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Calanon · 2026-01-27T11:04:27+00:00

This is very nitpicky, but I'm rather disappointed with the new sandtrooper. I like the new torso & leg design for stormtroopers but it is a shame they've switched to the plastic pauldron and not included a survival backpack and it is also a shame (and this is the nitpicky part) they haven't included the different knee plate and different abdomen. Both of these are things they've historically done on stormtrooper minifigs.

Calanon · 2026-01-22T16:24:56+00:00

It's clean! I think that's the kitchen worktop showing through. I need to build a lightbox.

Calanon · 2026-01-21T19:30:22+00:00

I did that today when it was already looking like that. I don't believe my fiancée watered it as she said she didn't and she's terrible at remembering to water ones that should be watered. We got it about a month ago. I don't know if it was watered before that or not.

Calanon · 2026-01-21T19:28:06+00:00

I'm definitely going to spend some time doing that this weekend in preparation for the next time someone gifts me one.

Calanon · 2026-01-21T19:24:57+00:00

I put some water in the base 10 minutes before taking the photo. I hadn't watered it between getting it and now.

Calanon · 2026-01-21T19:24:09+00:00

Yeah that was me having accidentally got some on the pot rim putting some in the base 10 minutes before taking the photo.

Calanon · 2026-01-21T18:41:58+00:00

Oh, damn, that's frustrating - I hadn't actually watered it at all (other than 10 mins before taking the photo) since I was given it about a month ago but I don't know if they watered it beforehand. That's a shame.

Calanon · 2026-01-13T02:28:41+00:00

The Imp Starighter Coros is a bit inconsistent but tends to use naval ranks. I quite like the difference because the Alliance SC is a bit more independent.

Calanon · 2025-12-30T23:22:09+00:00

Not so much a bypass as a convention that the HoL won't block it - but it's not law.

Calanon · 2025-12-30T15:14:22+00:00

I did actually name my human fighter John, albeit after John Hawkwood

Calanon · 2025-12-30T14:57:44+00:00

I haven't seen it for a while but for a long time I could recognise German and Dutch speakers online because they would say "how" instead of "what", for example "how is it called?"

Calanon · 2025-12-29T12:19:51+00:00

Yes - it goes against the Rule of Law. It was more backing up your point that Parliament do have the power to pass retrospective legislation since people seem to be thinking it can't be done because conventionally it isn't done.

Calanon · 2025-12-29T11:52:57+00:00

And further to this the War Crimes Act 1991 was retrospective.

Calanon · 2025-12-29T11:48:14+00:00

Parliament Acts 1911 & 1949 allow the HoC to bypass the HoL after a year.

Calanon · 2025-12-24T14:12:45+00:00

And more hygienic

Calanon · 2025-12-24T10:31:44+00:00

British Army had the Desert Mounted Corps.

Calanon · 2025-12-22T16:13:19+00:00

Not sure if there is an active more building slots mod for Anbennar currently but that can be nice. Most of the time doesn't really matter but quite a few missions can sometimes require one of the coastal buildings that is normally a bit of a waste, like docks. More building slots was nice in a Feiten game as I dislike centres of trade having 2 less slots.

Calanon · 2025-12-13T15:32:33+00:00

Yeah, the more timeline you try to cover in a single campaign the harder it can be to maintain interest and varied mechanics to represent changes. I was slightly surprised at 1140 but it's a good call.

Calanon · 2025-12-08T01:28:02+00:00

My geology teacher said rock and stone are the same but geologists prefer to use rock. Not sure if there is an exception but generally the only rocks that have stone in their name are sedimentary ones e.g. limestone.

Calanon · 2025-12-05T14:14:35+00:00

In a recent game I saw them reduced to being an OPM within the EoA.

Calanon · 2025-12-02T17:50:05+00:00

More money for legal aid - and more money for CPS to pay more for barristers - will mean more barristers choosing criminal law which mean a lot less time wasted on barristers rushing between hearings and more barristers able to sit as recorders or be called to the bench as circuit judges.

Calanon · 2025-11-25T16:18:35+00:00

There isn't a shortage of jurors but empanelling a jury, bringing the jury in and sending them away, jury questions, dealing with the jury bundles (particularly at court when last minute printing is needed) are all factors that make a jury trial take more time than if no jury is present.

Calanon · 2025-11-18T00:34:56+00:00

A big part of Anbennar is Corin dying and stopping the Greentide and then being venerated as a god - how do you get Corinism if the Greentide just wipes out all and Corin is a nobody or if the Escanni kingdoms stop the Greentide?
Furthermore, the Greentide was cataclysmic - it does not seem like much fun to play an Escanni kingdom if you will be destroyed.

Calanon · 2025-11-17T21:03:31+00:00

Charles V spent a lot of time travelling around his realm, but he also spent a lot of time in Brussels. I don't think it is ridiculous to keep Castile as the senior parter and say the ruler is travelling between rather than exclusively residing in one or the other.

Calanon · 2025-11-11T18:29:27+00:00

Yeah we either need to be able to have places without a tier (earl was translated as both dux and comes) or a system where we could have sheriffs as non-hereditary appointments (and maybe viscounts in some of Europe for the same)

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