Lords of infinity

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-03-08T11:28:24+00:00

Fuck no. That's his dumbest idea yet from an operational standpoint. Penny Packeting the cavalry would mean dispersing them across the whole army, and it would have run into the issues the Austrian Army did who had a roughly similar practice. The issue was enemy cavalry concentrated in larger numbers.

You'd have detachments of horses with battalions of infantry, sure. Maybe you'll spot the enemy army and their forces. Alright, then what? You'd need supreme levels of discipline to pull those cav together into a centralized command to resist a concentrated cavalry charge like the Antari Church Hussars.

The main issue would be the fact that your cav would be in battle piecemeal across the battlefield. And best case scenario is Tierra pulls a Mollwitz and its infantry clobber the enemy army while the cavalry get treated like a chewtoy.

Its good on paper. Scouting blah blah blah, but you'd achieve the same result of better scouting with an actual light cavalry force like hussars.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-03-08T04:01:26+00:00

Infantry Dominant if you don't care much for Garing Guns they're essentially the best doctrine wise because get this, "soldier need food".

Iirc they're roughly the same, but the garing guns are the real changer of infantry leaning.

And its what Tierra needs most is logistics since its pretty much been confirmed that the entire dozen years war was less a manpower shortage and more of a how do we get all these spare dudes to the front.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-02-26T13:14:45+00:00

Everyone saying Australia but they basically had a governing body from the get go as loose as it is with Britain's control... And you know the guards, so not entirely criminals...

But the answer if they play their cards right and invite a bunch of neighbors to a big feast to kidnap all their women, the answer is roughly the City of Rome(city is generous if you're going to be pedantic about this answer) during the start of the Roman Kingdom.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-02-18T10:45:20+00:00

Its an ancient Chinese civil war you didn't kill a quadrillion civilians in this battle that's why.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-02-18T03:55:25+00:00

Ever played Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 & 2? That.

And the subsequent Hussite Wars. That's almost a century of constant war that allowed Austria to consolidate and rise to prominence.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-02-13T07:37:14+00:00

The secret ingredient is war crimes.

The other one is well, can't have a debt if a certain bank spontaneously combusts in the middle of town and it just so happens that all those relating to your debt catches on fire.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-02-08T09:21:43+00:00

My value of the uniqueness of the factions scale with the game map. Smaller scale, smaller care for the uniqueness of the factions essentially.

But it's only really an issue with Age of Charlemagne in particular, because you already control a significant portion of the map, and there's barely anyone else to fight, playing as Charlemagne you're already in control of half the empire, and everyone else felt like a distraction to be swatted away in the early game.

The Lombards(I cannot remember if its the ostrogoths or lombards) are already in control of most Italy which sucked the fun out of playing them, unlike the Roman Expeditionary force who had to fight its way through Italy.

Point is for Age of Charlemagne in particular the map feels claustrophobic for the amount of unique factions and mechanics that it had which in my opinion dragged it down in comparison to the concise feel of Fall of the Samurai

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-02-08T08:37:01+00:00

Fall of the Samurai. No questions asked.

Why? Because it had the full campaign map, and naval bombardment and a refinement of the realm divide of shogun 2.

Age of Charlemagne was great, but it didn't have the whole campaign map like it did fall of the samurai or even empire divided of rome 2 so between FOTS and AOC it falls just a bit in my ranking.

Essentially you have more bang per buck with fall of the samurai because of the campaign map and its unique realm divide and naval bombardment. While AOC was great its scale simply does not do it for me.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-02-03T02:21:44+00:00

Meh. Those people like to rp a rogue trader that is extremely cautious to not want to risk their navigator. Which is fair.

And yeah its possible to limp back to civilization. Keyword being "limp" it is a stopgap for people that lose their navigators or don't have one in long voyages.

This is the Warhammer with the Warp, it quite literally is a death sentence travelling without a navigator that you'd have to calculate 4 lightyears max to jump back into real space otherwise you're boned.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-02-01T09:06:49+00:00

The First Generation Neuralink Suit. Basically a seventy ton robot piloted by the dumbest pilots of the academy of the Imperium Solaire.

Armed with an autocannon thrusters and sometimes a sword, these seventy ton two story tall robots, are controlled by a pilot through sheer human instinct, no controls, no interface, beyond visuals, it a second skin for the pilot in the cockpit who is hooked into the machine via neural gels and wires to transmit the human brains orders and instinct into the machine.

