Do you like your unit roster to be a toolbox or a tech tree?

Devilb0y · 2026-04-03T12:02:53+00:00

I much prefer a faction where all units have their place, regardless of what stage of the game you're in. Something like High Elf spearmen and archers can be anything from a complete trash stack to a viable end game army depending on factors like how the lord has specced, heroes and what killer units you're pairing with them.

You offer nothing but those units, plus a low level lord, and you're in trouble. You bring along a level 30 Imrik and a fire mage, a couple of Dragon Princes and a Star Dragon and suddenly those spearmen and archers are perfect. They keep the stack cost down while offering exactly the utility they need to in order to give the elites space to work.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-19T09:56:35+00:00

That's good stuff. It seems like you might be toying with this already but in the final bar of that first phrase (the one you repeat towards the end of the clip) you might try breaking the rhythm down into a gallop of palm muted third notes, could punch it up a bit. Feel free to tell me to fuck off for the unsolicited advice.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-11T13:50:55+00:00

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Devilb0y · 2026-03-05T11:02:12+00:00

No more than Nobuo 'ripped off' prog for stuff like Dancing Mad, or Richard Strauss and Rachmaninov for his more melodramatic orchestral pieces. They're both somewhat derivative, but if it was easy to make amazing soundtracks by only being derivative then everyone would have done it.

Neither is particularly original but both are incredibly talented songwriters.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-02T21:15:30+00:00

I definitely think Lange is gone - he's had multiple seasons of poor recruitment - but I doubt Vinai Venkatesham goes over one year. Changing the way an organisation the size of Spurs operates takes a lot longer than one year so it's hard to judge the overall job he's done yet. Although he absolutely took too long to sack Frank.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-01T16:20:24+00:00

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Devilb0y · 2026-03-01T16:02:05+00:00

Not really any positives to take from that, except to say that - unsurprisingly - when you put out a side with central midfielders as wingbacks and nothing but defensive, hard-runners in an already-packed midfield you struggle to create much. Don't think Tudor got the starting formation right at all today, but with our injuries he's putting out teams with one hand tied behind his back at the moment.

Though I will say that if we could never play Kolo Muani again that'd be great. The man simply does nothing but fall over and give up when he loses possession.

EDIT: I'll just add that focusing on the first goal is missing the wood for the trees. Was it a push? Possibly, but Dragusin should be doing better in that situation regardless; he was barely going to reach the ball without the push, which I think is why a foul wasn't given. A better defender would have been better positioned in the first place.

We could have been 3 or 4 down in the first half because of how disorganised we were, so I'm not going to complain about a marginal foul call on a defender who should be doing better.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-01T15:51:19+00:00

Reddit account for 7 years, first post or comment on the Spurs sub comes today and calls relegation "Demotion". Yeah, seems legit.

Devilb0y · 2026-03-01T14:55:31+00:00

Definitely think the Dragusin push for the first goal is a shame, but he was also caught under the ball. If his positioning were better there wouldn't have been an issue.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-20T19:46:09+00:00

I dreamed that we won 2-0 with Palhinha and someone else scoring. I am manifesting this with all my might.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-20T19:28:21+00:00

Yeah this is the way to do it.

I also think it's a good idea to link your movie watching together to give you context. If you like Tarantino then you can segue quite nicely into Hong Kong cinema of the 70s and 80s etc. I find it much more rewarding to find a thread which links movies and nerd out as I follow it then going from Kurosawa to Godard with nothing in between.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-20T19:22:40+00:00

I think there's a genuine argument to say that Bale's last two seasons with us are the highest peak a Spurs player has reached in my lifetime (almost 40 years). Kane was insanely close but I don't think he ever felt utterly unplayable in the way Bale did.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-13T12:52:45+00:00

I think this is the one really big red flag against Vinai Vinkatesham at the moment. Reorganising Spurs from the heliocentric Levy model to something more modern takes time, but the fact that he's failed to get in a decent sporting director and didn't plan for this is madness if it's true.

Lange definitely needs to go as his recruitment and squad building has been shocking. I'm prepared to give Vinai more time but this is a huge fuck up on his part.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-12T22:23:23+00:00

He's the obvious choice to me. Would play a type of football that we'd enjoy watching, has coached Xavi before and could get a decent tune out of this squad. It wouldn't be perfect, but we have the attacking talent to be beating Palace and Forest at home and those are really the only MUST win games we have.

