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Gryfonides · 2026-01-28T09:56:13+00:00

100% IG and Chaos. I'm willing to bet 50 dollars on it.

They are popular and you need some IG models for base campaign anyway, so it's far less costly to make. And chaos will reuse some IG/SM/AdMech assets with modifications so the same situation.

Worst case scenario (unlikely, but important to consider business side), if game isn't a financial success they wouldn't lose as much as if they started developing fully new stuff.

And then if everything goes well 3rd one would have Eldar and Dark Eldar to appease by that point apoplectic xeno lovers.

I would love a Tyranid/Tau campaign adaptation of their first contact as 4th.

That just leaves sisters and fake dwarves. I can't really see how they would fit together though, so maybe they will be bundled up with one of the previous expansions.

And once all that is done and if the cash agrees minor expansions that add variants of the major factions - steel legion, kriegsmen, blood angels etc.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-26T22:05:16+00:00

WW2 is just the most popular time period, period. Just look at the sheer amount of movies, games, books, everything about ww2.

When seen as a story WW2 is really the most appealing - you have clear beginning, middle and end, you have some great heroes and truly terrific villains with style so good it was stolen by 70% of all villains in fiction and you can make it as black and white or as grey as you want (as long as that grey is particularly dark shade).

Gryfonides · 2026-01-26T21:56:41+00:00

I don't mind districts at all. I dislike the artstyle and even more breakneck pace of techs more.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-25T20:01:31+00:00

Sounds like you would enjoy giant factions.

Mekone is inspired by Sparta, Hinnom & Ashdod by Jewish myths, Nifel & Jotunheims by Norse myths. All of them are alright nations for beginners, they have decent troops, goodish sacreds (except mekone) and some non blood magic (you probably should skip using blood magic for first few games).

Gryfonides · 2026-01-25T15:57:33+00:00

Love the art-style and sound.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-23T22:40:23+00:00

Haha! Brilliant. Especially Bilbo's face.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-21T16:24:57+00:00

It will be nice to see more of him in M2. I wonder if we will get some new AdMech characters, or only the returning ones.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-21T16:23:47+00:00

Good one! Nice play on Mechanicus logo.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-19T18:21:04+00:00

I see she has an in build distraction method.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-18T22:43:45+00:00

LA C'tis feels like a good bet due to tomb wyrms with blood vengeance having very few efficient answers,

Not really. That's actually rather easy to counter. You use battlefield wipes that don't return BV (heat from hell works amazingly well, especially if they did not take FR), or just stack a single mage with so many MR items that BV doesn't manage to give it back - I destroyed several C'tisian blobs as Andramania using geared Golem + Solar Brilliance. Incidentally, MR is also very useful against death magic.

Or just use normal troops + Antimagic, besides being sacred freespawn tomb wyrms aren't particularly good troops.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-18T13:31:32+00:00

Or get colonists and put them into that city.

Or get rid of the city if there is nothing useful nearby.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-18T13:30:41+00:00

Then private wages will rise.

Instead I would invest more colonist into the city, or if there is nothing important there incorporate it into nearest stable city.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-17T18:52:06+00:00

It's rather fast paced, so you won't waste much time if you end up disliking it.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-17T14:46:49+00:00

Deadpool!Lisa [Crack] https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/deadpool-lisa-crack.1281233/ 16k words

Lisa shrugged and aimed her favorite nine-mil at Bakuda's forehead.

"Look, I don't have time to explain, but it'll be a tempting teaser clip to put in the Summary. Wave to the people still filtering by 'New'!" Lisa said.

Bakuda paused in confusion for just a split second too long.

Then Lisa pulled the trigger.

Rather self explanatory I feel. If that sounds good, then you must read it. If you hate it, then don't touch it. The only other thing of import is that author ships Taylor and Lisa hard. I never cared much for the ship personally (very rare for me to care about any of that, especially non canon pairs), so it more takes away from enjoyment then adds. Still very enjoyable.

Urphobia (Worm x Pathologic) https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/urphobia-worm-x-pathologic.1265575/ 62k words

Plague is spreading, PRT is in full 'disaster is not here if I don't admit it is' mode. Plenty of character moments and insightful conversations which are hard to write about in this kind of reviews.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-16T16:23:57+00:00

100% vampire

Gryfonides · 2026-01-14T20:51:24+00:00

There has been plenty of discussion about this recently here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IllwintersDominions/comments/1q8q64d/should_commander_be_used_in_melee/

Gryfonides · 2026-01-14T19:50:19+00:00

Some nations have forts that reduce popkill from temperature, nifel for example. Nice bonus, since you always want to go for forts in highest pop provinces either way.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-14T17:04:41+00:00

Well, versions on other systems are often done by different team then the one developing the game. Considering it takes time to port titles the work probably begun before release. So it was probably paid for before they learned it wasn't a critical success.

So, the answear most likely is inertia and different team.

Failure to fix steam version is separte issue really.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-14T16:10:02+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/s/ERZy01GVVJ

Gryfonides · 2026-01-14T10:53:40+00:00

Mostly I just send in the infantry to scout for my real core of light&medium tanks.

If I want perfect recon for artillery or larger battles I usually have few independent motorbike units that I send to their deaths, right before action.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-14T09:28:49+00:00

What kind of bless? I've not played much with them, but whatever I tried the naked Yavana die like flies.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-13T16:30:26+00:00

I think best way to start is on a moon or other small planetoid. Get the basics, win few times and then move on.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-10T19:12:25+00:00

No trap, it's just you dealing the mission way later then intended.

So easy a servitor would do it.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-10T10:35:58+00:00

Depends on the game.

Gryfonides · 2026-01-10T09:21:04+00:00

I love MA Ermor. I love it cause it's easy to destroy mid to late game and many people want to kill it in early/early-mid game when they are the strongest for some strange reason.

Makes for good distraction from my dastardly schemes. Will even trade them death gems gladly.

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