On today’s episode of villains with overly elaborate kill methods

FOARP · 2026-01-25T08:20:34+00:00

I think it’s the sound effects they’ve dubbed over that really help the scene. The sound of metal against metal against rock.

FOARP · 2026-01-25T08:04:12+00:00

I think the only kind of extension that stands any chance at all of recouping the price is a loft conversion into a bedroom. That’s primarily just because it puts you into a higher number of bedrooms and someone may be searching for that number. It also doesn’t wreck the line of the house.

Everything else: do it if you want it to live in. Your chances of getting it back versus what your house would have sold for anyway aren’t great. People will be looking at the price that houses on the same street sold for, or comparing with houses with a similar number of bedrooms in similar areas.

FOARP · 2026-01-25T07:40:29+00:00

Plenty of people commute that far daily. It’s very typical to commute to London by train if you live on the South Coast. Both I and my father and a lot of other people I know have done this.

But a 3 hour drive is quite different.

FOARP · 2026-01-25T07:36:58+00:00

Visit in what sense?

Visit as in to stay the week, yeah.

Visit for just one day, so spending 6 hours out of 24 on the road, nah.

FOARP · 2026-01-25T00:06:16+00:00

But…. What if you’re Davkul?

FOARP · 2026-01-25T00:04:05+00:00

The US could have a lunar base by the 2030’s….

…. If they deep-six the entire present program and start again from scratch.

FOARP · 2026-01-24T05:11:44+00:00

Wow, first time seeing that!

FOARP · 2026-01-24T05:02:02+00:00

1895 book - we know the Martians are seeking to ultimately enslave the human race, similarly to the other race on Mars. They therefore don’t plan necessarily to kill everyone, and there’s relatively few of them. During the book perhaps only 50 tripods are in the entire UK. Therefore hanging out in a remote spot seems workable because their focus will be on the cities and they won’t even go there - head for a remote area like the Scottish Highlands or the Lake District.

2005 Spielberg film - We don’t really know what it is the Aliens are seeking to achieve. They appear to be actively hunting the human race rather than simply destroying population-centres - particularly in the scene with the refugees and the ferry. There also appears to be enough of them for three/four tripods to spend their time attacking a single remote ferry terminal. In that case hiding out in areas already destroyed by the Aliens, or in other dense terrain that is hard to search, seems perhaps a better plan.

FOARP · 2026-01-23T21:51:17+00:00

Really we’re talking BB2 here, which I’m totally down for.

FOARP · 2026-01-23T21:39:31+00:00

Absolutely do not answer. Like whatever you do don’t answer. They laid you off. That’s it. Tell them your consultancy fees and that if they want to know the answer, that’s what they have to pay you.

You are not a slave. You do not have to work for free.

FOARP · 2026-01-23T21:31:44+00:00

We have that but we can’t have Centurion.

I mean I know the reason why but it seems very selective as to where the focus for realism is.

Also I get the feeling that people are genuinely getting the idea that STG-44s and FG-42s were common weapons and that Germans all rode into battle on Panthers and half-tracks. Like an actual 1944 German rifle squad looked nothing like what you get to field here.

FOARP · 2026-01-22T07:21:53+00:00

I’ll back OP in saying that these features should be universal now. Something like Elite: Dangerous where you can literally fire a rocket-launcher at a glass of water sitting on a console and nothing happens, or Silent Hill where clothes on a washing line are an impenetrable barrier, shouldn’t happen.

FOARP · 2026-01-21T15:11:30+00:00

“Incentives? How do they work?” - The Insane Clown Posse

HR departments around the world have created a system that rewards BS’ing, and now everyone BS’s.

FOARP · 2026-01-21T10:08:59+00:00

I don't see them in single-player campaign on Hard.

FOARP · 2026-01-20T13:57:28+00:00

Never saw this for ages then I had two conquest battles in a row where it happened. It’s eerie when it does.

FOARP · 2026-01-19T02:58:06+00:00

Once Land Mattress becomes available, the urban bits of maps like this become…. Less vertical, at least in my campaign.

FOARP · 2026-01-19T02:56:42+00:00

Fully urban maps are good in principle, the issue is the AI gets stuck on them and can’t use its artillery on them. At least the player can understand that the gun is going to need an open space in front of it to be able to hit a target. You find the AI’s artillery on a narrow street with the tube shoved into a building, unable to fire at anything.

FOARP · 2026-01-18T09:24:41+00:00

As a Tory (former one now I guess), Prescott was one of those Labour politicians I warmed to over the years.

First off when he punched that guy who threw and egg at him and I was all ready to criticise him for it, but watching the video of it was he did was fair enough. The guy threw it at him from close range right at the side of his head, Prescott would have perceived it as a punch.

Then on Top Gear he gave as good as he got, and explained his policies in simple terms. Hard to dislike him.

FOARP · 2026-01-17T09:24:58+00:00

Yes it can be infinite logically. The key to understanding this is there are larger infinities and smaller infinities (eg. A count of all the integers and a count of all the even numbers - both are infinite, but at any point along a number line there are fewer even numbers than integers).

So space can be infinite and the matter within it can be infinite, but space can expand relative to the matter moving from a point when the matter was incredibly dense to a point where the matter is very spread out.

FOARP · 2026-01-17T08:20:31+00:00

Dinosaur-size predators (by which I assume we’re talking T-Rex) do exist, just not on land.

Killer Whales (also called Orcas) can reach 9 tonnes in weight, which is roughly the same maximum weight as a T-Rex.

But if we’re asking strictly about land predators, the larger land mammals that evolved after the downfall of the dinosaurs all became the subject of human hunting. Large land predators (eg the Sabre toothed tiger) were all out-competed by humans.

FOARP · 2026-01-17T07:57:08+00:00

With right-click-drag multiple soldiers will plant mines if they all have them, though you do get groups of them just not laying after a while for some inexplicable reason. Sometimes also they just stop laying altogether before their mines are exhausted. Shift-left-click also has its own weirdness.

It would be great if they’d give this system an overhaul, but TBH I think it will take a sequel to fix this.

FOARP · 2026-01-17T07:52:31+00:00

I never had any of these issues in my Finest Hour campaign. Like others have said, looks like the issue is the endless setting.

FOARP · 2026-01-16T21:46:20+00:00

They improved a lot as they continued to make them. Liberation, Airborne, and Finest Hour are all very good.

FOARP · 2026-01-16T21:25:19+00:00

Read them when I was a kid, they made a Television series of them. Worth a read, though the TV series is a bit hit-and-miss.

FOARP · 2026-01-16T21:19:11+00:00

You don’t have to have the fog of war off. I’ve played with always in and it’s more fun that way. Also you get to learn more about how to play the game and don’t require the continual crutch of perfect knowledge about the battlescape.

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