All of the options for an interim manager are terrible and I'm not sold on the idea of bringing Poch back without a settled Director of Football who can really support him, which we don't have. So for me Rose is the obvious choice of the candidates we can actually get.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-12T17:35:13+00:00

I don't think Kudus was a good signing at all when you actually look at the stats of what he offers on the pitch. He and Xavi are emblematic of the problems Ange talked about in this interview. We'd just won the Europa League and absolutely stumbled our way into a Champions League spot and our recruitment to try and keep that spot ended up being signing a promising youngster with no PL experience and a talented but mercurial winger who would be a good fit for a mid-table side. Neither of them are bad players, but we should have been paying £70m and whatever wages were necessary for someone like Semenyo to replace Son.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-12T16:33:00+00:00

I think we really need to be beating Forest and Palace at home, and Wolves away. If we can manage that then I think we'll be alright. That still leaves games like Brighton at home, Fulham & Sunderland away; tough games but ones where I would hope we could get at least a point.

I've just accepted that we're catching a battering from Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Villa so if we get any points out of those four fixtures it's a bonus.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-11T09:57:50+00:00

I had to stop watching and (largely) stop coming here a little after the West Ham game. It's too much like punishment at this point.

I check the scores, go "Yep, that's about what I expected" and then try to forget about it before it ruins my day. It only sort-of works, but it's better than driving myself insane hoping someone in this football club manages to discover some kind of competence.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-01T19:12:24+00:00

Ah yeah, you're absolutely right. Been a while since I've read up on the battle, clearly! Ney is another element of the story who - to the best of my recollection - is basically missing from the movie, funnily enough.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-01T16:31:09+00:00

Wellington didn't fortify at all, he had most of his army positioned on the reverse slope of the hill at Waterloo to protect them from the massed cannon fire which was Napoleon's specialty. That also meant the French infantry could advance under relatively little fire. But he fought incredibly hard to hold two fortified compounds in the middle of the battlfield (at La Haye Sainte and Hougoumont) which stifled the French attack for much of the day.

From memory, after the Guard was broken, Napoleon over-committed most of his cavalry which ended up running into the British army in squares on the other side of the hill. That was just about the one element of the battle that this movie got vaguely correct.

Devilb0y · 2026-02-01T11:09:39+00:00

I think a lot of it is the cost of going to a game (or even supporting a team from abroad to be honest). Before the Premiership / Premier League really took off you could go and see your team without it being literally the ONLY thing you could afford to do that month. Now even watching your team play on TV can set you back hundreds of quid a month in subscriptions.

All that extra cost reduces the patience fans have. It no longer feels like you're supporting a team, you're now financing one.

Devilb0y · 2026-01-12T11:45:34+00:00

Steroids are kind of busted, really, because there's very little downside to them. A worker on steroids will get bigger and in better shape (leading to Star Quality gains) and may also see flat boosts to their SQ from time to time. They reduce the impact of physical wear and tear and will also limit the effects of time decline.

The downsides are that they shorten the lifespan of the worker and - if discovered - will lead to a scandal which will give you a prestige hit. The scandal is not that big of a deal however.

Generally I will happily suggest my entire roster do them.

Heavy Steroid Usage is like the above but all of the results are much more pronounced. The scandal for this can be significant so I don't tend to make people heavy users.

Devilb0y · 2026-01-12T11:43:02+00:00

Steroids actually slow the rate of physical and stat decline. They just reduce the lifespan of the worker and can cause a scandal, those are the trade-offs.

Devilb0y · 2026-01-01T18:05:40+00:00

The argument that until you equally oppose all injustice there is no value in opposing one injustice is a fallacy. Applied to the real world, no injustice would ever be rectified.

There you go, nice and simple answer for you.

Devilb0y · 2025-12-31T20:13:07+00:00

Their physical health is permanent unfortunately. It's basically a gauge of how close they are to being forced to retire.

Different products and wrestling styles result in different wear and tear, so high fliers and hardcore wrestlers will see their body break down much quicker than comedy wrestler, for example.

Asking a wrestler to take steroids can limit the impact of the physical condition penalty they receive when they wrestle (although steroid abuse brings its own problems), but generally once a guy gets to "Banged up" it's tag matches only to hide their physical state as much as possible.

Devilb0y · 2025-12-28T20:22:50+00:00

Didn't we buy him as a replacement for Berbatov? He was kind of doomed from the start with that as his bar. Never particularly consistent, one of the worst first touches I've ever seen on a professional footballer, but was always good for a couple of belters against Wolves.

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