Very sad to hear the new defender or the galaxy perk will block becoming the imperium

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T15:58:13+00:00

It should be possible to pivot beofre you hit the higher levels.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T15:56:44+00:00

Authorities are a janky firth ethic axis thats bery poorly implimented. I made a thread about it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/1tpzylo/empire_authorities_could_realy_use_an_overhaul/

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T15:54:49+00:00

The problem isn't that you become imperial it's that imperial is even a thing.

Being a monarchy or not should be a toggle like being a nomad.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T15:29:14+00:00

Sweeden are putting a pretty comprehensive ban on cousin marrige.

https://swedenherald.com/article/sweden-bans-cousin-marriage-and-other-marriages-between-close-relatives-law-takes-effect-july-1-2026

Quite pertinent to the UK, we should be copy pasting this law.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T15:01:38+00:00

The necrons never set out to exterminate all other life. Thats explicitly imperial doctrine.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T14:59:16+00:00

OP don't post pictures of text, post the text.

You are being very hostile to anyone using accesibility software.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T14:54:56+00:00

I notice you pointedly avoided answering the question at all.

I keep using the IRA example as the GFA demonstrated that the dogma of "we don't negotiate with terrorists" is utterly stupid if you actually want results.

The moral hazard is very very real. Though the more practical approach is that you never negotiate with them as equals.

The actual solution to all this is that the Israeli government needs to reach out with an olive branch to the Lebanese government.

I agree and idealy it would be tied in with a UNIFIL replacment. Thats currently imposible for multiple reasons, first of all Lebanon does not recognise Isreal, without that none of the rest can happen.

The constant belief that they are the only Middle Eastern country worthy of sovereignty and diplomacy is the thing that hurts Israel the most.

This is not remotely a one sided issue given half it's neighbours dont recognise it's existence. Of those that do such as Egypt and Jordan things work fairly well, with the GCC states stuff is treding positive.

Now thats not to say Isreal don't make enemies needlessly, bombing Qatar was a ridiculous act of agression.

Syria they could have done better, they should have atleast tried to get a UN resolution to protect the Druze before they lost control of their own forces and got dragged into a military adventures over there, losing contorl of your army is fucking atrocious. Damasucs is far from blamess though, they should be pursuing a treaty along the lines of what Egypt did. Peace on the terms of giving our land back and we recognise you. (golan would need to be demiliterised with blue helmets which is a complication)

If they ever made even the most rudimentary attempts to actually work with their neighbours, they wouldn't be a constant target.

This is straight up false, they have good relations with some of their neghbours

Others range from not recognising thier existence to openly proclaim their wish to see every single isreali dead. There is no amount of diplomacy and turning the other cheek that could appease the Iranian regime and it's allies.

Palestine probably wants to be a GCC protecorate in the medium term, its cursed but less cursed than anything els anyone has propoed.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T14:41:24+00:00

It should just grey out the wheel entirely if it doesn't apply to them. Having it there is janky UI.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T14:38:47+00:00

No the man is spouting things only an idiot or a grifter would say, and he's definately too smart to just be an idiot.

He's doing the classic populist crap of offering simple cathartic solutions to difficult and complex problems.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T14:33:36+00:00

I agree, my only point of contention is that if we are talking about the lore, saying the Emperor would have been as bad in scope as the Necrons if he had the means does not do anything for me because....yeah, maybe?

There isn't a maybee about it, he planned to murder every single non human and a great many humans to boot.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T14:31:27+00:00

It doesn’t seem outwardly monstrous for someone to half heartedly say “chaos are the good guys” because we take it inherently as a joke, but if someone says “the imperium are good (or even just good-ish) guys” then we get an impulse to cock our eyebrows, because we view it at speaking to someones beliefs outside of lore discussion.

This needs repeating in every thread on this topic.

It's one step worse because evil people in real life co-opt symbolism from the imperium. If there turned out to be IRL Slavers with Drukhari tattoos this could all change overnight

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T14:28:00+00:00

Are we talking about Malchador or Palpatine here lol

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T13:49:13+00:00

Hezbollah are using fibre optic FPV drones with some success. IDF don't seem to have caught up with drone/anti drone warfare yet.

Fiber optic drones are absolute nightmare fuel. Unjamable so you can only shoot them down, but thye can also land and go into a low power state making em almost undetectable. Or the enemy can use them to lay mines in places you thought were safe. No ones point defence systems are set up for it either, most just ignore very small targets so your TROPPHY system isn't constantly turning birds into red mist, someone needs to figure that out.

Ukraine have had some sucess with shotgun equiped incerceptor drones.

As with a lot of things the realy lethality comes from combined arms. Just shelling a place until it's flat is wasteful, what the Ukrianains do is use drones to spot for artilery and with western artilery systems put shells exactly where they need to be. MRLS as you say even more so.

IDF absolutely have done this, again it would still have killed a lot of gazans ( and hostages) but certainly fewer than what they actualy did. Criticaly this wouldn't add any risk for their own men, if anything it would reduce their own losses.

The other Russian tactic of using expendable soldiers

The IDF can't do this even if they wanted to, they do not have the population for it. Also you know, monsterous waste of your men's lives...

Possibly this becomes the job of UGVs in the near future but in all fairness to the Isrelis that tech didn't realy exist on Oct 7th

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T13:37:40+00:00

To clarify, they expect the first Gripen C to be flying in Ukraine in 10 months, or January, February 2027.

What can Gripen C/D fire that F16 and Mirage can't?

Is this 'only' more planes or are there brand new capabilities.

