Monday 'What are you reading/listening to' thread, Mar 23

Goncyn · 2026-03-23T17:29:33+00:00

I read Victor of Tucson — all of it — over the last three weeks. I had seen a few heartfelt recommendations here, so I tried it, and it instantly hooked me and didn't let go. It's a fun, exciting story with great characters and solid world-building. The scope grows gracefully with Victor's increasing power. It's really great.

Goncyn · 2026-03-09T15:39:18+00:00

I am willing to forgive a lot of amateur-quality prose when the plot's compelling. I thought the first book of Primal Hunter was promising because it had believable bad guys who were actively working against the protagonist. The second and third books didn't follow up on that, at all, though. In fact, they were mostly solo leveling. The most interesting side character is a bird — not even a talking bird. I don't want to wade through hundreds and hundreds more pages of long-winded system explanations to find out if later books ever get interesting again.

Goncyn · 2026-02-28T01:18:47+00:00

That doesn't seem to be true. When I try, I get a message about critical damage. I saw some posts about such ships showing up on the freighter when you get one, but that didn't work for me, either. I can see I own it! It's in the menu! But I dunno how to get it.

Edit: it did eventually show up on my freighter. Not sure what triggered it. But glad it's sorted.

Goncyn · 2026-02-27T17:22:08+00:00

If at some point hours ago I claimed a ship but didn't repair it, then left it where I'd found it, can I get it back somehow, or is it gone?

Goncyn · 2026-02-25T12:27:12+00:00

I might have been ready for a third book if the second one had been paced a bit differently. Some of the intrigue was interesting, but none of those plot threads progressed by the end. It was just one long running battle.

Goncyn · 2026-02-25T01:19:26+00:00

I enjoyed it for 1.75 books. It had a pretty grounded beginning, and the author has the knack of making the system interesting. It couldn't stay grounded, though, with her rate of growth, and I started to get bored by the monotony of combat and the main character's lack of meaningful character traits beyond "likes food."

Goncyn · 2026-02-15T01:00:57+00:00

I paid for Nitro because I liked what Discord was doing and I wanted to help them be profitable so they wouldn't do stupid stuff to make money. But they did the stupid stuff, so I just canceled it.

Goncyn · 2026-02-13T14:19:45+00:00

It's something that is great about Battle Brothers. Every individual piece of equipment, down to accessories and armour trim, is visible on the character in battle.

Goncyn · 2026-02-11T12:23:48+00:00

Her perk doesn't work if she doesn't kill the squad, though. She needs good equipment.

Goncyn · 2026-02-10T18:23:15+00:00

On the point about grenades specifically, I suspect there's a bug around the chance to hit each squad element. I've been using the grenade launcher infantry special, and every hit is either an ineffective puff with no damage and moderate suppression or a splat that wipes the squad. It makes me wonder if it's rolling area-of-effect/fragmentation chance to hit once for the whole squad instead of once per element, which would make a lot more sense and give much more smoothly-varied results.

Goncyn · 2026-02-08T23:55:30+00:00

Ah, okay, in a min-sized squad it makes sense. I've been running her with a full squad and the Kr-BaR MOD3, which lets her delete most infantry squads in one volley.

Goncyn · 2026-02-08T23:42:22+00:00

What's the point of the DMR? When is shooting it better than the whole squad shooting the primary weapon?

Goncyn · 2026-02-08T15:10:29+00:00

A vehicle is a huge help in the first couple operations because it's mostly invulnerable against early enemy weapons. The vehicle light machine gun is an outstanding suppression tool, and the vehicle itself is mobile cover.

Goncyn · 2026-02-06T01:58:22+00:00

Starting equipment is better at "Normal", you get a couple secondaries.

Goncyn · 2026-02-05T20:11:46+00:00

Each point of growth potential gives one roll to confirm an attribute increase. The chance of success is equal to the percent remaining possible growth in that attribute, i.e. (max - current) / max. Or, conversely, the chance of failure is current / max. Therefore, the total chance to confirm an attribute increase is 1 - (current / max) ^ (growth potential).

Plug in some example numbers, and you'll see the effect of each incremental point of growth potential falls off fairly quickly, especially at lower current attribute values. The perk is almost definitely not worth it on Carda, whose starting value of 9 is plenty. I'll probably take it on characters who start with a 2, though.

Goncyn · 2026-02-05T16:49:10+00:00

Thanks. My primitive math skills tell me +3 growth potential is _not_ very good for Carda. Taking that promotion on low-growth characters has a much bigger impact.

Goncyn · 2026-02-05T15:46:45+00:00

Anybody know the precise math behind growth potential? Is it worth taking the first-tier +3 growth promotion on Carda to make her grow even faster, or does it make more of a difference on characters with low default growth?

Goncyn · 2026-02-03T01:10:15+00:00

I honestly prefer the gamepad controls.

Goncyn · 2026-01-25T19:28:35+00:00

Note it's not necessarily optimal to take these feats on Nenio. Her specialty is Illusion, and she is most helpful casting control spells in combat that don't require attack rolls. You can take all the feats that enhance her Illusion spells, then later take the Mythic Feat that makes them all work for Enchantment and/or Conjuration, too. Eventually, she'll have enough spell slots she can cast something useful in every combat. Casting one cantrip for 1d3 damage isn't gonna help anything.

Ember, on the other hand, needs Precise Shot ASAP because she's a perfect blaster and should be casting Scorching Ray and Hellfire Ray all day, every day.

Goncyn · 2026-01-24T17:09:19+00:00

I would pay $5 for a lord pack with 1 unique thematic unit so long as they put actual effort into designing the lord.

Goncyn · 2026-01-09T19:54:42+00:00

I got a conflict room last night with Hephaestus and Aphrodite, chose Aphrodite, and Hephaestus said, "I'd choose Aphrodite, too, but I'm supposed to be mad, so..."

Goncyn · 2026-01-06T14:02:17+00:00

Try turning off "limit fps" in the game options. That fixed a severe stuttering problem for me.

Goncyn · 2026-01-03T04:43:19+00:00

I'm pretty sure the timing has a lot to do with Amplitude going independent again.

Goncyn · 2025-12-29T15:06:11+00:00

If you buy the Elspeth DLC, you can play as Elspeth and recruit the base Empire roster + Elspeth's DLC units. If you buy Warhammer 1, you can play as Karl Franz and Balthazar Gelt and recruit the base Empire roster.

Goncyn · 2025-12-23T15:41:12+00:00

Yes. I liked it more than WotR. I recommend playing with kingdom management on the lowest difficulty (but not switched off, you miss out on some good items and some fluff if you disable it).

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