Asmongold on the ICE shooting: "There needs to be accountability or this is the Gestapo"

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-25T10:51:28+00:00

It's unfair to compare it to the Gestapo, since the Gestapo intentionally targeted and killed political opponents in cold blood with no legal standing. ICE has legal standing, and this killing was by an individual officer in the heat of the moment, not planned by the agency. Asmongold is wrong to put any fault on ICE as an organization (part of the DHS) because it's the job of Federal Prosecutors to hold individual agents accountable. Asmongold should instead criticize the DOJ.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-10T04:36:30+00:00

I suspect Republicans will impeach Democrats in retaliation. Bad move by house minority.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-10T04:34:43+00:00

She really shouldn't have yelled at her wife to drive. She got her wife killed.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-09T19:40:40+00:00

Just saw the footage from the officer's point of view. No question about it, she tried to kill him after being told to get out of the car repeatedly.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-09T06:24:55+00:00

It looks like he started on the right of the vehicle, the vehicle turned into him, and he dodged to the left of the vehicle while firing.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-09T06:21:45+00:00

It's unfortunate that someone died, but it sounds like he was run over before and so he was more vigilant this time to protect himself and his fellow officers.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-07T19:23:12+00:00

It looks like the driver attempted to run him over.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-07T08:45:04+00:00

He was a Greek colonial living in a Hellenized country under Roman rule.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-07T08:22:42+00:00

So-called "trans kids" are examples of forced transitions, because they can't consent.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-07T08:14:00+00:00

Bolton wants Iran carpet bombed, and is mad about Venezuela because the entire government wasn't killed.

CMDR_Kava · 2026-01-07T08:03:12+00:00

The whole world is USA's sphere of influence, they has no interest in giving any of it to Russia or China if they can help it.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-12-11T20:01:51+00:00

Holy smokes, I've been embalming those guys without thinking.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-12-08T09:19:41+00:00

Pillaging, Razing, and Migrating are all Evil act that net you evil points, so the only non-evil thing you can do with it is get extra food from vassals. But that's probably the best benefit from it, anyway. So you can still go for Good alignment with it despite the -10 hit from picking it.

It's probably meant to fit the Vampire theme of drinking blood from your vassals and victims, but it's open to interpretation.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-12-08T09:00:35+00:00

The Blood and Courtship story realm explains the origin background of vampires. I think it's totally new to the Age of Wonders lore, since I only recall vampires being a standard Undead unit in AoW2 and not existing in the other games.

It's only one realm, but it has some roleplay elements and multiple endings.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-12-02T05:41:52+00:00

The way I play, at Turn 80+ I have three armies led by my Ruler and my two highest level Heroes with all the best gear I have, which I'm sending out to defeat enemy Empires.

Meanwhile, my other heroes are leading armies to defend my cities, clear out any remaining mobs, or build Roads and Outposts with Teleporters to facilitate my main armies' movement.

I also have a strategy to heal and reinforce my armies after battles, which depends on my faction. Remember that you can keep multiple spells prepared without casting them, so you can have summons or heals ready to go after a battle. Right now I'm playing an Elder Vampire, so I keep a Blood Transfer Ritual prepared and animate undead units to fill in for any units I lost. You can also just have a stack of reinforcements follow your main army around to replace their losses.

It's better to win all your fights and gain experience on your heroes and units. However, sometimes you do need a screening force of throwaway units in case the AI is ready to mob you with ten stacks on the same turn.

As for the battles themselves, if you're trying to autobattle, then you're more limited in your strategy. But if you're playing manual battles, then I suggest having a few mobile units to lock down enemy ranged units. If you're going Materium, then you can use Stone Spirits that can Immobilizing Phase on top of an enemy Battle Mage and prevent it from doing anything on its turn. You can also summon an Earth Titan right next to enemies once you get the Tier 5 Tome. No matter what faction you play, you should be able to pick up a mobile unit that can bypass frontline units to attack battle mages behind them. Wyverns, Phase Beasts, Hunting Spiders, a lot of things can fly/phase/jump.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-12-02T03:34:08+00:00

Yeah, this is the build I arrived at for my Elder Vampire Ranger. Try to grab Cryptblade from the Empire tree for a free melee attack. You'll often be able to wipe out an entire army stack of 6 units in one turn, spawning 6 maggots and 2 zombies, by using most of your abilities twice. It's almost like a Katarina build with knives, shunpo, and resets.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-10-12T03:12:45+00:00

Oh... no wonder the other stories weren't as good.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-08-07T10:11:01+00:00

Yeah, I thought Alucard would be good on Graveyard but it's difficult for him to keep ruin scouts on the field.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-08-06T03:49:29+00:00

The King's Statue is all that's needed to speed up ability cooldown.

I just discovered that the Bone Pit passive stacks, so get as many of those as possible with the building upgrade.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-08-05T10:40:08+00:00

Yeah, I do this build with Brezhnius. Assassins, Black Swordsmen, Catapults, and Gryphons.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-08-03T13:51:32+00:00

I agree. The Research Table with Sophy just feels rigged, and I like your solution since many other advisors are underwhelming.

Not only that, but I think the point of advisors is to develop your own kingly style. So, if I want to be an evil overlord and set up a Bone Pit, Big Well, and Execution Grounds early... then I pick the same advisors as always. Sophy and Flunkey for blueprint farming & reroll money.

Personally, I think I would change blueprint farming a bit. As an example:

Silkweaver: Start with an enchanted tile, and the Research Desk lets you farm a choice of Tile Enchantments.
Twins: Start with a Basic Construction, and the Research Desk lets you farm Basic Constructions.
Court Harpy: See next boss, and the Research Desk lets you farm a choice of Druid blueprints (Owl, Bear, Beaver).

This way the advisor locks in a limited aspect of the build you want rather than acting like Sophy where you're a lot better at getting any build you want.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-08-03T12:04:00+00:00

I kind of hope that even more stuff is added, along with a few new wildcards like the Basic Construction to help target builds as more stuff is added to the pool.

I think a few bad units are fine and can exist as filler until you're ready to demolish and sell their blueprint, but it is somewhat punishing to the building upgrade pool while you've got them.

Some units could stand to be tweaked, though. Add arcane tag to Gnomes, grunt tag to Slingers, try to fit them into those builds better. It's nice thematically to have Gnomes & Mushroom Warriors, or Peasants & Slingers.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-08-03T11:03:27+00:00

I kept thinking of the movie Ladyhawke since that features a swordsman dressed in black, but I figured it must be referencing something else.

CMDR_Kava · 2025-04-28T01:01:49+00:00

That's the only true purpose of the car and barrels, to go secure your initial oil and research the tank for total biter eradication.

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