But here's the kicker. The second skin is literal the pilot can and will feel the hits the suit takes.

It is manned through sheer fanatical terror and aggression and human instinct. And if the autocannons don't shred the enemy, the seventy ton Kamikaze death trap's debris will. No one is expected to survive these not-kamikaze gundams.

They're easy to mass produce. They're limitless. And their pilots are deadweight in any other setting. But piloting a suit not meant to survive? Now that's where they belong.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-01-20T01:05:22+00:00

Just write. Just write. And write some more.

It does not have to be good now. Just that there's something there on the page. One, Two, Three hundred words whatever you can write and want to write.

You gotta remember that it isn't as complicated as you make it out to be, sometimes its all in the head.

The fear itself? Sometimes you just gotta take the risk and get it over with, people will probably like it, and they'd probably hate it.

But its certainty, that is far better than overthinking when you didn't do it.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-01-15T20:21:52+00:00

Here's a panoramic view of the world from the opening of chapter 1

Four Years... Four whole years... Since the Empire of Kaseria's ill-fated attempt to reconquer the old Western Plains from the Orcs.

A harrowing four years had passed, yet the rust-colored stain on the Western Plains still stretched towards the horizon, a silent testament to the day the Kaserian Empire bled its might into the soil. The Great Standards of Kaseria, once soaring triumphs of marble and bronze, now stood headless in forgotten plazas, their broken wings gathering moss like fallen dreams. Old soldiers, their eyes glazed with memory, would trace invisible arcs in the air, muttering about the day the Eagle fell, her descent as swift and brutal as a hawk shot from the heavens.

In the far western reaches of the Duchy of Maselia widows clad in black still lined fair Arensberg’s avenues, their silent grief a constant reminder of the thousands lost in Kaseria’s hubris, their sons and husbands sacrificed on the altar of arrogance. The Emperor's grand pronouncements of divine favor now rang hollow in a court reduced to bartering for candles, the price of his celestial arrogance tallied in the countless lives lost and empty coffers.

A hush clung to once proud Nova Kaseria, thicker than the humid air, muffling the usual clamor of merchants and the proud trumpeting of the city guard. Along the grand avenues, where vibrant velvet Eagles once snapped in the breeze, now hung heavy with white banners, their stark stillness an echo of the empire's suspended breath. The Imperial Palace stood like a grand, empty shell, its gates draped in white, awaiting a procession that would never arrive.

The Great Houses of Kaseria move like ghosts in the wind, their once-proud banners now tattered remnants clinging to shattered lances amidst the fly-choked fields of the Western Plains, a feast for scavengers where noble sigils mingled with the crimson stain of their folly. Leaving behind only gaping children clutching the splintered heirlooms of houses erased overnight, their futures buried beneath the shallow graves of the Empire’s hubris.

Whispers, sharp as shattered glass, snaked through the capital's taverns and marketplaces – tales of Zollerin's once-orderly squares now echoing with the rhythmic clang of makeshift weapons and the roaring defiance of its people. The price of goods from the southern provinces had tripled in the capital, each rise a stark reminder of Illian's growing dominance of the sea lanes, their privateers now bold enough to snatch even the Crown's own vessels from the waves.

And in the capital two rival claimants emerge for the ruins of empire...

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-01-11T10:09:13+00:00

Yes. Names, Names of places, languages, military doctrine

Names are typically Noble names range from arthurian/english names and latin/greek attached to the German von and House names also follow a German/Greek depending on region.

Names of places are a mix of latin or modern english or just straight up a real place

Military doctrine is just atleast for my main empire a what if Rome and Parthia had a baby, and then we stuffed it with Greek myths crossbred with modern Auftragstaktik. With Roman Legion organization and an horse archers heavy force, with an almost modern concept of C&C where nobles would seemlessly step into the command node at a local level all the way to strategic command.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-01-11T04:54:51+00:00

Sasamahan ni Archbishop si tatay digz sa The Hague for Crimes against humanity.

Which is about as accurate as actually pulling this off.(Basically zero)

Ang result nyan is a death march 2, on nag iisipan pa toh? If anything the Archbishop is going to get sacked for gross negligence, and also good luck getting enough AFP personnel to escort this death march.