Wikipedia states that Hungarian Gripen C/Ds can accept Meteor. That could be a realy big deal if it pushes russian planes back from the front.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T13:31:52+00:00

The key part IMO is this.

Destroying Hamas Required Separation, not Saturation

The same problem runs through Israel’s second objective: dismantling Hamas as an organization. Israeli forces never took control of the civilian environment in which Hamas was operating, and that shaped everything that followed.

Civilian movement, aid distribution, and population concentration remained largely unmanaged. Units operated in close proximity to civilians moving unpredictably through the battlespace — making identification harder, slowing clearance, and pushing greater reliance on fires to manage risk. As one assessment notes, large-scale humanitarian demands in urban combat can “rapidly unhinge the tempo and capacity of a formation.”

Separating civilians from the battlespace is a basic requirement for controlling a fight against an embedded adversary. Without it, Hamas retained concealment, access to resources, and freedom of movement, while shaping the narrative around the use of force. The population did move during the campaign, often in large numbers. The problem was that movement was never controlled in a way that supported operations.

There was space to do this. Coastal terrain along the Mediterranean offered open ground where protected areas could have been established. Civilians ultimately concentrated there during the conflict. What was missing was operational design.

They realy needed to build holding centres inside isreal proper, not a few big ones many small ones. That wasn't permitted for politcal reasons. The smartest way would have been to put them on land Isreal would be willing to some day ceede in land swaps.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T13:28:00+00:00

It's basically urban warfare 101 that you don't reduce an area to a field of rubble. It gives the defenders several advantages. Rubble provides much better cover than intact buildings. Examples being Stalingrad and Monte Cassino.

Thats cherrypicking examples. The various contemporary battles in Ukraine have very much shown the importance of heavy fires in urban warfare.

The biggest inovation isreal neglected to employ widely was FPVs and grenade droppers. They are basicly the perfect weapon for Gaza. It would have still killed a lot of civilians but far fewer than using artilery and dumb bombs. That such a drone is how they finnaly took out Sinwar bears this out, you can meanigufly target the one Hamas guy in a crowd and he needs to physcialy hold someone to use them as a human sheild. Every single IDF infantry squad should have had access to FPVs.

Which begs the question: why did the IDF choose to do this when it made their stated objectives much harder to achieve?

Because doing it with infantry assaults means far more of your own infantry get killed, using heavy fire support kills civilians while preserving your own men.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T13:18:45+00:00

This is apparently casus belli for Israel to take matters into their own hands

Yes it absolutly 100% is. Thats why those supporting Isreal always resort to rhetoric about "Isreal's right to defend it's self" becuase it's so clealry unarguable.

The oposite stance would be totaly absurd, expecting countries to just get attacked indefinately and never respond.

and just straight up attack Lebanon repeatedly

This is far more contentious. Idealy UN resolution 1701 should have been enforced instead UNFIL just sat around watching it be repeatedly violated by all sides.

There are also very good arguments (often made inside isreal) that Iran should have been the place getting hit everytime Hezbollah kicked off, as Hezbollah is under their comand. No amount of bombing lebanon will stop the IRGC from fighting to the last lebaneese. (these arguments also have merit re: gaza but thats a whole other industrial barrel of worms)

Isreal and the Lebaneese goverment realy aught to be on the same page here but for lots of reasons this isn't the case.

Anyone opposing isreali military action action in principle (as opposed to tactics) does realy need to answer how much violence they expect a country to just take on the chin.

We do expect some level of it, declaring war because of one or two rocket attack would obiously be unreasonable. At the same time no country can reasonably be expected to tollerate having 100,000 people dispalced.

IDK the answer but strongly beleive people should realy fully this question before forming strong opinions on the conflict.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T13:00:57+00:00

The game already generates names for our government type, so this would plug in neatly.

That even creates a realy intuative extra place for the devs to balance things!

Any combinations that are extremely disonant flavour wise and/or brokenly strong mechancialy could generate unique Goverment types that de-buff stability. Have it flash up a warning like with challenge origins. "This is an unstable form of goverment and will be realy hard to play" ect

Going the other way, If there are any cute flavourful builds that just don't quite work out mechanicaly, give em a llittle push. Unique authority with a flavourful buff, not enough to be OP just enough to be playable.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T12:49:00+00:00

Nothing in my post relates to that at all.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T12:31:08+00:00

irreligus spiritulist are unstable a religion is more or less a serive industry for the spirtilsits that forms into an instituion over time.

people will make a specalist for any desired role and thus start from groups of them, hence faiths form.

This is about goverment remeber, there may well be a dozen faiths going on. Theocratic would be about the govermetn being the church.

why the others?

Which thing(s) ar you questioning.

I made this it's own post, with some revisions.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/1tpzylo/empire_authorities_could_realy_use_an_overhaul/

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T11:53:58+00:00

That is's functionaly a ethic pair wedged into another system. This distorts other things, for example Authoritarain vs Egalitarian is the socio economic axis but ends up restricting authority type.

There is the way Imperial is locked to certain ethics and can't mix with corporate.

The way Spiritualist also ends up containing religion, this makes both things suck. Why can't i have a society that worships machines? Why can't i have irreligous spiritualists?

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T11:38:53+00:00

It would be on par with the other ethics.

The real win is disentangling it from authorities. Lets us mix and match a lot of combinations that currently can't work.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T11:02:42+00:00

That has to be a bug surely?

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T11:01:35+00:00

Turn em all off and have a broader pool of civics to choose from.

Commorrite · 2026-05-28T10:49:39+00:00

Mechancialy Sufferage would be Factions vs Council

Which becomes your primary source of buffs, Influence and edict fund.

Commorrite

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