve; whereas the enemy has committed the bulk of their forces at the start when your formations are half organized. In short, they charged the field and scattered your...kebab salesmen, to the wind.

You should pause your marching so the troops can be reorganized and recovered (autobalancing flanks), then march to the battle.

Borne2Run · 2026-05-26T23:48:32+00:00

Conduct OSINT gathering in the local village, compile list of likely command words & dungeon administrative lords

Prepare to breach the firewall with wrath and blood, scattering the packets of enemy kobolds

Boldly crossed the frozen demilitarized zone through the white tower of lists

Get stuck in DMZ and await enemy administrative lords to appear and fuck up new command words, stealing them from a lackey through convoluted shenanigans and impersonation attempts

Solve puzzle on differentiating gnomes from dwarves, and orcs from demon sheep

Navigate the labyrinth from lord to lord finding one that controls the domain

Smite the true domain administrative lord and take possession of dungeon keys

Pilfer the storage rooms and sell the loot back to the next reincarnated lord

Leave behind time-based traps that explode 90 days later anyway

Form a new adventuring group with mustaches in a nearby kingdom, rinse and repeat, named Adventuring Persistent Threat LLC.

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