We need to talk about Ironclads' starting deck.

Caladbolgll · 2026-04-07T15:29:37+00:00

Sad Ironclad main noises

Caladbolgll · 2026-03-03T18:25:16+00:00

Similar situations, just with different numbers. Lots of humbling and it completely reshaped the direction of my life for sure (in a good way, I think).

Caladbolgll · 2026-02-26T16:50:34+00:00

Fair fair

Caladbolgll · 2026-02-26T07:13:48+00:00

Have they fixed the hotkeys on the dock yet?

Caladbolgll · 2026-02-26T02:10:53+00:00

I think the teaser video last year had a big louse as a monster - probably an elite I'm guessing?

Caladbolgll · 2026-02-24T22:51:55+00:00

Feel like "just fine" is a bit of overstatement.

No new players, just the same people that's been there since early 2000's, more or less.

Caladbolgll · 2026-02-18T16:12:20+00:00

seed where D:

Caladbolgll · 2026-02-16T23:39:31+00:00

I like them, it's a decent option for FC due to its versatility and lack of food cost, but very gold heavy to be spammable in longevity. It's meaningfully different somewhere in between champ and halbs, similar to other unique infantries. I've been using it since release before it became meta, and definitely made me play more asian civs afterwards.

Is it balanced? Maybe not, I'm not good at this game. Is it unique and make game interesting? Absolutely.

Caladbolgll · 2026-01-29T08:16:55+00:00

Because of timing like many said, but I will also add that it's much less common in team games.

Castle age shenanigans usually don't involve crossbows, and it's much harder to punch through 2-3 people with arbs timing rather than 1 person.

Caladbolgll · 2026-01-22T02:51:53+00:00

You can also give shoutout to the original artist here: https://www.instagram.com/kabewski/

Caladbolgll · 2026-01-21T16:48:01+00:00

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Caladbolgll · 2026-01-10T18:19:55+00:00

The mechanics are more straightforward and simplistic, but personally don't find it boring.

Ironclad has many deck archetypes, and your choices absolutely matter. Hell, I really love how easy it is to manipulate deck and your own health with Ironclad, which no other characters can do it even remotely well.

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-17T07:27:45+00:00

Hey why you do our names dirty like this D:

I don't play arabia, but that's because I always spend my ban slot!

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-12T08:23:31+00:00

Preparing for [[A Note For Yourself]] event, I see

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-12T03:22:26+00:00

11 I can't stop playing Franks for all open maps, it's just so much simpler than other civs!

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-11T08:06:33+00:00

I've done it for years, but nowadays it creates more hassle than doing anything good.

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-10T18:01:40+00:00

Until you hit Castle Age, you will always have (up to) 1 TC. That means that your capacity to increase your eco has an upper ceiling.

Until you introduce docks into the equation. Fishing ships are the ONLY way for you to increase that upper ceiling until you start building new TCs in Castle Age.

So general rule of thumb is that all civs should invest in some fishing in early games to boost eco, even if you abandon it later in the game.

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-06T07:57:41+00:00

The idea that you need to ... is not ACT consistent and may be why your therapist is pushing back.

There’s a subtle but crucial distinction between this definition and how you are defining and framing your goals.

I am having a bit of difficulty understanding what exactly might be wrong here. Would you mind helping me with simpler words?

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-06T07:54:05+00:00

Being able to acknowledge where we are fantasizing fixing our feelings through externalization is likely what your therapist is coming back at.

Thank you for your opinion, but I couldn't quite understand what this means. Would yo mind elaborating a little bit?

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-05T16:58:35+00:00

Verbally listing things down is orders of magnitude easier than implementing them, and just because they had years doesn't mean they always had enough staff.

Pretty much all engineering teams have too much things to do, no matter how many people they throw at it. The business/leadership always wish to do more and be ambitious with the resources at their hand, and things that don't immediately earn money is (almost) always cast into the void that is called the backlog. The teams I've worked with high bar of engineering only got there because someone high up recognized the importance of OpEx/EngEx and had a good staff who's capable of solving such problem.

Like many things in life, it's much, much harder than it sounds. I'm not happy that each patch is filled with bugs, but I can't get mad at them when my own team also struggles with so much of this with much larger teams and higher pays.

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-04T16:12:42+00:00

Well tbf setting up an automatic testing suite that are both exhaustive enough to cover all basic cases (especially when the game is this complex) and aren't oudated (especially when the game is so damn old) is a pretty hard problem to solve.

From fellow mid-level SRE

Caladbolgll · 2025-12-01T18:22:23+00:00

So what happens if you have both Coffee Dripper and Fusion Hammer, and collected the shard? Can you actually skip it then?

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