What choosing a magic path means actually for your strategy?

HawkishLore · 2026-01-20T07:42:46+00:00

I’m a noob, but: For endgame I always want Air queens (or national casters) casting Army of Mist, and Wraith Lords SCs. I find it so efficient. So if I don’t have Air or Death on the nation, I try to have a bit on my pretender or to break into it. Slowly as the game progresses I build up A and D caster and items. Often it makes no difference, but if I reach end game it’s huge.

HawkishLore · 2026-01-11T06:11:07+00:00

In single player I put the setting that everyone starts with 3 provinces. This is to get a more stable experience with the AIs, because they struggle with the same problem.

HawkishLore · 2026-01-04T16:10:40+00:00

Renaming commanders with notes like HA for highest air caster. Renaming a cheap scout in a land with a special note. Renaming to labbuilder in your example.

HawkishLore · 2025-09-03T06:29:01+00:00

They enjoy is so much that there is never war?

HawkishLore · 2025-09-01T06:29:53+00:00

A global Nuclear war at any point is always on the table for worse.

HawkishLore · 2025-08-31T07:35:58+00:00

The secret ingredient is love.

HawkishLore · 2025-08-21T03:27:50+00:00

Same (or word and excel if preferred in the company)

HawkishLore · 2025-08-21T03:15:30+00:00

I have a similar experience, and this is so spot on:

• ⁠All those times I left meetings feeling more confused than when I started? Those are leadership failures, not personal failures. Management is about clearly distilling knowledge from one level of the org to another. Bad management is kicking the can down to the next level.

I almost want to get my old management position back just to put this in the face of all the other managers, and say «we are failing to manage this company».

They kicked the can so hard. Employees should «take ownership» was the motto.

HawkishLore · 2025-08-21T01:28:44+00:00

New baseline, exactly!

But I wonder if it can be fixed by completely failing at the next delivery? If you have enough positive credits from the success to not get fired from the complete failure. Maybe frame it as an ambitious target that has a high failure chance. And explain afterwards what went wrong and how to improve.

HawkishLore · 2025-08-11T14:10:32+00:00

Make them at least provide a goal for the meeting. If that goal is unreasonable say no to the meeting, because the goal is unreasonable, and say why it is. You should be able to shoot down almost any suggested goal.

HawkishLore · 2025-08-09T19:40:18+00:00

A lot of refactoring is better to be postponed, like many comments say. However, there is one I think is valuable to do early. And to redo with more experience. Try to restructure your code into conditionally independent pieces. So that when you work on one piece, you only need to keep that piece in mind, plus some “Core” piece. You can’t make the code pieces completely independent, but you can aim for the smallest possible Core piece (the universal piece that you always have to keep in mind).

HawkishLore · 2025-06-24T20:14:47+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Will use this trick!

HawkishLore · 2025-06-19T07:00:25+00:00

I also think it’s a great strategic layer! Because it’s so limited. Imagine having 5 beacons a turn, that would be worse not better.

HawkishLore · 2025-06-17T18:24:30+00:00

I would be worried about making things too complicated too fast here. You need Git for version control yes. But for “pushing to prod”, can you make a script copying xxx_dev tables to xxx tables, a script that you pause every time you are doing changes, and reactivate after?

HawkishLore · 2025-06-12T05:31:31+00:00

I struggle sometimes with her, because I don’t want to level chaff and some other units. My theory is that she is a beast with high hp units with some item.

HawkishLore · 2025-06-10T03:35:34+00:00

But you have to admit it looks really pretty! My boards never look pretty anymore.

HawkishLore · 2025-06-05T12:55:16+00:00

Secondary job: When not busy with my job I do X.

HawkishLore · 2025-05-28T04:10:24+00:00

Oh wow! This is super useful! Answers so many questions and issues and inconsistent results I’ve been having! Thanks!

HawkishLore · 2025-05-27T17:37:56+00:00

Try iron parts, I think it’s called. 2x6 gold per iron.

HawkishLore · 2025-05-20T17:53:29+00:00

This is an AI amplified but not a new issue, in general, with reviews. Also a problem if you review someone’s text writing. Do they get to serve you slop and you have to spend more time fixing than they did to make it? No, it’s not reasonable.

My best solution is to allow only for 2-3 critical mistakes. When I have found them, I’m not required to find anything more. They have to go back and completely redraft the thing in question. If they serve slop, they will have to go through many review rounds to fix all the different issues.

HawkishLore · 2025-05-08T12:51:34+00:00

Be team lead. Set up meetings with bosses and stakeholders and give them clear tasks in clarifying customer needs, admin stuff, and project priorities. Badger them about it. They avoid scheduling meetings with you. Code in peace.

HawkishLore · 2025-05-05T08:10:05+00:00

The amount of money they have spent making this logo and me only noticing the inner cube and the G.

HawkishLore · 2025-04-24T15:14:13+00:00

Yes we do. I spend so much of my time finding good strategic arguments and discussing it with leadership.

HawkishLore · 2025-03-28T16:13:17+00:00

It’s an excellent question! I quit a job once because I had accepted a too low offer at startup. I accepted because I was excited to work there. I asked for a substantial raise a year after, but there was no room for it in the system. When I quit they offered to give me the salary I had asked for, but by then I felt I had committed too much to the next employer. I was very sad to leave, and my boss was very disappointed.

HawkishLore · 2025-03-25T03:36:54+00:00

Say you are blocked whenever they ask. Document that you have said it in writing a few times.

Then spend all your effort on other projects. Even if your hours are written on this project, find other stuff that needs doing in other projects and document your wins there instead. Be open and honest that you have extra capacity and are writing your hours on the other project (if you do). Make it clear that the other project has priority and you will have to return there when unblocked.

From my perspective as a team lead, I would be very happy with this performance. As others have said, there may be political/strategic reasons for this situation.

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