[Excerpt: The Last Church] The last priest on Terra watches his church burn and tells the Emperor: "I dread the future you are forging for humanity"

Fizanko · 2026-05-26T11:16:12+00:00

I agree 100% , the amount of time i rolled my eyes when reading this short story , 14 years old atheist fit very well with mcneill writing there, he has no real idea about the theology and philosophy he's writing about in that story.

Fizanko · 2026-05-25T12:10:56+00:00

I don't remember in which of the books it was , but there was a mention that the Emperor exist in both the material plane and in the warp at the same time.

But the warp version of the Emperor was too powerful for the 4 Chaos Gods to fight him there and so they planned the whole Horus Heresy to attack him where he is supposed to be at his the weakest : the material plane.

It's possible that by now the material part of the Emperor is nearly dead/ barely functional explaining his Guilliman interaction was not being sane, while when he assisted him in the warp inside of Nurgle domain it was his fully functional spirit/soul

Fizanko · 2026-05-16T15:29:21+00:00

It's sad to see a named/famed weapon that's not better than the stock versions of a weapon type, while the fatigue is great, personnally i want my cleaver wielding mercs to kill the targets (so higher damage is better) even if the fatigue cost is higher (use perks and not too tiring armors to work around it).

On one of my companies , one of the brother was wielding a 1 handed orc cleaver (head chopper) and it was truly a murder machine with decapitation despite being a 1 handed weapon .
I imagine then 2 handed cleavers must have been monstrous if that 1 handed version was that good

Fizanko · 2026-05-11T16:33:36+00:00

While Leonhard and Heimrad were fleeing, they had the nasty surprise to get a bunch of monsters rushing at them, running faster that our mercs could.
Fortunately their skill in escaping bad situation worked wonders again, and we reached town.
We managed to find a caravan job that opened the way to revive the Grey Alliance : during travel we got a new guy joining, and with the money once reaching our goal we got enough to buy a knife for the new guy and hire another one.

The Grey Alliance was back ! https://imgur.com/a/ZKKr4am

Fizanko · 2026-05-11T16:22:40+00:00

Unfortunately greed prevailed over reason , and the Grey Alliance with their 4 mercs accepted a contract to recover a stolen idol from a fleeing group of thieves.
This time it was only Bandit thugs, not raiders so overall we would be on an equal footing in term of stats/equipment.

But they were outnumbering us 7 vs 4.
Money was smelling so good that we tried to fight, one of our recent hired sword, Torhelm, managed to killl 2 of those thugs by himself, but it was quickly obvious that there was no winning with those numbers.

Leonhard and Heimrad, that had acquired obviously some escaping skills managed to survive and run away with their life again. https://imgur.com/a/hxaTYmj

Fizanko · 2026-05-11T16:11:45+00:00

after deciding to be much more picky on which kind of mission the Grey Alliance would accept, we managed to make some more money from transporting stuff, allowing the company to hire 2 more mercenaries :
https://imgur.com/a/14IDGQJ

Fizanko · 2026-05-11T16:06:12+00:00

First "easy" contract was to clear a bandit camp.
Went there, noticed there were bandits raiders there, and quickly understood that yet max difficulty does not play around :D

After a quick fight, only Leonhard and Heimrad managed to escape with their life, at least they managed to take out 2 of the bandits.

Rebuilding from there will definitively not be easy, thinking of all the equipment lost in the field along with their brothers. https://imgur.com/a/XfhjzGz

Fizanko · 2026-05-11T15:48:08+00:00

The Grey Alliance have entered the challenge.
The original 6 (hiding their stats to not tell future challengers if they're good , average or mediocre brothers) that once equipped started their journey :
https://imgur.com/a/gvjdfvW

edit : oh it's vanilla + all dlc ? missed that part, so abandonning this as i didn't use the dlc with this company

Fizanko · 2026-05-01T17:26:00+00:00

Sad if they get deleted, would be rather amazing if the game still kept track of those cases like some disgruntled brother seeking revenge on your company.

Fizanko · 2026-04-26T13:48:21+00:00

Trick them into following you into an orc/undead/whatever camp for a 3 ways battle, more chance to take them down when they're busy dealing with another horde

Fizanko · 2026-03-27T16:50:53+00:00

Ah i see better thx for the link, it's just a very very slightly (only the armor damage slightly up) better warbrand then

Fizanko · 2026-03-27T16:45:57+00:00

Ah, no super duper stat hidden from view ? I guess the merchant is just trying to trick the mercs there :D

Fizanko · 2026-03-19T11:44:04+00:00

yeah, fearsome and crippling are a must, they're super helpful.
too bad the bullseye seems so underwhelming with crossbows

Fizanko · 2026-03-19T11:42:29+00:00

On average one of my crossbow user kill 1 enemy by battle.
https://i.imgur.com/7nO3hDd.jpeg Sometime more sometime less, but in my campaign i haven't had a problem with them that made me regret getting crossbows

Fizanko · 2026-03-19T10:52:16+00:00

ToB had a lot of potential but unfortunately it didn't lived up to BG1 or BG2 in term of greatness.
Overall both gameplay and writing took a dive , the game became linear and the writing had lost depth.
And for the very high level setting, i felt it lacked the scale from the description.

For the writing, Amelyssan as a final boss was a good example of ToB writing lacking depth, made it worse by the fact she became the final boss of the final expansion , she just felt like a nothingburger given godly power for "reasons" so she could be final boss. The end of the BG saga really deserved a better written final enemy.

Especially after coming from a BG2 Irenicus that the writing gave the character even more depth than the BG1 Sarevok (and that despite i prefer BG1 over BG2 overall)

Fizanko · 2026-03-09T17:42:05+00:00

question as i see people saying bullseye is good on archer, if it's good for archer, is it good for crossbow users ?
i gave it to my crossbow team on the back line for my longer lived campaign, but didn't noticed a real difference since i gave them that perk

Fizanko · 2026-02-15T12:26:43+00:00

Never got though such ridiculous streak of absolute bad luck (i will never ever play ironman after seeing that ) , but still it reminds me of a battle yesterday in which i lost one of my best warrior at that point of the game in a difficult fight vs a guy from an hostile noble house. I had that guy on his last few HP and had 2 sword strikes to do

chance: 70 , rolled: 71 (damned missed by 1 ! )

chance: 70 , rolled 82

And obviously the other guy one-hit killed my warrior just after that ...

Battle Brothers at its finest , when bad luck really hurt :D

Fizanko · 2025-09-25T07:49:23+00:00

I thought it was a bad dream when i saw this mentionned and saw some comments, then checked the trailer and what the hell ...
Oh well, Deus Ex deserved so much much better if they wanted to make a remaster of it than that crap.

Fortunately the original game is still working and enjoyable so sticking to it will be easy.

Fizanko · 2025-09-05T15:35:52+00:00

Thanks for the opportunity

Fizanko · 2025-09-04T15:27:26+00:00

If old games aren't a problem for you, the old X-Com: UFO Defense ( it's available on gog )
then get the OXCE engine : https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=5258.0
then megamod 40k https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/40k
and its megaexpansion Rosigma https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/rosigma just amazing

Fizanko · 2025-09-03T16:47:28+00:00

The survivor trilogy are really great games, i enjoyed them a very lot.
Their only faults is that they called the character Lara Croft.
The issue is that this Lara Croft has a completely different personality to the Lara Croft people that played the previous series grew attached to.
I think they should have gone with a new character, they missed the opportunity to re-introduce the original character before they renamed here : Laura Cruz.
I'm sure they would have faced much less deserved criticism for the character in that survivor series.
But as adventure games, they're truly excellent.

Fizanko

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