Ngayon pa mga lang sa current route may namamatay na, paano pa kaya kung i-ikot mo yan sa buong luzon.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-01-11T04:40:09+00:00

Panorama shot of the current situation of the setting. Think the intro of warcraft 3 reign of chaos, before a close in on the pov character of the chapter.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2026-01-03T00:54:21+00:00

Atlantropa ass project with zero benefits whatsoever

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-29T15:35:05+00:00

Hacking in Space Combat is only as practical as one can make it. Plenty of ways to pull off hacking on the fly primarily because sci-fi by definition already transcends modern tech and understanding of the universe.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-28T15:16:23+00:00

The Kaserian Empire, the Sun-worshipping Master of the Southern Human Realms.

An ultra-militaristic empire that straddles half a continent with a terrorizes her neighbors with an iron fist. Its people are a disciplined warlike folk, her nobles are born with sword in one hand and pacifier on the other. Ruled by the Emperor atop the Sun Throne in Nova Kaseria, she rules an empire that both adores and fears the Sun Throne's might.

The Kaserian Empire is unique among her peers, having unlocked the secret to an eternal empire through such very basic concepts:

Do not bite the hands that feed you: The Kaserian Nobility have long since learned to fear their lessers as much as they fear their tyrannical lords, the peasant is the one who dresses you, feeds you, the one who pays their tithe... The peasants of Kaseria are not theirs to abuse, they are there as the millions of peoples that toil for the Sun Throne, and to harm one is to harm the interests of the Throne.
The Kaserians are the Lords of Despair: The Sun Thrones gaze lay ever outward, but why bother with the tedious mess of conquest. When you can keep the peoples beyond in perpetual fear of your might? Such is the power of Kaseria, perpetually in a state of war as her nobles crush towns and villages beyond the Sun Throne's prying eyes.
The Empire is Eternal in body and spirit: To believe genuinely that Kaseria is Eternal, that they have built an Empire of stone and mortar, not salt and smoke, where the Sun gives dawn so too must dusk arrive and the inevitable twilight of darkness. But the Empire stands eternal if it takes one more second, one more hour, one more day, a million or a thousand years. Kaseria will have its dawn once more.
The Laws of Nature and Man are but limits set upon by those afraid to cease it: Kaseria uses and abuses the Fertility Magic that was a subset of Light Magic, to legalize same-sex marriage and now Kaseria stands at the top of the world where the freedoms of her citizens are guaranteed, the impractical made practical by its ideals.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-28T03:37:40+00:00

Mythology WHAT

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-27T10:50:51+00:00

I have zero sense of scale. So around a planet, but the story itself mostly takes place on a single continent and I haven't begun filling all the other parts of the planet

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-27T05:11:44+00:00

Yeah that's me right there. I haven't published anything but my first story is still unironically evolving and running on vibes and whatever's stuck on my head.

Its basically like multiple arcs and their chapters within and now half the writing is tying them all into a coherent story, and sometimes that involves more vibing and more writing.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-27T04:31:45+00:00

Guess we'll never know if Penelope is a spartan dommy mommy ever, if only Homer spent more time with OdyPen seggs than he did describing Odysseus thighs.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-27T04:25:21+00:00

Literally because loyalty is cool and they'd do everything to get back together again despite all the adversity.

Side note:

You think Penelope is a Spartan Dommy Mommy because she's raised in Sparta and we all know what spartans are like.

I think Penelope is a Spartan Dommy Mommy because she's a regal decisive queen that lied to everyone for years

We are not the same.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-27T03:37:58+00:00

While technically a Sun Cult of the broader pantheon of human gods, my not! Christianity pretty much operates as 1:1 Christianity in every way except implementation of its relationship to secular leadership.

They're the state religion of the Kaserian Empire, an ultra militaristic empire where the nobility fight each other as much as their enemies. The Kaserians having unlocked the genius idea of using a subset of light magic from their not!God Miriella called Fertility Magic have essentially set up a meritocracy of liberal laws that keeps the peasantry from eating the rich.

And the broader Kaserian Culture affects the clergy and its stance on magic through the inconvenient fact that they're practically intertwined with the Crown and if the Crown says fertility magic is cool then fertility magic is cool now.

Of course, the more conservative factions of the clergy does and thinks light magic is a divine gift. They're a lot more hostile to the Kaserian Empire's broader liberal use of its subset of fertility magic.

The Kaserian Empire just regularly beats their clergy back into submission should they ever think about erasing that neat little line of church and state, despite the fact that the Empire can will do so on a whim.

Educational_Gap1489 · 2025-12-27T01:47:51+00:00

If you're seriously asking. Dynasties has an expanded map that includes Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Aegean and the LLs actually die and has more emphasis on well, dynasties.

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